Wednesday, 27 March 2019

UTR XV tour starts today! Plus upcoming London shows for Jandek, The Flying Luttenbachers & Coolies!

 

Roll up, roll up!
Today sees our Upset The Rhythm 15th anniversary label tour kick off in London. This evening at the Tufnell Park Dome we’ll be celebrating 15 years of releasing the best music imaginable. It truly is a time for hyperbole. Tonight’s epic concert features live sets from Dog Chocolate, Rattle, Guttersnipe, Trash Kit, Vital Idles and Sauna Youth, plus we also have Normil Hawaiians spinning records throughout the night!
 
Tickets are £10 on the door from 5.30pm, with live music planned to commence from 6.30pm, bring it on! Come and help us pat ourselves on the back as that actually sounds quite difficult.
 
 
 
We’re also taking the label showcase on tour around the UK this week, here are the other shows, would be great to see you there, tell your far-flung friends:
 
Thursday 28th March - GLASGOW - CCA with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Robert Sotelo, Rattle

Friday 29th March - LEEDS - Brudenell with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Rattle, Guttersnipe

Saturday 30th March - MANCHESTER - White Hotel with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Guttersnipe, Robert Sotelo

Sunday 31st March - CARDIFF - Clwb Ifor Bach with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Robert Sotelo, Rattle    
 
 
To help set the scene we’ve popped down memory lane for this UTR XV radio special. Listen to 120 minutes of all things Upset The Rhythm. Think classic back catalogue, the glowing edge of now and lots of upcoming tracks that lead us into the summer from Trash Kit, Normil Hawaiians, Bamboo, Hygiene, Nots, Lunch Lady, Robert Sotelo, Hash Redactor and Red Channel.
 
 
 
 
We also had a fantastic time last Saturday on Resonance FM’s Hello Goodbye show with another UTR radio extranaganza!
 
Lots of quality chat with the esteemed deXter Bentley, exclusive tracks aired, plus some solid live sets in the studio from Robert Sotelo and Hygiene, oh boy! Listen again here!

You can find full write-ups below on tonight’s show, plus listings for our three shows next week from Jandek, The Flying Luttenbachers, Mosquitoes, Coolies, The Renderers and Fun Fun Funeral! Busy much? Nothing ever changes! Thanks for all your time and support x 15 years!
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm 15th anniversary label party!

SAUNA YOUTH
TRASH KIT
GUTTERSNIPE
VITAL IDLES
RATTLE
DOG CHOCOLATE
NORMIL HAWAIIANS (DJ set)
Wednesday 27 March
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL
5.30pm - 11pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
This March Upset The Rhythm will be marking our 15th anniversary with a label showcase tour around Britain. Representing a lot of our current UK roster, the tour will see the likes of DIY punk progressives Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles and Dog Chocolate perform alongside hypnotic drum and voice duo Rattle and Guttersnipe, a group who shredded their tonal territory into euphoria this year with their debut album. Within the last fifteen years UTR has organised over 1500 live events in London and racked up a back catalogue you’d have to ask a friend to help carry, 115 titles at point of writing. We've always been proud to have a forward-facing, open-minded attitude towards the label, letting it be a reflection of our own personal tastes. This has led to the label’s scope becoming truly international. We work with artists from Australia like Terry, The Green Child and School Damage, European acts like Pega Monstro, Makoto Kawabata and Pikacyu from Japan and Darlene Shrugg from Canada. We also release US acts such as Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu and The World and have been responsible for discovering the talents of John Maus, Future Islands and No Age with debut releases from all. It's certainly kept us busy, alongside all this, we've been tireless in our support of the noise next door, providing a platform for Britain’s enthralling musical underground in all its many forms. It’s this side of things we’re choosing to highlight with this tour and London show, help us celebrate the big XV on our doorstep, before we wander off through the kingdom!

SAUNA YOUTH
https://saunayouth.bandcamp.com/

TRASH KIT
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/trashkit.shtml

GUTTERSNIPE
https://guttersnipe.bandcamp.com/

VITAL IDLES
https://vitalidles.bandcamp.com/

RATTLE
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/rattle.shtml

DOG CHOCOLATE
 
 
 
Other shows on the UTR XV label showcase tour:

Thursday 28th March - GLASGOW - CCA
 
Friday 29th March - LEEDS - Brudenell
 
Saturday 30th March - MANCHESTER - White Hotel
 
Sunday 31st March - CARDIFF - Clwb Ifor Bach
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents...
 
JANDEK
Tuesday 2 April
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £18 | TICKETS
 
JANDEK is the mysterious musical project of Corwood Industries, a record label that operates out of Houston, Texas. Since 1978, Jandek/Corwood Industries has independently released over 100 albums/DVDs of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk, rock and blues songs without ever granting an interview or providing any biographical information. Jandek often plays a highly idiosyncratic and frequently atonal form of folk, rock, punk, country, classical and blues music, at times using an open and unconventional chord structure. The name 'Jandek' is most commonly used to refer specifically to the project and not an individual.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents...
 
THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS
MOSQUITOES

Friday 5 April
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS are a touchstone punk jazz/brutal prog/no wave group who steadily deconstructed music and reality between 1991-2007 with their 16 releases and more than 400 performances around the world. Now, in 2019, the band is back with a new lineup, new music and a new full-length album out soon. In the interim, leader and composer Weasel Walter shifted his expansive energies into the world of free improvisation, recording dozens of albums and playing with hundreds of internationally known musicians, as well as touring the planet with Lydia Lunch, Cellular Chaos, XBXRX, Behold The Arctopus and many others. In 2017, The Flying Luttenbachers reformed and made a week long tour of France, performing an hour long set of classic material from the entire catalog. The latest incarnation of the band is based in New York City, featuring Tim Dahl (Ava Mendoza’s Unnatural Ways, GRID) on bass guitar, Matt Nelson (GRID, Elder Ones, etc.) on tenor saxophone, Brandon Seabrook on guitar and Weasel Walter on drums. For this April 2019 tour, Seabrook will be replaced by UK guitar strangler Alex Ward, who cut his teeth playing as a teen with legendary improviser Derek Bailey. The band was recently invited to open a run of three sold out New York shows headlined by The Oh Sees last October. The Flying Luttenbachers have recorded a brand new double LP entitled ‘Shattered Dimension’ which will be released on ugEXPLODE and Ty Segall’s imprint GOD? Records this April.
http://www.theflyingluttenbachers.com

MOSQUITOES are a crypto, avant rock trio, who have captured the attention of more than a few heads over the past couple of years. After two self-released offerings, their latest EP on Ever/Never Records sealed the deal with its swarming mass of dubwise, no wave indebted confusion.
https://soundcloud.com/user-703056763
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents...
 
COOLIES
THE RENDERERS
FUN FUN FUNERAL

Saturday 6 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
COOLIES have been blurting out random batches of high order avant garage spew since 1997. Sjionel Timu and Tina Pihema are the core of the band. Formed in the sprawl of South Auckland, New Zealand while they were still teens, Coolies were ostensibly a “punk” unit, but their sound was never doctrinaire. Through sheer weirdness and strength of vision, they created music that paralleled aspects of underground noise from the forests of Olympia Washington, the squats of West London, and the basements of Dunedin. Without resorting to formal revisionism, they’ve managed to take the basics of the early Rough Trade sound and smudge it with fingers dipped in the art-readymades of NZ’s underground pop groups and their own fevered experimentalism.

For a good chunk of the last decade, Stefan Neville (aka Pumice) was their drummer. This line-up cut a great LP, Master, for Chapter Music, and an even more dastardly EP, Punk Is Bread, for Epic Sweep. Most recently they presented, Kaka, gruntily produced by Neville on Feeding Tube Records. The tunes on Kaka were recorded in a couple of long jam sessions, then teased and smooshed into “shape” over the course of a year or so. The results, much like their live show are both propulsively fetching and utterly fried.
https://lecoolies.bandcamp.com/

THE RENDERERS deal in ghostly folk songs, free-form freak outs, a head-spin of psychedelic hammering; anything goes. The New Zealand group have released nine albums since they formed in 1989 on labels as diverse as Flying Nun, Ba Da Bing, Siltbreeze and Merge. The Renderers feature legendary guitarist and songwriter Brian Crook and his wife, songwriter and artist Maryrose Crook, with a rotating group of members. The Crooks have been lucky enough to support a pile of great artists; Thurston Moore, at Zebulon, Los Angeles, 2018; Will Oldham, as his backing band, following which he subsequently released his own recording of A Dream of the Sea; Joanna Newsom, Bill Callahan, and Wooden Wand's James Toth.
In The Sodium Light: “apocalypse and dread”, Magnet Magazine, the best of 2016, Essential Music) “They invite you right inside the emotional engine room, giving an opportunity to witness their raga-psychedelic psychosis up close.”  This is their first UK concert.
https://therenderers.bandcamp.com/

FUN FUN FUNERAL make brightly coloured songs like beautiful collages, always with a little glue overlapping. Bold songwriting, dense lo-fi arrangements, a dark and happy poem. With their specially crafted samples, scraped and scratched strings, high voices, percussions, the duo exhibits original pop songs of yesterday and tomorrow.
https://soundcloud.com/funfunfuneral
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thanks for reading & thanks for coming out recently to Wolf Eyes, Xiu Xiu and David Nance too,
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS 
Upset The Rhythm 15th anniversary label party!
SAUNA YOUTH
TRASH KIT
GUTTERSNIPE
VITAL IDLES
RATTLE
DOG CHOCOLATE
NORMIL HAWAIIANS (DJ set) Wednesday 27 March
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL
5.30pm - 11pm | £10 | TICKETS  
 
JANDEK
Tuesday 2 April
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £18 | TICKETS
 
THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS
MOSQUITOES

Friday 5 April
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
COOLIES
THE RENDERERS
FUN FUN FUNERAL
Saturday 6 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
ALEX REX
MYLES MANLEY
11TH HOUR ADVENTISTS
Wednesday 10 April
SET Space, 27A Dalston Ln, London, E8 3DF
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
IRMA VEP
ES
POWERPLANT
Thursday 11 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
LEA BERTUCCI: Projection/Reflection
CHASE COLEY & PASCAL COLMAN
Tuesday 16 April
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
BRIGID MAE POWER
AOIFE NESSA FRANCES

Tuesday 23rd April
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
BILL NACE & JAMES TWIG HARPER
GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION
Monday 29 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
ESCAPE-ISM
(Ian Svenonius)
SOLUTION HOURS
Wednesday 1 May
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
CALVIN JOHNSON
THE CATENARY WIRES
Monday 6 May
HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP
(3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates)
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
THE ESSEX GREEN
TOM O.C WILSON
Friday 10 May
Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
HEN OGLEDD
RAP
Tuesday 14 May
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £14 | TICKETS
 
PRIESTS
HYGIENE
Thursday 16 May
100 Club, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
ANA DA SILVA & PHEW
TARANTULA
Monday 27 May
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
LANKUM
Tuesday 28 May & Wednesday 29 May
In association with Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £16.50 each day, £30 two-day pass | TICKETS
 
CHRIS COHEN
THE JELAS
Wednesday 29 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, London, E8 1EL
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS
 
BILGE PUMP
WITCHING WAVES
Friday 31 May
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
CONSTANT MONGREL
Saturday 22 June
New River Studios
199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
ADVANCE BASE
Monday 22 July
Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
TIM PRESLEY’S WHITE FENCE
ROBERT SOTELO
Wednesday 21 August
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS
 
 

Tuesday, 26 March 2019

UTR XV radio special!



With our imminent 15th anniversary label tour on the horizon we thought we’d leg it down memory lane before hitching a ride 6 months into the future for this UTR XV radio special. 120 minutes of all things Upset The Rhythm. Think classic back catalogue, the glowing edge of now and lots of upcoming tracks that lead us into the summer from Trash Kit, Normil Hawaiians, Bamboo, Hygiene, Nots , Lunch Lady, Robert Sotelo, Hash Redactor and Red Channel. Enjoy...



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Sunday, 24 March 2019

Upset The Rhythm - Hello Goodbye radio take-over with live sets from Hygiene and Robert Sotelo!

 
 
We had a great time yesterday on Resonance FM’s Hello Goodbye show with our Upset The Rhythm radio special! Lots of quality chat with the esteemed deXter Bentley, exclusive new tracks from Trash Kit, Normil Hawaiians, Bamboo, Vital Idles and Red Channel aired, plus some solid live sets in the studio from Robert Sotelo and Hygiene!

LISTEN HERE:


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Thursday, 21 March 2019

Constant Mongrel arrive in London this June!


Upset The Rhythm presents…

CONSTANT MONGREL
Saturday 22 June

New River Studios

199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN

7.30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/467742

CONSTANT MONGREL are a Melbourne post-punk band with releases on Silt Breeze, RIP Society and most recently La Vida Es Un Mus and Antifade records. Over their 10 year existence Constant Mongrel have added members while developing a unique sound and continually built momentum leading to their successful 'Living In Excellence' LP in 2018. The latest record has a sharper British Post Punk expression reminiscent of legendary acts such as Wire, The Fall, Flux of Pink Indians while maintaining their Australian edge and character that exist among their local brother/sister bands Total Control, UV Race, Ausmuteants, Lowlife and Terry. With striking riffs and catchy rolling bass over an often unhinged, vibrant rhythm section with fried saxophone and synths Constant Mongrel are a captivating live band. The bands lyrics and themes vary in subject matter from songs of certain romance, to the joy of a riot, atrocity of western religion, an abundance of a fresh modern fascism, white-middle-class-self-entitled guilt and the beauty in misinterpretation. But behind every idea the tongue remains continually in cheek as the band’s humour seeps through and prevails in its sound.
https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/living-in-excellence



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Tuesday, 19 March 2019

UTR 15th birthday tour, Red Channel 7" announced and upcoming London shows!

 
 
Hello there!
 
This week's live entertainment takes shape around this coming Friday evening at Iklectik (in Lambeth) with Nate Young & John R. Spykes of Wolf Eyes turning in some face-melting solo sets. The other-worldly Bristolian producer E B U will also make a rare appearance too. With Nate releasing an excellent current crop of records this year on Lower Floor, it’s exactly the treat we’d like to finish off the week with. See you there!
 
We outline this show in more detail below, accompanied by the full scoop on Monday’s David Nance Group, Yerba Mansa, Mädchen 84 psych-belter of a concert at The Shacklewell Arms.
 
 
 
We’ve also included the write-up for next Tuesday’s Xiu Xiu atmospheric spectacular with John Bence at Islington Assembly Hall, and… to push the boat truly out on the water… next Wednesday’s (March 27th) outing to the Tufnell Park Dome to celebrate our 15th year as a record label.
 
This special label party features Dog Chocolate, Rattle, Guttersnipe, Trash Kit, Vital Idles and Sauna Youth, plus we’ve just heard that Normil Hawaiians will be manning the turntables throughout the night too! If that wasn’t already enough, then we take the label showcase on tour around Britain. Busy times indeed!
 
Thursday 28th March - GLASGOW - CCA with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Robert Sotelo, Rattle

Friday 29th March - LEEDS - Brudenell with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Rattle, Guttersnipe

Saturday 30th March - MANCHESTER - White Hotel with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Guttersnipe, Robert Sotelo

Sunday 31st March - CARDIFF - Clwb Ifor Bach with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Robert Sotelo, Rattle    
 
 
For extra context here’s an interview Chris from UTR did on the coldest day of the year in a blitzed Church turned public garden in Tower Hill with the great people behind Beats To The Bar. Hear him talk about how Upset The Rhythm began 15 years ago in somewhat candid fashion. Deerhoof even make a surprise appearance in part 1 to well and truly pull his leg too!  
 
