Tuesday 2 May 2017

Upcoming shows for Ex-Cult & Ian William Craig in London!

Afternoon everyone!

Thank you for coming out recently to our Grouper and Daniel Bachman shows. We have two more remarkable events on the horizon for you this next week too.

Tomorrow night at The Lexington we have abrasive Memphis punks Ex-Cult in town, supported by Pinkgrip from London. It’s going to be gloriously loud, aggressively sprawling and deliriously unruly. Tickets are just £7 and we will have some available on the door from 7.30pm too!

Then next Monday the winds will blow our ship into calmer waters with the fantastic Ian William Craig performing at OSLO in Hackney. Craig is from Canada and specialises in a swirling alchemical balance of majestic drone, keyboard zoning and vocal manipulation. IWC will be joined by his 130701 label-mate Resina, who will be coming over from Warsaw to perform her entrancing cello compositions. Read on for more on all those particulars.

Since we last talked we’ve been busy confirming new headline shows for Sheer Mag and Lowtide later in the year. We also have confirmed support slots for Still House Plants, Flowers Must Die, H. Grimace, Garden Centre, Scott Hardware and Ice Cream. All of these upcoming shows can be found in our concert programme below. For those of you who missed out on tickets for this Thursday’s snap Future Islands show, watch out tomorrow for another big announcement.


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In Upset The Rhythm label news, we’d like to leave you with this photo of Feature’s new album Banishing Ritual that is now well and truly out (and about) on all formats. We also wanted to invite you to read this immensely enjoyable dual interview with Ravioli Me Away and Dog Chocolate that just went up on one of our favourite vessels of cultural capital called A Ship In The Woods, enjoy!




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

EX-CULT are a Memphis-based punk cyclone, releasing batches of bruising records and laying waste to everywhere they play. Chris Shaw lends a sneering, spitting toughness to the proceedings while the band flays riffs in loose, hairy mosh inducing menace behind him, touching on post-punk, psych sprawl, and early 80's hardcore while remaining beholden to none. They have the power to convert even the most jaded and bored concertgoer into a sweaty mess in the pit. Having released two albums of adrenal-enhancing sluggers through Goner Records, last year saw Ex-Cult releasing 'Negative Growth' on In The Red. This collection of songs were conceived in Memphis and finalized in Los Angeles, with the help of family doctor Ty Segall. It was created in February 2016, when the band traded Memphis misery for a week of California sunshine. 'Negative Growth' is a nine-track nightmare, a death trip in the crystal ship and dedicated to fear and deception.

PINKGRIP make loud, pummelsome hardcore punk in London. Their songs are sludgy, pointed and thrash in an oddly addictive way. Check out their demo on Far So Far below!



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

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).

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.


Thanks so much for your time!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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EX-CULT
PINK GRIP
Wednesday 3 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB

FUTURE ISLANDS
WING DAM
UTR DJs
Thursday 4 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL
7pm | SOLD OUT

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

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

PRIESTS
SPECIAL GUESTS
THE SNIVELLERS
Thursday 25 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, 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, London, E8 3DL

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

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

NAP EYES
H. GRIMACE
GARDEN CENTRE
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.

LOWTIDE
Tuesday 5 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

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