PRIESTS JOIN DOWNTOWN BOYS TO CO-HEADLINE THE DOME THIS OCTOBER IN LONDON!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

PRIESTS
DOWNTOWN BOYS
Wednesday 18 October

Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ

7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/405435

PRIESTS are Daniele Daniele (drums), Katie Alice Greer (vocals), G.L. Jaguar (guitar), and Taylor Mulitz (bass). Formed in 2011 in Washington DC, the band has proven a valuable force for strangeness in a city that is increasingly terraformed by norms. At a time when few groups were making serious moves beyond the Beltway, Priests toured throughout North America and Europe. More significantly, they've helped to raise the general standard of show-going at home through cassettes and singles released on Sister Polygon, including music by bands like Sneaks, Snail Mail, Pinkwash, Cigarette, Downtown Boys, and numerous Priests-affiliated groups like Gauche and Flasher. Still, even amidst thriving hometown creativity, Priests possess a singular gravity. They are physical and combustible, urgent and visceral. This January, Nothing Feels Natural, the band's first full length LP was released on their own label Sister Polygon Records. It's the bands most stylistically diverse set of songs to date, expanding on their lo-fi post-punk bona-fides with ideas drawn from pop, R&B, and industrial noise. Thematically, Nothing can be understood as a series of vignettes - nine stories that crystallize into a bigger picture about the economics of human relationships, the invisibility of feminized labor, and the dual purpose of art for both the group and the individual. It's a record that thrives amid the tension between that what is valued and what is dismissed; between what is desired and what is presented.
http://666priests666.tumblr.com/

 
DOWNTOWN BOYS use their ferocious energy and powerhouse live shows to unite crowds in the struggle to smash racism, queerphobia, capitalism, fascism, boredom, and all things people use to try to close our minds, eyes and hearts. The Providence, RI band have just announced their third album, Cost of Living, to be released August 11th on Sub Pop. The new album - the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed sophomore album, 2015's Full Communism - is at once incendiary, cathartic, and fun, melding the band's revolutionary ideals with boundless energy. Produced by Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, one of indie-rock's most mythological figures (he also produced Blonde Redhead, The Gossip, and others), Cost of Living shows a sense of maturity without compromising the band's righteous assault and captivating presence. The position of Downtown Boys has been clear since they started storming through basements and DIY spaces with their radically-minded, indefatigable rock music: they are here to topple the white-cis-het hegemony and draft a new history. This is how Downtown Boys began, and their resolve has only strengthened as both their sound and audience have grown. Like the socially conscious groups of years past, from Public Enemy to Rage Against the Machine, Downtown Boys harness powerful sloganeering, repetitive grooves, and earworm hooks to create one of the most necessary musical statements of today.
https://soundcloud.com/subpop/downtown-boys-a-wall

OOIOO and Bamboo in London tomorrow, Nots next week!

Good morning all!

Thank you for attending en masse our recent Xiu Xiu and Preists shows. Both were incredible, I trust you enjoyed them as much as we did. Tomorrow Upset The Rhythm are heading to Kamio in Shoreditch for a very rare concert from Japan’s OOIOO. We’ve been hoping to host them since year dot, so this really will be a special event. Featuring Yoshimi from The Boredoms as the band’s eye of the storm, OOIOO make music that’s as embracing and colourful as it is inventive and ecstatic. Joining in with all the psychedelic tones and primitivist rhythms will be our very own Bamboo too, celebrating the release of their stunning new album entitled ‘The Dragon Flies Away’. Read on for the full picture, along with the scoop on next week’s NOTS show at Café OTO with The Worms too, that’s going to one to remember!

