Momus is one of underground music's most controversial and influential provocateurs. Starting in the eighties as a sort of indiepop answer to filmmakers Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway, he spent the nineties scoring unlikely hits in Japan, the noughties as an "unreliable tour guide" in the New York art world, and much of this decade publishing books (the next one, due in 2014, is about the uninvention of America). But new Momus music keeps coming thick and fast too: in 2013 he released a poppy collaboration with Orange Juice's David McClymont, then went handmade and distorted with his own release, the charmingly clumsy Bambi album.

Originally from Scotland, Momus now lives in Osaka. His previous Cafe OTO performances have sold out quickly, so book early to avoid disappointment.

"One of pop's most scurrilous and brittle lyricists, still capable of raising blushes and laughter in the same breath." THE GUARDIAN

"This man—a living legend of underground music, visual art and now also the novel—is one of the most lucid and trenchant analysts in pop." EL PAIS

"We all need a bit of Momus in our lives." DANGEROUS MINDS

NB: No other acts performing. Momus on from 9pm.

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