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Lots more on Wednesday's concert to follow, along with full show listings for our forthcoming London events with Mary Lattimore, Luce Mawdsley, Alison Cotton, Stereocilia, House Of All and The Courtesy Group too.
You'll also find new listings for Earth Ball, Chris Corsano, Jeremiah Chiu and Mohammad Syfkhan added to our upcoming programme too, all on sale now! |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
THE UMBRELLAS SWANSEA SOUND
AUTOCAMPER
Wednesday 13 March
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ee39bba86945 THE UMBRELLAS are four renegade romantics crafting irresistible indie pop hymns. The band’s self-titled 2021 debut album became a breakout moment, winning critical praise and sparking an international tour. Follow-up LP ‘Fairweather Friend’ goes a step further – absorbing the sonic attack of their live shows, it balances this with studio finesse, allowing the San Francisco four-piece to become the band they’ve always aspired to be. It’s a record overflowing with highlights. The candyfloss melodies of introductory track ‘Three Cheers!’ are matched to an impactful percussive punch; ‘Say What You Mean’ finds The Umbrellas working with total confidence, letting the song ride out to its chiming conclusion, four voices working in precision. ‘When You Find Out’ offers rotating notes of guitar punctuated by a vocal that pushes past angst to accept a world full of hope. A lean 10 track affair, it grasps towards beatific pop while fuelled by a sense of risk, and the precision that comes from long months on the road. Taken as a whole ‘Fairweather Friend’ is a bold indie pop triumph, crafted with purpose and attention. Taking their time over each note, the four-piece have strengthened their songwriting, adding depth and assurance while unlocking their potential. Some bonds last a lifetime – The Umbrellas are ready to capture your heart. https://theumbrellasca.bandcamp.com/album/the-umbrellas SWANSEA SOUND are Hue Williams
(The Pooh Sticks), Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey (both Talulah
Gosh/Heavenly, The Catenary Wires), Bob Collins (The Dentists, The
Treasures of Mexico), Ian Button, (Death in Vegas, with Louis Philippe,
Pete Astor and Papernut Cambridge). Swansea Sound’s recent album
Twentieth Century was released by Skep Wax Records. On this second album
of unapologetic indie pop and punk they sing about things like Pete
Shelley, vinyl, online shopping and getting older. https://swanseasound.bandcamp.com/album/swansea-sound AUTOCAMPER are a four-piece jangle pop band playing scuzzy C86-inspired music. The band’s recent demo EP came out on Discontinuous Innovation Inc (run by Nick from The Umbrellas), they’ve recently played shows with The Orchids, Lande Hekt, The Vaselines and Jeanines. https://autocamper.bandcamp.com |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
MARY LATTIMORE LUCE MAWDSLEY
Tuesday 26 March
Scala, 275 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9NL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/E8624bc1f2eb 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. ‘Goodbye, Hotel Arkada’ (Ghostly International), Lattimore’s new LP, speaks not just for its beloved namesake - a hotel in Croatia facing renovation - but for a universal loss that is shared. Six sprawling pieces shaped by change; nothing will ever be the same, and here, the artist, evolving in synthesis, celebrates and mourns the tragedy and beauty of the ephemeral, all that is lived and lost to time. Documented and edited in uncharacteristically measured sessions over the course of two years, the material remains rooted in improvisation while glistening as the most refined and robust in Lattimore’s decade-long catalog. It finds her communing with friends, contemporaries, and longtime influences, in full stride yet slowing down to nurture songs in new ways. The cast includes Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Meg Baird, Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Roy Montgomery, Samara Lubelski, and Walt McClements. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/ LUCE MAWDSLEY (they/them) is an autistic non-binary composer
and guitarist based in Liverpool with a practice rooted in progressive
experimentation. Drawing from a range of poetic art forms, their work
uses personal experience of neurodivergence, mental health disorders and
queerness as a ligature from which to generate subversive explorations
of gender, sexuality, place and identity formation. 'Northwest &
Nebulous' (out this March on Pure O Records) is a lush and accomplished
album suffused with radiant and fluid possibilities. A world-building
album pulling from folk, Americana and soundtrack influences, it fuses
their romantic and exploratory energies and signals the beginning of a
new journey for composer, with an open invitation for listeners to come
along for the ride. Luce Mawdsley will be accompanied by fellow North
Liverpool musicians Nicholas Branton and Luci Mercer for this
performance.
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 Upset The Rhythm presents… ALISON COTTON STEREOCILIA Friday 5 April St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Hc9626d08025 ALISON COTTON is a viola player based in London working in composition and improvisation. Her debut album ’All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre’ was released in 2018 firstly on cassette on Bloxham Tapes, followed by a vinyl release on Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Feeding Tube (USA). In July 2019 her longform piece, ‘Behind the Spiderweb Gates’ was released on the Australian label, Longform Editions. As well as the viola, she uses an array of other instruments (her voice, harmonium, percussion, recorder, omnichord, shruti box and piano) to create long, haunting folk drones. Cotton’s recent album ‘The Portrait You Painted of Me’, is a 6-track record – her first for Rocket Recordings. This will be followed up in March with ‘Engelchen’, an album reflecting on the intrepid Cook sisters whose efforts helped refugees escape Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s. It’s a celebration of the human spirit, one that reflects a universality in its narrative which transcends the boundaries of history and impacts very urgently on our daily lives. Whatever attempts may be made to tell this story, it’s hard to imagine one that resonates deeper than ‘Engelchen’. https://alisoncotton-uk.bandcamp.com STEREOCILIA is Bristol, UK based guitarist and composer, John Scott. John uses his guitar, analog synths and live looping techniques to create dense, rich layers of sound. Over the past 10 years John has performed all over the UK and Europe. in the past he has shared a stage with acts including Ben Frost, William Baskinski, Gnod, Nadja, Daniel Lanois, Noveller, White Hills, Acid Mothers Temple, Josef Van Wissem, Mick Turner (The Dirty Three) and performed in three of Rhys Chatham’s guitar Orchestras. He has also presented work for live radio broadcasts and regularly composes for Short Film, including the Channel 4 award winning documentary, 'The Boy With The 8-Hour Heart.' Stereocilia has released several albums and EP’s on UK independent labels, Drone Rock Records, Low Point, Champion Version, Weird Beard, and his own imprint, Echoic Memory. His 5th album “Crystalline” released in April 2023 was his third release for Brighton based label, Drone Rock Records. https://stereocilia.bandcamp.com/music |
 Upset The Rhythm presents...
HOUSE Of ALL THE COURTESY GROUP Thursday 18 April The Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, N19 5QH 7pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/wac85b671659 HOUSE Of ALL's first report of
existence only appeared one year ago, followed by a
magnificently-received debut album and two UK tours. Praise was
immediate and ecstatic, in spite of controversy from former management
of The Fall, who took offence at Martin Bramah's off-the-cuff
description of the band as "part of The Fall family continuum". Despite
this self-evident fact - Bramah was The Fall's original singer before
switching to guitar, and with the other members (Peter Greenway, Paul
Hanley, Steve Hanley and Si Wolstencroft) HOUSE Of ALL collectively
spanned the entire length of The Fall's career. Controversy arose,
resulting in a full Guardian article on the band months before the
album's release - a scant three days after it was announced. Their two
brief tours were flawless; nearly every show sold out, and the latter
tour was bolstered by "Bay City Pistols", a limited package that sold
out in two weeks.
Even before the first album was released, HOUSE Of All re-entered the studio to record their second album 'Continuum' which will be released this April by Tiny Global Productions. https://houseofall.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-all THE COURTESY GROUP are set apart in their own musical galaxy as Birmingham's own tunemongering grinesters. They survive against fashion, mediocrity, systematic dullness and impossible odds. Marmite to most musical confectionery, their debut album 'Tradesman's Entrance' and its successor 'Second City Liquor' have aired on BBC6's Stuart Maconie's Freakzone, Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service and Guy Garvey's Finest Hour (and previously on The John Peel Show on Radio 1), as well as receiving glowing reviews from Mojo, Uncut, Louder Than War and Stewart Lee in 'The Sunday Times': live, they remain consistently dangerous and a robust antidote to a fully digitalised itunes world. https://thecourtesygroup.bandcamp.com/ |