Festivities!
It’s been a
busy year for us at Upset The Rhythm, we started 2014 with Pete Swanson at The
Dome and closed with our recent Trash Kit album launch, somewhere in between we
released eight, incredible records! Next year doesn’t look any less busy either
as this week we announced new concerts for NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY, DAN DEACON, MOON DUO and CIAN NUGENT too. All those dates are detailed in our listing
section at the end of this message, along with next year’s shows for DEERHOOF, RICHARD DAWSON, WHITE FENCE
and of course RICHARD YOUNGS. Upset
The Rhythm returns mid-January for a very special Tower Hamlets Trilogy
sequence with Richard joined by TOM
JAMES SCOTT, LAURA CANNELL and DYLAN NYOUKIS, in a variety of
interesting non-venues. It’s going to be as marvelous as it promises to be
memorable. I’ll leave you now with more words on that series of events and a
parting wish for your seasonal satisfaction. Thank you as always for all your invaluable
support and have the best time imaginable! Merry times…
\\\\\ 2015 /////
RICHARD YOUNGS
A Tower Hamlets Trilogy
‘Three different performances in three
different places’ …
Friday 16
January
Supported by TOM JAMES SCOTT
Balfron Tower
Community Cabin, 82 St Leonard's Rd, Poplar, E14 0QU
Saturday 17
January
Supported by LAURA CANNELL
St George's
German Lutheran Church, 55 Alie St, Aldgate East, E1 8EB
Sunday 18
January
Supported by DYLAN NYOUKIS
Mile End Ecology
Pavilion, Haverfield Rd off Grove Rd, Mile End, E3 5TW
RICHARD YOUNGS is an iconic figure of the UK underground,
having spent the last 30 years working on an incomparable output of solo
records alongside numerous collaborations. Originally from Cambridge, but based
in Glasgow for the last two decades, Youngs is as prolific as he is diverse
turning his hand to lush folk hymnotics, a cappella minimalism, tactile improv,
synth pop, hardcore punk and avant garde weirding. Youngs is even in a band
with his six year old son Sorley and long time collaborator Andrew Paine called
The Flexibles, who have a devolved industrial rock arc to them. All of these
eclectic musics have amassed on almost as many labels with key releases being
found on VHF, Jagjaguwar, MIE Music and Ba Da Bing! as well as on his own No
Fans imprint. Over the years Richard has also lent his skills to a number of
bands including Ilk, Vibracathedral Orchestra, A Band and Sunroof! as well as
playing bass for Jandek during his debut series of live concerts, and has
collaborated on joint works with Luke Fowler, Andrew Paine, Makoto Kawabata and
Simon Wickham-Smith to name a few. Richard Youngs plays an eclectic range of
instruments on these records from guitar to zither, homemade modular synth to
recordings of a motorway bridge, yet central to all this is the importance he
places on his own unadorned vocal, which almost acts like a rope pulling
together all the disparate tangents and unpredictable projects into his very
own transcendent realm of sound.
For this very
special trilogy of shows in London’s Tower Hamlets, Richard has been working
with Upset The Rhythm to take live music away from its safe domain of
established venues to somewhere different in search of a more radical and
memorable experience. Over the three nights Richard Youngs will perform an
entirely different in tune with each specific place and supported by the
following artists:
TOM JAMES SCOTT is a classically trained musician interested in
rich, densely treated atmospheres and lucid reflective moments. Tom's
influences stretch far and wide, touching upon aspects of traditional music,
improvisation, vocal music, composition, and field recording to name but a few.
Tom's previous albums for Bo' Weavil, were both guitar based with added piano,
distilled through a minimalist mind set to create some of the most beautiful
elemental melodic lines that take the listener on a journey of meditative
contemplation. 'Drape' is the title of Tom's recent LP of solo piano pieces.
Strings of single notes become humming, shadowy resonances within the body of
the instrument, echoing into frequent pause and fragmentation. New album ‘Teal’
was released last month on LP via Skire Music. Uniting all these records is
Scott’s rare ability within ambience to stop everyday life dead in its tracks,
forcing an invitation for consideration and contemplation at every moment.
LAURA CANNELL is a young woman drawing on ancient
transcendental and earthly musics, playing fiddle, overbowed fiddle, double
recorders, sometimes percussion and other rarefied wind instruments. Her sense
of space, dynamics and working with acoustics is super sensitive. Whether solo
or otherwise she explores the spaces between ancient, traditional and
improvised music, often utilising a fragment from a medieval theme to her own
end in a manner that embraces the apparitional, historical or the otherworldly.
Her seemingly wild side, in such rarefied circles makes her involved yet
emotive music really bristle and connect. Laura’s exquisitely-realised solo
album Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth was released in July 2014. Haunting
chords move the heavy air of the church as fiddle drones drift across the
flatlands of East Anglia. Her current live music show finds her performing
improvisations on ‘over-bowed’ fiddle and double-barrelled recorders creating
spell-binding new interpretations and breathing new life into lost and
forgotten melodies from the 5th – 14th centuries.
DYLAN NYOUKIS (of Chocolate Monk / Blood Stereo) is a master
of the vocal/performance stink and brain flummox. His solo vocal and tape work
continues to push the envelope in terms of the expressive options offered by
amplified physicality, making a music that’s so intrinsically human it feels
like you're listening from inside of his jaws. Sounds range from the describable
(gloveless hands messing with steaming innards) to the impossible (Dylan as a
match-striking dog), his range of squelch and rumble unconstrained by bodily
functions. His recent album 'Carrion Hut' collects five very different pieces
recorded between 2003 and 2007. “The Frosted Growth” finds Nyoukis in
Dubbletwee mode, snarling and barking at his multitracked self. While on the
side-long “Late Night Vocal Gravy”, Nyoukis is at his most composerly. The real
diamond, though, is the text piece “Strange New Ache”, originally written for
Inside Wino Lodge but left off the final cut. The text – read out loud,
inverted and mangled, by a half dozen-strong assemble of male and female voices
runs. “These strange new muscles have started to ache, these new muscles won’t
stop aching...”. Isn’t this what’s going on in Nyoukis’s lunatic sound poems?
Psychosis felt as physical pain, delusions of the mind transferred into
inexplicable sensation, expressible only in gibbers and howls.
See you in
the next year,
Have a
fantastic holiday!
UTR
x
\\\\\ UPSET
THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
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RICHARD YOUNGS
A Tower Hamlets Trilogy
‘Three different performances in three different places’…
Friday 16
January
Supported by TOM JAMES SCOTT
Balfron Tower
Community Cabin, 82 St Leonard's Rd, Poplar, E14 0QU
7.30pm - 10pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
Saturday 17
January
Supported by LAURA CANNELL
St George's
German Lutheran Church, 55 Alie St, Aldgate East, E1 8EB
7.30pm - 10pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
Sunday 18
January
Supported by DYLAN NYOUKIS
Mile End
Ecology Pavilion, Haverfield Rd off Grove Rd, Mile End, E3 5TW
2pm - 5pm |
£8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
* Ltd. Three
day pass for £20 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
WHITE FENCE
ULTIMATE PAINTING
FAMILY
Thursday 29
January
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
RICHARD DAWSON
Thursday 12
February
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/295927
DAN DEACON
Monday 16 February
Islington Assembly
Hall, Upper Street, Islington, N1 2UD
DOPE BODY
Tuesday 17
February
Montague
Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
DEERHOOF
TRASH KIT
Friday 20
February
Maison Folie,
8 Rue des Arbalestriers, Mons, 7000, Belgium
8pm | FREE
DARK BLUE
Monday 23
February
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
DEERHOOF
TRASH KIT
COWTOWN
Thursday 26
February
Oval Space,
29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT
7pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/301127
CIAN NUGENT
Sunday 22 March
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/303092
PURLING HISS
Wednesday 25 March
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/299736
Wednesday 25 March
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/299736
FUTURE ISLANDS
Monday 30
March
Tuesday 31
March
In collaboration with
Parallel Lines…
The
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Rd, London NW1 8EH
7pm | £20 | SOLD OUT
NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY
Friday 3 April
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10.00 | https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/upset-rhythm-cafe-oto-present-neil-michael-hagerty/
8pm | £10.00 | https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/upset-rhythm-cafe-oto-present-neil-michael-hagerty/
MOON DUO
Thursday 30 April
Village Underground,
54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PQ
8pm | £12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/302760
8pm | £12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/302760
