Sunday 22 May 2016

NOTS in London tomorrow and DOWNTOWN BOYS & TRASH KIT coming up fast!


Hello everyone!
I trust you’re having a productive/peaceful weekend! To begin with, thanks to so many of you for coming to see Nap Eyes, Cian Nugent and Gold Foil last night, I thought you were going to cheer the roof clear off at times, very impressive! Our next show takes place tomorrow evening, aka Monday night, so we wanted to send you a short but hopefully sweet reminder. Intuitive, noise-punk, Memphis quartet Nots will mark their debut London headline show tomorrow evening at The Lexington, with support from Monster Treasure and Es. Expect glorious gang vocals, spiralling chasms of guitar, ill-omened bass and synth figures punctuated by decidedly thunderous drums. Live music will get under way from 8.15pm and we will have tickets on the door for £7.  You can read our full concert scoop for tomorrow below, along with our listing for Downtown Boys, Trash Kit and Ultimate Guitar Tabs at the Dalston Victoria at the very end of May, lighting the fuse for that one now!

Taking off the ‘promoter cap’ and donning the ‘record label bonnet’ for just a moment, this week we also eagerly announced a new record from VEXX. Entitled ‘Wild Hunt’, this deliriously hot-wired mini-LP showcases the band utterly consumed in the moment. Its songs blaze with giddy abandon, raging mere heartbeats away from oblivion and will be potently chasing throughout the sky this Autumn! We will have some new music to share with you very soon, but until then here’s some incredible artwork drawn by vocalist-extraordinaire Maryjane Dunphe, depicting the supernatural Wild Hunt in hot pursuit. Pre-order link smoldering already here: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/




\\\\\     TOMORROW     /////



NOTS
MONSTER TREASURE
ES
Monday 23 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

NOTS are a garage punk band from Memphis. Their debut album, ‘We Are Nots’, offers an aggressive blend of echoing guitars, powerful drums, synthesisers, and gang vocals. They're a united front, belligerent and dizzying in their approach. For each song on Nots’ debut album (on Heavenly), there’s a word or phrase that makes itself prominent, forcefully. They’re used as bludgeons, shouted by multiple voices, often lobbed with disdain or disgust. With these kinds of choruses, they come out of the gate with undeniable power, but Nots aren’t merely offering a surface-level veneer of "creepy" or "strange." Natalie Hoffmann, Charlotte Watson, Madison Farmer, and Alexandra Eastburn are, at times, incredibly bleak. They’re letting you know that they’ve lived through some serious stuff. Here are some of their song points of reference: a person stumbling in the dark while consumed by rage, joyless posturing, blank smiles, blood on the lawn, decay. Every member of the band plays a role in adding heft and urgency to complement the lyrics. There's Farmer's persistently ominous bass, Hoffmann's swirling and echoing hellscape guitars, Watson's unrelenting bash, and perhaps the most imperative weapon in Nots' arsenal, Eastburn's ever-present synthesiser. The structures, stories, and overall tones differ enough from song to song that this never feels like a monotone slog. They've created a surefooted, aesthetic defining opening statement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of6tfvStNdI

MONSTER TREASURE of Stockton, California are a punk-influenced power trio. They’re loud, heavy and fuzz-dipped with dreamy harmonies and cacophonous drums. Gearing their garage sound with a thrift shop heart, Monster Treaure also wield a sonic menace that will lay waste to everything in its path. They been around since 2011, and have since then released a split seven-inch with Babysitter out on Shake! Records. They also have an EP cassette release that has been sold out forever. Their self-titled debut album is available now on Brooklyn-based label Harlot, meanwhile the band are currently writing their second album.
https://soundcloud.com/monstertreasure

ES are a 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.




