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Upset The Rhythm presents…
SHOPPING ES KATY & NICK Saturday 11th August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 6.30pm - 10pm | £10 | TICKETS
SHOPPING are propulsive bass
lines, primitive disco-not-disco drums and guitar lines sharp as broken
glass. The band was formed in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar),
Billy Easter (bass) and Andrew Milk (drums), who've all done time in a
plethora of notable UK DIY bands including Trash Kit and Wet Dog. They
pull from a well of 70's post-punk with a voraciousness seldom seen
these days, bringing to mind the jagged aggression of Gang of Four, the
voracious yelp of The Slits and the dance inducing thrust of Delta 5 .
Their debut LP 'Consumer Complaints' was released November 2013 in the
UK via MILK records and quickly sold out its first pressing. A US
re-issue of 'Consumer Complaints' came out in 2015 via Fat Cat records,
followed up by their excellent second album 'Why Choose?' The band are
tirelessly committed to taking their sound to new audiences and
spreading the Shopping gospel, securing impressive gigs along the way
including main support for ESG and Gang Of Four as well as a BBC 6 Music
session for Marc Riley. They have toured in the UK and throughout
Europe numerous times over the last few years and last year toured the
USA with also awesome Gauche. Shopping’s brand new album ‘The Official
Body’ (FatCat) has met with glowing reviews proclaiming it as
exhilarating as it is mesmerising, we can’t agree enough!
https://soundcloud.com/shoppingband ES are four women based between London and Glasgow making 'mutant synth-punk for our dystopian present’ (Jes Skolnik). Tense, bass driven and synth heavy with frantic drumming and cold, direct vocals, their debut 12”, ’Object Relations’, delivers 4 tracks of gelid guitar-less post punk that is equal parts sparse and cosmic. Think of a mix of KUKL with No Defences jamming with X-mal Deutschland and you may be getting there. https://esband.bandcamp.com/releases KATY & NICK is Katy Cotterell of Gloss Rejection & ES and Nick Carlisle of Bamboo. This is their very British haunted take on synth wave. An abrasive synth punk, not the icy distance of some of the finest continental practitioners. This is the ennui of a damp bedsit in a bad Victorian conversion, not the existentialism of a brutalist estate. There’s a little bit of YMO to the hyper-simple melodies that loop throughout their songs too. An appropriate counterpoint are the arpeggiated synth bursts that thread their way through too. https://katyandnick.bandcamp.com/releases |
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. |
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