TURNING TEN TOMORROW

Merry Times!

We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary tomorrow at the Courtyard Theatre (Pitfield Street) with a show for FICTIONAL BOYS, MICKEY GLOSS and THE WHARVES. Astral-pop, party punk, heavy melodies galore! What a way to see out 2013! Extending the festive spirit to all, we’re doing a quick competition to win 10 free pairs of tickets for tomorrow’s show! Think 10 letters long and then send us your best made-up band name, the funnier/weirder the better. The first 10 that make us laugh will win tickets!  Submissions to upset_the_rhythm@yahoo.com 

 

Roll on tomorrow…

\\\\\\  TOMORROW  /////

UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10th BIRTHDAY PARTY

Featuring…

FICTIONAL BOYS

MICKEY GLOSS

THE WHARVES

Wednesday 18 December

Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU

8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

FICTIONAL BOYS is John Webster Johns AKA Jack Name, a songwriter that Tim Presley recently described as a 'stubborn genius'. Currently a touring guitarist for Presley's band White Fence, Johns spends much of his time releasing music under various monikers (Fictional Boys and Muzz) and working behind-the-scenes as a studio wizard /collaborator for the likes of Ariel Pink and Cass McCombs. Next year, the Los Angeles native will release his debut album under his latest project, Jack Name. Titled 'Light Show', it’s due out January 21st via Drag City / Ty Segall's imprint God? Records. In anticipation, Johns has shared his lead single 'Pure Terror' with the interweb. It's a whirring psych-pop jam that couples his laid-back, cloaked vocals with rambunctious guitars, it nicely balances the low-key and lo-fi with straight-up wild, technicolor energy. He's singing about terror, and as the song comes to its conclusion, his voice is enveloped by these high, astral, childlike voices.

MICKEY GLOSS is a psychedelic/punk party experiment that left the east coast of Australia for London amidst the chaos and disorder of the riots in summer 2011. Their compelling new album, 'Astral Projections For The Kinetically Deranged', was released on November 18th through H Badger Records. Signposting their anarchy and energy is lead single 'Are You Happy?', where wry social commentary meets garage freakout in a distillation of antipodean sun and London melancholia.

THE WHARVES feature Marion Andrau on drums, Gemma Fleet on bass and Dearbhla Minogue on guitar. The latter pair duet in counter-harmony and joyful unison across their songs, a swirling, heavy, melodious mix of charged-up electric folk and splashes of girl-group wonder. Think Fairport Convention mixed with a primed Sleater Kinney vocal interplay. Check out their new split LP with The Rosy Crucifixion on Soft Power now!

See you tomorrow!

Keep it warm!

UTR

x

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PETE SWANSON

HELM

DAVE CURRIE

LONDONEARS DJs

Friday 10 January

Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL

8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS

FUTURE ISLANDS

Tuesday 11 February

Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, 2 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, N1 6NU

8pm | £11.00 | SOLD OUT

UTR turns 10 next week, plus announcing a new FUTURE ISLANDS show!

Morning everyone!

Huge thank yous to all of you for coming to see Lonnie Holley last week, what a truly fantastic performance! I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, Lonnie included. We now have only one show remaining this year, falling next Wednesday, we’ll be celebrating our tenth anniversary of Upset The Rhythm in style at the Courtyard Theatre with FICTIONAL BOYS, MICKEY GLOSS and THE WHARVES. Full details run away down the page, as well as news of a special show for FUTURE ISLANDS in February at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen. The band will be previewing new material from their forthcoming album at this decidedly intimate venue for fans and fanatics alike, tickets will go onsale tomorrow morning, 9am, both outlets listed below, don’t miss out…

\\\\\\  NEXT WEDNESDAY  /////

UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10th BIRTHDAY PARTY

Featuring…

FICTIONAL BOYS

MICKEY GLOSS

THE WHARVES

Wednesday 18 December

Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU

8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

FICTIONAL BOYS is John Webster Johns AKA Jack Name, a songwriter that Tim Presley recently described as a 'stubborn genius'. Currently a touring guitarist for Presley's band White Fence, Johns spends much of his time releasing music under various monikers (Fictional Boys and Muzz) and working behind-the-scenes as a studio wizard /collaborator for the likes of Ariel Pink and Cass McCombs. Next year, the Los Angeles native will release his debut album under his latest project, Jack Name. Titled 'Light Show', it’s due out January 21st via Drag City / Ty Segall's imprint God? Records. In anticipation, Johns has shared his lead single 'Pure Terror' with the interweb. It's a whirring psych-pop jam that couples his laid-back, cloaked vocals with rambunctious guitars, it nicely balances the low-key and lo-fi with straight-up wild, technicolor energy. He's singing about terror, and as the song comes to its conclusion, his voice is enveloped by these high, astral, childlike voices.

MICKEY GLOSS is a psychedelic/punk party experiment that left the east coast of Australia for London amidst the chaos and disorder of the riots in summer 2011. Their compelling new album, 'Astral Projections For The Kinetically Deranged', was released on November 18th through H Badger Records. Signposting their anarchy and energy is lead single 'Are You Happy?', where wry social commentary meets garage freakout in a distillation of antipodean sun and London melancholia.

THE WHARVES feature Marion Andrau on drums, Gemma Fleet on bass and Dearbhla Minogue on guitar. The latter pair duet in counter-harmony and joyful unison across their songs, a swirling, heavy, melodious mix of charged-up electric folk and splashes of girl-group wonder. Think Fairport Convention mixed with a primed Sleater Kinney vocal interplay. Check out their new split LP with The Rosy Crucifixion on Soft Power now!

Thanks for reading, increasingly festive times!

UPSET THE RHYTHM

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UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10TH BIRTHDAY

Featuring…

JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS

MICKEY GLOSS

THE WHARVES

Wednesday 18 December

Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU

8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

PETE SWANSON

HELM

DAVE CURRIE

LONDONEARS DJs

Friday 10 January

Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL

8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS

FUTURE ISLANDS

Tuesday 11 February

Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, 2 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, N1 6NU

8pm | £11.00 | Tickets available from 9am tomorrow:

WEGOTTICKETS

TICKETWEB

SILVER FOX ALBUM and LONNIE HOLLEY tomorrow and our 10TH BIRTHDAY PARTY

Greetings everyone!

This week sees the release of another new album through UTR, the seriously brilliant debut record from SILVER FOX. It’s a stunning album of raucous, sad, powerful and wistful reflections, full of responsive harmonies and primal beats at its heart. Hitting the shops this coming week, it’s also available from our online shop now.

 

Why not listen here (hear)?

 

We also wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about our final two shows for 2013. Tomorrow we’re at Café OTO with a transcendent show for Dust To Digital’s LONNIE HOLLEY and DURGA. Then on December 18th (two weeks today!), we’ll be celebrating 10 years of Upset The Rhythm with FICTIONAL BOYS, MICKEY GLOSS and THE WHARVES at the Courtyard Theatre. We’ve done approximately one show every week for a whole decade! Where does the time go? I hope you can join us for the party. We’re also announcing today HELM as support to PETE SWANSON in January too. Lots more detail follows next…

 

 

\\\\\\  TOMORROW  /////

 

 

LONNIE HOLLEY

(Dust To Digital)

DURGA

Thursday 5 December

Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS

 

LONNIE HOLLEY was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, the seventh of 27 children. From the age of five, Holley worked various jobs: picking up trash at a drive-in movie theatre, washing dishes, and cooking. He lived in a whiskey house, on the state fairgrounds, and in several foster homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the pleasure of a real childhood. Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. Holley’s sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events.

 

Holley did not start making and performing music in a studio nor does his creative process mirror that of the typical musician. His music and lyrics are improvised on the spot and morph and evolve with every event, concert, and recording. In Holley’s original art environment, he would construct and deconstruct his visual works, re-purposing their elements for new pieces. This often led to the transfer of individual narratives into the new work creating a cumulative composite image that has depth and purpose beyond its original singular meaning. The layers of sound in Holley’s music, likewise, are the result of decades of evolving experimentation. 'Just Before Music' features Holley’s first studio recordings made in 2010/2011 and was released last year by Dust To Digital to widespread acclaim. New album, 'Keeping A Record Of It' came out last month and has seen Lonnie touring with Deerhunter and Bill Callahan across the USA in support of the record ahead of his first proper European tour.

 

DURGA is a psych-prog landscapist duo: Berlin school electronics with jazzgazing guitar trails. Modal digressions, faux-Mellotronix, vapour-thin celestial scaffolding and heavy sunburst widescreen vistas.

 

 

\\\\\\  10TH BIRTHDAY  /////

 

UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10th BIRTHDAY PARTY

Featuring…

 

JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS

MICKEY GLOSS

THE WHARVES

Wednesday 18 December

Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U

8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

 

FICTIONAL BOYS is John Webster Johns AKA Jack Name, a songwriter that Tim Presley recently described as a 'stubborn genius'. Currently a touring guitarist for Presley's band White Fence, Johns spends much of his time releasing music under various monikers (Fictional Boys and Muzz) and working behind-the-scenes as a studio wizard /collaborator for the likes of Ariel Pink and Cass McCombs. Next year, the Los Angeles native will release his debut album under his latest project, Jack Name. Titled 'Light Show', it’s due out January 21st via Drag City / Ty Segall's imprint God? Records. In anticipation, Johns has shared his lead single 'Pure Terror' with the interweb. It's a whirring psych-pop jam that couples his laid-back, cloaked vocals with rambunctious guitars, it nicely balances the low-key and lo-fi with straight-up wild, technicolor energy. He's singing about terror, and as the song comes to its conclusion, his voice is enveloped by these high, astral, childlike voices.

MICKEY GLOSS is a psychedelic/punk party experiment that left the east coast of Australia for London amidst the chaos and disorder of the riots in summer 2011. Their compelling new album, 'Astral Projections For The Kinetically Deranged', was released on November 18th through H Badger Records. Signposting their anarchy and energy is lead single 'Are You Happy?', where wry social commentary meets garage freakout in a distillation of antipodean sun and London melancholia.

 

THE WHARVES feature Marion Andrau on drums, Gemma Fleet on bass and Dearbhla Minogue on guitar. The latter pair duet in counter-harmony and joyful unison across their songs, a swirling, heavy, melodious mix of charged-up electric folk and splashes of girl-group wonder. Think Fairport Convention mixed with a primed Sleater Kinney vocal interplay. Check out their new split LP with The Rosy Crucifixion on Soft Power now!

 

 

This Sunday Upset The Rhythm will also be taking part in the Café OTO / LUX Christmas fair, alongside a host of terrific independent publishers and labels. Xmas presents anyone? The fair runs from noon – 5pm at OTO and also features selected film screenings and live performances too.

Thanks for reading this modest missive,

All the best of times to you,

UPSET

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UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10TH BIRTHDAY

Featuring…

JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS

MICKEY GLOSS

THE WHARVES

Wednesday 18 December

Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U

8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

 

PETE SWANSON

HELM

Friday 10 January

Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL

8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS

MAGIK MARKERS tomorrow!

Afternoon all!

One of our favourite bands, MAGIK MARKERS touch down in London tomorrow, can’t tell you how excited we are! It seems like forever since they were last over in the UK and their new album ‘Surrender To The Fantasy’ is an incredible record, full of squalling feedback, free-punk gravity and a newfound tender songcraft. Tomorrow’s show at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club will also see a special electric set from C JOYNES and William Rees aka VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE both performing too, it’s going to be the best. Here’s all you need to know…

\\\\\\  TOMORROW /////

MAGIK MARKERS

C JOYNES

VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE

Wednesday 20 November

Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

MAGIK MARKERS self-referential improvisations and gritty brand of strutting, spinning and splitting in packed houses, panel trucks, and the underground sound and light discotheques, began in a Hartford basement around the Millennium. Whilst consistently releasing some wild material on their own Arbitrary Signs label the band have also spun out some remarkable records for Ecstatic Peace, Hospital Productions, Not Not Fun and most recently Drag City, who are releasing forthcoming album 'Surrender To The Fantasy'. 'STTF' (never too soon for the acronym) kicks off with that hoary old trope of punk records, the song about the Chesapeake Valley Runoff and the mating cycle of crabs. After that kind of in-your-face Attenborough-core, where could the record go? Nowhere but everywhere, all the creepy outposts of American detritus from other times, when hitchhiking and h-bombs were still hot, viable new ideas and on beyond. 'Acts of Desperation' is Shaggs-meets-Stones colour commentary on driveway laying, your mom's Merit Ultra-Light 100's and the lengths we'll go to filch a feel of some arcane notion of greatness. Here Pete "koan on loan" Nolan has nixed his kit into a galvanic psych lead. No lame attempt to smoke nutmeg for this jam; it scored real weed. For these New England nerfherders, whatever terror Hawthorne's wood was meant to hold dissolves in a beer fueled frugging party. 'Mirrorless', the deep-focus track/single-that-never- was/video-that's-about-to-be unspools its jewels and dissolves like all perfect ballads, with a giggle and a casual chorus of whistled free-melody and a sweet outro-solo. 'STTF' builds monolithically in it's penultimate moment, then blazes out with possibly the best prescription cough medicine solo in the history of Elisa Ambrogio's storied career. This is a Mainliner-ish ode to the American underbelly that spawned rock and roll heroes and bad life choices; long a topic of fascination and adoration in the MM camp, and it ends the Fantasy by beginning another.

C JOYNES is an English acoustic guitarist, a resident of Cambridge, heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical tradition. His approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste.

VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE is William Rees, a multi-instrumentalist currently based in London. Having spent six years studying Hindustani classical music in India, as well as being classically trained on the viola, Rees has a keen understanding of both Eastern and Western classical music. Rees’ viola playing is an esoteric blend of his disparate influences, ranging from Indian and Persian classical music, to modern composition and free improvisation. He released a cassette on Night Ritual Recordings in 2013, entitled A Burial Shroud.

Thanks as always for reading,

See you soon!

UTR

x

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LONNIE HOLLEY

(Dust To Digital)

DURGA

Thursday 5 December

Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS

UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10^TH BIRTHDAY

Featuring…

JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS

MICKEY GLOSS

Wednesday 18 December

Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U

8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

PETE SWANSON

Friday 10 January

Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL

8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS

GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS tomorrow and MAGIK MARKERS next week!

Morning everyone!

Thank you for coming to see No Joy earlier this week and for all your support for our new releases by WAY THROUGH, GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS too. Over the last five days we’ve spent most of our time mailing out records to you all over the world! It’s always such an exciting time, never gets old. Tomorrow night we return to the Shacklewell Arms for GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS’ final night of their European tour. Tickets cost only £5, will be available on the door and the show runs early finishing by 10.30pm. Bomber Jackets are no longer able to perform, due to unforeseen circumstances, but we now have ample time to soak up MICKEY GLOSS’ DJ set in full, plus the GW/ PP split LPs will be in attendance in all their silver and black splatter vinyl splendor (easy for me to say). We’re also announcing today our 10th birthday party show featuring JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS on December 18th and our first event of 2014 featuring PETE SWANSON on January 10th. Lots more details to follow, including the full blurb of next Wednesday’s MAGIK MARKERS show too, enjoy…

\\\\\\  TOMORROW /////

 

 

GARY WAR

PURPLE PILGRIMS

MICKEY GLOSS (DJ SET)

Saturday 16 November

Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB

7.30pm - 10.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

GARY WAR has previously served alongside John Maus and Ariel Pink in Haunted Graffiti and also has a burgeoning catalogue of solo material released on Captured Tracks, Spectrum Spools and Knife Slits Water, and Sacred Bones. Gary War makes awesome zonked-out future music oozing with a disembodied soul and draped in heavy drones, unafraid to deploy feedback and thick waves of analogue fuzz for a luciously head-warping effect. War is touring in support of his new split LP on Upset The Rhythm which takes deeper step into a pool of progressive maximal wave and distinctly modern psychedelia.
PURPLE PILGRIMS are an outsider dream pop duo of sisters from Christchurch via Hong Kong. Clementine and Valentine Nixon make delicate, hypnotic vocals hover gently above spectral waves of guitar and exotic abstraction, as subtle beds of rhythm lock step in the distance. The Pilgrims have distilled the mysterious hybrid of shimmering distortion and je ne sais quoi that have long attracted global purveyors of the N.Z. underground into it's absolute purest form. As perfect a soundtrack to observe the latest night transform into the earliest morning as one could ever dream of hearing. Following on from their first lathe cut, Upset The Rhythm have released a split LP with Gary War to coincide with their European tour.

 

MICKEY GLOSS is a songwriter, producer, DJ and serial music creep from Australia. His goal as a DJ is to blend his own musical satisfactions into one entity that explores a lineage of abrasive texture, pop gold and arrangement finesse. Expect to hear remixed partitions of songs, odd-ball classics and songs you will that will peak your curious brow. 

 

 

\\\\\\  WEDNESDAY  /////

 

MAGIK MARKERS

C JOYNES

VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE

 

Wednesday 20 November

Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

MAGIK MARKERS self-referential improvisations and gritty brand of strutting, spinning and splitting in packed houses, panel trucks, and the underground sound and light discotheques, began in a Hartford basement around the Millennium. Whilst consistently releasing some wild material on their own Arbitrary Signs label the band have also spun out some remarkable records for Ecstatic Peace, Hospital Productions, Not Not Fun and most recently Drag City, who are releasing forthcoming album 'Surrender To The Fantasy'. 'STTF' (never too soon for the acronym) kicks off with that hoary old trope of punk records, the song about the Chesapeake Valley Runoff and the mating cycle of crabs. After that kind of in-your-face Attenborough-core, where could the record go? Nowhere but everywhere, all the creepy outposts of American detritus from other times, when hitchhiking and h-bombs were still hot, viable new ideas and on beyond. 'Acts of Desperation' is Shaggs-meets-Stones colour commentary on driveway laying, your mom's Merit Ultra-Light 100's and the lengths we'll go to filch a feel of some arcane notion of greatness. Here Pete "koan on loan" Nolan has nixed his kit into a galvanic psych lead. No lame attempt to smoke nutmeg for this jam; it scored real weed. For these New England nerfherders, whatever terror Hawthorne's wood was meant to hold dissolves in a beer fueled frugging party. 'Mirrorless', the deep-focus track/single-that-never- was/video-that's-about-to-be unspools its jewels and dissolves like all perfect ballads, with a giggle and a casual chorus of whistled free-melody and a sweet outro-solo. 'STTF' builds monolithically in it's penultimate moment, then blazes out with possibly the best prescription cough medicine solo in the history of Elisa Ambrogio's storied career. This is a Mainliner-ish ode to the American underbelly that spawned rock and roll heroes and bad life choices; long a topic of fascination and adoration in the MM camp, and it ends the Fantasy by beginning another.

C JOYNES is an English acoustic guitarist, a resident of Cambridge, heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical tradition. His approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste.

VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE is William Rees, a multi-instrumentalist currently based in London. Having spent six years studying Hindustani classical music in India, as well as being classically trained on the viola, Rees has a keen understanding of both Eastern and Western classical music. Rees’ viola playing is an esoteric blend of his disparate influences, ranging from Indian and Persian classical music, to modern composition and free improvisation. He released a cassette on Night Ritual Recordings in 2013, entitled A Burial Shroud.

 

 

Thanks so much for reading!

Have the best weekend,

UPSET

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LONNIE HOLLEY

(Dust To Digital)

DURGA

Thursday 5 December

Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS

UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10^TH BIRTHDAY

Featuring…

JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS

Wednesday 18 December

Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U

8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

 

PETE SWANSON

Friday 10 January

Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL

8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS

 

 

NO JOY tonight and new records from WAY THROUGH and GARY WAR / PURPLE PILGRIMS

Morning everyone!

It’s a busy Monday for us at Upset The Rhythm, tonight we have the brilliant NO JOY and FEAR OF MEN playing tonight at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, plus we also have two new releases leaping into the world today. Our first record is a split LP between GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS who are touring Europe presently (playing London on Saturday!), 180g silver-n-black vinyl, 500 copies only, maximal wave and orbiting melancholia! Our second is WAY THROUGH’s new album ‘Clapper Is Still’, 180g white vinyl and digipak CD, described by Caught By The River as “an ecstatic survey of England: clattering and chopped music of concrete, crops, rosettes and rituals.” Both are available in shops across the land now, including from our webshop where they cost £10 (including postage in the UK).

 

Listen here!

 

 

 

Thanks for reading, listening, looking…

 

\\\\\\  TONIGHT /////

 

NO JOY FEAR OF MEN

Monday 11 November
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

NO JOY are a Montreal noise-pop band, rooted heavily in shoegaze ripcurls and devastating melody. Jasamine White-Gluz, Laura Lloyd and Garland Hastings knock down the fence between nostalgia and modernity, chaos and control. On new album 'Wait To Pleasure' you can hear what’s happening under the surface, a work that subverts the expectations of where a latter-day approach to that genre might be able to take the listener. “We get a lot of the obvious comparisons,” Laura says about the band’s music, favorably likened to the stormier side of the pond, where bands like Lush and Swervedriver used to reside, as well as the templates for that sound in groups like Hüsker Dü. 'Lunar Phobia' finds Jasamine’s ethereal vocal harmonies prismatically split in the studio environment, with syncopated and chopped-up rhythms last heard in Alan Moulder’s work with groups of yore like Curve, a seamless blend of digital tricks and analog guitar crunch. Better to drill into your skull before you realize what’s happening – better to let all of their sometimes-stinging, sometimes-syrupy music into that new hole in your head.

 

FEAR OF MEN draw their inspiration from art and philosophy, deliberately juxtaposes iconic museum imagery and lyrical themes of loneliness and fragmentation with buoyant pop melodies. Fans of Broadcast and Julie Doiron will instantly gravitate toward their tender vocals and melodies. The songs are beguilingly sweet while the lyrics are often bleakly nihilistic, meaning that you’ll find yourself singing along to these intelligent, well-crafted pop songs while unwittingly sinking deeper into Fear of Men’s world. 'Early Fragments' (Kanine Records) was released earlier this year, a reverse chronological collection of their previous single releases, many of which were only available on limited edition 7” and cassette pressings.

 

\\\\\\  SATURDAY /////

 

GARY WAR

PURPLE PILGRIMS

BOMBER JACKETS

Saturday 16 November

Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB

7.30pm - 10.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

GARY WAR has previously served alongside John Maus and Ariel Pink in Haunted Graffiti and also has a burgeoning catalogue of solo material released on Captured Tracks, Spectrum Spools and Knife Slits Water, and Sacred Bones. Gary War makes awesome zonked-out future music oozing with a disembodied soul and draped in heavy drones, unafraid to deploy feedback and thick waves of analogue fuzz for a luciously head-warping effect. War is touring in support of his new split LP on Upset The Rhythm which takes deeper step into a pool of progressive maximal wave and distinctly modern psychedelia.
PURPLE PILGRIMS are an outsider dream pop duo of sisters from Christchurch via Hong Kong. Clementine and Valentine Nixon make delicate, hypnotic vocals hover gently above spectral waves of guitar and exotic abstraction, as subtle beds of rhythm lock step in the distance. The Pilgrims have distilled the mysterious hybrid of shimmering distortion and je ne sais quoi that have long attracted global purveyors of the N.Z. underground into it's absolute purest form. As perfect a soundtrack to observe the latest night transform into the earliest morning as one could ever dream of hearing. Following on from their first lathe cut, Upset The Rhythm will be releasing a split LP with Gary War to coincide with their European tour.

 

BOMBER JACKETS are the London based trio of Russell Walker, Daniel Bolger and Sian Dorrer. The former two names you may recognise from their roles in prolific post-punk nitwits The Pheromoans, whilst the latter has played in various groups in London’s thriving DIY scene and opened the notorious London venue Power Lunches. 'The Lister’ is their first full length and the most focussed statement of their singular and somewhat awkward aesthetic. Musical reference points could be directed towards early Legendary Pink Dots, Hype Williams, early European minimal synth and even Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks score, whilst evoking a scenario that feels a somewhat uneasy - a hungover / slightly drunk train journey to somewhere you don’t really want to be but at the same time can’t avoid, trying to step outside of yourself to raise a wry and knowing smile at the misfortune along the way.

 

 

 

One last thing before we sign off, our friends at Baba Yaga’s Hut and Bleed are organizing a show for JAMES FERRARO tomorrow at Corsica Studios, interested parties, check this out interesting party.

 

See you soon!

 

UTR

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‘October / November’ – UK TOUR

11.11 - Prague - Pilot Club
13.11 - Utrecht - DB's
16.11 - London - Shacklewell Arms

 

MAGIK MARKERS

C JOYNES

VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE

 

Wednesday 20 November

Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

 

LONNIE HOLLEY

(Dust To Digital)

DURGA

Thursday 5 December

Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS

NEW ALBUMS for WAY THROUGH and GARY WAR / PURPLE PILGRIMS available now

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SLEAFORD MODS and PLEASE this week!

Hello all!

Two shows coming up this week for you. Tomorrow at the Old Blue Last we have the equally irrascible/wonderful SLEAFORD MODS performing/venting for us, with THE PHEROMOANS and SPOILS & RELICS both in support. Whilst Thursday sees us head to the Dalston Victoria to spend a noisy, kinetic and thrilling Halloween with PLEASE, API UIZ and ARNAUD RIVIERE. Read on for everything you need to know, tickets will be available on the door for both shows, thanks for reading and for attending our Nate Young show last weekend too!

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SLEAFORD MODS

THE PHEROMOANS SPOILS & RELICS

Wednesday 30 October
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

SLEAFORD MODS are the product of Britain's harsh reality. "You've got to be able to sell yourself ,so I stuck my life on eBay.  £ 25 mate". Sleaford Mods make aggro punk poetry that sounds like the bastard child of John Cooper Clarke’s Beasley Street grown up on hard knocks, rave culture and the Wu-Tang Clan. Jason Williamson is the voice: a big man with an angry face, used to be one of that “door-swings-open, swagger-to-the-bar-crew” but now grown older and wiser. His delivery is venomous, confrontational, but often funny and delighting in twists of language: eyeballing the “scaly-faced booze pricks” and the geezers with their “concrete dagger swaggers”. True Allan Sillitoe heritage and the artistic proof that, outside of the The Cameleon Pub, Notthingham will always be the wrong side of the river Styx. Their new LP Austerity Dogs was just released through the Harbinger Sound label and it sounds amazing!
THE PHEROMOANS are a six piece experimental rock band from the South East of England who deal in a deadpan DIY music. Wedded to the mundane, surreal reportage of our lives as reflected in the media, their music manages to address the truly restless boredom of everyday life. These are songs for the back of the queue, songs from underneath the ergonomic desk, a glimpse through the commuter window, blasted through with brilliant suburban sunshine. Over the last three years the band have released a slew of releases, including numerous EPs, 7"s and three albums through labels as diverse as Night People, Convulsive, Sweet Rot, Monofonus Press and their own imprint Savoury Days. These releases, along with their recent album on Upset The Rhythm 'Does This Guy Stack Up?' focus on a ramshackle, wayward rock ethic, underpinned by lyricist Russell Walker's dry, observational musings that tread an almost diary-like pathway through the songs.
SPOILS & RELICS cast a mutating web of feedback, choral echoes and lo-fi loops of various howling, rattling found sounds, settling gently into certain texture combinations before testing the stasis through jolts of pitch bend or slow fades into somewhere else. It’s a real nightmare collage: one minute it’s a blast of screaming electronics, like someone tampering with the cockpit controls, and the next it’s tornado of factory noise and alien sex. Musique concrete for the mind’s darker, more paranoid recesses, with a gorgeously sparse latter half of noise squeals fed through some sort of intercom.

\\\\\\  THURSDAY /////

Halloween Spooktacular...

PLEASE

API UIZ

ARNAUD RIVIERE

Thursday 31 October

Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS

8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

PLEASE are a trio comprised of duelling guitarists and an activated drummer. Together the threesome offer up ramshackle rhythms and trippy aerobic guitars played alongside unmannered vocals. Delivered with the heady rush you'd expect of punk, Please race 60's garage slap and wrong-footed prog through an obstacle course. Please tap into a rich vein of collective celebration manifest in the hypnotic patterns of strings swirling around the Maypole, popular vaudeville’s raucous call and response, the gaudy splashes of colour in the death-wish incarnations of the funfair, and the uplifting DIY happening where hegemony busting attitudes are nourished with lovely music and homemade cakes. They have a debut 10" on Ouse and a split LP on Upset The Rhythm available now!
API UIZ are instrumental rock fire gods from France. They have a constant energy, where an unclassifiable rock guitarist leads the way without effects or debauchery, whilst the rhythm section, without flinching, find themselves just as gone. Favourites of THE EX, Api Uiz's hectic rhythms similarly defy expectations.
ARNAUD RIVIERE specialises in amazingly broken electronics and weirdo junk noise. From Paris, Riviere looks for accidents at every turn, chasing the unrepentant feedback ever onwards.

 

 

See you soon!

UTR

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‘October / November’ – UK TOUR

30.10 - Dublin - Workmen's Club
31.10 - Nottingham - JT Soar
01.11 - Manchester - Gullivers
02.11 - Glasgow - Nice N Sleazy
07.11 - Rotterdam - Roodka Pje
08.11 - Hamburg - Kraniche
09.11 - Berlin - Team Titanic
10.11 - Vienna - Rhiz
11.11 - Prague - Pilot Club
13.11 - Utrecht - DB's
16.11 - London - Shacklewell Arms

NO JOY FEAR OF MEN

Monday 11 November
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

GARY WAR

PURPLE PILGRIMS

BOMBER JACKETS

Saturday 16 November

Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB

8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

 

MAGIK MARKERS

Wednesday 20 November

Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

 

LONNIE HOLLEY

(Dust To Digital)

DURGA

Thursday 5 December

Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS

GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS on tour

GARY WAR / PURPLE PILGRIMS - EURO TOUR 2013

OCT 26 - UK, London, CAFE OTO
OCT 27 - UK, Leeds, WHARF CHAMBERS
OCT 28 - UK, Brighton, BLIND TIGER
OCT 30 - IR, Dublin, WORKMEN'S CLUB
OCT 31 - UK, Nottingham, JT SOAR
NOV 1 - UK, Manchester, GULLIVERS
NOV 2 - UK, Glasgow, NICE N SLEAZY
NOV 7 - NL, Rotterdam, ROODKA PJE
NOV 8 - DE, Hamburg, KRANICHE


NOV 9 - DE, Berlin, TEAM TITANIC


NOV 10 - AU, Wien, RHIZ 


NOV 11 - CZ, Prague, PILOT CLUB


NOV 13 - NL, Utrecht, DB'S
NOV 16 - UK, London, SHACKLEWELL ARMS

HALO HALO's brilliant new video!

Halo Halo - Coming Home from Hattie Ladd on Vimeo.

Official music video for Coming Home, from Halo Halo's self-titled debut album.

Director: Hattie Ladd
Director of Photography: Tom Nowell
Starring: Lottie the dog, Jack, Rachel and Gill
Halo Halo's self titled album released July 2013 on Upset The Rhythm.

!!!KEEP WATCHING THOSE SKIES!!!

DESTRUCTION UNIT and NATE YOUNG shows this week!

Hey there!

I trust the Autumn is treating you fairly? We’ve got two opportunities to take a huge thick coat to a sweaty venue this week! Tomorrow we’re extremely excited to have DESTRUCTION UNIT playing for us at Old Blue Last, their brutalized, spaced punk finding company with noise wrangler PUCE MARY. Then on Saturday at Café OTO things get phantasmagoric with NATE YOUNG, GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS all weighing in with their future modes of weirding musick. Full blurbs below for the info gatherers. This last week we’ve also been busy lining up our new releases for GARY WAR / PURPLE PILGRIMS, WAY THROUGH and SILVER FOX, preorders up, plus you can hear some gems from the treasure trove and some future hits by DOG CHOCOLATE and RAVIOLI ME AWAY in this playlist we made for you discerning peoples.

Thanks for reading and/or listening!

Here’s the rest…

\\\\\\  TOMORROW /////

DESTRUCTION UNIT

PUCE MARY

Wednesday 23 October
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

DESTRUCTION UNIT are a band from Arizona. Destruction Unit play loud rock music. Destruction Unit have recorded a long playing record. It is morphine boogie for the 21st century noise addict. A spiritual odyssey of sadomasochistic self-loathing with songs about love and freedom. The world is a sick place and Destruction Unit is it’s medicine. But you better act fast before its as illegal as the black market medicine these guys must have taken to make such a record. This line-up has released several cassettes on their own label Ascetic House, a small run LP, 'Void' on Jolly Dream and have an upcoming limited edition 7-inch on Suicide Squeeze Records. 'Deep Trip' is their first proper studio record, recorded by Ben Greenberg of The Men, Pygmy Shrews and Hubble, and Kyle Keays at Vacation Island in NYC, and mastered by Kris Lapke of Alberich and Josh Bonati, this is brooding American psychedelia, modern psych, debt and war psych. The future of Rock and Roll burning through three twin reverbs and a pound of grass, available now on Sacred Bones.

 

PUCE MARY is the solo moniker of Danish experimental musician Frederikke Hoffmeier. Through a still relatively short career she has released and performed her way to the be in the top of Scandinavia's current industrial music scene, with vinyl and tape releases on labels such as Second Sleep (IT), Posh Isolation (DK) and Nordisk Klub (DK), a flow of live shows throughout Scandinavia, and collaborators as Dan Johansson and Loke Rahbek. Her own work as Puce Mary is difficult to categorize, while definitely being Industrial music the sound pallet is wide and releases has presented work from clear drones to drum based rhythmic industrial and even nodding towards Power electronics at times.  

 

* Please note: due to an emergency health issue, Pharmakon will unfortunately not be able to play this show. We aim to rearrange a show for Pharmakon at the earliest possible opportunity.

 

 

 

\\\\\\  SATURDAY  /////

NATE YOUNG

GARY WAR

PURPLE PILGRIMS

Saturday 26 October

Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

 

NATE YOUNG is a founding member of seminal Detroit noise band Wolf Eyes. More recently been honing an equally distinctive solo sound that blends myriad sources from musique concrète, vintage film atmospherics, layered synths and archive library recordings into something thrillingly intense. Summoning up crushingly ominous crepuscular soundscapes and synth-washed phantasmagoria, Young undercuts the brutalism of Wolf Eyes with the kind of ambient dread that conjures images of lost horror soundtracks from the 70's. Minimal analogue synth violence is punctuated by thunder cracks of metal percussion ala the early Akita/Null Merzbow duets, massively doomy beat hypnotics and an atmosphere that's somewhere between the most apocalyptic Throbbing Gristle recordings, Coil's Musick To Play In The Dark, The Conet Project and your favourite Kraut kosmonaut. Young's most recent album 'Blinding Confusion' (out now on NNA Tapes) has the feel of a kind of post-synth electro-acoustic ritual, albeit tied-in with a visionary compositional aesthetic that is a couple of miles beyond your average weird-beard in a basement non-vibe.
GARY WAR has previously served alongside John Maus and Ariel Pink in Haunted Graffiti and also has a burgeoning catalogue of solo material released on Captured Tracks, Spectrum Spools and Knife Slits Water, and Sacred Bones. Gary War makes awesome zonked-out future music oozing with a disembodied soul and draped in heavy drones, unafraid to deploy feedback and thick waves of analogue fuzz for a luciously head-warping effect. War is touring in support of his new split LP on Upset The Rhythm which takes deeper step into a pool of progressive maximal wave and distinctly modern psychedelia.
PURPLE PILGRIMS are an outsider dream pop duo of sisters from Christchurch via Hong Kong. Clementine and Valentine Nixon make delicate, hypnotic vocals hover gently above spectral waves of guitar and exotic abstraction, as subtle beds of rhythm lock step in the distance. The Pilgrims have distilled the mysterious hybrid of shimmering distortion and je ne sais quoi that have long attracted global purveyors of the N.Z. underground into it's absolute purest form. As perfect a soundtrack to observe the latest night transform into the earliest morning as one could ever dream of hearing. Following on from their first lathe cut, Upset The Rhythm will be releasing a split LP with Gary War to coincide with their European tour.

 

 

GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS also begin their UK tour on Saturday with us at Café OTO so it seems like a good time to shout their tour dates from the rooftops here too!

 

GARY WAR & PURPLE PILGRIMS

‘October / November’ – UK TOUR

26.10 - London - Cafe OTO*
27.10 - Leeds - Wharf Chambers
28.10 - Brighton - Blind Tiger
30.10 - Dublin - Workmen's Club
31.10 - Nottingham - JT Soar
01.11 - Manchester - Gullivers
02.11 - Glasgow - Nice N Sleazy
16.11 - London - Shacklewell Arms
* = w/ Nate Young

 

 

Thanks for all your support,

See you soon,

UPSET

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SLEAFORD MODS

THE PHEROMOANS SPOILS & RELICS

Wednesday 30 October
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

Halloween Spooktacular...

PLEASE

API UIZ

ARNAUD RIVIERE

Thursday 31 October

Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS

8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

NO JOY FEAR OF MEN

Monday 11 November
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS

GARY WAR

PURPLE PILGRIMS

BOMBER JACKETS

Saturday 16 November

Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB

8pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

 

MAGIK MARKERS

Wednesday 20 November

Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

 

LONNIE HOLLEY

(Dust To Digital)

Thursday 5 December

Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS