Like a lot of promoters, Bad Timing started when we didn't have anywhere to hear, play or DJ the kind of music we wanted to hear in the place where we live. Starting in November 2001 (following on from the Spare Toasters night (1999-2001)) putting on DJs and local bands, in 2002, we started to bring in bands from outside Cambridge and to book touring artists like Kid606, Venetian Snares and V/Vm, helping to drag the city onto the touring circuit for the music we like, including electronica/electro, lofi, noise, early and self-invented electronics, weird pop, experimental and other random things.

Since then Bad Timing has brought live music to Cambridge from across the world.

Our second birthday event was even the setting for an official Guinness World Record for Solo Record Breaking, set by Janek Schaefer.
> www.audioh.com/projects/worldrecord.html

People we've featured so far:
Accelra, Agaskodo Teliverek , Declan Allen (ATP dj), Animals on Wheels , Aotea , Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti , Ascoltare , Astrobotnia , Atsuhiro Ito, Jim Backhaus (Kosmische, dj) , Bearsuit , Belong , Ben Butler and Mousepad, Dale Berning, Birds of Delay , Kevin Blechdom , Bogulta , Bugbrand Audio , Mira Calix , John Callaghan , Canaveral , Chav and Dave , Charlottefield , Chora, Courtis/Moore, Circuit Breaker , Chris Clark , Cockland , Cos Chapman, Dave Cochrane , Cold Cave, Andrew Coleman, , Consumer Electronics, Core of the Coalman, Cutting Pink With Knives , Cylob , Damo (dj), Dans Mon Salon, Datach'i , DAT Politics , Greg Davis , Death Sentence: Panda! , Destructo Swarmbots , DJ /Rupture , Disinformation vs Strange Attractor , DJ Scotch Egg , Doddodo , Drum Eyes, Duracell , Dÿse , Elapse-O , Ergo Phizmiz , Esquilax , EU , Fanny , James Ferraro, Fuck Buttons , Future Islands, Gay Against You , Germlin , Goodiepal , Gulpepsh , Gyratory System , Haeti , Magz Hall (You Are Hear, dj) , Ian Helliwell , House Mouse , Hunting Lodge , ISAN , Jellica , Kid606 , Kirk Leatham, K. Laska , Knifechandchop , Felix Kubin , Large Number , Latahs , Leafcutter John , Lien, Man From Uranus , Maruosa , Marlowe/Coleman, John Maus , Max Tundra , Melt-Banana , MoHa! , Men of Unitus, Mi Ami, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Motherfucking, Nes.co, Nochexxx (dj), Noxagt , Georg Odijk (A-Musik)(dj) , Ommm , Ove-Naxx , Panda Bear , Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides, PDA , Pita , Planningtorock , Pleasurehorse , Pram , Printed Circuit , Prurient, Bogdan Raczynski , Random Number , Rock With Electronics , Romvelope , Janek Schaefer , Ulrich Schnauss , Scuplture , Sickboy, Signer , Dwayne Sodahberk , Sonic Pleasure, DJ Spykid, Steve's Evil Twin (dj), Neil Suddes (dj), Sunset People , Sunshine Republic , Damo Suzuki Network, Synkro, Team Brick , The Accountant , The Chap , The Resistance , The Vichy Government , THF Drenching, Richard Thomas , Transitional , Trencher , Alexander Tucker , Jon Tye (dj), UM , usedtobecool , Venetian Snares , Vert , Volcano the Bear , Volt , V/Vm , Gary War, White Mice , Keith Fullerton Whitman , Wolf Eyes , Xylitol, , Zero, Z'EV