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 Upset The Rhythm presents…
PHIL TYLER & SARAH HILL MEN DIAMLER Monday 25 September West Hampstead Arts Club, 32 Mill Lane, London, NW6 1NR 7.30pm | £7.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/q7a22698549a PHIL TYLER & SARAH HILL met in Newcastle where they sang Sacred Harp and songs in folk clubs. After a while decided to record an album together, but not long after this, after one sole gig with Alasdair Roberts, Sarah's work took her to live in Brighton. Fortunately their far-flung locations didn’t disrupt the musical partnership too much and last year saw their stunning album ‘What We Thought Was A Lake Was A Field Of Flax’ released on Ferric Mordant. Their songs are primarily traditional, learned from versions by folk legends like Shirley Collins, Bob Copper, Martin Carthy and Peggy Seeger, although two - Sweet Lemney and Golden Lads – have tunes by Tyler, and the latter words from their mutual friend Jo Ellis. The album was recorded by Newcastle artist/producer Phil Begg in an unadorned, simple manner that captures the warmth of Hill and Tyler’s voices, the interplay of their duets and Tyler’s fine guitar, banjo and ukulele playing. https://philtylersarahhill.bandcamp.com/album/what-we-thought-was-a-lake-was-a-field-of-flax MEN DIAMLER is a singer from deepest darkest Wales, who began unravelling the dark swab of provincial England through song in 2005. A serial songwriter and performer of some repute, he has cited Jacques Brel, Townes Van Zandt, Alan Vega and Iggy Pop as influences. He recorded sessions for Marc Riley's 6 Music Show, Radio X and Resonance FM. Men Diamler's performances are now very rare since he has taken up a more lucrative career in traffic counting. www.bandcamp.com/mendiamler |
 Upset The Rhythm presents… THE SMASHING TIMES JOWE HEAD SILK CUTS Thursday 28 September New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i167d908f749 THE SMASHING TIMES are a psychedelic twee freakbeat group from a Baltimore basement. Instruments played by humans, bare feet touching the ground. Wrinkled button downs, sweaters filled with holes, music audibly and sometimes visibly made by humans. Can you change the strings on your guitar? Maybe, can you buy me dinner? Lock up your Rickenbackers, Thee Jasmine Monk is coming to town, can they stay on your couch? Recent album ‘Bloom’ was released by Meritorio Records, featuring fractious, chiming riffs and Dan Treacy meets Stephen Pastel style vocals and an impressive collection of genuinely memorable tracks. The Smashing Times’ new album will be coming out on K Records soon. https://thesmashingtimes.bandcamp.com JOWE HEAD is a musician and artist from the Midlands of England, now living in Hackney, in east London. He started his musical career in his home town of Solihull with various school friends in 1972, a project that came to be known as Swell Maps. This group emerged in the late 1970s, are now known as pioneers of what is now referred to as the Alternative Rock or Post-Punk scene. They set up their own independent record label, and mixed Punk Rock with experimental and psychedelic sounds. Swell Maps released four singles and two albums in a brief but dramatic career, that led to them topping the UK independent charts, and influencing bands such as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Blur. When they broke up, Jowe joined Television Personalities. Ten years with the TVPs saw Jowe making more influential records, touring Europe regularly, and playing in Japan and the USA. For this show Jowe is presenting his new trio the Infernal Trinity. https://jowe-head.com/bio SILK CUTS are Exeter's newest C86 influenced indie pop band. Silk Cuts have a new 7" on Freakscene Records (The Computers, The Cut Ups, Spy Versus Spy) this is out in September and was produced by Lucy and Matt Board from Pale Blue Eyes. https://songbox.com/s/silkcuts7 |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
APOSTILLE
MARINA ZISPIN DEVOTION Friday 29 September
The Waiting Room, 175 Stoke Newington High St, London, N16 0PE 7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/k7a7aa10dff3 APOSTILLE is a man who's torn through enough soundsystems to know the difference between gesture and meaning. Alongside running his own DIY record label Night School Records, Glasgow native Michael Kasparis has previously made forays into the realm of hardcore punk with his groups Anxiety and The Lowest Form. Throughout all this, his solo electronic venture Apostille has continued to evolve with each twist and turn of the world. What started off as a quest to whip up a mood and force that into a song has steadily become more of a mission in communication. The third Apostille album, ‘Prisoners Of Love And Hate’, is released on Night School on September 22nd. https://apostille.bandcamp.com/album/prisoners-of-love-and-hate MARINA ZISPIN aka synth pop apparitions Bianca Scout and Martyn Reid have been haunting the shores of Newcastle/London since forming Marina Zispin in the summer of 2018. Together they occupy the infinite twilight space that exists between fantasy and reality. Juxtaposing the sacred and mundane; they transform the selected minutia of their everyday existence into the totems and litanies that comprise their stream of conscious anthems of interdimensional melancholia. Marina Zispin release their debut 12” on Night School in September 2023. https://on.soundcloud.com/WHXL2 DEVOTION is pop music slowed to a crawl and drowned in a haze. Sheer enveloping bliss in volume. https://devotionldn.bandcamp.com |
 Upset The Rhythm and DHP present… THE MAKE-UP INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK Thursday 5 October The Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, N19 5QH 7pm | £25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/q880da4b245b THE MAKE-UP, from Washington, DC, are a renowned group of revolutionary malcontents for whom the tedious rules of rock mean very little. First appearing in 1995, The Make–Up arose like a demon of righteousness, striking out for aesthetic correctitude, fearless non sequitur, communal fervor, and the sacred business of "show." Inspired by R&B, Gospel music, Yeh-Yeh, and Rock 'n' Roll, The Make–Up were strange then and are strange still. They just don't jibe with the garage conservatism or the po' faced blandness of commercial "indie rock." They are a a "band without a country." Still, they are sorely missed for their performances which were rumored to feature: matching outfits, Farfisa organ strikes, secular sermonizing, call and response vocals, and calamitous guitar fuzz over a sea bed of rhythm-rubble. The Make-Up were prolific, toured the world, and recorded lots of 45s and “long playing” records before they submerged out of sight in 2001 A.D. Since then the group members have lectured, healed the sick, banged on cans, and generally inspired in other ways, but now come together once again to celebrate their gestalt, their unique chemistry, and the songs they created. They are something special. https://makeup.bandcamp.com/ INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIK just released their debut album ’Dragging the Needlework for the Kids at Uphole’ via Tough Love. 35 minutes of repeat phrased guitars, slow-clipped drums and dulcet vocals where the recurring landscape is the desert. Reel-to reel-loops of Afghan music compete with the found sound overlays of voices recorded at the queue of the pharmacy and drum machines borrowed from Spanish heroes, channelling both far-off climes and snippets from a closer reality. It’s a strange psychic brew, built of imagined mysticism and domestic realities, of fever dreams and days that stretched into weeks of months. https://indexforworkingmusik.bandcamp.com |