Happy Holidays

a time for good will and peace to all people
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Big business (Christmas cheer returns tomorrow)

Worrying news for gig goers - the controversial merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation has been approved by the British authorities. The Competition Commission were all set to rule the merger uncompetitive, initially claiming that it would inflate ticket prices and make it impossible for small/new companies to break into the ticket selling business (never mind what it might mean for independent promoters, artists, agents, venues and all those who work behind the scenes). Live Nation is the world's largest promoter, and Ticketmaster one of the world's largest ticket agencies. The US Department of Justice are still in a position to overrule the merger. See www.ticketdisaster.org for more details. If you think it is as easy as boycotting LN and Ticketmaster think again - between them the two companies manage hundreds of acts through their artist management arms, and LN has a worrying amount of exclusive deals with individual venues in the US and UK.

In other news, HMV is bidding to buy Mama Group outright, furthering its existing stake in the business. Mama owns 11 venues, including several in central London, and also owns an artist management concern. Mama group is a Mean Fiddler-related venture. How this will affect the venues in question is unclear.

Come on down to our scout hut party!!!

Clown church, school hall vibes!
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MERRY XMAS

You look forward to the school xmas party all year, your mother spends all her time preparing you the best outfit, fixing on the beard you enter the room and suddenly realise you've been kept back for too many years, oh well at least you look cool!

2010 in button form

Badges now available through our webstore too:

http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/shop.shtml

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UTR 2010 badge set by GIRL MOUNTAIN

Whoo, our friend Girl Mountain illustrated for us an amazing badge set featuring some dudes, Garfield, JLS as vampires, La Roux (sort of) and his on going Megg and Mogg obsession. They are limited to 100 and cost £2, they will be for sale at the xmas party tonight and on our webstore tomorrow, until then, ENJOY these designs!!!
Best
UTR
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http://www.myspace.com/girlmountain
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/shop.shtml

Trash Kit - Trash Kit

YES, our favourite facepainted flagbearers have their new album done and awaiting 2010's friendly embrace. The self-titled debut will be released in late February and features a fantastic 17 songs. Vibrant green vinyl seems the order of the day and the artwork will also include a wall poster and a temporary TK tattoo, until then let me share with you the tracklisting and the cover artwork, prizes to anyone for guessing all the depicted characters correctly!



TRASH KIT – Trash Kit
UTR036
LP/CD

01. Knock Yr Socks Off
02. Cadets
03. New Face
04. 50ft Woman
05. Pig Cat
06. Tattoo
07. Fillipino Song
08. Bugsy
09. Natascha
10. Sun Spots
11. Gorey
12. Chinese Boy
13. Bad Books
14. Trash Kit !!
15. Fame
16. Free Time
17. Wolfman

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Your chosen superpowers

At our last show on Thursday (Lightning Bolt) we put our mailing list sign-up sheet out in the usual manner, but decided to insert a column to find out what superpower you would choose if you could have any available to you. The answers were interesting if not a little confusing.

Superpower:
Eurasia
Spain
YES!
awesomeness
fathering
pretending
size
see in the dark!
all kinds of magic
sarcasm
ultra fast food
double chicken skill
invisible man
teleport
doolegs [this was barely legible and is the nearest approximation]
FUCKWIT
uberfarts
procrastination
understatement
[something else unreadable]
Drum like Lightning Bolt

Thanks to you all for your suggestions!

MIKA MIKO - last shows ever / nye party styles!

sob sob

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UPSET THE RHYTHM is 6 YEARS OLD TODAY

