Sat 05 Sept
|The Golden Lion
Callis / Fat Frances
Time & Location
05 Sept 2026, 20:00 – 23:00
The Golden Lion, Golden Lion, Fielden Square, Todmorden OL14 6LZ, UK
About the Event
Upstairs live room - Golden Lion
Callis formed in the Calder Valley — all hills, mills, and the quiet strangeness in between. The band came together in 2023, after years of late nights at Stephen Hartley’s house (Notsensibles): listening to records, trading ideas, and absorbing a punk ethos that still runs through everything they do. That’s where Dean Molyneux (vocals/guitar), Bryn Davies (bass), and Tyler Hanley (drums) first found the pulse of something they all loved.
Their sound leans into the raw tension of post-punk — think Joy Division, The Chameleons, Killing Joke — but through a distorted lens, with heavy guitars and a gritty edge. Songs are shaped by what lingers: a misty sunrise, a half-heard folk tale, strange lines from books that won’t let go. There’s melody and menace in Callis’ storytelling — beauty under pressure, all threaded with a need to make sense of the world,…
