The Chap
with support from Roger Manning and Joe Dangerous
(Nov 2nd/ 8pm/ £6)

November. Dark and cold, with the nights drawing in fast. In the absence of daylight, we give you the Chap, bringing their absurdist dada-kraut-garage-disco back to the Cube. With a new album recently recorded, the band are back on the road, pulling their perfectly crafted post-everything pop out into the world once more. A band that’s hard to describe, but rather easier to listen to. With several new songs, and a full set of new dances; kids at gigs have said the Chap "really rock" and "are really out there" and "look like teachers”. Look forward to some shape shifting shafts of mutant songcraft from the reverb hating five piece. Tight, as they say.

Antifolk pioneer Roger Manning’s music was shaped in the streets, subways and dance clubs of New York during that city’s transformation in the eighties. Releasing his first album on the legendary SST label at the turn of the decade, he spent the next ten years touring and performing all over Europe and the US, eventually settling back in NYC’s lower east side, "the last place where you could still wear black clothes, make lousy art and have a good time". Having taken a long break from touring and recording, Roger’s been drawn out of his long hiatus to go and play a Jeffrey Lewis curated show in Berlin at the House of World Cultures. A foray which has prompted him to return to the UK to play his first shows here since the mid-nineties. The Cube is thrilled to host this great singer, storyteller and skater.

Ever aloof but always pleased to see you, Joe Dangerous sails abreast a wave of anxious electronic energy, transforming his midnight visions into ethereal soundscapes to take home to mother.