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Concerned with physicality, interpretations, and, yes, materiality, This Material Moment is an album akin to rummaging through a box of long-forgotten trinkets. With each song, Me Lost Me
extracts something from the box and asks us to consider it from every
angle. "This is an album which uses words as a material, a playful tool
for experimentation, full of metaphor, abstraction and analogies.” Jayne
says, “it has softness and anger, humour, hope and despair, intensity
of feeling in all directions expressed as textures, objects, places".
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Me Lost Me will be performing for us in August at St Pancras Old Church (Aug 6th), a legit London launch if you will!
Talking of concerts, giant thanks to
all of you who came to see David Grubbs on Monday night too. What a
special evening that proved to be! Continue reading if you'd like the
full scoop on July's live entertainments... (spoilers) we have Daily Toll, Guy Blackman, The Spatulas, Deerhoof, Chris Cohen and The Cindys all performing for us.
You will also find in our listings section newly announced concerts for John Maus (Nov 3rd - The Forum) and Prolapse (Oct 26th - The Lexington) too, get in!
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 Upset The Rhythm presents… DAILY TOLL GUY BLACKMAN THE SPATULAS Monday 21 July Avalon Cafe, Juno Way, London, SE14 5RZ 7.15pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/h3d18b073edc DAILY TOLL are nestled between the sonic worlds of folk song story telling and off kilter, angular rock. They are a Sydney-based band born from a curious seed, the self taught project of artist Kata Szász-Komlós alongside Jasper Craig-Adams and Tom Stephens. Seemingly coming with an unmistakable charm and yearning. Mapping the band’s existence through their recorded output is to bear witness to the flux of three people learning to respond to one another and gently ossify into a collective vision. Early recordings reflect a band imagining themselves into being whilst new release, A Profound Non-Event (Tough Love), observes a clear shift in conviction. https://dailytoll.bandcamp.com/ GUY BLACKMAN is a songwriter’s songwriter. His deftly constructed songs deal frankly with issues of love, sexuality and commitment. If Serge Gainsbourg, Tim Hardin or Kevin Ayers wrote songs set in gay go-go bars or on adult camming websites, you might get close to an idea of Guy’s approach. ‘Out Of Sight’ is Guy’s first solo album in nearly 20 years (out June 13th), a belated follow-up to his well-loved 2008 album Adult Baby. Guy is also the co-founder of the very excellent label Chapter Music. https://guyblackman.bandcamp.com THE SPATULAS share a percussive, unshadowed presence, a steady, clear-voiced clop. Every note on their debut record ‘Beehive Mind’ (out now on PPM) is a little bit sad on its own but then they're organized in a way that you don't actually notice. The songs breathe in warmth and patience, they are immediate and sweet. And then they start to meander. To address the weight of the world without speaking of weariness. To march the song to breathlessness but loosen your grip when the band wanders. To tell all your secrets but shield your loved ones from vulnerability. To dress up in the charm and temptation of the pop song but maintain a core of peculiarity, of a single voice trying to navigate this world. This is the project of the Spatulas. Think of the few songwriters who know they’re the only ones in the world who could write their songs. The ones who sing in the confidence that the song couldn’t exist without them: Peter Jefferies, Jenny Mae, Ron House, Heather Lewis. Jonathan Richman? Put Miranda Soileau-Pratt of The Spatulas on this list. Miranda will be performing solo at this show. https://mirandaspatula.bandcamp.com/ |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
DEERHOOF Monday 28 July Tuesday 29 July Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherds Bush, London W12 7LJ 7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/u14f27627efa / https://link.dice.fm/I74bac87ba3a DEERHOOF long ago established themselves as one of the greatest rock groups ever to stride the earth, the furiously inventive quartet releases new albums on the schedule of a young band still hungry for its first break. Their latest album ‘Noble and Godlike in Ruin’ (their 19th studio album) is either a portrait of a world descending into monstrous hate, dehumanization, and dollar signs, or a haunting self-portrait of band-as-monster, singing tirelessly of love, increasingly alienated from that world. Songs crash and break apart, then reassemble in surprising and delightful new fashion. The music is joyful and foreboding, cybernetic and deeply human, all at once. Strings that evoke avant-garde chamber music and classic horror-film soundtracks bounce off guitar and bass lines that chug on impervious to the creeping dread. The drums are sometimes filtered to sound almost electronic, but no computer could come up with rhythms so funky and dynamic, with each minute variation from one snare hit to the next conveying worlds of possibility. The world may be going down, but Deerhoof is going down swinging. For this pair of shows in London, Deerhoof will be performing different sets each night, featuring material from ‘Noble and Godlike in Ruin’ alongside epic tracks from their extensive back catalogue! |
 Upset The Rhythm presents…
