Tuesday 18 February 2020, 7.30pm
“I swear I have never seen a band play harder, I have never seen musicians put so much into their instruments, I have never seen such concentration on stage; in short, I have never seen people make rock ‘n’ roll so much their own, using the normal tools to create a singular, bone-shaking form of expression.” – The Village Voice
Ut is a radical rock group founded by Nina Canal, Jacqui Ham and Sally Young in NYC in Dec 1978. Originating in the downtown No Wave scene and inheritors of the collision between rock, free jazz and the avant-garde, Ut exploded the rigidity of conventional rock, constructing songs through collective improvisation, swapping instruments and rotating the role of singer/director.
Migrating to London in 1981, Ut played with bands like The Fall and The Birthday Party and released music on their own label, Out Records. Ut became a favorite of BBC's John Peel and recorded sessions for his show. Joining forces in 1987 with the label Blast First, they released the critically acclaimed In Gut's House in 1988 and made that year’s NME ‘Top 50 Albums’. The album Griller followed in 1989, engineered by label mate Steve Albini, who shared Ut's raw aesthetic and captured the band’s intensity.
Ut disbanded in 1990, but began performing again in 2010. The band is currently reissuing its remastered catalogue on Out Records, through Forte Distribution, and available on Bandcamp.
“UT have an almost Mishima-like intensity in their attack and their understanding of how what you love the most is often what rips you totally apart." – Your Flesh
“The raw power and sheer drive of Ut is quite straightforward and unmistakable. This is a true threatening guitar band." – N.Y. Rocker
London-based Canadian artist / composer / drummer / singer Jenny Moore (Charismatic Megafauna, F*Choir) and her rabble rousing vocal ensemble present a testament to the intimacy and intensity of communal singing, on a choral-punk album of epic scope. With raucous maelstroms, droning incantations, sweet solos and meditative murmurs, Mystic Business encompasses the macro and the micro, the political and personal, the ancient and modern: from philosophy to Mini Cheddars, ‘who’s God?’ to clickbait, the apocalyptic to the small human drama.
The debut self-titled album, out now on The Audacious Art Experiment holds gang yells, rounds, stamp-claps and hot breaths shift to exhilarating choral arrangements that are complex but compulsively sing-along-able and catchy as hell. These are fortifying mantras to fall back on in uncertain moments: ‘We quit!’, ‘We want our bodies back!’, ‘I don’t want to choose you/I don’t want to choose anything!’, or ‘We are terrified… We are angry… We are hopeful… We are on the internet’.
Hailing from the prairies of Canada, Moore grew up with a strange brew of american hardcore and gospel music before moving to London to study art. For the last 10 years, she's straddled the DIY art and music scenes in London, making live performances in fields, warehouse, and art museums alike, and playing in bands like the dance-punk band Charismatic Megafauna, and the pop punk trio Bas Jan (whose debut album just released on Lost Map Records). Jenny runs the Hackney-based feminist F*Choir and is the first artist in residence at Borealis Festival for Experimental music in Bergen, Norway.
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Dee Sada is a London-based musician and curator of Nepalese and Indian origin. For over 15 years, she has moved through the underground and experimental arts scene with a quiet intensity — fusing noise, melody, and memory into a distinctive body of work that spans music, performance, and visual curation.
Her artistic journey has seen her perform in a range of critically regarded projects, including An Experiment On a Bird in the Air Pump, Blue On Blue, NEUMES, and Everywhere is Haunted. She has worked with renowned engineer Steve Albini (Big Black/Shellac) and musician and producer, Steve Mackey (Pulp) and supported artists such as Lydia Lunch, Colin Stetson and Mica Levi. With Fergus Lawrie of Urusei Yatsura, she co-founded the duo Paper Birch, releasing the album, ‘morninghairwater’ through Cafe OTO’s TAKUROKU label and Reckless Yes Records.
As a curator, Dee has programmed interdisciplinary exhibitions and performances with some of the most radical voices in contemporary art, including Carolee Schneemann and Laure Prouvost. Her work has been supported by influential institutions such as CIRCA, Whitechapel Gallery, IKON Gallery, and Cafe OTO. In September 2025, she will curate and perform in a new commission for the Thames Festival Trust. Dee will also be hosting a regular radio show on community arts station, Resonance FM later in the year.
Currently, Dee is preparing to release her debut solo album and first poetry collection. Her performances blend song and spoken word, drawing on horror, grief, and ancestral memory to create spaces of reckoning and reclamation. For this performance, Dee will be performing solo and alongside special guests including Massimo Braghieri.
