New show announced for... Roy Montgomery and Alexander Tucker!

Upset The Rhythm & Cafe OTO present…

ROY MONTGOMERY
ALEXANDER TUCKER
Thursday 23 November
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/roy-montgomery/

ROY MONTGOMERY is a guitarist and academic from New Zealand. Across an array of peerless solo and collaborative releases on labels like Kranky, Siltbreeze and VHF he is the architect of a widescreen drone aesthetic exploring psychedelic abstraction and pastoral minimalism that has proved to be highly influential. A key protagonist in the Christchurch 80s noise rock scene, his minimalist post-punk band The Pin Group were the first act to release on Flying Nun and lead to other explorations in short-lived drone project The Shallows and the gloriously open-ended freedoms of noise pop outfit Dadamah. After a quiet spell, Montgomery returned in the late 90s, producing towering spires of guitar lines that exposed fragility between the strums. With his solo releases and in collaboration with Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond (Hash Jar Tempo), and Chris Heaphy (Dissolve), his focus shifted from the truth-mining of rock music to epic celestialism. His ambitious yet humble tracks outstrip their origins, and Montgomery toured the world sitting cross-legged on the floor, playing twenty-plus-minute compositions.

A long period of silence followed, marked only with a split album with Grouper (who lists Montgomery as a primary influence), involvement in Torlesse Super Group, and a couple of thematic variations serving as soundtracks for films. He unexpectedly re-emerged in 2016 with R M H Q (also know as Roy Montgomery’s Headquarters) on Grapefruit/Ba Da Bing, four albums of new material released simultaneously that marked a return to his distinctive pastoral guitar style but added the rare sound of his singing voice. Like all of his catalogue listening to his work is a visceral experience with repeating phrases swelling and decaying, immersing the listener in the cyclical narrative of his compositions.
https://vimeo.com/187847766

ALEXANDER TUCKER is a British avant-pop chamber drone artist who has released solo albums on ATP and Thrill Jockey, he’s also the cosmic guitarist in Grumbling Fur. His live shows fuse self-harmonizing vocal performances with tone generators and looped instrumentation to create a bewildering feast for the senses that seems to tap the wyrd canon of English psychedelia as much as the melodic reverie of contemporary electronic and drone music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSq34FX_nG0

Nap Eyes London show tomorrow & Laraaji this Saturday!

Hey everyone!   We have two events coming up in the next few days that are so great we had to remind you about them both. Tomorrow night we find ourselves at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club for an evening of elegant slacker rock and purity of vision. The fantastically intoxicating Nap Eyes will be making an appearance playing lots of new songs from their new album in the works alongside sets from H. Grimace and Garden Centre too.   To say we’re looking forward would be an understatement, get ready and primed for the raucous ramble and conversational jams.

This Saturday we’re also very lucky to bring the truly inimitable Laraaji to Kilburn’s Tin Tabernacle. With decades of new age minimalism and cosmic drone under his belt, Laraaji will be delivering up his hymnal transcendence throughout two separate sets of shimmering metallics. Sounds like it’ll be very special indeed.   We have tickets available for both of those shows linked below and if you care to read on full listings too.

Yesterday, we were overjoyed to announce the return of John Maus back to London this October too. Toting a new live band and a brand new album entitled ‘Screen Memories’, John will perform an energising live set at Tufnell Park’s Dome on Oct 27th and joining him on the bill are Oakland, California’s post-punk revolutionaries The World.   I’m sure you’re as excited as we are, tickets on sale now and flying out of the door! Full details to follow…

Upset The Rhythm presents…   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   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 the 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' last year, following that up with two incredible London shows! https://napeyes.bandcamp.com/ H. GRIMACE are a London-based quartet with a penchant for exhilarating rock music, having released their debut album this year it looks set to cement their status as one of the UK’s brightest prospects. Ripping between shoegaze and post-punk influences, H. Grimace are a no-holds-barred explosion of sound and energy, the foundations of which are laid by the integral guitar pairing of Marcus Brown and Hannah Gledhill, from Yorkshire and Melbourne respectively. Debut LP 'Self Architect’ is out now on Opposite Number records and has received glowing reviews. https://h-grimace.bandcamp.com/ GARDEN CENTRE is a band formed out of necessity. The specific function of the band was to tell the story of a group of people who found themselves drawn to an abandoned plant nursery in southern England. The band hoped that their messages were transmitted efficiently, broadcast via audio in the form of their debut album 'Garden Centre’. With this task well and truly complete, the members of Garden Centre have become distracted. Some members still obsess over semi-rural boredom and exploration. Others have the audacity to write love songs. The most cretinous members opt to write about energy drinks exclusively. Their distracted and unfocused efforts come to the fore in their new album 'Monster Energy'. https://gardencentre.bandcamp.com/album/garden-centre

Upset The Rhythm presents…   LARAAJI (Performing two sets with an interval) Saturday 2 September The Tin Tabernacle 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA 7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   LARAAJI is a musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising trance-inducing jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. Brian Eno saw him playing one night in Washington Square Park and invited him to record an album for his seminal Ambient series (Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance, released 1980). Laraaji went on to release a prolific series of albums for a wide variety of labels, many of which he recorded himself at home and sold as cassettes during his street performances.   In recent years he has had his career celebrated extensively, with two All Saints/Warp retrospectives Celestial Music 1970-2011 and Two Sides of Laraaji - as well as reissues on Glitterbeat and Leaving Records/Stone Throw. He has also collaborated with a new generation of underground musicians such as Sun Araw, their new LP Professional Sunflow (Superior Viaduct) being the fruit of the live shows they played together in 2014.   This September sees All Saints release a stunning pair of LPs of new studio recordings by the celestial music pioneer. Bring On The Sun is a magical mixtape of tracks that run the full gamut of 'Laraaji music', from blissed-out percussive jams to reflective vocal hymnals to trance-inducing drones. A perfect Laraaji entry-point on his never-ending creative journey through inner light. The record is recorded by Davey Jewell (Peaking Lights/Flaming Lips) and mixed by Carlos Nio (Leaving Records). This will be preceded by Sun Gong, a major new self-contained work experimenting with gong micro-tonalties processed through various electronic effects. The results are unlike any music he has made before - two side-long long-form pieces that evoke the sound of a shimmering metallic eternal wave.  https://soundcloud.com/all-saints-records/laraaji-introspection-edit/s-YGiAF

Thanks for your time, see you tomorrow! Upset The Rhythm x

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

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 | TICKETS

 

LARAAJI

(Performing two sets with an interval)

Saturday 2 September

The Tin Tabernacle

12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA

7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS

 

DEERHOOF

LE TON MITÉ

ROBERT SOTELO

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

ICE BATHS

Tuesday 5 September

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

7.30pm | £5 | TICKETS

 

ROBERT SOTELO - ‘Cusp’ album launch!
CLEMENTINE MARCH
POZI
Friday 8 September
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

 

AMOR

BAMBOO

MIDDEX

UPSET THE RHYTHM DJs

Sunday 17 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS

 

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS

TV CRIME

Monday 9 October

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

7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

PRIESTS

DOWNTOWN BOYS

BIG JOANIE

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

 

JOHN MAUS
THE WORLD
Friday 27 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

SHOPPING

GAUCHE
THE WORLD

 Friday 10 November
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm - 2am | £9 | TICKETS

 

MOUNT EERIE
Monday 13 November
Tuesday 14 November
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS

 

PROTOMARTYR
SAUNA YOUTH
BOMBER JACKETS
Tuesday 14 November
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 - SOLD OUT

Wednesday 22 November

In collaboration with Parallel Lines

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

7pm | TICKETS 

 

RICHARD DAWSON
(Live band show)
Wednesday 20 December
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £15 | TICKETS

The return of John Maus - London concert booked for October 27th!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

JOHN MAUS
THE WORLD
Friday 27 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ

7.30pm | £12 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/414961 

JOHN MAUS is a truly enigmatic musician. Broadly cut from the synth pop cloth, he’s fashioned the frosty minimalism of its fabric into a cloak of infinite meaning, genuine grace and absurdist humor over the course of three defining albums since 2006. His music is a highly mutable affair, whilst often described as retro-futurist on behalf of the 80’s drum machines and synth sounds employed, John’s music is more personal than the nostalgic re-tread implied. There’s a cinematic quality to his songs, with pathos conjured through propelling bass-lines, trailing arpeggios and of course his deeply resonant vocal. Moroder helped map out the territory but Maus is more interested in seeking cadence through his love of Renaissance polyphony and the experimentation behind post punk. It’s an amalgamation of musical ideas as radical as its intent. Maus is a ‘man out of time’ trying to make sense of the inhumanity of our world through his mobilisation of the language of punk rock. His aim is true as he reaches for the seemingly impossible. It’s a want to emerge as part of greater multiplicity, to appear, to become, to connect that powers his songs and the man himself. It’s now been six years since the widely lauded album  ‘We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves’ appeared like a thunderbolt of maniacal energy and turned everyone’s heads. This October his fourth album proper entitled ‘Screen Memories’ is due for release through Ribbon/Domino, followed next year with a career defining boxset of his work. John Maus is back (this time with a live band) and he sounds gloriously alive. The triumph of the human is upon us!
http://www.johnma.us/

THE WORLD are from Oakland, California. The year is 2017 and The World offer the only glimmers of hope in a city rapidly transforming into a wasteland of artisanal toast and succulent shops right before our very eyes. They’ve awed all those who have seen them play in San Francisco basements, beach town bars, crowded East Bay lofts—who knew the sight of bongos could be so titillating? And now The World is ready for the world. Their debut LP is all double sax attack, the tremolo of dub guitar, and those spare and sturdy drums, anchored by the gravitational pull of Amber’s propulsive bass. Every member of this band feels like the secret weapon, and together, the combination is deadly, the particular alchemy of musicians who voraciously consume music of all kinds. Members have done time in Andy Human and the Reptoids, Rays, Pang, and Penny Machine—devotees of all those will find much to like here. The World’s a post-punk band, sure, but they’re also a dance group, a wild and revolutionary art collective, sounds from the past catapulted to the future. ‘First World Record’ is due out October 6th through Upset The Rhythm.
http://theworldband.tumblr.com/

Mount Eerie London poster!

Phil Elverum has made us a poster for his two Mount Eerie shows in London this November!

Warm Digits, Nap Eyes & Laraaji London shows, plus Darlene Shrugg's new album announced!

Afternoon all!   We have three outstanding shows coming up fast in the immediate future. Tomorrow we’re beyond happy to be hosting Warm Digits in support of their brand new album at The Lexington. Warm Digits are a motoric epiphany of drums, guitar and pulsing hardware, complete with mesmeric kosmische visuals. All that on-stage multi-tasking makes their live sets a dynamic kraut-disco spectacle par excellence. Peter Brewis (of Field Music) and Sarah Cracknell (Saint Etienne) will both guest on a track each with Warm Digits tomorrow too!   In support we have Comfort from Glasgow with their own energised synth-n-drums performance, plus Upset The Rhythm will be spinning records throughout the night for your enjoyment. Tickets cost £8 and will be available on the door from 7.30pm, what a way to start the long weekend!

After the bank holiday, we have Nap Eyes and Laraaji both in London on Thursday and Saturday respectively.   Nap Eyes will be bringing their Nova Scotian indie jangle to Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, finding themselves in fine company with H. Grimace and Garden Centre.   Whilst the enigmatic Laraaji will be filling up the Tin Tabernacle with his hymnal transcendence throughout two sets of shimmering metallics. Yes, there will be gong. We have tickets available for both of those shows linked below and if you care to read on full listings for all three fantastic events.

In terms of our record label, we’ve also put our shoulder to the wheel. Yesterday we announced our new album from Canadian rock-n-roll spectacle Darlene Shrugg. Darlene Shrugg features members of U.S. Girls, Slim Twig, Ice Cream and Tropics, so is a veritable who’s-who of Toronto’s prescient underground. Check out Strawberry Milk, the first track from Darlene’s incredible self-titled upcoming album, kindly premiered by Tiny Mix Tapes!   "It starts off with effervescently ambient synths swirling around the listeners ear until a heartbeat bass begins to chug, at which point the synths suddenly coalesce around an angelic voice, rising with baroque-pop strings and a Laurie Anderson-esque choir, ultimately launching the rock rocket to psychedelic heaven in its final minute."

Darlene Shrugg's album will come out through Upset The Rhythm on October 27th and is available to pre-order now: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/   If that’s got your foot tapping in a celestial power ballad sort of way, let’s push onwards towards full pogo with Robert Sotelo’s new song Marinade, which never fails to spin all who hear it into a cycle of melodic craving. Sotelo’s winning debut album ‘Cusp’ is due out on September 1st through Upset The Rhythm, not long to wait now!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   WARM DIGITS COMFORT UTR DJs Friday 25 August The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS   WARM DIGITS are Steve Jefferis and Andrew Hodson; a trans-pennine, krautophonic blizzard-wave duo that emerged from Newcastle upon Tyne's underground scene with a sound like Neu and Cluster forming a supergroup with Giorgio Moroder, Kevin Shields, Eno and Keith Levene. Their first album, 'Keep Warm... with the Warm Digits', came out in 2011 on Newcastle's Distraction Records; Andrew Weatherall described them as producing some fine "machine funk kraut-a-delia" and the duo were soon went on to headline one of his Live From Outer Space events. Live, Warm Digits are a motoric epiphany of drums, guitar and pulsing hardware, complete with mesmeric kosmische visuals; all that on-stage multi-tasking making their live sets a dynamic kraut-disco experience. The last few years have seen Warm Digits release a second album entitled 'Interchange', tour with British Sea Power and support the legendary Goblin, St Etienne, Future Islands and ESG. Warm Digits now have a new album out now on Memphis Industries, featuring vocal contributions from Field Music, Sarah Cracknell (of Saint Etienne), Devon Sproule and Mia La Metta (of Beards). Look out for some special vocal guests on the night of the show too! http://warmdigits.co.uk/   COMFORT are a queer punk two piece from Glasgow that make music that trades out guitar and bass for a more electronic/sample based approach. Pulsating bass, glitchy synths, crushed drums and vocal rhetoric all feature in their contagiously brilliant dialogue. Check out their first collection of songs titled ‘Built to Waste’ on their bandcamp now. https://comfortglasgow.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents…   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   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 the 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' last year, following that up with two incredible London shows! https://napeyes.bandcamp.com/ H. GRIMACE are a London-based quartet with a penchant for exhilarating rock music, having released their debut album this year it looks set to cement their status as one of the UK’s brightest prospects. Ripping between shoegaze and post-punk influences, H. Grimace are a no-holds-barred explosion of sound and energy, the foundations of which are laid by the integral guitar pairing of Marcus Brown and Hannah Gledhill, from Yorkshire and Melbourne respectively. Debut LP 'Self Architect’ is out now on Opposite Number records and has received glowing reviews. https://h-grimace.bandcamp.com/ GARDEN CENTRE is a band formed out of necessity. The specific function of the band was to tell the story of a group of people who found themselves drawn to an abandoned plant nursery in southern England. The band hoped that their messages were transmitted efficiently, broadcast via audio in the form of their debut album 'Garden Centre’. With this task well and truly complete, the members of Garden Centre have become distracted. Some members still obsess over semi-rural boredom and exploration. Others have the audacity to write love songs. The most cretinous members opt to write about energy drinks exclusively. Their distracted and unfocused efforts come to the fore in their new album 'Monster Energy'. https://gardencentre.bandcamp.com/album/garden-centre

Upset The Rhythm presents…   LARAAJI (Performing two sets with an interval) Saturday 2 September The Tin Tabernacle 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA 7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   LARAAJI is a musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising trance-inducing jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. Brian Eno saw him playing one night in Washington Square Park and invited him to record an album for his seminal Ambient series (Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance, released 1980). Laraaji went on to release a prolific series of albums for a wide variety of labels, many of which he recorded himself at home and sold as cassettes during his street performances.   In recent years he has had his career celebrated extensively, with two All Saints/Warp retrospectives Celestial Music 1970-2011 and Two Sides of Laraaji - as well as reissues on Glitterbeat and Leaving Records/Stone Throw. He has also collaborated with a new generation of underground musicians such as Sun Araw, their new LP Professional Sunflow (Superior Viaduct) being the fruit of the live shows they played together in 2014.   This September sees All Saints release a stunning pair of LPs of new studio recordings by the celestial music pioneer. Bring On The Sun is a magical mixtape of tracks that run the full gamut of 'Laraaji music', from blissed-out percussive jams to reflective vocal hymnals to trance-inducing drones. A perfect Laraaji entry-point on his never-ending creative journey through inner light. The record is recorded by Davey Jewell (Peaking Lights/Flaming Lips) and mixed by Carlos Nio (Leaving Records). This will be preceded by Sun Gong, a major new self-contained work experimenting with gong micro-tonalties processed through various electronic effects. The results are unlike any music he has made before - two side-long long-form pieces that evoke the sound of a shimmering metallic eternal wave.  https://soundcloud.com/all-saints-records/laraaji-introspection-edit/s-YGiAF

See you all soon, thanks for reading! Upset The Rhythm x

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

WARM DIGITS

COMFORT

UTR DJs

Friday 25 August

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

7.30pm | £8 | 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 | TICKETS

 

LARAAJI

(Performing two sets with an interval)

Saturday 2 September

The Tin Tabernacle

12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA

7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS

 

DEERHOOF

LE TON MITÉ

ROBERT SOTELO

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

ICE BATHS

Tuesday 5 September

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

7.30pm | £5 | TICKETS

 

ROBERT SOTELO - ‘Cusp’ album launch!
CLEMENTINE MARCH
POZI
Friday 8 September
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

 

AMOR

BAMBOO

MIDDEX

UPSET THE RHYTHM DJs

Sunday 17 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS

 

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS

TV CRIME

Monday 9 October

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

7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

PRIESTS

DOWNTOWN BOYS

BIG JOANIE

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

 

SHOPPING

GAUCHE
THE WORLD

 Friday 10 November
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm - 2am | £9 | TICKETS

 

MOUNT EERIE
Monday 13 November
Tuesday 14 November
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS

 

PROTOMARTYR
SAUNA YOUTH
BOMBER JACKETS
Tuesday 14 November
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 - SOLD OUT

Wednesday 22 November

In collaboration with Parallel Lines

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

7pm | TICKETS 

 

RICHARD DAWSON
(Live band show)
Wednesday 20 December
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £15 | TICKETS

Announcing - Darlene Shrugg's new album!

Very excited to announce our new album from Canada's premier rock-n-roll spectacle Darlene Shrugg. Check out 'Strawberry Milk', the first track from their incredible self-titled upcoming album, kindly premiered by Tiny Mix Tapes!

"It starts off with effervescently ambient synths swirling around the listeners ear until a heartbeat bass begins to chug, at which point the synths suddenly coalesce around an angelic voice, rising with baroque-pop strings and a Laurie Anderson-esque choir, ultimately launching the rock rocket to psychedelic heaven in its final minute."

Darlene Shrugg's self-titled debut album will come out through Upset The Rhythm on October 27th!

Available to pre-order now: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Darlene Shrugg is unabashedly a rock ’n roll band. Formed in Toronto in 2013, it’s something of a local enigma; Darlene more or less abstains from an internet presence, and its public performances are sporadic at best. Now, over two, reticent years, Darlene has completed an LP, coaxing out an imaginatively produced debut album of brash theatricality and uninhibited Rock and Roll.

Darlene represents collaborative convergence. The band was conceived initially by Maximilian Turnbull (formerly Slim Twig) and Simone TB, who played together for ten years as art-punk duo, Tropics. Seemingly having exhausted the limits of their angular, hermetic approach, they felt it time to broaden horizons. They invited Meg Remy, creative force behind the critically lauded U.S. Girls project, to compose lyrics and vocal melodies for a new band’s repertoire. It was quickly apparent that Remy should also perform in the band, at which point both Carlyn Bezic and Amanda Crist, known for their electro-pop duo, Ice Cream, also joined. An interesting dynamic developed. Turnbull & TB generated instrumentals for Remy to write to. Furnished with lyrics and melodies, the songs were then arranged by the entire group. This work and a schedule of infrequent live shows continued for a couple of years until Young Guv, of Fucked Up fame, cajoled the band into a studio with engineer-producer Steve Chahley to finally record some of the exciting new tunes.

A certain alchemy has helped to establish the unique force found on the debut album: four women, one man; four Canadians and an American; musical collaborations stretching back to nascent high school years; punk exuberance meeting studio finesse. Darlene exudes an easy confidence in combining the raw, blunt power of the band’s writing and arrangements with Turnbull & Chahley’s layered and, at times, elaborate production. The concise blast of their self-titled debut seeks to compress, absorb and invert the energy of classic rock. They profane, as much as pay tribute to a lineage of foundational bands, arguably stemming from Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper through Thin Lizzy, and on through the boy’s club fantasy of early 2000’s, ‘raw’ rock revival bands, like The Strokes or The Hives. Gauche rock moves are ransacked and transformed with the glee of an amateur cast production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. All of this unfolds in less than half an hour, leaving time for a detour into the sublime with album centrepiece, Strawberry Milk, an interstellar power ballad turned meditation on Eve, and the confrontation between sex and eternity.

With their glammed-up, high intensity live show featuring all members contributing vocals (save drummer TB), Darlene Shrugg seems not to rebut so much as disregard the notion of Rock’s diminished cultural capital. Their diverse brand of hard rock resists genre pigeon-holing. They fan out an array of stylistic threads, which they might later choose to follow up, or perhaps just as likely, skip past. They’ve laid waste to the Toronto underground. Now, they’re hungry for more.

 

Work up an appetite with Robert Sotelo this morning!

x

Uncut Magazine on Robert Sotelo - 8/10!!!

Wolf Eyes solo sets in London tomorrow, Warm Digits next week!

Hey everyone!

Huge thanks to all of you for coming out this last week to see Pikacyu-Makoto and Spray Paint & The Rebel. We’re not through with you yet though, tomorrow (yes, Thursday night) we’ll be pitching up at The Islington in Angel for an evening of Psycho-Jazz excess from Wolf Eyes in their solo guises. We’ll have John R. Olson, Regression and Crazy Jim all performing in the name of weird yet powerful times. Tickets cost £10 and will be available on the door from 7.30pm, imagine sonic eruptions commencing 8.30pm. Read on for all the specifics.

Also, whilst we have your attention, please find below the full scoop on our upcoming Warm Digits and Comfort concert next week on Friday 25^th August. If you’re into "machine funk kraut-a-delia" (and who isn’t?) this show is about to take the roof off. Really excited to have Glasgow’s Comfort joining the lineup for this one too, along with our excellent Upset The Rhythm DJs. Enjoy…

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Wolf Eyes in solo mode featuring sets from…

JOHN R. OLSON
NATE YOUNG’S REGRESSION
CRAZY JIM
Thursday 17 August
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/409977

JOHN R. OLSON aka Inzane Johnny of Wolf Eyes and American Tapes will be treating us to a solo slice from his mind platter, featuring reeds and modulations galore. As a part of Wolf Eyes, Olson is responsible for augmenting the USA's longest-running homemade, primitive, electronic, poetry & radical vibes trio. They don't just release albums they launch scotched, taped nuclear audio fronts on humanity. Earlier this year saw them release their new album ‘Undertow’ packed full of what Olson does best; unnerving dread meets genuine freedom vibes that shiver their way through the dark ambience of it all.
http://www.wolfeyes.net/main.html

REGRESSION is the solo project of Nate Young, a founding member of seminal Detroit noise band Wolf Eyes. More recently he's been honing an equally distinctive solo sound that blends myriad sources from musique concrète, vintage film atmospherics, layered synths and archive library recordings into something thrillingly intense. Summoning up crushingly ominous crepuscular soundscapes and synth-washed phantasmagoria, Young undercuts the brutalism of Wolf Eyes with the kind of ambient dread that conjures images of lost horror soundtracks from the 70's. Minimal analogue synth violence is punctuated by thunder cracks of metal percussion ala the early Akita/Null Merzbow duets, massively doomy beat hypnotics and an atmosphere that's somewhere between the most apocalyptic Throbbing Gristle recordings, Coil's Musick To Play In The Dark, The Conet Project and your favourite Kraut kosmonaut. Young's most recent album 'Blinding Confusion' (out on NNA Tapes) has the feel of a kind of post-synth electro-acoustic ritual, albeit tied-in with a visionary compositional aesthetic that is a couple of miles beyond your average weird-beard in a basement non-vibe.

https://soundcloud.com/nate-young

   



CRAZY JIM aka James ‘Crazy Jim’ Baljo, is proof that not every side-project of Wolf Eyes results in noise. Veering towards the sweet and ambient, Crazy Jim uses only guitars to build huge waves of tonic abstraction. Nate Young credits Crazy Jim as "the first person to coin the term INZANE and plays and lives accordingly", look out for some sweet folk-tuned bliss and tape delay guitar gloop.


https://soundcloud.com/inzaneazylum

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WARM DIGITS

COMFORT

UTR DJs

Friday 25 August

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

7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/407325

WARM DIGITS are Steve Jefferis and Andrew Hodson; a trans-pennine, krautophonic blizzard-wave duo that emerged from Newcastle upon Tyne's underground scene with a sound like Neu and Cluster forming a supergroup with Giorgio Moroder, Kevin Shields, Eno and Keith Levene. Their first album, 'Keep Warm... with the Warm Digits', came out in 2011 on Newcastle's Distraction Records; Andrew Weatherall described them as producing some fine "machine funk kraut-a-delia" and the duo were soon went on to headline one of his Live From Outer Space events. Live, Warm Digits are a motoric epiphany of drums, guitar and pulsing hardware, complete with mesmeric kosmische visuals; all that on-stage multi-tasking making their live sets a dynamic kraut-disco experience. The last few years have seen Warm Digits release a second album entitled 'Interchange', tour with British Sea Power and support the legendary Goblin, St Etienne, Future Islands and ESG. Warm Digits now have a new album out now on Memphis Industries, featuring vocal contributions from Field Music, Sarah Cracknell (of Saint Etienne), Devon Sproule and Mia La Metta (of Beards). Look out for some special vocal guests on the night of the show too!

http://warmdigits.co.uk/

COMFORT are a queer punk two piece from Glasgow that make music that trades out guitar and bass for a more electronic/sample based approach. Pulsating bass, glitchy synths, crushed drums and vocal rhetoric all feature in their contagiously brilliant dialogue. Check out their first collection of songs titled ‘Built to Waste’ on their bandcamp now.

https://comfortglasgow.bandcamp.com

Thanks for spending your time with us, see you tomorrow!

UPSET THE RHYTHM

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http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk    

http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/  

http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com     

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JOHN R. OLSON

NATE YOUNG’S REGRESSION

CRAZY JIM

Thursday 17 August

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

7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/409977

WARM DIGITS

COMFORT

UTR DJs

Friday 25 August

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

7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/407325

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 

LARAAJI

(Performing two sets with an interval)

Saturday 2 September

The Tin Tabernacle

12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA UK | Map

7pm | £12.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/411331

DEERHOOF

LE TON MITÉ

ROBERT SOTELO

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

ICE BATHS

Tuesday 5 September

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

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

ROBERT SOTELO - ‘Cusp’ album launch!
CLEMENTINE MARCH
POZI
Friday 8 September
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/410124

AMOR

BAMBOO

MIDDEX

UPSET THE RHYTHM DJs

Sunday 17 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/413413  

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS

TV CRIME

Monday 9 October

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


7.30pm | £12 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/407314

PRIESTS

DOWNTOWN BOYS

BIG JOANIE

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

SHOPPING
GAUCHE

THE WORLD
Friday 10 November
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm - 2am | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/411836

MOUNT EERIE
Monday 13 November
Tuesday 14 November
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/upset-the-rhythm-presents-mount-eerie

PROTOMARTYR
SAUNA YOUTH
BOMBER JACKETS
Tuesday 14 November
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/410129

FUTURE ISLANDS

Monday 20 November – SOLD OUT

Tuesday 21 November – SOLD OUT

Wednesday 22 November

In collaboration with Parallel Lines

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

7pm I Tickets: http://future-islands.com/?cs- event=74572#shows

RICHARD DAWSON
(Live band show)
Wednesday 20 December
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £15 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/412137