GDPR + Dog Chocolate album launch tomorrow + Sauna Youth & Apostille this Saturday night! yeh!

Hey there!   First things first, here’s our quite out the blue update on our Privacy Policy. Bet you didn’t see this coming? As you almost certainly know from today’s inbox crush, tomorrow (May 25th) sees the new GDPR data protection law come into effect. Everyone on our mailing list opted-in to receive our regular Upset The Rhythm newsletter about upcoming records and live shows so you there’s no need to re-subscribe. However, we would like you to consult our new privacy policy so you can be assured that your data will not be traded with third parties and is entirely secure as ever.

Now the formalities are dealt with, since we last talked, Upset The Rhythm have confirmed a new October event for Manchester’s psych pop duo Virginia Wing. You can find full details of that below in our upcoming live programme, most exciting! That’s not us done for this week though, we’ve got two more GREAT concerts looming into view for tomorrow and Saturday.

Tomorrow night sees us launch Dog Chocolate’s new album ‘Moody Balloon Baby’ in style at The Macbeth in Hoxton. Joining Dog Chocolate in the arena of live spectacle will be the wonderfully-named Molejoy and Witching Waves, fresh from their storming performance with Screaming Females last night! Not only will Dog Chocolate’s new album be available to purchase in the physical LP format, but we’ve heard rumours of a balloon modeller being booked by the band too. Let’s get moody, tickets on the door from 7pm (think early show) for just £3 entry! Bargain wows!

Then this Saturday night we’ll give Whigfield the slip and head up to the Dalston Victoria for a right ole party with Apostille, Sauna Youth and Static Palm. Now… That’s What I Call Music 2018! Apostille (now a devastating live duo prospect) will be celebrating their upcoming new album ‘Choose Life’ on Upset The Rhythm (out June 8th) by showcasing many of it’s phantasmagorical power anthems, we are truly blessed! Tickets are £7 and will be available on the door from 7.30pm. Can’t come soon enough! Lots more detail on both of these totemic gigs can be discerned below.   Plus, if you’d like to see Apostille on their present UK tour here are all their upcoming live concerns:   APOSTILLE TOUR 24/05 - Nottingham, UK @ The Chameleon 25/05 - Bristol, UK @ Stag And Hounds 26/05 - London, UK @ The Victoria 27/05 - Brighton, UK @ The Pipeline 28/05 - Cardiff, UK @ The Undertone 31/05 - Leeds, UK @ The Fenton 01/06 - Newcastle, UK @ Star & Shadow 02/06 - Glasgow, UK @ The Art School

If you’d like to hear a bunch of our new UTR releases including Apostille, Vital Idles and School Damage then you’d be hard pressed to find a more suitable setting then our brand new mixtape for CAMP Radio. Check out episode 8 here, listen up, listen loud, listen now!   Really helps you get through our updated Privacy Policy too!

DOG CHOCOLATE WITCHING WAVES MOLEJOY Friday 25 May The Macbeth, 70 Hoxton St, Hoxton, London, N1 6LP 7pm-10.30pm | £3 | Tickets on the door!   DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals from London. Abandoning notions of elegance, cred and professionalism they embrace the ramshackle, instant and fun, capturing a vivid spontaneity with their music. Their sound is a shabby, fast, over-excited ball of wet fur falling down the stairs, knocking over plant pots along the way and staining the carpet. With an average song time of 2 minutes, Dog Chocolate are on to the next treat before fully digesting the last. Chewing up bits of punk, post-punk, noise and pop, Matthew and Robert's guitars race around each other like wasps, pitch-shifting and phasing all over the place while Jono's rolled-up-newspaper drums chase them round the room. This party is a celebration in honour of the band's new album ‘Moody Balloon Baby’ (out May 15th) through Upset The Rhythm, who also released their debut 'Snack Fans' in 2016. http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/   WITCHING WAVES are a post-punk trio from London, writing songs that are a satisfying mix of pop sensibility and tumult. Emma and Mark’s dual vocals juxtapose brilliantly – from calm composure to world-weary petulance; their aptitude for combining melody with belligerence being the most triumphant facet. Check out both their brilliant albums to date on Soft Power. https://witchingwaves.bandcamp.com/   MOLEJOY is a band, undermining with joyous anger pangs. On their own terms. non-heroic beats for anyone who wants them. Songs/sounds about microwaves, banging yourself and radicalising your children. Kind of like .... we don't really know. Sometimes there's a flute. Molejoy is Gyles Brunch, Sophie Chapman and Kerri Jefferis. molejoy.bandcamp.com/releases

Upset The Rhythm presents…   APOSTILLE SAUNA YOUTH STATIC PALM Saturday 26 May The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS 7.30pm | £7 |TICKETS   APOSTILLE is a man who's torn through enough sound-systems to know the difference between gesture and meaning. Alongside running his own DIY record label, Glasgow native, Michael Kasparis has spent the last few years making forays into the realm of hardcore punk with his groups Anxiety and The Lowest Form. Throughout all this, his solo electronic venture, Apostille has continued to evolve with each twist and turn of the world. What started off as a quest to whip up a mood and force that into a song has steadily become more of a mission in communication. His audacious 2015 debut album 'Powerless' self-released through Night School set the template by hooking up his honest delivery to some manic expositions in electronic pop. At once minimal and courageous with intent to connect, Apostille songs race off with unchecked abandon, skittering drum machines, thick walls of sequenced synth and decidedly elastic basslines. 'Choose Life' (out June 8th on Upset The Rhythm) is both the album Apostille chose to make and had to make. He dialled down the clown, built up a new-found confidence in his voice and melody in general and began to feel more at home in the refuge of pop music (with a capital P). All the truest pop music speaks to us of escape and through this new album Apostille allows its transformative power to fully manifest. It's an album full of life and energy, and like his live show as disobedient as it is heroic in its pursuit of liberation. https://apostille.bandcamp.com/  SAUNA YOUTH are an evolving band of future humans making truly irregular punk, not quite comparable to anything else. "Weird" is a meaningless platitude and "art punk" is a classifier that shouldn't be required. Consisting of Boon (drums, vocals), Pines (guitar), Ecke (vocals, sampler) and Mince (bass), Sauna Youth are a punk band that's happy to embrace all of the contradictions that go along with that notion. On paper, Sauna Youth sound considered - live, they can barely be contained. They are at times furious, unstoppable and severe, with the sampler wailing like an alarm coming from a parallel universe - then chugging, poppy, harmonious and fun. Forever loud. 2015's totemic 'Distractions' album (Upset The Rhythm) is a record that feels instinctive and natural, flowing freely from a band that have come to terms with the sum of its parts. http://lostinidea.blogspot.co.uk/ STATIC PALM is the solo project of James Burgess, featuring his synth & drum-machine led brooding post-punk. Fans of John Maus, Total Control, Tuxedomoon and other practitioners of ice-cold music will enjoy. https://staticpalm.bandcamp.com/

Thanks for your time, catch you tomorrow! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

DOG CHOCOLATE WITCHING WAVES MOLEJOY Friday 25 May The Macbeth, 70 Hoxton St, Hoxton, London, N1 6LP 7pm-10.30pm | £3 | Tickets on the door!   APOSTILLE SAUNA YOUTH STATIC PALM Saturday 26 May The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   JOHN MAUS NICK NICELY COLIN POTTER Thursday 14 June Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP 7.30pm | £15.00 | TICKETS   KRISTIN HERSH FRED ABONG Monday 18 June Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, Camden, London, NW1 7AY 7.30pm | £24 | TICKETS   YUNOHANA VARIATIONS: YOSHIMIO & ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE & SUSIE IBARRA SAM WEAVER Tuesday 26 June OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   SHOPPING ES KATY & NICK Saturday 11th August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 6.30pm - 10pm | £10 | TICKETS   SHANNON AND THE CLAMS Tuesday 4 September The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   SCREAMING FEMALES Tuesday 11 September 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   VIRGINIA WING Thursday 11 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS