Upcoming London shows for Rose McDowall, Virginia Wing and Hekla!

Morning everyone!   Firstly, huge thanks to all of you who came out to see Terry and Wolf Eyes (three times) last week, what a rare treat! You all helped make those events happen with your attendance, it’s always appreciated, go you!   Since then, we’ve been booking new shows left, right and centre, when will we ever learn to take things easy? Check out our upcoming live programme at the end of this message as it contains newly listed concerts for Sir Richard Bishop, Pan American (kranky) and two special events with Kristin Hersh next March at Bush Hall as part of her ‘Live & Loud’ tour with extra bass and drums, electrifying stuff!

In terms of London shows of the more imminent nature, we have three glinting tantalizingly on the horizon during the next two weeks. Our first sees us decamp Monday evening to St Pancras Church for an atmospheric set from the incredible Rose McDowall (of Strawberry Switchblade, C93 and of course Sorrow, whose material this set takes its lead from). Rose is always a mesmerizing performer and on these hallowed grounds it’ll make for a very special event indeed, happy to have Jetstream Pony supplying support duties on this one too.   Limited tickets left for this show now, so well worth buying some in advance.

As we stride into October (where’s this year vanished to?) on Thursday the 11th, we crop up again at OSLO in Hackney for an evening of inventive psych pop, galloping polyrhythmic ecstasy and unapologetic sincerity courtesy of Virginia Wing, Trash Kit and Mich Cota, now that’s a gold-plated lineup! Counting the days here.   A few days later on October 15th we’re lucky enough to have Hekla, Ingrid Plum / Alex Ward / Yoni Silver and A Lily all performing at Servant Jazz Quarters. Acting as the album release for Berlin-residing Icelander Hekla’s debut album of theremin and vocal otherworlds, this show is going to explore new rooms of ambient sound and exploratory improvisation. Full details on all three of these events can be studied below, along with our listings for the rest of the year too.

Here’s a little more required reading for your weekend, let us direct you to this tour de force of an interview with Guttersnipe, up on The Quietus by Kevin McCaighy.   It’s really something, quite the trip into their world of incendiary noise and bristling ideas, dig deep!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   ROSE MCDOWALL JETSTREAM PONY Monday 1 October St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   ROSE MCDOWALL’s trajectory from punk provocateur to chart-subverting pop star to underground neo-folk musician has been one peppered with unknowns and adventure. McDowall began her career in her hometown of Glasgow, operating within the nascent punk scene with her first group The Poems. After a meteoric rise to pop stardom with Strawberry Switchblade (along with friend Jill Bryson), McDowall submerged herself in the post-industrial landscape, becoming a member of Current 93 during their purple patch and a guest on records by artists as diverse as Psychic TV, Felt, Coil and Nurse with Wound, McDowall's status as the unofficial queen and muse of the underground is well deserved. After the recording of several demos which resulted in the 'Cut With The Cake Knife' album (Night School/Sacred Bones, 2015), McDowall formed Sorrow to further explore her interest in psychedelic, folk music. Considerably darker in tone than Strawberry Switchblade, but still resplendent in McDowall's angelic, heartfelt vocal, 'Under the Yew Possessed' is a cult album that belies a classic pop song writing sensibility. Issued in a limited gold vinyl edition for Record Store Day 2018, 'Under the Yew Possessed' enjoys a full Night School reissue later this summer, followed swiftly by 'Gem'( in October) a new album of recordings with Canadian musician Shawn Pinchbeck. This Oct 1st concert will be a rare performance from Rose with her new live band, comprising of several members of Scotland's ever burgeoning music scene featuring Russel Burn ex of Fire Engines/WIN/Spectorbullets and Jeremy Thoms ex-Revillos/Strawberry Tarts and currently The Cathode Ray amongst them. https://rosemcdowall.bandcamp.com/ JETSTREAM PONY write and perform shambling post punk and pulsing indie pop, featuring former Wedding Present drummer Shaun Charman (who featured on the band’s early classic albums George Best and Tommy)  on guitar, with vocals by Beth Arzy of Trembling Blue Stars and former Sarah Records artistes, Aberdeen. The band’s line-up is completed by Kerry Boettcher on bass and Sarah Boyle on drums. Kerry and Shaun were previously in the John Peel-supported Turbocat, during the late ’90s. Shaun and Beth have also previously been in Fireworks. Check out their recent 7” on German label Kleine Untergrun Schallplatten. https://jetstreampony.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   VIRGINIA WING TRASH KIT MICH COTA Thursday 11 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   VIRGINIA WING are an inventive psych-pop duo based in Manchester, who take their name from Grace Slick's mother. Consisting of Alice Merida Richards (Vocals, Synths, Organ) and Samuel Pillay (Synths, guitar, noises, bass), their music is a sprawling amalgamation of experimental pop songs with texture, depth and nuance; daring, progressive and forever bold. After two previous stunning albums, Virginia Wing return on June 8th with renewed strength, optimism and clarity for their new album 'Ecstatic Arrow' (Fire Records). 'Ecstatic Arrow' borrows from the heterogeneous terrain of The Flying Lizard's 'Fourth Wall', the exuberant technology assisted pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra and the playful sophistication of Lizzy Mercier Descloux, arriving at the evergreen intersection of pop music and conceptual art. The voice of Alice Merida Richards is more compelling and expressive than ever. The glacial deadpan of previous records has given way to a more candid, self-possessed delivery, showing an appreciation for the humour and tragedy innate in the downtown Arcadia of Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley or even Lynn Goldsmith's Will Powers. It's with this voice that Richards outlines a simple ideality that fortifies the entirety of the album - inequality pervades, destructive behaviours are inherited and each subsequent generation has to reconcile the debts of its precursor - yet a space exists within ourselves and each other that houses a fact we must be reminded of - we have the ability to choose. https://virginiawingmusic.bandcamp.com/ TRASH KIT are Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Gill Partington. They have a wild feel for melody, writing songs that pull at the reins with a spontaneous charm. Their music is primal yet thoughtful, affirming yet sincere, drawing on the potential of post-punk and the naturalism of an internal folk music. Although Trash Kit have their forebears in bands like X-Ray Spex, The Ex and The Raincoats, their sound is very much their own take on facing forwards. Galloping polyrhythms, overlapping sung-spoke lyrics and entwining guitars are all drawn together into a taut unity, sounding wilfully alive. Both Rachels tangle their vocals with each other whilst expressive drumbeats and restless guitar flurries provide the rhythmic drive. Trash Kit's music is full of pauses, woven silence and punctuation too, and this is where the resonant bass lines find a perfect home. With two albums under their belt for Upset The Rhythm, Trash Kit are currently adding the finishing touches to their incredible third record. https://www.facebook.com/TRASH-KIT-329766302806/ MICH COTA’s identity has always been ingrained with the language of sound. As a two-spirit woman, raised by a native father and a white mother in Southern Ontario, Cota began composing small melodies on the piano from the age of three to create her own sacred space in an intensely religious home. Inspired by her countryside surroundings, she would ingrain herself in nature, imagining herself in a place free of theology and restraint. This is something Cota has carried with her throughout her creative existence. Her music is a way of navigating past traumas while exploring her queer experience, with open, unapologetic sincerity. It's through her artistic expression that she relates to others, to build collective understanding and empathy, with the intention to heal and to challenge normative ways of being. https://www.facebook.com/michcotamusic/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   HEKLA INGRID PLUM / YONI SILVER / ALEX WARD TRIO A LILY Monday 15 October Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   HEKLA is a Berlin-residing Icelander whose sparse, delicate, fractal music exists within these two worlds: dark and magical as Iceland’s permanight folklore; and as deeply sonic and intense as Berlin’s electronic scene. A long-term scholar of solo theremin, Hekla (shortened from her own name Hekla Magnúsdóttir) uses her instrument as an otherworldly and highly evocative Siren-call. A spectral, wailing, howling, lamenting yearning second-voice that underpins a soft vocal delivery, as if her studio had been haunted with a chorus of ghostly backing singers. Hekla’s debut album for solo theremin and voice ‘Á’ is out on September 14th through Phantom Limb Records (this show is the album launch). The album was written and self-recorded by Hekla in her home studio in Berlin around her son’s daycare schedule. Icelandic super-musician Mr Silla (a part-time múm member) guests on a number of tracks. Tallinn-based engineer Jose Diogo Neves - a stalwart of Icelandic and Portuguese music - mixed and mastered the record. While a handful of reference points share similar ground, Colleen’s interplay of voice and instrumentation; the richly immersive filmscore work of sadly passed fellow Icelander Jóhann Jóhannsson; “grandmother of theremin” Clara Rockmore’s close relationship with such a singular instrument; Julia Holter’s intelligent and classically-aligned songwriting - Hekla’s music still exists singularly. A one-off talent, emerging from no particular scene, ascribing to no particular rules. https://phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/album/- INGRID PLUM uses her voice with extended technique, improvisation, field recordings and electronics, to create layered soundscapes, spoken word and songs. Described by The Guardian as “gorgeously atmospheric vocal techniques woven around field recordings & electronics” she has performed and exhibited installation art internationally since 2002, creating work that combines sound art, contemporary classical and folk music. Incorporating her research into folk traditions with field recordings and studying directly with Meredith Monk her recent performances have been described as “succinct and nourishing... a luxuriant space between almost excessive precision and looser improvisation" by The Wire. http://www.ingridplum.com/ YONI SILVER is a bass-clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist whose activities include hyper-spectral adventures with Iancu Dumitrescu's Hyperion Ensemble; a bass clarinet and percussion duo with Steve Noble; a bass clarinet/violin and possessed vocals duo with Sharon Gal; Denis D’or with Grundik Kasyansky and Tom Wheatley; bass clarinet and drums duo with Crystabel Riley, and solo performances on amplified bass clarinet. He has appeared on labels such as Creative Sources, Confront Recordings, Wasted Capital, Chocolate Monk and Edition Modern. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtgtBwE8QLM ALEX WARD is a composer, improviser, and performing musician, working primarily with clarinet and guitar. His involvement in freely improvised music dates back to 1986, when he met the guitarist Derek Bailey. He subsequently took part regularly in Bailey's Company events, and has gone on to become a major figure in British improvised music. His current work includes the avant-rock duo Dead Days Beyond Help in which he plays guitar, sings and co-writes the material; various groups which perform his compositions-for-improvisers including Forebrace, the Alex Ward Quintet/Sextet, and the Item series of ensembles; and improvising collaborations both regular and ad-hoc with musicians including Steve Noble, Dominic Lash, Kay Grant, Joe Morris and Weasel Walter. Besides his own groups and improvisational work, he also performs in ensembles including the Duck Baker Trio/Quartet, Thurston Moore’s recent multi-guitar projects Galaxies and New Noise Guitar Explorations, and Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward’s This Is Not This Heat. He brings a unique energy and inventiveness to all these projects, elevating them far above the ordinary and injecting them with a thrilling sense of danger and possibility. Much of his work is documented on the label Copepod, which he co-runs with Luke Barlow. https://alexward.bandcamp.com/ A LILY is James Vella, who is also a writer. Based in Brighton, UK, and bringing together influences as diverse as ambient drone, delicate indie-folk, pop songwriting, electronic music and modern classical, A Lily is a solo project with a far-reaching net. James has released a handful of A Lily records with Blank Editions, Kingfisher Bluez, Fierce Panda, Dynamophone Records and Sound in Silence among other labels. The son of a choral / operatic soprano and music theory lecturer, he grew up around music and saw his first record release as a teenager. Using the ‘A Lily’ name to encompass all of his solo music, his releases have covered broad stylistic ranges, from dark alt-pop to piano solos to mechanically-hearted electronica to abstract avant-garde. https://alily.bandcamp.com/

Have a wonderful weekend, thanks for all your time and consideration, See you on Monday at Rose McDowall! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

ROSE MCDOWALL JETSTREAM PONY Monday 1st October St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   VIRGINIA WING TRASH KIT MICH COTA Thursday 11 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   HEKLA INGRID PLUM / YONI SILVER / ALEX WARD TRIO A LILY Monday 15 October Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London, N16 8JN 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   THE SPACE LADY SPINNING COIN Tuesday 23 October Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   EARTHEATER CUCINA POVERA RICHARD RIGGS Thursday 25 October The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, London, N1 6EU 8pm | £10 | TICKETS   JO PASSED SLUMB PARTY PET HATES Thursday 25 October The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   Tompkins Square Records night featuring… BRIGID MAE POWER DUCK BAKER GWENIFER RAYMOND Friday 26 October St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA 7pm | £10 | TICKETS   GROUPER Monday 29 October Hackney Arts Centre (EartH), 13 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 8BH EARLY SHOW : 7pm - 9pm SOLD OUT LATE SHOW : 9pm - 11pm ON SALE NOW! 7pm-9pm / 9pm-11pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   PAN AMERICAN Wednesday 7 November Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   SIR RICHARD BISHOP Thursday 8 November Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB 7:30pm | £10 | TICKETS   MARY LATTIMORE Monday 19 November The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   HEN OGLEDD Friday 30 November The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, London, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   KRISTIN HERSH With ROB AHLERS (drums) & FRED ABONG (bass) Sunday 10 March & Tuesday 12 March Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ 7.30pm | £25 | TICKETS MARCH 10 /  TICKETS MARCH 12

Live and loud! Kristin Hersh & live band playing twice in March!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

KRISTIN HERSH
With ROB AHLERS (drums) & FRED ABONG (bass)
Sunday 10 March & Tuesday 12 March
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £25 |  https://www.seetickets.com/event/kristin-hersh/bush-hall/1271890
https://www.seetickets.com/event/kristin-hersh/bush-hall/1271894

KRISTIN HERSH, most recognised as the front person for the influential art-punk band Throwing Muses and power trio 50FOOTWAVE, will be touring the UK in Spring 2019 with Rob Ahlers (50 Foot Wave) on drums and Fred Abong (Throwing Muses, Belly) on bass. Throwing Muses first gained traction in the early '80s, playing with similarly singular artists, such as The Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. They continue to release ground-breaking music, most recently with 2013's double CD masterpiece 'Purgatory/Paradise'. Kristin's solo career spun off in 1994 with the release of 'Hips and Makers', a widely acclaimed album that included 'Your Ghost', a duet with R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe. Since then, Kristin has released a steady stream of distinctly individual solo albums, including 2010's 'Crooked', released as her first in the inventive book/CD format for which she is now known.



2016's 'Wyatt at the Coyote Palace', on which Kristin played all of the instruments, received rave reviews; an explosive defined by blistering guitars, powerful drumming and her signature visceral vocal technique. Her poignant true stories bring the listener into what the BBC calls Hersh's "dark and dizzy world". In 2004, Kristin formed the noise rock power trio 50FOOTWAVE, releasing a series of frighteningly intense mini-albums, all available for download free of charge. Their most recent 'Bath White' EP was described as "a series of loud explosions, of velvet like dreams all intermingled at the same time. Bath White takes no prisoners." Kristin's writing career has flourished with the highly acclaimed 'Paradoxical Undressing' (released as 'Rat Girl' in the USA) and the award winning 'Don't Suck, Don't Die', a personal account of her long friendship with the late Vic Chesnutt, as well as the enchanting books which now accompany each of her record releases. Kristin’s tenth studio album, ‘Possible Dust Clouds’ (out this October on Fire Records) is a highly personalised sociopathic gem delivered as a futuristic rewriting of how music works, a melodious breeze with a tail wind of venomous din. Enveloping the juxtaposition of the concept of ‘dark sunshine’, a brooding solo record created with friends to expand her off-kilter sonic vision; a squally, squeaky mix of discordant beauty. ‘Possible Dust Clouds’ is a glorious return to form for one of alternative rock’s true innovators.
https://www.kristinhersh.com/

THE WORLD and their small WORLD tour!

THE WORLD are about to head out on tour, lucky USA!

 30/09 - Berkley, CA @ Nick's Karaoke 
 02/10 - Chicago, IL @ 2040 
 03/10 - Saint Louis, MO @ RKDE 
 04/10 - Bloomington, IN @ Blockhouse 
 06/10 - Louisville, KY @ Cropped Out Fest (in the Alley - 6pm)

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PAN AMERICAN in LONDON!

We've always wanted to work with Mark Nelson on a show and now we are! Nov 7th - Pan American at Redon!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

PAN AMERICAN

Wednesday 7 November

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

7.30pm  | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/451432

During the summer of 1997, Mark Nelson started recording a full length album for kranky at home and at Sound of Music Studios in Richmond, Virginia. Mark Nelson had been playing guitar and singing in Labradford, but wanted to explore the possibilities of sampling and computer technology as well as his interests in dub and techno. The self-titled, debut Pan American album came out on kranky in early 1998.

Nelson continued to work on Pan American material as he worked with Labradford, learning to play pedal steel guitar, releasing singles on European labels and getting some studio time in with engineer Casey Rice. Rob Mazurek from Chicago Underground Trio and Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of Low contributed cornet and vocals, respectively. The resulting album, 360 Business / 360 Bypass, was released by kranky in North America (and Blast First in Europe) in early 2000.

More singles and compilation tracks followed, along with the odd live performance. Nelson’s placement behind a synthesizer and mixing desk belied the improvisational nature of the live mix. Between sternum-rattling bass rhythms and Nelson’s willingness to challenge an audience of with outbursts of static, Pan American shows were more than the usual knob-twiddling and smooth noodle maps.

The third record was entitled The River Made No Sound and was released by kranky in North American and Vertical Form in Europe in April 2002. Mark Nelson told Eyemagazine in October 2002 that “When I started I really had it in mind to make a more rhythmic record influenced by house music. I did the whole thing at home by myself, so I guess by the end my natural inclination towards ambience and peaceful textures won out.” Stripped back compared to previous albums, The River Made No Sound, traded dub undertow for percussive points, field recordings and an ominous hum.

Quiet City (Kranky 2004) combines the computer-centric approach of The River Made No Sound with the organic instrumentation that marked Nelson’s work in Labradford and the first two Pan American albums. Three of the eight tracks were recorded with Charles Kim (Sinister Luck Ensemble) and feature upright bass, drums, trumpet and flugelhorn. Nelson even sings a bit. The rippling electronics and muffled beats of the first three Pan American albums are still there; distended into elegiac, resonant, wavering, and ambient song craft. The CD edition of Quiet City comes with a DVD that contains a video essay shot and edited by Mark Nelson and Chicago visual artist Annie Feldmeier.

In 2011, Mark Nelson finally returns with a new album under the Pan American moniker – and it’s another triumph of sublime understatement. “For Waiting, For Chasing” (on MOSZ) is underpinned by delicately caressed and manipulated Flugelhorns, Tibetan Singing Bowls and Chinese Cymbals, processed, weaved and loved into a throbbing mass of neon loveliness. Opening ‘Love Song’ unfolds with a gentle cacophony of whirrs – like crickets trapped in a jar – juxtaposed with the most ethereal layers of ambience tripping over each other to create a cloud of harmony; this is absolutely classic Pan American territory. Nelson never confines his music to simple ambience, moulding in noisier elements which work as a counterpoint to the warm tones of the Tibetan Singing Bowls and synthesized whisps – a conceit which manages to keep his work ever-contemporary when so many of his past peers have been stuck in an endless loop of repetition. A work of calming restraint, it’s really impossible to fault this musician and his ability, with this album, to craft another perfectly-formed microcosm of bliss. Essential purchase.

With Cloud Room, Glass Room (Kranky 2013) Pan American quietly slip back into our consciousness as a band proper, now adding the estimable talents of Steven Hess (Cleared/Haptic) and Nelson’s former Labradford bandmate, Robert Donne to the project. While Nelson assuredly handles all production, the live feel is definitely more prominent, folding in the patter of Hess’s percussion and Bobby Donne’s languid bass at the centre of seven beautifully diffuse soundscapes bordering on the frontier lands of post-rock, dub techno and ambient electronica, yet never clearly falling within any one sector. Every element is given ample room to breathe thanks to Nelson’s typically intricate production render, allowing Hess’s hi-hats and cymbal strokes to really shimmer and Donne’s bass to ring out wide and sag purposefully low, but you’re never really focussed on either, the emphasis is on the whole ecology of sound and the way it’s all in fragile and comfortingly sublime equilibrium; a cats cradle of ambient lushness intended to suspend the listener, pensile in its womb-like amniotic fluidity.

In these days Nelson is working on his new project Anjou (2 albums on Kranky) and the next Pan American album.

http://www.kranky.net/artists/panamerican.html

SIR RICHARD BISHOP - Coming to London this November 8th!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

SIR RICHARD BISHOP
Thursday 8 November
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/450811

SIR RICHARD BISHOP is an experimental guitarist whose improvisations and compositions often reflect the shadow worlds of India, the Middle East, North Africa, and other points along the Gypsy trail. Richard is perhaps best known as a founding member (along with brother Alan Bishop) of experimental ethnic-improv pioneers and underground tricksters Sun City Girls, who for nearly 30 years have produced an extensive discography of over 50 full length albums, 20 one-hour cassettes and a dozen 7” records. Sun City Girls formed in 1981 after the Bishop brothers' stint in the group Paris 1942 which also featured J. Akkari and former Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker.

Richard's first solo record, Salvador Kali, was released by John Fahey's esteemed Revenant label in 1998 under the moniker Sir Richard Bishop (the name stuck). The album showcases Bishop's own particular obsessions and roots, drawing from a variety of worldwide sources. Locust Music issued his second record, Improvika, in 2004. This release consists of nine extemporaneous and free-flowing pieces for solo acoustic guitar. In 2005, Bishop began performing relentlessly as a solo artist, playing throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. He has not stopped since. 2007 saw the album Polytheistic Fragments released on the Drag City Label. It includes works for acoustic, electric and lapsteel guitar, plus two piano compositions. Next up was The Freak of Araby (Drag City, 2009). In May of 2010, Drag City released the album False Flag by Rangda, a new group featuring Bishop, Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire), and Chris Corsano (Flower-Corsano Duo, Flaherty/Corsano, Jandek, Bjork, etc). Richard teamed up with fellow guitarist Bill Orcutt in 2014 for the excellent Road Stories album on Unrock, whilst Drag City again released his most recent solo record, ’Tangier Sessions’. This album sees Bishop’s music driven by clever stylistic juxtapositions and attractive melodicism, showcasing his love of Andulsian flamenco guitar style, infusing it with gestures from across Morocco's borders.

Richard was also a co-founder of the Sublime Frequencies label (with Alan Bishop and Hisham Mayet). The label, whose mission is dedicated to acquiring and releasing obscure sights and sounds from Africa, India, S.E. Asia and beyond, began in 2003 and currently has over 110 releases to its credit.

http://www.sirrichardbishop.net/

AIR WAVES is coming to London next January!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

AIR WAVES
Thursday 31 January
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/450528

AIR WAVES new album Warrior, the third full-length by Brooklyn-based musician, features a ominous, androgynous figure standing with a bicycle, wearing a gas mask adorned with a daisy. The remarkable image was taken on April 22nd, 1970 at the inaugural Earth Day celebration in New York City by Nicole Schneit’s dad, Martin Schneit.  Forty-seven years later, artist Em Rooney hand-painted Schneit’s original black & white photo, resulting in an image that radiates with Warrior’s indefatigable spirit, strength, and love

Like many queer women, Nicole Schneit is a warrior by necessity, fighting for basic rights, dignity, and acceptance.  Such determination in the face of hardship and injustice runs in Schneit’s family; her new album was inspired in part by her mom who was diagnosed with cancer last year. So the title ‘Warrior’ and the song are about her. The dignified fighter archetype referenced in the album’s title is explored on each of Warrior’s eleven pieces of bittersweet, empowering indie pop.  According to Schneit the song “Gay Bets”, written after the 2016 election is “about being gay and being proud and open. I was thinking about hate crimes spiking and the current state of the world. The song “Tangerine” was inspired by the film of the same name in which two trans women try to make ends meet. This movie, a dark docu-comedy shot in the contrastingly sunny setting of L.A., reflects Schneit’s battle between identity and society via Brooklyn pop rock that swings between the pastel-tinged and the downright melancholic. Warrior’s highlights, and all of the unmissable, satisfying pieces that tie them together show Schneit’s perseverance and resilience through crumbling relationships, personal adversity, and the current political climate, all leading to her most powerful collection of songs to date. Understated, subtly sophisticated, and equally empowering and comforting, Warrior launches Air Waves above the apolitical complacency of too many of the group's contemporaries. 

Terry hit the capital this Tuesday! Wolf Eyes residency at Cafe OTO!

Hello there!   Extra-large thanks to all of you who came out to see Patsy, Escape-ism and Screaming Females perform this week! Wild times one and all! Next week is just as busy. On Tuesday evening we’re hosting Melbourne’s finest pop-smiths TERRY at MOTH Club for the last night of their tour. They’ve traveled all around the UK these last ten days, trying out the local delicacies and stunning everyone with their giant anthems. The Homosexuals and Russell Walker are playing this one too, Christmas come early!   Tickets for this cost £9 and will be available on the door from 7.30pm, live music starting around 8.15pm.

Onwards to next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, through what you might call the LOOOONG weekend, we have Wolf Eyes in town for a residency at Café Oto. Over the course of three nights the band will perform alongside Yeah You, Beatrice Dillon, Sharon Gal, Aaron Dilloway, Triple Negative and Vicky Langan. Wolf Eyes will also join forces with Dilloway and Gretchen Davidson to present their new project Universal Eyes in London for the first time. It’s going to be a really, rare treat that’s for sure!   Well worth buying tickets in advance for this as there’s less than 20 left per day now, don’t say we didn’t warn you.

This week Upset The Rhythm also lined up new London shows for cosmic balladeers Hen Ogledd (Sally Pilkington, Dawn Bothwell, Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies) and Icelandic theremin conduit Hekla.   We’ve added Cucina Povera & Richard Riggs to our Eartheater concert, Trash Kit & Mich Cota to our Virginia Wing show, plus Pet Hates & Slumb Party will appear alongside Jo Passed next month too. We’re spoiling you rotten!

Sauna Youth unveiled their new video this week! Raven Sings The Blues premiered the claustrophobic tour de force here, turn up ‘No Personal Space’ now.   Sauna Youth’s new album ‘Deaths’ is available now from our webstore, alongside the180g white vinyl repress of The Green Child’s divine debut album and pre-order links for our forthcoming records by Rattle and Guttersnipe. Shop like you mean it! Read on for everything and most likely more…

Upset The Rhythm presents… TERRY THE HOMOSEXUALS RUSSELL WALKER Tuesday 18th September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   TERRY is getting ready, combing his hair, buttoning his jacket, turning the key in the door. "I'm doing fine," sings Terry out loud, he knows. Divide him into four and you get Al Montfort (UV Race, Total Control, Dick Diver etc.), Amy Hill (Constant Mongrel, Primo, School Of Radiant Living), Xanthe Waite (Primo, Mick Harvey Band) and Zephyr Pavey (Eastlink, Total Control, Russell Street Bombings). Inevitably, Terry likes to make a noise. Drums, guitars and all his voices come into play, making a solid raft for Terry's inner musings to navigate the languid rapids. This all unravels at its own pace, sometimes drifting into glam punk and country backwaters, always conducting a conversation with the commonplace. Terry also make us a bit queasy at times, singing about police beatings and nationalism and all that. But they’re not out to hurt you. They’re like the kindly bearer of bad news. There’s some awful stuff going on around the world. Terry puts it in terms that speak to all. It’s a tragicomedy. I’m pretty certain Terry isn’t perverse, they’re just the harbinger of the encroaching perverse world. I’m pretty certain Terry wants to be my friend, and your friend. Our friend, Terry. ‘I’m Terry’, the band’s third album in three years, is out this summer through Upset The Rhythm. https://terryhq.bandcamp.com/ THE HOMOSEXUALS are the inspired focus of Bruno Wizard! Bruno Wizard is an underground music luminary, an iconoclast, an evangelist for DIY practice, who formed The Homosexuals out of the ashes of The Rejects in 1976. The Homosexuals were a strange prospect. Seemingly, their music should fit into a similar spot as that of angry young men like Wire and Magazine who carried their penchants for art-school angst in the midst of proto-thug posturing, like badges of authentic alienation. And of course, in many ways, these bands were alienated at least from what had been passing for British rock prior to 1976. However, L'Voag (aka Jim, Amos, and now, Xentos), Anton (aka George Harassment) and Bruno were also part of a different scene, where more "progressive" notions of artistic protest were at stake: This Heat, Family Fodder and Chris Cutler's bands Henry Cow and the Art Bears were some of the names going at it in these circles. Their music was a sprawling bag of angular power-pop, quasi-dub, garage-punk and other stuff I'd liken to Faust or some such lunatic mob. Releasing a few 7”s, a tape and a posthumous LP by 1984, the band then called it a day. Bruno continues though, having reformed the band since 2003 with a variety of new lineups. 2016 saw The Homosexuals release their ‘Important If True’ record collecting new and unreleased recordings from the band committed to tape in NYC. Bruno also starred in ‘The Heart Of Bruno Wizard’ documentary about his creative life that premiered at Cannes in 2014. https://thehomosexuals.bandcamp.com/ RUSSELL WALKER, known as the uncanny lyricist/vocalist for The Pheromoans, Bomber Jackets etc, treats us to an exceedingly rare solo live appearance. Walker released his solo album proper in 2016 through Vitrine, contributed to a recent compilation on Kye and has a spoken album due out on Chocolate Monk soon called ‘Half Time 1916’. Walker also published his latest book ‘When New Towns Act Tough’ in 2016, well worth tracking down on Larching Books! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnVtAsspaKM

Upset The Rhythm presents… 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)   WOLF EYES are pitching up for a special three-day residency for us at Cafe OTO, following on from the reissue of their seminal 'Dread' LP as well as new double LP from Universal Eyes, 'Four Variations On Artificial Society', that brings together Wolf Eyes and the reborn Universal Indians project which first emerged in 1993.   Born in the dead, dread-filled haunted hills of Michigan, Wolf Eyes are the rabid beasts of Trip Metal & have been ploughing through new tunnels of the underworld since 1997. Pure audio stun, homemade post-nuclear terror & claustrophobic atmospheres, the most shattered and confusing horrorvision since Bo Diddley dropped the duct taped warhead on all humans in 2024.   Universal Eyes started as Universal Indians in Lansing Michigan in the early shadows of the 90's with Gretchen Gonzales (now Gonzales - Davidson), Bryan "Rammer" Ramirez, & Johnny "Inzane" Olson. The trio started as a Jesse Harper cover band and managed to play every single basement that had a power outlet in the Tri-county area. After moving to the Detroit area in the late 90's, Rammer was replaced by Aaron Dilloway and also joined by Nathan Young / a duo that were already in the throes of primitive electronic global domination that is WOLF EYES. The collective quartet played every basement, art space, record store, and club in the metro area that had a power outlet and could also handle the Michigan Progressive Underground audio sprawl. Around the dawn of the 2000's / Gretchen went full time with the moody & cold stylings of Slumber Party and after a wild Bowling Green Ohio gig, Olson joined Wolf Eyes full time. After some drama that would make even Fleetwood Mac disappear into the shadows of suburbia and tossing their EQ into a lonely fire, Universal Indians appeared to have faded into the packed history book pages of Michigan musical lore.   As age and time seem to dust over wounds while magically healing them, the quartet met again in the northern suburbs of metro Detroit on a brisk spring Sunday in 2018, hauled modern and ancient instruments into a home studio and just like that: the dream / nightmare had hot blood pumping thru its' duct-taped sound body once again, as if the missing years were nothing but a minute hurdle. Wolf Eyes Music 2018 Residency Series is the the musical duo of Nate Young and John Olson in collaboration with performance artists and unique musicians. For this special three day event at Cafe OTO, Wolf Eyes welcome Yeah You, Vicky Langan and Beatrice Dillon as collaborators. http://www.wolfeyes.net/

Thanks as always for reading, see you next week! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

TERRY THE HOMOSEXUALS RUSSELL WALKER Tuesday 18th September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, 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, London, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   VIRGINIA WING TRASH KIT MICH COTA Thursday 11 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   HEKLA INGRID PLUM / YONI SILVER / ALEX WARD TRIO A LILY Monday 15 October Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London, N16 8JN 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   THE SPACE LADY SPINNING COIN Tuesday 23 October Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   EARTHEATER CUCINA POVERA RICHARD RIGGS Thursday 25 October The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, London, N1 6EU 8pm | £10 | TICKETS   JO PASSED SLUMB PARTY PET HATES Thursday 25 October The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   Tompkins Square Records night featuring… BRIGID MAE POWER DUCK BAKER GWENIFER RAYMOND Friday 26 October St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA 7pm | £10 | TICKETS   GROUPER Monday 29 October Hackney Arts Centre (EartH), 13 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 8BH EARLY SHOW : 7pm - 9pm SOLD OUT LATE SHOW : 9pm - 11pm ON SALE NOW! 7pm-9pm / 9pm-11pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   MARY LATTIMORE Monday 19 November The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   HEN OGLEDD Friday 30 November The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, London, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

Hekla London concert planned for October!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

HEKLA
INGRID PLUM / YONI SILVER / ALEX WARD TRIO
A LILY
Monday 15 October
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London, N16 8JN
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/450049

HEKLA is a Berlin-residing Icelander whose sparse, delicate, fractal music exists within these two worlds: dark and magical as Iceland’s permanight folklore; and as deeply sonic and intense as Berlin’s electronic scene. A long-term scholar of solo theremin, Hekla (shortened from her own name Hekla Magnúsdóttir) uses her instrument as an otherworldly and highly evocative Siren-call. A spectral, wailing, howling, lamenting yearning second-voice that underpins a soft vocal delivery, as if her studio had been haunted with a chorus of ghostly backing singers. Hekla’s debut album for solo theremin and voice ‘Á’ is out on September 14th through Phantom Limb Records (this show is the album launch). The album was written and self-recorded by Hekla in her home studio in Berlin around her son’s daycare schedule. Icelandic super-musician Mr Silla (a part-time múm member) guests on a number of tracks. Tallinn-based engineer Jose Diogo Neves - a stalwart of Icelandic and Portuguese music - mixed and mastered the record.

