Hello again everyone!
Seems so strange to wish you a HAPPY Twenty Eleven ankle-deep into the year already but we'd like to anyway, it's been good to us so far and we hope the best things await for you this year.
Despite our lack of communication things have been far from quiet of the Upset front, we've been busy booking tours for KIT, NODZZZ/THE MANTLES and THE BABIES, featuring members of Vivian Girls and Woods, too. We've also been wrangling some new records together for you. Our next two releases will be a double compilation celebrating our 50th release!!! and JOHN MAUS's third album (rather perfectly) entitled 'We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves'. Think late March, early April, our blog will have more news on both of these very soon.
If that wasn't enough activity we've also pulled together new shows for JAMES FERRARO (next week), TEARIST, LITURGY, DUSTIN WONG, and a very special show for HALF JAPANESE, their first in London for 18 years no less! We are beyond excitement. OK, now we've caught up, our next instinct is to big up our kickstart show of the year which will take place on Monday at The Victoria in Dalston. We're lucky enough to have DIVORCE and CHILD ABUSE playing as part of their joint tour with the enigmatic DEAD DAYS BEYOND HELP opening proceedings. It'll be loud and proud and most fun in the crowd. We hope you can join us; read on for full details and show listings for our other upcoming events...
*|*|*|* MONDAY NIGHT *|*|*|*
DIVORCE
CHILD ABUSE
DEAD DAYS BEYOND HELP
Monday 24 January 2011!
The Victoria in Dalston, 451 Queensbridge Rd, E8 3AS
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/101349
DIVORCE were born in Glasgow through a frustration that their kinda music wasn't getting heard in their city. Brought together through random encounters, solid friendships and drunken obsessive discussions at terrible parties, the four members who make up Divorce have no more of an exacting agenda than just MAKE NOISE and MAKE IT GOOD. The end result has been likened to a roughly grafted assemblage of no-wave punk bands like Teenage Jesus and DNA, the squalling noise of Big Black and Swans, and the rhythmically violent sounds of bands like AIDS Wolf and Arab On Radar. Divorce have music released through Optimo, Merok, Milk and Winning Sperm Party but are best experienced live, in a small sweaty room, with all the ear-splitting volume and uninhibited audience confrontation that goes with it. Bring it on!
http://www.myspace.com/puredivorced
CHILD ABUSE, from New York City, bring together playfully wild keyboards, throbbed bass stabs, stuttering piledriver percussion and demonic vocal fits. Brutal, catchy, complex, dissonant grind. Child Abuse is the logical result of an entire generation raised by Nintendo and overbearing, Tipper Gore-admiring moms. "Reading is for people who don't vomit, and Morbid Angel lives in my closet next to my porno!" the band seems to shout with its avalanche of Casio squeals, death-metal percussion and forgot-to-take-my-Thorazine howls. Child Abuse have several records available now through Lovepump United, Zum and Rock Is Hell.
http://www.myspace.com/childabuse
DEAD DAYS BEYOND HELP are a dissonant and somewhat melancholic duo consisting of Alex Ward and Jem Doulton. As the only constraints they acknowledge are the limits of what can be achieved with one guitar and a drum kit, the results can range from country-tinged simplicity through hyper-composed intricacy to flat-out noise. The band have records available through Capepod Records and a newly finished studio improv album in the can awaiting release too.
http://www.myspace.com/deaddaysbeyondhelp
Thanks so much for reading this! Have a great weekend, and we'll see in the week together on Monday, until then...
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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UPCOMING UPSET 2010 > > >
JAMES FERRARO
FELIX LEE (slseriei tierl,,, th halhh oiv my daioleici)
UNIVERSAL SWIMSUIT
Friday 28 January
Artch, Arch 11 Gales Gardens, Bethnal Green, E2 0EJ
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/104764
LUCKY DRAGONS
HALO HALO
Wednesday 9 February
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | 8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/101806
JAPANTHER
SHELLSHAG
BITCHES
Friday 11 February
The Dome, 178 Junction Rd, Tufnell Park (opposite the tube), N19 5QQ
8pm | 7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/101350
FORMER GHOSTS
(Freddy Ruppert + Jamie Stewart)
TERRORBIRD
POWERDOVE
Tuesday 8 March
Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY
8pm | 8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/101352
NODZZZ
THE MANTLES
BOMBER JACKETS
Saturday 12 March
The Victoria in Dalston, 451 Queensbridge Rd, E8 3AS
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/101354
TYVEK
THE PHEROMOANS
SPIN SPIN THE DOGS
Tuesday 15 March
The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Rd, Stockwell, SW9 0TP
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/102465
THE BABIES (Vivian Girls / Woods)
Thursday 17 March
CAMP Basement, 70-74 City Road, Old Street, EC1Y 2BJ
8pm | 6.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/101351
KIT
Tuesday 22 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/105943
TEARIST
Monday 28 March
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | 6.00 |http://www.wegottickets.com/event/107031
SPAGHETTI TREE
Friday 1 April and Saturday 2 April
Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
MORE DETAILS SOON!!!
DUSTIN WONG (previously of PONYTAIL / Thrill Jockey)
Monday 18 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
8pm | 6.50 |http://www.wegottickets.com/event/107032
LITURGY
Tuesday 19 April
CAMP Basement, 70-74 City Road, Old Street, EC1Y 2BJ
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/105922
HALF JAPANESE
Tuesday 31 May
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7.30pm | 12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/105945
