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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/

Bad Timing: Panda Bear (Animal Collective) + Ariel Pink + Signer + UM

Bad Timing presents
in association with Harvest Time:

Paw Tracks/Carpark tour with:
Panda Bear (Animal Collective) + Ariel Pink + Signer + UM

Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) is best known as songwriter/drummer/vocalist in Brooklyn's
Animal Collective, currently gaining an ever-increasing
reputation for their splicing of guitar/sonic
randomness and Brian Wilson-inspired sundrenched
rusticated harmonic folkishness. His solo
debut `Young Prayer' takes the scratchy and tangled electrified lines of Animal Collective and his unique hyper/ventilated unsteady-but-pure vocal style, and strips them down to create a bare and introspective mood, with frequently uplifting results.

LA's Ariel Pink has been compared to Soft Pink Truth, Engelbert Humperdink, Fall demos and `tapes that've warped in the sun', taking classic `Lite FM'-style pop tunes and wrapping them with lofi guitar fuzz and keyboards into his unique home-taped sound, which is beautiful,
confusing yet strangely addictive.

NZ's Signer crafts proper fuzzed-out pop gems around shifting bass/effects-heavy textures, with My Bloody Valentine guitar-scapes at its core but reaching out into more rhythmic and definite vocal songs with hints of Four Tet, Flying Saucer Attack or Mogwai.

UM has his own take on the vocal/lofi crushed pop idea,
once being described as the musical love child of
Ray Davies and Genesis P. Orridge. Traces of
Mark E. Smith combine with digital fragments and
tightly off-kilter rhythms.

Entry:
6.00 door/
5.00 concs/advance reservations from
http://www.bad-timing.co.uk

Upgrade & Afterlife

Special guests: Pirandelo (Mou Lips)
Ascoltare / live visuals from steve's evil visuals
Fuzzy Lights -- guitar/violin duo
+ bad timing & harvest time djs

Pirandelo:
A collaboration begun in 2004 between computer/sound artists
Mou, Lips!, live video artist Claudio Sinatti (who has
worked with the likes of Fennesz) and the slide-based
live visuals of Marita Cosma. Pirandelo's sound
combines vocals, live environmental sounds and digital
processes with an unusual lyrical sweetness, the results being
reminiscent of Mum or Oval/Mouse on Mars project Microstoria.
Visually, their aim is also to break out of the frame, synthesising photographic, digital and video imagery.

Entry: 3.00

Upgrade & Afterlife
Regular nights of experimental & DIY & digital &
acoustic music in Cambridge UK
http://www.upgradeandafterlife.co.uk/

Bad Timing Third Birthday: DJ /Rupture + Ove-Naxx (Adaadat) + Ascoltare

DJ /Rupture starts his Special Gunpowder tour by
returning to Cambridge for a 3-deck/live set
with tour support from Japanese prankster and Jason Forrest/Donna Summer collaborator Ove-Naxx.

Ascoltare supports with a set of Dubbel-label
bastard pop set.

8:30-11:00
Entry: £5.00

Note: This event is now definitely going ahead
at this new venue (not The Portland as listed
elsewhere).

In association with 209 Radio
http://www.209radio.co.uk

http://www.bad-timing.co.uk