\\\\\     TUESDAY 31 MAY     /////



DOWNTOWN BOYS
TRASH KIT
ULTIMATE GUITAR TABS
Tuesday 31 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

DOWNTOWN BOYS are a bilingual political sax punk party from Providence, RI. Comprised of a formidable voice, two saxophones, guitar, bass and drums, their scathing energy is palpable in every room they take hold of. Shifting from English to Spanish, punk to rock to jazz to pure fun, they open eyes, rattle ribs and bring dance floors to their knees. They released a 7" on Sister Polygon records in February 2014 and last year released their debut album on Don Giovanni. ‘Full Communism’ is a thrashing record of songs about smashing the prison-industrial complex, racism, queerphobia, capitalism, fascism, boredom, and all things people use to try to close our minds and hearts. ‘Full Communism’ comes at a current critical moment in the struggle for justice being fought in the US and throughout the world. It is set to a commanding tempo programmed make you move regardless of whether singer Victoria Ruiz is singing or shouting. “Wave Of History” opens with the ominous funk of a horn line, deciding this generation has the power to create change, “Break A Few Eggs,” opens with punk-infused guitars and saxophones and only two lines of lyrics that need little interpretation. “Monstro” is a feminist anthem, in your face in the best way with an incredibly infectious sax line.

TRASH KIT have a wild feel for melody, writing songs that pull at the reins with a spontaneous charm. Having formed the band in 2009, Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood have since become the glowing core of London’s DIY underground. Their music is primal yet thoughtful, affirming yet sincere, drawing on the potential of post-punk and the naturalism of an internal folk music. Although Trash Kit have their forebears in bands like X-Ray Spex, The Ex and The Raincoats, their sound is very much their own take on facing forwards. Galloping polyrhythms, overlapping sung-spoke lyrics and entwining guitars are all drawn together into a taut unity, sounding willfully alive. Both Rachels tangle their vocals with each other whilst expressive drumbeats and restless guitar flurries provide the rhythmic drive. Aggs’ guitar playing is as much informed by African fingerstyle patterns as the percussive attitude of various no wave shredders. Horwood approaches her drum kit with an untamable freedom, pushing it into the realm of a vivid lead instrument. Trash Kit's music is full of pauses, woven silence and punctuation too and this is where Gill Partington and her resonant, soulful bass work finds a perfect home.  Check out their self-titled debut album and ‘Confidence’, its excellent follow up, out now on Upset The Rhythm.

ULTIMATE GUITAR TABS deploy synth, drum machine, astute vocals and costumes to make some of the most decidedly non-guitar-based music around! Being new kids on the block, Ultimate Guitar Tabs leave us pregnant with anticipation!



Thank you for reading, see you soon!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\
 
NOTS
MONSTER TREASURE
ES
Monday 23 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

DOWNTOWN BOYS
TRASH KIT
ULTIMATE GUITAR TABS
Tuesday 31 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

KAREN GWYER
CONTAINER
GIANT SWAN
ROUGH FIELDS (DJ SET)
Friday 3 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH

In collaboration with Caught by the River…
DARREN HAYMAN & BAND performing ‘Thankful Villages’
JULY SKIES
Plus Spoken Word & Nature Disco
Saturday 4 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

GENEVA JACUZZI
LIBERATION
MOONBOW
Tuesday 7 June
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

JOE & RICK POTTS
POTTS VETZA POTTS TRIO
VETZA
LAFMS documentary - ‘how low can you go?’
Tuesday 14 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London N16 8JN

COLIN SELF
LIBEREZ
I KNOW I’M AN ALIEN
Thursday 16 June
Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361432

In collaboration with Cafe OTO…
JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
w/ EVAN PARKER
JOSHUA ABRAMS / EVAN PARKER DUO
Friday 17 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

CC DUST
STATIC PALM
BADABOUM
Thursday 23 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
8pm | £5 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/359147

TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS
AUSMUTEANTS
Friday 24 June
O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY

EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

LUCKY DRAGONS
JIN&DAUN
Saturday 2 July
DIY Space For London, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
DIYSFL is a members club, become a member here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/ 

SONIC BOOM
Saturday 9 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

PROTOMARTYR
Thursday 14 July
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

THE OBLIVIANS
DEAF WISH
Wednesday 27 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ

HEATHER LEIGH
ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday 4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358631

CHRIS COHEN
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146  

In collaboration with Caught by the River…
KATE CARR
THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY
DJ NICK LUSCOMBE
Thursday 22 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

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