Afternoon all!
Massive thanks to everyone for coming to see Nite Jewel and Naytronix this week, both energising shows leading us to a finale with one of our favourite bands ever performing at 79 Endell Street tomorrow; EYELESS IN GAZA. Since 1980, Eyeless In Gaza have been walking a line of tremulous beauty and aching perfection with their music, moving from sparse synth pop to evocative folk ambience. At this show the band will be treating us to a special career spanning set, taking in some of Martyn Bates solo material too, all in the very special, hallowed 79 Endell Street space. Read on for more info, along with out listing for next week's debut UK performance from EXCEPTER too, enjoy...
Massive thanks to everyone for coming to see Nite Jewel and Naytronix this week, both energising shows leading us to a finale with one of our favourite bands ever performing at 79 Endell Street tomorrow; EYELESS IN GAZA. Since 1980, Eyeless In Gaza have been walking a line of tremulous beauty and aching perfection with their music, moving from sparse synth pop to evocative folk ambience. At this show the band will be treating us to a special career spanning set, taking in some of Martyn Bates solo material too, all in the very special, hallowed 79 Endell Street space. Read on for more info, along with out listing for next week's debut UK performance from EXCEPTER too, enjoy...
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EYELESS IN GAZA
Saturday 21 July
79 Endell Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 9 DY
8pm | £11.00 | TICKETS
EYELESS IN GAZA formed in 1980 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire and have become over the course of their career one of the UK's most brilliant and idiosyncratic bands. With their self-released debut 7", 'Kodak Ghosts Run Amok', EIG immediately staked their own space in the post punk scheme of things. Boasting a Wasp synth never sounding so triumphant, the single was as much a primal scream of expression as any punk onslaught. Signing to the Cherry Red label the band then released six albums plus an array of singles. From the jagged, spiky soundbites of the first two albums, through to the fully formed 'Back From The Rains', the duo's overall sound blossomed. Their on-stage 'face-off' set-up - Pete Becker juggling live keyboards, bass, drums and backing vocals, positioned directly opposite Martyn Bates' guitars, keyboards and mesmeric, emotive vocal - only compounded to set them apart from, well... everybody.
The strain from pushing, unsuccessfully, to secure a hit single and more crucially, the major label support they were after, pretty much fuelled EIG's break up in 1987. After their split, Bates, in almost defiant fashion, became even more prolific. He released five classy solo albums in as many years before the duo reconvened in 1992. Since then, with Bates' solo outings interspersed, EIG have increasingly stretched their boundaries. The five releases that moved them through the nineties times showcased their seemingly effortless, ability to write truly sublime melodies as well as travel music's hard shoulder. From collaborations on/contributions to projects involving Genesis P. Orridge, Lol Coxhill, poets Anne Clark and Rainer Maria Rilke, James Joyce's Chamber Music poems, Scorn/Painkiller mainstay M.J. Harris, and Bill Laswell, EIG and Martyn Bates' more 'experimental' side has, pretty much, also spanned their whole musical careers. Their descriptive feel has lent itself to involvement in film as well, from Derek Jarman's 'The Garden and The Last of England' through to 2002's art house hit, 'Intimacy', the soundtrack to which also featured The Clash, The Stooges, David Bowie and Nick Cave. Most recently, Bates has also completed the music for 'The Resurrection Apprentice', a short, directed by filmmaker (Larry Fassenden/Jim Jarmusch collaborator) Glenn McQuaid.
Last year saw the release of EIG's most recent album 'Everyone Feels Like A Stranger' an album described by Uncut Magazine as ”high on English folk/psychedelic textures... a collection of windswept, romantic songs, prickly as holly and sad as old Polaroids... a real career peak.” And this month, sister record "Butterfly Attitude' was released on Downwards to acclaim. Eyeless In Gaza are a truly poetic band and their music, often sepia-toned and camouflaged, still displays all the warm melancholia and fluttering beauty that it ever has. This is going to be a very special show!
http://www.eyelessingaza.com/
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EXCEPTER
HELM
DESIGN A WAVE
Tuesday 24 July
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
N.B. Tickets for this show also guarantee free entry to John Fell Ryan's experimental simulcast soundtracking to 'The Shining' on July 25th (venue TBA) and a synth improv set at Rough Trade East on July 26th using their in-house Schneiders Buro test station. You will also receive a free ultra-limited CD of rare and unreleased Excepter tracks too.
EXCEPTER are an American improvisatory electronic rock group, walking through the destruction of the division between performance and programming. An electric city, a test of endurance and entrancement. Mystic rips in liminality. Formed in NYC 2002, Excepter have over 23 recordings released on various labels: Fusetron; Load; 5RC; Paw Tracks; RVNG. A group mind experience, Excepter brought to bear upon the world of electronic dance music the improvisational discipline of founder John Fell Ryan's membership in The No-Neck Blues Band. Slowly shifting in line-ups and styles over the years, Excepter always produces its core sound of multiple voices, winds and percussion echoing over free-form machine rhythms and synthesizer. With the tragic passing of Excepter vocalist and drummer Clare Amory in February 2011, surviving members spread to different cities across the States. Lala and John Fell Ryan now live and work in Los Angeles, joining satellite member Robert Girardin. Nathan Corbin moved and rebuilt his studio outside Sante Fe, New Mexico. Jon Nicholson still holds down Excepter presence in New York City. Excepter continue to record new material and perform on stage. STREAMS 2, a box set edit of performances by the 2007-2009 sextet edition of Excepter will be released on Blast First Petite soon. This show marks Excepter's debut performance in the UK in their 10 year career, and we're sure it'll prove well worth the wait.
http://excepter.net/
HELM is Luke Younger - a sound artist and experimental musician based in London, working with a vast array of revolving instrumentation and abstract sound sources. Younger's compositions build a dense aural landscape that touches on musique concrete, uncomfortable sound poetry, noise, and hallucinatory drones. His last LP for the Kye label, 'Cryptography', presents a five-part suite of expertly rendered processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and broken guitar strings. Younger creates a world where these instruments morph into spectral rust, a shimmering klang swims alongside passive noise and the relationship between acoustic and electronic derived sounds forms a solid foundation. This sound is steered through a melange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback, all coalesced in a post-industrial fashion with a commitment to homemade exploratory zeal. For the past ten years, Younger has also performed extensively in Europe and the US with Steven Warwick as pioneering avant-drone duo Birds of Delay. His excellent new LP 'Impossible Symmetry' is out now on PAN.
http://alterstock.blogspot.co.uk/
DESIGN A WAVE aka Tom Hirst has been making music for many moons. Initial buds featured tape collages, distangled pop music, various dictaphone experiments, and over time all this meshed and warped into his solo musical venture known as Design A Wave. Initiated in the late 90's, the project was loosely named after one of the gangs in the Troma film Surf Nazis Must Die which, alongside other similar movies and music of it's time, informed a particular vision of an idealized weird - a trashy synth orientated 80s B-movie soundtrack, which provided an aesthetic platform on which to dive, surf and ride. Over time the sound grew vocals, a live component formed, and a shift away from abstract recordings via more overt emotional territory brings us to the current byproduct. The 'Live On Your Yard' EP released on Alter presents four tracks of emotive and melancholic synth pop that point towards the eccentricity of artists like Snakefinger and Tuxedomoon, the synthetic slickness and charity shop glamour of Italo Disco, and the misery of coldwave. Right now Tom is working on a full length LP for Alter and Upset the Rhythm and recently made an appearance on the brilliant 'Still Going In Offices' compilation on Savoury Days.
http://www.designawave.co.uk/
Have a great weekend and we'll see you tomorrow!
Thanks
UTR
x
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EXCEPTER
HELM
DESIGN A WAVE
Tuesday 24 July
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
N.B. Tickets for this show also guarantee free entry to John Fell Ryan's experimental simulcast soundtracking to 'The Shining' on July 25th (venue TBA) and a synth improv set at Rough Trade East on July 26th using their in-house Schneiders Buro test station. You will also receive a free ultra-limited CD of rare and unreleased Excepter tracks too.
TY SEGALL
SHARM EL SHAKES
SOFT ARROWS
Thursday 2 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
Upset The Rhythm's
SUMMER SHOP WINDOW featuring…
HELM
DESIGN A WAVE
Tuesday 24 July
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
N.B. Tickets for this show also guarantee free entry to John Fell Ryan's experimental simulcast soundtracking to 'The Shining' on July 25th (venue TBA) and a synth improv set at Rough Trade East on July 26th using their in-house Schneiders Buro test station. You will also receive a free ultra-limited CD of rare and unreleased Excepter tracks too.
EXCEPTER are an American improvisatory electronic rock group, walking through the destruction of the division between performance and programming. An electric city, a test of endurance and entrancement. Mystic rips in liminality. Formed in NYC 2002, Excepter have over 23 recordings released on various labels: Fusetron; Load; 5RC; Paw Tracks; RVNG. A group mind experience, Excepter brought to bear upon the world of electronic dance music the improvisational discipline of founder John Fell Ryan's membership in The No-Neck Blues Band. Slowly shifting in line-ups and styles over the years, Excepter always produces its core sound of multiple voices, winds and percussion echoing over free-form machine rhythms and synthesizer. With the tragic passing of Excepter vocalist and drummer Clare Amory in February 2011, surviving members spread to different cities across the States. Lala and John Fell Ryan now live and work in Los Angeles, joining satellite member Robert Girardin. Nathan Corbin moved and rebuilt his studio outside Sante Fe, New Mexico. Jon Nicholson still holds down Excepter presence in New York City. Excepter continue to record new material and perform on stage. STREAMS 2, a box set edit of performances by the 2007-2009 sextet edition of Excepter will be released on Blast First Petite soon. This show marks Excepter's debut performance in the UK in their 10 year career, and we're sure it'll prove well worth the wait.
