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.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/upsettherhythm
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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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