WAQK club presents:

DUVEL MORTGAGE
(Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman & Sophie Sleigh-Johnson)

Not so fresh from Bury St Edmunds, Duvel Mortgage’s special brand of country music is ready to tackle the territories of England. Advancing in their customary triangular fashion, at times on their knees, they will effect a peregrination from the City of Bristol to The Vale of Pewsey by way of Northern Gloucestershire. Duvel Mortgage are keeping the score as they begin to investigate The Chalcotribe Mysteries. Tracing a fine line between elemental terrors and Brass Rubbings, these sacred arts can rub you up the wrong way. What price, rest?

Sophie Sleigh-Johnson biography

Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, born 1988, is a Southend-on-Sea based artist and writer.  Her first book Code: Damp – An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms was published in 2024 on Repeater Books.

Her ongoing investigations performatively bring popular culture into communion with magic, place and the esoteric, in work distributed across cassette tapes, collage, spoken word, lino prints and local newspapers. Her latest spoken word cassette tape is Nuncio Ref! (2022) out on Crow Versus Crow, and she released the live CD Orbit-Son in collaboration with Adam Bohman and Sue Lynch on Infant tree in 2024.

She recently wrote the essay for the monograph Adam Bohman: Drawings, Collages, Paintings, out this March on OTO HON. She writes for publications including Darkside, The Leigh Times, Faunus: The Journal of Arthur Machen Society, and The London Drinker and she holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, where she teaches as a Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies.

www.sophiesleigh-johnson.co.uk

The Bohman Brothers biography

Adam Bohman and Jonathan Bohman have been recording together since their early teens and playing live since 1984. Their repertoire includes a combination of sounds created in the moment and distinct compositions including songs. They use unconventional instruments, household objects, dislocated text from found, literary and commercial sources and collaged layers of recordings. 

Regular gigs started in the mid-90s in London at places like The Club Room in Penton Street, The Red Rose in Seven Sisters Road and The Klinker in De Beauvoir. From 2000 to 2005 they had their own concert series upstairs at The Bonnington Café in Vauxhall, London. From 2005 to present day, they have continued in the same vein - most recently Adam’s monthly event at The Royal Albert, New Cross.

Working together they are in a number of groups, including: Secluded Bronte with Richard Thomas, The BBC with Richard Crow, Ischio Romantico with Leonard Aspen & Roger Boulding, The Dave Craught Five with Romuald Wadych and now Duvel Mortgage with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson. They have also worked with film-maker Peter Strickland on various projects. 

They have performed at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Roundhouse, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Albert pub, South Bank and numerous venues around the UK, Europe and America. Adam has just completed a much celebrated residency at Cafe Oto between 21-23rd April 2026. Oto projects have also just published ‘Drawings, Collages, Paintings’ - the first collection of Adam’s artworks in print. Copies will be available for purchase at Kino.

TAPSEW

A high drama duet of sewing machine and tap dance, amped up and projected. Scissors on thread; needle through cotton; metal via body on floor. The sounds of the machine and tones of the floor played out in tap, creating pace, tempo and rhythm in repetition and unification. 'The escapism of showbiz with the repetitive labour of industry…'

PATSY DELVE

Taking notes from both past and present, Patsy Delve is the drag alter-ego project of Bristol based musician Noah Radley. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Cindy Lee, Velvet Underground, The Paris Sisters and Dirty Beaches, Patsy Delve harkens back to a time and place barely remembered; red-tinted hues, dusty highways and corners of dark late night bars.

Doors open at 7.30pm with music beginning at 7.45pm.
Advance tickets £10 / £6.50 + bf
£11 / £7 OTD