Cult band Pere Ubu have created a performance which combines the original 3-D film It Came From Outer Space with a new live soundtrack and commentary.

The 1953 Ray Bradbury story starts with a theme that has become a sci-fi staple - aliens land on earth, strange things start happening and the local menfolk rally around to boot the evil creatures out of town.

Unlike many other films of its era, this is where the story takes a turn and although the aliens have invaded human bodies, they are actually peaceful and just want to get back home.

"Bradbury had set out to make the aliens hideous," comments Pere Ubu mainman David Thomas. "But eventually the aliens themselves say that humans are hideous to them."

The conclusion being suspicion and division breed from outward differences but in the end, as a memorable line in the film goes, if "we have souls and minds and are good," then people's conflicts can be resolved.

"It's a critique on racism, particularly in post-war Europe and pre-desegregation America," adds Thomas.

Thomas has just returned from touring America with Two Pale Boys but with projects such as It Came From Outer Space and a similar sci-fi collaboration on the film The Man With The X-Ray Eyes, Pere Ubu are as active as ever. Formed in 1975, their artistic and experimental rock paved the way for acts as diverse as Joy Division, The Sisters of Mercy and The Pixies.

"The film project was a very natural thing because I've always been a huge B-movie fan - I grew up watching them as a child," say Thomas.

"I think I've seen every B-science fiction movie that's ever been produced. It Came From Outer Space has always been a special sort of movie to me because it's a Ray Bradbury script... he's a very poetic writer. For my generation almost everybody I know read Ray Bradbury books."

Bradbury was the prolific sci-fi author who also penned classics such as The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, subversive stories which went against the typical science fiction mould. Hugely influential today, at the time his work caused controversy and Thomas is aiming to complement the original Bradbury version of the story.

"It Came From Outer Space is one of the cult flawed masterpieces. There was a lot of controversy about what was taken out from the Bradbury script, and quite a lot was. We try to restore that with voice-overs. I explain a few things, just for the audience to pay attention to, and we explore some of Bradbury's original dialogue.

"We break the film down into themes and this determines the musical flow. Then the performance is fairly improvised, because the difference between this and a concert performance is that the film sets the pace and once it starts, you're kind of hanging on by the fingernails to keep up with it.

"We're aware of where the dialogue happens and one of our jobs is to bend in and out, up and down and be dynamically cohesive with the dialogue."

The performance creates a unique cinematic atmosphere, says Thomas. "It's a very communal sort of folk experience, there's this strange sense of 'being', when everybody in the audience has these silly spectacles on. And being on the other side facing the audience is a scream.

"In addition, the 3-D technology itself is very very dated so there's this sense, not of nostalgia, but of a sense of experiencing the point of view of people who lived decades ago - you're almost back in another mindset."

Start 8pm, Tickets £16/£12, Call 01273 709709