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!