A guide to sacrificing your brother to jazz punk vampires: Opus Kink live in Hull
- twistednippleevent
- Oct 13
- 2 min read
Rating: 5 out of 5.
LIVE REVIEW | OPUS KINK | NEW ADELPHI CLUB, HULL | 4th October 2025 - A NIGHT BY TWISTED NIPPLE EVENTS
There’s a queue forming outside The New Adelphi Club in Hull, as the remnants of Storm Amy batter the city with rain, wind and a fitting October chill for the start of the hallowed month. We were gathered for a feast of musical madness provided by one of the most exciting bands I have seen in years.
Brighton’s jazz punk descends on the Humber in the form of Opus Kink, who have spent the previous eight years building a cult following bordering on that of the Manson family. A reputation for unhinged live shows, part post punk exorcism, part acid trip, gone horribly wrong in a New Orleans jazz club.
Safe to say they are right up my street, in fact, they’ve moved in next door and are keeping the neighbours up. So much so, I brought my younger brother for his first ever gig, and he would soon become a sacrifice in the mosh pits to come.
WENCH!
Support came from the superbly aggressive riot grrl fuzz of WENCH! who are quickly becoming local legends with a string of electric live shows and support slots. Not a mere buzz band, WENCH! are young, confident, and afflicted with that same maladjusted attitude problem all great punk bands should have. Playing a short but tight set with tracks from their first EP, Relaxing Rain Sounds For Baby Sleep, which I previously gave 4/5. Kitt is even more impressive than on the recording, knowing that they sing whilst playing the drums in a frenzied growl of pure rage and love for playing live. A virtuoso bass performance from Hebe left what’s left of my eardrums fizzing.
It’s rare to have mosh pits for every band on a line-up, but after the first act, the walls were damp, Doc Martens stuck to the floor, and a sell-out crowd packed in together shoulder to shoulder. It was about to turn into chaos. Probably a good time to hide my glasses and valuables.
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