This week in Cambridge

This week legendary musician and producer Lee 'Scratch' Perry comes to the Junction. Quite what kind of show the reggae veteran will put on is hard to say but it's an unmissable opportunity to see someone who has shaped contemporary music and continues to do so regularly putting out records, touring and working with artists across the musical spectrum despite being in his mid-seventies. Tickets are available from The Junction.
The following night there is a special poetry reading by Owen Sheers at The Fitzwilliam as part of Carol Ann Duffy's Thresholds project. Tickets are free but must be booked in advance. Details of this and other events are available at www.thresholds.org.uk.
If you haven't got a radio show to present on Sunday night there is more Allographic stuff at the Fountain. Details here.

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Music and Spoken Word in Cambridge This Week

A busy week for events kicks off on Monday with the launch of new Cambridge Tour Walking with Women. The tour gives a history of Cambridge focusing on achievements of women and has been put together by Hollie McNish with the help of other women writers from Cambridge. The launch at Michaelhouse spoken word, illustration, architecture and storytelling in celebration of Cambridge's female past. Tickets are selling fast so book now here.
CB1 poetry at the Punter returns for its first session of the new year on Tuesday with
Michael Schmidt. For more information about Michael and the event see the CB1 website.
On Saturday there is music and spoken word aplenty at Shindig at St Philips on Mill Road. Read my interview with headliners Rue Royale here and get all the info on other acts and how to get tickets here. Finally Fay Roberts is running a poetry writing workshop at the Fountain on Sunday afternoon (27th January) followed by Other Voices with Malcolm Guite and Nick Stibbs in the evening. See the Allographic website for full details.
That's about it then. If I've left anything out let me know and have a good week!

Bad Timing 11th Anniversary with Heatsick - 6th December

Read my review at: http://www.movingtone.com/reviews/patrick-widdess-reports-bad-timing-11th-anniversary-heatsick-cow-06-december-2012


Get down to the Cow for some live techno from Heatsick headlining Bad-Timing's 11th anniversary downstairs at the Cow.

"Heatsick batters a solitary Casio through a myriad of effects, looping up a coarse, crisp and twinkling out-house music into a wonderfully queasy eternity, teasing out melodic and rhythmic mantras to an off-kilter, Burroughsian effect that wins on the floor and never forgets to be lo-fi fun/funk. Combining a palette of sources from early Chicago house mixtapes (in sound, texture and mixing technique) through to musique concrète and psychedelia, Heatsick proposes a live dance music that expands and unlocks the senses."

Steven Warwick (also known as half of duo Birds of Delay) is active in the music, visual arts and club scenes. Recent releases include the acclaimed debut LP 'Intersex' and EP 'Déviation' on Bill Kouligas's PAN label, where labelmates include the likes of recent Bad Timing visitor NHK yx KOYXEN, Aaron Dilloway and Lee Gamble (recently seen at Reworks' closing party in Cambridge). Recent and upcoming activities include Unsound festival and visual arts shows in Berlin and Glasgow.

"This is dance music through and through, albeit probably unlike any you've heard before" - The Quietus

"There's something about the sense of containment (all the sounds come from one box), the character of the sound (circuits which sound like they're operating at close to overload and the sense of play within these constraints that makes this as overwhelming as any dancefloor experience you can imagine" - The Wire 

For full details and tickets go to: www.bad-timing.co.uk



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