EarthBall - London headline show!

  

Upset The Rhythm presents…

EARTHBALL
Friday 17 April
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/u7705d1dcd32

EARTHBALL are a wild ensemble from Canada, mainly based on Vancouver Island. EarthBall's live shows epitomise their commitment to spontaneous composition, offering audiences a unique experience with each performance. The last two years have seen EarthBall release their debut LP 'It's Yours' and a live album entitled 'Actual Earth Music - Volume 1 & 2' featuring Chris Corsano and Steve Beresford on Upset The Rhythm. This winter they returned with their best effort to date 'Outside Over There’ - a gathering of sound at the forest's edge; where feedback, saxophone screams, and ecstatic vocals dissolve the boundary between chaos and clarity. Perhaps John Olson of Wolf Eyes sums up the album best:

“Outside Over There is an eight-track odyssey that unfolds like a dreamscape, where whispered incantations brush against the shadowy fringes of the cosmos, and wild, Cézanne-inspired rock anthems erupt like geysers of color in the midst of a western warm and wet rain storm… culminating in the sprawling eleven-minute masterpiece, ‘And The Music Shall Untune The Sky,’ aptly dubbed the Earth Crusher. A creation so utterly deconstructed and intertwined with the pulse of nature itself that if AI was called upon to conceive ‘Outside Over There’ anew, it would just spit back, “F.U. in Tree Font”. An enchanting invitation for even the flat-earthers to join the circle, if only just a little.” 

https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/outside-over-there

Dog Chocolate - 'So Inspired, So Done In' announced!

 

Big day today, the new Dog Chocolate album, heavily trailed in person at our label showcase last week, has been officially announced!

After 7 strange years of relative silence, Dog Chocolate have now returned with ‘So Inspired, So Done In’. This fourth album is their most focused, cohesive and song-based yet. They still sound like a bin full of wasps, but now the bin has double-cream or a Viennetta at the bottom, nice! While many of the 16 songs on here barely make it past the 3-minute mark, each one is bursting with all the textures and colours you’d expect from the band.

Thematically, a lot of ground is covered, with songs tackling subject matter as diverse as overheard conversations, the Rogerian concept of the Actualising Tendency, bronze age living conditions, and human-plant relations. Work (and anti-work) is another recurring theme, as is artistic inspiration and burnout. 

Listen now to Dog Chocolate’s first single ‘Employee’, a bouncy dissonant song that trades experiences of the mid-2020s job market.

 

 

Dog Chocolate revel in the mundane and incidental to explore bigger, existential questions with this record. They continue to investigate their internal and external landscapes with playful curiosity, frustration, silliness and empathy, but this time there’s a contemplative glaze.

'So Inspired, So Done In' is available to pre-order now on black bio-vinyl, with accompanying A3 poster and lyric booklet.

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Extra London date - Orcutt Shelley Miller

Well Cafe OTO sold out in the blink of an eye, so… we’ve booked Orcutt Shelley Miller to rip it up at The 100 Club next April too!
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Upset The Rhythm presents…

ORCUTT SHELLEY MILLER
Thursday 23 April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, London, W1D 1LL 


7.30pm | £22 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Va21db65af7a

ORCUTT SHELLEY MILLER are a guitar, bass, drums power trio. Featuring incendiary guitarist Bill Orcutt, psych-seer Ethan Miller (Comets on Fire, Howlin’ Rain), and dynamic powerhouse Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth). Despite rhythmic nods to the SoCal '60s, the overall vibe of Orcutt Shelley Miller is angular, atonal slash piled on a mid-'80s SST punk-fusionoid substrate, with Orcutt's bristling chords anchored by Miller's ebbing/ flowing bass. In the engine room, Shelley, the most beat-anchored of the trio, never quite abandons the two-and-four pocket but scrabbles around it, skitters over it, burrows under it, ultimately tapping a sort of Michael Hurley-gone-motorik vibe on the longer tracks. "Four-Door Charger," easily the most tranced-out of their tracks, passes through kraut-funk on the way to a solid Klaus Dinger-meets-Lothar Meid churn.

Orcutt Shelley Miller’s self-titled debut album is out now on Silver Current, and sounds like a fully formed beast, rather than a mere sum of its distinctive parts. For the improv shy listener, I can gladly inform you that it sounds like Orcutt sketched out a few of the heads beforehand, so there's plenty to clutch onto amidst the slashing Ginn-esque tritones, and plenty of the right-angle bursting-clockwork solos that define Orcutt's hypnotic phrasing. ‘Orcutt Shelley Miller’ reads like a "big rock statement" by its constituents that treads the line between good times and blown minds, and as such, it's a top-shelf repeat spinner.               
                                                                                                         
https://orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/orcutt-shelley-miller

 

 

UTR showcases next week!

 

Hello everyone!   As the frost returns and rooms begin to fill with tinsel, Upset The Rhythm are wrapping up warm and reaching for an expeditious mulled wine. Next week, is very much "party time" territory, with Tuesday and Wednesday seeing us takeover Cafe OTO for a pair of label showcases.   We'll be celebrating our 22nd birthday, saluting our final events of another fruitful year and marvelling at a myriad of our favourite artists on the label.   On Tuesday night we're lucky enough to have hypnotic drum duo Rattle performing, alongside experimental Scots singer Quine and jagged synth punks Es.   Shake Chain will be kindly playing records to keep us entertained in between sets too.               Then next Wednesday at Cafe OTO we're delighted to invite electronic folk spellbinder Me Lost Me back to London.     Mary Currie and her band will also be performing a special set of Flaming Tunes songs, whilst coiled spring of a band Dog Chocolate kick off proceedings with a host of new songs.     Normil Hawaiians will be providing DJ services throughout, get in!   We will have tickets available to both shows available on the door each night, these cost £12, and we'll be setting up a label shop for all your back catalogue and early Xmas present needs too.   Read on for all the details...                   Join us for a two-day showcase of all things Upset The Rhythm on November 25th & 26th at Cafe OTO! We’ll be celebrating all the amazing artists we’ve worked with on record releases this year and beyond, plus our 22nd birthday, time to buy a big 🎂!  Upset The Rhythm presents… RATTLE QUINIE ES SHAKE CHAIN (DJ set) Tuesday 25 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/U19e86228aea  RATTLE released their third album ‘Encircle’ on Upset The Rhythm at the start of the 2025. ‘Encircle’ sees the drumming duo expand their unique experiments in rhythm, metre and tension. Rattle have honed the four songs that make up ‘Encircle’ by playing them live over the last few years, adapting and stretching them into endlessly inventive new shapes, playing with the concept of time and expectation. With ‘Encircle’ Rattle have grown, writing songs alive with elemental power. They build-up and disintegrate, existing in two places at once, embracing the nuance, tracing the circle’s edge. These are modes of song as pure gesture and eternal imagination, refined in mirrors after midnight. Rattle have toured the UK with Animal Collective and Thurston Moore and toured Europe with The Julie Ruin and Protomartyr, and have also performed with Hot Snakes, Bill Orcutt Quartet and Codeine.  https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/encircle  QUINIE released her her third album ‘Forefowk, Mind Me’ with Upset The Rhythm back in May this year. The record is largely sung in Scots language, one of Scotland’s three official languages along with Gaelic and English. “Scots gives me a way of expressing myself which is connected directly with the landscapes I love. It brings the songs alive and it is a fascinating language. The name of the record is in Scots - Forefowk means the people who came before, or ancestors. When we say ‘mind me,’ we can mean a few things- remind, remember, watch over or care for me. The record explores how tradition needs to be constantly reconnected with, built upon, looked after, and shared.” To develop this record, Quinie travelled across Argyll with her horse. They went on a pilgrimage of sorts through the ancient landscapes of the West of Scotland to explore the interconnected relationships between people, ancestors, animals, and place.  https://www.quinie.co.uk/  ES released an incredible EP titled ‘Fantasy’ in 2023 (on Upset The Rhythm). Echoing the legendary Pylon or the later, disco-inspired releases from PIL, tracks like ‘Emergency’ and ‘Unreal’ blend the band’s established disjunctive style of gothic restlessness with brighter, poppy, and danceable tones. These stylistically unwind in transition with the increasingly claustrophobic pieces like ‘Too Late’ and ‘Swallowed Whole’, syncopating a parallel design of the frantic and the fashionable. Es deconstruct our modern wreckage of personhood and self-deceit, granting a sense of solidarity inside alienation. This show represents Es’ final show for Upset The Rhythm, as the musical project winds up this December. https://esband.bandcamp.com/   + Upset The Rhythm presents… ME LOST ME MARY CURRIE & THE PGs - FLAMING TUNES set DOG CHOCOLATE NORMIL HAWAIIANS (DJ set) Wednesday 26 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S8d66c1f896c  ME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully weave together disparate genres, drawing influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music. In 2023 Me Lost Me released the critically regarded album 'RPG' and toured extensively in support of the release. On Me Lost Me's fourth full-length, This Material Moment - released this June through Upset the Rhythm - she has created an "emotionally raw" album, her most honest and vulnerable yet. Me Lost Me presents sound reaching in opposite directions, straddling time towards the archaic and timeless traditions of folktales, and towards the possible and potential futures of pastoral Britain and the world at large. This is an album which uses words as a material, a playful tool for experimentation, full of metaphor, abstraction and analogies. Jayne affirms, "it has softness and anger, humour, hope and despair, intensity of feeling in all directions expressed as textures, objects, places." https://www.melostme.com/    MARY CURRIE released a collaborative 7” with Robert Sotelo last October on Upset The Rhythm entitled ‘Dream Songs’. Not only did the title capture the hazy, reflective nature of the music it also expounds on the mysterious origin of the tracks. Mary Currie is best known as half of touchstone DIY experimentalists Flaming Tunes, alongside Gareth Williams (of This Heat). Currie also performed in Officer! with Mick Hobbs amongst others. For this performance Mary appears alongside her bandmates Alison Craig, Marcus Holdaway, Nick Haeffner and William Hayter, as The PGs performing songs from their Flaming Tunes repertoire. https://flamingtunes.bandcamp.com/album/flaming-tunes  DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals. Abandoning notions of elegance, cred and professionalism they embrace the ramshackle, instant and fun, capturing a vivid spontaneity with their music. Their sound is a shabby, fast, over-excited ball of wet fur falling down the stairs, knocking over plant pots along the way and staining the carpet. With an average song time of 2 minutes, Dog Chocolate are on to the next treat before fully digesting the last. Chewing up bits of punk, post-punk, noise and pop, Matthew and Robert's guitars race around each other like wasps, pitch-shifting and phasing all over the place while Jono's rolled-up-newspaper drums chase them round the room. The band have released a split LP with Ravioli Me Away and two full length albums on Upset The Rhythm. Dog Chocolate’s new album is due out early 2026.  https://dogchocolate.bandcamp.com Since we last talked, we've added new shows for Susannah Stark, Cindy, EarthBall and Orcutt Shelley Miller too - 2026 shaping up nicely already!   Enjoy the weekend and we'll see you on the other side. Upset The Rhythm                             UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

UTR showcase - Day 1!  RATTLE QUINIE ES SHAKE CHAIN (DJ set) Tuesday 25 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/U19e86228aea  UTR showcase - Day 2! ME LOST ME MARY CURRIE & THE PGs - FLAMING TUNES set DOG CHOCOLATE NORMIL HAWAIIANS (DJ set) Wednesday 26 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S8d66c1f896c    SUSANNAH STARK & BAND Tuesday 20 January Theatreship, South Quay Plaza, London, E14 9SH 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Db4300074e6f   ERASERHEAD XIU XIU  Friday 6 February ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Wd941657a231  ERASERHEAD XIU XIU  Saturday 7 February ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/jc58e012b8c9   CINDY THE GABYS Friday 13 February Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, E9 6DF 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/yd196e6fb1a4 RICH(ARD) DAWSON - Delight Is Right RICH(ARD) DAWSON & CIRCLE ØXN TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD HAMEED BROTHERS QAWWAL In collaboration with The Barbican Sunday 22 March Barbican, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS 6pm | Tickets: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/richard-dawson-delight-is-right   ORCUTT SHELLEY MILLER EARTHBALL Monday 20 April Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £22 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/gd281c5833f5

Orcutt Shelley Miller - London show for next April announced!