In terms of brand new shows confirmed this week, we have just the one for you, but it is a roof-raiser as the incendiary Downtown Boys will be coming back to London this October after their new album on Sub Pop drops.   Tickets are now onsale, see our concluding show programme for details, plus you can check out the opening track from ‘The Cost Of Living’ here!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   OOIOO BAMBOO Tuesday 30 May Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL 8pm | £12 | TICKETS NB. New date for April’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.   OOIOO has always created a musical language all its own. Under the leadership of Yoshimi, also a founding member of Boredoms, the group has recorded six albums that have subverted expectations and warped perceptions of what constitutes pop and experimental music. Four years of work went into to making Gamel, their bold new album inspired by the Javanese style of gamelan and the first new music from Yoshimi in over five years. Gamelan is an ancient form that has inspired a great many composers and musicians over the past century, from Erik Satie and Claude Debussy to Mouse on Mars and Sun City Girls. The introduction of this traditional form transformed the group into a super tribe, side-stepping the road between the past and the future. Their focus is not to replicate these ancient styles, but to incorporate them into their consistently inventive, constantly shifting musical frameworks. They take their love of indigenous music into an entirely new dimension by freely weaving organic and electric tones into a vivid tapestry, employing their keen sense of color and texture.   Yoshimi began her music career in 1986 playing drums in UFO or Die with vocalist Eye, and later joined him in the revolutionary noise-pop group Boredoms. Her explosive drum performances captivated audiences and even inspired Wayne Coyne to name a now-famous Flaming Lips album in her honor. While the band's tours of the United States are infrequent, they are as the New York Times has stated, transcendent. http://ooioo.jp/   BAMBOO is the sublime project from Nick Carlisle (of Peepholes, Don't Argue) and Rachel Horwood (of Trash Kit, Halo Halo). Their music is vivid and deeply poignant, locking into a magnetic attraction between Rachel's flawlessly resonant folk cadence and Nick's pristine synth pop production. Bamboo's second studio album, The Dragon Flies Away, is due 26th May on Upset The Rhythm on LP, CD and digitally. Initially released last winter on a limited run of 50 cassettes with an accompanying zine designed by Horwood, The Dragon Flies Away tells a story loosely associated with the Hannya demon mask of Noh theatre plays such as Dojoji, and reflects the range of emotion the Hannya mask is capable of displaying: obsession, jealousy, sorrow and rage. 'The Dragon Flies Away' presents its story in two acts and is now presented newly re-mastered with a gatefold sleeve and lyric / artwork sheet. Horwood's evocative paintings are given centre stage with the packaging, allowing the album's story to grow beyond sound, making the journey all the more immersive. http://www.bamboosongs.co.uk/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   NOTS THE WORMS Wednesday 7 June Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 8pm | £8 | TICKETS   NOTS are a 4 piece, all XX, "nuevo no wavo" band from Memphis, TN. Unpredictable guitars, celestial synths, and punctuated vocals swirl around the repetition of a powerful rhythm section to form a sound and a live show not easily classifiable but entirely addictive. Drummer Charlotte Watson and guitarist / frontwoman Natalie Hoffmann are the band's two constants throughout a handful of roster changes. NOTS' current lineup also includes Alexandra Eastburn on synth, an instrument she picked up to join NOTS and to record on their first full-length LP We Are Nots, and bassist Meredith Lones, another new Memphis musician, and the most recent addition to the band. NOTS' newest punk-noise-psych-collision LP, Cosmetic, aggressively follows on the heels of their debut LP, foreshadowing an ever expanding experiment in direction of things to come for the band. NOTS have releases on Heavenly & Goner Records, plus a brand new live 7" on Third Man. https://www.facebook.com/memphisnots/     THE WORMS is a stripped-down, future-primitive negative-capability trio making politely furious snotty punk minimalism. A snarling update on Messthetics culture with even more of the fat boiled off and the anger dialed up. https://soundcloud.com/the_worms-1

Thanks for reading, see you tomorrow! Upset The Rhythm x

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

OOIOO

BAMBOO

Tuesday 30 May

Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL

8pm | £12 | TICKETS

NB. This is the new date for April’s postponed event, original tickets valid.

 

NOTS

THE WORMS

Wednesday 7 June

Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL

8pm | £8 | TICKETS

 

THE SPACE LADY
FLOWERS MUST DIE

Tuesday 20 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | TICKETS

 

RICHARD DAWSON (Full band show)

STILL HOUSE PLANTS
Thursday 22 June
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7pm | £15 | TICKETS

 

TERRY
CHILD'S POSE

HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Friday 30 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

 

SHEER MAG

SPECIAL GUESTS

TV CRIME

Thursday 20 July

Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD

7pm | £10 | TICKETS   

 

PIKACYU-MAKOTO

Saturday 12 August

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

 

SPRAY PAINT

THE REBEL

Tuesday 15 August

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS

 

NAP EYES

H. GRIMACE

GARDEN CENTRE

Thursday 31 August

Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB

7:30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

 

DEERHOOF

LE TON MITÉ

Monday 4 September

Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ

7.30pm |  £14 | TICKETS

NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.

