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Artist and noise maker. Ogre in a wizard costume. COMMISSIONS OPEN Art: jameswatts.art Bands: Plague Rider / Lenz / Lovely Wife / Dolmen Dweller / Dybbuk / All The Heavens Were A Bell / Shrimp / etc Record Label: panurusproductions.bandcamp.com

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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 22h
New Dolmen Dweller for your bandcamp day perusal, FFO: drone, throat singing, faulty mixers, vowel sounds. dolmendweller.bandcamp.com/album/return...
An image of a whirlpool in blacks and dark blues and greens. It is surrounded by a lined grey border that crosses over itself at the corners.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New music for bandcamp Friday. Forty odd minutes of guitar + voice + effects soundscapin’ from me and Jon. Art by me. dolmendweller.bandcamp.com/album/visited
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New noise from two years ago, clattering a radiator around Middlesbrough town centre. “Four tracks recorded in Middlesbrough on Friday The 28th June 2024, outside the old House of Fraser Entrance where Linthorpe Road and Corporation road meet.” dolmendweller.bandcamp.com/album/middle...
A diagram like drawing of a modified electric radiator, which contains and array of effects pedals and a set of springs and feedback box on the front. Drawn in black ink on a yellow background.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Drawn an angry egg. Listened to Divine Cargo during: divinecargo.bandcamp.com/album/demo
An egg shaped character stomping through purple clouds. It has two muscular arms emerging from about two thirds of the way up the egg, the shoulders of which form the brow for glowing pink eyes. It has a large lower jaw jutting over the front of the brow and small legs that disappear into the purple fog. It looks furious.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Drawn a gristly gargoyle Listened to Ramesses during: ritualproductions.bandcamp.com/album/take-t...
A swooping winged creature, that looks like it’s composed of lengths of gristle and bone flies over a cloudy brown backdrop
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Drawn a big lad Listened to Human Leather during: humanleather.bandcamp.com/album/here-c...
A huge lumpen monster in full oranges and blacks against a dark purple and orange backdrop. It’s mouthy and what might be it’s nostrils and eyes are full with fiery glow and billowing smoke and it sits in a cloud of dark brown or black smoke.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Drawn a frail ent Listened to Wrekmeister Harmonies during: wrekmeisterharmonies.bandcamp.com
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Drawn a floating thing. Listened to Mr Oizo during: mroizo.bandcamp.com/album/lambs-...
A white floating orb like creature against a background of sludgey yellow clouds. It has long arms or flippers dangling below it and four hollows along the front containing glowing orbs.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Drawn a big fella. Listened to Nadja during: nadja.bandcamp.com/album/cut
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Drawn a creature. Listened to Aphex Twin during: aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/i-care... LINKS Buymeacoffee: buymeacoffee.com/james_watts BigCartel: jameswatts.bigcartel.com Website: jameswatts.art
A flesh coloured alien creature against a sand coloured backdrop. It has a long featureless head and two arms ending in tentacle like fingers. It stands on four legs splayed out from a central torso, which is wrinkled and has what look like plates running up the front. To the right is a block of interlaced straight lines, with what looks like some kind of abstract script below it.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Drawn a sun dweller. Listened to Nadja during: nadja.bandcamp.com/album/desire... PRINTS: jameswatts.bigcartel.com BUYMEACOFFEE: buymeacoffee.com/james_watts
A portrait or a vaguely humanoid figure in oranges, yellows and red. The head is a featureless lump bar a line of black gem like eyes and the torso is fluid and lumpen. It looks as if the character is within somewhere very hot, as if it lives inside a sun.
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𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖓 𝖜á𝖗𝖘 @wwrrssddrrwwss.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I’m playing a gig for @free-music-lessons.bsky.social at wharf chambers in leeds on the 2nd october. Alongside HAPTIC ( @stevenhess.bsky.social ) and THOMAS CARROLL ( @snufkin.bsky.social ) more info: snufk.in/free-music-l...
Gig poster:

FREE MUSIC LESSONS
£7/13 NOTAFLOF
October 2nd at Wharf Chambers 19:30

HAPTIC

HELL ON HEARTH

THOMAS CARROLL

Wharf Chambers is a members' club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. Please visit wharfchambers.org/join.
Membership costs £2 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.
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Sumlin @sumlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New on Wrong Speed Records! "Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body" is the long-awaited debut album from the mighty HUMAN LEATHER Watch the video for "Dark Depths And Surface Tension" HERE: youtu.be/UR61qWeckwM?...
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Human Leather - Dark Depths and Surface Tension - (Official Video)
YouTube video by Wrong Speed Records
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Wild that there’s a whole industry of ‘booking agents’ who’s job it is to email about booking bands and a whole industry of ‘events promoters’ who’s job it is to say “ok”, and then nobody does anything unless prompted and people charge to send emails The Music Industry is fucking leprous isn’t it.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Can I just make a sofa? Can I just screw some bits of wood together into a sofa shape and put cushions on? Does that work?
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Necro Supernaut XIII @necrobutcher187.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
here's a full pair of sketchbook pages for you, please enjoy these fun drawings, show people, learn to enjoy the down time, relax, listen to yourself breathe, wear a helmet
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Actually got in just in time for #portfolioday - here’s some recent and not so recent squiggling.
A line drawing of a warped skull in black and white ink on blue paper. The skull stretches across the page into a tendril like formA digital painting of a yellow/red amorphous mass. Eyeballs stare from crevices in the surface, and it is behind details for a gig featuring Horrendous, Crypt Sermon and Plague Rider, at the Black Heart on the 10th AugustAn ink drawing of a surreal psychedelic ship against a marbled background. The ship is made of curved organic forms in yellow with blue orbs attached to or hovering around the main hull. In the background is a rendition of the room Lapetus.A cloud hovering against a Paul’s turquoise back drone. Straight spear like lines point downward from the cloud, with arrow heads at the end of them
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Got a new spot completely sorted out and moving stuff underway - horrors of rental industry dealt with for the foreseeable and better environment on the horizon etc etc. So what I’ve decided to do is get paralysingly anxious about another thing and sit on the sofa not sorting anything instead.
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terry t gerbs @heinouswhiner.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Territorial Gobbing - BLUE METAL Weekly album mission continued. Jandeked acoustic blues + blak metal screams + glossy synths into short songs and long spaceoffs territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com/album/blue-m...
territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com
BLUE METAL, by Territorial Gobbing
8 track album
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avant dumb @avantdumb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The fawning response to Black Sabbath’s umpteenth farewell and the associated legacy act bonanza this weekend really shows how rock/metal’s decline as a popular genre has been sublimated into ancestor worship and nostalgia by the fans
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Preaching to the choir here but the entire rental industry is run by wildly incompetent parasites.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A particularly ominous one from nice man Wárs.
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terry t gerbs @heinouswhiner.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Mission to drop weekly considered and composed Gobbing albums soilders on over at the bandcamp No. 3 is layered tremelo shredded trumpet with synth pulse and singing territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com/album/an-can...
territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com
AN CANDLE, by Territorial Gobbing
4 track album
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
See, you can buy physical objects (not that tape though, that was the last one) off me in person if you like and I can make myself not socially weird for the duration of the interaction.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Had a lovely time at The Cube and saw lots of mates and heard lots of sounds. Had a less lovely time pissing petrol down maybe 15 miles of the A1M, pushing the car into a services and Macgyvering a patch on the fuel line. Shout out to maintenance people with google and a cupboard of bits and bobs.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Drawn Bill Oddie’s The Thing. Listened to I’m Being Good during: imbeinggood.bandcamp.com/album/family...
An ink drawing of amorphous fleshy creature with the face of an owl, rendered with hatching and brushstrokes and digitally coloured with pale browns and greens. It has small black tendrils emerging from its base.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
When I am eating eight hotdogs I now say ‘we’re all having hotdogs lads’ and give the lads their meat sticks treats and I live very much on my own.
An orange cat eating a meaty stick treatA black cat eating a meaty stick treat
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Thoughts are good aren’t they. Love having thoughts, me.
A screenshot that contains the posts:

Team “not actually oblivious to flirting, just terrified of appearing presumptuous” represent.

