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Cath Roberts
@cathrobots.bsky.social
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(They/them) Improvisation, saxophone, electronic noisemaking, the band Sloth Racket, Luminous label, also papery business. Not on social media a lot but contact me at https://cathrobots.co.uk/
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New release out today: Creatures of Tooth! Cassette and digital album on Madwort Recordings.

Tom Ward - bass clarinet
Cath Roberts - synthesiser

madwort.bandcamp.com/album/creatu...
June 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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A very last minute shout-out for an excellent gig that I'm part of tonight: Quartz Sand (Kate Carr and me) open for light . box with Tom Challenger at Hundred Years Gallery, London. Info at:
hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-light-...
Gig poster for light.box and Quartz Sand, tonight at Hundred Years Gallery.
May 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Coming up for me in the next two weeks:

3rd April: ATTNTYK with Tullis Rennie at INTRASPECT VII, University of Surrey!

9th April: end of year concert with my students, City St Georges Experimental Ensemble!

cathrobots.co.uk/blog/2025/03...

Join me for rad sounds inside universities - both free!
Two people in faded workwear jackets sit on some decking outside what look like beach huts, but are actually artists' studios! They are both holding mugs and the person on the left has been caught mid-mouthful. A confusing cardboard structure stands on a desk. It's made of panels sticking out at different angles and it's got neon and black paint on it. It doesn't photograph massively well, but luckily this is a work-in-progress shot. It's the cardboard structure from my project 'And then the next thing you know'. A collage of photographic material and text overlaid in a pretty dense and jumbled way. Visible are megaphones, ocarinas, microphones, a handheld recorder, a snare drum, text from instruction manuals, cables and an otamatone, which is a plastic instrument that looks a bit like a saxophone but with a face...this is my promo image for the student concert.
March 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Very chuffed with these lo-fi stickers I just received from Duplikat Press in Margate. They have a nice fuzzy aesthetic and it's fun to have stickers on a roll! These will be in future @slothracket.bsky.social merch orders, and at gigs across this year. Really recommend Duplikat:

www.duplikat.co.uk
A roll of bright yellow square stickers with black print. The design is of a fire-breathing Sloth and the text says 'Sloth Racket Ten Years'...
February 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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This Saturday 22nd February in Brockley SE London, join us for more improvised duo sets at BRÅK! We're back in the beer shop once again with February guests Charlotte Arculus (electronics), Sue Lynch (tenor saxophone) and Julia Brüssel (violin). Doors 18:30 at waterintobeer. Info: brakbrakbrak.co.uk
The flyer for BRÅK's February 2025 gig, with the guest artists as listed in my post text. It's a very minimal flyer with black text on a kraft brown paper background so there's almost nothing to report here!
February 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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I've been working on this for a while and it's out today!

Sloth Racket - Ten Years of Live Sloths:

slothracket.bandcamp.com/album/ten-ye...

Ten tracks, one from each year of the band's existence, recorded live around the UK (and briefly online) and lovingly excavated from the band's archives.
The cover of 'Ten Years of Live Sloths' which features an inverted image of a fire-breathing sloth's face, with some smashed-up looking text saying the album name. The image is black and white, with some colour accents on the text: a kind of fluoro-teal and a hot pink.
February 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Two live dates for my band Sloth Racket next month:
- Glasgow - 8th February - Old Hairdressers
- Birmingham - 23rd February - Centrala (Fizzle)
A bright yellow flyer by Rob Churm for the Sloth Racket gig in Glasgow on 8th Feb. It has a kind of brilliant monstrous multi-armed creature in the middle and the gig info hand-written around it.
January 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM