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We have just the one UTR show coming
up this week, tomorrow in fact, at The Lexington. We are very fortunate
to have recent Wire cover-stars EarthBall in attendance, treating all and sundry to their sublime, spiralling noiserock. Upping the improv ante further Charles Hayward & Nathan Greywater will also perform as Classic Form Morf;
drums, bass and radio randomness! Cannot wait, tickets on the door from
7.30pm, live sounds commencing from 8.15pm. Read on for all the
particulars, plus we also outline below our upcoming events for Marisa Anderson and Hana Stretton.
Thanks again for coming out to see Linda Smith and Sir Richard
Bishop last week - it's your support that makes these events possible,
go you!
You may also notice that we have just added an early Halloween show on Oct 30th with Evil Sword, Rainham Sheds and Ebby by the way. This will take place on the spooked galleon known as Theatreship. Check listings for full details, thanks.
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In record label news, The Yummy Fur have just returned with their upbeat new single ‘Headphones’.
A jogger’s delight of a song musing on life’s reckonings, Carrie Fisher
and tinnitus - all written outside a tanning salon in Ayr! In short…
The Yummy Fur at their most spry and disarming, classic territory.
Immense thanks to Radhika Dade for filming / directing.
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Upset The Rhythm presents… EARTHBALL
CLASSIC FORM MORF (Charles Hayward & Nathan Greywater)Tuesday 25 August The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Y653a0c64eb6EARTHBALL
are an avant/noise/rock wrecking ball of a band from Nanaimo, Canada.
Rooted in total improvisation, free expression, and a deeply psychedelic
sensibility, EarthBall operate on pure instinct. They hurtle onwards in
a combustion of spontaneous composition, shooting from the hip, as they
fall out of the sky ablaze. The group encompass Isabel Ford (vocals,
bass), John Brennan (drums, percussion), Jeremy Van Wyke (vocals,
guitar, trumpet), Kellan Maclaughlin (guitar, talkbox), and Liam Murphy
(saxophone). Each member brings a rich and varied musical history, with
past and present projects including Shearing Pinx, Plan Your Future,
Kamikaze Nurse, Eschatons, and Psychedelic Dirt. Collectively and
individually, they have collaborated with artists such as Deerhoof,
Raven Chacon, Chris Corsano, and William Hooker, deepening the band’s
exploratory reach and collective language. Since forming in 2019,
EarthBall have released six cassettes and three fervently received LPs
on Upset The Rhythm, including November’s widely acclaimed Outside Over
There. Their latest release, Actual Earth Music - Volume 3 & 4 (out
now), follows the first instalment in the series and captures two
mind-quaking highlights from last winter’s European tour. This is
EarthBall plunging to full fathom five, transforming into something rich
and strange - channeling the fleeting moment as it fractures, erupts,
and dissolves into the unknown. Actual Earth Music - Volume 3 & 4
marks another ascent in EarthBall’s ever-expanding, totemic discography,
an ecstatic storm of raw immediacy and unfiltered expression. EarthBall
came, conjured and opened the portal! Blink and it’s gone. What was
that? Actual Earth Music! https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/outside-over-thereCLASSIC FORM MORF
is an experimental duo featuring avant-garde drumming legend Charles
Hayward, electric bassist/sound artist Nathan Greywater and two radios.
The project specialises in wild, improvised live sets where the duo
plays alongside and against live broadcasts from classical music and
talk radio stations. Charles Hayward is a founding member of the
experimental rock groups This Heat and Camberwell Now. Since the late
80's he has concentrated on solo projects and collaborations including
Massacre (with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith), Monkey Puzzle Trio, Albert
Newton (with Pat Thomas and John Edwards) and This Is Not This Heat
which toured the UK, Europe, USA and Japan between 2016-2019 performing
expanded versions of This Heat’s oeuvre to unfaltering critical acclaim.
Hayward’s latest group, Abstract Concrete, formed from London players
from a diversity of European underground scenes, released its
self-titled debut album in November 2023. Nathan Greywater has been on
the London experimental and improv scene for over a decade now,
initially as an electronic musician with Harmergeddon, and more recently
focussing on electric bass. He currently runs the free-improv open mic
night, Skronk as well as playing in Joe Plastic and engineering for acts
such as Abstract Concrete,Jaw Harp and Meat Strap. https://linktr.ee/charleshayward |
Upset The Rhythm presents… MARISA ANDERSON
LUCE MAWDLSEYFriday 4 September Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, E9 6DF 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/jf9efbbf668fMARISA ANDERSON
channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of
tradition. Her playing is fluid, emotional, and masterful, featuring
compositions and improvisations that re-imagine the landscape of
American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most
distinctive guitar players of her generation’, and NPR refers to her as
among ‘this era’s most powerful players’. Her music has been featured in
Rolling Stone, NPR, The New York Times, Pitchfork, the BBC and The
Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le
Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. In addition to her
solo work, Anderson is sought after as a collaborator and composer.
Swallowtail, her second record in duo with drummer Jim White was
released May 2024 on Thrill Jockey Records. 2024 also saw the release of
the feature film score ‘ A Perfect Day For Caribou’, as well as
appearances on records by Charlie Parr, Myriam Gendron and Big|Brave. In
addition to multiple solo releases, past projects include 2021’s Lost
Futures with guitarist William Tyler, and contributions to recordings by
Matmos, Tara Jane O’Neil, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des
Yeux. Anderson’s new album, ‘The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music’
(out now on Thrill Jockey), is a collection of songs culled from the
private record collection of the late Harry Smith. Assembled by Anderson
after a chance encounter led to an opportunity to study and explore
this treasure trove of music, the Anthology focuses on music from places
that the United States has been in conflict with since 1970: Southeast
Asia, the USSR and the Arabic and Islamic regions of the world. https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/LUCE MAWDSLEY
specialises in expansively cinematic instrumentals conjuring queer
cowboy landscapes via the Northern English coastline. Luce Mawdsley is
an autistic nonbinary composer and multiinstrumentalist based in
Liverpool with a practice rooted in progressive experimentation. Drawing
from a range of poetic art forms, mythologies and landscapes their work
uses personal experience of neurodivergence, mental health disorders
and queerness as a ligature from which to generate subversive
explorations of gender, place and identity formation.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
HANA STRETTON
WOOM
Monday 14 September
Grand Junction, Rowington Cl, London, W2 5TF
7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g8217265905fHANA STRETTON
is a British-Australian music producer and composer, recognised for her
singular, deeply distinctive sound. Her stunning debut, Soon, quickly
became a beloved work within the experimental lo-fi community. Phil
Elverum described her music as “mysterious, deep, resonant,
inhabitable,” and his label PW Elverum & Sun went on to release the
album in 2024. Deeply connected to the natural world, Stretton’s
work traces a vivid journey - from the dusty Australian bushland of
‘Soon’ to the Pacific Ocean on her forthcoming LP, ‘tiarn’. Set for
release this year, the new record takes an unexpected cinematic turn,
weaving together classical and electronic influences. In
2023-2024, Hana toured with Jessica Pratt, Mount Eerie and Julie Byrne
as well as selling out London’s RAH Elgar Room, and appearing at
festivals such as Haldern Pop and Sound Of Bronkow Festivals. For this
special show at Grand Junction Hana will be backed by her live band Woom
too. Woom will also support! https://hanastretton.bandcamp.com/WOOM
is a three-piece vocal led band consisting of Alice Barlow, Lara
Laeverenz and Isobel Risk. Celebrated for their non-hierarchical
collaborative structure, the group creates harmony-led vocal music that
blends experimental songwriting with exploratory production and
immersive performance.
Their latest EP, To Slow You
(2025), received critical acclaim from The Guardian, Crack Magazine,
Rolling Stone, BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 3, amongst others. The release
marks a deepening of the group’s creative process, with WOOM writing,
producing and shaping the project entirely in-house, from songwriting,
production, visual artwork and music video direction. Drawing from a
wide range of genres and influences, WOOM’s live performances are
immersive and spellbinding, offering audiences a sense of care,
solidarity and the power of collective harmony and storytelling.
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