CHRIS COHEN THE CINDYS Thursday 31 July The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/a62fd570325d CHRIS COHEN was always a quiet kid. In fact, this introversion was one reason he began playing music as a toddler—to communicate without speaking to identify with others without the direct representation of words. It has worked, too, with Cohen’s terrific stint in the mighty Deerhoof and his own captivating art-rock act The Curtains, preceding production and session work for the likes of Weyes Blood, Kurt Vile, Le Ren, and Marina Allen. Somewhere along that long way, Cohen started writing lyrics. He found that, though it didn’t come naturally, the process offered a new sense of self-discovery and reckoning, a way to see himself and the world from unexpected angles. His three twilit albums of casually complicated pop during the last decade radiated these epiphanies: handling family strife, navigating advancing age, and understanding social woes. But Cohen has never had as much to sing so directly as he does on ‘Paint a Room’, his first album in five years and his debut for Hardly Art. If Cohen’s meanings have previously lurked inside the tessellated musical layers he built alone, they are newly clear and resonant here, animated and underscored for the first time by a band playing in real time. There is the endless miasma of state violence on the subversively melodious opener “Damage,” the existential exhaustion of modernity on the horn-traced jangle “Laughing”. With ‘Paint a Room’, Cohen’s music feels like a warm spring breeze, easy to love and gentle to feel. But it’s often carrying something heavy, as if blowing in from some unseen storm cloud. https://chriscohen.bandcamp.com THE CINDYS are a Bristolian outfit united through a shared love of Alex Chilton, The Clean and The Feelies. Birth child of Jack Ogborne (aka Bingo Fury) and with help from Naima Bock, Finlay Burrows and members of Belishas, the group fronts surrealist imagery and infectious hooks at a pace that’ll give you butterflies. Their yet to be released debut album was recorded across the west country, between the vault of the Cornish Bank in Falmouth, Rockfield studios in Wales and the cellar of legendary venue The Louisiana in Bristol throughout 2024. The album includes production and engineering contributions from Joe Jones (Aldous Harding, The Cure, Teenage Fanclub) and Sam Stackpool of Holiday Ghosts, who also features on guitar. The album can be expected later this year. |
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS
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DAILY TOLL
GUY BLACKMAN
THE SPATULAS
Monday 21 July
Avalon Cafe, Juno Way, London, SE14 5RZ
7.15pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/h3d18b073edc
GUY BLACKMAN
THE SPATULAS
Monday 21 July
Avalon Cafe, Juno Way, London, SE14 5RZ
7.15pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/h3d18b073edc
DEERHOOF
Monday 28 July
Tuesday 29 July
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherds Bush, London W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/u14f27627efa / https://link.dice.fm/I74bac87ba3a
Monday 28 July
Tuesday 29 July
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherds Bush, London W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/u14f27627efa / https://link.dice.fm/I74bac87ba3a
CHRIS COHEN
THE CINDYS
Thursday 31 July
The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE
7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/a62fd570325d
Thursday 31 July
The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE
7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/a62fd570325d
MICHAEL BEACH
EXPIRY
CAROLINE NO
Friday 1 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7pm - 10.30pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/uc37b4f150b4
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7pm - 10.30pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/uc37b4f150b4
ME LOST ME - ‘This Material Moment’ album launch!
THE SILVER FIELD
Wednesday 6 August
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL
THE SILVER FIELD
Wednesday 6 August
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i7853be3d99b
WALT McCLEMENTS
JACKEN ELSWYTH
Wednesday 27 August
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
JACKEN ELSWYTH
Wednesday 27 August
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q090a15c33bd
SIR RICHARD BISHOP
Saturday 11 October
Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, E9 6DF
7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/V7e42376f168
Saturday 11 October
Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, E9 6DF
7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/V7e42376f168
PROLAPSE
Sunday 26 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/of4172f9538d
Sunday 26 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/of4172f9538d
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
FREDDIE MURPHY
Tuesday 4 November
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j37d81ca0772
FREDDIE MURPHY
Tuesday 4 November
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j37d81ca0772
PROTOMARTYR
Wednesday 12 November - on sale!
Thursday 13 November - sold out!
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
7.30pm | £21 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ha26f4ea47ea
Wednesday 12 November - on sale!
Thursday 13 November - sold out!
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
7.30pm | £21 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ha26f4ea47ea
