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