 

LOWTIDE

Tuesday 5 September

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

 

DOWNTOWN BOYS

Wednesday 18 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

FUTURE ISLANDS

Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT

Tuesday 21 November

In collaboration with Parallel Lines

O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL

7pm | TICKETS 

Downtown Boys back in London this October, new album too!

 Upset The Rhythm presents…

DOWNTOWN BOYS
Wednesday 18 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/405435

DOWNTOWN BOYS use their ferocious energy and powerhouse live shows to unite crowds in the struggle to smash racism, queerphobia, capitalism, fascism, boredom, and all things people use to try to close our minds, eyes and hearts. The Providence, RI band have just announced their third album, Cost of Living, to be released August 11th on Sub Pop. The new album - the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed sophomore album, 2015’s Full Communism - is at once incendiary, cathartic, and fun, melding the band’s revolutionary ideals with boundless energy. Produced by Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, one of indie-rock’s most mythological figures (he also produced Blonde Redhead, The Gossip, and others), Cost of Living shows a sense of maturity without compromising the band’s righteous assault and captivating presence.

The position of Downtown Boys has been clear since they started storming through basements and DIY spaces with their radically-minded, indefatigable rock music: they are here to topple the white-cis-het hegemony and draft a new history. This is how Downtown Boys began, and their resolve has only strengthened as both their sound and audience have grown. Like the socially conscious groups of years past, from Public Enemy to Rage Against the Machine, Downtown Boys harness powerful sloganeering, repetitive grooves, and earworm hooks to create one of the most necessary musical statements of today.

Terry poster for London next month!

Upcoming London concerts for Priests & OOIOO, plus Terry's new album!

Evening everyone!

 

Thank you for coming out recently to see Ian William Craig and Ducktails & Co play live, it was great to see so many of you! Our next concert takes place on Monday with Xiu Xiu, that one has just sold out, so look out below for details of our other two shows in May that are still onsale.

Washington DC’s Priests will be performing for us next Thursday at OSLO in Hackney, along with some very special guests and The Snivellers too!   Rarely has a show felt so hotly anticipated, counting down the days now. Heads up – there are only a handful of tickets left for this one so please do book in advance to avoid missing out, details below.

Our second upcoming show this month falls on May 30th, this time at Kamio in Old Street. Featuring an extremely scarce live performance from Yoshimi from The Boredoms’ joyous quartet OOIOO, this concert will showcase their primitivist rhythms, psychedelic tones and joyous abandon.   Bamboo will be providing an equally otherworldly set to open proceedings too. Bamboo have a new album out through Upset The Rhythm around this date too, check out their brand new single Wake Up Your Heart for a flavour!

In terms of other future live shows this week we also announced a further Future Islands performance at Brixton for November 21st. November 20th sold out surprising fast so Baltimore’s finest will be gracing us with a second show. Lucky London!

Donning our record label hat for a minute now, I’m happy to say that we’re looking forward to a very fruitful 2017.   With new releases planned from Bamboo, Pega Monstro, Robert Sotelo, Pikacyu-Makoto, Normil Hawaiians, Gen Pop, The World and Terry we’re going to be rushed off our feet.   Here’s an edifying playlist we made for Beautiful Freaks of lots of these new songs to help set the scene, drink deep

Remember Terry is the newest album that we’ve recently announced, just today in fact.   Following on from the Melbourne glam-pop country-bop punks superb Terry HQ album of 2016, this record is full of wish fulfilment, critiqued characters, memorial muscle and historical hustle. New ideas are pursued and new ground explored.   Throughout this expansion of sound and subject-matter though, Terry remain committed to telling it you straight, reporting from the frontline of the political made personal. Terry’s new album is available to pre-order now!

