The Stallion tomorrow in London, Air Waves and Amor shows on the horizon!

Alright! We’re back in the live show mode tomorrow with The Stallion at Moth Club.  Comprised of Country Teasers alumni Ben Wallers and Alastair Mackinven, The Stallion will present a twisted homage to their favourite album, Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’. Built from rougher and noticeably bleaker bricks, their ‘Dark Side Of The Wall’ triple LP for In The Red sets the template for which this show is the launch party. Approaching a Cabaret Voltaire demo with The Residents on board, the project is packed full of the spirit of deconstruction and gleeful revelry, certainly will be a one of a kind concert!   There will be props, lights, films and Evangeline Ling of Audiobooks DJ-ing throughout the night too! What’s not to like? Come see The Stallion in the flesh (pun intended), tickets on the door from 7.30pm.

Read on below for thorough detail on tomorrow’s event, alongside write-ups for Jan 31st at The Islington with Air Waves, Upset Stomach and Molejoy, and Feb 1st’ at New River Studios with Amor, The Golden Filter and Alexis Taylor (DJ set). If you want your pop prismatic or your disco détourned we have something nearing the top of your alley!

On Tuesday night John Kennedy invited Upset The Rhythm onto his X-posure radio show to celebrate our first 15 years as a DIY label and general promoter of all things underground.   We chatted for about an hour, talked about our upcoming label showcase tour in March and played a ton of ‘classic’ back catalogue and upcoming tracks from the likes of Vital Idles and Hash Redactor too. Well worth listening again if you missed it, starts around 57 mins in, enjoy!

This week Xiu Xiu shared Act II of their audiovisual companion for new album ‘Girl with Basket of Fruit’ (out Feb 8th on Upset The Rhythm). The video for ‘Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy’ (best ever song title award in the bag) races along the thematic current of imagery and symbols from first video, ’Scisssssssors’, including reappearances of Xiu Xiu members alongside performance artists Ron Athey and Elliot Reed.   ‘Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy’ was written by Angela Seo from the band with lyrical contributions from Elliot Reed and Jamie Stewart; inspirations for the track include Toilet Paper Magazine, works by Boyd McDonald, Korean Mythological Drawings and Alcohol. Check it out here!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   THE STALLION: ‘THE DARK SIDE OF THE WALL’ TRIPLE ALBUM LAUNCH! EVANGELINE LING OF AUDIOBOOKS (DJ SET) Friday 18 January Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS THE STALLION can't believe it's happening at last. Put the date in your diaries, Elves, before you drop them into all the children's stockings all along the fireplace or at the foot of their beds. Ssshhh! Don't wake them up! They are having nightmares about being made into sausage meat! They have no noses, and instead of eyes and mouths, large dark holes! Clutching their homework they shuffle along the conveyor belt towards the meat grinders and so into the sausage meat buckets. Yum! School sausages! Who can forget the Grange Hill theme song and animated credits roll? NO LESS ICONIC is The Stallion's six-sided LP for In The Red entitled 'The Dark Side Of The Wall'. That's a hexagonal performance ("cover" is too weak, and "homage" to reverent) of Pink Floyd's The Wall, which is known on the street as 'The Dark Side Of The Wall'.   Country Teasers survivalists Alastair Mackinven and Ben Wallers are The Stallion and they will be performing 'THE DARK SIDE OF THE WALL', including film projections, on Friday January 18th 2019 at The Moth Club, in the Hackney Central area. The films were shot in LoganBerry Finite Quilt on the PC4 MacPro WorkBook. I am only a Sinclair c5 on the Zx spectrum, do you like talk like that? Do you like to do bad things? Are u a bad person?  For this show The Stallion have promised a multi-media spectacular with music, projections, smoke, lights and props! https://intheredrecords.com/collections/the-stallion EVANGELINE LING OF AUDIOBOOKS (DJ SET) https://www.instagram.com/evangelineling/