 
 
Part 2 looks at all things record label, plus there are many lovely cameos from lots of UTR bands! Jamie Stewart and his wombat familiar make an appearance, alongside Russell 'keep the faith' Walker, Nick Carlisle and a large Peroni, Rattle in fine song, the hugely powerful duo of Rachel Horwood and Rachel Aggs, Dog Chocolate on their personal scents and tinnitus + Pega Monstro with an informative slideshow! Enjoy.
 
 
This Saturday lunchtime be sure to tune into Resonance FM too, as we’re appearing on the peerless Hello Goodbye show from midday to 1.30pm. We’ll be chatting to deXter Bentley about the roots and future shoots for Upset The Rhythm, whilst playing a bunch of upcoming and rare tracks too.
 
In an attempt to gild the lily we also have new additions to the label Hygiene and the Glasgow’s premier pop minstrel Robert Sotelo performing live sets! Resonance FM is broadcast in Central London on 104.4 FM, D.A.B. in Greater London and worldwide on-line via: RadioPlayer
 
 
 
 
 
One of the future tracks we’ll be playing on Saturday features on a new 7” EP that we’ve just announced. Out on April 19th, Red Channel’s debut record documents five like-minds from Los Angeles who decided to start writing snappy, impactful songs together in early 2017.
 
Melody (vocals, synth), Casey (vocals, synth), Bill (bass), Scott (guitar) and Marcus (drums) united through a shared post-punk sensibility and began experimenting with some angular drum and guitar give-and-take, layered with duelling synth refrains. Over this Melody and Casey worked-up their vocal harmonies through impulse, developing an interplay reminiscent of The Go Go's at both their most serene and severe. The pair’s vocals drift through each track, punctuating the profound and guiding us through each song's uncanny terrain.
 
 
Check out new single 'Crazy Diamonds', Tiny Mix Tapes have just premiered the track, calling it "a lead track that ends up sounding smooth yet sharp, feeling wistful yet defiant. An ideal statement to introduce yourself with.”
 
'Crazy Diamonds' 7" EP is now available to pre-order here.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…

NATE YOUNG
JOHN R. SPYKES
E B U
Friday 22 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm | £11 | TICKETS 

NATE YOUNG is a founding member of seminal Detroit noise band Wolf Eyes. More recently he's been honing an equally distinctive solo sound that blends myriad sources from musique concrète, vintage film atmospherics, layered synths and archive library recordings into something thrillingly intense. Summoning up crushingly ominous crepuscular soundscapes and synth-washed phantasmagoria, Young undercuts the brutalism of Wolf Eyes with the kind of ambient dread that conjures images of lost horror soundtracks from the 70's. Minimal analogue synth violence is punctuated by thunder cracks of metal percussion ala the early Akita/Null Merzbow duets, massively doomy beat hypnotics and an atmosphere that's somewhere between the most apocalyptic Throbbing Gristle recordings. This February sees the release of ‘Dilemmas of Identity’, volume one in a new multi-part series of solo releases from Young for Lower Floor Music. These songs were commonly made as a distraction from grief, seasonal depression and isolation. Sometimes severely ridiculous and unrelenting, other times slow, sparse and strange.
https://soundcloud.com/nate-young   
   

JOHN R. SPYKES aka Inzane Johnny Olson of Wolf Eyes and American Tapes will be treating us to a solo slice from his mind platter, featuring damaged rippers and modulations galore. As a part of Wolf Eyes, John Olson is responsible for augmenting the USA's longest-running homemade, primitive, electronic, poetry & radical vibes trio. They don't just release albums they launch scotched, taped nuclear audio fronts on humanity. Spykes is a project Olson has visited many times since its inception in 1999, constantly unearthing new sounds from the same old grey feelings of Midwestern winters inside. Absolute free jams promised, firing on all cylinders, a warped madness of atomised sonics.
 
E B U is a Bristol-based producer who casts a universe of her own both sonically and visually. Defying any one genre, she refers to her distinct sound as 'Swamp Pop'. Unnatural sounds and pitches exhale in melodic chants, ominous baselines resound and eerie loops fixate in this macabre ensemble. You are captive in her world. Moments of haunting clarity keep you wondering where she will take you next whilst strange narratives unfold. Her chameleonic visual display is charged with emotion, keeping you suspended in a state of flux as she orbits through the spectrum. Stimulated by human behaviour and existence she questions the very nature of being and invites the audience to explore through her cathartic performance.
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…

DAVID NANCE GROUP
YERBA MANSA
MÄDCHEN 84
Monday 25 March
The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB
8pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
DAVID NANCE GROUP is nothing if not prolific. Over the course of the past six years, the Omaha, NE musician has released three full-length albums for labels Grapefruit and Ba Da Bing, a 7-inch, numerous cassettes, CDRs and unlicensed "cover albums" of artists like Lou Reed, The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Doug Sahm. His latest full-length is credited to the 'David Nance Group' and features Nance alongside his recent hot-live band of fellow Omaha musicians; guitarist Jim Schroeder, bassist Tom May and drummer Kevin Donahue. Appropriately, the new album is called 'Peaced and Slightly Pulverized' as the sounds therein are alternatingly tender & brusque. Nance has an enviable way of conveying intensity and pathos in his music without necessarily resorting to clicking on a distortion pedal, instead relying on the build-up and tension from the interplay of his bandmates with his cracked, impassioned wail. There's also plenty of fuzz and distortion too, from the anthemic 'Poison' with its fuzzed-out guitar riff that leans into a Crazy-Horsian guitar maelstrom and white-hot solo, to 'Ham Sandwich'; a blisteringly frantic rant about a lunchtime torment - uncomfortable in its directness. Respite comes with '110 Blues's languid late-night desert psychedelia, and side one closes with the epic seven and a half minute 'Amethyst', expanded & jammed upon from 2017's Richie Records single into an emotional odyssey with Nance & Schroeder strangling their guitars into a twin-guitar, barbed-wire duel. The album's centerpiece is 'In Her Kingdom', an emotive ballad that fades into view with a plaintive guitar strum, and over seven minutes ebbs and flows with a rising tide of swelling guitars, it's riffs gilding the melody & adding flecks of gold to Nance's tale of poverty and grace. Alternately, 'When I Saw You Last Night' stalks the night like a predator, finally finding its prey two and a half minutes in with a stinging, blood-drenched guitar solo. The album closes with 'Prophet's Prot's biting commentary on false idolatry that again utilises the group's not-so-secret weaponry of Nance and Schroeder's six-string simpatico to bring the listener home. 'Peaced and Slightly Pulversized' is out now on Trouble In Mind.
 
YERBA MANSA consists of Edwin Stevens (Irma Vep, Sex Hands, Klaus Kinski etc) and Andrew Cheetham (ABC trio, Birchall/Cheetham duo etc), two of UK’s most prolific purveyors of raging, outer-limits rock-ism. Both members of free-rock army Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura as well as countless other projects, they take a similar blueprint for their head-to-head skyscraping duo, only with a singularity of heavy chord chug that aligns them with Gown or even Michael Flower & Chris Corsano. Sizzling, stifling and ever so slightly ear-scraping, Yerba Mansa is a must for any lover of untamed guitars. 'Untilted' LP out now on Deep Distance. Forthcoming LP "The Cleaner" to come this year!
https://soundcloud.com/yerba-mansa

MÄDCHEN 84 put a dent in ya head! A sample square of vinyl from wickes and a tearout guardian review of minaj's latest is available to be sent in the post for anyone who needs to feel real.
https://maedchen84.bandcamp.com
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…

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
 
XIU XIU is the conduit for the uncompromising and unnervingly personal musical works of Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist Jamie Stewart, plus a roll call of collaborators both in studio and onstage. Streaming forth a ceaseless torrent of releases, side projects, art offerings and extensive international touring since 2002, Xiu Xiu's music has veered from damaged avant-pop to artfully orchestrated rock, squalls of black-hearted noise and most bases around and between, ever served with a bruising honesty and intensity that has ripped out the hearts of a legion of obsessive listeners.

Newly announced Xiu Xiu album, 'Girl with Basket of Fruit' (out Feb 8th on Upset The Rhythm), is a rowdier, yet more stylistically splenetic offering than 2017's 'Forget', with the usual eye-catching list of collaborators this time including Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Devin Hoff and Haitian percussionists Emmanuel Obi and Ayo Okafor. For this live operation in London Xiu Xiu will manifest in the form of Jamie Stewart, Thor Harris (best known for his percussion work in Swans) and Jordan Gieger (Minus Story/Shearwater).
http://www.xiuxiu.org/

JOHN BENCE is a composer and producer from Bristol, whose work tackles epic narrative themes and uncompromising sonics with a juddering emotional punch. Bence's first record, 'Disquiet' was a sort of palimpsest of a re-scored composition, whilst new album 'Kill' finds him unfurl a shocking three part movement for vocals, cello and bellicose drums that should leave no one uncertain of his talents. And in that sense it's really not hard to hear why his music has been snapped up for release by Yves Tumor's label, as the pair patently share a feel for music both fuelled by and navigating overwhelming emotion. 'Kill' is out now on the Grooming imprint.
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm 15th anniversary label party!

SAUNA YOUTH
TRASH KIT
GUTTERSNIPE
VITAL IDLES
RATTLE
DOG CHOCOLATE
NORMIL HAWAIIANS (DJ set)
Wednesday 27 March
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL
5.30pm - 11pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
This March Upset The Rhythm will be marking our 15th anniversary with a label showcase tour around Britain. Representing a lot of our current UK roster, the tour will see the likes of DIY punk progressives Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles and Dog Chocolate perform alongside hypnotic drum and voice duo Rattle and Guttersnipe, a group who shredded their tonal territory into euphoria this year with their debut album. Within the last fifteen years UTR has organised over 1500 live events in London and racked up a back catalogue you’d have to ask a friend to help carry, 115 titles at point of writing. We've always been proud to have a forward-facing, open-minded attitude towards the label, letting it be a reflection of our own personal tastes. This has led to the label’s scope becoming truly international. We work with artists from Australia like Terry, The Green Child and School Damage, European acts like Pega Monstro, Makoto Kawabata and Pikacyu from Japan and Darlene Shrugg from Canada. We also release US acts such as Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu and The World and have been responsible for discovering the talents of John Maus, Future Islands and No Age with debut releases from all. It's certainly kept us busy, alongside all this, we've been tireless in our support of the noise next door, providing a platform for Britain’s enthralling musical underground in all its many forms. It’s this side of things we’re choosing to highlight with this tour and London show, help us celebrate the big XV on our doorstep, before we wander off through the kingdom!

SAUNA YOUTH
https://saunayouth.bandcamp.com/

TRASH KIT
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/trashkit.shtml

GUTTERSNIPE
https://guttersnipe.bandcamp.com/

VITAL IDLES
https://vitalidles.bandcamp.com/

RATTLE
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/rattle.shtml

DOG CHOCOLATE
 
 
 
Other shows on the UTR XV label showcase tour:

Thursday 28th March - GLASGOW - CCA
 
Friday 29th March - LEEDS - Brudenell
 
Saturday 30th March - MANCHESTER - White Hotel
 
Sunday 31st March - CARDIFF - Clwb Ifor Bach
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A lot to read as always, thank you very much for your time and support!
See you on Friday, south of the river!
Upset The Rhythm
 
 
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS 
NATE YOUNG
JOHN R. SPYKES
E B U
Friday 22 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm | £11 | TICKETS
 
DAVID NANCE GROUP
YERBA MANSA
MÄDCHEN 84
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
NORMIL HAWAIIANS (DJ set) Wednesday 27 March
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL
5.30pm - 11pm | £10 | TICKETS  
 
JANDEK
Tuesday 2 April
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £18 | TICKETS
 
THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS
MOSQUITOES

Friday 5 April
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
COOLIES
THE RENDERERS
FUN FUN FUNERAL
Saturday 6 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
ALEX REX
MYLES MANLEY
11TH HOUR ADVENTISTS
Wednesday 10 April
SET Space, 27A Dalston Ln, London, E8 3DF
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
IRMA VEP
ES
POWERPLANT
Thursday 11 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
LEA BERTUCCI: Projection/Reflection
Tuesday 16 April
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
BRIGID MAE POWER
AOIFE NESSA FRANCES

Tuesday 23rd April
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
BILL NACE & JAMES TWIG HARPER
GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION
Monday 29 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
ESCAPE-ISM
(Ian Svenonius)
SOLUTION HOURS
Wednesday 1 May
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
CALVIN JOHNSON
THE CATENARY WIRES
Monday 6 May
HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP
(3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates)
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
THE ESSEX GREEN
TOM O.C WILSON
Friday 10 May
Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
HEN OGLEDD
RAP
Tuesday 14 May
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £14 | TICKETS
 
PRIESTS
Thursday 16 May
100 Club, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
ANA DA SILVA & PHEW
TARANTULA
Monday 27 May
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
LANKUM
Tuesday 28 May & Wednesday 29 May
In association with Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £16.50 each day, £30 two-day pass | TICKETS
 
CHRIS COHEN
Wednesday 29 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, London, E8 1EL
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS
 
BILGE PUMP
WITCHING WAVES
Friday 31 May
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
ADVANCE BASE
Monday 22 July
Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
TIM PRESLEY’S WHITE FENCE
ROBERT SOTELO
Wednesday 21 August
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS
 
 

Monday, 18 March 2019

Red Channel debut 7" announced for April 19th!







We're releasing the debut 7" record by Red Channel this April 19th! Red Channel are five like-minds from Los Angeles who decided to start writing snappy, impactful songs together in early 2017. Melody (vocals, synth), Casey (vocals, synth), Bill (bass), Scott (guitar) and Marcus (drums) united through a shared post-punk sensibility and began experimenting with some angular drum and guitar give-and-take, layered with duelling synth refrains. Over this Melody and Casey worked-up their vocal harmonies through impulse, developing an interplay reminiscent of The Go Go's at both their most serene and severe. The pairs vocals drift through each track, punctuating the profound and guiding us through each song's uncanny terrain.



Check out new single 'Crazy Diamonds', Tiny Mix Tapes have just premiered the track, calling it "a lead track that ends up sounding smooth yet sharp, feeling wistful yet defiant. An ideal statement to introduce yourself with". The 'Crazy Diamonds' 7" EP is now available to pre-order.

Monday, 11 March 2019

Upset The Rhythm 15th anniversary interview with Beats To The Bar!



OK! Here's part 1 of an interview I did on the coldest day of the year in a blitzed Church turned public garden in Tower Hill with the great people behind Beats To The Bar. Hear me talking about how Upset The Rhythm began 15 years ago in somewhat candid fashion. Deerhoof even make a surprise appearance to well and truly pull my leg off too!

We're taking to the road later this month to celebrate the big XV with a series of label showcases, ahoy:

Wednesday 27th March - LONDON - The Dome with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Rattle, Guttersnipe, Dog Chocolate

Thursday 28th March - GLASGOW - CCA with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Robert Sotelo, Rattle

Friday 29th March - LEEDS - Brudenell with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Rattle, Guttersnipe

Saturday 30th March - MANCHESTER - White Hotel with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Guttersnipe, Robert Sotelo

Sunday 31st March - CARDIFF - Clwb Ifor Bach with Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Robert Sotelo, Rattle

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Here's part two of my interview with the top people at Beats To The Bar, talking all things Upset The Rhythm as a record label in celebration of our "highly satisfying" upcoming 15th anniversary label showcase tour.... which starts on March 27th in London. It got me a bit dewy eyed as there's so many lovely cameos from many of our bands! Jamie Stewart and his wombat familiar make an appearance, alongside Russell 'keep the faith' Walker, Nick Carlisle and a large Peroni, Rattle in fine song, the hugely powerful duo of Rachel Horwood and Rachel Aggs, Dog Chocolate on their personal scents and tinnitus + Pega Monstro with a slideshow! Hard to pack anything more into 20 mins of your time!

