Morning all!
Thank you for coming out already to see Grumbling Fur this week, we’re
not finished with you yet though! Tomorrow we’re welcoming Sauna Youth
back from their stunning US tour with a homecoming show at Kamio. Joining the
on-fire fourpiece will be David West (Rat Columns, Liberation), Score
and Middex; total satisfaction guaranteed! Plus we’ll have General
Echo Soundsystem helping fill the dancefloor throughout the night until
2am! Now that’s what I call music: volume 2.1! Read on for all the detail,
tickets available on the door and live music kicking off from 8.30pm.
Next week is keeping us busy too. On Tuesday we’re lucky enough to have a
double headline show of finesse planned for The Lexington with songwriters Stephen
Steinbrink and Samara Lubelski both performing. Stephen is known for
heartbreaking smooth grooves and lyrical rambles, whilst Samara is a legend of
the psych/folk/blues tradition, both united in their shared love of baroque
pop. Opening that show is LC Pumpkin too, more below!
If that wasn’t already a regal banquet on Friday Upset The Rhythm are
heading to Café OTO to host an evening of rollercoaster prog and blazing avant
rock courtesy of Upsilon Acrux, Guapo and Honey Ride Me A Goat
(winning name!). Having Upsilon over is a very rare occurrence indeed and when
they last played for us, almost a decade ago, they left all minds blown, so
that’ll be a fitting way to end next week with a bang.
Whilst we’re talking about all things guitar twitchy and drum blustery I
should tell you that yesterday we confirmed Horse Lords’ debut London
performance. This will take place at The Lexington on November 14th,
tickets on sale now. Horse Lords are one of our favourite bands, playing custom
refretted guitars, their rolling polyrhythms chime with the strange and
distinct harmonies of just intonation inspired by the master La Monte Young.
Not one to miss.
We’ve also
announced this week a special Halloween show for one of our oldest friends, Vice Cooler on yes you guessed it
Halloween. Vice as part of XBXRX was responsible for a good dollop of
inspiration for us in starting Upset The Rhythm, so it’s brilliant to have him
back. Vice is over in the UK drumming for The Raincoats, but knowing his deep
love of the spooksome we’ve talked him into a solo show to mark the thinning of
the veils, joined by I Know I’m An Alien
and Trash Kit DJs. Sebright Arms,
October 31st, can’t go wrong!
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SAUNA
YOUTH
DAVID WEST
SCORE
DAVID WEST
SCORE
MIDDEX
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161
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 Boon (drums, vocals),
Pines (guitar), Ecke (vocals, sampler) and Mince (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. Last year’s totemic ‘Distractions’ album
(Upset The Rhythm) is a record that feels instinctive and natural, flowing
freely from a band that have come to terms with the sum of its parts. This
jam-packed show welcomes back Sauna Youth to their hometown following on from
their debut US tour this month.
http://lostinidea.blogspot.co.uk/
DAVID WEST draws inspiration from free-thinking
artists of the past and present on his new polyphonic platter (‘Peace or
Love’), from soft indie strumming and free soundscapes, to disco and soul-pop.
West currently plays in the guitar pop band Rat Columns, synth-pop project
Liberation and post-punk trio Rank/Xerox, and has been in varied acts such as
Lace Curtain, Burning Sensation, Total Control and Whalehammer. Peace or Love
(out now on Tough Love) is a collection of songs stemming from wild and free
bedroom four-track cassette recordings and personal hard drive sample raiding,
with contributions from various musical friends in Perth, Western Australia and
SF/LA, California.
https://soundcloud.com/tough-love/david-west-dream-on-dreamer-1
SCORE make blown-out energetic no
wave/anarcho noise; all the right amounts of harsh, sassy structure, bile and
beauty. Members of Woolf, Dregs and Cop come together in a gritty torrent of
rawboned hardcore bratpunk, primitive and pounding, searing and surging. Demo imminent,
no link yet!
MIDDEX
trades in suburban deliberation
and galactic musings. This is outer space hidden in the outer boroughs
plastered over the flat thump of frosted Perspex hearts. Check out his two
lathe cut 7”s out now on Polytechnic Youth.
http://polytechnicyouth.com/
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)
http://generalechoes.tumblr. com/
\\\\\ NEXT
TUESDAY /////
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
SAMARA LUBELSKI
LC PUMPKIN
Tuesday 4 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
STEPHEN STEINBRINK is an American songwriter, born in
Phoenix, AZ and currently residing in Oakland, CA. After more than ten years of
touring and secluded home recording, Stephen Steinbrink has cataloged several albums
worth of gorgeous melody, quotidian dread and desert blight in his stark,
minimal pop. Yet the songs on his latest record ‘Anagrams’, beautiful yet
unflinching portraits of addiction and mental illness are captured in his most
meticulous and high-fidelity production to date. While one might expect the
record to be a final destination, a tidy hi-res culmination of all this
journeying, the album’s particularly varied styles and sincere lyrical
uncertainty portray a search that still continues. Stephen’s artistic
trajectory can be considered nomadic in the obvious sense: when not incessantly
touring Europe and the U.S. in the last two years, he spent his stationary
moments on his beloved, spaced-out west coast, writing in Olympia, Washington;
Oakland, California and Phoenix, Arizona. But as a self-taught producer, audio
fidelity itself proves to be an equally accurate gauge of his craft. Like many
songwriters, he cut his teeth in the tape hiss and bedroom hum of lo-fi 4-track
endeavors. Then in 2014, he released an unabashedly digital tableaux of
subdued, heartbreaking pop, aptly titled Arranged Waves. Now, Anagrams (out now
on Melodic) finds him chasing melodies in the polished largesse of a proper
studio.
