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You can read more about our good work in the shires below, alongside full listings for our upcoming London events for Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements next Friday at Hoxton Hall and also for Parsnip, Grazia and Sassyhiya in a few weeks time at Moth Club (Oct 1st).
Since we last talked, we've also announced new concerts for Uranium Club, Tyvek, Six Organs Of Admittance and Tristwch y Fenywod.
You can find details of those newly on sale shows in our full programme
which concludes this message, and now boasts an additional night with Cleaners From Venus on April 24th next year, popular demand and all that, enjoy! |
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 Upset The Rhythm presents… JIM WHITE & MARISA ANDERSON DUO GOBLIN BAND Saturday 7 September St Mary the Virgin, St Mary's Pl, Dogpole, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1DX 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Oe43933996ff JIM WHITE & MARISA ANDERSON DUO is the collaboration between renowned drummer Jim White and acclaimed guitarist Marisa Anderson; it’s a natural union of two of the most intuitive players and listeners working in music. White and Anderson are each very in-demand as collaborators in no small part because of their mastery, versatility and highly expressive playing. The duo have each amassed an impressive body of work, and remain at the vanguard of their practices due to an insatiable curiosity and delight in exploration of new avenues of expression. White has honed a tumultuous, multi-toned surge and roar on his kit since playing in Australian instrumental group Dirty Three. His playing in Xylouris White presages what he does here, making a dense, nearly melodic spray of percussive energy that ebbs and crescendos in freeform patterns not too closely tied to time signature. Anderson, for her part, has made some exquisite albums that distill Appalachian folk and blues into luminous, abstract soundscapes. With this duo she plays more aggressively and is less concerned with melody, but retains a knack for eliciting radiant atmospheres from tone and overtone and dissonance. Their 2020 debut The Quickening exemplified that daring spirit as an exercise in trust: two musicians who had never performed together before committing those first moments in time to record. 2024’s Swallowtail (released this May on Thrill Jockey) is a deepening of that trust, White and Anderson completely immersed in the moment, each attuned to the other fluidly moving as wind and water. Their music is an enchanting and illuminating celebration of process as joy. https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/ GOBLIN BAND formed organically from intimate sessions of the same name ran out of the HobGoblin Music, a folk music instrument shop in Central London, and organised by a group of queer folk obsessive friends and shop employees. These sessions have given rise to a four-piece band which, though firmly rooted in the traditional music of the British Isles, draws widely on medieval and early music, as well as the folk musical traditions from abroad. The sound concocted employs all manner of strings, squeezeboxes, hurdy gurdy, flutes, horns, bells and whistles. The Goblins interpret folk song in relation to the political upheavals of past and present and strive to make a space for new audiences to experience traditional music in a manner which is both riotously joyful and deeply sincere. Check out their marvellous ‘Come Slack Your Horse!’ album on Broadside Hacks! https://goblinbanduk.bandcamp.com |
 Upset The Rhythm presents… MARY LATTIMORE WALT MCCLEMENTS Friday 13 September Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London N1 6SH 7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/k586329ab4b8 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/ WALT MCCLEMENTS is an accordionist and multi-instrumentalist living in Los Angeles. He is releasing a duo record with Mary Lattimore on Thrill Jockey this May called ‘Rain on the Road’. McClements, who tours as a member of Weyes Blood, is an acclaimed composer in his own right, sculpting glacial atmospherics. Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements debut collaboration Rain on the Road blossomed out of the time they spent on tour together, capturing the liminal existence of touring life in deeply cinematic compositions. https://waltmcclements.bandcamp.com/ |
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PARSNIP GRAZIA SASSYHIYA Tuesday 1 October MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £11 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Rc2d78d6f59c PARSNIP are an amazing Australian group, their sophomore album 'Behold' (out now on Upset The Rhythm) is a testament to Parsnip at their most creative, catchy and collaborative. ‘Behold’ showcases the multi-talents of all four members, with spirited performances adding dazzle to the thirteen tracks. Paris Richens lets the bass playfully roam. Carolyn Hawkins tumbles feeling into the drum rumble. Stella Rennex's guitar soars alongside her saxophone work, whilst a sprightly keyboard is tenderly attended by Rebecca Liston. Everyone sings amidst this lush canopy. On 'Behold', Parsnip explore both the inner and outer realms of consciousness with quick wits and some seriously quality jangle and jolt. 'The Light' is a whip smart workout, sprouting naturally from the propulsive nature of their debut album 'When the Tree Bears Fruit' (Trouble In Mind, 2019). Drawing comparisons with Dolly Mixture, Sara Goes Pop and Look Blue Go Purple, Parsnip are an animated ensemble, full of life, emotional complexity and humour. The laughter in the dark is real, but then the sun comes up and we all must meet the day. Even the flowers turn their faces. Behold! https://parsniphq.bandcamp.com/album/behold GRAZIA just released their debut EP “In Poor Taste” (Feel It Records) - written and recorded by Heather Dunlop and Lindsay Corstorphine. Often referential - In Poor Taste pulls inspiration from the high and low brow, but mostly the low. Grazia pays homage to everything from The Fall to cheap lingerie brands in a campy pastiche of 80’s new wave and pop. In Poor Taste is all about having a lot of fun while delving into your worst, core self. https://grazia.bandcamp.com SASSYHIYA are Katherine Wright and Helen Skinner of cult South London queer band Barry. Now with added Neil and Pablo. Check out their new 7” on Skep Wax, a celebratory ode to Kristen Stewart no less. https://sassyhiya.bandcamp.com |