The Devil's Elbow - Todmorden

An experimental evening of music & stories from a haunted valley. Let us tell you what we've seen... The Devil's Elbow ~ an evening of music & stories from a haunted valley ~ Lights in the skies over Longdendale. Ghosts in the hills along the valley. Strange creatures slipping through the shadows, and the devil lurking at a hairpin bend in the Woodhead Road. Tales hewn from the dirt and summoned from the rusting edgelands, set to the loops and bleeps of synth occultists. We have gathered stories of local sightings, and we’ll hear many more before the night is done. A one-of-a-kind evening of storytelling and music-making, featuring wordsmiths David Hartley & Annie Acre, and the melodies of Rickerly, Vice Vera, & Heaton Norris Light Vessel Automatic. This will be a seated, 90-minute production that starts sharply at 7:30. You can anticipate transcendence, disturbance, restlessness, and disbelief. You can expect rhythm, poetry, discord, and demonic tritones. You may leave with a spirit on your shoulder and the devil at your elbow. Look to the skies. Look to the shadows. What have you seen? a re.shape x d.a.o.s. production, autumn 2026 ~~~~~~~~~~ The Devil’s Elbow is a collaboration between three musicians and two writers who are woven together as a seamless whole. The following figures will manifest throughout the evening: Rickerly: A spectral vision searching for unknown sounds through glitchy ambience and fractured dance. Hear more: https://rickerly.bandcamp.com/ David Hartley: A teller of strange tales about strange things for strange people. Treads the boundaries between storytelling and immersion; between folklore and fragmentation. Read more: https://www.davidhartleywriter.com/ Annie Acre: Placemaker, poet, and storyteller. An urban regenerator with an eye for the hauntologies of uncanny realms. Creator of the Urban Scrawl zine. Find more: https://anniesacre.co.uk/ Vice Vera: Vocalist, guitarist, loop-maker with an alien energy and a fizzing lifeforce. Debut album coming soon. Seek more: https://www.vicevera.com/ Heaton Norris Light Vessel Automatic: Southeast veering southwest 4 or 5, occasionally 6 later. Thundery showers. Moderate or good, occasionally poor. Explore further: https://heatonautomatic.bandcamp.com/ ~~~~~~~~~