UPSET THE RHYTHM: Pega Monstro, Rattle and Es playing tomorrow! Plus new shows announced!!

Hello again!

Upset The Rhythm are back in live show mode tomorrow with our event at Moth Club in Hackney. We’ve plotted an exceptional evening of raucous dream punk and hypnotic minimalism for you with Pega Monstro, Rattle and Es all performing, all looks set to be a very special night! Tickets are £6 and we’ll have some on the door from 8pm too. Our full blurb for tomorrow can be found below, along with that of next week’s Sauna Youth release party at The Forge with Not Sorry and Sarcasm, busy, busy!

In other news this week we’ve confirmed new shows for Nots, The Space Lady, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, plus a label showcase at Café OTO in April with Normil Hawaiians, Bamboo, The Wharves and Dog Chocolate. Details for these can all be found in our ‘upcoming shows’ list at the end of this. Lots more concerts to announce next week too. If mailing list’s be the food of love, read on…

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PEGA MONSTRO

RATTLE

Saturday 6 February

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

8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/342320

PEGA MONSTRO are sisters Júlia Reis (drums) and Maria Reis (guitar, keyboard), both sing! Born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal, Maria and Júlia have been playing music together since they were 15 and 17 respectively, in other groups first before resolving on becoming a duo. Back in 2010, both sisters started a record label, along with some of their musician friends, called Cafetra Records to document Portugal’s garage punk scene. Cafetra represents a community of like-minded musicians who all help each other, making music that they’d want to hear, powered by enthusiasm. 2012 saw Pega Monstro release their self-titled debut album, making for a raucous record that met with critical national acclaim. Last summer, Pega Monstro released their new album entitled ‘Alfarroba’ on Upset The Rhythm. The songs on ‘Alfarroba’ deal with many themes, some universal topics like love and growing up, others focusing on the nature of writing songs themselves, whilst some try to make sense of the world from a female perspective. Returning to London after their spectacular performance with Deerhoof last August, expect torrents of energy from Pega Monstro; snare rolls triggering flights of guitar, and fogs of cymbal shimmer that form steps for their vocals to climb.

https://pegamonstro.bandcamp.com/album/alfarroba

RATTLE are a drumming duo based in Nottingham. Rattle focus almost exclusively on drums and more drums, beneath a delicate overlay of vocal harmonies and percussive effects. Formed by Katharine Eira Brown (also of Kogumaza) and Theresa Wrigley (also of Fists); Rattle began as an experiment in crafting rich songs and melody using drums and voice alone. Their music weaves and intertwines post-punk, minimalism and experimental rock, through off-kilter rhythms, patterns and counter melodies. Their live performances are at once hypnotic, monastic and danceable, entrancing audiences at Supersonic Festival, Dot to Dot and throughout the UK during December’s recent tour with Witching Waves.
https://rattleon.bandcamp.com/

ES are a brand new band featuring Maria, Flora, Tamsin and Katy, who you may know from their other excellent bands Primetime, Gloss Rejection, The Worms and Black Fungus. Weaving sinewy keyboard lines and a direct vocal around the bass and drums they write stark songs that are as hard to pin down as they are inventive. It's still early doors so no music online yet, you'll have to come and see them play to know more!

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SAUNA YOUTH

NOT SORRY

SARCASM

PUB CLASSICS (DJ Set)

Saturday 13 February

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

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

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. This show celebrates the release of their excellent new 7” ‘The Bridge / Blurry Images’ out on Upset The Rhythm.

https://saunayouth.bandcamp.com/

NOT SORRY are four slinky-synth, disco-punx from London, featuring members of Joey Fourr and Ravioli Me Away. Check out their recent split tape with Holysix on Good Job/SixSixSixties for plenty of woozy, sometimes disquieting, always irrefutable pop bangers.

https://soundcloud.com/not-sorry-1

SARCASM bring the brittle post-punk, featuring members of Efialtis and Snob. No recordings online yet, demo in the works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqNC8i7ETw4

PUB CLASSICS (DJ Set)

https://www.mixcloud.com/pubclassics/

Thank you always for your time!

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