Hey again,
Our series of
RICHARD YOUNGS shows begin tomorrow!
Over the next three days Richard will be joined by TOM JAMES SCOTT, LAURA
CANNELL and DYLAN NYOUKIS in
support, performing three different sets at three very different places. The
first concert will take place tomorrow at the Balfron Tower Community Cabin and promises to be an intimate, unplugged
affair in the shadow of Goldfinger’s Brutalist tower block. Saturday sees us
pitch up at St George’s German Lutheran
Church, the UK’s oldest surviving German church (Aldgate was once called
Little Germany because of its influx of German immigrants in the 18th
Century). On Sunday afternoon the ‘Tower Hamlets Trilogy’ reaches its climax at
the Mile End Ecology Pavilion, a
truly unique contemporary space situated amongst the reed beds and nature lakes
of Mile End Park.
Over the
following three days expect to hear everything from the unaccompanied human
voice to a host of gargling tape players, with a decent amount of zithering/chanting
thrown in for good measure. It’s going to be the best! Tickets for Friday are
worth buying in advance, whilst Saturday and Sunday take place at larger
venues, meaning tickets will be available on the door for £8. Live music will
be commence roughly 30 minutes after doors open, so please make sure you get
down early if you want to catch everything. Read on below for all the
particulars.
In other
news, sadly Dark Blue have decided to cancel their European tour, so their show
next month will no longer be happening. However, we do have some better news in
the shape of newly announced shows for SCREAMING
FEMALES, HAPPY MEALS and THE JULIE RUIN. We’ve also just heard
that NEIL HAGERTY is planning on
playing two different sets now at his long awaited April show! So with the
balance redressed, I’ll leave you with words…
\\\\\ THIS WEEK /////
RICHARD YOUNGS
A Tower Hamlets Trilogy
‘Three different performances in three
different places’ …
Friday 16
January
Supported by TOM JAMES SCOTT
Balfron Tower
Community Cabin, 82 St Leonard's Rd, Poplar, E14 0QU
Saturday 17
January
Supported by LAURA CANNELL
St George's
German Lutheran Church, 55 Alie St, Aldgate East, E1 8EB
Sunday 18
January
Supported by DYLAN NYOUKIS
Mile End
Ecology Pavilion, Haverfield Rd off Grove Rd, Mile End, E3 5TW
RICHARD YOUNGS is an iconic figure of the UK underground,
having spent the last 30 years working on an incomparable output of solo records
alongside numerous collaborations. Originally from Cambridge, but based in
Glasgow for the last two decades, Youngs is as prolific as he is diverse
turning his hand to lush folk hymnotics, a cappella minimalism, tactile improv,
synth pop, hardcore punk and avant garde weirding. Youngs is even in a band
with his six year old son Sorley and long time collaborator Andrew Paine called
The Flexibles, who have a devolved industrial rock arc to them. All of these
eclectic musics have amassed on almost as many labels with key releases being
found on VHF, Jagjaguwar, MIE Music and Ba Da Bing! as well as on his own No
Fans imprint. Over the years Richard has also lent his skills to a number of
bands including Ilk, Vibracathedral Orchestra, A Band and Sunroof! as well as
playing bass for Jandek during his debut series of live concerts, and has
collaborated on joint works with Luke Fowler, Andrew Paine, Makoto Kawabata and
Simon Wickham-Smith to name a few. Richard Youngs plays an eclectic range of
instruments on these records from guitar to zither, homemade modular synth to
recordings of a motorway bridge, yet central to all this is the importance he
places on his own unadorned vocal, which almost acts like a rope pulling
together all the disparate tangents and unpredictable projects into his very
own transcendent realm of sound.
For this very
special trilogy of shows in London’s Tower Hamlets, Richard has been working
with Upset The Rhythm to take live music away from its safe domain of
established venues to somewhere different in search of a more radical and
memorable experience. Over the three nights Richard Youngs will perform an
entirely different in tune with each specific place and supported by the
following artists:
TOM JAMES SCOTT is a classically trained musician interested in
rich, densely treated atmospheres and lucid reflective moments. Tom's
influences stretch far and wide, touching upon aspects of traditional music,
improvisation, vocal music, composition, and field recording to name but a few.
Tom's previous albums for Bo' Weavil, were both guitar based with added piano,
distilled through a minimalist mind set to create some of the most beautiful
elemental melodic lines that take the listener on a journey of meditative
contemplation. 'Drape' is the title of Tom's recent LP of solo piano pieces.
Strings of single notes become humming, shadowy resonances within the body of
the instrument, echoing into frequent pause and fragmentation. New album ‘Teal’
was released last month on LP via Skire Music. Uniting all these records is
Scott’s rare ability within ambience to stop everyday life dead in its tracks,
forcing an invitation for consideration and contemplation at every moment.
LAURA CANNELL is a young woman drawing on ancient
transcendental and earthly musics, playing fiddle, overbowed fiddle, double
recorders, sometimes percussion and other rarefied wind instruments. Her sense
of space, dynamics and working with acoustics is super sensitive. Whether solo
or otherwise she explores the spaces between ancient, traditional and
improvised music, often utilising a fragment from a medieval theme to her own
end in a manner that embraces the apparitional, historical or the otherworldly.
Her seemingly wild side, in such rarefied circles makes her involved yet
emotive music really bristle and connect. Laura’s exquisitely-realised solo
album Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth was released in July 2014. Haunting
chords move the heavy air of the church as fiddle drones drift across the
flatlands of East Anglia. Her current live music show finds her performing
improvisations on ‘over-bowed’ fiddle and double-barrelled recorders creating
spell-binding new interpretations and breathing new life into lost and
forgotten melodies from the 5th – 14th centuries.
DYLAN NYOUKIS understands nothing if not the value of
showmanship. Tempting though it may be to pursue a career in the vending of
substances as wispy as a foul wind, Nyoukis’s vocation is solidly within the
jurisdiction of Well Tempered Theatrics. A native son from a northern area of
the UK, an obscure, little-talked-about quadrant of The Realm that locals claim
created the modern world and everything in it, Nyoukis has been putting on the
style since the early 1990s, first with Dora Doll in Prick Decay / Decaer
Pinga, an experiment that transmogrified youthful no wave vigor into an
exponentially larger and encompassing street brawl of visionary sound, later
with painter / collage artist Karen Constance in Blood Stereo, a malleable unit
that can stain with their very personal splat any avant canvas set in their
way.
Nyoukis
currently enjoys fairly high regard among aficionados of non-idiomatic gibber
created using naught but what the Yanks refer to colloquially as The Piehole,
though in contrast to his master-class peers such as Phil Minton or Jaap Blonk,
he concerns himself less with a panoply of techniques than emitting gurgles and
squelps with a clear head and in-the-moment viscerality. But the lad’s
abilities in the fussier, more disciplined art of sound collage can’t be given
short shrift either. His solo LP The Acrylic Window (Discombobulate 2013)
journeys deep into a rarefied psychedelic tension worthy of freemasons and
illuminati. The more diminutive Babble For Bisciglia (Vauva 2014), no less of a
masterwork, deploys cunning editing and production techniques to locate the
sweet spot between expansion and contraction, a worthy tribute to its departed
namesake.
Thanks for
reading,
Catch you
tomorrow!
UTR
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\\\\\ UPSET
THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
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RICHARD YOUNGS
A Tower Hamlets Trilogy
‘Three different performances in three different places’…
Friday 16
January
Supported by TOM JAMES SCOTT
Balfron Tower
Community Cabin, 82 St Leonard's Rd, Poplar, E14 0QU
7.30pm - 10pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
Saturday 17
January
Supported by LAURA CANNELL
St George's
German Lutheran Church, 55 Alie St, Aldgate East, E1 8EB
7.30pm - 10pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
Sunday 18
January
Supported by DYLAN NYOUKIS
Mile End
Ecology Pavilion, Haverfield Rd off Grove Rd, Mile End, E3 5TW
2pm - 5pm |
£8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
* Ltd. Three
day pass for £20 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
WHITE FENCE
ULTIMATE PAINTING
FAMILY
Thursday 29
January
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
8pm | £9 | SOLD OUT
RICHARD DAWSON
Thursday 12
February
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8 | SOLD OUT
DAN DEACON
Monday 16 February
Islington Assembly
Hall, Upper Street, Islington, N1 2UD
DOPE BODY
BLACK FUNGUS
WALKER / MELCHIOR
LOWER SLAUGHTER
Tuesday 17
February
Montague
Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
DEERHOOF
TRASH KIT
Friday 20
February
Maison Folie,
8 Rue des Arbalestriers, Mons, 7000, Belgium
8pm | FREE
DEERHOOF
TRASH KIT
COWTOWN
Thursday 26
February
Oval Space,
29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT
7pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/301127
CIAN NUGENT
Sunday 22 March
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/303092
PURLING HISS
PRIMITIVE PARTS
KRISTIAN HARTING
Wednesday 25 March
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/299736
Wednesday 25 March
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/299736
FUTURE ISLANDS
Monday 30
March
Tuesday 31
March
In collaboration with
Parallel Lines…
The
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Rd, London NW1 8EH
7pm | £20 | SOLD OUT
NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY
Two different sets
Friday 3 April
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/upset-rhythm-cafe-oto-present-neil-michael-hagerty/
8pm | £10 | https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/upset-rhythm-cafe-oto-present-neil-michael-hagerty/
HAPPY MEALS
APOSTILLE
Thursday 9 April
Power Lunches, 446
Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/305560
SCREAMING FEMALES
GLOBELAMP
Friday 24 April
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
MOON DUO
Thursday 30 April
Village Underground,
54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PQ
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/302760
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/302760
THE JULIE RUIN
Tuesday 26
May
Electric
Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, Camden, NW1 8QP
7.30pm | 12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/254362