I’ll leave you now with a collection of three amazing videos from the UTR stable that dropped since we last chatted, so much spectacle, enjoy!

Terry – ‘Take Me To The City’

Rattle – ‘True Picture’

Rat Columns – ‘Blinded By The Shadow’

Upset The Rhythm presents…   PRIESTS SPECIAL GUESTS THE SNIVELLERS Thursday 25 May OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   PRIESTS are Daniele Daniele (drums), Katie Alice Greer (vocals), G.L. Jaguar (guitar), and Taylor Mulitz (bass). Formed in 2011 in Washington DC, the band has proven a valuable force for strangeness in a city that is increasingly terraformed by norms. At a time when few groups were making serious moves beyond the Beltway, Priests toured throughout North America and Europe. More significantly, they've helped to raise the general standard of show-going at home through cassettes and singles released on Sister Polygon, including music by bands like Sneaks, Snail Mail, Pinkwash, Cigarette, Downtown Boys, and numerous Priests-affiliated groups like Gauche and Flasher. Still, even amidst thriving hometown creativity, Priests possess a singular gravity. They are physical and combustible, urgent and visceral. This January, Nothing Feels Natural, the band's first full length LP was released on their own label Sister Polygon Records. It's the bands most stylistically diverse set of songs to date, expanding on their lo-fi post-punk bona-fides with ideas drawn from pop, R&B, and industrial noise. Thematically, Nothing can be understood as a series of vignettes - nine stories that crystallize into a bigger picture about the economics of human relationships, the invisibility of feminized labor, and the dual purpose of art for both the group and the individual. It's a record that thrives amid the tension between that what is valued and what is dismissed; between what is desired and what is presented. http://666priests666.tumblr.com/   THE SNIVELLERS are prime purveyors of groveling punk music from Brighton, featuring members of Joanna Gruesome, Garden Centre & Shecket. https://youtu.be/UKV54YMRrQg

Upset The Rhythm presents…   OOIOO BAMBOO Tuesday 30 May Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL 8pm | £12 | TICKETS NB. New date for April’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.   OOIOO has always created a musical language all its own. Under the leadership of Yoshimi, also a founding member of Boredoms, the group has recorded six albums that have subverted expectations and warped perceptions of what constitutes pop and experimental music. Four years of work went into to making Gamel, their bold new album inspired by the Javanese style of gamelan and the first new music from Yoshimi in over five years. Gamelan is an ancient form that has inspired a great many composers and musicians over the past century, from Erik Satie and Claude Debussy to Mouse on Mars and Sun City Girls. The introduction of this traditional form transformed the group into a super tribe, side-stepping the road between the past and the future. Their focus is not to replicate these ancient styles, but to incorporate them into their consistently inventive, constantly shifting musical frameworks. They take their love of indigenous music into an entirely new dimension by freely weaving organic and electric tones into a vivid tapestry, employing their keen sense of color and texture.   Yoshimi began her music career in 1986 playing drums in UFO or Die with vocalist Eye, and later joined him in the revolutionary noise-pop group Boredoms. Her explosive drum performances captivated audiences and even inspired Wayne Coyne to name a now-famous Flaming Lips album in her honor. While the band's tours of the United States are infrequent, they are as the New York Times has stated, transcendent. http://ooioo.jp/   BAMBOO is the sublime project from Nick Carlisle (of Peepholes, Don't Argue) and Rachel Horwood (of Trash Kit, Halo Halo). Their music is vivid and deeply poignant, locking into a magnetic attraction between Rachel's flawlessly resonant folk cadence and Nick's pristine synth pop production. Bamboo's second studio album, The Dragon Flies Away, is due 26th May on Upset The Rhythm on LP, CD and digitally. Initially released last winter on a limited run of 50 cassettes with an accompanying zine designed by Horwood, The Dragon Flies Away tells a story loosely associated with the Hannya demon mask of Noh theatre plays such as Dojoji, and reflects the range of emotion the Hannya mask is capable of displaying: obsession, jealousy, sorrow and rage. 'The Dragon Flies Away' presents its story in two acts and is now presented newly re-mastered with a gatefold sleeve and lyric / artwork sheet. Horwood's evocative paintings are given centre stage with the packaging, allowing the album's story to grow beyond sound, making the journey all the more immersive. http://www.bamboosongs.co.uk/

Thanks as always for your time! Upset The Rhythm x

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

XIU XIU

ICE CREAM

SCOTT HARDWARE

Monday 22 May

Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL

8pm | £12 | SOLD OUT 

 

PRIESTS

SPECIAL GUESTS

THE SNIVELLERS

Thursday 25 May

OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL

7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS

 

OOIOO

BAMBOO

Tuesday 30 May

Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL

8pm | £12 | TICKETS

NB. This is the new date for April’s postponed event, original tickets valid.

 

NOTS

THE WORMS

Wednesday 7 June

Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL

8pm | £8 | TICKETS

 

THE SPACE LADY
FLOWERS MUST DIE

Tuesday 20 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | TICKETS

 

RICHARD DAWSON (Full band show)

STILL HOUSE PLANTS
Thursday 22 June
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7pm | £15 | TICKETS

 

TERRY
CHILD'S POSE

Friday 30 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

 

SHEER MAG

Thursday 20 July

Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD

7pm | £10 | TICKETS   

 

PIKACYU-MAKOTO

Saturday 12 August

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

 

SPRAY PAINT

THE REBEL

Tuesday 15 August

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS

 

NAP EYES

H. GRIMACE

GARDEN CENTRE

Thursday 31 August

Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB

7:30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS

 

DEERHOOF

LE TON MITÉ

Monday 4 September

Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ

7.30pm |  £14 | TICKETS

NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.

 

LOWTIDE

Tuesday 5 September

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

 

FUTURE ISLANDS

Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT

Tuesday 21 November

In collaboration with Parallel Lines

O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL

7pm | TICKETS 

LISTEN - Pega Monstro - 'Cachupa'

Wonderland have just premiered this excellent brand new track by Pega Monstro about a traditional stew called 'Cachupa' that's as hard to digest as a lot of modern life, check it out! 'Cachupa' is taken from the band's forthcoming album 'Casa de Cima', out June 2nd on Upset The Rhythm.

Nots and The Worms playing London next month!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

NOTS

THE WORMS

Wednesday 7 June

Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL

8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/389238

NOTS are a 4 piece, all XX, "nuevo no wavo" band from Memphis, TN. Unpredictable guitars, celestial synths, and punctuated vocals swirl around the repetition of a powerful rhythm section to form a sound and a live show not easily classifiable but entirely addictive. Drummer Charlotte Watson and guitarist Natalie Hoffmann are the band's two constants throughout a handful of roster changes. NOTS' current lineup also includes Alexandra Eastburn on synth, an instrument she picked up to join NOTS and to record on their first full-length LP ‘We Are Nots’, and bassist Meredith Lones, another new Memphis musician, and the most recent addition to the band. NOTS' newest punk-noise-psych-collision LP, ‘Cosmetic’, aggressively follows on the heels of their debut LP, foreshadowing an ever expanding experiment in direction of things to come for the band. NOTS have releases on Heavenly & Goner Records, plus a brand new live 7" on Third Man.

https://www.facebook.com/memphisnots/

THE WORMS is a stripped-down, future-primitive negative-capability trio making politely furious snotty punk minimalism. A snarling update on Messthetics culture with even more of the fat boiled off and the anger dialed up.

https://soundcloud.com/the_worms-1

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WATCH - Rattle's brand new video for 'True Picture'

Watch Rattle's magnificent video for 'True Picture' premiering now on Tom Tom Mag! Features significant cameos from Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield.

Here's the tour poster for their upcoming tour of Spain too!

Future Islands - second show at Brixton just announced!

Second show announced for Future Islands at Brixton later this November! 

London is lucky! Looking forward! 

Tickets here.

WATCH: Rat Columns - 'Blinded By The Shadow' video!

Just premiered on the brilliant Raven Sings The Blues!
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'Wake Up Your Heart' by BAMBOO

'Wake Up Your Heart' by Bamboo will be released as a digital single on Friday 12th May along with a Nico Marcel remix of 'Always Running'. 'Wake Up My Heart' is taken from Bamboo's forthcoming album 'The Dragon Flies Away' out May 26th on Upset The Rhythm.
www.bamboosongs.co.uk

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Richard Dawson London concert poster!

Poster for The Space Lady in London next month!

Upset The Rhythm playlist of new and forthcoming tracks!

Beautiful Freaks kindly invited us to make a playlist for them, so here it is! Lots of recent and forthcoming new music from Upset The Rhythm.

Here’s a selection of tracks taken from our most recent and upcoming releases stretching out to September this year. Where better to start than with ‘Start The Tape’, perhaps Melbourne’s finest ode to Helen Mirren. Taken from Terry’s new album ‘Remember Terry’ which is coming out at the start of July, they’ll also be touring Europe around the same time, exciting times! 

Bamboo are up next with their deeply evocative ‘Wake Up Your Heart’, technically Act II Scene II from their incredible concept album ‘The Dragon Flies Away’ out May 26th. 

New signing Robert Sotelo dazzles with ‘Bronte Paths’ next, he doesn’t “want to be there when the people come for change”, fair enough! Look out September as this is when his debut album ‘Cusp’ will greet the day. 

‘Jealous’ by Feature follows, although no longer an active pursuit Feature have delivered an immense epitaph with ‘Banishing Ritual’ out now! 

Lisbon, Portugal’s Pega Monstro step up for the next track, whipping up a frenzy of rhythmic excess before sending their siren calls across the rough sea. Their new album entitled ‘Casa De Cima’ will be released through Upset The Rhythm on June 2nd, not long now! 

Where do you want to go now? How about Japan? Pikacyu from Afrirampo and Makoto Kawabata from Acid Mother’s Temple have teamed up to bring us a colossal album of psych pop oddities. Coming out in August ‘Galaxilympics’ takes you to places on the fringe of the known sonic galaxy and sounds all the more glorious for it. 

Nearing the finish now we have Rat Columns who are presently touring Europe in support of their brand new record ‘Candle Power’. ‘Is This Really What You’re Like’ showcases what Rat Columns do best, mixing upbeat music with downhearted subject matter, its a tour de force of emotional pull and push. 

The final track on this mix comes originally from 1982 and sees Normil Hawaiians go epic with one of their earliest long form songs taking in ghostly percussion, questing synths and Guy Smith’s typically impassioned vocal delivery. ‘British Warm’ is taken from the band’s first album ‘More Wealth Than Money’ which we will be reissuing later this year. Thanks for listening!

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Ian William Craig and Resina playing London this Monday!

Evening all!

Thanks for coming out to see Ex-Cult and Future Islands this week. Our next concert falls on Monday evening at OSLO in Hackney with a rare appearance from Ian William Craig. Craig is from Canada and specialises in a swirling alchemical balance of majestic drone, keyboard zoning and vocal manipulation. Check out his brand new EP ‘Slow Vessels’, streaming here:

IWC will be joined by his 130701 label-mate Resina, who will be coming over from Warsaw to perform her entrancing cello compositions. We’re seriously excited for the evening, read on for the full story.

In other event news this week we confirmed a London concert in August for Pikacyu-Makoto, plus we are also working with them on an album excitingly! Pikacyu-Makoto is an alliance between two figureheads of underground Japanese psych/pop, the musically promiscuous Kawabata Makoto (most famous for his leadership of the legendary Acid Mothers Temple), and Afrirampo's Pikacyu. Tickets onsale for that one now.

 

Next week also sees our biggest show yet with Future Islands go onsale at the O2 Academy Brixton for November 20^th. From 10am on Monday the O2 presale tickets go live whilst Wednesday morning at 10am everyone has a chance to buy tickets for this momentous concert, following on from their barnstorming Dome performance last Thursday! Please find the ticket link for that one in our programme that concludes this message.

\ \ \ \ \     MONDAY     / / / / /

IAN WILLIAM CRAIG

RESINA

Monday 8 May

OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/391059

IAN WILLIAM CRAIG is a sound artist, award-winning printmaker, classically-trained vocalist, writer, photographer, composer and performer, who currently resides in Vancouver. His visual and sonic research has been exhibited and published internationally, and he has participated in various residencies and performances across his native Canada and beyond. Drawing out analogies between his dual practices of music and print-making, Ian's work is deeply informed by a narrative of impermanence, "notions of life as an act of becoming, and beauty within degradation and deterioration". Blending choral, ambient and noise influences together into this customised array of tape decks, Craig moves you over shifting tectonic plates of operatic improvisations, fields of tape hiss and haunting pastoral melodies. Running on a combination of classical vocal training and process-based uncertainty, his music delivers an elegant balance between theatrical and ambient sentiments, by combining the essence of a choral album from Angel Records or Deutsche Grammophon with the distorted spontaneity of experimental home-recording and the likes of Fennesz or William Basinski.

After moving to Vancouver following his studies, Ian began creating albums from his new home. His first recordings were digitally self-released via Bandcamp between 2011 and 2013. Stunningly textured and vaporous, the majority of these releases are largely voiceless. It was when Craig turned to his background in musical theatre, avant-classical orchestration and the choral tradition for A Forgetting Place (2013) and his first two physical releases, A Turn of Breath (2014) and Cradle for the Wanting (2015), where the real breakthrough would be made, with Ian's voice rising firmly to the fore. Both latter albums were issued by the excellent Californian label Recital Program to widespread critical acclaim, his latest album 'Centres' came out last year through FatCat's 130701 imprint (Max Richter, Hauschka, Dustin O'Halloran, Johann Johannsson, etc).

https://ianwilliamcraig.bandcamp.com/

RESINA is the alias of Karolina Rec, a cellist and composer based in Warsaw, Poland. Born 1982, Karolina graduated from the Music Academy in Gdansk and the University of Gdansk. Active in Poland's independent music scene since the late '00s, she was co-founder / collaborator of some of Poland's most influential alternative bands: Kings of Caramel, Cieslak and Princess, Nathalie And The Loners, Anthony Chorale and more. She has featured on numerous album releases and soundtracks (including the Oscar-nominated 'Rabbit a la Berlin'), and has been the author of a dozen music productions for theatre. A compulsive live artist, Karolina's style is primarily characterized by personal language of improvisation and alternative approach to melody. She has collaborated with Scott McCloud, Paul Brody, Piotr Kurek, Coldair, Scianka and many other artists.

Resina was signed to 130701 in February 2016, having sent in a hugely impressive demo. Her self-titled debut album is a result of experiments with cello and simple electronic tools - sometimes close to the form of song; sometimes based more on powerful, intuitive impressions but always marked by the desire to use non-obvious characteristics of the instrument. It is set for release later in 2016.

http://130701.com/artist/resina/

Thanks so much for your time!

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RESINA

Monday 8 May

OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL

7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/391059

DUCKTAILS

JAMES FERRARO

SPENCER CLARK

Friday 12 May

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB

7.30pm | SOLD OUT

XIU XIU

ICE CREAM

SCOTT HARDWARE

Monday 22 May

Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL

8pm | £12 |  https://www.wegottickets.com/event/390523 

PRIESTS

SPECIAL GUESTS

THE SNIVELLERS

Thursday 25 May

OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL

7.30pm | £8 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/389169

OOIOO

BAMBOO

Tuesday 30 May

Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL

8pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/390524 

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, London, E8 3DL

8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/389238

THE SPACE LADY

FLOWERS MUST DIE
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)

STILL HOUSE PLANTS
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, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/393203

SHEER MAG

Thursday 20 July

Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD

7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/401130    

PIKACYU-MAKOTO

Saturday 12 August

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/401265

SPRAY PAINT

THE REBEL

Tuesday 15 August

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/391975

NAP EYES

H. GRIMACE

GARDEN CENTRE

Thursday 31 August

Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

7:30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/394060 

DEERHOOF

LE TON MITÉ

Monday 4 September

Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ

7.30pm |  £14 | http://www.villageunderground.co.uk/events/deerhoof/

NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.

LOWTIDE

Tuesday 5 September

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £5.00 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/399201  

FUTURE ISLANDS

Monday 20 November (In collaboration with Parallel Lines)

O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL

7pm I O2 pre-sale tickets live at 10am Monday, general public tickets onsale 10am Wednesday here:

http://future-islands.com/?cs- event=74572#shows