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Upset The Rhythm presents…
CURRENT AFFAIRS
POWERPLANT LIVID Friday 5 July The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
CURRENT AFFAIRS are a post punk
band from Glasgow, neatly navigating the line between new wave and
goth. Formed in 2016 and Comprising Joan (ex-The Royal We/Seconds/Rose
McDowall's band), Seb (ex-Anxiety/Pissy), Josh (The Downs/Kaspar
Hauser/ex-Rose McDowall's band) and Andrew (Shopping/As Ondas).
Collectively they present a muscular unity, with a pounding post-punk
rhythm section augmented by wild, effected guitar and the impressive,
soulful-but-gothic vocal. A demo cassette was released along the way and
In December 2018 the band’s first 7” Breeding Feeling -bw- Draw The
Line was put out into the world by Not Unloved records. Another 7” is
imminent via the IRRK label.
https://currentaffairs.bandcamp.com/ POWERPLANT embark on an eternal crusade with sizzling synthesisers & pleading vocals. They are the true essence of synth-punk released into thin air. They truly are the last of man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcyyEqoJ2pc&feature=youtu.be LIVID are a blazing new punk group, fight or flight vocals, pummelsome drums and decidedly frenzied riffs galore. Nothing online yet, featuring ex-Nachthexen members. |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
NORMIL HAWAIIANS
RATTLE ERASERS Thursday 11 July Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
NORMIL HAWAIIANS communal take
on post punk sprouted leaves from its mouth in 1982, and began carving
out a new furrow. Greater emphasis was awarded to improvisation within
the group and as a result their songs embarked on longer, freer journeys
towards the beaten bounds. They wanted these new songs to bear the
weight of their new collective spirit so comfort zones had to be left
behind. Tape loops, echo boxes, extended percussive sessions and duteous
faith in the tones emanating from a particular old wah-wah pedal were
all employed by Normil Hawaiians to stretch their sonic fabric into wild
and redolent new dimensions. Within three years the band went on to
record three astonishing records, their ambitious double-LP debut ‘More
Wealth Than Money’, ‘What’s Going On?’ with its radical collage of
movements and ‘Return Of The Ranters’ which teamed up their free
experiments in compelling arrhythmia with a more confrontational
approach. Upset The Rhythm have released ‘More Wealth’ and ‘Ranters’
recently in remastered form, and this special live manifestation at Cafe
OTO celebrates the reissue of 1984’s ‘What’s Going On?’ masterstroke
(out June 28th). Lucid, candid, politically engaged, rarely metronomic
but always humane, Normil Hawaiians conjure vast clouds of atmosphere.
Their songs are bedecked with exalted synth trails, clustering guitar
rapture, motorik beats, and spun-out raw polemics. Still light years
ahead of us all!
http://normilhawaiians.com/ RATTLE are a Nottingham based duo, Rattle focus almost exclusively on drums and more drums, beneath a delicate overlay of vocal harmonies and percussive effects. Formed by Katharine Eira Brown (also of Kogumaza) and Theresa Wrigley (also of Fists), Rattle began as an experiment in crafting rich songs and melody using drums and voice alone. Their music weaves and intertwines post-punk, minimalism and experimental rock, through off-kilter rhythms, patterns and counter melodies. Often starting by picking out the ghost notes from the drums to develop a melody, the song then reveals itself in rounds and harmonies with layer upon layer of rhythm and vocal, lending a choral feel to some of the tracks. Rattle effortlessly blend the avant-garde with irresistible melodies and hypnotic drum beats, using rhythm and harmony to create a refreshing sound that is utterly new - a pretty rare feat these days when we're saturated with so much music. Rattle's impressive ‘Sequence’ album came out last November through Upset The Rhythm. https://rattleon.bandcamp.com/ ERASERS deliver up rhythmic and mood-driven music that sits between kosmische and post-punk. Forming as a home recording project in 2009 the Perth, West Australian based Erasers (Rebecca Orchard, Rupert Thomas) released a steady flow of cd-rs, tapes and a 7” before eventually releasing their debut full length ‘Stem Together’ in 2015. In 2017 the duo followed up with the tape release ‘Fault Lines’. In the live sphere Erasers have shared the stage with the likes of Low, Grouper, Acid Mothers Temple, Prince Rama, High Wolf and The Soft Machine as well as multiple shows with long time musical heroes My Disco, Love Of Diagrams and Pikelet. After an extensive recording and mixing process, 2019 sees Erasers with two new releases to share; a 5 track tape titled ‘Forecast’ (through Solid Melts) and the duo’s second full length ‘Pulse Points’ (through Fire Talk and Pouring Dream). https://erasers.bandcamp.com/ |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
RAYS
DESIGN A WAVE
MAEDCHEN 84
Tuesday 16 July Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
RAYS returned to the fray with
their second album, You Can Get There From Here, their first release
since their eponymous Trouble In Mind debut in 2016. Rays formed in the
fertile crescent of the California Bay Area, a hotbed of musical growth
in the past decade, and Rays' members pull not only from that recent
miasma but also from a wealth of Bay Area musical history. You Can Get
There From Here represents a turning point for the band, angling their
scrappy, post-punk fury into a more refined & melodic pop
sensibility, drawing inspiration from UK DIY pop & punk like Dolly
Mixture, Cleaners From Venus, Television Personalities & more.
Straight from the gate, songs like "Fallen Stars" & "The Garden"
temper their sonic crunch ever so slightly, relying more on the harmonic
wallop of a solid hook than the sheer volume of guitars & cymbal
crashes. This is urgent, chiming guitar pop of the highest order that
clangs with a sonorous melancholy & a ramshackle grace. Rays can
still lay it down with the rest of 'em; tunes like "Subway" & "Work
of Art" shuffle & stumble forward, skirting chaos in a flurry of
strums, recalling recent antipodean pop groups like UV Race, Dick Diver
or The Shifters who cull inspiration from idiosyncratic UK greats like
Mark E. Smith or Robyn Hitchcock. With You Can Get There From Here, Rays
add their voice to the chorus. The new album finds the core group of
Stanley Martinez, Eva Hannan, Troy Hewitt & Alexa Pantalone
augmented by new member & keyboardist Britta Leijonflycht, whose
synth flourishes add melodic embellishments, sonic heft or psychedelic
swirl where needed.
http://www.troubleinmindrecs.com/artists/rays/ DESIGN A WAVE aka Tom Hirst is a London based artist who has recently released music on Rush Hour’s No Label, as well as contributing to Ravioli Me Away’s opera. Design A Wave also has past releases on Alien Jams, Subsubtropics and the Alter label. Tom Hirst has been making music for many moons. Initial buds featured tape collages, distangled pop music, various dictaphone experiments, and over time all this meshed and warped into his solo musical venture known as Design A Wave. Initiated in the late 90s, the project was loosely named after one of the gangs in the Troma film Surf Nazis Must Die which, alongside other similar movies and music of it’s time, informed a particular vision of an idealised weird - a trashy synth orientated 80s B-movie soundtrack, which provided an aesthetic platform on which to dive, surf and ride. https://soundcloud.com/deswav 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 |
That’s all for now! Thanks for your time and consideration.
Have the best weekend imaginable!
Upset The Rhythm
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS
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CURRENT AFFAIRS
POWERPLANT
NORMIL HAWAIIANS
RATTLE ERASERS Thursday 11 July Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
RAYS
(Trouble In Mind)
DESIGN A WAVE
MAEDCHEN 84
Tuesday 16 July
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS DANIEL HIGGS
ETERNAL BROADCAST
Wednesday 17 July 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
PRISON RELIGION (Halcyon Veil)
HYPERSTITION DUO Friday 19 July The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS
ADVANCE BASE
ALICE HUBBLE
MOUNT EERIE
Thursday 8 August EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS
J. McFARLANE’S REALITY GUEST
THE PHEROMOANS
Wednesday 14 August The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | 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
MARY LATTIMORE
NUMMO TWIN
Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 |TICKETS |
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