Ancient Summer by Me Lost Me, is the final single taken from their forthcoming album 'This Material Moment', out June 27th on Upset The Rhythm. “It’s about stepping back to think on our connectedness, the things humans have made, our structures, our civilizations, our innovations, and also our rituals and beliefs, our relationships with one another - all in one overwhelming moment” Me Lost Me.
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Protomartyr - Nov 12th and 13th - London!
Watch out London! We have a double dose of Protomartyr booked in for November at the ICA!
Both of these shows are in celebration of the group’s landmark album ‘The Agent Intellect’, 10 years old this year. Time flies and so do tickets, both of these on sale Friday from 10am.
Upset The Rhythm presents…
PROTOMARTYR
Wednesday 12 November
Thursday 13 November
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
7.30pm | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ha26f4ea47ea / https://link.dice.fm/afcd1d041d1d
PROTOMARTYR’s taut, austere rock was incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed, feebly, by space heaters. Short songs made for short practices, and the band learned quickly not to waste time. Despite the cold, Protomartyr emerged with a sound that is idiosyncratic but relatable, hooky but off-kilter.
There’s a temptation to call it garage rock, but that doesn’t quite fit. With respect to the local predecessors, this isn’t the primitive stomp of The Dirtbombs or The Stooges’ greasy roar. Punk works, kind of, even if it leaves the hardcore kids confused. Post-punk suggests something too retro; indie rock, something too precious. What Protomartyr is, is “stuck between the cracks.” If that’s the case, though, they aren’t alone. Protomartyr’s economical rock elicits comparisons to possible antecedents like Pere Ubu or The Fall as well as local contemporaries like Frustrations or Tyvek. Singer Joe Casey’s dry declarative snarl serves as a reliable anchor, granting his bandmates — guitarist Greg Ahee, drummer Alex Leonard and bassist Scott Davidson — the opportunity to explore textures and reinforce the rhythm section.
Post-punk’s biggest inspiration, it seems, was its eagerness to demolish punk’s orthodoxy, to push against the arbitrary boundaries of genre — at least until it became one itself. For Protomartyr, inspiration usually arrives in the form of ideas or feelings, more than explicit musical references. By the time the band has shaped it to its needs, the source material is almost unrecognizable.
Protomartyr have released six studio albums since 2012, including albums on Hardly Art and Domino. This very special pair of shows at the ICA are taking place in celebration of the band’s 10th anniversary of their astonishing, landmark album ‘The Agent Intellect’.
http://protomartyrband.com/
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Hello GoodBye - Resonance FM special!
All ears! Here’s a link to the brilliant Hello GoodBye show on Resonance FM.
This latest show features Chris from UTR talking all things label, a spotlight on Quinie, and Me Lost Me in session and interview too! What a treat! Plus Jennifer Reid contributes to the general excellence too, bonus!
Thanks as ever to deXter Bentley!
Enjoy
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Friday, 23 May 2025
Quinie - 'Forefowk, Mind Me' out today!
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singer working from the Scots folksong tradition, Quinie brings an
approach that is both reverent and radical—exploring authenticity not as
an exercise in preservation, but as something lived, questioned, and
continually reshaped. Forefowk, Mind Me is a conversation between
traditions: voice and pipes, accompanied and unaccompanied, DIY and
folk. It features a mix of traditional unaccompanied songs,
reinterpretations, and original arrangements drawn from Scots, Gaelic,
and Irish traditions, alongside toasts, improvisations, and poetic
settings. Rather than static and fixed, it’s folk tradition in motion. 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. The album’s vinyl release is accompanied by a book and film, documenting this unusual research process. Forefowk, Mind Me was recorded in August 2024 at The Big Shed in Highland Perthshire with support from Creative Scotland. Quinie is accompanied by an ensemble of musicians: Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh (viola), Oliver Pitt (duduk, bouzouki, percussion), Harry Górski-Brown (small pipes, violin), and Stevie Jones (double bass, recording, and mixing). Each of these artists brings their own distinctive voice, bridging contemporary experimental practice with worlds of traditional and early music. |
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 Upset The Rhythm presents…
QUINIE - 'Forefowk, Mind Me' album launch HARRY GORSKI-BROWN SOUND OF YELL
Friday 30 May
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/hf599383b2db QUINIE will release her her third album ‘Forefowk, Mind Me’ with Upset The Rhythm on May 24th 2025. This show is the album launch. 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.” Quinie sings with a style inspired by Scottish Traveller singers. “I began singing unaccompanied Scots Song in 2015 after hearing Scots Traveller singer Sheila Stewart on the radio. Over the years I have met Traveller friends who taught me that settled people sharing these songs could contribute to raising awareness. Scottish Travellers are marginalised and discriminated against in modern Scotland, despite being custodians of so many of our important traditions. So I started to perform them and tell this story. From there I built on my repertoire and started writing my own songs”. 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. The album’s vinyl release is accompanied by a book and film, documenting this unusual research process. ‘Forefowk, Mind Me’ was recorded in August 2024 at The Big Shed in Highland Perthshire with support from Creative Scotland. Quinie is accompanied by an ensemble of musicians: Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh (viola), Oliver Pitt (duduk, bouzouki, percussion), Harry Górski-Brown (small pipes, violin), and Stevie Jones (double bass, recording, and mixing). Each of these artists brings their own distinctive voice, bridging contemporary experimental practice with worlds of traditional and early music. https://www.quinie.co.uk/ HARRY GORSKI-BROWN is a Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist known for his innovative blend
of electroacoustic and small pipes. In 2024, he released a tape with
Glasgow label GLARC, Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats, featuring
settings of traditional Gàidhlig songs for voice, small pipes, and
electronics.
SOUND OF YELL is the solo
project of Glasgow based musician, sound designer and producer, Stevie
Jones. At times fronting an all acoustic collective of exploratory
string and woodwind arrangements, in this instance Stevie will play solo
fingerstyle steel string guitar, accompanied by tapes and synth. A
serial collaborator, Stevie also plays with the New String Collective,
Alasdair Roberts and Arab Strap (and of course, Quinie) and co-directs
radio-art festival Radiophrenia.
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 Upset The Rhythm presents…
ONE LEG ONE EYE DAWN TERRY Friday 13 June Peckham Audio, 133a Rye Lane, London, SE15 4BQ 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/a7e04c64f4b9 ONE LEG ONE EYE is the project of Ian Lynch (founding member of Irish group Lankum) that explores submerged leylines of music and song, drawing on the raw aesthetics of black metal, noise and drone, while also being deeply embued with a sense of Irish history and myth. Debut album …And Take The Black Worm With Me (released on Nyahh Records in 2022) is a slow burning suite of five expansive songscapes that has found its audience largely by word of mouth. Partly recorded in an abandoned Dublin factory where his father worked when he was a child, Lynch’s harrowing vocals are underpinned by vast pillars of uileann pipe drones, overlaid with effects and field recordings to conjure up a sound that is at once dark, mysterious and ultimately transcendental https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-take-the-black-worm-with-me DAWN TERRY plays slow, melancholic, optimistic music for sad people. Based in Newcastle, she is a veteran drone artist, producing work that is heavy, dreamlike, open and hypnotic. Working for years as one third of drone band Bong, Dawn supplied heavy distorted bass and vocals. Bong are renowned for reaching beyond their metal roots towards a sound that incorporates the psychedelic and cosmic. In her more recent solo work Dawn has turned towards acoustic resonances provided by accordion, hurdy-gurdy, and voice. Both cleaner and denser than ever before, Dawn is now producing large scale minimalist landscapes characterised by an austere openness, barely punctured by hypnotic drumming or slowly intoned vocals. https://dawnterry.bandcamp.com/ |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
DAVID GRUBBS SECLUDED BRONTE Monday 23 June St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/jbd4382206b5 DAVID GRUBBS has released sixteen solo albums and appeared on more than 200 releases. In 2000, his The Spectrum Between (Drag City) was named “Album of the Year” in the London Sunday Times. He is known for his cross-disciplinary collaborations with poet Susan Howe and visual artists Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, and Josiah McElheny, and his work has been presented at, among other venues, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou. Grubbs was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Luc Ferrari, Will Oldham, Loren Connors, Jan St. Werner, the Red Krayola, and many others. He is a recipient of the Berlin Prize and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts award in Music/Sound, a member of the board of directors of Blank Forms, and director of the Blue Chopsticks record label. Grubbs’ new album ‘Whistle From Above’, his first for Drag City in a decade, was released this February. It is a colorful, compulsive set of instrumental pieces in which David and his chosen collaborators interact amid the steady roll of an expansive landscape based in the hypnosis of David’s immediately recognizable guitar style. https://davidgrubbs.bandcamp.com/music SECLUDED BRONTE are Richard Thomas, Adam Bohman and Jonathan Bohman. The trio formed in London, but launched in New York City in 2002. They released their first album, Secluded In Jersey City, on Pogus. The Anglo-Welsh group combine elements of free improvisation, rock, musique concrete, dub, songs and spoken word. They have been likened to a wide array of artists - This Heat, Wire, The Specials, John Zorn, Jean-Luc Godard, Ennio Morricone, Talk Talk,The Residents, The Fall, John Cage and Sun Ra - but, ultimately, Secluded Bronte are unclassifiable. Since 2020, Secluded Bronte have released six albums on the Ffordd Allan label, an album on Cafe Oto’s Takuroku label, a 7” EP on Felix Kubin’s Apolkalypso label, contributed to several compilation albums and toured extensively throughout Europe and the UK. A new album, Incidental Games, is expected this year. |