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Afternoon all,
I trust you’re having a sustaining Summer, Upset The Rhythm have
got three shows and one album due for you this month. ‘I’m Terry’ by,
yes you guessed it, Terry, will be setting the world alight via the medium of vinyl on August 31st.
But, before that we have London concerts from Shopping, Sauna Youth and Primo all cued up in the coming weeks too.
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Shopping make their welcome return next week, on Saturday 11
August. Having rampantly toured the globe this year, wowing all and
sundry, we’re very excited to have Shopping return to the city where the
urge to shop began.
This post punk party to end all others will take place at Oslo, Hackney and will also feature performances from Es and Katy & Nick too. Please note this is an early show, doors from 6.30pm and loud bizniz tied up by 10pm.
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Saturday 25 August is the next date for your diaries as we’ll celebrating the release of Sauna Youth’s new album that day at Redon in Bethnal Green. ‘Deaths’ is officially out on September 7th but we’re turning things up early with Glasgow’s Current Affairs and Pinkgrip in support.
Here’s the first defiant track to air from the Sauna Youth album, check out ‘Percentages’ here!
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Our final show for August takes place at The Islington in Angel with Melbourne’s Primo
in attendance. Hot off the back of their debut album, ‘Amici’, on Upset
The Rhythm, Primo are coming over to Europe for the very first time to
play a week of selected dates and we’re beyond happy to host them in the
capital with the brilliant Rainham Sheds and Slushy Guts joining the lineup too.
This event will take place on Wednesday 29 August and is must for all fans of unruffled exposition in punk.
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That rounds off August for us, however the rest of the year is
stacking up too. Just this last week we’ve unveiled a number of new
shows for September/October from the likes of Eartheater, The Space Lady, Spinning Coin, Terry and Rose McDowall. Lots of highlights there as we edge towards the turn of the year.
Full listings and ticket details can be found below at the end of this message, enjoy…
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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
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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
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
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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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Thanks so much for your time, we’ll catch you next week!
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