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Friday, 8 March 2019

Vital Idles EP released today! Shows for Kristin Hersh, The Shifters and Wolf Eyes (solo) upcoming!

 
 
Alright!
 
Today we release Vital Idles’ pristine new EP on shiny black 7” vinyl and digital bit-rates. ‘EP’ collects four remarkable tracks of intensity, momentum and minimal pop practice from the Glasgow quartet. It’s the perfectly pensive follow-up to last year’s immensely gratifying ‘Left Hand’ album.
 
To celebrate, we’ve unveiled a ‘flashy’ new video for ‘Careful Extracts’ for your enjoyment. It features a dark room, some ‘proximal furl’ and all of Jessica’s lyrics too. Get ready to lose yourself in an eventful 1 minute and 59 second visionary shape of sound.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Keeping our record label hat on for a moment longer, this week we announced two forthcoming records for April and May alongside our friends at Goner Records in the US.
 
Hash Redactor’s debut album ‘Drecksound’ will be pressed up by UTR for April 26th. Fronted by guitarist Alec McIntyre of Ex-Cult, with NOTS rhythm warriors Meredith Lones on bass and Charlotte Watson on drums, Hash Redactor dive into territory that feels distinctly untethered from their era. ‘Drecksound’ is a clattering, shambolic oasis in the sleek digital desert. A flailing, nihilistic quake of buckled, cathartic punk trapped on heavyweight vinyl.
 
 
 
Meanwhile, May 10th will see Upset The Rhythm and Goner release NOTS’ third album entitled, wait for it… ‘3’. The Memphis trio have unearthed every writhing guitar squall, every raucous barrage and every piercing vocal melody at hand. Melting buzzing, swirling waves of sound menace and hypnotise throughout too, making for a dark, liberating, and bold tour de force of a third record, infused with rampant intensity and improvisational energy.

Both albums are available to pre-order now (including as limited-edition coloured vinyl versions) in our very own webshop here. What a world this is!
 
 
 
 
 
 
OK back in the live promotion room, or venue as we say in the lingo. We’ve some choice London shows on the horizon, starting this Sunday with Kristin Hersh at Bush Hall as an electric trio. We have the Throwing Muses legend performing a second show on Tuesday too, both times supported by Fred Abong of TM and Belly, tickets still available, but worth buying in advance.
 
Next Thursday sees us pitch up at The Islington with Melbourne lo-fi whizzes The Shifters, Dry Cleaning and The Cool Greenhouse all performing, crucial! We detail all these shows in this newsletter, along with March 22nd’s listing for our Wolf Eyes solo concert at Iklectik with Nate Young, John R. Spykes Olson and other-worldly Bristol producer E B U. Check that!
 
 
Lots of incredible new UTR shows went on sale this week too! We’ve got concerts from all of these amazing artists now in the diary for you: Bill Nace, Twig Harper, Tim Presley’s White Fence, The Essex Green, Calvin Johnson, Bilge Pump and Ian Svenonius as Escape-ism!
 
Details and ticket links located below!
 
 
 

 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
KRISTIN HERSH (Electric Trio)
With ROB AHLERS (drums) & FRED ABONG (bass)
FRED ABONG (support set)
Sunday 10 March & Tuesday 12 March
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £25 | TICKETS FOR MARCH 10TICKETS FOR MARCH 12
 
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.
 
FRED ABONG will be supporting Kristin on her current UK tour dates. Fred is a friend of Kristin’s and former Throwing Muses and Belly bass player. Fred will be touring his new solo acoustic EP, described by himself as sounding like a “ragged Replacements”.
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
THE SHIFTERS
DRY CLEANING
THE COOL GREENHOUSE

Thursday 14 March
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS

THE SHIFTERS are a quintet from Melbourne, who after two 7” singles and demo tape, just unveiled their first proper full-length album entitled ‘Have a Cunning Plan’ (Trouble In Mind). Recorded at Al Montfort of Total Control/Terry’s home studio, ‘Have A Cunning Plan’ ups the fidelity a bit, tempering the up-front crunch of their previous demo. The sonic space suits the band, allowing the unpretentious complexity of the songs & lyrics to generate the “oomph” rather than bludgeoning the listener with treble and feedback. The album showcases ten new tracks by the band at their best; scrappy, self-destructive, stumbling and brilliant pop music that seems tossed off or nonchalant on the surface but is rife with rewards upon further listening. Early album bangers like “Molasses” and the first single “Work/Life, Gym Etc” are instant earworms, (as are “Straight Lines” & “Pyramid Scheme”, the latter reworked from a recent 7-inch) but it’s the simple-yet-sophisticated songcraft of tunes like “How Long?” or the languid strum of “Andrew Bolt” that are heavy on mood and are vehicles for vocalist/guitarist Miles Jansen’s erudite lyrics that simultaneously celebrate and decry the banality of life, while also tackling larger issues of colonialism conservatism’s effects on society at large. On the surface, there’s no denying the band owe a heavy debt to The Fall, but whatever seeds were planted by the late, great Mark E. Smith, have gestated into an animal all their own. ‘Have A Cunning Plan’ aims to take them towards a greater plane.
https://theshiftersofmelbourne.bandcamp.com/

