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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.
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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...
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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 |
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