Live footage from our final POWERLUNCHES show!!!

Featuring BAMBOO, OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN and ESCAPISM! Enjoy!!







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Normil Hawaiians thoughtfully reviewed in THE WIRE!

Sauna Youth's new video for 'The Bridge' premieres on Stereogum!

And it's amazing! Choreography, shorts and human letters all leaping out of the London gloaming. Tour dates announced below too. Go connect!!!!

SAUNA YOUTH
01/27 Brighton, UK @ Sticky Mike’s w/ Soft Walls, The Glugg
01/28 Rennes, France @ Bar’Hic
01/29 Bordeaux, France @ TBC
01/30 San Sebastian, Spain @ Lurrazpiko Festa
01/31 Madrid, Spain @ Wurlitzer Ballroom
02/01 Zaragoza, Spain @ La Lata de Bombillas
02/02 Barcelona, Spain @ Heliogabal
02/03 Toulouse, France @ Le Rabelin
02/04 Antwerp, Belgium @ Music City
02/05 Leiden, Holland @ CAB03
02/06 Amsterdam, Holland @ Pacific Parc
02/07 Rotterdam, Holland @ TBC
02/13 London, UK @The Forge “The Bridge” 7” release party

'The Bridge' will be released as a 7″ single on January 15th on Upset The Rhythm.
You can pre-order it here.
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MOSS LIME tonight and CAFE OTO Xmas Fair this Sunday!

Good morning!

Here’s a swift reminder that tonight we’ll be pitching up at the Old Blue Last with a marvellous show of minimal post punk. We have francophones MOSS LIME making their debut in London, alongside always-awesome locals AS ONDAS and Swedish/English duo WHALO coming down from Nottingham too. Tickets are £5 on the door from 8pm, with live music kicking off 30 mins later. Really looking forward to it, hopefully see you there!

\\\\\     TONIGHT     /////

MOSS LIME

AS ONDAS

WHALO

Monday 7 December

Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES

8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334740 

MOSS LIME are a Montreal based band, made up of sisters Charlotte Bonamour and Hélène Barbier from Lille, France, their former roommate Caitlin Pinder-Doede from Toronto. They spent the summer 2014 in Parc Petite Italie in Montréal, enjoying food and beverages from Lalime. One day they went to the swimming pool and another day they decided to play music together in a basement with a great dehumidifier. Inspired by local punk bands with similarly unpretentious starts, Moss Lime booked their first show at a neighbourhood bar, performing a short set of their four original songs and one cover song, an almost unrecognisable reinterpretation of European club hit “Calabria 2007″. At the end of the summer, a few days before Charlotte was supposed to move back to France, the group went to record with Peter Woodford (Freelove Fenner) at his and Caitlin Loney’s all-analog home studio, The Bottle Garden, with the intention of producing what they referred to as a “souvenir”, to document their short summer as a band, Fixture Records released the tape EP ‘July First’. After this, the band started getting offers to play shows with local bands and even landed a last-minute spot at this year’s POP Montreal festival. Moss Lime’s melodic minimalism, idiosyncratic vocals, and strong sense of play, as witnessed in this promising first collection of recordings, already shows signs of further experimentation to come. They will release their first LP in the next few weeks on Telephon Explosion.
https://mosslimer.bandcamp.com/

AS ONDAS are a band with fresh ideas, featuring members of Dog Legs, Shopping and Wachi Wachi they start their race with a sprint. With a spartan drum, bass and guitar lineup, As Ondas deliver up a delirious, chorus-drenched prom punk alongside the occasional post punk meditation.
https://asondas.bandcamp.com/music

WHALO are a Swedish/English duo based in Nottingham with melancholic tendencies and a love for the DIY approach. After forming at the start of 2015, Whalo quietly released their debut EP “Sleepy” in September, a collection of hazy pop songs recorded in a cold Coventry garage. They are now gearing up to play a handful of live shows in the UK whilst slowly writing and recording material for a follow up.
http://whalo.bandcamp.com/releases

 

Much thanks for reading! This Sunday we’ll also be taking part in Café OTO’s Xmas Fair, at the venue from noon. We’ll be selling our UTR wares alongside lots of our favourite publishers and labels including… OTOROKU, Penultimate Press, Second Run, Editions Mego, Kye, MIE, Recital, Pan, Golden Lab, Strange Attractor, Honest Jon's and The Wire. It’s always a lot of fun, so maybe see you there too. Have a brilliant week and wrap up warm!

UPSET THE RHYTHM

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http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk    

http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/  

http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com     

\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////

/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\

MOSS LIME

AS ONDAS

WHALO

Monday 7 December

Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES

8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334740  

IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN

BAMBOO
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT

IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN

BAMBOO
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385

PEGA MONSTRO

Saturday 6 February

Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E8 1EL

7.30pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/342320

SAUNA YOUTH

Saturday 13 February

The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL

7pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/342318

GUN OUTFIT

Wednesday 17 February

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/340160

PROTOMARTYR
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599

BAMBOO album released today! Plus MOSS LIME playing on Monday!

Afternoon everyone!

Today we’re over the moon to see our new release for BAMBOO head out into the world. Their debut album, entitled ‘Prince Pansori Priestess’ is now available in all good record shops and sounds invincible on 180g snow white vinyl. BAMBOO is an immaculate new project from Nick Carlisle (of Peepholes, Don’t Argue) and Rachel Horwood (of Trash Kit, Halo Halo). Their music is vivid and deeply poignant, locking into a magnetic attraction between between Rachel’s flawlessly resonant folk cadence and Nick’s pristine synth pop production.

‘Prince Pansori Priestess’ is the first album to see the light from this pairing of talents, its title referencing a Korean genre of musical storytelling alongside notions of majesty and faith that are all streams that weave their way through the record. At first pitched-banjo paces out a chiming circle allowing Rachel’s entrancing vocal to follow the line, then Nick’s pristine beats and tonal clusters of synth blossom into almost sub-aqua realms of lush swirling melody. It feels very pure, prismatic and even mystical at moments without losing any of its human touch.

You can listen to ‘Hexagonal’ which premiered on Noisey this week, or check out ‘Khene Song’ that the ever-brilliant 20 Jazz Funk Greats wrote about this morning, enjoy!

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/premiere-bamboo-hexagonal

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2015/12/far-east-and-west-of-here/

Today we’re also announcing a new show for PEGA MONSTRO in February next year, that’ll be our first date in 2016! After their seriously impressive show with Deerhoof this year, we can’t wait to see them again.

Whilst we’re talking shows, our next one falls on Monday at the Old Blue Last and promises to be a pitch perfect exercise in minimal palette post punk from MOSS LIME, AS ONDAS and WHALO all playing for just £5, “bargainous” I hear you cry! Should be a terrific night, read on for the whole story…

\\\\\     MONDAY     /////

MOSS LIME

AS ONDAS

WHALO

Monday 7 December

Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES

8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334740 

MOSS LIME are a Montreal based band, made up of sisters Charlotte Bonamour and Hélène Barbier from Lille, France, their former roommate Caitlin Pinder-Doede from Toronto. They spent the summer 2014 in Parc Petite Italie in Montréal, enjoying food and beverages from Lalime. One day they went to the swimming pool and another day they decided to play music together in a basement with a great dehumidifier. Inspired by local punk bands with similarly unpretentious starts, Moss Lime booked their first show at a neighbourhood bar, performing a short set of their four original songs and one cover song, an almost unrecognisable reinterpretation of European club hit “Calabria 2007″. At the end of the summer, a few days before Charlotte was supposed to move back to France, the group went to record with Peter Woodford (Freelove Fenner) at his and Caitlin Loney’s all-analog home studio, The Bottle Garden, with the intention of producing what they referred to as a “souvenir”, to document their short summer as a band, Fixture Records released the tape EP ‘July First’. After this, the band started getting offers to play shows with local bands and even landed a last-minute spot at this year’s POP Montreal festival. Moss Lime’s melodic minimalism, idiosyncratic vocals, and strong sense of play, as witnessed in this promising first collection of recordings, already shows signs of further experimentation to come. They will release their first LP in the next few weeks on Telephon Explosion.
https://mosslimer.bandcamp.com/

AS ONDAS are a band with fresh ideas, featuring members of Dog Legs, Shopping and Wachi Wachi they start their race with a sprint. With a spartan drum, bass and guitar lineup, As Ondas deliver up a delirious, chorus-drenched prom punk alongside the occasional post punk meditation.
https://asondas.bandcamp.com/music

WHALO are a Swedish/English duo based in Nottingham with melancholic tendencies and a love for the DIY approach. After forming at the start of 2015, Whalo quietly released their debut EP “Sleepy” in September, a collection of hazy pop songs recorded in a cold Coventry garage. They are now gearing up to play a handful of live shows in the UK whilst slowly writing and recording material for a follow up.
http://whalo.bandcamp.com/releases

Thanks for your support, have a brilliant weekend!

UPSET THE RHYTHM

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http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk    

http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/  

http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com     

\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////

/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\

MOSS LIME

AS ONDAS

WHALO

Monday 7 December

Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES

8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334740  

IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN

BAMBOO
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT

IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN

BAMBOO
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385

PEGA MONSTRO

Saturday 6 February

Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E8 1EL

7.30pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/342320

SAUNA YOUTH

Saturday 13 February

The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL

7pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/342318

GUN OUTFIT

Wednesday 17 February

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/340160

PROTOMARTYR
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599

PEGA MONSTRO return to London next February!

Yes! Pega Monstro are coming back to London next Feb! Can't wait!!

Upset The Rhythm presents...

PEGA MONSTRO
Saturday 6 February
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E8 1EL
7.30pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/342320



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SLIM TWIG show tomorrow and MOSS LIME in London next week!

Morning everyone!

We have two shows coming up in the next week that we’d like to shout about. Tomorrow we’re hosting a concert at the Dalston Victoria with valiant melody-warper SLIM TWIG of DFA Records. Joining The Twig on stage we have TARZANA (featuring Jan of Tomutonttu and Spencer from Monopoly Child Star Searchers etc) stopping off in London during their debut ‘Out Of Your Tentacles Tour’, emitting inky clouds of heady wooze, alongside the not-comedy of MAGIC STEVEN from Melbourne too. Sounds terrific to me, tickets £6, available on the door from 7.30pm! Then on Monday evening, next week, we’re pitching up at the Old Blue Last with MOSS LIME, AS ONDAS and WHALO for a night of minimal-palette post punk and hazy meditation. Lots more info to follow on both of those events, alongside our new listing for SAUNA YOUTH’s headline show at The Forge next February. Thank you as always for your time…

\\\\\     TOMORROW     /////

SLIM TWIG

TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)

MAGIC STEVEN

TROON LEINAD (DJ set)

Wednesday 2 December

The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563

SLIM TWIG is a twenty-six-year old, self-proclaimed ‘wah wah master’! His record reissued last year was completed in 2011. So one might reasonably ask, what has Twig done since? After producing two albums for U.S. Girls (U.S. Girls on Kraak in 2011, Gem in 2012), and scoring two films, Twig found himself in 2013 at a creative impasse re: his own songwriting. He had been through full band incarnations live and on record. They featured a cast of Toronto heavies. He briefly performed Slim Twig sets as a duo, featuring multimedia artist and musician, Meg Remy (U.S. Girls). They performed sets that combined versions of Twig’s released songs with freely structured improvisations, samples, and brightly melodic, synth textures. Something in this combination of the pop-minded and the cerebrally-produced has rubbed off on the recordings found on Twig’s latest for DFA.

‘Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig’ is to date the most sonically immersive album in Twig’s discography. Where some records have focused explicitly on sample-based songwriting, while others have been completely live-recorded, the new album arrives at a perfectly produced fusion of fidelities. It hovers, glamorously caught between a cloud of obscurant, half-speed tape hiss, and the most stoned Jeff Lynne production you’ve ever heard. Twig flirts here with a variety of vibes, most often opting for a three-dimensional approach whereby a warped tape aura is overlaid with colourful, laser-cut keyboard and guitar melodies. All the while, we find Twig irreverently raiding classic rock of its symbolism, sexuality, and social ambition for ulterior subversions. In this respect, TYFSWT's closest cousin may be Royal Trux's ‘Accelerator’. Many of the songs play referential sonic games like this, discursively incorporating familiar melodies, production styles or ideas (a fuzzy ballad on wage inequality is cheekily titled ‘Textiles On Mainstreet’), only to pair them with incongruous textures or themes. 'Live In, Live On Your Era', a song encouraging an embrace of one’s own cultural circumstance, is consciously styled as the most ‘retro’ sounding cut on the album (Jimmy Page leads and all), seemingly upending the lyrical content. On and on, the jokes and meta-sonic rock commentary continue like so many Zappa-esque indulgences. Sonically and politically, his aim is to be a rock n’ roll subversive in an era where that claim should rightfully be made by luddite cave-people. Context is everything, and Twig’s gift may be in zeroing in on that.
http://slimtwig.blogspot.co.uk/

TARZANA is the culmination of a long five year collaboration between musicians Jan Anderzén (Fonal, Kemialliset Ystävät, Tomutonttu) and Spencer Clark (The Skaters, Pacificity Soundvisions, Monopoly Child Star Searchers). A space ethnic alien hyperdimensional ooze is here, brought into a live setting with the addition of belgian synthesist composer Floris Vanhoof (Kraak, Ultra eczema), who, in Tarzana, will be playing free sampladelic drum pads. Below you can hear two tracks from their new album ‘Alien Wildlife Estate’, which percolate with the kind of heady, humid exotica that few do better. According to the press release, the music is “engaged as a Fruitopian vision of a rescattering of all elements within an International Airport to be presented as Audio exhibit!” We couldn’t tell you what that means, but it sounds amazing. Listen below and look for the release through Underwater Peoples and Pacific City Sound Vision.
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/julian-neyers-airport-tarzana/s-ZkxQI
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/private-scarab-club-reserve/s-kEPeo

MAGIC STEVEN is a Melbourne, Australia-based performer whose work has been alternately described as autobiographical storytelling, deadpan not-comedy, guided meditation and long-form beat poetry. He has performed as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Fringe Festival in Melbourne, and more recently at Liquid Architecture Festival and at MONA's Dark Mofo Festival in Tasmania.
http://www.magicsteven.net/

TROON LIENAD (DJ Set)
https://www.mixcloud.com/troonlienad/

\\\\\     NEXT MONDAY     /////

MOSS LIME

AS ONDAS

WHALO

Monday 7 December

Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES

8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334740 

MOSS LIME are a Montreal based band, made up of sisters Charlotte Bonamour and Hélène Barbier from Lille, France, their former roommate Caitlin Pinder-Doede from Toronto. They spent the summer 2014 in Parc Petite Italie in Montréal, enjoying food and beverages from Lalime. One day they went to the swimming pool and another day they decided to play music together in a basement with a great dehumidifier. Inspired by local punk bands with similarly unpretentious starts, Moss Lime booked their first show at a neighbourhood bar, performing a short set of their four original songs and one cover song, an almost unrecognisable reinterpretation of European club hit “Calabria 2007″. At the end of the summer, a few days before Charlotte was supposed to move back to France, the group went to record with Peter Woodford (Freelove Fenner) at his and Caitlin Loney’s all-analog home studio, The Bottle Garden, with the intention of producing what they referred to as a “souvenir”, to document their short summer as a band, Fixture Records released the tape EP ‘July First’. After this, the band started getting offers to play shows with local bands and even landed a last-minute spot at this year’s POP Montreal festival. Moss Lime’s melodic minimalism, idiosyncratic vocals, and strong sense of play, as witnessed in this promising first collection of recordings, already shows signs of further experimentation to come. They will release their first LP in the next few weeks on Telephon Explosion.
https://mosslimer.bandcamp.com/

AS ONDAS are a band with fresh ideas, featuring members of Dog Legs, Shopping and Wachi Wachi they start their race with a sprint. With a spartan drum, bass and guitar lineup, As Ondas deliver up a delirious, chorus-drenched prom punk alongside the occasional post punk meditation.
https://asondas.bandcamp.com/music

WHALO are a Swedish/English duo based in Nottingham with melancholic tendencies and a love for the DIY approach. After forming at the start of 2015, Whalo quietly released their debut EP “Sleepy” in September, a collection of hazy pop songs recorded in a cold Coventry garage. They are now gearing up to play a handful of live shows in the UK whilst slowly writing and recording material for a follow up.
http://whalo.bandcamp.com/releases

Thanks for reading, see you so soon!

UPSET THE RHYTHM

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http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk    

http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/  

http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com     

\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////

/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\

SLIM TWIG

TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)

MAGIC STEVEN

TROON LEINAD (DJ set)

Wednesday 2 December

The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563

MOSS LIME

AS ONDAS

WHALO

Monday 7 December

Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES

8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334740  

IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT

IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385

SAUNA YOUTH

Saturday 13 February

The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL

7pm | £7 | https://uk.patronbase.com/_Forge/Productions/X6/Performances

GUN OUTFIT

Wednesday 17 February

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/340160

PROTOMARTYR
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599

BAMBOO on Noisey!

Noisey have just premiered an amazing new track from BAMBOO's new album ('Prince Pansori Priestess' out this Friday) called 'Hexagonal', listen up!