Good morning!
Well that
was a busy week, back slaps to everyone who came out to see Rose McDowall and
Prolapse these last few days, they’ve all been such fantastic shows, I truly
feel spoiled! Next week we have just two events planned for you, breathing
space regained. Tomorrow Upset The Rhythm pitches up at The 100 Club for a
headline performance by radiant songwriter MIKAL
CRONIN, supported by DIGNAN PORCH.
Whilst Friday sees the launch party for SAUNA
YOUTH’s new album on UTR called ‘Distractions’. This one will take
place in Hackney Wick’s Old Baths and will feature sets from RATTLE and PRIMETIME too, along with an impromptu performance from RICHARD ROCK ‘N’ ROLL backed
by Sauna Youth no less! Tickets available for both at the links below, read on
for everything you need to know…
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MIKAL CRONIN
DIGNAN PORCH
Monday 1 June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
MIKAL CRONIN was
raised in Laguna Beach, California, where as a teenager he developed a passion
for both surfing and rock & roll. While attending Laguna Beach High School,
he fell in with a handful of like-minded music fans, and formed a band that
played local parties. After a spell as bassist in surf-punk Charlie & The
Moonhearts, Mikal began working on his own garage-accented pop tapping into his
love of 80's indie rock. Around the same time, Mikal also befriended kindred
spirit Ty Segall, joined his live band and also collaborated on an album
together called 'Reverse Shark Attack'. Mikal Cronin's self-titled album was
released by Trouble in Mind Records in September 2011. Conceived and recorded
as a sort of therapy to help cope with adjusting to life post-college, an
ensuing break-up and geographic isolation, Mikal’s solo debut is fully
realized, cohesive and beautiful, with themes as personal as they are
universal; questioning your future, accepting your past and living in the
moment. Taking influences such as late sixties Del Shannon and The Everly
Brothers and filtering them through his own mutant California fuzz, Mikal
deftly explores his singer/songwriter side that at moments feels like a punk
Harry Nilsson or Curt Boettcher that balances sweet melodies and chords with
hefty, psychedelic guitar freak-outs. 2013 saw Cronin release, 'MCII', his
first disc for Merge Records, which was all about new beginnings, looking at
new relationships and growing up in the 21st century. This month Merge released
Mikal’s third album, entitled ‘MCIII’. Marked by lush arrangements, stunning
melodies, and deeply personal lyrical work for which Cronin is now known, the
album is also a deliberate attempt to simply sound bigger in everyone’s head.
https://www.mergerecords.com/mikal-cronin
DIGNAN PORCH smudge
the lines between lo-fi pop, 60’s psych, indie rock and punk. Hailing from
South London, Dignan Porch give the impression that they're careering along
with only a couple of wheels still on the road, just about in control, but
always on the verge of tipping over. There is a sadness that lurks beneath many
of these DIY pop songs, creeping into the fabric of the band’s sound. After a
couple of albums through Captured Tracks, Faux Discx released their brilliant
latest LP called ‘Observatory’ last year. Check out their recent single ‘Out Of
The Picture’ released through Art Is Hard too!
http://dignanporch.com/
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SAUNA
YOUTH // Album launch //
RICHARD
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
PRIMETIME
RATTLE
Friday 5 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
7.30pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/317117
SAUNA
YOUTH are an evolving band of future humans
making truly irregular punk, not quite comparable to anything else. 'Weird' is
a meaningless platitude, and 'art punk' is a classifier that shouldn't be
required. Consisting of Richard
Phoenix (drums, vocals), Lindsay Corstorphine (guitar), Jen
Calleja (vocals, sampler) and Christopher Murphy (bass), Sauna
Youth are a punk band that’s happy to embrace all of the contradictions that go
along with that notion. On paper Sauna Youth sound considered - live they can
barely be contained. They are at times furious, unstoppable and severe with the
sampler wailing like an alarm coming from a parallel universe – then chugging,
poppy, harmonious and fun. Forever loud. As Kurt Cobain once asked
"Why can't we be both Black Sabbath and The Beatles?" Sauna
Youth consistently pose the question, “Why can't we be both The Ramones and
Steve Reich?”
