As part of the 20th birthday celebrations of The Junction in Cambridge, the esteemed venue is to host a rare club appearance by former Velvet Underground mainman and Andy Warhol acolyte Lou Reed.

The legendary guitarist will appear with his Metal Machine Trio at The Junction, Clifton Way, Cambridge on Saturday 17 April 2010.

Tickets, priced £25 go on sale at 12 noon on Friday 22 January at www.junction.co.uk or by phone or in person at The Junction Box Office 01223 511 511.

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio: MM3 will be performing A NIGHT OF DEEP NOISE and features Lou Reed on processed and unprocessed guitars, Ulrich Krieger on tenor sax and live-electronics, and Sarth Calhoun on continuum & live processing. No songs no vocals.

Rock music icon Lou Reed and sonic experimentalist Ulrich Krieger, and continuum and live processing specialist Sarth Calhoun take the stage together to improvise music and make soundscapes. They use guitars, saxophones, continuum, and an array of electronic treatments to venture into deep acoustic space, drawing on new music, free jazz, avant-rock, noise and ambient in a set of intense conceptual pieces and intuitive improvisations.

Lou Reed and Ulrich Krieger first met in 2002 for the premiere of Krieger's transcription and arrangement of Metal Machine Music - Reed's seminal guitar feedback epic - for the chamber orchestra Zeitkratzer.

More recently, Reed has been touring a new stage version of his 1973 rock oratorio Berlin, a work that was the subject of the stunning concert film by Julian Schnabel released this summer. Krieger, who has collaborated with artists from Reed and Lee Ranaldo to Phill Niblock and Merzbow, has been a member of CalArts' music faculty since last autumn.

The Junction’s Chief Executive Richard Oyarzabal said today ‘To attract an artist of the calibre of Lou Reed for one of our Junction 20 events is an indication of the reputation that The Junction has nationally. We shall be announcing further special events throughout the year which will highlight all the different artforms and participatory activities that The Junction will continue to present for the next 20 years.’

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