http://stephensteinbrink.com/
SAMARA LUBELSKI is a songwriter, singer,
multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and engineer. With a voluminous musical
pedigree, the list of artists (individually and collectively) that Lubelski has
played, performed or recorded with, reads out like a best-of the who’s who of
the art, noise, free, improve scenes. Hall of Fame, The Tower Recordings, MV
and EE, and Thurston Moore are just the beginning of what can be mentioned
here. Her first solo outing, 1997’s ‘In the Valley’, was a major installment in
the recorded legacy of experimental string music, a dense exploration of drones
and resonance. This was followed in 2004 with a full-band recording of lush
psychedelic folk-rock for ‘The Fleeting Skies’. Since then, Lubelski has
released a wonderfully colorful series of albums: ‘Spectacular Of Passages’
(2005), ‘Parallel Suns’ (2007), ‘Future Slip’ (2009) and ‘Wavelength’ (2012).
Her current projects include an improvisational duo with Marcia Bassett and a
long-standing collaboration with German collective Metabolismus. Additionally,
Ms. Lubelski has worked with the prolific Thurston Moore on a variety of
outings, including playing violin on Mr. Moore’s solo records ‘Trees Outside
the Academy’ and ‘Demolished Thoughts’ and recording and touring with his band
Chelsea Light Moving. Her most recent solo violin record, ‘String Cycle’, was
released in 2014, and ‘Augenmusik’, a Metabolismus improvised collaboration,
issued a cassette in 2015. Released in 2016 by Drawing Room Records, new album
‘The Gilded Age’ represents Lubelski’s most current offering; a highly refined
pop record displaying all her baroque genius.
http://samaralubelski.com/
LC PUMPKIN is the low-fidelity solo offshoot from
shambolic, cod-garage rockers Les Cactus & the Rumpy Pumpkins. Warping
keyboards, fuzz-banjo, blown-out drum machine beats and extremely catchy
songwriting.
https://lcpumpkin.bandcamp.com/
\\\\\ NEXT
FRIDAY /////
UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/356180
UPSILON ACRUX is an instrumental quintet (dual
guitars, keyboards, bass and drums). Their music is generally very intense,
loud, hard-hitting and unbelievably virtuosic. Upsilon Acrux's music is
demanding on many levels, but mostly it demands that you listen to it a number
of times before forming an opinion, because only after you've gotten familiar
with it can you get past the sheer complexity and onslaught of it all and hear
the amazing musicality of what they are doing. This combination of blazingly
fast, interwoven musical lines delivered at blinding speed mixed with their
unique melodic sense makes Upsilon's music instantly recognisable.
https://www.facebook.com/upsilonacrux/
GUAPO is a British trio that plays an
intense music that straddles the boundaries of progressive, noise, minimalism
and avant-rock. Their sound has been compared to such artists as Magma,
Boredoms, King Crimson, Univers Zero, This Heat, Ruins, Sun Ra and Terry Riley.
As Sound Projector put it, "Guapo come on like all the hellhounds of
Magma, Eskaton and Ruins were after them...on a par with Magma’s Kohntarkosz or
Univers Zero’s Ceux Du Dehors". The group started their life as a heavy
bass/drums duo playing post-hardcore, noisy rock, but in the two decades since,
they have expanded their instrumentation and their stylistic references to
become one of Europe's most highly respected 'muscular and modern'
experimental/progressive rock bands.
http://www.guapo.co.uk/
HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT come from Kent and seem obsessed with
Indian Cuisine and hyper-complex rollercoaster jazz punk. Guitar, bass and
drums freak out into an confounding and extremely tight onslaught which bursts
with freedom, chaos, fun and nonsense all at the same time. HRMAG have a number
of vinyl and CD releases available now on their band camp below.
https://honeyridemeagoat.bandcamp.com/
Thanks for reading, catch you
tomorrow!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
x
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THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
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SAUNA
YOUTH
DAVID WEST
SCORE
DAVID WEST
SCORE
MIDDEX
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
SAMARA LUBELSKI
LC PUMPKIN
Tuesday 4 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/356180
CALVIN JOHNSON
(Selector Dub Narcotic)
CATENARY
WIRES
SIDNEY
Monday 17 October
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/370998
Monday 17 October
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/370998
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
MARISA ANDERSON
LAURA CANNELL
Tuesday 25 October
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
SICK LLAMA & THURSTON MOORE
POREST
Wednesday 26 October
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT
VICE
COOLER
I KNOW
I’M AN ALIEN
TRASH
KIT DJs
Monday 31 October
Sebright Arms
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/376988
NAP EYES
ROBERT SOTELO
LADS
Monday 7 November
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
KARA-LIS COVERDALE
HAPPY MEALS
THOMAS RAGSDALE
Wednesday 9 November
The Islington, 1
Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT
£7 | 7.30pm | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/373659
SHOPPING
SCRAP BRAIN
SQUEAKEASY
MOLAR
Thursday 10 November
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44
Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/374130
7:30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/374130
NEGATIVE
SCANNER
Saturday 12 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
HORSE LORDS
Monday 14 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
TIM
PRESLEY
(White Fence)
Saturday 19 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/374378
(White Fence)
Saturday 19 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/374378
An Evening With…
KRISTIN HERSH (Second
night added due to popular demand!)
Wednesday 23 November
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge
Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
An Evening With…
KRISTIN HERSH
Thursday 24 November
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge
Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £20 | SOLD OUT