“Yes, in the balance of consideration this persons behaviour could certainly be interpreted as flirtatious, but it would be purest arrogance for me to just assume they actually meant what they said. I should gather more evidence. Forever.”
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
An image from AnglingTimes.co.uk of a man holding a large fish (a chub) with the caption: Quiet stretch produces a whacking great chub
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𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖓 𝖜á𝖗𝖘 @wwrrssddrrwwss.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
hell on hearth - ‘one hundred and forty four’ a new album of slow, steady drones and textures and unruly distorted interludes. 1h 20m 3s of unsettling ambient for you to enjoy. free d/l on bc / pwyw on mirlo.space
hellonhearth.bandcamp.com
one hundred and forty four, by hell on hearth
2 track album
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tay @tayyabamin.com · 20/06/2025
Honoured to contribute vocals to the opening track on M-G Dysfunction's latest album, which balances its twists and turns with a properly holistic quality. Check it out:
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
OUT NOW M-G DYSFUNCTION - MISTA SELF-ISOLATION Over 5 years in the making, the latest M-G Dysfunction record goes out into the world today. Grab one at the links below yeah? It's very good. @ampwall.com: ampwall.com/a/panuruspro... @bandcamp.com: panurusproductions.bandcamp.com/album/mista-...
Blue text on a black background, which reads:

Strange, torrid, funny, moving - the third full-length offering from the Leeds/London artist leaves listeners guessing to the last.

M-G Dysfunction, the project of Fred M-G (ZoZo/@chunk.leeds DIY space), returns with third full-length album Mista Self-Isolation. Released on 20th June by Panurus Productions, the record is the first M-G Dysfunction full-length release since 2021’s Nothing Clean, Nothing Pure and first non-single release since 2023 EP Maybe She’s Born With It, Maybe It’s Sertraline.

As anyone who has heard Nothing Clean, Nothing Pure or seen an M-G Dysfunction live show will know, things are never quite as they seem with this project. Drawing as much from Stewart Lee as Death Grips, MGD regularly pulls the rug out from under listeners just as they think they’ve sussed what he’s getting at. Scorching the earth with anger one minute and humour the next, MGD reveals himself as a kind of hyper-nihilist jester - someone scorning honesty even as the music itself seems as earnest as can be, or hiding knotty truths amidst seemingly frivolous asides.

Mista Self-Isolation is the fullest realisation of the M-G Dysfunction project to date - a record of trepidation and humour, of lopsided passion and warped poetics. This album is about surveying the wreckage of monoculture and navigating the act of making music amidst a land-grab of rights, melodies and rhythms by people who never liked music in the first place. It’s about properly honest artistic expression - what “keeping it real” looks like, sounds like, feels like in 2024. It’s about getting some official beats and saying fly shit over them.

FFO: Dean Blunt, Death Grips, The Bug, Stewart Lee, Laura Oldfield Ford, Jenny Hval, The Streets, Marie Davidson, David Shields, Julia Fox An image of the artist M-G Dysfunction in oval sunglasses and baseball cap, with a black and silver jacket on. He is in front of a starry background with a statue of an alien faded against the background behind him. This is within a pixelated crimson border and with the title : M-G DYSFUNCTION above and MISTA SELF-ISOLATION below, in pixelated blue front with a gold border.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This isn’t going to work, is it.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
There’s something about a 24hour notice flat inspection that makes me fucking furious like nothing else.
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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Listen again: Panurus Presents / 12th June 2025 Playing tracks by Nospheric, Dark Scrotuum, Brandon Invergo, Pocket Ape, Hex Bar and more. @wattsnoise.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/panu...
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Video killed the radio star, but unfortunately I am just a radio ordinary guy and as such continue to be cursed with existence. On the radio tonight at listen.camp
A photo of a female or juvenile bearded reedling (panurus biarmicus) perched on some feeds, used as a poster for the Panurus Presents radio show, which reads:

PANURUS PRESENTS
22:00 - 00:00 CET
21:00 - 23:00 UTC
Camp Radio
12/06/2025

Brandon Invergo
Dark Scrotuum
Pocket Ape
Hex Bar
Mantooth
Inertia Point
M-G Dysfunction 
Remaining Warmth
Craig Johnson & Matt Atkins
Bikini Ayotollah Soundsystem
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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Thursday! listen.camp 3-4pm: Sonification @devinsarno.com 6-7pm: Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social 7-8pm: Key Grips with Kristen & Bernie @kgallerneaux.bsky.social | @dhallllc.bsky.social 10pm-12am: Panurus Presents @wattsnoise.bsky.social Notes: www.facebook.com/CampFRRadio/ ⏰ CEST
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Coupla recent squiggles now I’m back at it. Listened to Puddin’ for the first one. puddinls4.bandcamp.com Listened to Nospheric for the second. nosphericdronedeath.bandcamp.com/album/pain-i... Could really do with some commission work or selling prints, so give me a shout if you want anything
A red lobster like creature against a pale background. It resembles the head of a lobster with one stunted claw and a sealed orb like body with bristles emerging from the mouth area, like a hybrid lobster/seed shrimp.An amorphous worm like creature with black flesh and translucent oil like boils on its surface. At one end is what appears to be the head, with copper like teeth and rows of translucent orbs as ‘eyes’. It is against a black cloudy background.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Fucking hell I am stressed.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Soothing the disenfranchisement with music with this: waxvesselrecords.bandcamp.com/album/makesh...
waxvesselrecords.bandcamp.com
Makeshift Crematoria, by Trichomoniasis
19 track album
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
First post on the website for a little while. Bit of a long form screed about wearing yourself out. jameswatts.art/2025/06/08/o...
jameswatts.art
On Burnout
So much for the weekly updates, though their absence does pertain to the content of this post. Not too long after I got the last update up, I crouched down to check my car tyre after helping a frie…
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Did the layouts on this one and it's very good. Sounds like being pulled about by big worms at the bottom of a dungeon.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Never have I been better set up for one of these. Both cats in one gif.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A cool thing to do if you’re feeling anxious, have drunk too much coffee and have been pacing around your house, is to eat a homemade lasagne for eight people.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I cool thing to do if your are feeling anxious is to drink four big cups of coffee and pace around your house.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Big Lad: True Distinguished Baby Orange Lad: True Distinguished Baby Rat Bastard
A black cat and an orange cat having a bit of a cuddle.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I think one of the few good things about getting old is that based on current growth my beard might join up with my eyebrows in the next twenty years.
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
While I’m on my Horseback posting, this is my favourite song off said favourite album, and I think the video is really good too. It’s hard to get visuals that work well with this kind of stuff and Jon Mackey does it really well. m.youtube.com/watch?v=7CDV...
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Horseback - Blood Fountain
YouTube video by Marc Durant
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Watts @wattsnoise.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I don’t think there’s a bad Horseback album, but this one’s my favourite, and I’ve been reminded I picked it up about eleven years ago when I was very stressed and about to do some big decisions and moving. Probably still the most soothing album I own. horseback.bandcamp.com/album/the-go...
horseback.bandcamp.com
The Gorgon Tongue: Impale Golden Horn + Forbidden Planet, by Horseback
10 track album
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