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 Upset The Rhythm presents…
PET SHIMMERS
HAMBURGER Thursday 16 June
Windmill Brixton, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton Hill, London SW2 5BZ 7.30pm | £7 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/yb5e14d00eb4 PET SHIMMERS is an eclectic ensemble made of a collaborative core; solo artist (and recent Katy J Pearson collaborator) Oliver Wilde helms songwriting alongside William Carkeet, emerging producer and one half of London duo Robbie & Mona. Newest recruit Jonny Allan once took center stage duties for the influential Happyness, drummer Mig Schillace spent earlier years drumming for Portishead, and bedroom solo project Soft Den sits with Florrie AL. Melody extraordinaire Lexie Jennings and guitarist Rich Clarke complete the ensemble. The “Sonder” b/w “Edgelord” 7” is the first piece of new music to come from Pet Shimmers since 2020. It’s a moving mass of technicolor instrumentation - sparkling guitar, taut percussion, and crashes of noise. Songwriter Oliver Wilde’s poetic paranoia climbs towards a victorious chorus. It was the first track the group wrote following COVID restrictions, and was recorded at The Louisiana, a crucial grassroots venue in England that acts as a basement studio by night and a rehearsal space during the day. “Sonder” b/w “Edgelord” 7-inch, is due out June 17th via Brokers Tip, the label of Bob Nastanovich. https://petshimmers.bandcamp.com/ HAMBURGER are Tom, Katie, Liv,
Fearghall, Mike and Doug; six goofs from Bristol playing “stupid songs
about their stupid feelings”. Shimmery, wistful bedroom pop with a 12”
EP out now on Specialist Subject. The six tracks on ‘Teenage Terrified’
are highly crafted and reflective, focusing on personal themes and
emotions, but often twisted through a semi-fantastical lens. https://hamburger.bandcamp.com/ |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
THE SPACE LADY ROBERT SOTELO
Friday 1 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
7pm-10pm | £12.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J68e0e40746a THE SPACE LADY began her odyssey on the streets of San Francisco in the late 70s, playing versions of contemporary pop music an accordion and dressed flamboyantly, transmitting messages of peace and harmony. Following the theft of her accordion, The Space Lady invested in a then-new Casio keyboard, birthing an otherworldly new dimension to popular song that has captured the imaginations of the underground and its lead exponents ever since, with the likes of John Maus, Erol Alkan and Kutmah being devotees. Of her early street sets, only one recording was made, self-released originally on cassette and then transferred to a homemade CD. 'The Space Lady's Greatest Hits' released in 2014 through Night School features the best of these recordings - mostly covers but with some originals - pressed on vinyl for the first time and features archival photographs and liner notes from The Space Lady herself. 'Greatest Hits' contains The Space Lady's personal favourites; her haunting take on The Electric Prunes' 'I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night),' a frantic 'Ballroom Blitz' amidst other reconstructed pop music. Following on from this wonderful record, The Space Lady released a split LP in 2015 with the Burnt Ones on Castle Face records which included her spectral take of 'Across The Universe' and a recent LP from 2018 through Mississippi entitled 'On The Street Of Dreams'. https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/exploring-the-intergalactic-wonders-of-the-space-lady ROBERT SOTELO is a mercurial melodist building a resplendent world of pristine DIY pop from the ground up. The Glasgow-based artist’s songs are meticulously crafted, patchworked together with eclectic arrangements and ardent vocal performances. Last year Upset The Rhythm released Robert Sotelo’s vivid new album ‘Celebrant’. ‘Celebrant’ was intended to be and still is to some extent a joyous wedding album (Sotelo is recently married), but in his own words “the pandemic and the death of my aunt Carmen intersected with the original concept so the album is darker than intended in places.” More cinematic and measured than prior albums, Sotelo expounds that “it is purposefully a bigger sounding attempt at my keyboard songs and I felt more ambitious about it in general.” That’s certainly reflected in these twelve sophisticated loops of song, all curiously affecting and catchy, sprinkled with Sotelo’s offbeat musings and keenly accurate observations. Guitars are rarely employed on this record with Sotelo recruiting Iain Mccall, Ross Blake, Celia Morgan and David Maxwell to contribute brass, woodwind, spoken word and acoustic drums respectively. All of these additions blend well with the album’s synthetic core, softening and subtly shaping its pop-first nature into something more nuanced, vulnerable and human. https://robertsotelo.bandcamp.com/album/celebrant |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
RICHARD DAWSON & CIRCLE MICROCORPS Wednesday 6 July Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9NL 7pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/o9f9fe82d517 RICHARD DAWSON & CIRCLE teamed up to record an epic album together recently called ‘Henki’. Richard Dawson is the Geordie troubadour whose moving songs have been described as state-of-the-nation addresses, even - or perhaps especially - when he’s singing about pre-medieval peasants. Circle are the genre-straddling pioneers of The New Wave Of Finnish Heavy Metal, known for wearing spandex and singing in a made-up language. Together they are… Richard Dawson & Circle! Their epic joint record might seem a departure to those who are most familiar with Dawson from recent solo albums like 2017’s Peasant and 2020. In fact, ‘Henki’ fits comfortably into the bigger picture of two acts who have always strived for uninhibited originality. Inspired by Circle’s guitarist Janne Westerlund instructing the group during recording to be less straightforward and more “like a plant”, ‘Henki’s seven tracks deal with special plants throughout history. The result is a towering flora-themed hypno-folk-metal record of gargantuan proportions. Dawson & Circle have intricately crafted their sound, with imaginative, constantly evolving arrangements that highlight Circle’s prog credentials. There are also unexpectedly euphoric choruses too: the instrumental mid-section of Silphium makes like a more dissonant take on Xanadu-era Rush, then gradually builds momentum before exploding back to life again just before the 11-minute mark. Methuselah gallops along like a flora-fixated Iron Maiden as it tells the cautionary tale of Donald Currey, a researcher trying to find the oldest tree on Earth who only realised he’d found it after he’d cut it down in 1964. Throughout, there is so much going on that it takes many listens to absorb everything. A tour de force of botanical rock! https://richardmichaeldawson.bandcamp.com/album/henki MICROCORPS is the new project by artist and musician Alex Tucker (Grumbling Fur, Alexander Tucker, Imbogodom) exploring electronics, cello and voice. The debut release XMIT, an eight-track album featuring collaborations with Gazelle Twin, Nik Void, Simon Fisher Turner and Astrud Steehouder, was released on Alter in 2021. In a move away from previous projects Tucker investigates erasing the self, removing obvious traits of the hand and voice, and allowing a focus on the humanoid rather than the human. Instead of recognisable lyrics and coherent imagery, MICROCORPS evolved synthesised voices to generate alternate characters. https://microcorps.bandcamp.com/album/xmit |
 Upset The Rhythm & Supersonic present…
JUNE OF 44 RATTLE Friday 8 July 229, 229 Great Portland St, London, W1W 5PN, UK 7pm | £20 (16+ show) | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ae216c453036 JUNE OF 44 formed in the fall of 1994. They are a super-group collective with a rich underground lineage of members from beloved bands - Rodan, Lungfish, Codeine, Rex, Hoover and Shipping News. Truly a who’s who of the indie rock world, together they have often been referred to as the punk rock pirates of the math rock world. The band are cited for their artistic hand-crafted record packaging for music that ranges from experimental jazz to ambient dub to angular post punk. June of 44 released their four totemic albums on Quarterstick in the 90s, but in 2020 they announced their first studio album in 21 years. ‘Revisionist: Adaptations & Future Histories in the Time of Love and Survival’ came out recently on Broken Clover. “It will have been 23 years since performing in the United Kingdom… so much life, too many wars, so much music, a few extraordinary babies, heart-breaking loss, real struggle, epic success, total failure – for all of us.” https://juneof44.bandcamp.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 and Theresa Wrigley, 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. 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 through Upset The Rhythm. https://rattleon.bandcamp.com |
Thanks as always for your support, see you down the front on Thursday!
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS
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PET SHIMMERS
HAMBURGER
Thursday 16 June
Windmill Brixton, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton Hill, London SW2 5BZ 7.30pm | £7 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/yb5e14d00eb4 THE SPACE LADY ROBERT SOTELO
Friday 1 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL7pm-10pm | £12.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J68e0e40746a RICHARD DAWSON & CIRCLE
MICROCORPS
Wednesday 6 July
Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9NL
7pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/o9f9fe82d517
JUNE OF 44
RATTLE Friday 8 July 229, 229 Great Portland St, London, W1W 5PN, UK 7pm | £20 (16+ show) | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ae216c453036 VINTAGE CROP
MARCEL WAVE PUBLIC BODY
Saturday 9 July The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/A73a9f0863c6 RACHEL AGGS
ELECTRIC FIRE Monday 11 July Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/H8123dbd413f QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT BRUNO AND THE OUTRAGEOUS METHODS OF PRESENTATION Tuesday 12 July The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/x2ade9b7daea
HG20 : ‘A three-day fundraiser celebrating 20 years of Hello Goodbye and Resonance FM’
WRECKLESS ERIC MEATRAFFLE LILITH AI Saturday 30 July MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm - 10.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/N6957a30c1ea THE MONOCHROME SET THE MINDREADERS DEE BYRNE & CATH ROBERTS Sunday 31 July MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm - 10.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g033d19f7eeb VERY SPECIAL GUEST GINA BIRCH BAS JAN ROZI PLAIN (DJ set) Monday 1 August MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm - 11pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Rab47aa5d2fa £25 Three day tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j66637a0c823
DEERHOOF
Wednesday 31 August
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden, London, NW1 8QP, UK 7pm | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/pc5188b40f90 MIDWIFE
Tuesday 18 October Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Zfe30c79959f 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 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4
(This show is rescheduled from March 18th 2022, original tickets valid, refunds available too)
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