No Age return to London next March!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

NO AGE
SHAKE CHAIN
Saturday 4 March
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £14 |  Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Zf02f4acddc4

NO AGE have a guiding principle: first thought, best thought. Constantly responding to their own streams of consciousness with reductive flexibility, they’ve taken the basic duo of guitar and drums with vocals WAY farther than anyone listening in halcyon Weirdo Rippers days could have guessed. Expounding on those larval possibilities, they’ve zig-zagged in serpentine precision, in and out of the teeth of the wringer - ranging outside and back in again, as befits the present thought. And now, 16 years deep and six albums into it, these motives have led them to make People Helping People (Drag City).

‘People Helping People’ sees No Age deep in the lab, scraping available nuclii together to see what new compound they find next. Erasing the starting points, reordering the pieces and beginning anew. Side one ricochets expertly back and forth between magisterial instrumentals and sing-song forms cut up on the mixing desk, as with the undeniable hitness of “Plastic (You Want It)”, winningly rewired to MIDI-mangled beat squelches. Straight up punk-style riffs get busy on side B, their aesthetic choices continuously reframe the norms, enhancing their inherent power. ‘People Helping People’ finds their disparate desires operating in perfect sync; prolegomenic weirdness fused immaculately to classic rock propulsion, transforming the energy pouring out from their hands and feet with electronics.  This is ‘People Helping People’: unpretentious, suspicious, inviting, and left-field. The most accurate display of the No Age ethos put to record. Yet!
https://noage.bandcamp.com/

SHAKE CHAIN have been busy demolishing audiences and expectations for the best part of the last three years. Vocalist Kate Mahony sets that standard by anything from crawling through the audience’s legs in a bright yellow raincoat to crying and washing her hands in a nearby toilet, as the rest of the band start the set. A feeling of anxiety and unease conjures relevant questioning, ‘what an earth is going on?’, ‘am I hallucinating?’ and ‘is this part of the show?’, all hallmarks of Shake Chain’s unruly and lyric-bespattered rock show. The four-piece from London are completed by Robert Eyres (Synth/Guitar), Chris Hopkins (Bass/Synth/Samples) and Joe Fergey (Drums). Born from the ashes of their former bands, the group met with a desire to create something that would feel new for each of them and audibly take its own course. The result is a nervous propulsion of bass lines, twitchy guitars that jolt and jerk and tack sharp drums, overridden by screeching vocal slurs and sampled television. Kate’s singing is a unique embrace of flights of atonal fancy, head-first repetition and ecstatic frenzy. Opinion-dividing arguably, but singular in making Shake Chain dauntingly brilliant. The band’s debut album ’Snake Chain’ is out now on Upset The Rhythm.
https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/snake-chain  

Shake Chain LPs in the house!

Shake Chain's monolithic debut slab of an album entitled 'Snake Chain' is now flying out of UTR headquarters! All pre-orders have been already dropped off at the festooned post office. These should be in your hands later today/tomorrow.

Do Santa a solid and bag him one for Rudolph now:
https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

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Eric Chenaux helps us celebrate 19 years of UTR this Friday night!

 

Winter greetings!
 
On Friday night we're celebrating 19 years of running Upset The Rhythm with a wondrous concert at West Hampstead Arts Club featuring Eric Chenaux. It's also our last event of 2023, so come make merry amongst the festive warble!
 
There's an untethered quality to Chenaux's music, taking in a jazz, folk and a pop-inflected balladry that makes for something truly unique and serene, just what we all need as we cruise into Yule. Eric juxtaposes his warm, clear singing voice with fried, noised, semi-improvised guitar and the results are as delirious as they are graceful. Gestural electro-acoustic duo [something's happening] will be playing this harmonious evening too, sublime times. Bring on the mince pies and mulled beverages!
 
Tickets available in advance or on the door from 7.30pm.

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Upset The Rhythm presents…

ERIC CHENAUX
[something’s happening]
Friday 9th December
West Hampstead Arts Club, 32 Mill Lane, London NW6 1NR
7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S2a86ebe0cd6

Historically Fucked album announced!

Three cheers!
We’re working with Historically Fucked on their new album entitled (wait for it…)  ‘The Mule Peasants’ Revolt of 12,067’. Out in early February this record is not mere Sedentary Rock but Blasted Basalt, Frog worshipping cave-funk, harmolodic hullabaloo-wop, a musical game of “badger in the bag”.

Historically Fucked is a four way entanglement made to create short, eruptive songs and then set about obliterating them from within. Historically Fucked contains four people, who each share the same duties, and whose names in sequence are Otto Willberg, David Birchall, Greta Buitkuté and Alecs Pierce. They are from Manchester and often other places. Guitar, bass, drums and voices keenly jostle amid the group’s frenzy of spontaneous rock throttles. Some of these rampant exercises in avant are collected on ‘The Mule Peasants’ Revolt of 12,067’. This is Rock and/or Roll as fertilizer, uncivilised and free, as if one were to imagine what the Plastic Ono Band would’ve hit upon if they had read ‘Riddley Walker’, the sound of an entire timeline of expression put back together back-to-front, misshapen and fully irradiated.

‘The Mule Peasants’ Revolt of 12,067’ is now available to pre-order on 180g black vinyl here:
https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

 

Upcoming shows and Shake Chain shenanigans!

Alright! Huge thanks to all of you for coming along to Richard Dawson's film premiere and our sensational Lande Hekt show last week. Really means the world to us.   Upset The Rhythm now only has two more events scheduled for 2022 (sad face), but both look set to blow minds! Next Thursday we're heading south of the river for our first ever event at The Ivy House in Nunhead. We'll have Tara Clerkin Trio and MXLX both performing at this one, cannot wait, well worth snapping up tickets in advance as we only have the smallest handful left now.   Then the following week on Friday 9th December we're heading to another new venue for us, West Hampstead Arts Club, for an intimate concert from Eric Chenaux. Eric is a purveyor of jazz, folk and pop-inflected avant balladry, juxtaposing his warm, clear singing voice with fried, noised, semi-improvised guitar. Gestural electro-acoustic duo [something's happening] will be playing this ace evening too. Read on for all the particulars.

Now, tonight there's another amazing show happening! This time in Deptford, it's very UTR in spirit so we wanted to alert you to it. Shake Chain and Dog Chocolate are both performing, alongside UTR faves The Plan too. Takes place at the Job Centre (yes really, 120 Deptford High Street) from 7pm til late and costs absolutley nothing to attend, wah! Fun times guaranteed!

Talking of Shake Chain! Last Friday Upset The Rhythm released the band's crazed yet stupendous debut album ‘Snake Chain' digitally via all the usual platforms, including Bandcamp here. Splotchy red/clear splatter vinyl LPs are due to arrive at UTR headquarters next week and are available to order here with jubilance. Hard to imagine a more perfect Xmas present isn't it? No socks this year grandma!   Tomorrow lunchtime Shake Chain will also appear live in session on Resonance FM for the Hello Goodbye show. Be sure to listen in for a full dose of boisterous demolition. To whet your appetite further here's Shake Chain's maelstrom of a new single featuring some casual microphone worship, chair entanglement and the classic 'Shake Chain' crawl! Miiiiiiiiiiike!

Upset The Rhythm presents… TARA CLERKIN TRIO MXLX Thursday 1 December The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J75c8d12d2cf TARA CLERKIN TRIO are Pat Benjamin, Sunny Joe Paradisos and Tara Clerkin, three musicians involved in a number of cult Bristol bands over the years before confidently settling down in triangle formation. Using looped and layered clarinet, vocals, samples, keys & percussion, Tara Clerkin Trio tend to spin you into spacy beguile. They are inspired by and borrow from jazz, trip hop, electronica, psychedelia & minimalism, twirling the non-pretentious strands of these threads together into a trippy green winged-cloak, adorning Arthur Russell and dripping in blue jam. Their self titled debut LP was released in 2020 and was a sleeper hit, coming in at 35 in the Wire's top 100 albums of the year and in Bleeps top 10. The effortless drift of ’In Spring’, the trio’s new EP is a distinctly Bristolian affair in its beatdown pacing and smoky atmosphere, which the label themselves compare to the roster orbiting the city’s Planet Records (Flying Saucer Attack, The Third Eye Foundation) in the ‘90s. Subdued but glowing reveries somewhere between Dominique Lawalrée's intimate parlour music and the sort of skewed narco-pop associated with the Laika x Moonshake axis and Cucina Povera. https://taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com/ MXLX is prolific Bristol-based musician Matthew Loveridge. Check out his epic back catalogue of recordings on bandcamp, including recent works ‘God Peasant’ and ‘Nebula Rasa’. https://kindarad.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   ERIC CHENAUX [something’s happening] Friday 9th December West Hampstead Arts Club, 32 Mill Lane, London NW6 1NR 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S2a86ebe0cd6 ERIC CHENAUX lives in Paris but was a fixture of DIY and experimental music in Toronto throughout the 1990s and 2000s, progressing from local postpunk legends Phleg Camp and Lifelikeweeds towards a highly distinctive technical and gestural mastery of amplified acoustic guitar. Eric Chenaux operates among various musical ‘traditions’ but perhaps most broadly, his records grapple with the relationship between improvisation and structure in very particular, unique, idiosyncratic ways – and quite without irony or cynicism, through love. Because fundamentally, Chenaux writes love songs, which he sings in a voice honeyed and clear, while his guitar gently bends, frazzes, chortles, diverges and decomposes. This juxtaposition of his mellow, dexterous crooning and his highly experimental (and equally dexterous) guitar explorations, explodes even unconventional notions of singing and accompaniment, of tonal and timbral interplay between guitar and voice. Constellation has been home to Eric's "solo" records since 2006 – a brilliant discography of adventurous, sumptuous, mostly languorous deconstructed folk, jazz and pop-influenced balladry rooted in the juxtaposition of Chenaux's fried guitar playing and his gorgeously clear and lyrical singing voice. Eric’s new album comes out this February and is his most immaculate and pristine. 'Say Laura' perfectly incarnates the counter-intuitive interplay of instrument and voice that Chenaux has been revealing and revelling in throughout the past decade: his gently unhinged juxtaposition of resplendently smooth, seductively assured singing and puckish, thoroughly destabilized guitar could come from no other musician. The five wandering, wondering ballads on 'Say Laura' bring Chenaux’s semi-improvised but keenly intentional songwriting to its fullest, clearest, warmest and coolest articulation; uncompromising and generous, hyper-specific and loose, spartan and luxurious, elemental and ornate. http://ericchenaux.com/ [something’s happening] is the sound and text duo of poet and performer Iris Colomb and composer Daryl Worthington (Beachers). The project explores textual and sonic permutation through improvisation. Fragments of found text and gestural electro-acoustics weave through spectral guitar textures. Loops of sound and language collide. https://somethingshappening.bandcamp.com/album/something-like-that

Enjoy the weekend, see you next week! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

TARA CLERKIN TRIO MXLX Thursday 1 December The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J75c8d12d2cf   ERIC CHENAUX [something’s happening] Friday 9th December West Hampstead Arts Club, 32 Mill Lane, London NW6 1NR 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S2a86ebe0cd6   ME LOST ME Sunday 5 March Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/jfe003fa3a38   FUZZ (Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich) Friday 17 March 2023 Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP 6pm - 9.45pm | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4 (This show is rescheduled from March 18th 2022, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   LANKUM Thursday 4 May Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8DS (Produced by UTR and the Barbican) 7.30pm | £20-25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/rb942e0b726d RICHARD DAWSON Friday 5 May  Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS (Produced by UTR and the Barbican) 7.30pm | £20-30 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/I498e6661a5b

'Snake Chain' by Shake Chain - out now!

Unhinged, crazed, neo no-wave; all words used to describe Shake Chain’s stupendous debut album ‘Snake Chain’ released today on Upset The Rhythm. Listen loud via all the usual digital zones, including Bandcamp here.

Splotchy red/clear splatter vinyl LPs are due to arrive at UTR headquarters at the end of November, available to order here with jubilance now.

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Me Lost Me - London show for March announced!

 

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

ME LOST ME
Sunday 5 March
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL


7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/jfe003fa3a38

ME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. Led by Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music, the project has transformed since 2017 from a solo endeavor to an expanded group; regularly collaborating with acclaimed North-East jazz musicians Faye MacCalman and John Pope. Me Lost Me’s music has been described in The Guardian as "stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out", and by BBC Radio 6's Tom Robinson as a "brilliant peculiar noise".

A prolific writer, Me Lost Me has released two crowdfunded albums: ‘Arcana’ (2018) and ‘The Good Noise’ (2020), which was included in Electronic Sound Magazine's Album of the Year list. These in addition to her latest EP 'The Circle Dance' (2021), which was described as "her most textural and sonically adventurous music to date" by NARC Magazine, and an extensive touring schedule around the UK DIY scene, has won her unique sound much support across the musical spectrum. Dent has notably performed live for BBC Radio 3’s After Dark Festival and as part of the 2022 BBC Proms alongside Spell Songs, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Voices of the Rivers Edge Choir. She recently received the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers and was 2020-2021 Artist in Residence at Sage Gateshead.

https://www.melostme.com/ 

Shake Chain's 'Mike' video released today, Pitchfork review!

 

Shake Chain's manic maelstrom of a new single 'Mike' is released today! Check out the video on Pitchfork now, featuring some casual microphone worship, chair entanglement and the classic 'Shake Chain' crawl! Miiiiiiiiiiike! 

 

 

 

Richard Dawson film this Saturday, Lande Hekt in London next Monday!

 

Morning all!   Thanks very much for turning out in your droves for Prolapse and Mary Lattimore last week, this week we're extremely excited to host our very first film premiere. Taking place this Saturday between 4pm-6pm we'll be at The Rio in Dalston for a screening of Richard Dawson's epic, woozily disorienting film 'The Hermit'.   Starting from the song's main conceit – an alternate universe as seen by someone waking in the forest of a constructed video game domain – disparate figures are shown in situations by turns mundane, educational, industrial and fantastical, blurring lines between realities virtual and actual.   Dawson plays the loner protagonist, observing on the margins. Is it the past, or a near-future resembling mythic Albion? What happens if there’s a glitch in the virtual world, turning a pastoral scene into one of dread? Are we witnessing the end of days, or an unsettlingly close simulation?   This will be the very first showing of the film and we're thrilled to have Richard and director James Hankins in conversation for a Q&A hosted by the great Adam Buxton too! Read on for all you need to know and for the link to the last remaining tickets.

You'll also find below our listing for Lande Hekt's concert at The Shacklewell Arms next Monday too! Sometime Muncie Girl, Lande Hekt’s new LP 'House Without a View' is an evocatively uplifting, if often melancholic record packed with dreamy DIY lo-fi pop.   Very pleased to have Jade Haipins (Jonah & Mike of F*cked Up's fizzy synth popgroup) playing this show too, loads more detail to follow along with write-ups of our Tara Clerkin Trio and Eric Chenaux forthcoming events too.   New tickets on sale this week for Richard Dawson's (him again!) live return to the Barbican next May too, check out our programme for tickets, well worth buying those soon as they're flying out.

Upset The Rhythm presents… Richard Dawson - 'The Hermit' film screening premiere In person Q&A w/ Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by Adam Buxton Jennifer Lucy Allan (DJ set) Record signing Saturday 12 November Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, London, E8 2PB 4pm-6pm (please arrive promptly at 4pm) | £14 | Tickets To celebrate the release of his new solo album 'The Ruby Cord' via Weird World on Nov 18, Richard Dawson presents a feature-length film for the album's 40-minute opening track, a sprawling mood piece entitled 'The Hermit' that tells the story of a loner living in a bucolic dreamworld. Directed by Bristol filmmaker James Hankins and shot across South-West England in summer 2022, the short film will be shown at several cinemas and art spaces across the UK in the week leading up to the album release, with Q & A sessions after each screening. This event offers the first opportunity to hear music from 'The Ruby Cord'. 'The Ruby Cord' is the final part of a trilogy that started with the pre-medieval world of 'Peasant', was brought back to the present day with '2020' and - possibly - concludes in the future with Dawson’s seventh studio album. After recent collaborations with Finnish metal innovators Circle and his work with Hen Ogledd, this is a return to Dawson’s own world with seven tracks that plunge us into an unreal, fantastical and at times sinister future where social mores have mutated, ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated… a place where you no longer need to engage with anyone but yourself and your own imagination. This special event will feature the premiere screening of the 40 minute film that accompanies 'The Hermit' followed by an in-person Q&A with Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by the brilliant Adam Buxton.   https://richarddawson.ffm.to/thehermit-yt

Upset The Rhythm presents…   LANDE HEKT JADE HAIRPINS Monday 14 November The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £8.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/z293f7e05023 LANDE HEKT’s voice in music is one that’s socially aware yet often introspective, drawing awareness to serious issues but at the same time baring her soul. Much of Hekt’s compositions act as a personal diary of what’s going on in her life at any given time. This is evident in her discography with Muncie Girls, the band which she formed in her hometown of Exeter as a teenager and have released two critically acclaimed albums to date. This knack of combining her own experiences and feelings whilst highlighting larger socio-economic issues has carried through to her more contemplative solo material, which began life in an EP ‘Gigantic Disappointment’, self-released in 2019. Lande Hekt’s debut album Going to Hell was released in 2021 and was placed in Stereogum’s Album of the Week, Bandcamp’s Album of the Day, and one of AV Club’s ‘17 albums we can’t wait to hear’. The album is a personal and confessional account of Hekt coming out as gay and DIY Magazine called it “A celebration of personal freedom”. Going to Hell came out on queer and trans run DIY label, Get Better Records and gained Lande Hekt a following for her introspective and journal-style lyrics, political themes and catchy, guitar-driven indie rock. New 7” single ‘Romantic’ - a song about struggling to fit in, feeling down and finding comfort in romance - is out now on Emotional Response. https://landehekt.bandcamp.com/ JADE HAIRPINS is the pop-indie project of Mike Haliechuk and Jonah Falco of Fucked Up. Their debut LP “Harmony Avenue” (Merge Records) is a whirlwind touch of fizzing synths, Talking Heads-esque guitar interplay set to long melodic vocals and dancey drums. The band live has the added strengths of Tamsin (Es) and Jack Goldstein bringing the songs to life. https://jadehairpins.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… TARA CLERKIN TRIO MXLX Thursday 1 December The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J75c8d12d2cf TARA CLERKIN TRIO are Pat Benjamin, Sunny Joe Paradisos and Tara Clerkin, three musicians involved in a number of cult Bristol bands over the years before confidently settling down in triangle formation. Using looped and layered clarinet, vocals, samples, keys & percussion, Tara Clerkin Trio tend to spin you into spacy beguile. They are inspired by and borrow from jazz, trip hop, electronica, psychedelia & minimalism, twirling the non-pretentious strands of these threads together into a trippy green winged-cloak, adorning Arthur Russell and dripping in blue jam. Their self titled debut LP was released in 2020 and was a sleeper hit, coming in at 35 in the Wire's top 100 albums of the year and in Bleeps top 10. The effortless drift of ’In Spring’, the trio’s new EP is a distinctly Bristolian affair in its beatdown pacing and smoky atmosphere, which the label themselves compare to the roster orbiting the city’s Planet Records (Flying Saucer Attack, The Third Eye Foundation) in the ‘90s. Subdued but glowing reveries somewhere between Dominique Lawalrée's intimate parlour music and the sort of skewed narco-pop associated with the Laika x Moonshake axis and Cucina Povera. https://taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com/ MXLX is prolific Bristol-based musician Matthew Loveridge. Check out his epic back catalogue of recordings on bandcamp, including recent works ‘God Peasant’ and ‘Nebula Rasa’. https://kindarad.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   ERIC CHENAUX [something’s happening] Friday 9th December West Hampstead Arts Club, 32 Mill Lane, London NW6 1NR 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S2a86ebe0cd6 ERIC CHENAUX lives in Paris but was a fixture of DIY and experimental music in Toronto throughout the 1990s and 2000s, progressing from local postpunk legends Phleg Camp and Lifelikeweeds towards a highly distinctive technical and gestural mastery of amplified acoustic guitar. Eric Chenaux operates among various musical ‘traditions’ but perhaps most broadly, his records grapple with the relationship between improvisation and structure in very particular, unique, idiosyncratic ways – and quite without irony or cynicism, through love. Because fundamentally, Chenaux writes love songs, which he sings in a voice honeyed and clear, while his guitar gently bends, frazzes, chortles, diverges and decomposes. This juxtaposition of his mellow, dexterous crooning and his highly experimental (and equally dexterous) guitar explorations, explodes even unconventional notions of singing and accompaniment, of tonal and timbral interplay between guitar and voice. Constellation has been home to Eric's "solo" records since 2006 – a brilliant discography of adventurous, sumptuous, mostly languorous deconstructed folk, jazz and pop-influenced balladry rooted in the juxtaposition of Chenaux's fried guitar playing and his gorgeously clear and lyrical singing voice. Eric’s new album comes out this February and is his most immaculate and pristine. 'Say Laura' perfectly incarnates the counter-intuitive interplay of instrument and voice that Chenaux has been revealing and revelling in throughout the past decade: his gently unhinged juxtaposition of resplendently smooth, seductively assured singing and puckish, thoroughly destabilized guitar could come from no other musician. The five wandering, wondering ballads on 'Say Laura' bring Chenaux’s semi-improvised but keenly intentional songwriting to its fullest, clearest, warmest and coolest articulation; uncompromising and generous, hyper-specific and loose, spartan and luxurious, elemental and ornate. http://ericchenaux.com/ [something’s happening] is the sound and text duo of poet and performer Iris Colomb and composer Daryl Worthington (Beachers). The project explores textual and sonic permutation through improvisation. Fragments of found text and gestural electro-acoustics weave through spectral guitar textures. Loops of sound and language collide. https://somethingshappening.bandcamp.com/album/something-like-that

Have the best week, see you on Saturday! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

RICHARD DAWSON - 'The Hermit' film screening premiere In person Q&A w/ RICHARD DAWSON and director JAMES HANKINS hosted by ADAM BUXTON JENNIFER LUCY ALLAN (DJ set) Saturday 12 November Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, London, E8 2PB 4pm-6pm (please arrive promptly at 4pm) | £14 | Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=14925370   LANDE HEKT JADE HAIRPINS Monday 14 November The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £8.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/z293f7e05023   TARA CLERKIN TRIO MXLX Thursday 1 December The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J75c8d12d2cf   ERIC CHENAUX [something’s happening] Friday 9th December West Hampstead Arts Club, 32 Mill Lane, London NW6 1NR 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S2a86ebe0cd6 FUZZ (Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich) Friday 17 March 2023 Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP 6pm - 9.45pm | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4 (This show is rescheduled from March 18th 2022, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   LANKUM Thursday 4 May Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8DS (Produced by UTR and the Barbican) 7.30pm | £20-25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/rb942e0b726d RICHARD DAWSON Friday 5 May  Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS (Produced by UTR and the Barbican) 7.30pm | £20-30 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/I498e6661a5b

Richard Dawson - Barbican show announced for May 2023!

 

Produced by Upset The Rhythm in association with the Barbican...

RICHARD DAWSON
Friday 5 May
Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
7.30pm | £20-30 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/I498e6661a5b (tickets on sale at 10am on Friday)

RICHARD DAWSON, the celebrated Northumbrian song maker and one-of-a-kind live performer, will play a special show for us at the Barbican next May. Dawson will be playing tracks from his latest album 'The Ruby Cord' — a sonic dive into the wonders and horrors of a future world rooted in augmented reality.
 
'The Ruby Cord' follows on from his state-of-the-nation opus 2020, which was hailed by many as a masterpiece and Henki, a collaboration with Finnish metal group Circle. Written between 2019 and 2021, the lyrics to most of the record were conceived throughout the various Covid-19 lockdowns, as the side effects of isolation and state-imposed inwardness affected millions around the world. The resulting record is seven tracks that plunge us into a fantastic, sometimes sinister future where social mores have mutated, ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated.
 
“So many of us are moving into these fantasy worlds…Whether it's actual constructed virtual realities, computer worlds, or retreating into even more fantastical realms…. conspiracy theories, nationalism, amateur football punditry. People construct their own world because this one is so flawed.” — Richard Dawson

https://richardmichaeldawson.bandcamp.com

Prolapse in London tomorrow night and Mary Lattimore on Monday!

 

Friday again!   What an amazing pair of shows we've already had on this week, Sarah Davachi last night was phenomenal and Kaputt blew everyone's socks clear off on Tuesday too. Huge thanks to all of you for coming along and helping make these events possible.   Our next concert is a rare vintage of supreme quality! Tomorrow night we have Leicester's finest Prolapse coming to play at OSLO Hackney. Never sounding more NOW, the group's duelling vocal narratives, post-punk slap and motorik rush are infectious and deliriously fun. We're also very lucky to have DIY lynchpins Yeah Yeah Noh playing at this concert too, Leicester in the house! This show will run between 7pm-10pm so pop your early hat on, tickets available in advance and on the door too. See you there!

Then on Monday for an actual bonafide Halloween treat we're immensely gratified to welcome transcendent harpist Mary Lattimore back to our stage. Monday's show will take place at 229 in Great Portland Street and will also feature an evocative bliss-out from Laila Sakini too! Links to tickets below, along with full write-ups for these events and our November commitments with Richard Dawson and Lande Hekt too.   Look out in our upcoming programme for our newly announced Lankum show at the Barbican next May too! Very exciting!   Thanks for reading.

Upset The Rhythm presents... PROLAPSE YEAH YEAH NOH Saturday 29 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Zaa6a254b9b3   PROLAPSE originally formed in Leicester in the early 1990s and earned a cult following for their chaotic live sets, and tense and repetitious songs like Flex and Tina This Is Matthew Stone. They feature duelling vocalists Mick Derrick and Linda Steelyard, who play out an intense soap opera over a ferocious triple guitar assault and pummelling rhythm section. Their releases have included numerous singles and four albums on various labels, including Cherry Red and Radar, as well as recording four Peel sessions. The band has received critical acclaim, including singles of the week on the Radio 1 evening session and NME. They have also toured and shared bills with a diverse array of bands, including Stereolab, Sebadoh, Arab Strap and Sonic Youth. Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus described Prolapse as the best band of the weekend at Reading Festival.  After a long hiatus, the band reformed in 2015 and occasionally play live dates. This short UK tour offers a rare chance to experience the Prolapse live show. Two of the band’s Peel sessions have recently been released on the Precious Recordings of London label and Pointless Walks to Dismal Places is re-issued as a double gatefold LP on Optic Nerve Records in July. https://prolapse2.bandcamp.com/ YEAH YEAH NOH are an unpop group of some repute, long trading quietly in a melange of noise and ideas that defies categorisation. It’s DIY pop. It’s post-punk. It’s ‘calor gas psychedelia’. Feel the effect as their guitar pedals and secondhand synthesizer play unexpected melodies in your mind. As they relay their stories of consequence and coincidence and mid-air women. John Peel favourites and veterans of three classic BBC sessions back in the day, Yeah Yeah Noh are now championed by Radio 6 Music where Marc Riley and Gideon Coe have twice let them loose in the studio. https://yeahyeahnoh.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… MARY LATTIMORE LAILA SAKINI Monday 31 October 229, 229 Great Portland St, London, W1W 5PN, UK 7pm | £12 (16+ show) | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/d570d6dcc32e MARY LATTIMORE is a harpist and composer living in Los Angeles. She experiments with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects. Her solo debut, The Withdrawing Room, was released in 2013 on Desire Path Recordings. Lattimore also writes harp parts for songs and recordings, performing and recording with such great artists as Meg Baird, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Jarvis Cocker, Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Ed Askew and Fursaxa. Her debut solo record for Ghostly International, 'At The Dam', was recorded during stops along a road trip across America and released in March 2016. The next year, she compiled sounds from her past life in Philadelphia for a cassette tape titled 'Collected Pieces'. Released in May 2018 to acclaim from the likes of NPR, Pitchfork, and The New Yorker Lattimore's next album 'Hundreds of Days' presented an expression of mystified gratitude for the natural world. She capped off the banner year — which included international tours with Iceage and Kurt Vile, a performance with Harold Budd at Big Ears Festival, and an appearance on Billboard’s New Age charts — with two collaborative albums released on Three Lobed Recordings, one with Meg Baird and the other with Mac McCaughan. Lattimore's most recent album 'Silver Ladders' (out 2020 on Ghostly), saw her arriving at her most confident work to date, expanding her style of instrumental storytelling with the help of producer and guitarist Neil Halstead (Slowdive, Mojave 3). Recorded in Halstead’s studio near an old English surftown, the songs on 'Silver Ladders' reflect Lattimore’s vivid memories against the gloom and glimmer of the ocean. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/ LAILA SAKINI works with piano, voice, guitar, found sound, electronics and silence to create dynamic and textured environments that provide the listener with space to develop their own meanings and responses. Her major works include Like A Gun (EP), Vivienne (LP), Strada (EP), Into The Traffic, Under The Moonlight (LP), Princess Diana of Wales (LP) and her 2017 collaboration with poet Lucy Van, Figures (EP). Laila has performed at Cafe Oto, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Berlin Atonal, Listen! festival, The White Hotel, Meakusma x Arkaoda, Kings Place, Wunkderkammer Festival, Ponto d’Orvalho among others. https://lailasakini.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… Richard Dawson - 'The Hermit' film screening premiere In person Q&A w/ Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by Adam Buxton Jennifer Lucy Allan (DJ set) Record signing Saturday 12 November Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, London, E8 2PB 4pm-6pm (please arrive promptly at 4pm) | £14 | Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=14925370 To celebrate the release of his new solo album 'The Ruby Cord' via Weird World on Nov 18, Richard Dawson presents a feature-length film for the album's 40-minute opening track, a sprawling mood piece entitled 'The Hermit' that tells the story of a loner living in a bucolic dreamworld. Directed by Bristol filmmaker James Hankins and shot across South-West England in summer 2022, the short film will be shown at several cinemas and art spaces across the UK in the week leading up to the album release, with Q & A sessions after each screening. This event offers the first opportunity to hear music from 'The Ruby Cord'. 'The Ruby Cord' is the final part of a trilogy that started with the pre-medieval world of 'Peasant', was brought back to the present day with '2020' and - possibly - concludes in the future with Dawson’s seventh studio album. After recent collaborations with Finnish metal innovators Circle and his work with Hen Ogledd, this is a return to Dawson’s own world with seven tracks that plunge us into an unreal, fantastical and at times sinister future where social mores have mutated, ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated… a place where you no longer need to engage with anyone but yourself and your own imagination. This special event will feature the premiere screening of the 40 minute film that accompanies 'The Hermit' followed by an in-person Q&A with Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by the brilliant Adam Buxton.   https://richarddawson.ffm.to/thehermit-yt

Upset The Rhythm presents…   LANDE HEKT JADE HAIRPINS Monday 14 November The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £8.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/z293f7e05023 LANDE HEKT’s voice in music is one that’s socially aware yet often introspective, drawing awareness to serious issues but at the same time baring her soul. Much of Hekt’s compositions act as a personal diary of what’s going on in her life at any given time. This is evident in her discography with Muncie Girls, the band which she formed in her hometown of Exeter as a teenager and have released two critically acclaimed albums to date. This knack of combining her own experiences and feelings whilst highlighting larger socio-economic issues has carried through to her more contemplative solo material, which began life in an EP ‘Gigantic Disappointment’, self-released in 2019. Lande Hekt’s debut album Going to Hell was released in 2021 and was placed in Stereogum’s Album of the Week, Bandcamp’s Album of the Day, and one of AV Club’s ‘17 albums we can’t wait to hear’. The album is a personal and confessional account of Hekt coming out as gay and DIY Magazine called it “A celebration of personal freedom”. Going to Hell came out on queer and trans run DIY label, Get Better Records and gained Lande Hekt a following for her introspective and journal-style lyrics, political themes and catchy, guitar-driven indie rock. New 7” single ‘Romantic’ - a song about struggling to fit in, feeling down and finding comfort in romance - is out now on Emotional Response. https://landehekt.bandcamp.com/ JADE HAIRPINS is the pop-indie project of Mike Haliechuk and Jonah Falco of Fucked Up. Their debut LP “Harmony Avenue” (Merge Records) is a whirlwind touch of fizzing synths, Talking Heads-esque guitar interplay set to long melodic vocals and dancey drums. The band live has the added strengths of Tamsin (Es) and Jack Goldstein bringing the songs to life. https://jadehairpins.bandcamp.com/

Wishing you a happy halloween! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

PROLAPSE YEAH YEAH NOH Saturday 29 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Zaa6a254b9b3 MARY LATTIMORE LAILA SAKINI Monday 31 October 229, 229 Great Portland St, London, W1W 5PN, UK 7pm | £12 (16+ show) | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/d570d6dcc32e   RICHARD DAWSON - 'The Hermit' film screening premiere In person Q&A w/ RICHARD DAWSON and director JAMES HANKINS hosted by ADAM BUXTON JENNIFER LUCY ALLAN (DJ set) Saturday 12 November Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, London, E8 2PB 4pm-6pm (please arrive promptly at 4pm) | £14 | Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=14925370   LANDE HEKT JADE HAIRPINS Monday 14 November The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £8.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/z293f7e05023   TARA CLERKIN TRIO MXLX Thursday 1 December The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J75c8d12d2cf   ERIC CHENAUX [something’s happening] Friday 9th December West Hampstead Arts Club, 32 Mill Lane, London NW6 1NR 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S2a86ebe0cd6 FUZZ (Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich) Friday 17 March 2023 Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP 6pm - 9.45pm | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4 (This show is rescheduled from March 18th 2022, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   LANKUM Thursday 4 May Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8DS (Produced by UTR and the Barbican) 7.30pm | £20-25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/rb942e0b726d