 

This is going to be off-the-charts outstanding next April! 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

ORCUTT SHELLEY MILLER
EARTHBALL
Monday 20 April
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL


7.30pm | £22 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/gd281c5833f5

ORCUTT SHELLEY MILLER are a guitar, bass, drums power trio. Featuring incendiary guitarist Bill Orcutt, psych-seer Ethan Miller (Comets on Fire, Howlin’ Rain), and dynamic powerhouse Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth). Despite rhythmic nods to the SoCal '60s, the overall vibe of Orcutt Shelley Miller is angular, atonal slash piled on a mid-'80s SST punk-fusionoid substrate, with Orcutt's bristling chords anchored by Miller's ebbing/ flowing bass. In the engine room, Shelley, the most beat-anchored of the trio, never quite abandons the two-and-four pocket but scrabbles around it, skitters over it, burrows under it, ultimately tapping a sort of Michael Hurley-gone-motorik vibe on the longer tracks. "Four-Door Charger," easily the most tranced-out of their tracks, passes through kraut-funk on the way to a solid Klaus Dinger-meets-Lothar Meid churn.

Orcutt Shelley Miller’s self-titled debut album is out now on Silver Current, and sounds like a fully formed beast, rather than a mere sum of its distinctive parts. For the improv shy listener, I can gladly inform you that it sounds like Orcutt sketched out a few of the heads beforehand, so there's plenty to clutch onto amidst the slashing Ginn-esque tritones, and plenty of the right-angle bursting-clockwork solos that define Orcutt's hypnotic phrasing. ‘Orcutt Shelley Miller’ reads like a "big rock statement" by its constituents that treads the line between good times and blown minds, and as such, it's a top-shelf repeat spinner.        

https://orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/orcutt-shelley-miller       
                                                                                                         
EARTHBALL are a wild ensemble from Canada, mainly based on Vancouver Island. EarthBall's live shows epitomise their commitment to spontaneous composition, offering audiences a unique experience with each performance. The last two years have seen EarthBall release their debut LP 'It's Yours' and a live album entitled 'Actual Earth Music - Volume 1 & 2' featuring Chris Corsano and Steve Beresford on Upset The Rhythm. This winter they returned with their best effort to date 'Outside Over There’ - a gathering of sound at the forest's edge; where feedback, saxophone screams, and ecstatic vocals dissolve the boundary between chaos and clarity.

https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/outside-over-there

 

Cindy + The Gabys - Live in London!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

CINDY
THE GABYS
Friday 13 February
Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, E9 6DF
7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/yd196e6fb1a4

CINDY is a key part of the San Francisco/Bay Area dream pop, fog pop, lofi scene. Led by NYC-originating songwriter Karina Gill, the steady stream of releases has earned sincere support from the international press community who have vividly championed the writing and sound. The songs are hazy but with intent – this is nostalgic pop-craft with lyrical backbone that has opened doors for Cindy to tour and appear at festivals in the UK, Europe and USA, most recently with DIY recording icon, Linda Smith.
 
The current Cindy touring band includes members Will Smith of Now, Staizsh Rodrigues of Children Maybe Later, and Oli Lipton of Now and Violent Change. Cindy will tour the EU & UK in 2026, while making progress back home in San Francisco on the eagerly awaited fifth album. Cindy have previous releases available through Tough Love and Paisley Shirt Records.

https://cindytheband.bandcamp.com/


THE GABYS are a duo made up of Matt Wilkinson and Natasha Bikkul. They write mysterious, eerie bedroom pop from their home in Liverpool. This is Velvet Underground-inspired electric folk music that can roll with 90s New Zealand greats like Dadamah and The Garbage & The Flowers but also has parallels with current San Francisco lo-fi pop moodists like April Magazine and Mister Baby. They have released music with All Gone, Fruits and Flowers, and most recently, A Colourful Storm. 

https://fruitsandflowers.bandcamp.com/album/the-gabys

Susannah Stark - London show!

 

Beyond excited to bring Susannah Stark to London in January + aboard the Theatreship no less!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

SUSANNAH STARK & BAND
Tuesday 20 January
Theatreship, South Quay Plaza, London, E14 9SH
7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Db4300074e6f

SUSANNAH STARK’s new album opens with questions that set its reflective tone while drifting on a current of birdsong, rivers and synths. Sung in Gaidhlig and English, her second album for Stroom and Night School, ‘Minor Gestures’, is a dialogue between place, history and the listener. Collaborating with experimental and folk musicians in Glasgow, Stark navigates acoustic textures with fluidity while blending breath, drone and rhythm. The result is a meditative soundscape that celebrates vulnerability and curiosity. From the responsive waters of 'Caochan' to the unanswered queries of 'Ceistean gun freagairtean', this is ritualistic sonic poetry.

https://susannahstarkmusic.bandcamp.com/

 

EarthBall - 'Outside Over There' released today!

 

Here we go! EarthBall’s goliath slamdunk of an album is released today! ‘Outside Over There’ is a phantasmagoria of improvised psychosis, as heavy as a juggernaut, as divine as a tarot hand. 

What a head-spinning checklist? Dizzy sprawls of pertinacious drums, spun-out fx, crushed staggering guitars and freaked sax rapture. This landscape of unruly sound is then stalked through by Izzy & Jeremy’s spontaneous vocal projections, the effect is utterly pulse-quickening.

The album is out now digitally and as a 180g black vinyl or trippy blue-in-black variant from all the best shops and our very own webstore.

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EarthBall release Helsinki single + tour dates!

 

Canadian psych-bruisers EarthBall return today with their convulsive new single ‘Helsinki’. Bearing down like a juggernaut, ‘Helsinki’ is a quake to the core, inspired by an account of a UFO sighting in Tibet in the late 1920s, an antique locket and the Bock saga. EarthBall will release their new album ‘Outside Over There’ this Friday and kick off their European tour this Thursday! What a way to roll? Mythic awe and inescapable entropy, jump into their whirling vortex!

 

 

Rich(ard) Dawson - Delight Is Right - March 22nd

 

 

Upset The Rhythm & Barbican present…

RICH(ARD) DAWSON
RICH(ARD) DAWSON & CIRCLE
ØXN
TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD
Sunday 22 March
6pm | £25 | Tickets: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/richard-dawson-delight-is-right

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 recent album ‘End of the Middle’ is intricate, evocative, stripped-back, tactile and almost has the transportive ability to put you in the places and scenarios it describes. For this very special mini-festival Rich will be performing twice, as a duo with Andrew Cheetham (on drums) and alongside Finnish rock-wranglers Circle. Whilst the addition of ØXN, Tristwch y Fenywod  and The Hameed Brothers Qawwal to the lineup makes for an eclectic showcase of curious exploration. This concert will take place at the Barbican and is produced with them in association.
 
https://richarddawson.net/

100 Flowers + The Yummy Fur this week in London!

 

Alright everyone!   I hope you're all getting into the Halloween swing of things by donning capes and fangs. Our next show falls on All Hallows' Eve, this Friday, and sees an immense double-headline from two of our very favourite bands: 100 Flowers and The Yummy Fur.   100 Flowers evolved out of the hugely influential US punk group the Urinals. Their music plays with tension/release and is whip-smart, angular post-punk of the highest calibre.   The Yummy Fur are Scottish art-rock aficionados, known for their brilliant string of releases in the 90's, sardonic lyrics and dissonant dancefloor acumen.   What a treat (no trick) to have both acts playing for us at New River. Tickets are £10 on the door from 7.30pm, spooky costumes warmly encouraged!         Then on Monday night we have synth bop powerhouse John Maus performing in London for us on November 3rd at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town. This will be John's biggest show ever!   We're thrilled to have Alpha Maid performing too, with her meticulous experimental take on grunge and the rawest electronics.   Nov 3rd is special for another reason too, it’ll showcase John’s debut performance with live projections and multi-screen mapping, capturing the frenzy of his live show through the lens of a 24-hour rolling newsroom from a numinous dimension.    Read on for lots more detail, including full write-ups of both shows and or upcoming concerts for Phew, Isaiah Hull & Freddie Murphy (Nov 4th - ICA) and Tristwch y Fenywod & Anna Peaker (Nov 12th - St Matthias Church).   Enjoy!         Upset The Rhythm presents… 100 FLOWERS THE YUMMY FUR Friday 31 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/teff2cfdc2f2  100 FLOWERS are a post-punk band from Los Angeles, California, active primarily in the early 1980s. The group evolved from the politically charged punk outfit The Urinals, who were known for their raw, minimalist sound and radical brevity, many of their songs clocked in under a minute. As their musical interests expanded and matured, the trio mutated into 100 Flowers in 1981, taking their name from Mao Zedong’s “Hundred Flowers Campaign,” a brief period in Chinese history encouraging open expression. The new moniker reflected their increasingly sophisticated and experimental approach to music, while maintaining a subversive, critical edge. The band consisted of the same core lineup from the Urinals: John Talley-Jones (vocals, bass), Kjehl Johansen (guitar, vocals), and Kevin Barrett (drums). Under the 100 Flowers name, they moved beyond the stark minimalism of their previous incarnation, embracing more complex song structures, abstract lyrics, and an eclectic mix of influences ranging from Wire and Gang of Four to Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu. Their sound retained punk’s urgency and DIY ethos but integrated funk, avant-garde noise, and jarring time signatures, all hallmarks of the emerging post-punk genre. In 1983, 100 Flowers released their self-titled LP on the independent label Happy Squid Records, which they co-founded. The album was critically well-regarded within underground circles, praised for its angular guitar work, sharp lyrical content, and inventive rhythms. Songs like “Sensible Virgins” and “Motorboat to Hell” showcased their unique fusion of intelligence, irony, and punk rebellion. The group disbanded in 1983, but their influence endured. Both 100 Flowers and the Urinals became cult favorites, especially among later generations of punk, indie rock, and lo-fi musicians. Their music was rediscovered and reissued over the years, including a retrospective compilation, 100 Years of Pulchritude, which brought renewed attention to their groundbreaking work. https://100flowers.bandcamp.com/album/100-flowers THE YUMMY FUR are Glaswegian DIY pop legends with their energetic mix of angular riffs, super-short songs and biting social commentary. Consisting of lead singer and guitarist John McKeown and an interesting line-up of other musicians, the band were favourites of John Peel and recorded two Peel Sessions, as well three totemic albums: ‘Night Club’ (Slampt / Guided Missile, 1996), ‘Male Shadow at Three O’Clock’ (Vesuvius, 1998) and ‘Sexy World’ (Guided Missile, 1998). All three are essential. The group disbanded in 1999, and ten years later ‘Rock Action’ released ‘Piggy Wings’, a compilation of their best 7” and album tracks. The band have since reformed to play with a line up featuring original members John McKeown, Paul Thomson and Brian McDougall. https://theyummyfur.bandcamp.com/album/piggy-wings         Upset The Rhythm & Parallel Lines presents… JOHN MAUS ALPHA MAID Monday 3 November O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Rd, London NW5 1JY 7pm | £25 | Tickets: https://www.parallellinespromotions.com   JOHN MAUS is a truly enigmatic musician. Broadly cut from the synth pop cloth, he’s fashioned the frosty minimalism of its fabric into a cloak of infinite meaning, genuine grace and absurdist humor over the course of four defining albums since 2006. His music is a highly mutable affair, whilst often described as retro-futurist on behalf of the 80’s drum machines and synth sounds employed, John’s music is more personal than the nostalgic re-tread implied. There’s a cinematic quality to his songs, with pathos conjured through propelling bass-lines, trailing arpeggios and of course his deeply resonant vocal. Moroder helped map out the territory but Maus is more interested in seeking cadence through his love of Renaissance polyphony and the experimentation behind post punk. It’s an amalgamation of musical ideas as radical as its intent. Maus is a ‘man out of time’ trying to make sense of the inhumanity of our world through his mobilisation of the language of punk rock. His aim is true as he reaches for the seemingly impossible. It’s a want to emerge as part of greater multiplicity, to appear, to become, to connect that powers his songs and the man himself. It’s now been 14 years since the widely lauded album We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (2011) appeared like a thunderbolt of maniacal energy and turned everyone’s heads. Now regarded as an experimental pop classic, Pitiless Censors was a huge breakthrough for Maus as a recognised artist and led to a vast reappraisal of his past work.  Two decades and seven albums into his career, Sept 26th sees John Maus release his most transcendent album yet: Later Than You Think. Arriving via his new label YOUNG, the album explores themes of grief, justice, rebirth, transformation, and spiritual warfare - coalescing into a work of confession and confrontation: an aural metaphysics where affect, intellect, and spirit converge in search of the beautiful, the truth and the real.  https://johnma.us/   ALPHA MAID  (aka Leisha Thomas) is a guitarist, vocalist, and producer from South London. Her debut EP Spy (2019) was released by the collective/label CURL. She continues to collaborate in various forms with fellow members such as Coby Sey and Mica Levi. Alpha Maid's debut vinyl release CHUCKLE EP (2021) was released on the C.A.N.V.A.S. collective/label, and garnered significant critical attention. In spring 2023 Alpha Maid teamed up with Mica Levi to self-release their joint EP spresso. Alpha Maid’s new album Is this a queue, is released via AD 93 on the 29th October. Written across many years and different places, the LP documents a journey and the people Alpha Maid met while moving around, collating moments of the present. Her guitar remains a constant amongst an array of sonic influences throughout: from dub which honours her Jamaican heritage and the Windrush Generation, to the twinges of an emo love song in On Smoke. https://alphamaid.bandcamp.com/album/is-this-a-queue         Upset The Rhythm presents… PHEW ISAIAH HULL FREDDIE MURPHY Tuesday 4 November ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j37d81ca0772  PHEW is a legendary figure in Japanese underground music. Phew was a founding member of the legendary Japanese punk band Aunt Sally. After the band’s breakup in 1979, she continued her career as a solo artist, releasing a collaborative single with Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1980, and her first solo album, ‘Phew’, with Conny Plank, Holger Czukay of CAN, and Jaki Liebezeit in 1981. In 1992, her third album, ‘Our Likeness’, was released on MUTE (recently reissued), again at Conny’s studio, with Jaki Liebezeit of CAN, Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten, and Chrislo Haas of DAF. Since the beginning of the 2010s, she has released a series of works that combine voice and electronic music, and has gained international recognition as a forward facing electronic artist. She has also released collaborative works with Ana da Silva (Raincoats), Yoshimi (Boredoms, OOIOO) and others. Phew's expansive ‘Vertical Jamming’ was released on vinyl for the first time via Disciples last year, whilst Mute recently released her stunning record ‘New Decade’; a stark, haunted album, populated by voices that intone empty pleasantries in English and Japanese, against a backdrop of fractured, dubbed-out electronics. https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/music   ISAIAH HULL is a poet and rapper from London, appearing often alongside frequent collaborator / producer aloisius. Hull’s music glistens in a ghostly way. Heart-wrenching and laugh-inducing in equal measure, Hull deems himself a “stand-up tragedian.” Above minimal, glittering production, reminiscent of Triad God or Dean Blunt, and dark glitch-imbued beats that sound like they’re emitting from turntable on its last legs, Hull shares his heartfelt and diaristic poems-as-tracks – witty and harrowed and never shying from the grim political realities of life in the UK. Combining impeccable flow with singular production, Hull is an unstoppable force to be reckoned with. Hull’s debut album ‘Pocomania’ was released through Young earlier this year. https://young.bandcamp.com/album/pocomania FREDDIE MURPHY is a sound artist and curator based in Torino, Italy. His sonic research has shifted from cathartic performances to express the Catholic sense of guilt to an intimate investigation on feelings of loss and acceptance connected with grief, using an approach to composition that is bound to visual imagery and concepts linked to rituality. His musical practice involves experimenting on the duality of natural/synthetic, using acoustic recordings processed into synthetic sounds, as well as mimicking natural sounds using analogue tools. As a founding member of the seminal experimental outfit Father Murphy he released a series of concept albums on labels such as Joyful Noise, The Flenser, Avant! and performed extensively across the world. Appearances include Venice Biennale and Santarcangelo Festival (IT), Dark Mofo Festival (Australia), Le Guess Who!? Festival (NL). https://linktr.ee/freddiemurphy         Upset The Rhythm presents… TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD ANNA PEAKER Wednesday 12 November St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, London, N16 8DD, UK 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets:  https://link.dice.fm/Aec543e61aa5 TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD is a band of three queer women who play avant garde gothic music using dual-zither, bass and electronic drums. Their lyrics are sung entirely in the Welsh language (Cymraeg), and flicker in the moon-glow. Tristwch y Fenywod (translated as… The Sadness of Women) are Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth (Guttersnipe, Petronn Sphene), Leila Lygad (Hawthonn) and Sidni Sarffwraig (Slaylor Moon, The Courtneys). Formed in 2022 in Leeds, where the band are primarily based, Tristwch y Fenywod sounds like an early 4AD group dredged from the waters of an Anglesey swamp. Sapphic love and desire, existential darkness, political and environmental anguish/celebration, psychogeographic romance, pagan mysticism, imaginal explorations of Celtic history and myth, psychedelia, and myriad other variations of reverie are fantasised through their songs.  In August 2024 they released their self-titled debut album through Night School Records to critical acclaim, and have since performed at various UK festivals such as Supernormal and Supersonic, including two memorable nights with Upset The Rhythm at St Pancras Old Church back in January this year. https://night-school.bandcamp.com/album/tristwch-y-fenywod ANNA PEAKER is an artist based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, who began experimenting with sound in 2016. Her work centers around quiet electronics, amplified objects, and processed autoharp. She has released music with Longform Editions, Alter, Infant Tree, Chocolate Monk, and Regional Bears. https://annapeaker.bandcamp.com/ Thanks for taking the time to read this, see you on Halloween! Upset The Rhythm                             UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

100 FLOWERS THE YUMMY FUR Friday 31 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/teff2cfdc2f2   JOHN MAUS ALPHA MAID Monday 3 November O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Rd, London NW5 1JY In collaboration with Parallel Lines 7pm | £25 | Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/2uctuz6b   PHEW ISAIAH HULL FREDDIE MURPHY Tuesday 4 November ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j37d81ca0772   TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD ANNA PEAKER Wednesday 12 November St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, London, N16 8DD 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Aec543e61aa5   PROTOMARTYR MARCEL WAVE (Nov 12) HONESTY (Nov 13) Wednesday 12 November  Thursday 13 November  ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | SOLD OUT   TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD ANNA PEAKER Friday 14 November St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, London, N16 8DD 7.30pm | SOLD OUT   UTR showcase - Day 1!  RATTLE QUINIE ES SHAKE CHAIN (DJ set) Tuesday 25 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/U19e86228aea  UTR showcase - Day 2! ME LOST ME MARY CURRIE & THE PGs - FLAMING TUNES set DOG CHOCOLATE NORMIL HAWAIIANS (DJ set) Wednesday 26 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S8d66c1f896c    ERASERHEAD XIU XIU  Friday 6 February Saturday 7 February ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Wd941657a231 / https://link.dice.fm/jc58e012b8c9

Steve Gunn and Lung Leg in London this week!

 

Hello there!   Thank you all massively for coming out to see Lande Hekt and Sir Richard Bishop recently. Both set the bar high, but this week we have three more events, oh yes, count them.   This coming Thursday sees Upset The Rhythm pitch up at St Matthias in Dalston for an extraordinary evening of quicksilver guitar droving and hazy songcraft  from Steve Gunn and James Elkington. Two sets, both top drawer, will be sublime. Steve and James have both released incredible albums this year, so we're in for a real treat.   Expect live music to start from 8.10pm, limited tickets... so well worth buying in advance.         Then on Saturday night we're popping up with an early show (7pm-10pm) at MOTH Club for Glaswegian DIY legends Lung Leg. We'll be celebrating the launch of their new single: a split 7" with Unmarry Me! (featuring members of Huggy Bear and Comet Gain). Unmarry Me! will also perform, alongside provincial-pop subverts The Plan. What's not to love? It's going to be hugely entertaining. 7.30pm is the live music kick-off, plus we'll have some tickets on the door too.   Sunday evening sees UTR revisit The Lexington with a sold out show for Prolapse and Moderate Rebels, so we'll be cresting the wave by then.   Read on for full write-ups of these shows, plus our forthcoming London events for 100 Flowers, The Yummy Fur, John Maus, Phew, Isaiah Hull and Freddie Murphy. Busy times indeed.   The observant of you will notice two newly announced concerts for Eraserhead Xiu Xiu next February at the ICA too - these promise to be spectacular!       Upset The Rhythm presents… STEVE GUNN JAMES ELKINGTON Thursday 23 October St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8DD 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Kbeb8bca6565 STEVE GUNN is a New York-based guitarist and songwriter. With a career spanning nearly fifteen years, Steve has produced volumes of critically acclaimed solo, duo, and ensemble recordings on labels such as Matador Records, Three Lobed Recordings, Paradise of Bachelors, and RVNG. His albums represent milestones of contemporary guitar-driven material, and forward thinking songwriting. Steve has steadily processed his inspirations into a singular, virtuosic stream. Close listening reveals the influence of blues, folk, ecstatic free jazz, and psych in his continually unfolding output. 'Music for Writers', the first Gunn album under only his name since 2021, takes those influences to a new level. It is an instrumental album (released this August by Three Lobed Recordings), based around guitar, synths and more, it leads the listener to tightly and deeply focus on minute changes and variations in style. It is a masterpiece in fragile, small-scale world-building that occupies a unique space within Gunn's wider discography. https://stevegunn.bandcamp.com/music JAMES ELKINGTON moved to the United States in the late ’90s from his native England with the intention of making himself absolutely essential to the Chicago music scene. Twenty years later he’s contributed to a staggering volume of records and shows and projects both in Chicagoland (see Jeff Tweedy; Tortoise; Eleventh Dream Day; Brokeback) and far from it (see Richard Thompson; Laetitia Sadier; Michael Chapman, Steve Gunn, Nap Eyes). The 2017 release of the wonderful ‘Wintres Woma’, his first so-called solo album, seemed to be a logical, healthy respite from assisting with the creative needs of others that would allow him to serve his own. The record certainly sounded as though James found in it every reason to be satisfied - among much else, it effectively reconciled his personal and musical mongreltude as a child of Britain and a man of America, and thus could return his focus to bettering other folks’ records. James has since released several albums on Paradise of Bachelors and No Quarter, including last year’s triumphant collab with Nathan Salsburg entitled ‘All Gist’. https://www.jameselkington.com/           Upset The Rhythm presents… LUNG LEG UNMARRY ME! THE PLAN Saturday 25 October MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7pm-10pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Uf5bde2d3be1 LUNG LEG formed in Glasgow in 1994 and were part of the city’s vibrant DIY underground scene. They blended elements of post-punk, C86, and riot grrrl, creating a sound described as indie rock, pop-punk, and garage rock.  The original lineup included Jane McKeown ("Jane Egypt"), Annie Spandex, Amanda "Jade Green" Doorbar, and Maureen "MoMo" Quinn. They released two EPs in the mid-1990s: ‘The Negative Delinquent Autopsy’ and ‘Shagg the Tiger’. The band's debut album, "Maid to Minx," was released in 1997. Lung Leg’s songs are soaked in hedonistic tales of Glasgow nights out, living life on the central Scottish edge between the dole and the pub, the music pumped full of adrenalin. Seriously, if you tune your mind into just the guitars you’ll be doing mental somersaults. But you’d also be missing the vocal interplay, call-and-response work, lyrics that read like surrealist, grimy narratives. At the turn of the century Lung Leg imploded, scattering their component members to different parts of the country or to other groups. After a reissue of the singular ‘Maid To Minx’ album in 2022, the band reformed with new members Paul Thompson, Simone Antigone and Hando Morice, playing a reunion gig in Glasgow that December. They have since featured in the documentary ‘Since Yesterday: The Untold Story’. Lung Leg will be releasing their first new record in October. A limited edition split 7" with Unmarry Me! is coming out imminently on Second City Static.   https://lungleg.bandcamp.com  UNMARRY ME! is a triangular shaped group, comprising of Lise Frances, Jon Slade and Chris Rowley. London to Brighton and back again. Unmarry Me! are a group that have been together for about 6 months in a world at war and in trouble. Unmarry me! are therefore a group trying to carve out some joy and light as form of resistance, no small feat, and maybe grandiose but worth the stating. Unmarry me! Is comprised of personnel who have all had time or continue to have time in other groups who did not take easy routes or money and didn't make many friends, so it goes. These groups respectively or chronologically were and are Huggy Bear, Comet Gain, I’m Being Good, Help She Can’t Swim, Snoozers and Adulkt Life. Bands that time will record as being on the right sides of history and her story. Unmarry Me! are of a completely different stripe or ilk but comprise the antagonist and peculiar DNA that honour this. Unmarry Me! play and record and create and make do in a DIY syncretism that's useful to themselves, distinct and not worth talking about. Unmarry Me! are about bending, queering, breaking and resetting rules, smudging boundaries and in the main having a lot of excellent fun!! THE PLAN breeze in from Southend, keeping the flame burning for the kind of askew provincial pop captured on all those Messthetics compilations. Featuring folks formerly of Wetdog, The Ghosts and Vic Godard & The Subway Sect, the group ply a combination clattering beats, clanging guitars and conversational tunes. Their songs often move in unexpected directions and are pinned together by Rebecca Gillieron's sometimes defiant/sometimes soft vocal melodies. New album, ‘Mountain View’, was released on Divine Schism last month. https://theplan1.bandcamp.com/         Upset The Rhythm presents… 100 FLOWERS THE YUMMY FUR Friday 31 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/teff2cfdc2f2  100 FLOWERS are a post-punk band from Los Angeles, California, active primarily in the early 1980s. The group evolved from the politically charged punk outfit The Urinals, who were known for their raw, minimalist sound and radical brevity, many of their songs clocked in under a minute. As their musical interests expanded and matured, the trio mutated into 100 Flowers in 1981, taking their name from Mao Zedong’s “Hundred Flowers Campaign,” a brief period in Chinese history encouraging open expression. The new moniker reflected their increasingly sophisticated and experimental approach to music, while maintaining a subversive, critical edge. The band consisted of the same core lineup from the Urinals: John Talley-Jones (vocals, bass), Kjehl Johansen (guitar, vocals), and Kevin Barrett (drums). Under the 100 Flowers name, they moved beyond the stark minimalism of their previous incarnation, embracing more complex song structures, abstract lyrics, and an eclectic mix of influences ranging from Wire and Gang of Four to Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu. Their sound retained punk’s urgency and DIY ethos but integrated funk, avant-garde noise, and jarring time signatures, all hallmarks of the emerging post-punk genre. In 1983, 100 Flowers released their self-titled LP on the independent label Happy Squid Records, which they co-founded. The album was critically well-regarded within underground circles, praised for its angular guitar work, sharp lyrical content, and inventive rhythms. Songs like “Sensible Virgins” and “Motorboat to Hell” showcased their unique fusion of intelligence, irony, and punk rebellion. The group disbanded in 1983, but their influence endured. Both 100 Flowers and the Urinals became cult favorites, especially among later generations of punk, indie rock, and lo-fi musicians. Their music was rediscovered and reissued over the years, including a retrospective compilation, 100 Years of Pulchritude, which brought renewed attention to their groundbreaking work. https://100flowers.bandcamp.com/album/100-flowers THE YUMMY FUR are Glaswegian DIY pop legends with their energetic mix of angular riffs, super-short songs and biting social commentary. Consisting of lead singer and guitarist John McKeown and an interesting line-up of other musicians, the band were favourites of John Peel and recorded two Peel Sessions, as well three totemic albums: ‘Night Club’ (Slampt / Guided Missile, 1996), ‘Male Shadow at Three O’Clock’ (Vesuvius, 1998) and ‘Sexy World’ (Guided Missile, 1998). All three are essential. The group disbanded in 1999, and ten years later ‘Rock Action’ released ‘Piggy Wings’, a compilation of their best 7” and album tracks. The band have since reformed to play with a line up featuring original members John McKeown, Paul Thomson and Brian McDougall. https://theyummyfur.bandcamp.com/album/piggy-wings         Upset The Rhythm & Parallel Lines presents… JOHN MAUS Monday 3 November O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Rd, London NW5 1JY 7pm | £25 | Tickets: https://www.parallellinespromotions.com   JOHN MAUS is a truly enigmatic musician. Broadly cut from the synth pop cloth, he’s fashioned the frosty minimalism of its fabric into a cloak of infinite meaning, genuine grace and absurdist humor over the course of four defining albums since 2006. His music is a highly mutable affair, whilst often described as retro-futurist on behalf of the 80’s drum machines and synth sounds employed, John’s music is more personal than the nostalgic re-tread implied. There’s a cinematic quality to his songs, with pathos conjured through propelling bass-lines, trailing arpeggios and of course his deeply resonant vocal. Moroder helped map out the territory but Maus is more interested in seeking cadence through his love of Renaissance polyphony and the experimentation behind post punk. It’s an amalgamation of musical ideas as radical as its intent. Maus is a ‘man out of time’ trying to make sense of the inhumanity of our world through his mobilisation of the language of punk rock. His aim is true as he reaches for the seemingly impossible. It’s a want to emerge as part of greater multiplicity, to appear, to become, to connect that powers his songs and the man himself. It’s now been 14 years since the widely lauded album We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (2011) appeared like a thunderbolt of maniacal energy and turned everyone’s heads. Now regarded as an experimental pop classic, Pitiless Censors was a huge breakthrough for Maus as a recognised artist and led to a vast reappraisal of his past work.  Two decades and seven albums into his career, Sept 26th sees John Maus release his most transcendent album yet: Later Than You Think. Arriving via his new label YOUNG, the album explores themes of grief, justice, rebirth, transformation, and spiritual warfare - coalescing into a work of confession and confrontation: an aural metaphysics where affect, intellect, and spirit converge in search of the beautiful, the truth and the real.  https://johnma.us/         Upset The Rhythm presents… PHEW ISAIAH HULL FREDDIE MURPHY Tuesday 4 November ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j37d81ca0772  PHEW is a legendary figure in Japanese underground music. Phew was a founding member of the legendary Japanese punk band Aunt Sally. After the band’s breakup in 1979, she continued her career as a solo artist, releasing a collaborative single with Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1980, and her first solo album, ‘Phew’, with Conny Plank, Holger Czukay of CAN, and Jaki Liebezeit in 1981. In 1992, her third album, ‘Our Likeness’, was released on MUTE (recently reissued), again at Conny’s studio, with Jaki Liebezeit of CAN, Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten, and Chrislo Haas of DAF. Since the beginning of the 2010s, she has released a series of works that combine voice and electronic music, and has gained international recognition as a forward facing electronic artist. She has also released collaborative works with Ana da Silva (Raincoats), Yoshimi (Boredoms, OOIOO) and others. Phew's expansive ‘Vertical Jamming’ was released on vinyl for the first time via Disciples last year, whilst Mute recently released her stunning record ‘New Decade’; a stark, haunted album, populated by voices that intone empty pleasantries in English and Japanese, against a backdrop of fractured, dubbed-out electronics. https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/music   ISAIAH HULL is a poet and rapper from London, appearing often alongside frequent collaborator / producer aloisius. Hull’s music glistens in a ghostly way. Heart-wrenching and laugh-inducing in equal measure, Hull deems himself a “stand-up tragedian.” Above minimal, glittering production, reminiscent of Triad God or Dean Blunt, and dark glitch-imbued beats that sound like they’re emitting from turntable on its last legs, Hull shares his heartfelt and diaristic poems-as-tracks – witty and harrowed and never shying from the grim political realities of life in the UK. Combining impeccable flow with singular production, Hull is an unstoppable force to be reckoned with. Hull’s debut album ‘Pocomania’ was released through Young earlier this year. https://young.bandcamp.com/album/pocomania FREDDIE MURPHY is a sound artist and curator based in Torino, Italy. His sonic research has shifted from cathartic performances to express the Catholic sense of guilt to an intimate investigation on feelings of loss and acceptance connected with grief, using an approach to composition that is bound to visual imagery and concepts linked to rituality. His musical practice involves experimenting on the duality of natural/synthetic, using acoustic recordings processed into synthetic sounds, as well as mimicking natural sounds using analogue tools. As a founding member of the seminal experimental outfit Father Murphy he released a series of concept albums on labels such as Joyful Noise, The Flenser, Avant! and performed extensively across the world. Appearances include Venice Biennale and Santarcangelo Festival (IT), Dark Mofo Festival (Australia), Le Guess Who!? Festival (NL). https://linktr.ee/freddiemurphy Thanks for reading, have a brilliant week! Upset The Rhythm                             UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

STEVE GUNN JAMES ELKINGTON Thursday 23 October St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8DD 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Kbeb8bca6565   LUNG LEG UNMARRY ME! THE PLAN Saturday 25 October MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU 7pm-10pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Uf5bde2d3be1   PROLAPSE MODERATE REBELS Sunday 26 October The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7pm | SOLD OUT   100 FLOWERS THE YUMMY FUR Friday 31 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/teff2cfdc2f2   JOHN MAUS Monday 3 November O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Rd, London NW5 1JY In collaboration with Parallel Lines 7pm | £25 | Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/2uctuz6b   PHEW ISAIAH HULL FREDDIE MURPHY Tuesday 4 November ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j37d81ca0772   TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD ANNA PEAKER Wednesday 12 November St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, London, N16 8DD 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Aec543e61aa5   PROTOMARTYR MARCEL WAVE (Nov 12) HONESTY (Nov 13) Wednesday 12 November  Thursday 13 November  ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | SOLD OUT   TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD ANNA PEAKER Friday 14 November St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, London, N16 8DD 7.30pm | SOLD OUT   UTR showcase - Day 1!  RATTLE QUINIE ES SHAKE CHAIN (DJ set) Tuesday 25 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/U19e86228aea  UTR showcase - Day 2! ME LOST ME MARY CURRIE & THE PGs - FLAMING TUNES set DOG CHOCOLATE NORMIL HAWAIIANS (DJ set) Wednesday 26 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S8d66c1f896c    ERASERHEAD XIU XIU  Friday 6 February Saturday 7 February ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Wd941657a231 / https://link.dice.fm/jc58e012b8c9