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Upset The Rhythm & Hello Goodbye present…
HG20 : ‘A three-day fundraiser celebrating 20 years of Hello Goodbye and Resonance FM’
WRECKLESS ERIC
MEATRAFFLE
LILITH AI Saturday 30 July MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm - 10.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/N6957a30c1ea THE MONOCHROME SET
THE MINDREADERS
DEE BYRNE & CATH ROBERTS Sunday 31 July MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm - 10.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g033d19f7eeb KATE STABLES
GINA BIRCH
BAS JAN
ROZI PLAIN (DJ set) Monday 1 August MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm - 11pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Rab47aa5d2fa
* £25 Three day tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j66637a0c823
For the last 20 years The Hello GoodBye Show has proven itself a pillar
of the anti-establishment, offering a consistent and supportive
platform for quite literally thousands of left-field and counter
cultural artists, and while some were near household names (Ari Up /
Pete Seeger), and others would go on to achieve wide acclaim (Sleaford
Mods / This Is The Kit), the vast majority of live guests would continue
to gleefully plough their own idiosyncratic furrows, with never an
inkling to pander to, nor placate any pre-conceived idea of mainstream
ideal.
It feels fully holistic to
collaborate with Upset The Rhythm for HG20, a triptych of consecutive
concerts held in celebration of The Hello GoodBye Show’s 20th birthday,
as Chris Tipton from UTR himself first appeared as a guest on HG back in
2007 with the boisterous brevity biased band Hands On Heads and later
again with the psycho-geographically prone duo Way Through.
All profits made from HG20 will go
directly towards helping Resonance FM return to live programming as soon
as possible. An illustrious roll call of previous guests has gladly
agreed to perform live at these landmark events, including firebrands
old and new; Wreckless Eric, Gina Birch (The Raincoats), The Monochrome
Set, Bas Jan, Dee Byrne & Cath Roberts, Lilith Ai, Meatraffle, The
Mindreaders + Very Special Guest (tba). This series of Resonance FM
fundraisers will take place in the atmospheric and intimate location of
The Memorable Order Of Tin Hats Club (M.O.T.H. Club) over three
consecutive nights; Saturday 30th July, Sunday 31st July & Monday
1st August.
The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show
originally began broadcasting back in May 2002, as part of a small team
of autonomous program makers, creating freewheeling and innovative new
content for the advent of the avant-garde, arts radio station Resonance
FM, the first community based, not-for-profit, arts radio station in
London.
The genesis of Resonance FM can be
traced to John Peel’s Meltdown in 1998, when the LMC (London Musician’s
Collective) were invited to broadcast an experimental radio station over
the course of the festival on a localised bandwidth from The Southbank
Centre on The River Thames.
In 2002 Resonance FM was awarded the
licence to broadcast over the 104.4 FM wavelength in Central London, and
over the following five years (2002-2007) it was situated in the heart
of Tin-Pan-Alley on Denmark Street. Over the past 14 years Resonance FM
has been based on Borough High Street but during the pandemic it has
been forced to relocate once again and is currently painstakingly
repurposing an old abandoned chapel in SE1.
deXter Bentley continues to
aspire to the two worded mantra/manifesto that was originally bestowed
upon him by Resonance FM Station Manager Ed Baxter, who said, ‘BE
BOLD!’.
More on the artists performing at HG20:
WRECKLESS ERIC is Eric
Goulden. He was given the name to hide behind. After a while he realized
he was stuck with it. Onstage he hides behind nothing, he tells the
truth with big open chords, lilting enchantment, squalls of feedback,
dissonance, bizarre stories and backchat. Eric began his recording life
on Stiff Records in 1977 with his enduring hit Whole Wide World when he
was little more than an ex-teenage art student. Eventually he
sidestepped the mechanics of stardom to become Britain’s biggest
underground household name, much loved and often underestimated. His
2015 album ‘amERICa’ reminded those who’ve kept the faith and new
generations of fans what he’s all about. He won’t recreate 1978 for you,
he’ll blow your mind instead.
https://wrecklesseric.com/
MEATRAFFLE is a common chord
running through the leftist brigades of the South London art scene. For
Meatraffle it is the political, the platonic, the comradeship of the
struggle that provides true artistic grist. https://meatraffle1917.bandcamp.com/ LILITH AI is
a guitarist, who writes and performs poignant tales of modern life.
Hailing from nowhere special, Lilith began releasing lo-fi bedroom
recordings in 2016. Her first EP RIOT is full of underground anthems
popular with Riot grrrls word wide. Her second EP Native Tongue
chronicles her teen years, spent living on the streets of Queens New
York. 2019 saw the release of 3rd EP Bare Radical with evolving
sounds. Lilith's artfully delivered songs fit somewhere between indie
pop and anti-folk. https://lilithai.bandcamp.com/music THE MONOCHROME SET
are a highly influential English new wave band, originally formed in
London in 1978 by Bid (vocals & guitar), Lester Square (lead
guitar), and J D Haney (from The Art Attacks, on drums). In 1979, they
signed to Rough Trade and released three singles, “He’s Frank”, “Eine
Symphonie Des Grauens”, and “The Monochrome Set”. They released their
debut studio album, “Strange Boutique”, produced by Bob Sargeant in
1980. Their classic follow-up album, “Love Zombies”, was produced by
Alvin Clark and the band, later that same year. In 2018, the 40th year
since the band formed, their 14th studio album, “Maisieworld” and a box
set, "The Monochrome Set 1979–1985: Complete Recordings", was released.
The group’s most recent album ‘Allhallowtide’ was released earlier this
year. http://www.themonochromeset.co.uk/ THE MINDREADERS
are Richard Ipaint on vocals and drums, Sexton Ming on vocals, sfx and
guitar, and Russ Wilkins on vocals and guitar, with all three on
songwriting duty too. Fans of The Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, The
Natural Born Lovers, Rocking Richard, The Delmonas, Auntie Vegetable,
The Wildebeests and more will know all about them. Debut album ‘Ban The
Mindreader’ was released in 1987 on Russ’ Empire Records label, with
some extra gig recordings to bulk it out. Some of the gig recordings
also found their way to the Medway Powerhouse compilations on Hangman
Records. Fast forward 30 years, Russ and Richard realised they only
lived 25 miles apart in Scotland, and now much wiser, a connection was
made from Sexton (now also much wiser) who wanted to do something dim
and simple. A gig was arranged in Hastings which led on to more gigs!
Following on from the gigs, they convened in a garage and recorded some
songs over two days onto a Tascam 8 track, 1/2” recorder, playing
whatever they felt worked, recording over twenty tracks. The fruits from
this labour were released last year by Spinout Nuggets as the LP
‘Continuation’. https://soundcloud.com/spinoutnuggets/sets/the-mindreaders-continuation DEE BYRNE & CATH ROBERTS
released their first album on Luminous in 2020. Mixed by Alex Bonney,
Disembark! is a series of short acoustic improvisations recorded at Gun
Factory Studios. Disembark! is a series of short, spontaneous
improvisations that explore a dramatic range of textures, whilst
maintaining the sense of an ongoing, inquisitive conversation. The
recording came about after a series of live duo performances; going into
the studio seemed like the next logical step. https://luminouslabel.bandcamp.com/album/disembark
KATE STABLES has been making
music since the 00s with her band This Is The Kit, which all started
when she moved to Bristol and started playing and collaborating with
local musicians. This Is The Kit have created a name for themselves with
songs that untangle emotional knots and weave remarkable stories. Now
four albums in, and based in Paris, the story of This Is The Kit is
itself one of time and change and listeners. It has carried Kate Stables
from Winchester to Bristol to Paris, across tours and festivals and the
admiration of critics and her peers. Among these are Sharon Van Etten,
The National (Aaron Dessner appears multiple times on Moonshine Freeze),
Chris Thile (of Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers, and now the host of A
Prairie Home Companion), as well as Guy Garvey and much of BBC 6Music.
GINA BIRCH released her
first ever solo single last year on Third Man Records called ‘Feminist
Song’. Gina Birch is a founding member of Dorothy, The Hangovers and The
Raincoats. Gina was also a member of Red Crayola when Mayo Thompson
asked her to contribute to their ‘Kangaroo’ album. ‘Feminist Song’ made
it’s way into recent Raincoats gigs and Gina’s longtime collaborator and
fellow Raincoat Ana da Silva contributes monotron on this recording.
Gina performs solo using film and video projections with sound that she
augments live with guitar and vocals. http://www.ginabirch.net/theginabirchexperience/front_page.html BAS JAN are
a London-based ensemble, this year they returned with an expanded
line-up and a much-anticipated second album ‘Baby U Know’ (Lost Map). It
is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2018 debut album Yes I
Jan, which was hailed for its “messy majesty” (Uncut) and “beautifully
fractured art-pop” (Mojo). Bas Jan were co-founded in 2015 by
songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Serafina Steer. The band
features Emma Smith (Jarv Is, Meilyr Jones, Seamus Fogarty and founder
member of the Elysian Quartet) on violin, bass and electronics, Rachel
Horwood (Trash Kit, Bamboo, Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business) on drums and
Charlie Stock on electric violin. https://basjan.bandcamp.com/
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