Celebrations!
It's our 6th birthday today and we're having a party with LIGHTNING BOLT, DRUM EYES and CHOPS later tonight at the Dome, we will have cake, balloons and free stickers (yes - really!) so come early, music starts around 8.40pm and doors will be open from 7.30pm. Lightning Bolt first played a show for us way back in December 2004 at our 13th show no less, not to mention it being the 1st show at Barden's Boudoir, when it was a furniture storeroom with the makeshift bar built during soundcheck! Memories! Enough of flying time already, tonight's show is sold out, there aren't any tickets remaining on the door but bear in mind we still have SOME for our show with ARIEL PINK on Sunday so we'll save you some party hats if you missed out. In an attempt to overdose on fun we're also overjoyed that the debut album by THE STICKS is released this week on CD and double 7" (including Mark E. Smith's forehead in the artwork) and is now available in the shops and from our illustrious webstore here:

http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/shop.shtml

The perfect Xmas gift I'm sure yule agree - sorry. If you like free music, writing and pictures of them messing around with office equipment this link is for you:
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/thesticks.shtml

Thanks again for all your support over these last 72 months, Upset The Rhythm is more than just us and the bands we work with, it's also you too and for that we're truly indepted, now words >


/ / / / TONIGHT/ / / /

UPSET THE RHYTHM'S 6th BIRTHDAY PARTY with...
LIGHTNING BOLT
DRUM EYES
CHOPS
Thursday 10 December
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | 9.00 | SOLD OUT

LIGHTNING BOLT emerged from Providence, Rhode Island in 1995, based around Brian Chippendale's explosive, non-stop drumming and singing and Brian Gibson's squirmy bass lines. The group helped found Fort Thunder, a music and art collective, and recorded a self-titled album which was issued through Load in 1999. Lighting Bolt have since toured the world multiple times and have released a number of albums each outdoing the the last in terms of crazy and heavy. Last we left this amplified tribe of two on 2005's "Hypermagic Mountain", Lightning Bolt were tossing thousand of years worth of musical history into a wood chipper and coming up with some chewy chainsaw taffy. Their new missive, "Earthly Delights" comes after two years of intensive electro-shock therapy driven recording. The doors of Lightning Bolt's practice space literally spilled forth giga-litres of sweat born of echo-stretched dedication to archaeology of understanding advanced musicology to make the most awesome record of 2009 and now they are back on the road again bringing their utterly energising live show back to the mob.
www.myspace.com/lightningboltbrians

DRUM EYES are DJ Scotch Egg's drum thunder worship gang. Experts at whipping up a hypnotic maelstrom of tribal trip-outs infused with sludgy doom and weird electronics. It makes a lot of sense that Eda from the Boredoms is a member of Drum Eyes, as the songs can twist 180 degrees and equally sound as beamed in from some alien kingdom, taking the weirdest forms of krautrock and hurling punk synth ideas, crushing walls of ambience and 8-bit frazzle into the mix with relish. Expect a new album on Upset The Rhythm spring 2010 - very exciting!
www.myspace.com/drumeyes

CHOPS are a wild, damaged dance band, who leapt from the cauldron of Leeds' ever-evolving DIY musical stew and hit the ground running in 2007, hellbent on perfecting their spontaneous combustion of jazzoid excess and lock-popping party bombs. Richard 'Moz' Morris, Dominic Clare and Leon Carey married up their love of fidgety drum patterns, effect-drenched saxophone and synthesizer showdowns in such a way that every broken sound that swelled forth was caked in euphoria and creeped-out gravity. After amassing multiple PA-systems into their live set-up, the band embarked on a series of ear-bleeding shows across the country, allowing their improvised chaos to solidify into the unpredictable genre-warping curiousities that they recorded for their debut release on Upset The Rhythm last year. This will be one of their last shows as a trio before they expand to an even more out-there 5-piece!
www.myspace.com/mightychops


Look out below for new shows announced for TUNE-YARDS, TRASH KIT, VIVIAN GIRLS and XIU XIU, 2010 will be the best year yet! Also our buddy Pete is putting on show tomorrow night, so fans of rugged power electronics take heed:

RAMLEH
VOLTIGEURS
SUDDEN INFANT
"Album launch show for the new Ramleh full-length ‘Valediction’. Gary Mundy and ADF duo. Matthew Bower’s Voltigeurs and Sudden Infant support".
Friday 11th December 2009
The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road , Stockwell, London , SW9 0TP
8pm / £7 > Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/61295

