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 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. |
 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. |