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This special event will feature the
first ever screening of the 40 minute film, followed by an in-person
Q&A with Richard Dawson and director James Hankins hosted by the
brilliant Adam Buxton. We're overjoyed to have Jennifer Lucy Allan
DJing at this event too.
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 Upset The Rhythm presents… PHEW MODEL HOME Sunday 16 October The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/jd390b33780a PHEW was a founding member of the legendary Japanese punk band Aunt Sally. After the band’s breakup in 1979, she continued her career as a solo artist, releasing a collaborative single with Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1980, and her first solo album, ‘Phew’, with Conny Plank, Holger Czukay of CAN, and Jaki Liebezeit in 1981. In 1992, her third album, OurLikeness, was released on MUTE, again at Conny’s studio, with Jaki Liebezeit of CAN, Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten, and Chrislo Haas of DAF. Since the beginning of the 2010s, she has released a series of works that combine voice and electronic music, and has gained international recognition as an electronic artist. Pitchfork has described her as “Japan’s underground legend.” She has also released collaborative works with Ana da Silva (Raincoats), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms) and others. Phew's expansive album ‘Vertical Jamming’ is being released on vinyl for the first time via Disciples on 28 October, a special run on clear vinyl housed in a Studio Tape-Echo sleeve. A small number of advance copies will be on sale at this London show. https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/music MODEL HOME is a hyperprolific experimental hip-hop formation from Washington D.C., instigated by rapper NappyNappa and producer Pat Cain. The duo recruits an ever-changing cast of collaborators to give each record a new feel: Model Home can sound like post-modern take on old school hip-hop, glitchy noise or even improvised exploration. The gist of Model Home is that the music pours out like from a faucet, faithfully channeling the chaos of the everyday thought. Model Home’s music would blend right in with a dystopia. The deteriorating sounds of Patrick Cain’s electronics would be impossible to distinguish from the constant construction that is the score of any contemporary city; NappyNappa’s enigmatic missives would be lost in the roar of public service announcements, personalized advertisements, and omnipresent sirens. Built on the edifice of dub sound systems and DIY basement clatter, their sound is made up of slabs of textured noise and decayed vocals. Disciples just released the duo’s sensational new album ‘Saturn In The Basement’ and it’s companion cassette, go seek! https://modelhomedc.bandcamp.com/ |
 Upset The Rhythm presents… MIDWIFE EUAN ALEXANDER MILLAR-MCMEEKEN Tuesday 18 October Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/547791 MIDWIFE is the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Madeline Johnston. She lives and works in San Miguel, New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the better half of the past decade developing her experimental pop project. As a self taught guitarist and recording engineer, Midwife explores dark subject matter in her anthemic, soft-gaze hits. Self-described as “Heaven Metal,” or emotive music about devastation - catharsis. Midwife’s third full length record, ‘Luminol’ (released last year by The Flenser), was written and produced during quarantine. Luminol is a chemical used by forensic investigators to reveal trace amounts of blood left at a crime scene. Midwife is interested in profound truth - turning trial and tribulation into sources of light. ‘Luminol’ navigates themes of incarceration, locus of control, clarity, confinement and truth-seeking, all erupting in a bioluminescent field of ambient, drone and shoegaze, sometimes flecked with more conventionally heavy metals. Johnston’s ghostly voice is always central, often working over the same phrases with mantra-like focus. https://midwifemusic.com/ EUAN ALEXANDER MILLAR-MCMEEKEN is a Scottish musician based in London whose work explores themes of permanence and impermanence, loss and fragility. His music can be found in many guises including The Kays Lavelle, glacis and Graveyard Tapes. His instrumental work has been described as “akin to that found on sets by Nils Frahm, Dustin O’Halloran and Alex Kozobolis” with “the extreme simplicity...speaking directly to the heart, in an amazing mix of fragility and power of expression”. His vocal work has drawn comparisons to Atlas Sound and Mount Eerie and has been described as “music that embraces, repels, challenges, makes you think, deeply moves you and also knows how to give you the most beautiful moments imaginable”. https://gtapes.bandcamp.com/ |
 Upset The Rhythm presents… CURRENT AFFAIRS ES Wednesday 19 October Mascara Bar, 72 Stamford Hill, London, N16 6XS, UK 7.30pm | £8.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Qafa677add88 CURRENT AFFAIRS are a band from Glasgow marrying 80s pop sensibilities with ferocious post-punk, neatly navigating the line between new wave and goth. Singer and keyboardist Joan Sweeney (Aggi Doom, the Royal We) tempts you in with catchy melodies and powerful lyricism. Drummer Andrew Milk (Shopping, Pink Pound) provides nonchalant backing vocals and a solid rhythm section with driving bass from newest band member Gemma Fleet (The Wharves, Order of the Toad). Sebastian Ymai (Comidllo Tapes, Pissy) completes the ensemble, with intricate chorus laden guitar that will lift you off your feet. The band’s recent’ LP Object & Subject’ (on Tough Love) is the accumulation of the band’s output over 3 years, now gathered and synthesised into one convenient disc. A debut LP proper is being readied currently! https://currentaffairs.bandcamp.com/ ES is Maria Cecilia Tedemalm (vocals), Katy Cotterell (bass), Tamsin M. Leach (drums) and Flora Watters (keyboards). Their 2016 debut EP, Object Relations, released on influential London punk label La Vida Es Un Mus, was described as "mutant synth-punk for our dystopian present" (Jess Skolnik, Bandcamp, Pitchfork). The band has since become a vital presence in London's underground DIY music scene, as well as having toured the UK with the Thurston Moore Group in 2017. ‘Less of Everything’. The title of Es' first full length LP (on Upset The Rhythm) could be interpreted as a manifesto pledge, an outright demand or a purely literal sonic descriptor of the London quartet's glacial form of punk rock music. This tension between intent and interpretation has been a fundamental element of the group's output from their formation. The dynamic between Cotterell's bass and Watters' keyboard is at the heart of Es’ sound: intertwining sub-zero melodies, gothic anarcho-punk influences and some kind of entirely unlocatable aquatic component. When combined with Leach's precise drumming, the outcome is original and immediately recognisable. This provides the perfect backdrop for Tedemalm's relentless, pointed vocal style. While comparable 'cold' sounding groups might affect an impersonal, safer mode of lyrical or vocal detachment, Tedemalm's strategy is to "push the lyrics as far as I can thematically until they become absurd … overly dramatic ... while still being sincere in the feeling they're trying to invoke. https://esband.bandcamp.com/ |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
LIIEK
MILTOWN BADABOUM Thursday 20 October
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Xc2f14f7e2f0 LIIEK are an austere and choppy post-punk trio from Berlin playing bass-driven songs ala Gang Of Four, Pylon and Delta 5. The songs may coalesce around the funk-and-dub-informed low-end, however these grooves contrast with angular guitar lines and shouted, staccato vocals, both of which remind us of early Devo. Their latest album ‘Deep Pore’ came out earlier this year on Adagio830. Think Q And Not U meets Wire featuering members of Peeps of Pigeon, Ostseetraum, Aus etc. https://liiek.bandcamp.com/ MILTOWN comes out of the buzzing underground of Denmark’s “little brother” city Aarhus. Inspired by the never-ending stream of bands from Melbourne and oddballs from the American Midwest Miltown plays garage punk that is both abrasive, aggressive, and catchy and accessible at the same time. Their live performances are captivating and chaotic, a rare display of both anger and frailty that leaves you puzzled, thrilled and anxious to start a band of your own. This fall sees the band embark on their first European tour following the release of their first single ‘Respect for authorities’. https://miltownband.bandcamp.com/releases BADABOUM are a french all-star
girl group that includes Krine (Headwar), Armelle (The Dreams) and
Solene (Dudu geva) and is affiliated to the famous Grande Triple
Alliance de l’Est posse (Ah Kraken, Feeling of love, Scorpion Violente).
They play a form of post punk music akin to Liliput/Kleenex and Malaria
adding their own reverbed idiosyncracies and eerie organ lines,
chanting in indecipherable italian, mock german and plain french. Taking
turns on drums and blowing through severed reeds, Badaboum will bring
you as much joy as chaos and spookiness.
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 Upset The Rhythm presents… KAPUTT CHARLÈNE DARLING SHAKE CHAIN Tuesday 25 October The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Me65df16dada KAPUTT are a completely, utterly, broken, post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland coming to you via Upset the Rhythm. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There’s a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. Once described as “Like SesameStreet”, the group continues to strive forward and prove this statement correct. https://kaputt1.bandcamp.com/ CHARLÈNE DARLING lives in Paris and makes off-kilter, shimmering chanson post-punk that connects the dots between the feminist troubadours of Agnès Varda’s L’Une Chante, L’Autre Pas, Thai molam music, The Raincoats and the way Cate Le Bon slides between bucolic melody and clanging post-punk. Her debut album, Saint-Guidon, was one of 2019’s buried treasures! When entering the funny world of Charlène Darling, you will first notice that nothing is really square yet everything seems at its right place. Her solo set (presented here) is all about love, rhythm and voice, a frontal topic and a minimalist setup - drum and vocals - that leads to a surprisingly full and energetic sound. https://charlenedarling.bandcamp.com/ SHAKE CHAIN are a 4-piece experimental group formed of artist Kate Mahony (Vocals), Joe Fergey (Drums), Robert Eyres (Guitar/Synth) and Chris Hopkins (Bass/Synth) hailing from Bournemouth, London and Oxford. Formed through a love of thought-provoking performance art and a yearning for disruption, they recorded their debut EP ‘Neil Yonge and Bob Doylan Live at Hyde Park’ in 2019 with sound artist David Carugo at Oxford Brookes University, released by Permanent Slump. Shake Chain provide a fusion of post-punk grooves, noise samples and chaotic lamenting on the current state of things. Look out for their debut album on Upset The Rhythm later this year. https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/shakechain.shtml |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
SARAH DAVACHI ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE Thursday 27 October Grand Junction, Rowington Cl, London W2 5TF 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/aaa27bd3c37b SARAH DAVACHI’s work as a composer and performer of electroacoustic music is concerned with the close intricacies of intimate aural space, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in texture, overtone complexity, psychoacoustic phenomena, and temperament and intonation. Similarly informed by minimalist tenets of the 1960s and 1970s, baroque leanings toward slow-moving chordal suspensions, and experimental production practices of the recording studio environment, in her sound is manifest an experience that lessens apprehension of consonance and dissonance in likeness of the familiar and the distant. Davachi has toured extensively across the globe and has shared the stage with artists such as Grouper, the London Contemporary Orchestra, William Basinski, Oren Ambarchi, Ariel Kalma, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jessica Moss, Donald Buchla, Alessandro Cortini, Ian William Craig, Kara-lis Coverdale, Aaron Dilloway, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Ellen Arkbro, Loren Connors and filmmaker Paul Clipson. Between 2007 and 2017, Davachi also had the unique opportunity to work for the National Music Centre in Canada as an interpreter and content developer of their collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments. She has held artist residencies at The Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Canada), STEIM (Amsterdam, Netherlands), WORM (Rotterdam, Netherlands), EMS (Stockholm, Sweden), OBORO (Montréal, Canada), MESS (Melbourne, Australia), and with the Bozzini Quartet (Montréal, Canada). Davachi is currently a doctoral
candidate in musicology at UCLA – where she works on the aesthetic
phenomenology of musical instruments and timbre in popular,
experimental, and early music – and is based in Los Angeles, California.
Davachi’s new album ‘Two Sisters’ will be released through her own Late
Music imprint on September 9th. For this concert Sarah will be joined
by Anton for a short version of ‘In The Grand Luxe Hall’ for amplified
cello and electronics, she will also perform a longer solo organ set
too. https://www.sarahdavachi.com/ ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE, plays the cello, interdisciplinary artist, composer, founder/director of Apartment House. Many collaborations over time - David Behrman, Phill Niblock, Alvin Lucier, Jim O’Rourke, Elaine Mitchener, Jennifer Walshe, Merce Cunningham Dance Company. www.antonlukoszevieze.co.uk |