Sauna Youth album launch next week! Primo in London soon!

Hello everyone!   Thanks so much for coming out last week to see Shopping shake it all up, our next August events are coming up fast so we thought we’d share all the info with you. Next Saturday we’ll be launching Sauna Youth’s brand new album ‘Deaths’ at Bethnal Green’s Redon railway arch venue. Current Affairs and Pinkgrip will also be lending their skills to make the evening pack that crucial punch.   If you like your punk smart like a whip this is the event for you. There are also rumours circulating that the stage will be given a somewhat green-fingered make-over for this special album release party too, get your garden on!

Following next weekend’s knees-up, we’re very pleased to welcome Melbourne’s Primo to London for the very first time.   This concert will take place at The Islington on Wednesday 29 August and finds Rainham Sheds and Slushy Guts performing too. Last month we released Primo’s astonishing debut album, so we’re super excited to witness them play live their minimalist, chiming songs about the city, mirages, walking, ghosts and the 40-hour walking week!   Read on for the full story on both of these truly requisite entertainments.

Upset The Rhythm presents… SAUNA YOUTH – ‘Deaths’ Album Release Party! CURRENT AFFAIRS PINK GRIP Saturday 25 August Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm - 1.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   SAUNA YOUTH are a London-based punk band featuring Boon, Mince, Ecke and Pines. They played together in the band Monotony, and between them have played or do play in other bands and music projects including Primitive Parts, Feature, Child’s Pose, Lilac, Cold Pumas, Oblate, Teufelskreis, Mind Jail, Gold Foil, Tense Men as well as being involved with the organisations Good Night Out, The Positive Press, Constant Flux & Heart n Soul. Sauna Youth are releasing their third album this September under the thrilling and fatal moniker ‘Deaths’. This album will once again be released by Upset the Rhythm. The final part in a trilogy of LPs that started with Dreamlands in 2012 (wide-eyed, naive beginnings introducing listeners to the world the records inhabit), followed by Distractions three years ago (what happens while you’re heading towards a destination, the unknowns, the unexpected outcomes), the songs that comprise Deaths are collectively about the act of finishing, an ode to ‘the ending’. The 12 tracks touch on political rhetoric, artistic legacy, action and passivity, work and leisure, and, of course, distraction, referencing many musical genres in the process while never leaving punk’s orbit. This show will act as their album release party! www.lostinidea.blogspot.com CURRENT AFFAIRS are pure new wave excitement from Glasgow. Joan, Josh, Andrew & Seb are a sassy, thumping, ’tune after tune’ post-punk party hit-machine. Their queer, goth punk is laden with addictive bass hooks, frantic guitar screeches, bullet punch drum hits, whirring keyboards and commanding calls. Sharing members with Anxiety, Rose McDowall and Shopping. https://currentaffairs.bandcamp.com/ 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! https://farsofar.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2

Upset The Rhythm presents…   PRIMO! RAINHAM SHEDS SLUSHY GUTS Wednesday 29 August The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   PRIMO! are Xanthe Waite, Violetta DelConte Race and Suzanne Walker. As a trio from Melbourne writing up-tempo, terse chorus and verse, Primo make use of two guitars, drums, sound effects and a group vocal sensibility to ornament their enquiries into deconstructed punk and indie rock. Their songs chime and charm, sounding at times bountiful, at others brittle, always buoyant with attention to detail. Primo songs are alive and inquisitive, chasing down questions for answers long sped-away, amidst minimalist shuffle beats and ringing-out chords. The group’s debut album ‘Amici’ is a triumph of the underplayed, its small details pull focus, allowing the album to treat us to unexpected truths in plain sight. Primo's newest member since 2018 is Amy Hill, who also plays in Terry and Constant Mongrel, on bass. Outside of Primo, Xanthe and Violetta both have lent their guitar skills to Terry and The Shifters respectively, whilst Suzanne works in film too. The band’s debut album ‘Amici’ will be released as LP and CD on Upset The Rhythm on July 13th and followed up in August with a European tour. http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/primo.shtml RAINHAM SHEDS is Post-punk, all female maximum art-core on a primitive tip. Conceptual skronk noise. They sing about theorists, Art stars, bad jobs, sex with furniture and reminding themselves that he’s not her dad. Their new EP is available on Permanent Slump now! https://permanentslump.bandcamp.com/album/rainham-sheds SLUSHY GUTS started life in late 2009 as the one man project of London artist Steve Keane. Initially a bare bones solo endeavour, over the course of a number of CDR and tape releases the recordings gradually became more textured and layered, necessitating the recruitment of additional players for (sporadic) live appearances, of which by this point there have been a rotating cast of many. The current group is formed of Steve along with good friends Sam and Luke Walsh, Ben Goodwin, The Spirit of James Rowland and the mysterious Paddy O'Furniture, resulting in a more traditional Rock n' Roll set up (see Velvet Underground/Wedding Present/The Fall) without the loss of any of the awkward experimentalism of previous incarnations. Brand new album, ‘The Blasted Stump’ is Slushy Guts fourth album proper and the first on which the production duties have been shared with someone else, (Sam Walsh) resulting in a comparatively polished sounding record, parting the hiss and allowing the songs to shine through. https://slushyguts.bandcamp.com/

Thank you all for your time and support! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

SAUNA YOUTH – ‘Deaths’ Album Release Party!

CURRENT AFFAIRS

PINK GRIP

Saturday 25 August

Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA

7.30pm - 1.30pm | £8 | TICKETS

 

PRIMO
RAINHAM SHEDS

SLUSHY GUTS

Wednesday 29 August
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS

 

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
TERRY

HOLIDAY GHOSTS

Tuesday 4 September
The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS

 

PROLAPSE
FIVEHEAD
Thursday 6 September
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £11 | TICKETS

 

LITHICS
ES

NO HOME

Friday 7 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS

 

PATSY

NEKRA
BAMYA

Saturday 8 September
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS

 

SCREAMING FEMALES
SCRAP BRAIN

RODENTS

Tuesday 11 September
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL

7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius)

JEUCE

DOG CHOCOLATE

Thursday 13 September

Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU

7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS

 

TERRY
THE HOMOSEXUALS
RUSSELL WALKER
Tuesday 18th September
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS

 

WOLF EYES MUSIC: THREE DAY RESIDENCY

Friday 21st, Saturday 22nd, Sunday 23rd September

In collaboration with Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £12 per day | TICKETS

 

21 SEPT:

WOLF EYES with YEAH YOU

WOLF EYES (short set)

AARON DILLOWAY / VICKY LANGAN (Duo)

 

22 SEPT:

UNIVERSAL EYES

(Nate Young, John Olson, Aaron Dilloway, Gretchen Davidson)

TRIPLE NEGATIVE

VICKY LANGAN (DJ set)

 

23 SEPT:

WOLF EYES with BEATRICE DILLON

AARON DILLOWAY (solo)

SHARON GAL (solo)

 

ROSE MCDOWALL
JETSTREAM PONY

Monday 1st October
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS

 

VIRGINIA WING
Thursday 11 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS

 

THE SPACE LADY
SPINNING COIN
Tuesday 23 October
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS

 

EARTHEATER
Thursday 25 October
The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU
8pm | £10 | TICKETS

 

JO PASSED

SLUMB PARTY
Thursday 25 October
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS

 

GROUPER
Monday 29 October
Hackney Arts Centre, 13 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 8BH
7pm | £16.50 | TICKETS