Monday 8 April 2019

Alex Rex, Irma Vep London shows this week, Lea Bertucci next week!

 
 
Hey again!
Thanks so much for coming out this last week to see Jandek, The Flying Luttenbachers and Coolies, what a sonic voyage those three proved to be! We’re keeping things interesting with three more shows on the closing horizon too. Here’s the run down.
 
This Wednesday sees us host our first night at SET Space on Dalston Lane, just round the corner from Café OTO. We’re truly spoiled as we have Alex Rex (Alex Neilson of Trembling Bells) booked to perform the starkly loping, folk songs off his redemptive and emotionally-raw new album ‘Otterburn’. Irish DIY popstar Myles Manley is down to support, along with 11th Hour Adventists, featuring Jowe Head from TVPs and Swell Maps. So yeh, quite the banquet of song planned, tickets for this one are £6 and will be available from 7.30pm on the door, sounds great!
 
 
 
Then on Thursday night, we have a special double bill from Irma Vep and Es at The Islington. The Quietus sum up Irma Vep best as a “construct built around Manchester-entrenched Welshman Edwin Stevens, a bowerbird of outsider music that makes awkward compositions designed to tear you down, just to build you up again.” Irma Vep is a nascent whirlwind of fried guitar abandon and bedroom pop noir, always astonishing live, not to be missed.  
 
Es also set the pace with their insistent, icy post punk, quite simply pulse-quickening, can’t wait!

 
 
 
Our third show on this leg will take place at Iklectik in Lambeth next Tuesday and features a rare outing from New York composer and alto saxophonist Lea Bertucci. Her fascinating music explores space, pattern and sensitivity through sculptural textures of sax, layered tape loops and field recordings. Her recent ‘Metal Aether’ album on NNA Tapes was rightly heralded a triumph. For this special show Bertucci will be airing her new composition Projection / Reflection. Chase Coley & Pascal Colman will be opening this show with their electrifying duo set too, so make sure you head down early.
 
Lots more info and ticket links for all three shows to follow, plus we’ve added two events to our June programme from Sacred Paws and Elf Power too! That’s shaping up into a winning month!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Since we last talked we also shared this terrific video from Upset The Rhythm artists Rattle for their epic track DJ, thought we’d share that with you here too! Enjoy!
 
DJ is the first song we wrote for the new album and is the first song on Sequence, explains Katharine Eira Brown of Rattle. It became our first 'long' song and set the tone for the album. It had the uncanny magic of being perceived as being 'the new one' for a very long time, probably because it took a very long time to 'pin down' and took a lot of different forms before it settled into place, and would sound radically different depending on tuning of my snare, the sound of the room, and the amount of delay.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
ALEX REX
MYLES MANLEY
11TH HOUR ADVENTISTS
Wednesday 10 April
SET Space, 27A Dalston Ln, London, E8 3DF
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
ALEX REX is the solo project from Alex Neilson (founding member and songwriter of folk-rock band Trembling Bells & collaborator with Bonnie Prince Billy) and friends. Singing songs of love, loss and loathing. This is his first UK tour to promote new album 'Otterburn' (Tin Angel Records). Known for his continuing collaborations with Alasdair Roberts and Richard Youngs, and for his work with the elusive Jandek, Alex grew up in Leeds and now resides in London. An accomplished drummer, percussionist and singer who draws from jazz, psychedelia and the darker side of folk music, 'Otterburn' reunites Alex with two of his Trembling Bells band mates, Lavinia Blackwall and Mike Hastings. Aside from being a staple part of the folk-rock revival, Rex has performed alongside artists including Lucky Luke, The One Ensemble of Daniel Padden, Ashtray Navigations, Alastair Galbraith and Isobel Campbell. He has also toured with several folk artists who have enjoyed a late rediscovery of their work, including Scott Fagan, Nick Garrie, Mike Heron and Shirley Collins. Alex's new release was the product of a cataclysmic event in his personal life which happened in April 2017. Sadly, Alex's brother Alastair passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on his canal boat in Leeds. The youngest of three boys, Alastair embodied all his family's best qualities and was a charming and spontaneous friend to anyone lucky enough to cross his path. Forged in pain and made in Glasgow, Otterburn heaves with sorrow, despair, a sense of humour and a unique perspective that could only come from experiencing deep loss.
https://alexrex.bandcamp.com/album/otterburn

MYLES MANLEY is a consistently inventive pop star from Sligo, Ireland. His provocative and idiosyncratic take on guitar pop makes for a thrilling and vibrant show. ‘Myles Manley’ is currently a three piece guitar band consisting of Myles Manley, longstanding collaborator Christopher Barry and Cork’s drummer Solamh Kelly (Trumpets of Jericho, Dragons of Shandon). They spent the year honing an album of percussive, skeletal protest-pop music which is an exact replica of their joyful live set, which will have value as a historical document when it comes out.
http://www.mylesmanley.com/

