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 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. |
 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 |