Bush Tetras with Crazy Déjà Vu

Widely influential underground post-punk legends Bush Tetras, a crucial part of the No Wave scene in late ’70s and early ’80s NYC, make a once-in-a-lifetime appearance at SPACE.

The Bush Tetras have made punk music for over four decades. Flashes of reggae, bursts of noise, guitars that rattle, shake and snake, born out of a gutter behind CBGBs. The band’s first iteration lasted just a few years, from 1979 through the early ‘80s. But they respawned time and time again, contorting their sound, tweaking the vision, remaining completely singular and indispensable along the way. In the late 2010s the group—Pat Place, Cynthia Sley, and Dee Pop—reformed again, releasing an EP, Take the Fall, in 2018. It was their first offering of new music in over a decade.

A few years later in, 2021, they released a career spanning box set called Rhythm and Paranoia. They Live in My Head was the band’s third full length record since their formation in 1979, released in 2022 produced by Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, who also played drums with Bush Tetras. This fall, they will be playing with Erik Sanko on bass and Clem Waldmann on drums, the rhythm section for the legendary NYC band, Ui, from the ’90s.

Crazy Déjà Vu brings to you NEW FREAKOUT! This electronic pop rock quartet from Portland, Maine is guaranteed to make you shake and convulse. Analog visuals accompany demented original songs featuring live and electronic drums, funky bass, skewed samples, unhinged guitar, and dual frontmen thrashing to that new freakout sound.