11TH HOUR ADVENTISTS are a collaboration between Jasmine Pender (aka solo artist Rotten Bliss) and Jowe Head (ex Swell Maps, Television Personalities). They met ten years ago at a concert by Einsturzende Neubaten, which is a clue to the way that they get their kicks. Their collaboration is one of equal but balancing elemental forces, like hot engine oil poured into freezing water, or volcanic lava thrown high into the arctic air, a weird kind of alchemy.   Their debut album together is intoxicating, brewed from their diseased imaginations into a strange synthesis of psych-folk, punk sleaze and ambient drone, but mostly it is simply indefinable.
https://11thhouradventists.bandcamp.com
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
IRMA VEP
ES
Thursday 11 April
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
IRMA VEP is a loner, a joker, a roamer, a ribald construct riddled with both earnest anxiety and mercurial songwriting talent birthed by a young Edwin Stevens in Llanfairfechan, North Wales. Thrust into life after his mum bought a four track recorder for him, Edwin started recording for the cathartic process rather than the outcome. Having since fully grown into Irma Vep and now residing in Glasgow, Stevens' discography has expanded to document every aspect of his music, from ecstatically free group experiments to bare, sparse songwriting that cuts to the quick, shorn of ornament or pretence.

Stevens moonlights in several other groups (Sex Hands, Klaus Kinski, Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura, Yerba Mansa), bringing with him an instantly recognisable guitar language. However, it's in Irma Vep that his most life-affirming, troubling and thrilling music is made. Much Irma Vep feels like what "classic" music should feel like if it weren't so Classic. Each record, each song and each performance exists as an evolving drama. Edwin has toured the West Coast of America after being invited by Chris Johanson to play his Quiet Music Festival of Seattle and Portland. Irma Vep's latest offering 'Evil', talks of repression and the consequences of repression,channeling Edwin's influences of The Rebel, Lou Reed, Katherine Dunn, Dennis Cooper, Michael Yonkers, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Cat Power, Smog, Henry Flynt and Nico.
https://irmavepirmavep.bandcamp.com/

ES are the soundtrack to your no-wave nightmares, proffering 'mutant synth-punk for our dystopian present' (Jes Skolnik). Ethereal synths, tense basslines, wired drums and cold vocals collide, proving curiously dark, intense and unrelenting. After releasing their debut 'Object Relations' 12" EP on La Vida Es Un Mus in 2016, all members now reside in London and are working towards an album in 2019. ES feature members of Public Service, The Worms, Primetime and Scrap Brain.
https://esband.bandcamp.com/releases
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
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
 
LEA BERTUCCI is an American composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her instrumental practice, (alto saxophone and bass clarinet), her work often incorporates multi-channel speaker arrays, electroacoustic feedback, extended instrumental technique and tape collage. Deeply experimental, her work is unafraid to subvert musical expectation. Her discography includes a number of solo and collaborative releases on independent labels and last year she released the critically acclaimed 'Metal Aether' on NNA tapes, as well as a commission for percussion ensemble Tigue and a second edition of her much anticipated graphic score book, 'The Tonebook', on Inpatient Press. She has performed extensively across the US and Europe with presenters such as The Kitchen, PS1 MoMA, Blank Forms, The Walker Museum, Roulette, ESS Chicago, Sound of Stockholm Festival, and the Le Guess Who Festival. She is a 2016 MacDowell Fellow in composition and a 2015 ISSUE Project Room Artist-in-Residence. For this special concert in London, Betucci will present her new sensory Projection/Reflection performance.
http://lea-bertucci.com/ 

CHASE COLEY & PASCAL COLMAN are artists and experimental musicians who have been performing as a free improvising duo since 2014 where they have made appearances at a variety of events and exhibitions around London and the UK including 2017’s Supernormal fest and east London’s Dronica series. Blurring the distinctions between noise, ambient music, performance and live sound design they present a mode of improv which is idiomatic but one where the idiom is very much their own. Both see their collaborative practice as an exercise in listening where, by the formation of new and unpredictable sonic relationships comprised of new instrumental voices (literally achieved by the fabrication of new acoustic instruments) they coerce their audience to engage with the sound which is both pure and immediate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3M5KM6B-3s&t=749s
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS 
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
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
(Sally Pilkington, Dawn Bothwell, Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies)
RAP (Jolly Discs)
Tuesday 14 May
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £14 | TICKETS
 
PRIESTS
APOSTILLE
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
BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL (May 28)
ANDY THE DOORBUM (May 29)
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
 
SACRED PAWS
Thursday 13 June
Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS
 
ELF POWER
Wednesday 19 June
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £12.50 | 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
 
 

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