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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