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. https://soundcloud.com/john-olson-14/john-r-spykes-january-hangs-onto-nothing-one    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. https://nocorner.bandcamp.com/album/falling-light-show-remixes

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. https://davidnance.bandcamp.com/   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. https://johnbence.bandcamp.com/releases

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 https://dogchocolate.bandcamp.com/       Other shows on the UTR XV label showcase tour: Thursday 28th March - GLASGOW - CCA Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Robert Sotelo, Rattle   Friday 29th March - LEEDS - Brudenell Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Rattle, Guttersnipe   Saturday 30th March - MANCHESTER - White Hotel Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Guttersnipe, Robert Sotelo   Sunday 31st March - CARDIFF - Clwb Ifor Bach Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Robert Sotelo, Rattle

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

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