While a handful of reference points share similar ground, Colleen’s interplay of voice and instrumentation; the richly immersive filmscore work of sadly passed fellow Icelander Jóhann Jóhannsson; “grandmother of theremin” Clara Rockmore’s close relationship with such a singular instrument; Julia Holter’s intelligent and classically-aligned songwriting - Hekla’s music still exists singularly. A one-off talent, emerging from no particular scene, ascribing to no particular rules.
https://phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/album/-

INGRID PLUM uses her voice with extended technique, improvisation, field recordings and electronics, to create layered soundscapes, spoken word and songs. Described by The Guardian as “gorgeously atmospheric vocal techniques woven around field recordings & electronics” she has performed and exhibited installation art internationally since 2002, creating work that combines sound art, contemporary classical and folk music. Incorporating her research into folk traditions with field recordings and studying directly with Meredith Monk her recent performances have been described as “succinct and nourishing... a luxuriant space between almost excessive precision and looser improvisation" by The Wire.
http://www.ingridplum.com/

YONI SILVER is a bass-clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist whose activities include hyper-spectral adventures with Iancu Dumitrescu's Hyperion Ensemble; a bass clarinet and percussion duo with Steve Noble; a bass clarinet/violin and possessed vocals duo with Sharon Gal; Denis D’or with Grundik Kasyansky and Tom Wheatley; bass clarinet and drums duo with Crystabel Riley, and solo performances on amplified bass clarinet. He has appeared on labels such as Creative Sources, Confront Recordings, Wasted Capital, Chocolate Monk and Edition Modern.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtgtBwE8QLM

ALEX WARD is a composer, improviser, and performing musician, working primarily with clarinet and guitar. His involvement in freely improvised music dates back to 1986, when he met the guitarist Derek Bailey. He subsequently took part regularly in Bailey's Company events, and has gone on to become a major figure in British improvised music. His current work includes the avant-rock duo Dead Days Beyond Help in which he plays guitar, sings and co-writes the material; various groups which perform his compositions-for-improvisers including Forebrace, the Alex Ward Quintet/Sextet, and the Item series of ensembles; and improvising collaborations both regular and ad-hoc with musicians including Steve Noble, Dominic Lash, Kay Grant, Joe Morris and Weasel Walter. Besides his own groups and improvisational work, he also performs in ensembles including the Duck Baker Trio/Quartet, Thurston Moore’s recent multi-guitar projects Galaxies and New Noise Guitar Explorations, and Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward’s This Is Not This Heat. He brings a unique energy and inventiveness to all these projects, elevating them far above the ordinary and injecting them with a thrilling sense of danger and possibility. Much of his work is documented on the label Copepod, which he co-runs with Luke Barlow.
https://alexward.bandcamp.com/

A LILY is James Vella, who is also a writer. Based in Brighton, UK, and bringing together influences as diverse as ambient drone, delicate indie-folk, pop songwriting, electronic music and modern classical, A Lily is a solo project with a far-reaching net. James has released a handful of A Lily records with Blank Editions, Kingfisher Bluez, Fierce Panda, Dynamophone Records and Sound in Silence among other labels. The son of a choral / operatic soprano and music theory lecturer, he grew up around music and saw his first record release as a teenager. Using the ‘A Lily’ name to encompass all of his solo music, his releases have covered broad stylistic ranges, from dark alt-pop to piano solos to mechanically-hearted electronica to abstract avant-garde.
https://alily.bandcamp.com/

PATSY on tour in Europe NOW!

PATSY's tour of the UK and the European landmass continues tonight in Leeds, then Glasgow, Newcastle and Brighton next week. Here's the full tour configured as a poster. Go see them play if you can, they ARE the BEST! Blazing times!

Sauna Youth - 'Deaths' out now! Plus upcoming London shows for Patsy, Screaming Females & Escape-ism

Hello there!   Saturday night is upon us and we’ve got a special banger to end this week’s flurry of excellent shows… tonight at New River Studios we’re hosting skewed punks Patsy, all the way from New Orleans! Nekra and Bamya will be performing too, with tickets costing £6 on the door from 7.30pm.   Read on for the full story, along with write-ups of next week’s London concerts for Screaming Females and Ian Svenonius (Escape-ism) too!

Besides staying out late with you all this week we also confirmed our first show for harpist extraordinaire Mary Lattimore in November, her recent album on Ghostly is fantastic/al, plus we’ve added an extra performance from Grouper near Halloween to satisfy the demand!   Furthermore, Trash Kit and Mich Cota will support Virginia Wing next month, whilst Cucina Povera and Richard Riggs will lend their performances to our Eartheater concert too. Our listings section below details all of this, tickets on sale now… etc. etc.

If we seem even more upbeat than usual that’s because yesterday we proudly served up Sauna Youth’s brand new album into the wider world. It’s a literal landslide of an album, punchy, eloquent and hugely crucial. Nip down the shops and try it on for size.   The band also had an insightful interview go live this week where they discussed said album, ‘Deaths’, with The Quietus, check this out if you’re prone to setting the scene.

If that wasn’t enough record label shenanigans, Upset The Rhythm also announced that Rattle's incredible new album, 'Sequence', will come out on November 2nd.   It’s a hugely mesmeric work of drum/vocal genius and their epic 11-minute video for ‘Signal’ certainly gives you a good idea of how wonderful this new record is sounding. Pre-orders have gone up for ‘Sequence’ this week too: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Want some more music to listen to whilst you wade through all of this? Why not listen in to Terry treating Marc Riley to five songs earlier this week in session for his BBC 6 Music show here. Terry always play the ace, and these tracks sound better than ever! Check them out on their current UK tour if you can, they are in Glasgow tonight and trail around this sceptered isle a great deal over the next ten days, here’s a list of those appointments, you won’t be disappointed.

Upset The Rhythm presents… PATSY NEKRA BAMYA Saturday 8 September New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   PATSY are a New Orleans band who make fast, slashing, catchy-as-hell punk rock. The band is led by one Candice, also a member of the band Mystic Inane, and their schoolyard-taunt snarl is one of the coolest things we’ve ever heard. After a series of excellent singles over the past couple of years, the band recently released their debut ‘mini’-LP ‘LA Women’ (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos), which you can stream below. Where prior singles tended to stay firmly in the hardcore lane, ‘LA Women’ finds Patsy blending an inspired mix of surf, garage, 80s hardcore, skewed 80s new wave, and garage. Their straight ahead hardcore jams – including a re-recorded version of “Nazis are so Plain” from their 2015 demo – bear a slippery quality that reminds of DKs, particularly in the woozy guitar work (see, in particular, album highlight “Society Ape”). Elsewhere, tracks like the excellent “Heathen” and opener “Count it Down” bristle with a-go-go worthy garage energy. This will be the band’s first time in London on their debut European tour! https://itspatsy.bandcamp.com/ NEKRA have riffs as wide as the Old Kent Rd, big drum rhythms falling on and off the rails and a pure velocity that could tear the roof off. NEKRA sounds confrontational, like a fight you don’t know you’ve started yet. Nekra find themselves somewhere between the weight of Life’s Blood and a solid continuation from the moves of punchy hardcore punk of recent years. Moshy, loud, aggressive, uncaring, vicious, London. Check out their demo tape from last year available on La Vida Es Un Mus. https://nekra.bandcamp.com/releases BAMYA are a feast of dark rhythms dug up from the ground. The trio plays a music that is highly controlled, yet a liberated mix of krautrock, afrobeat, and eastern european tinged melodies. Undefinable, loose, post-punk/world influenced music touching on The Ex, Mars, Can and The Raincoats. https://bamya-c.tumblr.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… SCREAMING FEMALES SCRAP BRAIN RODENTS Tuesday 11 September 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   SCREAMING FEMALES are one of those force-of-nature bands that only comes around once in a blue moon. Their story starts in New Brunswick in 2005, with Marissa on guitar and vocals, Jarrett on drums and Michael on bass. 'Power Move' was the band's first full-length with any label (or any outside help) and was released by their hometown label, Don Giovanni Records, in 2008. They've gradually sneaked into a wider mainstream consciousness, gaining attention for their punk rock sensibilities and their raucous live shows driven by Marissa's famed guitar heroics. Now Screaming Females are DIY-punk luminaries, on the cusp of celebrating 13 years as a band by releasing this February's new album, entitled 'All At Once' on Don Giovanni Records. The band collaborated with producer Matt Bayles, setting out to make an album in the spirit of a salon-style gallery show, where larger pieces provide an eye-level focal point to a galaxy of smaller works. Concision took a back seat to experimentation, with arrangements meant to evoke the energy and spontaneity of their live performances. 'All At Once' is a reminder there's a hopeful and joyful energy to underground music-making. Patience, perseverance, and long term dedication still work. http://screamingfemales.com/ SCRAP BRAIN play primitive hardcore punk, kind of almost whacked-out Flipper style with a real noisy/no wave dissonant tone. The lyrics are fantastically sarcastic and barbed, a particular favourite being the couplet "M'lady me, I'll murder you", which may provoke a smirk or wry smile, but is absolutely not a joke. Their recent 7” ‘Unhappy Hardcore’ is available through all good stockists of composed cacophony, desperate dirges and pieces of the punk puzzle. This is brute force music, the sound of the claustrophobia of London, the claustrophobia of being a human being trapped inside of your own brain. https://scrapbrainhc.bandcamp.com/ RODENTS was started by the prolific Robert Eyres a fair few years back. Hailing from an underground basement in Chigwell, next door to Alan Sugar’s gaff, Rodents run a tight but scuzzy ship of rock, sailing through the waters of a broken and tired system. We’re talking discordant stoner, garage pop of the highest order here. Check them out through the Permanent Slump imprint. https://soundcloud.com/rodents

Upset The Rhythm presents… 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   ESCAPE-ISM is the nom de guerre of mythic rock ’n’ roll provocateur / theorist / revolutionary Ian Svenonius (performer, author, filmmaker, etc). Svenonius is known for his work in the music groups The Make-Up, Chain & The Gang, XYZ, Weird War and author of underground bestsellers such as The Psychic Soviet, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group, and Censorship Now! Recognised by Performer Magazine as the "greatest performer on the planet", Svenonius is profound, prophetic, perverse, and poetic. His debut solo album an 'Introduction to Escape-ism' was released through Merge last year and teamed up a drum machine, guitar, cassette player, and a single voice singing out... for a way out. Svenonius' songs cry out for love, justice, redemption and insurrection, they stomp on convention and clobber notions of what music can be. Live, Escape-ism a new paradigm of performance: raw, gestural, idiotic, sublime, revolutionary, poetic, faux naif, unknowing, a drainage pipe that leads to who knows where. ‘The Lost Record’ is Escape-ism’s new album on Merge and is already a classic, destined to bewitch the minds, hearts, and dancing shoes of any rock ’n’ roll fan who happens to discover it, for as long as such creatures exist. Without the high-octane hype machine of the mind-control minstrels who hypnotize the hapless through the mass media, ‘The Lost Record’ is bound for inevitable obscurity, but—with its timeless tunes, poignant message, and innovative sound—rediscovery and immortal status is equally assured! Music enthusiasts will be thrilled to be the ones clever and kind enough to have rescued this platter from oblivion. https://escape-ism.bandcamp.com/ JEUCE are a fun and fast duo from Manchester. Jen (vocals) is primarily the pre-eminent broadside balladeer of the Manchester region, she was also in a band called the Booglies with Giulio from Duds. Bruce (drums) is also in the Hipshakes. They only have demos at the moment, but here you go! http://jeuceband.bandcamp.com/album/demos 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. The band's new album ‘Moody Balloon Baby’ (out now) was released through Upset The Rhythm, in just under 25 minutes the band manage to cram in bucket-loads of ideas, mess, confusion and fun. http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/

Thanks as always for reading, see you later on! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

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 TRASH KIT MICH COTA 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 CUCINA POVERA RICHARD RIGGS 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   Tompkins Square Records night featuring… BRIGID MAE POWER DUCK BAKER GWENIFER RAYMOND Friday 26 October St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA 7pm | £10 | TICKETS   GROUPER Monday 29 October Hackney Arts Centre (EartH), 13 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 8BH EARLY SHOW : 7pm - 9pm SOLD OUT LATE SHOW : 9pm - 11pm ON SALE NOW! 7pm-9pm / 9pm-11pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   MARY LATTIMORE Monday 19 November The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS