bad-timing

Upgrade&Afterlife 1st Birthday: My Cat Is An Alien + Haeti

Bringing experimental, DIY, noise, digital, instrumental
and freeform music to Cambridge since May 2004, Upgrade & Afterlife celebrates its first birthday!

Very special guests: My Cat Is An Alien:
My Cat Is An Alien are an Italian noise/improv duo utilising electric and acoustic guitars, various toy instruments and toy microphones and percussion to create an intense free-noise sound. Formed in 1998, they have recently released a series of split LPs with the likes of no less than Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Jackie-O MF, with whom they also collaborate. Tonight they play a special
stripped-down set.

+ Haeti

+ bad timing djs

CB2, 5-7 Norfolk St, Cambridge
http://www.upgradeandafterlife.co.uk/

Bad Timing: The Chap (Lo Recordings) + Man From Uranus + The Resistance

Bad Timing presents
The Chap (Lo Recordings) + Man From Uranus + The Resistance
+ bad timing djs
The Portland, 129 Chesterton Rd, Cambridge
Entry: 4.00, 8:30-11:00
http://www.bad-timing.co.uk/

The Chap make `pop songs with lyrics about courage, modesty, sex and asthma' backed with driving krautrock- new wave-disco with guitar, keyboard, strings and cut-up beats.

Gaining growing respect on the live circuit, recently supporting Tom Vek and Apparat, their second album HAM is out on 23rd May on Lo Recordings.

`The Chap -- it's excellent arty nonsense. It's compressed and repressed. They're a New Wave disco rock machine.' Careless Talk Costs Lives

`a truly far out music that embraces novelty, bunks up with surrealism and gives birth to freakish Dadaist disco babies. You'll love it but you sure won't understand it.' NME

> http://www.thechap.org

MAN FROM URANUS
Man From Uranus makes analogue rock Moog space machine music. Currently getting well-deserved exposure in London and well beyond (having recently played everywhere from London's legendary Kosmische club to the Tate Modern and booked for many more), the Man From Uranus Electrical Music Show returns to Bad Timing.

> http://www.manfromuranus.com

THE RESISTANCE
A new Cambridge band who combine pulsating analogue and digital electronics and guitars with electronic and guitar noise for an intensely driven sound which has similarities to Cabaret Voltaire or early Mute artists like the Normal or Fad Gadget. Compared to Suicide with feedback instead of vocals, The Resistance were most recently seen supporting The Violets and The Vichy Government in Cambridge.

Upgrade & Afterlife: si-cut.db + Andrew Coleman + PDA + Haeti DJ

A night of digital, experimental and DIY music.

Special guest si-cut.db (London-based Douglas Benford) creates warm and liquidly rhythmic soundscapes combining field-recordings with synthetic elements.

si-cut.db also co-runs London's Sprawl night/label, now in its 10th year, and annual Interplay festival, and has played across Europe as well as in the USA and Australia.

Andrew Coleman/Animals on Wheels
(Tripel, Ninja Tune, Thrill Jockey)

Andrew Coleman makes music which organically draws in acoustic instrumentation, warm melodic electronics and environmental sounds.

His latest release Demons (Tripel) is focused around acoustic guitar sound in a sparse but emotionally resonant landscape. Comparisons could include Kranky Records artists such as Greg Davis. He has recently toured Europe with Warp's Chris Clark.

PDA
Handheld digital lofi. Taking lofi field recordings and found samples, PDA makes immersive digital music using old Palm handhelds and hardware. PDA has previously supported Leafcutter John and Janek Schaefer in Cambridge.

Plus a special DJ set from Haeti.
Plus bad timing djs

http://www.upgradeandafterlife.co.uk/