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, especially after the Spare Toasters night (1999-2001) finished. Starting in November 2001 we started putting on ourselves and likeminded DJs and local bands. From 2002, we started to bring in bands from outside Cambridge booking international and UK touring artists and helping to drag the city onto the touring circuit for the music we like, naturally evolving over the years to include 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 and made connections between artists from Cambridge and elsewhere.

collaborations and special projects
We have an ongoing collaboration with artist-run warehouse space Aid & Abet which opened in 2011. Our first project there was based around our self-built nano-venue Self Assembly, with associated live events and audio and visual works created on site, as part of Aid & Abet's Art As A Full Time Hobby show in July 2011. See images from Self Assembly here.

Bad Timing was also a programming partner in Past Present Future: Space-Time , the second one-day music and arts festival organised by Wysing Arts Centre near Cambridge in September 2011.
We also have past and planned events with Cambridge Super-8 and co-promote occasional gigs with other local promoters.

Past collaborations include special events with Kosmische, Enter: Unknown Territories festival and innovative UK promoters network Logarhythm including the likes of Capsule, Qujunktions and Lumin.

Bad Timing has had several incarnations as a collective. Since January 2006 it has been curated by co-founder Jo Brook when former members decided to concentrate on their own music-making and label activities in Cambridge and elsewhere.

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

> bt Q&A with Explorer Magazine, July 2011

People we've featured so far:
Accelra, Agaskodo Teliverek , Tetuzi Akiyama, Declan Allen (ATP dj), Animals on Wheels , Aotea , Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti , Ascoltare , Astrobotnia , Atsuhiro Ito, Babygrand, Jim Backhaus (Kosmische, dj) , Bearsuit , Belong , Ben Butler and Mousepad, Dale Berning, Big Troubles, Birds of Delay , Kevin Blechdom , Bogulta , Brideburger, 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, Ducktails, Duracell , Dÿse , Ekoplekz, Elapse-O , Ergo Phizmiz , Esquilax , EU , Fanny , James Ferraro, Fuck Buttons , Chris Forsyth, Future Islands, Gay Against You , Germlin , Goodiepal , Gulpepsh , Gyratory System , Haeti , Magz Hall (You Are Hear, dj) , Harpoon Group, Heatsick, Ian Helliwell , Hellvete, Herb Diamante, House Mouse , Hungry Ghost, Hunting Lodge , IMBOGODOM, ISAN , Jellica , C Joynes, Kid606 , Kirk Leatham, K. Laska , Knifechandchop , Felix Kubin , Large Number , Latahs , Leafcutter John , Lien, Local Radio, Julian Lynch, Man From Uranus , Maruosa , Marlowe/Coleman, Stephan Mathieu , John Maus , Max Tundra , Melt-Banana , Harry Merry, MoHa! , Men of Unitus, Mi Ami, Dieter Moebius, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, R Stevie Moore, Motherfucking, Nes.co, Nochexxx, Noxagt , Georg Odijk (A-Musik)(dj) , Ommm , Our Love Will Destroy The World, 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 , Simon Scott , Dwayne Sodahberk , Sonic Pleasure, DJ Spykid, Stella OM Source, Steve's Evil Twin (dj), Neil Suddes (dj), Sunset People , Sunshine Republic , Damo Suzuki Network, Sylvester Anfang II, Synkro, Team Brick , The Accountant , The Chap , The Doozer, The Resistance , The Vichy Government , THF Drenching, Richard Thomas , Three Trapped Tigers, Transitional , Trencher , Tropical Ooze, TSÜ, Alexander Tucker , Jon Tye (dj), UM , usedtobecool , Venetian Snares , Vert , Vindicatrix, , Volcano the Bear , Volt , V/Vm , Gary War, White Mice , Keith Fullerton Whitman , Wolf Eyes , Xylitol, , Ypsmael, Zero, Z'EV