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Watts
@wattsnoise.bsky.social
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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 · Apr 28
COMMISSIONS OPEN

I’ve spent the last month getting everything set up and now I could really do with getting some commissioned work in.

You can check out my portfolio here: jameswatts.art

And the print shop is still open here: jameswatts.bigcartel.com

More info that I can’t fit in a post below:
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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.
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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.
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
Drawn a frail ent

Listened to Wrekmeister Harmonies during: wrekmeisterharmonies.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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.
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
Drawn a big fella.

Listened to Nadja during: nadja.bandcamp.com/album/cut
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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.
October 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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.
October 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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wwrrssddrrwwss.bsky.social
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.
August 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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sumlin.bsky.social
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?...
Human Leather - Dark Depths and Surface Tension - (Official Video)
YouTube video by Wrong Speed Records
youtu.be
July 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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.
July 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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?
July 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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necrobutcher187.bsky.social
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
July 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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 form A 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 August An 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
July 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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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.
July 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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heinouswhiner.bsky.social
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...
BLUE METAL, by Territorial Gobbing
8 track album
territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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avantdumb.bsky.social
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
July 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
Preaching to the choir here but the entire rental industry is run by wildly incompetent parasites.
July 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
A particularly ominous one from nice man Wárs.
wwrrssddrrwwss.bsky.social 𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖓 𝖜á𝖗𝖘 @wwrrssddrrwwss.bsky.social · Jul 1
just reposting this from earlier today
wwrrssddrrwwss.bsky.social 𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖓 𝖜á𝖗𝖘 @wwrrssddrrwwss.bsky.social · Jul 1
happy to put out a new hell on hearth album.

'one hundred and forty eight'

free download.

f.f.o - ambient, noise, nice, horrible, bells, drones, being too hot, etc
July 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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heinouswhiner.bsky.social
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...
AN CANDLE, by Territorial Gobbing
4 track album
territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
June 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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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.
June 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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.
June 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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.
June 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
wattsnoise.bsky.social
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 treat A black cat eating a meaty stick treat
June 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM