Myriam Gendron - London date announced!

 

Beyond thrilled to have Myriam Gendron playing a special show for us next April at Grand Junction! Tickets now on sale, ooh!
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MYRIAM GENDRON
Monday 7 April
Grand Junction, Rowington Cl, London W2 5TF
7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/B9332cba32bb

MYRIAM GENDRON is a Montreal-based songwriter, guitarist and singer. Mayday is the third LP by Gendron, it follows her earlier, critically acclaimed albums, Not So Deep As A Well (2014) and Ma délire – Songs of love, lost & found (2021). Prior to her debut album, Myriam's primary musical focus was busking in Paris Metro stations, performing the songs of Leonard Cohen and others, accompanying herself on guitar. Through her day job, working at a Montreal bookstore, Myriam discovered the poems of American writer, Dorothy Parker, who was better known for her cutting wit than her verse. Inspired by Parker's words, Myriam wrote music to accompany a suite of them, then recorded the results in her bedroom. These recordings were issued as her debut LP, and continue to delight listeners who discover them, with their freshness, clarity and humor. After a brief hiatus, Myriam began exploring the complex folk traditions of Quebec (and beyond), recording the 2LP, Ma délire, which combines traditional and original songs (largely in French) with arrangements that make space for avant-garde musical interludes by such folks as guitarist Bill Nace (Body/Head) and renowned jazz percussionist Chris Corsano. Mayday is an even more syncretic fusion of these elements. Most of the songs are original, in both English and French, and blend traditional and avant elements with abandon. Additional players this time include drummer Jim White (Dirty Three), guitarist Marisa Anderson, Montreal bassist Cédric Dind-Lavoie (a fellow fan of trad/avant dynamism), Bill Nace and saxophonist Zoh Amba (whose horn actually gets the final “word”). Mayday is a thoroughly thrilling effort that manages to create new vistas of sound while maintaining a feel that is both intimate and familiar. Beautiful work.

https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/

 

 

 

Wolf Eyes in London next April!

 

 

 

Upset The Rhythm presents...

WOLF EYES
Thursday 10 April
The Underworld, 174 Camden High St, London, NW1 9DL
7pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/qa5f170d34a7

WOLF EYES have spent 26 years fusing together DIY electronics with the avant-garde sensibilities of Fluxus and the granite of dreary Midwestern life. Their new album 'Dreams In Splattered Lines' is a surreal dreamscape of disorienting sound collages, where hit songs are transformed into terrariums of sonic flora and decimated fauna. As if pulled from a fever dream, the surrealists of the 1960s converge with alien electronic blues musicians in an underworld of mystery. The air is thick with car wash radio white noise, crackling and fizzing like a toxic elixir, spoken word poetry transmissions as absurd and cryptic phrases. Each corroded aural environment is a microcosm of chaos, honed to razor-sharp precision. Swept away in a whirlwind of thirteen perplexing narratives, each one an unpredictable journey through subterranean worlds, a sonic trip of reality folded into itself.
 
Wolf Eyes have released three albums recently ‘Dreams In Splattered Lines' was preceded by the compilation of collaborations 'Presents Difficult Messages', and the band followed this up with the release of 'Wolf Eyes w/ Spykes', bringing a much sought after early release to vinyl for the first time, documenting a recording session pivotal to the ongoing development of the group’s sound. Alongside this has been the usual steady stream of lathe cuts, side hustles, art and inzanity. A new LP is due out soon charting Wolf Eyes’ recent recordings with Anthony Braxton too, look out!

https://wolfeyes.xyz/ 

Bill MacKay added to Six Organs lineup!

Very pleased to say our Six Organs of Admittance show on March 27th has blossomed into a Drag City showcase with the addition of the magnificent Bill MacKay to the lineup!

 

Upset The Rhythm presents...

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
BILL MACKAY
Thursday 27 March
Metronome London, 41 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, London, E1 1LA
7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Gb5ecad0f987

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE have built a prolific and diverse body of work over the last 20+ years. Ben Chasny's project is an experimental amalgam of new folk, drone music, percussion and strange textures, with Chasny delivering an outpouring of eclectic releases in the early 2000s for various small labels before finding a longstanding home on Drag City. In 2003, Chasny began an association with Comets on Fire, which led to him becoming a full-time touring and recording member of the band. After recording and touring extensively with Comets on Fire in 2004, Chasny returned to the studio and issued the moving and beautiful School of the Flower on Drag City in January of 2005. Sun Awakens and Shelter from the Ash arrived in 2006 and 2007. After touring and a break in 2008, Six Organs began what would become a prolific return to force, releasing a further 18 astonishing records up to the current time. First was the release of the sonically expansive - and very electric - Luminous Night, followed by the double-disc retrospective RTZ, both of which appeared on Drag City. Chasny also plays in 200 Years alongside Elisa Ambrogio (of Magik Markers), with Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards) in the project New Bums, and is also a member of tightly-wound improv unit Rangda, accompanied by Sir Richard Bishop and Chris Corsano.

Chasny more recently developed a card-based creative system called a Hexadic for making music and released several related albums before resuming his primary project with new work like 2021's The Veiled Sea and the 2024 Shackleton collaboration Jinxed by Being. This year Six Organs also released a fully solo album Time Is Glass, which consists of haunted, unsettled rural folk sounds. With Time is Glass, Six Organs of Admittance is captured once again in the intricate tangle of the fretboards, soaring in open skies above. Like lens flare cutting through the speakers; spider-webs cracking the windshield that holds back all the onrushing reality. Blowing the dust away, cutting a new path for cognition.

https://sixorgansofadmittance.bandcamp.com/


BILL MACKAY is a guitarist, improviser, composer, and singer based in Chicago. An accomplished collaborator with projects that include Katinka Kleijn (Stir, 2019), Nathan Bowles (Keys, 2021), and Ryley Walker (SpiderBeetleBee, 2017), MacKay is also a solo artist creating multi-dimensional works such as Esker (2017), Fountain Fire (2019) Scarf (2020), and Locust Land (2024), all released on Drag City Records. Bill’s music is a visceral crackling where it meets the air, and Locust Land can’t help but reflect its era more than any other in his discography. A restless energy and urgency is repeatedly felt — in the driving momentum of “Keeping in Time,” “Glow Drift,” and “When I Was Here” — while a dogged persistence radiates from the tone colors and percussion of “Oh, Pearl.” The sense of searching, displacement and longing in vocal tracks “Keeping in Time,” “Half of You,” and “When I Was Here” speak literally to the tumult of current vibrations. Within the arrangements, there’s also departure from previous norms — in addition to the brilliant guitar work for which he is known, Bill plays a variety of keyboards, from piano to organ to synth, extending his music with the available voicings, while enriching the sound field without abandoning his signature brevity. For fans of his singing, and following in the recent tradition of Fountain Fire as well as his collaboration with Nathan Bowles, Keys, Locust Land expresses with an increased vocal presence — and heightened engagement, with Bill’s words and melodies drawing us closer.

https://billmackay.com/

Callahan & Witscher - London - Feb 14th!

Romantic times! We have a new show lined-up on Feb 14th with Callahan & Witscher!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

CALLAHAN & WITSCHER
Friday 14 February
The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB
7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ic571250f2f8

CALLAHAN & WITSCHER is the project of NYC-based musicians Jack Callahan and Jeff Witscher. Witscher has been one of the most daring voices in underground American music for two decades, highlighted by releases on Pan and NNA Tapes. Callahan’s focused, uncompromising approach to sound caught the attention of both Demdike Stare’s DDS label and Swiss composer Jürg Frey, who took Callahan on as his first composition student. Fans of their individual work might expect opacity, disruption, or rhythmic irregularity from their collaboration, but their debut LP ‘Think Differently’ sounds like a pitbull in a convertible, a sand-kicking beach party, the dopamine hit you get from 311 or Smash Mouth. It’s a punchy, crunchy, highly infectious record. How did Callahan & Witscher cut the path from the ghostly margins of avant garde musics to the gutters of post-grunge American hard rock? In the words of Callahan, “at some point, you start to need a stronger drug.”

The most potent characteristic of this stronger drug is the guitar. And not just any guitar, but a sassy, contagious, blithe guitar. Its presence is a drastic shift for two guys who’ve combined to make dozens of records over the years, not a single one of which has a recognizable guitar sound on it. Alongside the cool breezes and hyperactive fretwork of Callahan’s guitar playing, the songs are backboned by strutting, groove-happy vocals: all bark, all bite. Every song is a careful collage, light but dense, ornate with gang choruses, soulful femme vocals, autotune and whisper scratches. This accumulation almost manages to hide the record’s potent undertow of dread. ‘Think differently’ was released by Post  Present Medium last September.

https://callahanwitscher.bandcamp.com/album/think-differently

Final show of the year! Nightshift - Dec 8th!

 

Next weekend our last UTR concert of the year will take place on December 8th… it’s also our 21st birthday! All of these incredible artists are performing Nightshift, Robert Sotelo & Mary Currie (of Flaming Tunes) and Annelies Monseré! Let’s see out 2024 in style!
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Upset The Rhythm presents…

NIGHTSHIFT
MARY CURRIE & ROBERT SOTELO
ANNELIES MONSERÉ
Sunday 8 December
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/pcd6fe8e5f9b

NIGHTSHIFT are a Glasgow music collective whose new album ‘Homosapien’ just came out on Chicago’s Trouble In Mind Records. Notably, the band has lost some members, gained a new member & shuffled some roles; former drummer Chris White (Spinning Coin) is now on guitar. His distinctive playing delivers a countrified energy that is central to the album, leading the song structures into more succinct and colorful places, matching the upbeat and playful nature the band has always drawn strength from, only more so now under his stylish approach. Primary vocalist & keyboardist Eothen Stearn’s lyrical gifts illuminate the group’s output with an optimistic urgency that is unmatched. On ‘Homosapien’ she wears her heart on her sleeve, but even in the song’s darkest moments, the words create a sense of hope and potential.  
https://nightshiftgroup.bandcamp.com

MARY CURRIE & ROBERT SOTELO have a new 7” EP out on Upset The Rhythm entitled ‘Dream Songs’. Introduced via a mutual friend, Robert Sotelo approached Mary Currie (Flaming Tunes/Officer!) about collaborating on four songs he was constructing with Glasgow based producer/sound guru Joe Howe. Performing live with a set-up that will reconfigure these four compositions into a minimalist bass, drum machine and keys dynamic the duo (and band) will also look at recreating some cuts from the Flaming Tunes era also, focusing quite heavily on a anything could happen approach.
https://robertsotelo.bandcamp.com/

ANNELIES MONSERÉ has been playing music solo since 2000. Initially the music was piano-based and mostly instrumental. Once she ‘discovered’ her voice, vocals became a main focus. The early songs had very simple structures and melodies, and the words were sparse and introvert. Her debut album ‘Helder’ (released by BlueSanct) was described as “a delicate album, complete with beautiful cracks and loads of tape-hiss.” Recorded at home in Gent between 2016 and 2023, Annelies new album ‘I Sigh, I Resign’ (Horn of Plenty) retains the intimacy of previous LP ‘Mares’ with it’s close-mic’d keyboards and vocals that capture every breath. Folk and early music are at the core of her sound but the palette of piano, organ, bass guitar, cello, synth and drum machine make it very much a document of the here and now.
https://anneliesmonsere.bandcamp.com/

Upcoming London shows!

  

Upset The Rhythm also have some amazing events in London on the horizon too! One last blast before the Xmas blizzard sets in.   This Thursday see us unite with Huggy Bear at New River Studios to help launch their stunning new book Killed (Of Kids). There will be DJ-ing, film projections, a quiz, some readings from the band, a book signing and many more fun activities to look forward to.   Next week, on Thursday 5th Dec at MOTH Club we're thrilled to have Baltimore jangle-botherers The Smashing Times back in the UK, joining their pals The Clientele who will be performing their formative songs as The Butterfly Collectors. What a show!!   Last but not least, Sunday 8th Dec sees us host our final event of the year with Nightshift, Robert Sotelo & Mary Currie and Annelies Monseré all performing at The Lexington. This will be technically Upset The Rhythm's 21st birthday party too, time flies when you're sticking up posters during soundcheck!   Read all about everything below...

Upset The Rhythm presents… HUGGY BEAR: KILLED (OF KIDS) book launch Thursday 28 November New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £5 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/eaa27c1c8a63 Join us to celebrate the publication of Killed (of Kids) a book about the band Huggy Bear, written by the five members of the band. There will be readings from the book, activities, and DJ sets by members of the band. Huggy Bear were a UK riot grrrl band that existed from 1991-1994. Outcast and outraged, they made a howling, squalling mess of punk, all the menace and freedom of flocking birds. The handful of records, zines, and memories that document this brief, bonfire lifespan sketch a blueprint for how to be in the world, for how to understand the forces of capitalism and patriarchy and capitulation and still resist. Huggy Bear were a group that let things be complicated, that considered themselves complicit, but never took that as a reason to surrender. Killed (of Kids) is a book by the five members of Huggy Bear (published by Jabs, Jabs, Jabs and The Grass Is Green In The Fields For You). It reproduces all seven zines made by the band during their lifespan alongside photos, correspondence, flyers and ephemera from their three year existence. This archive is joined by new text drawn from two years of interviews with the band members, carefully assembled into an extensive dialogue about intention, surprise, distress, encouragement.   https://thegrassisgreeninthefieldsforyou.co.uk/ https://www.jabsjabsjabs.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTORS / THE CLIENTELE THE SMASHING TIMES Thursday 5 December MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/va3aba677211 THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTORS are the precursor band of British indie legends The Clientele. Originally formed in Hampshire in 1991 by founding members Alasdair MacLean, James Hornsey and Daniel Evans, the group recorded an album’s worth of material entitled ‘It’s Art Dad’. This record wasn’t picked up by a label and the group continued writing songs until 1997 when they evolved into The Clientele. The Clientele have enjoyed great acclaim since with their cult albums ‘Suburban Light (2000), ‘The Violet Hour’ (2003), ‘Strange Geometry’ (2005) and latest majestic effort ‘I Am Not There Anymore’ (Merge Records). For this concert The Clientele will be performing their formative tracks from those halcyon days of their origins. ‘It’s Art Dad’ was eventually released in full in 2005. https://theclientele.bandcamp.com/album/its-art-dad 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 ‘Mrs Ladyships and the Cleanerhouse Boys’ will be coming out on K Records in November. The Smashing Times are your new favorite MOD heart throbs. Is there REALLY a new Merseybeat Revolution? How many times can you really REALLY watch The Blow-Up alone in your room? Why don't you venture out the front door and take a bite of the real thing? The Smashing Times are a mainstay in the indie pop underground. The group mistrals the new modern life perfectly, the sharper world. https://thesmashingtimes.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents… NIGHTSHIFT MARY CURRIE & ROBERT SOTELO ANNELIES MONSERÉ Sunday 8 December The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/pcd6fe8e5f9b NIGHTSHIFT are a Glasgow music collective whose new album ‘Homosapien’ just came out on Chicago’s Trouble In Mind Records. Notably, the band has lost some members, gained a new member & shuffled some roles; former drummer Chris White (Spinning Coin) is now on guitar. His distinctive playing delivers a countrified energy that is central to the album, leading the song structures into more succinct and colorful places, matching the upbeat and playful nature the band has always drawn strength from, only more so now under his stylish approach. Primary vocalist & keyboardist Eothen Stearn’s lyrical gifts illuminate the group’s output with an optimistic urgency that is unmatched. On ‘Homosapien’ she wears her heart on her sleeve, but even in the song’s darkest moments, the words create a sense of hope and potential.   https://nightshiftgroup.bandcamp.com MARY CURRIE & ROBERT SOTELO have a forthcoming 7” EP coming out on Upset The Rhythm this October entitled ‘Dream Songs’. Introduced via a mutual friend, Robert Sotelo approached Mary Currie (Flaming Tunes/Officer!) about collaborating on four songs he was constructing with Glasgow based producer/sound guru Joe Howe. Performing live with a set-up that will reconfigure these four compositions into a minimalist bass, drum machine and keys dynamic the duo (and band) will also look at recreating some cuts from the Flaming Tunes era also, focusing quite heavily on a anything could happen approach. https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/dream-songs ANNELIES MONSERÉ has been playing music solo since 2000. Initially the music was piano-based and mostly instrumental. Once she ‘discovered’ her voice, vocals became a main focus. The early songs had very simple structures and melodies, and the words were sparse and introvert. Her debut album ‘Helder’ (released by BlueSanct) was described as “a delicate album, complete with beautiful cracks and loads of tape-hiss.” Recorded at home in Gent between 2016 and 2023, Annelies new album ‘I Sigh, I Resign’ (Horn of Plenty) retains the intimacy of previous LP ‘Mares’ with it’s close-mic’d keyboards and vocals that capture every breath. Folk and early music are at the core of her sound but the palette of piano, organ, bass guitar, cello, synth and drum machine make it very much a document of the here and now. https://anneliesmonsere.bandcamp.com/

Have a wonderful week, we'll see you at the book launch on Thursday! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

HUGGY BEAR: KILLED (OF KIDS) book launch Thursday 28 November New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £5 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/eaa27c1c8a63   THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTORS / THE CLIENTELE THE SMASHING TIMES Thursday 5 December MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/va3aba677211   RICHARD DAWSON Saturday 7 December The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE 7.30pm | SOLD OUT   NIGHTSHIFT MARY CURRIE & ROBERT SOTELO ANNELIES MONSERÉ Sunday 8 December The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/pcd6fe8e5f9b   TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD Thursday 30 January St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Gc2b4cc9c987   TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD Friday 31 January St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | SOLD OUT   JAKE XERXES FUSSELL JENNIFER CASTLE Saturday 15 February EartH Theatre, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 8BH 6pm-10.30pm | £17.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Ob348d4f5135   SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Thursday 27 March Metronome London, 41 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, London, E1 1LA 7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Gb5ecad0f987   CLEANERS FROM VENUS (Martin Newell + live band!) THE GARDENERS Wednesday 23 April - SOLD OUT Thursday 24 April - NOW ON SALE! Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherds Bush, London W12 7LJ 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/e2db91604d19   RICHARD DAWSON Tuesday 29 April The Clapham Grand, 21-25 St John's Hill, Clapham, London, SW11 1TT 7pm | £30 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/richard-dawson (Tickets on sale on Monday 18 November at 10am) NAP EYES Wednesday 7 May The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/p590cef01f9d

 

Rattle - 'Your Move' single! 'Encircle' album announced!

A band like Rattle know a lot about time, so the fact they’ve made the world wait six years for new music must simply be an exercise in delayed expectation, build-up and ecstatic release! True monarchs of the beat. 

 

Upset The Rhythm are overjoyed to unveil today the band’s new single ‘Your Move’, a 15-minute hypnotic opus of boundless drum patterns and oft-wordless articulation. Minimal and magical in equal metre and measure. ‘Your Move’ features on the duo’s colossal third album entitled ‘Encircle’, out on Feb 28th through yours truly. 

 

 

‘Encircle’ is available to pre-order now digitally, on CD, on 180g black vinyl and as a limited 180g hot-pink LP through all the best shops and our bandcamp & webshop.

Stunning album artwork by Martha Glazzard. Mesmerising video by Pete McPartlan. Wondrous band photo by Julie R. Kane.

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The Butterfly Collectors / The Clientele to perform on December 5th!

 

 

Great news! The Clientele will be performing songs from their formative years (as The Butterfly Collectors) at this concert too!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTORS / THE CLIENTELE
THE SMASHING TIMES
Thursday 5 December
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/va3aba677211

THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTORS are the precursor band of British indie legends The Clientele. Originally formed in Hampshire in 1991 by founding members Alasdair MacLean, James Hornsey and Daniel Evans, the group recorded an album’s worth of material entitled ‘It’s Art Dad’. This record wasn’t picked up by a label and the group continued writing songs until 1997 when they evolved into The Clientele. The Clientele have enjoyed great acclaim since with their cult albums ‘Suburban Light (2000), ‘The Violet Hour’ (2003), ‘Strange Geometry’ (2005) and latest majestic effort ‘I Am Not There Anymore’ (Merge Records). For this concert The Clientele will be performing their formative tracks from those halcyon days of their origins. ‘It’s Art Dad’ was eventually released in full in 2005.

https://theclientele.bandcamp.com/album/its-art-dad

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 ‘Mrs Ladyships and the Cleanerhouse Boys’ will be coming out on K Records in November.

The Smashing Times are your new favorite MOD heart throbs. Is there REALLY a new Merseybeat Revolution? How many times can you really REALLY watch The Blow-Up alone in your room? Why don't you venture out the front door and take a bite of the real thing? The Smashing Times are a mainstay in the indie pop underground. The group mistrals the new modern life perfectly, the sharper world.

https://thesmashingtimes.bandcamp.com

Xiu Xiu - London venue change! Electric Ballroom now!

Due to Heaven nightclub losing its live music license our concert with Xiu Xiu, Evichen and John Lee Bird & Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo on Tuesday 19 November will now take place at the Electric Ballroom in Camden. All original tickets remain valid.

 

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

XIU XIU
EVICSHEN
JOHN LEE BIRD & FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO
Tuesday 19 November
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP
7pm-10.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Wbcbd06fdcd1


XIU XIU is the conduit for the uncompromising and unnervingly personal musical works of Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Jamie Stewart, plus a roll call of collaborators both in studio and onstage. Streaming forth a ceaseless torrent of releases, side projects, art offerings and extensive international touring since 2002, Xiu Xiu's music has veered from damaged avant-pop to artfully orchestrated rock, squalls of black-hearted noise and most bases around and between, ever served with a bruising honesty and intensity that has ripped out the hearts of a legion of obsessive listeners.

13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips (Polyvinyl Records) is the newest record from Xiu Xiu, but only on the face of it. Underneath that face, the sinews and struggles of a need that seeks to name itself over every record, and every song on every record, ever written by Xiu Xiu of course. Nine songs to seal the deal for those who will still listen to all nine songs, in order, because an album is a message that can’t be read piecemeal. Mixed by John Congleton with a band-directed dictum that he should feel free to both “go crazy” and if there was ever any doubt as to what that meant please, by all means “choose iconoclasm.”
http://www.xiuxiu.org/


EVICSHEN aka Victoria Shen is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco. Shen's sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls "chaotic sound" to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning.
https://evicshen.com/


JOHN LEE BIRD & FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO present themselves as a queer duo of narrative words and soundscapes with an upcoming album featuring collaborations with Simon Fisher Turner, Xiu Xiu, Paul Beauchamp and Julia Kent and the recent EP “Some Time Spent There”, featuring actor/flute player Francesca Sebastian Puopolo, who also performs live with them.
https://fabriziomodonesepalumbo.bandcamp.com/album/some-time-spent-there 

'Look Familiar' by The Green Child released today!

 

 

Today we released this stunningly elegant album by The Green Child!

‘Look Familiar’ draws heavily on a refined psychedelic pop, with Raven's scenically measured vocal often shadowing the ebb and flow, but the energy of having four people in the room resulted in making the songs more upbeat and multi-dimensional!

Originally the recording project of Raven Mahon (furniture maker and member of Grass Widow, Rocky) and Mikey Young (recording engineer and band member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Shutdown 66), The Green Child now boasts Shaun Gionis (of Boomgates) on drums and Alex Macfarlane (who runs the excellent label Hobbies Galore) on guitar and synths.

The songs gathered on 'Look Familiar' were largely informed by "reality-shifting world events" Raven admits, "the subject matter just makes its way in when it's what I'm thinking about most the time" she continues. "There are a couple of homages to family members too. 'The Lawn' is about my grandmother and the area where she lived in the desert that was a short-lived socialist commune." 'The Lawn' is a propulsive thrum of lustrous electronic escapism offset with lyrics about a factory job binding cables together for NASA.

There are many standout moments across the album's ten tracks. 'Wow Factor' is a reverie of chiming guitar lines, dizzy, scurried melodies and floating centres. 'Arrows and Microtones' and 'Look Familiar' showcase The Green Child in a more reflective, expansive mode whilst ‘Private Laugh' comes alive with its crushed fuzz-guitar accompaniment and swirling synth eddies.

This album sounds like constant renewal, never seeking comfort, its the sound of four musicians pushing each other to new heights.

Tons of gratitude to @hobbiesgalore for teaming up with us on this release!

Special thanks to @caitlynmariegalloway @julianhocking 

for help with designing this beautiful artefact!

Available to order now from our webshop and all the best shops too!

New date announced for Rich(ard) Dawson in London next April!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

RICH(ARD) DAWSON
Tuesday 29 April
The Clapham Grand, 21-25 St John's Hill, London, SW11 1TT
7pm | £30 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/richard-dawson 

(Tickets on sale on Monday 18 November at 10am)

RICH(ARD) DAWSON has drawn so many long drafts from the whirlpools of Elemental North Eastern Archetypes, he may now be one himself. Fearless in his research and willingness to follow his inspiration, Dawson has created an impressive catalogue of music and storytelling steeped in both ancient myths and contemporary dread. A fog of sickness, trauma and mute inevitability inhabits his records and is often expressed in the havoc with which Dawson’s hands produce sounds from his long-suffering guitar, an instrument as bruised, individual and indefatigable as its owner.

Dawson’s forthcoming new album ‘End of the Middle’ (out Feb 14th through Weird World) is intricate, evocative, stripped-back, tactile and almost has the transportive ability to put you in the places and scenarios it describes. The album focuses around a family unit. “It zooms in quite close-up to try and explore a typical middle class English family home,” Dawson says. “We're listening to the stories of people from three or four generations of perhaps the same family. But really, it’s about how we break certain cycles. I think the family is a useful metaphor to examine how things are passed on generationally.”
 
The title of the new album End of the Middle is a suitably slippery contradiction, one that invites multiple interpretations: Middle-aging? Middle-class? The middle-point of Dawson's career? The centre of a record? Centrism in general? Polarisation? The possibility of having a balanced discussion about anything? Stuck in the middle with you? Middle England? Decide for yourself at this concert in the intimate, beautiful setting of The Clapham Grand, tickets are going to fly!
 
https://richarddawson.net/

 

 

Times for tonight's London show with Shannon and the Clams!

Times for tonight’s A+ triple bill at Islington Assembly Hall:

Pozi - 7.40pm
Mock Media - 8.30pm
Shannon and the Clams - 9.20pm

Tickets still available in advance and on the door, let’s party!
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Richard Dawson - The Ivy House - Dec 7th

 

Our good friend Richard Dawson is releasing a new album on Feb 14th called ‘End Of The Middle’, you can pre-order it now through Domino and gain early access to tickets for a decidedly intimate concert with Rich on Dec 7th at The Ivy House in Nunhead. General on sale will be this Friday at 10am sharp too!


Upset The Rhythm presents…

RICHARD DAWSON
Saturday 7 December
The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE
7.30pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/rd8f8d5f77ac?dice_id=rd8f8d5f77ac

RICHARD DAWSON has drawn so many long drafts from the whirlpools of Elemental North Eastern Archetypes, he may now be one himself. Fearless in his research and willingness to follow his inspiration, Dawson has created an impressive catalogue of music and storytelling steeped in both ancient myths and contemporary dread. A fog of sickness, trauma and mute inevitability inhabits his records and is often expressed in the havoc with which Dawson’s hands produce sounds from his long-suffering guitar, an instrument as bruised, individual and indefatigable as its owner.

Dawson’s forthcoming new album ‘End of the Middle’ (out Feb 14th through Weird World) is intricate, evocative, stripped-back, tactile and almost has the transportive ability to put you in the places and scenarios it describes. The album focuses around a family unit. “It zooms in quite close-up to try and explore a typical middle class English family home,” Dawson says. “We're listening to the stories of people from three or four generations of perhaps the same family. But really, it’s about how we break certain cycles. I think the family is a useful metaphor to examine how things are passed on generationally.”
 
The title of the new album End of the Middle is a suitably slippery contradiction, one that invites multiple interpretations: Middle-aging? Middle-class? The middle-point of Dawson's career? The centre of a record? Centrism in general? Polarisation? The possibility of having a balanced discussion about anything? Stuck in the middle with you? Middle England? Decide for yourself on February 14th 2025.
 
https://richarddawson.net/

New London concert for Jake Xerxes Fussell announced!

 

Surprise! Tickets for Jake's February show at EartH Theatre go on sale tomorrow at 10am! Oooooh

Upset The Rhythm presents…

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
JENNIFER CASTLE
Saturday 15 February
EartH Theatre, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 8BH
6pm-10.30pm | £17.50 | Tickets: https://wegottickets.com/event/637936/ and through Dice, See (on sale this Friday at 10am) 

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL is a singer, guitarist and folk music interpreter who has distinguished himself as one of his generation's preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so traditional) "folk" songs, a practice which he approaches with a refreshingly unfussy lack of nostalgia. By recontextualizing ancient vernacular songs and sources of the American South, he allows them to breathe and speak for themselves and for himself; he alternately inhabits them and allows them to inhabit him. In all his work, Fussell humanises his material with his own curatorial and interpretive gifts, unmooring stories and melodies from their specific eras and origins and setting them adrift in our own waterways.

On his latest album, When I’m Called—his first LP for Fat Possum, and his first as a parent - Fussell returns to a well of music that holds lifelong sentimental meaning, loosely contemplating the passage of time and the procession of life’s unexpected offerings. The album was produced by James Elkington and mixed by Tucker Martine. In addition to Elkington, it features the playing of Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station) and Joe Westerlund (Bon Iver, Califone). Blake Mills contributes guitars on several tracks. Joan Shelley and Robin Holcomb provide backing vocals.

https://www.jakexerxesfussell.com/


JENNIFER CASTLE is a Canadian songwriter, musician, and poet. ‘Camelot’ (Paradise of Bachelors), Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving 2024 chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer, more rooted, and more metaphorical place than the fabled Camelot of the Early Middle Ages (or its myriad depictions), but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills everyday experience into art and art into faith, subliming terrestrial concerns into sublime celestial prayers to Mother Nature, and to the unfolding process of perfecting imperfection in one’s own nature. Co-produced by Jennifer and longtime collaborator Jeff McMurrich, her seventh record is at once her most monumental and unguarded to date, demonstrating a mastery of rendering her verse and melodies alike with crisply poignant economy. For all their pointedly plainspoken lyrical detail and exhilarating full-band musical flourishes, these songs sound inevitable, eternal as morning devotions.

https://www.jennifercastlemusic.com/music  

Upcoming shows for Lankum, Tyvek, Shannon and the Clams + more!

 

Hello everyone!   Upset The Rhythm have many amazing concerts looming for you in London so we thought you'd like to hear about them.   Our next show will take place on Saturday night and it's a big one: Lankum and Richard Dawson at the Hammersmith Apollo.   As two of the most unique and vital voices in contemporary music, let alone folk, Lankum and Richard Dawson always wow on a near elemental level, it's going to be a beyond special evening. Well worth buying tickets in advance as this one is approaching a full house.

Then next Wednesday on the brink of Halloween we will be pitching up at New River Studios for an lively triple bill from UTR faves Tyvek, Geo and Virvon Varvon.   Fans of rudimentary punk, skeletal agit-funk and blistering art pop will all be catered for. We've been looking forward to this show like Christmas. Having Tyvek back in the UK after such a long time is a rare treat, they are incredible live.   Read on for full write-ups on both of these events, along with those for our upcoming November dates for Shannon and the Clams, Mock Media, Pozi, Dean Spunt (of No Age), Guests, M-G Dysfunction, Uranium Club, Hygiene, Tara Clerkin Trio and Able Noise! Oh my!

Upset The Rhythm & Parallel Lines presents…   LANKUM RICHARD DAWSON Saturday 26 October Eventim Apollo, 45 Queen Caroline St, Hammersmith, London, W6 9QH 7pm | Tickets: https://www.eventimapollo.com/events/lankum/ 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. This October the acclaimed Irish group will play their biggest headline show to date at the legendary Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London. This will be their only remaining UK concert in 2024 outside of summer festivals. The band have consolidated their reputation as one of Ireland’s most important voices following the release of their 4th, Mercury-nominated, album False Lankum (Rough Trade), which has garnered critical praise across the board and brought their music to legions of devoted new fans. False Lankum is conceived as a single piece of music, comprising 12 inter-connected songs unfolding across an epic 70 minute duration. Drawing on traditional songs and primitive techniques, the band have created an immersive, psychedelic listening experience incorporating experimental overtones and rumbling drones wedded with classic songwriting, close vocal harmonies and timeless narratives. The Lankum live show has evolved into a modern day powerhouse, with the band’s acoustic instrumentation and close-harmony vocals transforming into a vast, kaleidoscopic wall of sound. http://lankumdublin.com/     RICHARD DAWSON has drawn so many long drafts from the whirlpools of Elemental North Eastern Archetypes, he may now be one himself. Fearless in his research and willingness to follow his inspiration, Dawson has created an impressive catalogue of music and storytelling steeped in both ancient myths and contemporary dread. A fog of sickness, trauma and mute inevitability inhabits these records and is often expressed in the havoc with which Dawson’s hands produce sounds from his long-suffering guitar, an instrument as bruised, individual and indefatigable as its owner. https://richarddawson.net/

Upset The Rhythm presents… TYVEK GEO VIRVON VARVON Wednesday 30 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/G309daf25a4e TYVEK have remained a singular force. The Detroit group formed somewhere in the mid-aughts by songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, and sole consistent band member Kevin Boyer, who enlisted various friends to cultivate a raw, rudimentary punk sound that manages to get back to basics while at the same time presenting abstract perspectives and weird concepts not normally explored by your everyday garage band. There have been mutations over the years as the band toured regularly and released a run of solid albums with labels like Siltbreeze and In The Red, but with every reformation, Tyvek still didn't sound quite like anyone else. Their new album, the self released Overground (Ginkgo, 2023), stays true to their reputation for delivering hit after hit of blistering punk and remains tightly wound until it unspools into the dreamlike title track, an extended post Velvets plea for human decency. Tyvek's current line-up of all-stars guarantee an intense live show: Shelley Salant (Shells, XV), Alex Glendening (Deadbeat Beat), Fred Thomas (Idle Ray), and Emily Roll (XV) channel the high-energy rock'n'roll of Detroit's past while side-stepping the cliches to push forward into an uncharted future. https://tyvek.bandcamp.com/ GEO are a no wave oddity from The Netherlands, the more mismatched the moving parts appear, the more their music starts to make sense. Since the Groningen quartet’s inception in 2019, they have built a framework of skeletal agit-funk, cartoonish chromatics and neoteric art punk vignettes – sketching negative spaces where chaos and cacophony can sound perplexingly catchy. ‘Out of Body’ – Geo’s long-awaited debut album was released on Erste Theke Tontraeger in April. Geo’s jitterbug, birdbrained post-punk spiels are in the spirit of gung-ho deconstructionists like The Contortionists, The Fall and Gang of Four. On ‘Out of Body’, they play emotions out against each other like some kind of absurdist Punch and Judy show. https://geoband.bandcamp.com/ VIRVON VARVON are part-time punks from London, featuring members of Black Time, Midnight Mines and The Jazz June. They've played Gonerfest in Memphis, Get Lost Festival in Hamburg, and released an LP and two tapes on Girlsville Records. https://girlsville.bandcamp.com/album/virvon-varvon-four-bars-of-hate-2

Upset The Rhythm presents… SHANNON AND THE CLAMS MOCK MEDIA POZI Tuesday 5 November Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i36cc53102af SHANNON AND THE CLAMS are from Oakland, California and comprise of Shannon Shaw (vocals, bass), Cody Blanchard (vocals, guitar), and Ian Amberson (drums, vocals). Sounding like a prom band from 1964 getting dosed with acid and having the sweetest lovelorn freak out, Shannon And The Clams defy expectations. Imagine a brawling Etta James, backed up by the 13th Floor Elevators singing Shangri La's tunes. Shannon has a voice that can go from a sweet girl group croon to a bluesy ballsy growl before you realize you're headed for the (dance) floor. It's total punk rock bop, brimming with doo-wop glory delivered to your door by the Homecoming Queen and Kings of weirdo rock 'n' roll. Shannon & The Clams’ sonics go from black and white to technicolor on their new album, The Moon Is In the Wrong Place, produced by longtime collaborator Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. Faced with the unimaginable sudden loss of Shannon’s fiancé, the project is a holistic exploration of grief and celebration of life coupled with the most expansive, exciting songs and arrangements of their celebrated catalog. The Moon Is In the Wrong Place marks Shannon & The Clams’ 7th studio album together and is out now via Easy Eye Sound. http://shannonandtheclams.com/ MOCK MEDIA, Canada’s new supergroup, contains members: Evan Aasen (Painted Fruits), Garnet Aronyk Muhammad (Crack Cloud), Austin Boylan (Pottery) and Bennett Smith (N0V3L). Mock Media originates in Vernon, British Columbia, a small farming town surrounded by blue lake and majestic mountain ranges. Such wholesome beginnings naturally sparked a heady wanderlust and DIY-spirit within its founding members. Mock Media’s debut LP Mock Media II, out Nov 17th, captures this firebrand four piece’s head-on plunge into enthralling existential contradictions: songs that explore the darkest corners of humanity yet come out at the other end with the unwavering joy that marked their genesis. It’s an album of sneak eclecticism, the high-wired punk rock stylings serve as Mock Media’s framework to clad their agog explorations into pop, electronic, and world folk music. https://mockmedia.bandcamp.com/album/mock-media POZI are the sort of band to tackle the creative cycle of deconstruction and rebuilding with relish. Second album 'Smiling Pools' is testament to that. An LP that sees them at their most expansive yet, it follows a gradual swelling of their sound across two EPs preceding the urgent, self-enforced minimalism of their debut album PZ1 in 2019. The trio of Toby Burroughs, Rosa Brook, and Tom Jones quickly established something of a foundational template on that first album: a hyper-skeletal sound palette of drums, bass and three distinct vocals disrupted by Rosa’s churning violins, from which emerged biting social observations and political angst. These hallmarks haven’t fully gone away over time, but from that urgent energy there has emerged greater confidence and a playful desire to push further out from the loose genre tag of post-punk. https://poziband.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents… DEAN SPUNT GUESTS M-G DYSFUNCTION Tuesday 12 November New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/E8acfa797c7d DEAN SPUNT’s new album for Drag City is titled ‘Basic Editions’ (out Sept 27th). It’s an excursion in electronic sound that unpacks his fascination with language – in this case, the syntax of systems and processes. By turns meditative, compulsive and consumptive, Basic Editions distills a 64 voice module through a headfull of ideas – somewhat like pouring a cornucopia of possible ambient moods and EZ listening impulses backwards through a funnel, inspiring a deceptively absurd rainbow of soul to spray out the other end. With this new release, Dean identifies his process as “using sounds, rather than making sounds”. This approach to music-making is a train of thought that’s been rolling out from the far horizon of the past for ages now – but for Dean, whose previous works within and without No Age depended on their making of sounds, it’s a fresh work stance. Given, however, No Age’s traditional further manipulation of their own sounds (via loops and treatments), Basic Editions delivers further unexpected hard-rights and lefts in the non-aesthetic aesthetic that has defined Dean’s path over the past two decades. Steering toward wacked digital soundscapes that bounce colourfully across the stereo azimuth, Dean creates a kind of post-ambient neo-exotica that hinges upon a giddy conflation of cosmic and comic. https://deanspunt.bandcamp.com/music GUESTS are Jessica Higgins and Matthew Walkerdine of Glasgow, UK, both formerly of the bands Vital Idles and Mordwaffe. They have been closely tied with DIY music, art and publishing for over a decade. Using (amateur) electronics, singing, speaking and field recording they make songs which blend the rhythms of popular music and contemporary approaches to collage, sampling, improvisation and repetition. As inspired by film and art as they are the legacies of twee underground and avant garde experimentalism, their loose, domestically twinged compositions explore feelings, atmospheres and moments which are hard to articulate and the quite literal notion of being a “guest”. “I wish I was special” is their debut record on World Of Echo and has drawn some comparison with the private musings of Flaming Tunes, Idea Fire Company’s domestic electronics, or perhaps even Annea Lockwood’s framing of emotional connection within avant garde structures. https://by-guests.bandcamp.com/album/i-wish-i-was-special M-G DYSFUNCTION is the music and art project of Fred M-G. M-G Dysfunction has previously shared the stage with acts such as The Bug, Marie Davidson, Caroline, Gnod, Divide & Dissolve and Meatraffle. M-G Dysfunction live shows combine musical influences from the likes of Dean Blunt and Death Grips with elements of stand-up comedy and clowning. Most recent single ‘Junglists Only’ came out in August 2024. The third M-G Dysfunction full-length ‘Mista Self-Isolation’ will be released before the end of the year. https://mgdysfunction.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… URANIUM CLUB HYGIENE Thursday 14 November Number 90 Live, Main Yard, Wallis Road, London, E9 5LN 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/yd631fde96ea URANIUM CLUB released their fourth album, ‘Infants Under the Bulb’, back in March this year through Static Shock Records and Anti Fade. The Minneapolis band recorded the album over the course of 2023 by long time collaborator Grant Richardson and is just as rampant and agitated as ever. Uranium Club once again win their dear listeners over with eccentrically wild guitar parts, revolving voices, elastic-tight drums and the addition of their very own Saints-styled horn section. Lyrically, ‘Infants Under the Bulb’ opens up the history books of unsolved mysteries - unidentified, unsolved, unanswered subjects of suspicious acts or individuals across the last century. Who, what, when and where… but mostly, why? Ignorant humanity of earth orbits the sun once again. The Somerton Man, Bergmann, Bauby, Denton, phone phreakers, and just what is lurking behind the cosmic organ of The Wall? As always, the artwork was handled in-house by the Club and ambitious as ever. The spectacular cover shot captures a carefully coordinated event orchestrated by the Club to photograph a crowd of the local volunteers wearing ponchos standing together in an open field to make the shape of a giant spiral. https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/infants-under-the-bulb HYGIENE returned last year with their most urgent and essential recordings and not many bands can say that after 15 years. '15 Minute City' EP (Static Shock) is an absolute bundle of DIY greatness…it has the chaos and chorus of one the classic 70’s / early 80’s Swell Maps 7”s. ‘L.T.N’ is a robotic and stiff post punk song that doesn’t outlast it's welcome as it lasts just over a minute. Last track ‘Petrol’ is a childlike punk gem that gets stuck in your head after one play. https://staticshockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/15-minute-city

Upset The Rhythm presents… TARA CLERKIN TRIO ABLE NOISE Saturday 16 November EartH Theatre, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 8BH 6.30pm-10.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Aeb338640a1d 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. 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. Their latest EP, ‘On The Turning Ground’, was released on World of Echo in November. Whilst their inspirations might be centreless, but the trio still possess a very obvious anchor in the form of their hometown. Bristol stands as a city of multitudes, heterogenous and vibrant in such a way as to allow it to renew and remake time and again. Tara Clerkin Trio drink from that same well, duly reflecting a rich musical heritage built on fwd-facing electronic subcultures and experimental urges. As such, ‘On The Turning Ground’ finds them subject to their own subtle internal evolution, the pervasive sense that you've caught them mid-bloom, on their way to becoming but never anything but themselves. https://taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com/ ABLE NOISE are an experimental baritone guitar and drum duo, based between The Hague and Athens. Through the use of voice, tape and alternative methods of playing their instruments, they create a minimal and visual musical performance. Their output is primarily focused on live concerts, letting their music be shaped by the physicality of their playing, the acoustic and aesthetic properties of the space, and the dynamics formed between themselves and their audience. Their recorded work relies less on their respective instruments, and more on an assemblage of field recordings, heavily processed instrumentation, and exploratory mixing techniques. They released their recorded debut in 2020 through the Glasgow label GLARC, and their next recorded work is due to be released in late 2024 through London label World of Echo. https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/recordings

Enjoy the rest of your week and we'll see you on Saturday night! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

LANKUM RICHARD DAWSON Saturday 26 October Eventim Apollo, 45 Queen Caroline St, Hammersmith, London, W6 9QH (Produced by UTR and Parallel Lines) 7pm | Tickets: https://www.eventimapollo.com/events/lankum/   TYVEK GEO VIRVON VARVON Wednesday 30 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/G309daf25a4e   SHANNON AND THE CLAMS MOCK MEDIA POZI Tuesday 5 November Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i36cc53102af   DEAN SPUNT GUESTS M-G DYSFUNCTION Tuesday 12 November New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/E8acfa797c7d   URANIUM CLUB HYGIENE Thursday 14 November Number 90 Live, Main Yard, Wallis Road, London, E9 5LN 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/yd631fde96ea   TARA CLERKIN TRIO ABLE NOISE Saturday 16 November EartH Theatre, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 8BH 6.30pm-10.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Aeb338640a1d   CHRIS COHEN LARGE PLANTS Tuesday 19 November 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ob8ce6dd7dbc   XIU XIU EVICSHEN JOHN LEE BIRD & FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO Tuesday 19 November Heaven, Under The Arches, Villiers Street, London, WC2N 6NG 7pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Wbcbd06fdcd1   HUGGY BEAR: KILLED (OF KIDS) book launch Thursday 28 November New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £5 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/eaa27c1c8a63   THE SMASHING TIMES SPECIAL GUESTS (TBA) Thursday 5 December MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/va3aba677211   NIGHTSHIFT MARY CURRIE & ROBERT SOTELO ANNELIES MONSERÉ Sunday 8 December The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/pcd6fe8e5f9b   TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD Friday 31 January St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/s0e4de64285b   SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Thursday 27 March Metronome London, 41 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, London, E1 1LA 7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Gb5ecad0f987   CLEANERS FROM VENUS (Martin Newell + live band!) THE GARDENERS Wednesday 23 April - SOLD OUT Thursday 24 April - NOW ON SALE! Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherds Bush, London W12 7LJ 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/e2db91604d19   NAP EYES Wednesday 7 May The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/p590cef01f9d