While you were sleeping poster, 05/08/06(right, that’s the oblig­a­tory Kraftwerk ref­er­ence out of the way)

This week­end’s a busy one for fol­low­ers of elec­tron­ic and dance music. Tomor­row night, Mod­ule’s live band (includ­ing Rhi­an Shee­han and Raashi Malik) plays the late set at Cabaret. From there, it’s just a quick jaunt along Courte­nay Place to Sand­wich­es for Rhom­bus, who will be start­ing at about … oh, when­ev­er gigs start at Sand­wich­es these days.

After a late night like that, on Sat­ur­day you might be in the mood for some­thing more laid-back, so try out While_you_were_sleeping’s explo­rations of ambi­ent and exper­i­men­tal sounds at Room 101 (under Bar Bode­ga) from 8pm. To get a pre­view of the sounds on offer, lis­ten to The Ses­sion on Radio Active tonight, fea­tur­ing tracks and inter­views from some of the artists involved (incld­ing Pang, Panoram­i­ca and Anaes­the­sia Asso­ciates).

So So Mod­ern, Dis­as­tera­dio and Chair­man Miaow, will be play­ing an Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al ben­e­fit show at Indi­go The San Fran­cis­co Bathouse from 9:30. And if you’ve any pills ener­gy left, Con­cord Dawn and Minu­it are play­ing not one but two gigs at Sub­nine: all-ages from 7pm to 10pm, and grown-ups only from 11pm.