Upset The Rhythm presents… AIR WAVES UPSET STOMACH MOLEJOY Thursday 31 January The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS 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. 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 (out now on Western Vinyl) launches Air Waves above the apolitical complacency of too many of the group's contemporaries.  https://airwaves.bandcamp.com/ UPSET STOMACH are shoegazey emo-disco meets one hysterical woman vocalist, by way of Fate and Fortune magazine. https://www.facebook.com/upsetstomachuk/   MOLEJOY is a band. undermining with joyous anger pangs, on their own terms. Non-heroic beats for everyone who wants them. Songs/sounds about homogenous feels, pokemon go and radicalising your children. Kind of like .... we don't really know. Molejoy is Giles Brunch, Sophie Chapman and Kerri Jefferis. https://www.facebook.com/molejoyisaband/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   AMOR THE GOLDEN FILTER ALEXIS TAYLOR (DJ SET) Friday 1 February New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   AMOR is a quartet based largely in Glasgow, consisting of Richard Youngs, Luke Fowler, Michael Francis Duch and Paul Thomson. AMOR is a master-class in blissful, searching, avant-disco fuelled by telepathic ensemble playing and an untouchable, higher joy. Though a young grouping, AMOR's members have separate exceptional histories in modern music. Richard Youngs has a 140+ long discography covering any number of musics often invented by Youngs himself, while Luke Fowler is an award winning film-maker and visual artist, as well as an electronic musician in his own right. Paul Thomson is a drummer and percussionist with Franz Ferdinand and The Yummy Fur and Michael Francis Duch is a double bassist based in Norway with deep roots in the world of improvisation and minimalist composition. Most important, however, is that AMOR is the sound of a band, as one. Collectively, AMOR strike a balance between hefty, bass-thick kicks and crisp percussion, an elastic double bass that lends bounce and class to the groove and floating piano chords recalling a warped take on Philadelphia International Records or a version of Can decimating the disco charts of late 70s USA. Steeped in de-constructivist disco practices similar to Arthur Russell yet fully immersed in a higher love, never forsaking movement and joy for ego, AMOR's embrace of the avant garde and the simplicity of feeling brings forth light. While at times the focal point, Richard Youngs' vocals are immeshed in the mix, a plaintive, cosmic call and response with the outside. AMOR's debut album, titled 'Sinking Into A Miracle',  was released in December via Night School Records, who also released the group's previous couple of stupendous EPs. https://amor-glasgow.bandcamp.com/ THE GOLDEN FILTER is the communal guise of Penelope Trappes & Stephen Hindman. Part art project, part electronic experimentation, part disco party, The Golden Filter were born in 2008 in NYC as a disruption to the pop music status quo. Now based in London & firmly welcomed into the Optimo Music family, with releases set for 2019 on Dischi Auotunno and their own 4GN3S imprint.  Their raw, minimal wave live sets and audio creations push the limits of accessible analogue beat-heavy soundscaping & angular vocals. http://www.thegoldenfilter.com/ ALEXIS TAYLOR is a solo artist, DJ and frontman of Hot Chip and About Group. His brilliant, recent album, ‘Beautiful Thing’, was released last year on Domino. Alexis will be performing a DJ set throughout the night for this this event. https://www.facebook.com/alexistaylorsoloofficial/

Your time is always appreciated, thank you! Catch you tomorrow down the front, Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

THE STALLION: ‘THE DARK SIDE OF THE WALL’ TRIPLE ALBUM LAUNCH! EVANGELINE LING OF AUDIOBOOKS (DJ SET) Friday 18 January Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   AIR WAVES UPSET STOMACH MOLEJOY Thursday 31 January The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS   AMOR THE GOLDEN FILTER ALEXIS TAYLOR (DJ SET) Friday 1 February New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   MÉSANGE HISTORICALLY FUCKED JOHN HANNON Thursday 7 February The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   BIG JOANIE SECRET POWER Friday 15 February HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP (3 min walk from White City tube up Wood Lane. Behind the green gates) 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   KRISTIN HERSH (Electric trio) With ROB AHLERS (drums) & FRED ABONG (bass) FRED ABONG 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   THE SHIFTERS COOL GREENHOUSE Thursday 14 March The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   DAVID NANCE GROUP YERBA MANSA Monday 25 March The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 8pm | £7 | TICKETS   XIU XIU (Jamie Stewart, Thor Harris & Jordan Gieger) JOHN BENCE Tuesday 26 March Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £13.50 | TICKETS   Upset The Rhythm 15th anniversary label party! SAUNA YOUTH TRASH KIT GUTTERSNIPE VITAL IDLES RATTLE DOG CHOCOLATE Wednesday 27 March Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 5.30pm - 11pm | £10 | TICKETS     PRIESTS Thursday 16 May 100 Club, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS (Tickets onsale this Friday at 10am)