Wednesday 26 April 2017

Feature LPs in the building!



Looking and sounding incredible!
Available to order here: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
x

Friday 21 April 2017

Future Islands in London this May 4th!

Future Islands will be playing The Dome for us very soon! May 4th in fact! As this is an intimate show for them you are advised to enter this ticket ballot for a chance to pick up a pair of tickets. You can register for the ballot through songkick here (up until 10am next Tuesday):

NOTS in London this June!

We have the amazing NOTS back in London this June!


Thursday 20 April 2017

Xiu Xiu in London next month!


Xiu Xiu, Ice Cream and Scott Hardware will all be playing for us next month in London, here's a poster!

upset the rhythm presents...
 
XIU XIU
ICE CREAM
SCOTT HARDWARE
Monday 22 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL


Tuesday 18 April 2017

Rat Columns kick off their European tour in London tomorrow!


Hello there!
I trust you had an invigorating Easter break. I don’t think those chocolate eggs are particularly helping as we’re getting dangerously excited about jangle-punk trio Rat Columns kicking off their European tour in London tomorrow. We’ll be celebrating the band’s new ‘Candle Power’ release with a party at The Lexington, seeing blazing performances from Rat Columns themselves and Honey Joy and Slushy Guts too. Tickets cost just £6 on the door from 7.30pm, plus in the interests of starting the party early, we have a competition to win five pairs of free tickets here:

Q. Rat Columns’ new album is called ‘Candle Power’, but what exactly is candle power a measure of?

Just email upset_the_rhythm@yahoo.com with your answer for a chance to win a pair of tickets for tomorrow’s show! Competition ends at 8pm tonight, winners drawn from a hat and notified directly.



Read on for the whole story…


\ \ \ \ \     TOMORROW     / / / / /

RAT COLUMNS
HONEY JOY
SLUSHY GUTS
Wednesday 19 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

RAT COLUMNS is the mutable musical project of David West, an artist as prolific as he is diverse in his output. West is the driving force behind the groups Rank/Xerox, Liberation and Lace Curtain, he was also a member of Total Control, and most recently debuted a solo album proper. Whether its forward-facing punk or turning his hand to crafting sleek prisms of pop, West's credentials check out. Rat Columns is no exception, always central to his vision and returned to many times since its inception in Perth almost a decade ago. Over the years the band has morphed and continued with an array of different friends from the USA and Australia, always finding David West dancing through the long shadows at its core. Working with many distinguished underground imprints including Blackest Ever Black, Adagio 830, Smart Guy Records and RIP Society, Rat Columns have left in their wake a trail of 7"s, EPs and two full length albums. Now a third album, entitled 'Candle Power' is cued for release through Upset The Rhythm this April. 'Candle Power' is packed full of chiming guitar pop, cutting in with moments of soul, disco and experimental plots.
http://ratcolumns.tumblr.com/

HONEY JOY are five mates who came together through a mutual love of curry, Mean Girls and Paul McCartney’s hand gestures. They play indie punk music and have been compared to The Thermals and Xray Spex. They released two brilliant EPs last year and have just finished recording their first full length with MJ from Hookworms, which is soon to be released in the US through Infinity Cat records. 
https://honeyjoy.bandcamp.com/

SLUSHY GUTS is more of a group then a band (M.E.S distinction), having revolved around founding member Steve Keane since it's inception in 2009. Originally a solo bedroom project (B. White definition) Slushy Guts has mutated (H.P Lovecraft style) over the course of 4 albums and a "shit-load" (Slim Pickens) of tape and cdr releases. Evolving organically (according to Jean-Baptiste  Lamarck), it's presentation facilitated by whoever's around, Steve's songs exist in the spaces between genres, at once melodic and discordant (Engelbert Humperdinck definition), concerned with deconstructing 'it all' (definition unknown) and gluing it back together again. With current members Sam and Luke Walsh on bass and drums and James Rowland on guitar, Slushy Guts is currently something closely resembling a rock 'n' roll quartet (Rev. David A. Noebel definition.) Bobby Davro, 2017.
https://slushyguts.bandcamp.com/


Thanks for reading, catch you tomorrow!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x




\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\

MARY OCHER
BAMBOO
MOONBOW
Wednesday 5 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT

RAT COLUMNS
HONEY JOY
SLUSHY GUTS
Wednesday 19 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

GROUPER
Sunday 23 April
Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA, UK

LATE SHOW: 8.30pm | £15 | SOLD OUT
EARLY SHOW: 6pm | £15 | SOLD OUT

DANIEL BACHMAN
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Monday 1 May
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

EX-CULT
PINK GRIP
Wednesday 3 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
RESINA
Monday 8 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

DUCKTAILS
JAMES FERRARO
SPENCER CLARK
Friday 12 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

XIU XIU
ICE CREAM
SCOTT HARDWARE
Monday 22 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL

PRIESTS
SPECIAL GUESTS
THE SNIVELLERS
Thursday 25 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

OOIOO
BAMBOO
Tuesday 30 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
NB. This is the new date for April’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.

NOTS
Wednesday 7 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

THE SPACE LADY
Tuesday 20 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/396842

RICHARD DAWSON
(Full band show)
Thursday 22 June
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/396949

TERRY
Friday 30 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/393203

SPRAY PAINT
THE REBEL
Tuesday 15 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

NAP EYES
Thursday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

DEERHOOF
LE TON MITÉ
Monday 4 September
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ
NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.

Friday 7 April 2017

Happy days! Feature & Rat Columns albums both released today!


Hello again!

It was brilliant to see so many of you at our Mary Ocher show this week! Thanks so much for coming down. Today, we have our record label hat firmly on as we’re very happy to usher two excellent, new releases into the wild! Feature’s jaw-dropping debut album Banishing Ritual is released digitally today, with the LPs hitting shops next Friday, whilst Candle Power by Rat Columns, a masterwork of melancholic jangle, in available now on LP/CD and digitally as of now! Here’s some more info on both of those albums, plus details of our next concert, also for Rat Columns. I sense a theme developing.

Feature were (alas they are no more!) adept at drone-dipped melody chasing. Liv Willars, Heather Perkins and Jen Calleja shook up the power trio formula, tearing through songs with abandon and a nod to the motorik bop.

With their debut album Banishing Ritual they strike from bare, menacing punk to harmonious post-punk to blisteringly fast garage-pop to ponderous instrumental, showing not only their overlapping music tastes, but also how the band had gained broad influences over the years representative of the diversity of the UK DIY scene from Joey Fourr to Good Throb. Jen Calleja’s lyrics are sparse narratives: a love song for a twin consumed in the womb, the stalking of a doppelganger, a rallying cry against the lack of belief in women’s ability to be artists, a tongue-in-cheek look at jealousy and bitter competitiveness. Though Calleja provides a leading vocal throughout, all three members sing on most songs to create unmatchable and unexpected vocal harmonies, plus friend and fellow London DIY musician Joey Fourr provides his immense vocal range on two tracks.



Feature gigged all over the UK and played their final shows at Tramlines/Alternative Tramlines and Indietracks Festival in and around Sheffield and Nottingham at the end of last year. They supported bands including The Julie Ruin, Chain and the Gang, Verity Susman and Protomartyr, played Supernormal Festival, were in session with Marc Riley on BBC 6 Music and their only non-UK show was also one of their final, a joint headline show with Diät in Berlin. Liv has now relocated to Sheffield and has started a new band, Jen plays in Sauna Youth and their alter-ego Monotony along with new band Gold Foil, whilst Heather is currently on tour with Slowcoaches, with the band having just released their debut album also.



Rat Columns is the mutable musical project of David West, an artist as prolific as he is diverse in his output. West is the driving force behind the groups Rank/Xerox, Liberation and Lace Curtain, he was also a member of Total Control, and most recently debuted a solo album proper. Whether its forward-facing punk or turning his hand to crafting sleek prisms of pop, West’s credentials check out. Rat Columns is no exception, always central to his vision and returned to many times since its inception in Perth almost a decade ago. Over the years the band has morphed and continued with an array of different friends from the USA and Australia, always finding David West dancing through the long shadows at its core. Working with many distinguished underground imprints including Blackest Ever Black, Adagio 830, Smart Guy Records and RIP Society, Rat Columns have left in their wake a trail of 7”s, EPs and two full length albums. Now a third album, entitled Candle Power is released today through Upset The Rhythm.



Recorded in Guildford, Western Australia, with the Perth crew of West, Amber Gempton, Louis Hooper and Chris Cobilis, Candle Power sees the band's universe of chiming guitar pop explode into new worlds of colour and shade. It’s an album as happy to walk home in the rain as it is to reel dizzily through daylight. It’s melancholic lilt tempered by a quietly-sung optimism. Candle Power tunnels further than ever before down the pop mainline, cutting in with moments of soul, disco and experimental plots. West is a magpie-like musician, unafraid to assemble songs from a motley collection of influences and ideas. He weaves songs together with a deft hand and an acute grasp for the memorable yet momentary.



Since we last talked, we also announced a very exciting full live band show for Richard Dawson. Taking place at St John on Bethnal Green on June 22nd, Richard will be joined by a motley crew of performers, colouring large the mural of his forthcoming new album ‘Ogre’ (Weird World / Domino). Tickets on sale now, check out our listings section for details.



\ \ \ \ \     WEDNESDAY 19 APRIL     / / / / /



RAT COLUMNS
HONEY JOY
SLUSHY GUTS
Wednesday 19 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

RAT COLUMNS is the mutable musical project of David West, an artist as prolific as he is diverse in his output. West is the driving force behind the groups Rank/Xerox, Liberation and Lace Curtain, he was also a member of Total Control, and most recently debuted a solo album proper. Whether its forward-facing punk or turning his hand to crafting sleek prisms of pop, West's credentials check out. Rat Columns is no exception, always central to his vision and returned to many times since its inception in Perth almost a decade ago. Over the years the band has morphed and continued with an array of different friends from the USA and Australia, always finding David West dancing through the long shadows at its core. Working with many distinguished underground imprints including Blackest Ever Black, Adagio 830, Smart Guy Records and RIP Society, Rat Columns have left in their wake a trail of 7"s, EPs and two full length albums. Now a third album, entitled 'Candle Power' is cued for release through Upset The Rhythm this April. 'Candle Power' is packed full of chiming guitar pop, cutting in with moments of soul, disco and experimental plots.
http://ratcolumns.tumblr.com/

HONEY JOY are five mates who came together through a mutual love of curry, Mean Girls and Paul McCartney’s hand gestures. They play indie punk music and have been compared to The Thermals and Xray Spex. They released two brilliant EPs last year and have just finished recording their first full length with MJ from Hookworms, which is soon to be released in the US through Infinity Cat records. 
https://honeyjoy.bandcamp.com/

SLUSHY GUTS is more of a group then a band (M.E.S distinction), having revolved around founding member Steve Keane since it's inception in 2009. Originally a solo bedroom project (B. White definition) Slushy Guts has mutated (H.P Lovecraft style) over the course of 4 albums and a "shit-load" (Slim Pickens) of tape and cdr releases. Evolving organically (according to Jean-Baptiste  Lamarck), it's presentation facilitated by whoever's around, Steve's songs exist in the spaces between genres, at once melodic and discordant (Engelbert Humperdinck definition), concerned with deconstructing 'it all' (definition unknown) and gluing it back together again. With current members Sam and Luke Walsh on bass and drums and James Rowland on guitar, Slushy Guts is currently something closely resembling a rock 'n' roll quartet (Rev. David A. Noebel definition.) Bobby Davro, 2017.
https://slushyguts.bandcamp.com/


Have a brilliant weekend!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x




\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\

MARY OCHER
BAMBOO
MOONBOW
Wednesday 5 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT

RAT COLUMNS
HONEY JOY
SLUSHY GUTS
Wednesday 19 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

GROUPER
Sunday 23 April
Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA, UK

LATE SHOW: 8.30pm | £15 | SOLD OUT
EARLY SHOW: 6pm | £15 | SOLD OUT

DANIEL BACHMAN
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Monday 1 May
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

EX-CULT
Wednesday 3 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
RESINA
Monday 8 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

DUCKTAILS
JAMES FERRARO
SPENCER CLARK
Friday 12 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

XIU XIU
Monday 22 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL

PRIESTS
THE SNIVELLERS
Thursday 25 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

OOIOO
Tuesday 30 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
NB. This is the new date for April’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.

NOTS
Wednesday 7 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

THE SPACE LADY
Tuesday 20 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/396842

RICHARD DAWSON
(Full band show)
Thursday 22 June
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/396949

TERRY
Friday 30 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/393203

SPRAY PAINT
THE REBEL
Tuesday 15 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

NAP EYES
Thursday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

DEERHOOF
LE TON MITÉ
Monday 4 September
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ
NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.