The Bush Tetras

Event information

Baba Yaga's Hut and StopMakingSense present

Alphabet City
ANOWAVEPUNKFUNKDISCOMELTDOWN

featuring

The Bush Tetras (only UK show)
Emperor Machine,
Chik Budo,
Kasms
vs
JD Twitch ( OPTIMO)
Allez Allez
Damon Martin ( Disco Bloodbath)
SoulJazz Soundsystem
Richard Sen ( Padded Cell )
StopMakingSense DJs
Joe Angular

Friday 17th October 9pm – 5am
£10 advance / £12 on the door

Corsica Studios
4/5 Elephant Road
London
SE17 1LB

Tel:020 703 4760
http://www.corsicastudios.com
info@corsicastudios.com

NYC in the late 70’s and 80’s was a fertile breeding ground for some of the most original music in decades. Punk was mutating into hardcore, disco was approaching its sell by date and a whole generation of artists and musicians were getting restless. One of the more notable movements/scenes to emerge from the crime-ridden streets of the Lower East Side was No Wave. Taking elements of these moribund genres and infusing them with an independent “fuck you” agenda a new sound was experiencing a troublesome birth. Clubs such as the Danceteria, The Mudd Club and Club 57 were the focal points of this Downtown Dystopia and Alphabet City was at the heart of this musical revolution.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you Bush Tetras.......

Despite the BTs direct connection to No Wave - which was as much guilt by association as it was musical intent - they were somewhat of an anomaly. Their dark, angular funky fun music somehow fit in with yet simultaneously flew in the face of the likes of the cohesive dissonance of the Scissor Girls/Glen Branca, the wilful intent to annoy of Lydia Lunch and the detuned James Brown meets Ornette Coleman shriek of The Contortions. In their initial incarnation ( 1980 – 1985 ) they released three 7”EPs and two cassettes. Their legend grew in their absence and the band reunited in 1995 releasing an EP and CD only to implode again in 1998. In 2005 original members Pat Place, Cynthia Sley and Dee Pop reunited yet again with new bass player Julia Murphy and recorded and new CD called Very Very Happy .

With 1980’s Too Many Creeps the BTs invented the brand of scabby lo-fi punk-funk that DFA LCD NYPC and other initial happy dance teams currently crave. The Tetras used a snippy bored-to-tears vocal mien and lyrics that turned into a mean ass mantra with repetition. They had hard, fluid grooves and slashity slashing guitars

Imagine Fugazi led by three women, 10 years earlier, or even better, a female fronted Gang of Four. Seminal beyond belief and architects of a sound that has found its place again today we are extemely proud to present Bush Tetras alongside a number of other bands and DJs inspired by the sounds and scenes of early 80's NYC.