Thursday 19 January 2012

NTS RADIO vs UPSET THE RHYTHM

UPSET THE RHYTHM // NTS RADIO // SECOND EDITION

UTR RADIO SHOW 2 <<< CLICK HERE

01. Sun Araw & The Congos & M Geddes Gengras - Happy Song
02. Francis Bebey - Coffee Cola Song
03. Metal Mountains - Flickers Within / Without
04. Flamingods - Anchovies (eventually)
05. Bob Cobbing & Hugh Metcalfe - Computer Poem Six
06. Zombie Peaks - Twitcher
07. Cheater Slicks - Rollercoaster
08. Kerwin Du Bois - Bacchanalist
09. Klaus Wunderlich - Ode To Joy / Hey Jude (overdub, sorry!)
10. Lucky Dragons - Existers
11. Acolytes - The Music Of Erich Zann
12. Slushy Guts - LIVE AT UPSET THE RHYTHM
13. Naked On The Vague - These Days
14. Jay Reatard - Pull Down The Shades
15. Psandwich - Spiral Scroll Stroll
16. Andy Boay - Evil Masters
17. Whitman - Texas
18. Ariel Pink & R Stevie Moore - No Zipper
19. Way Through - LIVE AT UPSET THE RHYTHM
20. Husband - Love Song
21. The Caretaker - Tiny Gradiations Of Loss
22. Ramirez - A.M.Y.
23. Woollen Kits - Out Of Whack
24. Primitive Calculators - Pumping Muscle
25. Kirin J Callinan - Mary
26. Corpsekisser - LIVE AT UPSET THE RHYTHM
27. Allen Ginsberg - The Nurses Song (Innocence)

Here's 'attempt' number two at a radio show / podcast for NTS radio. Please bear in mind that we were faintly drunk and also learning as we went along that not all the DJ gear we had pinned our hopes and dreams on was functional. This month we have live recordings from CORPSEKISSER, WAY THROUGH and SLUSHY GUTS, alongside heaps of our favourite tracks, new and old, beautiful and bold.

To find out....

* who Daniel is absolutely obsessed with
* what happened when Flamingods hexed our CD player
* who Kimberly thinks are three of the most incredible human beings ever
* why we sung 'Hey Jude' (badly, albeit better than McCartney)
* why Chris used the term "strange, rhythmic dinosaur workout"
* what song made Dan became a proper pirate emcee "Hype Williams related"

... listen up!
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Monday 16 January 2012

WAY THROUGH and PEEPHOLES and GENTLE FRIENDLY "KINGDOM TOUR"


We're about to hit the road next month for...

UPSET THE RHYTHM’S KINGDOM TOUR

Featuring…
GENTLE FRIENDLY
WAY THROUGH
PEEPHOLES

FEBRUARY 2012
Friday 3 – BRIGHTON – Green Door Store / 7pm / £6
Saturday 4 – MANCHESTER – Kraak Galler / 8pm / £5
Sunday 5 – CARDIFF – Undertone / 7.30pm / £5
Tuesday 7 – LONDON – CafĂ© Oto / 7.30pm / £5
Wednesday 8 – LEEDS – Brudenell Social Club / 8pm / £5
Thursday 9 – NEWCASTLE – Teasy Does It / 8pm / £3
Friday 10 – GLASGOW – Nice N Sleazy / 8pm / £5
Saturday 11 – LEAMINGTON SPA – Leamington Assembly / £5
Sunday 12 – CAMBRIDGE – The Portland / 8pm / £5.50

Over the last eight years Upset The Rhythm have inexhaustibly sought out the best underground sounds from all over the world. With fifty releases under their belt and their inspired series of YES WAY festivals they continually focus the spotlight on the UK’s own idiosyncratic DIY music. February 2012 sees the label hit the road with three incredibly inventive bands from their native soil to bring their pastoral punk, junked rhythms and tribal synth dance parties to the near and far of the United Kingdom. Upset The Rhythm’s Kingdom Tour sees GENTLE FRIENDLY, WAY THROUGH and PEEPHOLES team up to present a revolving lineup that resonates deep within landscape, drawing on forgotten pasts and remembered futures in equal measure.
Here’s a more in depth look at all the UTR artists featured on the tour…

GENTLE FRIENDLY are a duo from London, comprised of David Morris and Richard Manber, who have a penchant for circular melodies, tidal fuzz and rapid junked rhythms. With an austere setup of Casio keyboard, vocals and drums (sometimes electronic) the band push against the pop boundary, trapping their songs on record like a continuous sun-warped field recording. 2009 saw Gentle Friendly release their debut album 'Ride Slow' to critical acclaim, with Pitchfork even citing Clipse and Lil Wayne as influences on the band. Since then Gentle Friendly have remodeled and rebuilt their sound into a stronger beast at their home studio called Deep House. Bringing us up to date, new EP 'Rrrrrrr' is the first fruit to fall from the tree, with its seven tracks washing the band's insistent prism punk alongside more tender, filmic textures.
WAY THROUGH are a pastoral punk duo originally from Shropshire, now residing in London. Informed by the field as much as the flyover, Way Through write songs which phase in and out with guitar, tapes, damaged drums and vocals. Using wrong-footed repetition, rapid interplay and free-looping happenstance the band create a ragged yet intuitive tapestry of sound. Their songs walk the streets of market towns, wait forever at bus stops and lose themselves in edgelands. Way Through find great resonance with the spirit of place and try and channel its feeling into their music, joining the dots between lost places and deteriorating histories. Their debut album 'Arrow Shower' is out now on Upset The Rhythm, alongside the band's new deep map project of London's East End.
PEEPHOLES are Katia Barrett (drums, vocals) and Nick Carlisle (keyboards). The Brighton / London duo formed in 2006 after bonding over a Chinese violin and the quietest of music. Pretty soon they turned the volume up and hit on their winning strategy of soaring, stammering synth lines, tribalised drumming and low-slung vocals. Walking a tightrope between underground punk and dance music, Peepholes write cloaked anthems as likely to open celestial gates with keys of repetition as to soundtrack a slow motion fairground accident. Their sound is otherworldly, aching with wild beats, echoing with cavernous atmospheres. Upset The Rhythm have released a split 12” and a mini-album entitled ‘Caligula’ most recently.

Thursday 5 January 2012

JAMES FERRARO playing LONDON on FEB 1ST


JAMES FERRARO
Wednesday 1 February
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Rd, Tufnell Park (opposite the tube), N19 5QQ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/150753

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