We are going on holiday in July

Not normally a newsworthy event, except that through the extraordinary efforts of some very special friends, we are participating in three Upset The Rhythm related parties while on holiday in the US. Hope to see some of you there!


PARTY NUMBER ONE: NEW YORK
Friday July 3rd @ MONSTER ISLAND BASEMENT
Ambergris
Lucky Dragons
Silk Flowers
Bird Names
Soft Circle
John Maus
Future Islands
Wet Hair ---------- Shawn from Racoo-oo-oon
128 River St @ Metropolitan Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L-Bedford, G-Metropolitan, JM-Marcy
8:30pm | all ages | $tba


PARTY NUMBER TWO: LOS ANGELES
Sat July 11th @ The Smell
Foot Village
Lucky Dragons
Gowns
Death Sentence: PANDA!
KIT
Softboiled Eggies
Former Ghosts
The Urxed (Rob from High Places)
No Age DJs
all ages / $8
247 S. Main St.
Los Angeles CA 90012
http://thesmell.org
http://www.last.fm/event/1041975

PARTY NUMBER THREE: SAN FRANCISCO
July 12th, Sunday, Club Sandwich presents Upset the Rhythm SF Showcase
@ The LAB
Foot Village
Gowns
Lucky Dragons
Death Sentence: Panda
TITS
KIT
The Urxed
Former Ghosts
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
5 pm $8 all ages
http://thelab.org
http://clubsandwichbayarea.com

Thank you thank you thank you to everyone involved in setting these up, the response has been awesome and totally unexpected and we are so excited!

We are going to do a London one before we go, at the newly refurbished Whitechapel Art Gallery, on 26th June, with Gentle Friendly and Trash Kit, and a few more to be announced. Details coming soon!

Hope you all have a lovely bank holiday weekend. We are going to find some sun. We will report back on any blackbird sightings.

Claire x

Blackbird > BALTIMORA

On the way home from an evening out, myself and Mr Tipton heard a blackbird, atop a television aerial on Dawes Road in Fulham. It was singing its little heart out at the sun's last rays. It was singing a tune that was vaguely familiar. Returning home, we searched for the song of the blackbird. His refrain was the central riff to "Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora.
Claire x

free BIRD NAMES mp3

Definitely one of our favourite songs from the new album 'Sings The Browns'!!!

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http://www.southern.net/southern/news/?id=665

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COLDER SHADE OF LOVE

Yes, we booked a tour for our friends, it starts today - check it!
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PRURIENT & COLD CAVE UK TOUR

Wed 20 May – London – The Luminaire
Thu 21st May – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
Fri 22 May – Glasgow – 13th Note
Sat 23 May- Birmingham – Vivid
Sun 24 May – Cambridge – Portland Arms
Mon 25 May – London – Cargo w/ JAMIE STEWART + CRYPTACIZE
Tue 26 May – Brighton – Greenhouse Effect

COLD CAVE are a cold wave / minimal synth avant-garage group out of Philadelphia, featuring members of American Nightmare, Some Girls and Xiu Xiu. PRURIENT is the nom de plume of noise musician Dominick Fernow, who works primarily with a microphone and amplifier to whip up a storm. On this short tour together in the UK they will be playing alongside each other in a mind-melting continuous set. Imagine automatic, parallel female / male vocals, that classic Euro atmosphere that defined all the best Asmus Tietchens / Absolute Body Control / Conrad Schnitzler sides, a cool sci-fi bedroom feel, vague, nocturnal electronics, and the kind of daffy leathers-and-shades approach of recent Enfant Terrible signings. If you dig minimal post-Industrial electronics, late-period Throbbing Gristle, wasteland USA basement psych and just plain weird pop / punk / new wave sounds, then this is your time capsule of choice, check out their spread of vinyl releases on the Dais, Hospital and Heartworm Press imprints now.

www.myspace.com/coldcave | www.hospitalproductions.com

MISTER DISNEY and DUCKTAILS

Yeh! Ducktails aka Matthew Mondanile aka Mister Disney is touring Europe right now, he has some great vinyl on him so please mob him at the record stall at any of the following shows with sound kindred Tomutonttu.

DUCKTAILS / TOMUTONTTU MAY TOUR 09

09.05.09 - TUFNELL PARK DOME, LONDON UK *
(w/ Black Dice, Astral Social Club )

10.05.2009 KRAAK - SAFARI HISS MATINEE, GHENT
(w/ Tomutonttu, Fyoelk, Dreamer's Cloth)

11.05.2009 OCCII, AMSTERDAM
(w/ Tomutonttu, Aki Onda)

13.05.2009 UTMARKEN, GÖTEBORG
(w/ Tomutonttu)

14.05.2009 LADES KAELDER, COPENHAGEN
(w/ Tomutonttu)

15.05.2009 GDK GALERIED DER KÜNSTE, BERLIN
(w/ Tomutonttu)

16.05.2009 ULTRA ECZEMA, SCHELDAPEN, ANTWERP
(w/ Tomutonttu)

17.05.2009 ZEROJARDINS, LYON
(w/ Tomutonttu)

18.05.2009 CAVE 12, GENEVE
(w/ Tomutonttu)

20.05.2009 BARCELONA
(w/ Tomutonttu)

21.05.2009 EL PERRO CLUB, MADRID
(w/ Tomutonttu)

22.05.2009 OUT.FEST, BARREIRO
(w/ William Basinksi, Sei Miguel Metal Music 4, Cian Nugent)

24.05.2009 BULLITT, BILBAO
(w/ Tomutonttu)

26.05.2009 PARIS
(w/ Tomutonttu)

28.05.2009 VILLA GRIJPSHEERT, DEN HAAG
(w/ Tomutonttu)

30.05.2009 THE GREENHOUSE, BRIGHTON, UK*
(w/ Joanne Robertson)

31.05.09 OLD BLUE LAST, LONDON, UK*

We picked up Matthew from the airport last Saturday and quickly discovered we shared a mutual appreciation of this classic jam by the Alessi Brothers >



The intro drums sound soooooo sick, wanted to share with you, also check out this new video from Ducktails made by Alice Cohen:



this track is going to be on Matt's forthcoming LP 'Landscapes' out of Olde English Spelling Bee this Summer!
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