‘Distractions’
(released on June 8th through Upset The Rhythm) marks the first time
the band has managed to write everything in a room together and also documents
the first time they’ve entered a studio to record; the songs in turn created
through the process of learning to write together. Made up of 14 songs,
Distractions is an album about desire, but most importantly, about that area
just out of reach of desire. It looks at what it means to be distracted from
being yourself. It thrives in the desire to be someone else, the very idea
that you could be someone else. It’s also an album that feels instinctive and
natural, flowing freely from a band that have come to terms with the sum of its
parts. Ultimately though, Sauna Youth have made a colossal record which is
impossible not to enjoy. This show at Hackney Wick’s Old Baths marks the launch
of the album, come celebrate its release and look out for a special guest too!
http://lostinidea.blogspot.co.uk/
RICHARD
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL will be coming up from Billingshurst
to perform a one-off improvised set for us. A regular for many years at the
long running integrated night The Rock House in Brighton. Richard RnR could
rival Mark E Smith in the number of musicians he's had back him over the years,
turning up on the night with a folder of lyrics and a head full of ideas, a
band will be formed there and then and you never quite know what will happen.
On Friday night members of Sauna Youth will be his backing band, trying to put
the Rock n Roll in Richard Rock n Roll. Constant Flux will also have a cassette
release of Richard's album, ‘Everybody Is Crazy’ recorded with Boon from Sauna
Youth in 2011.
PRIMETIME are self-proclaimed
'chaotic neurotics', finding their balance amid spirited punk clatter with a
sense of propulsive fun and maximal energy. Their songs are rampages of sound
as raw and minimal as they are inventive, and the band are soon to release
their debut four track EP through La Vida Es Un Mus. Harking back to the glory
years of 1979 to 1982, 'Tied Down' from the EP is their calling card, a
scratchy mix of Kleenex and Delta 5 with an instant hook that won't fail to get
you moving.
https://soundcloud.com/thisisprimetime
RATTLE are a drumming duo
based in Nottingham and comprised of Theresa J Wrigley and Katharine Eira
Brown. Both musicians also play drums for two other well respected bands, with
Theresa in Fists and Katy in Kogumaza. Far from the hippy bongo nightmare one
might imagine from a band made up of only two drummers, Rattle instead play
minimalist rhythms that remain both hypnotic and danceable heavily thanks to
the delicate vocal melodies which accompany their beats. Their sound recalls
This Heat or ESG whilst remaining uniquely their own.
http://rattleon.bandcamp.com/
Thanks for
reading! Catch you tomorrow!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
MIKAL CRONIN
DIGNAN PORCH
Monday 1 June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
SAUNA
YOUTH // Album launch //
RICHARD
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
PRIMETIME
RATTLE
Friday 5 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
7.30pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/317117
NO BABIES
MARGY PEPPER
COMMISERATIONS
Tuesday 9
June
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
AUSMUTEANTS
TENSE MEN
THE
CONNECTORS
Wednesday 10 June
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8
2EB
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/316346
LITURGY
CIRCUIT DES YEUX
Thursday 11
June
Electrowerkz,
7 Torrens Street, Angel, EC1V 1NQ
DAN DEACON
YEAH YOU
WUME
Tuesday 16
June
Oval Space,
29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT
7pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/312457
ARIEL PINK
HARRY MERRY
Wednesday 17 June
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
8pm | £17 | SOLD OUT
REIGNING SOUND
THE NUMBER ONES
THE CASTILLIANS
Monday 22
June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
8pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308293
VEXX
HUMAN FORM
VERTICAL SLUMP
Wednesday 1
July
Montague
Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
PEGA MONSTRO
Saturday 15 August
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/321016
Saturday 15 August
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/321016
DEERHOOF
Tuesday 25 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313096
FUZZ
Friday 4 September
Heaven, The Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG
7pm - 10pm | £14 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318321
Tuesday 25 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313096
FUZZ
Friday 4 September
Heaven, The Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG
7pm - 10pm | £14 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318321
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
JULIE BYRNE
Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333
JULIE BYRNE
Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333
DOPE BODY
USA NAILS
Wednesday
16 September
Old
Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm
| £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318804
MARTIN NEWELL -
‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H
8LG
1pm
- 5pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318233
