Hello everyone!
We have three terrific shows
coming up over the next two weeks and wanted to call out in your
direction. Tomorrow sees us team up with Constant Flux to bring THE FISH POLICE to the Macbeth as part of their current UK album tour. Not only do we also have FAIR OHS, RAVIOLI ME AWAY and DANIEL WAKEFORD
all playing too, but it is also only £3 entry! You can’t say fairer
than that! Our other two shows fall next week; the first being for the
sublime FLOWER-CORSANO DUO, ASHLEY PAUL and YEK KOO at The Grosvenor, the second taking place at Rudolf Steiner House with the illustrious SPACE LADY making her London debut, supported by JIN & DAUN.
So yes, cosmic peace-pop, Kurdish meditations, cloaked song cycles and
drifting megaliths of mesmerism all catered for! Full details on those
three follow, along with listings of newly announced concerts for SLEAFORD MODS, PROTOMARTYR, SHANNON & THE CLAMS, COMET GAIN and a double bill of wooden guitar excess with DANIEL BACHMAN and RYLEY WALKER. But before you read on, watch this brand new video from THE PHEROMOANS. ‘The Boys Are British’ is the lead track from their forthcoming album ‘Hearts Of Gold’, out on Upset The Rhythm in June, enjoy!
\\\\\ TOMORROW /////
Upset The Rhythm & Constant Flux present…
THE FISH POLICE
FAIR OHS
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
DANIEL WAKEFORD
Wednesday 9 April
The Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street, Shoreditch, N1 6LP
THE FISH POLICE are
three glitch-pop pioneers from South London who will be playing a 7 date
‘integrated’ tour in the UK next month with some of the best bands from
the UK’s DIY scene. The tour coincides with the release of their debut
album, 'The Marzipan Transformations' out this week. The Fish Police,
who are at the cutting edge of the learning disability music scene,
create their own unique blend of electronic left-field pop taking the
audience on a journey through their own world, evoking everything from
MF Doom to Kraftwerk. Made up of Dean Rodney (singer, rapper,
songwriter), Matthew Howe (guitar) and Charles Stuart (keys,
co-songwriter, background vocals) they mix their love of computer games,
cartoons, fast food and Japanese culture to create sounds that set them
apart on the UK urban music scene. Come dip your toes in the Fish
Water!
FAIR OHS formed five
years ago in a haze of beer-soaked free love party-vibes. Eddy, Joe and
Matt came together like young romantics, vowing to show everyone the
meaning of true love. The years that followed the consummation of their
musical marriage on that hot summer’s day saw them release a series of
7″ singles and cassettes – some shared with the likes of Women, Male
Bonding, and Cold Pumas. No one was prepared for the earth shattering
power of debut album 'Everything Is Dancing', an album finding its soul
by colliding East African guitar music with Indian ragas and Cuban
rhythms in the hands of three shirtless London punk virtuosos. Last year
the fearsome threesome returned with an enigmatic new opus by the name
of 'Jungle Cats'. A heat-soaked traipse through the psychedelic desert
of your twenties, filled with voodoo funk grooves, solos like a thousand
snakes in heat, basslines that could hypnotise wild beasts and enough
hooks to open an abattoir.
RAVIOLI ME AWAY are a
dangerously ambitious and delusional all-girl jazzy, post-pop-punk,
hip-funk outfit with a stylistic theme spanning all past, present and
future human cultures and subcultures. Consider vintage Bananarama
played with twice the sass and urgency, only reflected in the eyes of a
much overworked and downright exhausted Julie Burchill on acid.
Featuring members of Plug and Spin Spin The Dogs, Ravioli Me Away don't
shy away from the impeccable vocal melodies and clattersome patterns
you'd expect. 'Mic Check' is as hypnotic as it is sparse with plaintive
keyboard touches and interplaying vocals that gambol across the drum
machine. 'Cat Call' is a triumph of questing basslines and eerie synth
blushes, locked down by Sian's charismatic choruses and Alice's asides
in between: "When you leave the house and you turn around the corner you
might see something you'd rather you hadn't, who knows what it could
be? You never know, take it from me!" Their debut LP split with Dog
Chocolate was released through Upset The Rhythm last month.
DANIEL WAKEFORD brings
heartfelt euphoria wherever he goes. His seemingly bottomless well of
material offers up classic after classic in the shape of relentlessly
catchy pop naivetes. It’s the delivery that sets Daniel apart, anyone
with a shred of a soul can’t help but be won over by his unbounded joy
and enthusiasm. If you’re digging the outsider innocence and purity of
the likes of Daniel Johnston etc. then Daniel Wakeford is beyond
essential.
\\\\\ NEXT TUESDAY /////
FLOWER-CORSANO DUO
ASHLEY PAUL
YEK KOO
Tuesday 15 April
The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road, Stockwell, SW9 0TP
FLOWER-CORSANO DUO are
the much respected and lauded partnership of Chris Corsano (on drums
and percussion) with Mick Flower (on shahi baaja aka the Japanese
banjo). They are a two-piece with an ultra-sensitive and special
chemistry, producing a music that really is a journey into the zone.
They have that power to elevate through rhythm and primal harmonics but
are also able to harness delicate moments, eastern modes, a widescreen
expansiveness and a thrilling sense of noise and melody. Mick Flower is a
member of recently reactivated Leed’s Vibracathedral Orchestra, and a
lynch pin of the improvising rock/noise/drone world, who played and
released with artists such as Oren Ambarchi, Tony Conrad, Sunburned Hand
Of The Man, MV&EE. Chris Corsano is a multi-faceted drummer, a list
of his collaborations attests to this fact. He’s recorded and performed
with (among others) Paul Flaherty, Björk, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore,
Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, Heather Leigh, Nels Cline, Jessica Rylan, Six
Organs of Admittance, Keiji Haino and Christina Carter. He runs Hot Cars
War record label. Flower-Corsano Duo have three albums out to date on
Textile and VHF.