DRY CLEANING are a south London quartet who carve out vast post punk canyons with a dry, narrative-driven vocal. You can hear the everyday collide with the profound in their songs, which are as insightful and acutely honest as they are highly catchy. Check out their ‘Sweet Princess’ tape right now!
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/releases

THE COOL GREENHOUSE make lo-fi, repetitive post-punk with a social conscience. Their debut 7” on Market Square is a treat of elusive DIY moves and sarcastic wit. Very reminiscent of the early 80s post-punk cassette scene and messthetics compilation groups.
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…

NATE YOUNG
JOHN R. SPYKES
E B U
Friday 22 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm | £11 | TICKETS 

NATE YOUNG is a founding member of seminal Detroit noise band Wolf Eyes. More recently he's been honing an equally distinctive solo sound that blends myriad sources from musique concrète, vintage film atmospherics, layered synths and archive library recordings into something thrillingly intense. Summoning up crushingly ominous crepuscular soundscapes and synth-washed phantasmagoria, Young undercuts the brutalism of Wolf Eyes with the kind of ambient dread that conjures images of lost horror soundtracks from the 70's. Minimal analogue synth violence is punctuated by thunder cracks of metal percussion ala the early Akita/Null Merzbow duets, massively doomy beat hypnotics and an atmosphere that's somewhere between the most apocalyptic Throbbing Gristle recordings. This February sees the release of ‘Dilemmas of Identity’, volume one in a new multi-part series of solo releases from Young for Lower Floor Music. These songs were commonly made as a distraction from grief, seasonal depression and isolation. Sometimes severely ridiculous and unrelenting, other times slow, sparse and strange.
https://soundcloud.com/nate-young   
   

JOHN R. SPYKES aka Inzane Johnny Olson of Wolf Eyes and American Tapes will be treating us to a solo slice from his mind platter, featuring damaged rippers and modulations galore. As a part of Wolf Eyes, John Olson is responsible for augmenting the USA's longest-running homemade, primitive, electronic, poetry & radical vibes trio. They don't just release albums they launch scotched, taped nuclear audio fronts on humanity. Spykes is a project Olson has visited many times since its inception in 1999, constantly unearthing new sounds from the same old grey feelings of Midwestern winters inside. Absolute free jams promised, firing on all cylinders, a warped madness of atomised sonics.
 
E B U is a Bristol-based producer who casts a universe of her own both sonically and visually. Defying any one genre, she refers to her distinct sound as 'Swamp Pop'. Unnatural sounds and pitches exhale in melodic chants, ominous baselines resound and eerie loops fixate in this macabre ensemble. You are captive in her world. Moments of haunting clarity keep you wondering where she will take you next whilst strange narratives unfold. Her chameleonic visual display is charged with emotion, keeping you suspended in a state of flux as she orbits through the spectrum. Stimulated by human behaviour and existence she questions the very nature of being and invites the audience to explore through her cathartic performance.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
You made it to the end, thanks for reading!
Have the best weekend...
Upset The Rhythm
 
 
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS 
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 10TICKETS MARCH 12
 
THE SHIFTERS
DRY CLEANING
COOL GREENHOUSE
Thursday 14 March
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
NATE YOUNG
JOHN R. SPYKES
 (Solo sets from members of WOLF EYES)
E B U
Friday 22 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm | £11 | TICKETS
 
DAVID NANCE GROUP
YERBA MANSA
MÄDCHEN 84
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  
 
JANDEK
Tuesday 2 April
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £18 | TICKETS
 
THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS
MOSQUITOES

Friday 5 April
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
COOLIES
THE RENDERERS
FUN FUN FUNERAL
Saturday 6 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
ALEX REX
MYLES MANLEY
Wednesday 10 April
SET Space, 27A Dalston Ln, London, E8 3DF
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
IRMA VEP
ES
POWERPLANT
Thursday 11 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
LEA BERTUCCI: Projection/Reflection
Tuesday 16 April
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
BRIGID MAE POWER
AOIFE NESSA FRANCES

Tuesday 23rd April
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
BILL NACE & JAMES TWIG HARPER
GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION
Monday 29 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
ESCAPE-ISM
(Ian Svenonius)
Wednesday 1 May
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
CALVIN JOHNSON
THE CATENARY WIRES
Monday 6 May
HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP
(3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates)
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
THE ESSEX GREEN
Friday 10 May
Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
HEN OGLEDD
Tuesday 14 May
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £14 | TICKETS
 
PRIESTS
Thursday 16 May
100 Club, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
ANA DA SILVA & PHEW
Monday 27 May
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
LANKUM
Tuesday 28 May & Wednesday 29 May
In association with Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £16.50 each day, £30 two-day pass | TICKETS
 
CHRIS COHEN
Wednesday 29 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, London, E8 1EL
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS
 
BILGE PUMP
Friday 31 May
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
ADVANCE BASE
Monday 22 July
Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
TIM PRESLEY’S WHITE FENCE
Wednesday 21 August
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS