Hello there!
Huge thanks for coming out to see
Shopping, Protomartyr, Mount Eerie and Escape-ism these last few weeks. You’ve
been as much night owls as we have, was brilliant to see you all. This week we
have the indispensible Future Islands
back in the big smoke for three nights at the O2 Academy Brixton. True DIY
synth pop heart-breakers made good, Future Islands have been making our lives
better since we released their debut album back in 2008. These three shows at Brixton represent
the bands biggest shows to date, I hope you can join us to celebrate their most
vintage year yet. Tickets are now only available for Wednesday’s event so with
that in mind it’s well worth buying in advance to avoid missing out on this unprecedented moment in their career. Read on for all ticket
links and show info.
This Thursday we’re also very lucky to
have the one and only Roy Montgomery
touchdown at Café OTO to play an incredibly rare set for us. Joined by Alexander Tucker in support, this
promises to be a very special evening of pastoral guitar ambience and
cartographical drone par excellence. Again, we’re almost totally out of tickets
for this one too, so please do snap some of the last ones up if you can, it’ll
be too good to miss, see below for details.
In terms of newly confirmed UTR shows
this week, we confirmed a concert for Chain
And The Gang for next February, plus Richard
Dawson chose Normil Hawaiians to
open for him at our Xmas show at Islington Assembly Hall on December 20th too.
We’ll be announcing a lot of new 2018 shows in the coming weeks too, watch this
space.
Upset The Rhythm will be taking part in
this Saturday's Independent Label Market
at Spitalfields Market, it’s always a blast. We'll have lots of new releases
(from The World, Darlene Shrugg, Gen Pop and Normil Hawaiians), back catalogue
bargains, t-shirts, stickers and badges all on offer, plus we might even wear
Santa hats and ply you with mulled wine! We’ll be looking forward to meeting
you and looking decidedly merry from 11am this Saturday. Here’s the poster so
you can see all the other excellent labels and breweries joining the knees up
too.
Talking of new releases, we wanted to
share with you the brand new mesmeric video for ‘Inherit The Wind’ by Darlene Shrugg. Featuring some blazing
live footage of the band, the video (made by Meg Remy herself) practically brims
with coming of age visuals seemingly dug up from after-school specials. ‘Inherit
The Wind’ is taken from Darlene Shrugg’s self-titled debut album that we
released a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
\ \ \ \ \ MONDAY,
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY / / / / /
Upset The Rhythm presents…
FUTURE
ISLANDS
ZACK
MEXICO
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
The years since the release of Singles have been transformative for Future Islands, catapulting the Baltimore-based band from cult favorites to synthpop icons. As addictive songs like breakout 'Seasons (Waiting on You)' turned the world on to sublime pleasures a loyal fan base already knew, this hard-touring band ploughed forward, playing their 1000th show in July 2015 and celebrating their 10th anniversary in February 2016. This year Future Islands returned at the top of their game with new album The Far Field, delivering twelve chest-pounding love songs and odes to the road as only they can.
The Far Field refines and builds on the
breakthroughs of Singles,
bursting with undeniable hooks and disarmingly honest lyrics written
by Samuel T. Herring (vocals, lyrics), William Cashion (bass,
guitars), and Gerrit Welmers (keyboards, programming). The band
began writing new material in January 2016 on the coast of North Carolina, and
continued throughout the year in Baltimore before road-testing these songs with
a series of secret shows under fake names. In November 2016, they settled in
with Grammy Award-winning producer John Congleton at Los Angeles’
legendary Sunset Sound, where everyone from The Beach Boys to Prince have laid
down masterpieces.
The result is Future Islands’
best set of songs yet, both an emotional summation of the themes they’ve
explored over the past decade and a further distillation of their signature
art-pop sound. It’s the first Future Islands record featuring live drums
by Michael Lowry, who joined the band prior to their viral performance of
‘Seasons’ on Letterman, and whose energy propels the band’s sound to new
heights. With Congleton’s production and string and horn arrangements
by Patrick McMinn, The Far Field finds
Future Islands crafting soundscapes larger and more opulent than ever before,
as sonically lush and expansive as they are lyrically raw and direct.
These three epic shows at the O2 Brixton
Academy this week represent the largest shows the band have played to date, we
hope you can join us to celebrate such a terrific year!
\ \ \ \ \ THURSDAY / / / / /
Upset The Rhythm presents…
ROY MONTGOMERY
ALEXANDER TUCKER
Thursday 23 November
ALEXANDER TUCKER
Thursday 23 November
In collaboration with Café OTO
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/roy-montgomery/
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.
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.
See you all soon I hope, thanks again
for reading!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS
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FUTURE
ISLANDS
ZACK
MEXICO
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
ROY MONTGOMERY
ALEXANDER TUCKER
Thursday 23 November
In collaboration with Café OTO
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/roy-montgomery/
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/roy-montgomery/
SPIRIT
FEST
(Tenniscoats & members of The Notwist, Joasihno
and Jam Money)
DEVON
LOCH
Thursday 7 December
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
RICHARD DAWSON
(Live band show)
(Live band show)
NORMIL HAWAIIANS
Wednesday 20 December
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £15 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/412137
Wednesday 20 December
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £15 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/412137
DAVID NANCE
Monday
5 February
The
Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
GUN OUTFIT
Tuesday 20 February
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/420213
Tuesday 20 February
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/420213
CHAIN
AND THE GANG
Monday 26 February
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/422746
PROTOMARTYR
Thursday 10 May
Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross,
London, N1 9NL
7.30pm | £12.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/420727
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