Lankum in London this December!

 

 

Hot off the heels of selling out their show at the Barbican with us Lankum return with an eerie new single (‘Go Dig My Grave’) from their stunning new album (‘False Lankum’, Rough Trade, March 24th) and a massive show at the Roundhouse in December too, way to go!

Upset The Rhythm & Parallel Lines presents…
 
LANKUM
Wednesday 13 December
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH
7.30pm | £22.50-25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ff42bd8be939 (tickets on sale Fri 3 Feb at 11am)

LANKUM have gained worldwide acclaim for their engrossing albums and captivating, often euphoric live performances. Comprising brothers Ian Lynch (uillean pipes, tin whistle, vocals), Daragh Lynch (vocals, guitar) alongside Cormac Mac Diarmada (fiddle) and Radie Peat (harmonium, accordion, vocals), Lankum channel a diverse set of influences and histories to create a beautifully rare thing: a songbook from and for the people. 

Forthcoming album ‘False Lankum’ (March 24th, Rough Trade) follows their 2019 breakthrough album ‘The Livelong Day’. Drawing on traditional folk songs, Lankum put their own dark, distinctive mark onto each, leaning into heavy drones and sonic distortion that imparts new intensity and beauty into each track. This record sees the band cement their breakout from the folk genre, creating bold, contemporary music that may be fashioned from traditional elements but is firmly new. “We wanted to create more contrast on the record so the light parts would be almost spiritual and the dark parts would be incredibly dark, even horror inducing,” the band explain. The album’s 12 tracks, composed of 10 traditional songs and two originals, show the four-piece using a new palate to colour their sound in an increasingly experimental way, alongside longtime producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy. 

Following on from their much anticipated sell out show at The Barbican on 4th May 2023, Lankum will return to London in December 2023 to play The Roundhouse - their biggest headline gig to date.
http://lankumdublin.com/

House Of All - London date announced for May 18th!

Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
HOUSE OF ALL
Thursday 18 May
The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/lc724814be5a (tickets on sale Fri 3 Feb at 10am)

HOUSE OF ALL is a Fall Family Continuum. Last Summer, five key members of The Fall got back together to record an album: Martin Bramah, Steve Hanley, Paul Hanley, Simon Wolstencroft and Pete Greenway. This project has been dubbed: HOUSE OF ALL. Recorded over three days during the Solstice, the session was a great success and the resulting self-titled debut album will be coming out in May 2023. Martin Bramah, The Fall's singer until Mark E Smith's lesser guitar skills caused them to swap places, was possibly the last true equal to Smith in the group and likewise the longest survivor of the original line-up. Yet while The Fall was later famous for their legendary productivity, Bramah often went great spans of time between releases, releasing fewer albums in thirty-five years (under any guise) than he has in the last seven with Blue Orchids - who already have a fantastic new album in the can. Bramah has joined forces with four other mighty Fall alumni: Steve Hanley, The Fall's longest-serving bassist, as well as his brother Paul Hanley, who drummed on what may be the best run of Fall records, from "Grotesque" to "Bend Sinister". The three have also played together as Factory Star, for a brief period. Joining them are two surprise members - drummer Simon Wolstencroft, who joined the Fall around the time Paul left, and more surprisingly, guitarist Pete Greenway, The Fall's long-serving and final guitarist who has, to our knowledge, never played with the other four before.



And the album? Recorded in a burst of intense creativity, we won't tempt to propagandise you, the album speaks or itself, but it wouldn't be a false boast to say that it stands with much of the best Fall or Blue Orchids music, displaying an energy and psychic impulse all its own, each member playing as sharply and with as much drive as ever, around manic motorik grooves and a shocking lack of 'compromise'.

https://www.facebook.com/fallfamilycontinuum

Claire Rousay - London - April 11th!

Beyond words excited to invite Claire Rousay to London in April!
Lucky us!
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Upset The Rhythm presents...

CLAIRE ROUSAY
Tuesday 11 April
Grand Junction, Rowington Cl, London W2 5TF
7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g3773706d1eb

CLAIRE ROUSAY's music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life -- voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations -- exploding their significance. Based in San Antonio, Texas, Claire's acute assemblages of sound are both a diaristic portal into the life of their creator, and an exercise in dressing and undressing the bare audio field using compositional threads that feel loosely entangled, yet fastidiously woven. A prolific run of recordings since 2020, culminating in this year's 'everything perfect is already here' (Shelter Press), has seen Claire come closer than most modern sound-makers to aesthetically nailing the temperament of a world turned inward.

Now, as music leaves the house once more, Claire's live show - in both solo mode and trio formation with close collaborators Mari 'More Eaze' Maurice and Theodore Cale Schafer - brings a singular reflexivity, unflinching honesty and adroit humour to the performance space, with an ever-burgeoning audience accepting the invite into her soundworld.

"What a songwriter might convey in poetry, Rousay evokes with raw audio. You could call it sound art, but it’s viscerally vulnerable" - New York Times

 

 

Call me Terry!

 

Call me Terry!

It’s been a while! Pick up the phone and tell us about your new album. The Melbourne masters of politico-pop DIY wobble return this April with their fourth album ‘Call Me Terry’. Today you can hear their new single ‘Gold Duck’ and also pre-order the album on LP (180g red and black vinyl LP versions, CD and digital too), what a world! Terry says “Gold Duck is a song about how entitlement constrains change. Words are nice. Burn the flag."

Terry is ready, are you?

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Pre-order ‘Call Me Terry’: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

 

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Cindy - London Show Announced!

 

Cindy are playing in London? This April? You better believe it!
Counting the days!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

CINDY
Wednesday 26 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/z790b084119e

CINDY is a band built around the singing and guitar playing of Karina Gill that she self-nurtured after finding an abandoned Squier Strat in her San Francisco apartment basement. Her intrigue soon grew into the band that is Cindy who have found a worldwide following of their slow-moving, dream-pop world that shrouds Gill’s songs thanks to support from model independent labels Mt. St. Mtn. [USA] and Tough Love Records [UK]. 

https://cindytheband.bandcamp.com/album/1-2

Screaming Females finally return to London! Yes!!

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

SCREAMING FEMALES
Wednesday 14 June
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ld532d69ac2a (Tickets on sale tomorrow at 10am)

SCREAMING FEMALES have now been a band for half the lifetime of its members. Formed in 2005 in New Brunswick, NJ, the trio has consistently created a hearty, surprising mix of indie, alt, punk and stoner-rock, all with their original line-up of Marissa Paternoster (guitar, vocals), “King Mike” Mike Abbate (bass) and Jarrett Dougherty (drums). Released on February 17th by Don Giovanni Records, the group’s new album ‘Desire Pathway’ was recorded at Minnesota’s Pachyderm Studios (where Nirvana recorded In Utero) and produced by Matt Bayles (Foxing, Pearl Jam, Mastodon, et al). Bright and full, the album captures the band at a time when nothing was certain other than their abiding desire to make music together.

‘Desire Pathway’ opens with the Sabbathy hypnotism of “Brass Bell.” Following a swelling haze of synth, feedback shrieks, martial snares advance, and the band explodes into a bracing groove. Soon, Paternoster makes the cryptic announcement: “I have flown us to the moon,” and we’re off. The song has the effect of clearing one haze and replacing it with another, much heavier one. “Beyond the Void” may gather gloomily, but it quickly releases into its jangly, memorable chorus. Single “Mourning Dove” successfully channels the Pixies into a tight, driving power-pop song that passionately declares “my love for you is too strong to hide.” Now 18 years and eight albums in, Screaming Females are still making their own path in the world, still touring DIY and releasing music without compromise. The route might cut a little off the main road, but you’ll quickly see there’s a reason they’re on it. You just might like where it leads you.
https://screamingfemales.com/

 

 

No Age and Me Lost Me in London this March!

 

Hello, hello!   I trust you all had a rewarding Yule and a well-deserved, restorative break since we last piped up in your direction. Our next London events are a right pair of stunners at the start of March.   We're extremely thrilled to invite our oldest friends No Age back to London to play at The 100 Club with Shake Chain on Saturday 4 March. Looking forward to them pushing punk into the strangest shapes and warping all minds in earshot again.   Then the very next day, Upset The Rhythm will pitch up at Cafe OTO for a sumptuous evening of gleaming, drifting future music in the company of Me Lost Me, Bulbils (Sally Pilkington & Richard Dawson) and Luki too.   Read on for everything you need to know about both events. We also just put a brand new Mary Lattimore show on sale today for April 20th at St John on Bethnal Green too, well worth snapping up tickets sharpish.

Upset The Rhythm's 150th release is coming out in three weeks time and it's an especially lively one!   We’re working with Historically F*cked on their new album entitled (wait for it…) ‘The Mule Peasants’ Revolt of 12,067’. Out on February 3rd 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”.   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 available to pre-order on 180g black vinyl here!   UTR have lots more records planned for 2023, we have six already queued up that we're very excited about! Space this watch, ha! It's going to be a great year.

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

Upset The Rhythm presents…   ME LOST ME BULBILS LUKI 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/   BULBILS is Sally Pilkington and Richard Dawson, a duo from Northumberland channeling the infinite with their burgeoning, beguiling homespun music. Their vast catalogue stands at 71 titles (at time of writing) and runs the full gamut with mesmeric, drifting, inventive freedom occupying the heart of the group. Resolutely lo-fi, spontaneous and often unruly, Bulbils started out as a lockdown coping strategy based around the idea of providing comfort and employing synths, bass, drum machines, vocoder etc. but has sparkily propagated into something truly expansive, unhurried and horizon-chasing. You can check out all the duo’s recordings on their bandcamp page linked below. Pilkington and Dawson also perform together in another of our favourite bands, Hen Ogledd. https://bulbils.bandcamp.com/ LUKI is the music project of singer and pianist Lucy Duncan and producer Misha Rivers. Using voice, piano, synths and electronics, they create atmospheric pop that blends the everyday and the imaginary with theatrical and emotive force. Indebted to folk, post-punk, art pop and the odd edges of musical theatre, their music is immersive, narrative driven and direct. Following the release of ‘Wisps’ on Glasgow’s label GLARC in 2018, LUKI released a single ‘The Parts’ on lathe-cut label Sonido Polifonico. Their debut EP ‘Half True’ was self released recently too. https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/wisps

Let's have a blast in 2023! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

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   ME LOST ME BULBILS LUKI 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 | SOLD OUT   MARY LATTIMORE Thursday 20 April St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q9ed6afc1991   LANKUM Thursday 4 May Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London, EC2Y 8DS (Produced by UTR and the Barbican) 7.30pm | £20-25 | SOLD OUT 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

 

Mary Lattimore returns to London this April!

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

MARY LATTIMORE
Thursday 20 April
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q9ed6afc1991  (tickets on sale from Friday at 10am)

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/