Hen Ogledd next Tuesday in London!

 

Alright, we made it to December!   Upset The Rhythm tiptoes into 'last show of the year' territory next Tuesday with a very special, festive visitation from Hen Ogledd.   Featuring the combined talents Richard Dawson (bass, vocals), Sally Pilkington (electronics, vocals), Rhodri Davies (electric harp, vocals) & Dawn Bothwell (electronics, vocals), Hen Ogledd are the most remarkable pop group. A little bit wonky, sci-fi focused, genre-leaping, improv-peppered pop group! Pop first and foremost, triangulating from the distant corners of joy and sensibility.   Tuesday's concert will also mark our 18th birthday as Upset The Rhythm too, now we can legally attend all these shows we've been plotting.   So yes, Corsica Studios is our chosen hub for celebrations and the conceptual pop powerhouse known as Jenny Moore's Mysic Business are set to stun all and sundry too.   See you there with bells on!

In other London show news, this week we announced a corker of an event for April 16th with the bowl-you-over lineup of Protomartyr, Traams and Rattle!   This concert will take place at Islington Assembly Hall and tickets went on sale this morning no less, whoo! We've been waiting ages to see Protomartyr again, it will be cathartic.   We also managed to reschedule our recently postponed Buffet Lunch concert which will now take place on April Fool's Day at MOTH Club. Me Lost Me and Shake Chain are still confirmed to perform and original tickets for Cafe OTO's Nov 6th event are still valid.   Coby Sey was also confirmed to support Grouper at our Barbican concert next April too, perfect!

Upset The Rhythm presents… HEN OGLEDD JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS Tuesday 7 December Corsica Studios, 4 & 5 Elephant Rd, London, SE17 1LB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ubtrl5YlLjb HEN OGLEDD are a band comprising Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies, Dawn Bothwell and Sally Pilkington, Hen Ogledd’s meaning comes from the Welsh name for The Old North. Following on from the quartet’s previous album Mogic, with its digital overtones and themes of artificial intelligence, Hen Ogledd's second album Free Humans takes a deliberately organic and natural approach. Inspired as much by ABBA as the work of 12th century mystic-composer-naturalist-visionary Hildegard von Bingen, touched equally by the spirits of radical philosophical plumber Mary Midgley and PC Music star Hannah Diamond, as quiet as the paintings of Agnes Martin yet bombastic like a Werner Herzog documentary... it’s an album of seamless, glorious contradictions. Tackling themes of love, friendship, Gaia theory, sewers, the nature of time, human stench, and the thrills of wild swimming, it’s remarkable that, given the intense collision of influences and wide-ranging ideas at play, Free Humans somehow coheres into a marvellous whole. Hen Ogledd manages to hold both the tragedy of the wrongs happening in the world and also a sense of hope and liberation in their hands at the same time. https://www.henogledd.com/ JENNY MOORE’S MYSTIC BUSINESS is a London-based six-piece choral-punk ensemble known for their tuned percussion, huge vocals and chanted soulful mantras, a mix of the 90's R&B and post-punk Jenny grew up listening to in the Canadian prairies. A testament to the raw power and untamed joy of communal singing, the band features members of Bas Jan, Trash Kit, F*Choir and Bamboo as well as solo singer-songwriter Rubie. They draw inspiration from artists such as Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Joan La Barbara and Robert Ashley, as well as feminist poets like Sharon Olds and Lorrie Moore, and David Byrne’s musical use of language, breaking down words into rhythmic tools. ‘He Earns Enough’ EP out on Lost Map Records now! https://jennymoore.bandcamp.com/album/jenny-moores-mystic-business

Have the best weekend! Thanks for reading! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

HEN OGLEDD
JENNY MOORE'S MYSTIC BUSINESS

Tuesday 7 December
Corsica Studios, 4 & 5 Elephant Rd, London, SE17 1LB
7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ubtrl5YlLjb

 

CLEMENTINE VALENTINE
(PURPLE PILGRIMS)
KINLAW
Monday 7 March 2022
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/cDMTPCt5Dkb

 

FUZZ

(Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich)

Friday 18 March 2022

Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP

6pm - 9.45pm | £17.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4

(This show is rescheduled from July 22^nd 2020 & March 31^st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)

 

FUTURE ISLANDS

DAN DEACON

Friday 25 March 2022

Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, N22 7AY

6.30pm | £30.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g3KQl6bmpgb

(Promoted in collaboration with our friends Parallel Lines)

BUFFET LUNCH
ME LOST ME
SHAKE CHAIN
Friday 1 April 2022
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £7 | https://link.dice.fm/v9oNFWFE7hb
(Tickets still valid from the postponed Cafe OTO, Nov 6th 2021 show)

 

GROUPER

COBY SEY

Thursday 14 April 2022
Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS
7.30pm | £20 | Tickets:  https://link.dice.fm/uBMlbma5ykb 

(Promoted in collaboration with our friends at Barbican)

 

PROTOMARTYR
TRAAMS
RATTLE
Saturday 16 April 2022
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/I78d1a3906de

KRISTIN HERSH (Electric Trio)
FRED ABONG
Thursday 21 April 2022
The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/LbdJu2HTUjb

 

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL

Saturday 7 May 2022

OSLO Hackney, 1A Amhurst Rd, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL

6.30pm-10pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/fUuBdCfJD3

(This show is rescheduled from May 12^th and Sep 8^th 2020 & May 7^th and September 1st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)