ASHLEY PAUL creates
music by coalescing her instruments, that can include saxophone,
clarinet, guitar, bells and percussion, as well as her vocals, into new
and beguiling areas of listening and perceiving. She forms delicate and
brittle sounds that lend her intensely intuitive songs free forming,
introverted melodies, caustic tones and subtle dynamics that bear close
attention. Recent recorded releases find Ashley’s voice entering more
and more into this unique audio world and song-cycles start to appear
and disappear before your ears and eyes in a dreamlike fashion or sound
vision. The listener is allowed to explore with a sense of wonder
concerning where this is all coming from, so creating a special focus,
as shards of voices manifest themselves against beautiful and simple
musical forms and acoustic experimentation. Ashley lives in New York,
USA and has performed or recorded with Phill Niblock, Loren Connors, Aki
Onda, C. Spencer Yeh, Anthony Coleman, Joe Maneri, Joe Morris, Seijiro
Murayama, Greg Kelley, Bill Nace and Eli Keszler. She has appeared on
such labels as REL, PAN, ESP-DISK, Tzadik and her own imprint Wagtail.
YEK KOO is a solo
project from Helga Fassonaki (half of outsider psych duo Metal Rouge)
appearing alongside a ragged stripped-down cloak of distorted guitar,
wailing vocals, pocket trumpet and non-kosher samples. With primal
minimal/maximalism, Yek Koo's vocal deconstructions wrap inside raw
distortions of the emotive gut. So far she has a 7" and two LPs out on
Emerald Cocoon, the latest being 'Desolation Peak', which owes more to
east African ritual than it does contemporary guitar modes. Illuminated
by the same electricity as A Handful Of Dust and Heather Leigh Murray,
Yek Koo's sound is a moment of humanity clawed back from an inhuman
world by sheer indomitable outsider will. Vocals multiply and fall back
into themselves, guitars bloom like flowers of grit, spells are yelled
until the whole thing collapses on itself into a slab of groaning
gleaming feedback.
\\\\\ THURSDAY 17 APRIL /////
THE SPACE LADY
JIN & DAUN
Thursday 17 April
Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, Baker Street, NW1 6XT
THE SPACE LADY began
her odyssey on the streets of San Francisco in the late 70s, playing
versions of contemporary pop music an accordion and dressed
flamboyantly, transmitting messages of peace and harmony. Following the
theft of her accordion, The Space Lady invested in a then-new Casio
keyboard, birthing an otherworldly new dimension to popular song that
has captured the imaginations of the underground and its lead exponents
ever since, with the likes of John Maus, Erol Alkan and Kutmah being
devotees. Of her early street sets, only one recording was made,
self-released originally on cassette and then transferred to a homemade
CD. "The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits" released last year through Night
School features the best of these recordings - mostly covers but with
some originals - pressed on vinyl for the first time and features
archival photographs and liner notes from The Space Lady herself.
“Greatest Hits” contains The Space Lady’s personal favourites; her
haunting take on The Electric Prunes’ “I Had Too Much To Dream (Last
Night),” a frantic “Ballroom Blitz” amidst other reconstructed pop
music. Following on from this wonderful release The Space Lady has begun
writing new material and travelling the world to present her message
outside the United States for the first time.
JIN & DAUN are a
Swedish duo specialising in their own style of music they call Kurdish
Electronic Meditation. They record their long-form songs at home via
improvised jams, preferring to keep the music free without guidelines.
The spirit of Klaus Schulze looms large and the music created has a
touch of the progressive electronics you'd expect from Germany in the
70's. The darkness of Spectrum and the warped atmospheres of The Orb
seep through too. So far they have one tape out on the Zeon Light
Kassett, and a split release with artist Benjamin Syra is areadying for
Sorgenfri Inspelningar. They've previously opened for bands like White
Hills and Raajmahal, and soon they will play in Berlin and at the
Copenhagen Psych Fest.
Thanks a lot for reading all this, I hope it reaches you well!
See you tomorrow,
UPSET
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\\\\\ UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
FLOWER-CORSANO DUO
ASHLEY PAUL
YEK KOO
Tuesday 15 April
The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road, Stockwell, SW9 0TP
THE SPACE LADY
JIN & DAUN
Thursday 17 April
Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, Baker Street, NW1 6XT
FUTURE ISLANDS
ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT
KRISTIAN HARTING
Wednesday 7 May
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, Camden, NW1 8QP
7.30pm | £13 | SOLD OUT
R. STEVIE MOORE
Thursday 15 May
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
THE JULIE RUIN
Thursday 22 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
8pm | £12 | SOLD OUT
CHAIN & THE GANG
COMET GAIN
ACTUAL CRIMES
Friday 30 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
SHANNON & THE CLAMS
Wednesday 4 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
DANIEL BACHMAN
RYLEY WALKER
Thursday 5 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
POW!
(Castle Face)
Monday 9 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, London, E8 3AS
NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS
BEN NASH
STEREOCILIA
Monday 23 June
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
GUARDIAN ALIEN
(Thrill Jockey)
Tuesday 8 July
Power Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
SLEAFORD MODS
THE LOWEST FORM
Friday 18 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
THE JULIE RUIN
Thursday 14 August
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, Camden, NW1 8QP
PROTOMARTYR
Tuesday 19 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
