10/11/23 Cube Microplex £12 / £9 Mouthfeel: The experimental music night with an ill-conceived culinary tie in returns with a trio of electronic trailblazers. Elvin Brandhi (Yeah You) is an improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist from Bridgend, Wales, who builds aberrant beats from field recordings, tape, vinyl, instrument and voice. Her live shows are unyielding bursts of erupting animation where her caustic stream of consciousness cavorts with restless, glitched out heaviness. MICROCORPS is the new project by artist and musician Alex Tucker (Grumbling Fur, Alexander Tucker, Imbogodom). Blurring the lines between human and humanoid, Tucker's ever-evolving soundworld continues to unfold around processed electronic systems, strings and vocal manipulations. Kickstarting the evening is a set from national treasure, and "people's champion" Henry Collins. Best known for his iconoclastic Shitmat sets, worst known as a crisp podcaster and professional wrestler, toni...

Special Measures & WAQK Club are at right angles to announce a much welcome, and long-overdue, return to Bristol for Michael Flower and Chris Corsano's incomparable duo. Formed in 2005, they meld the propane-lit, overdriven drone-ragas of Michael Flower’s electrified shahi baaja and the melodically kinetic free drumming of Chris Corsano. They deliver an ecstatic onslaught of free sound that shifts seamlessly between tumultuous intensity and blissed-out serenity. With a combined vintage taking in the likes of the Vibracathedral Orchestra, MV & EE, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Rangda, Bjork, Bill Orcutt, Joe McPhee, Paul Flaherty and an army of other outfits, the pair are an essential vector between the parallel worlds of psychedelic noise-rock and contemporary free jazz. Support comes from London based, Israeli-born, bass-clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist Yoni Silver. Yoni's performances draw on spectral music, the multi-layered textural saxophone of Evan Parker, Noise...

13/10/23 Cube Microplex £9 / £6 Mouthfeel is back with a pull-out-and-keep commemorative edition, celebrating 25 years of Bristol's best thing: The Cube Microplex. Leading the charge are Manchester's Godspeed You! Peter Andre. Witchy, queer and ill as hell; deep meditative intensity paired with a patchwork of rhythmic trance, techno and industrious beats. Oh and they're fabulous, obviously. SŌN is a tripped-up, slowed-down audio-visual collaboration between Isaac Stacey (Copper Sounds) and Jordan Martin (Double Vision Studios). Inspired by neolithic stones, ancient folklore, mythology, superstition and tradition within the land; expect deep, dark and twisted visuals scored live with robust electronic rhythms and homemade percussion instruments. Robin Foster will present a jubilee-edition silver "rummage" to celebrate The Cube's 25 years. The performance involves junk and found objects and the freeing of the hands and body to create new, dehumanised noise. It...

31/03/23 £5  Neon Dross welcomes you to a night of Vanilla Ice themed excess. Shades, caps and gaudy threads strongly encouraged. Expect wall-2-wall early 90's bangers; a vanilla icing station where you can ice your own buns; and of course the definitive motion picture event of 1991: COOL AS ICE! Cool As Ice was a cynical attempt to capitalise on the runaway success of Vanilla Ice's debut record "To The Extreme" and catapult him to movie-star status. It didn't work. Today it stands as a cringe inducing cult classic. A heady mix of incomprehensible comic vignettes, gratuitous dance scenes, zany ancillary characters, and footage of Vanilla Ice scowling on the back of a motorbike, is tied together with a vague plot about gangsters and filtered through an eye-popping early 90s aesthetic. A critical and commercial disaster; it was too cool for cinemas, exploding as it did directly into Blockbuster discount bins around the globe. This may well be the first time its ever...

12/01/23 Cube Microplex £12 / £8 Mouthfeel is a night of experimental music, with a vague culinary twist. Our first edition brings you a new collaboration between Container and Will Guthrie, with support from Tapsew and Palm Oil Will Guthrie is an Australian experimental percussionist and prolific collaborator. Anyone who saw his performance at the Cube earlier this year with his Nist-Nah gamelan ensemble will know this show isn’t to be missed. Container was a pioneering force in bringing noise music into techno. He’s more commonly found tearing up dancefloors than performing to hushed auditoriums so this promises to be a unique collaboration. Tapsew are a high drama AV ensemble featuring the unlikely pairing of sewing machine and tap dance; bringing together the escapism of showbiz with the repetitive labour of industry. Palm Oil’s crispy, brittle melodies get scrumpled up and snapped into tiny useless pieces on a chaotic temporal grid. Process-led improvised drum kit, synths and voic...