http://excepter.net/
HELM is Luke Younger - a sound artist and experimental musician based in London, working with a vast array of revolving instrumentation and abstract sound sources. Younger's compositions build a dense aural landscape that touches on musique concrete, uncomfortable sound poetry, noise, and hallucinatory drones. His last LP for the Kye label, 'Cryptography', presents a five-part suite of expertly rendered processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and broken guitar strings. Younger creates a world where these instruments morph into spectral rust, a shimmering klang swims alongside passive noise and the relationship between acoustic and electronic derived sounds forms a solid foundation. This sound is steered through a melange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback, all coalesced in a post-industrial fashion with a commitment to homemade exploratory zeal. For the past ten years, Younger has also performed extensively in Europe and the US with Steven Warwick as pioneering avant-drone duo Birds of Delay. His excellent new LP 'Impossible Symmetry' is out now on PAN.
http://alterstock.blogspot.co.uk/
DESIGN A WAVE aka Tom Hirst has been making music for many moons. Initial buds featured tape collages, distangled pop music, various dictaphone experiments, and over time all this meshed and warped into his solo musical venture known as Design A Wave. Initiated in the late 90's, the project was loosely named after one of the gangs in the Troma film Surf Nazis Must Die which, alongside other similar movies and music of it's time, informed a particular vision of an idealized weird - a trashy synth orientated 80s B-movie soundtrack, which provided an aesthetic platform on which to dive, surf and ride. Over time the sound grew vocals, a live component formed, and a shift away from abstract recordings via more overt emotional territory brings us to the current byproduct. The 'Live On Your Yard' EP released on Alter presents four tracks of emotive and melancholic synth pop that point towards the eccentricity of artists like Snakefinger and Tuxedomoon, the synthetic slickness and charity shop glamour of Italo Disco, and the misery of coldwave. Right now Tom is working on a full length LP for Alter and Upset the Rhythm and recently made an appearance on the brilliant 'Still Going In Offices' compilation on Savoury Days.
http://www.designawave.co.uk/
Have a great weekend and we'll see you tomorrow!
Thanks
UTR
x
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk
http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com
> > > UPSET THE RHYTHM > > >
> > > UPCOMING SHOWS > > >
EXCEPTER
HELM
DESIGN A WAVE
Tuesday 24 July
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
N.B. Tickets for this show also guarantee free entry to John Fell Ryan's experimental simulcast soundtracking to 'The Shining' on July 25th (venue TBA) and a synth improv set at Rough Trade East on July 26th using their in-house Schneiders Buro test station. You will also receive a free ultra-limited CD of rare and unreleased Excepter tracks too.
TY SEGALL
SHARM EL SHAKES
SOFT ARROWS
Thursday 2 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
Upset The Rhythm's
SUMMER SHOP WINDOW featuring…
JOHN MAUS
PEEPHOLES
THE PHEROMOANS
TRASH KIT vs DESIGN A WAVE DJs
Tuesday 14 August
Scala, 275-277 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
THE PHEROMOANS "Album Launch Party"
ELA ORLEANS
LIBEREZ
ADAM BOHMAN / ADRIAN NORTHOVER
ACOLYTES DJ SET
Friday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
PEEPHOLES
THE PHEROMOANS
TRASH KIT vs DESIGN A WAVE DJs
Tuesday 14 August
Scala, 275-277 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
THE PHEROMOANS "Album Launch Party"
ELA ORLEANS
LIBEREZ
ADAM BOHMAN / ADRIAN NORTHOVER
ACOLYTES DJ SET
Friday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
KING TUFF
Tuesday 11 September
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB
8pm | £6.50 | TICKETS
DIVORCE "Album Launch Party"
BITCHES
ASSS
Thursday 13 September
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
MV & EE with the Home Comfort Sound System
WHOLE VOYALD INFINITE LIGHT
Tuesday 18 September
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
DEEP TIME
YE LAMPREYS
CHAPTER 24
Friday 21 September
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
DAN DEACON
DENT MAY
SUPER PATTERN
Wednesday 26 September
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7.30pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
BLACK DICE
DAN FRIEL (of PARTS & LABOR)
TWILIT GROTTO
Thursday 4 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £9.00 | TICKETS
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT
ELA ORLEANS
APOSTILLE
Thursday 11 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
DOOMSDAY STUDENT
(Members of Arab On Radar)
Wednesday 17 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
DOPE BODY
Thursday 25 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
CHAIN & THE GANG
Friday 30 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £9.00 | TICKETS
BITCHES
ASSS
Thursday 13 September
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
MV & EE with the Home Comfort Sound System
WHOLE VOYALD INFINITE LIGHT
Tuesday 18 September
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
DEEP TIME
YE LAMPREYS
CHAPTER 24
Friday 21 September
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
DAN DEACON
DENT MAY
SUPER PATTERN
Wednesday 26 September
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7.30pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
BLACK DICE
DAN FRIEL (of PARTS & LABOR)
TWILIT GROTTO
Thursday 4 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £9.00 | TICKETS
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT
ELA ORLEANS
APOSTILLE
Thursday 11 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
DOOMSDAY STUDENT
(Members of Arab On Radar)
Wednesday 17 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
DOPE BODY
Thursday 25 October
Birthdays, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 8BJ
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
CHAIN & THE GANG
Friday 30 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £9.00 | TICKETS