That's a great lineup! Thanks for reading, see you tonight, bring the vibes, as always...
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk
http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/upsettherhythm
http://www.flickr.com/groups/upsettherhythm



UPCOMING UPSET > > >

ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI
CLECKHUDDERSFAX
FORMER BULLIES
Sunday 13 December
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road Road, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | 8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/63169

UPSET THE RHYTHM'S XMAS PARTY with...
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE
HIS CLANCYNESS
VERONICA FALLS
Friday 18 December
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road Road, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | 10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/62677

GARY WAR
BIRD NAMES
DAM MANTLE
Tuesday 12 January 2010 (next year!)
The Lexington
96-98 Pentonville Road Road, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/62678

BIRD NAMES
Thursday 21 January
Barden's Boudoir, 38-44 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XJ
8pm | 5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/64162

VIVIAN GIRLS
Monday 25 January
Trinity Centre, Beechwood Rd, Dalston Junction, E8 3DY
8pm | 6.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/66834

TUNE-YARDS
TRASH KIT
THINK ABOUT LIFE
Monday 15 February
Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY
8pm | 7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/67159

XIU XIU
Friday 26 February
The Luminaire, 311 Kilburn High Road, Kilburn, NW6 7JR
7.30pm | 10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/66263

U.S. GIRLS
Monday 1 March
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin St, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/65035

PEAKING LIGHTS
Thursday 4 March
Barden's Boudoir, 38-44 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XJ
8pm | 5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/64162

TIMES NEW VIKING
Saturday 20th March
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | 9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/65041

CRYSTAL ANTLERS
Monday 26 April
Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY
8pm | 8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/65038

DUM DUM GIRLS
MALE BONDING
Thursday 13 May
The Luminaire, 311 Kilburn High Road, Kilburn, NW6 7JR
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/64935

GANGLIANS
Tuesday 18 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road Road, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/62678

Good Grief - Manchester look sharp!

brand new reason to live in / visit Manchester!!
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ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI - POSTER

WAVVES SHOW UPDATE

Zach Hill has broken his hand so he will no longer be performing as part of WAVVES on this upcoming European tour, however Nathan has pulled in the troops and Billy and Steve who were until recently part of Jay Reatard's live band are now helping out on bass and drums. Anyone who'd like a refund for our show on Nov 26th because of Zach's non attendance can follow it up with wegottickets.com who will oblige thee.
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GENTLE FRIENDLY 'Lovers Rock' VIDEO

Do you love creepy baby heads that shatter when a pillowcase ghoul serenades them? If so you'll appreciate this video for 'Lovers Rock' by Gentle Friendly, taken from their LP 'Ride Slow' on UTR now!

Directed by Anupa Madawela

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OH NO! x OH YES!

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GENTLE FRIENDLY - Ride Slow on LP and CD

Yes, Gentle Friendly's debut album available in stores and in our webshop NOW, high gloss, heavy card, mirror print and forest green vinyl = RESULT!!

UTR WEB SHOPPE
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/shop.shtml

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ANTI-RADCLIFFE

GENTLE FRIENDLY 'Real Fighters' VIDEO

WOODS - LONDON - THIS SUNDAY!

Hey, Woods got in touch with us a few days ago about setting up a headline show in London and so we've bent time with our minds to bring about this last minute party for Sunday!!

TICKETS HURRAH > http://www.wegottickets.com/event/63538

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FOOT VILLAGE "ANTI-MAGIC / PRO-CREATION" TOUR

Yes Foot Village return to Europe pretty much 1 year to the day since their first brave motions in our continent of odd languages and mixed-up meats - WE ARE VERY EXCITED, tell the world, spread the word!

FOOT VILLAGE "ANTI-MAGIC / PRO-CREATION" TOUR

NOVEMBER 2009
5th - Amsterdam, Netherlands at Melkweg (Subbacultcha Anniversary Party)
6th - London, UK at Barden's Boudoir w/ BITCHES, Bloody Knees (Upset The Rhythm Presents)
7th - Brighton, UK at Freebutt (Fat Cat Presents "Furballs")
8th - Cardiff, UK at Buffalo Bar (Lesson No. 1 Presents)
9th - Salford / Manchester, UK at Trof (Corner Location) w/ Silk Flowers
10th - Glasgow, UK at CCA w/ Blue Sabbath Black Fiji, Divorce
11th - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK at Head of Steam
12th - Leeds, UK at Cardigan Arms (British Wildlife Presents)
13th - Liverpool, UK at St Lukes (Post Music)
16th - Paris, France at Glazart
17th - Clermont-Ferrand, France at Le Raymond's Bar (Handclapping Girls Presents)
18th - Dudigen, Switzerland at Bad Bonn
19th - Lyon, France at Grnd Zero w/ Inca Ore
21st - Prague, Czech Republic at 007 w/ EAR PWR
22nd - Berlin, Germany at West Germany
23rd - Lille, France at La Malterie

http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/footvillage.shtml
http://www.myspace.com/footvillage

FOOT VILLAGE "ANTI-MAGIC" from Deathbomb Arc on Vimeo.

COLOUR OUT OF SPACE

http://www.colouroutofspace.org/

WAVVES poster!

Drawn this morning, stuck up on walls this afternoon!
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A date to remember - NOVEMBER 12th

YES YES YES

GAY AGAINST YOU vs OLD AGAINST NEW

Yes! Gay Against You have a new album due imminently on UTR and Adaadat called 'Righteous Signals / Sour Dudes' in celebration the band have made their previous releases 'Bogus Summer Totem' and 'I Play Gay' available through bandcamp so you can listen to your hearts content and pay anything you want to download them too...

http://gayagainstyou.bandcamp.com/

SPOILING!
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SILK FLOWERS in the European landmass SOON

Silk Flowers make some of the creepiest catchy music in the universe and fortunately they are sailing over the pond to entertain us in our home towns, very considerate folk we proclaim!

NOVEMBER 2009
5 - LONDON - The Luminaire with GROUPER and THANK YOU
6 - NOTTINGHAM - Chameleon
7 - DUBLIN - The Joinery Gallery
8 - BELFEST - The Menagerie
10 - BERLIN - Festaal Kreuzberg with SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
11 - COPENHAGEN - LAdes
12 - LONDON - Barden's Boudoir with THE PRESENT

http://www.myspace.com/silkflowersnyc

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FORMER GHOSTS - "Hold On" video

Here's the new video for Former Ghosts track "Hold On" directed my Amir Shoucri ! Freddy's words on said video shed much light on the alcohol binge!

"The "Hold On" music video documents a night of self punishment at the hands of mixing as many different alcohols as possible (including a scene of a new drink called the "Narsty Dad" that mixes Campari with Nyquil) due to a case of the common heartbreak. What starts off as a goofy night at the Redondo Beach Pier quickly deteriorates into a depressing, shameful, self induced alcohol poisoning barf fest. We've all been there. Kind of."

ENJOY
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NO AGE at the Trinity Centre

Owen Richards (photo-hero) just sent us some photos from Tuesday's last minute party!! A-mazing!! It was a lot of fun and volume, we'll be doing more shows at the Trinity Centre too, so become a lookout!
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TICKLEY FEATHER - Trashy Boys

Tickley Feather - Trashy Boys from Dan Day on Vimeo.

We have Annie playing in London on Saturday 21st at Cafe Oto by the way!

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NO AGERS

JOHN MAUS SHIRTS IN THE WEBSHOP

John Maus is on tour. Here is the tour shirt.
Available from the Upset the Rhythm shop and from John on tour.

BIRD NAMES - Nature's Over VIDEO

Yes Alee Peoples has just finished a video for one of our favourite BIRD NAMES tracks from 'Sings The Browns', hope you love hand stands and pool dives! NEWS JUST IN - Bird Names are finally making it over to Europe in January, 2010 already WINS!
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Nature's Over by Bird Names from Alee Peoples on Vimeo.

SPOOKED

SUBLIME MEMORIES...

this seems an age ago but the dates don't lie, only 5 months have passed! Check out this candid clip of Doueh and Omar during their trip to the UK >

FORMER GHOSTS DRIVE AROUND THE USA AND PLAY SHOWS TOO

Incoming!! Former Ghosts have a totally hypnotic album entitled 'Fleurs' coming out next month on UTR and in support of the release the band are hitting the road in the US epic-style:

10-02 Phoenix, AZ - Trunk Space
10-03 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture
10-05 Austin, TX - Mohawk Inside
10-06 Houston, TX - Orange Show
10-07 Mobile, AL - Alabama Music Box
10-08 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
10-09 Durham, NC - Duke Coffeehouse
10-10 Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong
10-11 Wilkes Barre, PA - Cafe Metropolis
10-12 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church Chapel
10-13 New York, NY - Monkey Town
10-14 Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs
10-15 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore
10-16 Toronto, Ontario - Whippersnapper
10-17 Chicago, IL - Chopin Theatre
10-21 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club
10-22 Spokane, WA - Empryean Coffee House
10-23 Seattle, WA - Vera Project
10-24 Portland, OR - Lewis and Clark
10-27 Merced, CA - The Partisan
10-28 San Francisco, CA - Hemlock
10-29 San Jose, CA - Works Gallery
10-30 San Luis Obispo, CA - Arts Center
10-31 Los Angeles, CA - Synchronicity Space

GO witness!

PEACE TAMBOURINE

Yeh, we get sent tons of stage plots for bands but this is the nicest one we've seen in an age, hand-drawn is the best, it actually looks like a Times New Viking record insert right?
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LUCKY DRAGONS tomorrow!!!

Oh yes Lucky Dragons are performing at the Crisp Gallery (3 Newman Passage, London, W1T1EG) tomorrow at 7pm sharp, it's a free show, so you should go!!!

“WRONG SPECTRUM” - Lucky Dragons

Wednesday 23 Sept. 2009, 6-8pm
Performance begins at 7pm

UTR COLLECTIVE
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NO AGE and BOB MOULD

YES! Actualities!!! So great to see this!
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RULESSSS!

ELVIS DOG... errr, I mean FUTURE ISLANDS and EAR PWR tour BEGINS!

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Tanith and Chukka from UTR farewell party!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clairetitley/sets/72157622082477179/

WE WILL MISS YOU!

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FUTURE ISLANDS video AND uk tour ! ! !

This video rules! It's for Happiness from the Feathers & Hallways 7" we released earlier this year. Chicago based filmmaker and producer, Joel Fernando made it, here's some of his words about it:

"The video is a psychedelic hodgepodge of fantasy and color, featuring 65 + people from the Baltimore, New York City, Chicago and North Carolina areas, filmed one by one on green screen and combined together to appear as a group in this video".

Green screen, well I never, could've fooled me!! Future islands will be in the UK soon, touring with super chums EAR PWR, check out the dates...

FUTURE ISLANDS & EAR PWR

UK & Ireland - September

07.09 - Glasgow - Captains Rest
08.09 - Edinburgh - Sneaky Petes
09.09 - Dublin - Upstairs at Whelens
10.09 - Manchester - The Bay House
12.09 - Liverpool - Club Evol- Korova
13.09 - Leeds - Royal Park Cellar
14.09 - Nottingham - Bodega
15.09 - Brighton - Free Butt
16.09 - Bristol - Start the Bus
17.09 - Bournemouth - Ibar
18.09 - London - The Lexington

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TRASH KIT ON TOUR

The record is finished, and now they're out on tour, a whirlwind of activity! Go see! All shows with BLOODY KNEES and most with a whole host of other goodness:

Friday 14th August (tonight!) KRO BAR, Manchester
Saturday 15th August FLYING DUCK, Glasgow
Sunday 16th August Fag Club @ Fox Box Warehouse [this sounds like the best venue ever?!] BRISTOL
Monday 17th August JAMBOREE [at Cable Street Studios] LONDON

Less random capitalization, more information at the TRASH KIT BLOG: trashkitrules.blogspot.com