Saturday 29 October 2016

Upcoming shows for Vice Cooler, Mums, I Know I'm An Alien, Nap Eyes and the Ravioli Me Away LP launch!


Hello everyone!
Thanks for coming out this week to see Marisa Anderson and Sick Llama / Thurston Moore, two fantastic shows I hope you agree! We’re back in live mode next Monday for Halloween at the Sebright Arms. We have spooked goth-pop from Vice Cooler planned, making his solo European debut no less! Mums will be coming down from Widnes to play their first show in London in ages, they are megalithic as in rocking large! Plus I Know I’m An Alien will be channeling music from the outer rim of another solar system for your pleasure too! Tickets are £6 and live music will commence from around 8.30pm, more below for the thorough people out there! You’ll also find our full listing for our upcoming Nap Eyes, Robert Sotelo and Lads show that is fast approaching at The Lexington on Monday 7 November. Can’t wait for that solid lineup!

Also next week, Ravioli Me Away will be celebrating their imminent new album release on a boat on the Thames. It sounds fantastic, here’s the poster for the free party, expect sets from RMA, Static Palm and Design A Wave (probably some tidal waves from the river too) and DJs galore. Next Thursday is the date for your diaries! Bring your sea legs!





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VICE COOLER
MUMS
I KNOW I’M AN ALIEN
TRASH KIT DJs
Monday 31 October
Sebright Arms

VICE COOLER is an American musician, music video director, and photographer. He has been recognised by people as disparate as High Places and Henry Rollins as an “inspiration”. He has collaborated with Peaches on many of her ventures, prompting her to crown him as the ‘world’s greatest performer’. Cooler started performing music live in 1998 with the highly influential noise rock band XBXRX. His energetic solo project Hawnay Troof was active for the first decade of 2000s until he started performing as Vice Cooler. Vice also drummed for the band KIT (on Upset The Rhythm) and has also guested as live drummer for Chicks On Speed and The Raincoats. This show will be his European debut performance as Vice Cooler on his favourite night of the year… Halloween! Look out for some hot and heavy electro pop that would fit in perfectly at either the grimiest after-hours basement party or the top of the pop charts.

MUMS are the most intimidating and feral rock force ever to hail from Widnes, dealing in a fearsome demolition derby of Melvins-style riff worship, balls-to-the-wall rock ballast and an omnipresent sense of humour. No gobs remain unsmacked when this power trio are in the area.

I KNOW I’M AN ALIEN is music made by an incarnated alien from a 5th dimensional star realm. Aware of the trappings of 3D reality, the artist utilises unconventional guitar sounds and vocals to express his awkwardness when faced with violence, greed, love for technology over living beings, war and just the plain zombie-like behaviour of his fellows. He uses these sonic tools to also invite the willing listener to surrender and join in on embarking on a journey of creating a momentary alternative reality together. Musicians and artists are today's wizards, shamans and magicians.

TRASH KIT DJs



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NAP EYES
ROBERT SOTELO
LADS
Monday 7 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

NAP EYES hail from Nova Scotia and make crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, their songs are equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA and the Earth's magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about insomnia and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order; solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science. It's the sound of being young and alive in the city, a tenuous and impermanent counterpoise of recklessness and anxiety, archness and earnestness. Following last year's reissue of their 2014 debut 'Whine of the Mystic' on Paradise of Bachelors, Nap Eyes released an album of all-new material entitled 'Thought Rock Fish Scale' earlier this year.

ROBERT SOTELO will make his live debut at this show, interpreting songs honed for hisceventual long-player entitled ‘Cusp’. Sotelo intends to channel ‘Ram’-era McCartney without the chops, at once intimate and ambitiously layered pop music garnished in naive sincerity. Attempting to push beyond limited means, towards the absurd and abundant idea that recreating the feel and sound of The Beatles remains paramount an objective, the entire project rests on the uncertainty and confusion of mid-thirties existentialism and the exploration of the individual post-social life. Accompanied by a host of friends this initial performance will use the recorded compositions as a template on which Sotelo may attempt to draw out and utilise the individual merits of each musician to reconfigure and sensualise the jams, with currently unknowable results.

LADS are Sophie, her boyfriend, Arj; her brother, Henry; and his best friend, Wayne. They play noisy pop that generally lasts 2:30. 


Thanks so much for reading, catch you on Monday!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x




\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\
   
 ‘A spooktacular Halloween party!’
VICE COOLER
MUMS
I KNOW I’M AN ALIEN
TRASH KIT DJs
Monday 31 October
Sebright Arms

RAVIOLI ME AWAY - ’Living Is A Myth’ Album launch party!
DESIGN A WAVE
STATIC PALM
ED LEHAN (DJ set)
MIKE LEVITT & JAMES JANCO (DJ set)
Thursday 3 November
Bar & Co at Temple Pier, Victoria Embankment, Temple, WC2R 2PN
8pm - 3am | FREE !!!

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

NEGATIVE SCANNER
SCORE
Saturday 12 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

HORSE LORDS
PRIMORDIAL SOUP
MIDDEX
Monday 14 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

TIM PRESLEY
(White Fence)
THE WHARVES
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

Upset The Rhythm Xmas Party featuring…
APOSTILLE
BLOOD SPORT
GUTTERSNIPE
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
RATTLE
Saturday 17 December
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB


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