Bad Timing exists to create unique live music events in Cambridge, making regular events happen in venues of all kinds and in other unusual spaces, bringing touring artists to the city from across the world and working with a core of experimental and innovative artists based in Cambridge and beyond.

collaborations and special projects
Aid & Abet BT has an ongoing collaboration with artist-led warehouse space Aid & Abet which opened in 2011. Our first project there was as part of Aid & Abet's Art As A Full Time Hobby show (July 2011) and was based around Self Assembly, our self-built 7-capacity arts centre with gallery, screening and performance areas, with live events and audio and visual works created on site. Since then BT has created further events including our 10th birthday celebration in November 2011 which have explored varied site-specific ways of working in the large space and subspaces as well as cross-arts collaboration.

Hidden Channels at Kettle's Yard New Music Mornings
In 2003 Kettle's Yard New Music Mornings created an opportunity for local new music makers from outside the usual academic channels to present an annual event in the New Music Morning series. Initially curated by LEAPS, these events have been run in parallel with Bad Timing since 2007, giving local and regional musicians a chance to perform and create music/sound for a different context to typical gig events.
> Hidden Channels

Wysing Arts Centre: Space-Time Festival Bad Timing was 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, alongside Strange Attractor, Electra and Escalator Music and is involved in the development of this year's festival 'And If It Was, It Can't Be Is' on 1st September 2012.

We also have past and planned events with Cambridge Super-8 including the recent Bibliotheque Launch Night at Aid & Abet.

Past collaborations include special events with Kosmische and two special events within the enter: Unknown Territories festival at the Junction, Cambridge. Between 2003-2007 Bad Timing was a member of the Logarhythm consortium -- a UK-wide network of innovative UK live music organisations including the likes of Capsule, Qujunktions and Lumin which organised tours, development and a record stall at SONAR festival in 2006.

history Like a lot of event organisers, Bad Timing started when a group of us 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 establish a place for the small city on the touring circuit for the music we like. This has naturally evolved over the years taking in electronica/electro, lofi, noise, early and self-invented electronics, weird pop, experimental and many 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.

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

And finally ... our second birthday event was the setting for an official Guinness World Record for Solo Record Breaking, set by Janek Schaefer.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI8oaTtha1o

> bt Q&A with Explorer Magazine, Cambridge, July 2011