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Darlene Shrugg's album will come out through Upset The Rhythm on October 27th and is available to pre-order now: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
If that’s got your foot tapping in a celestial power ballad sort of way, let’s push onwards towards full pogo with Robert Sotelo’s new song Marinade,
which never fails to spin all who hear it into a cycle of melodic
craving. Sotelo’s winning debut album ‘Cusp’ is due out on September 1st through Upset The Rhythm, not long to wait now!
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
WARM DIGITS
COMFORT
UTR DJs
Friday 25 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
WARM DIGITS are Steve Jefferis
and Andrew Hodson; a trans-pennine, krautophonic blizzard-wave duo that
emerged from Newcastle upon Tyne's underground scene with a sound like
Neu and Cluster forming a supergroup with Giorgio Moroder, Kevin
Shields, Eno and Keith Levene. Their first album, 'Keep Warm... with the
Warm Digits', came out in 2011 on Newcastle's Distraction Records;
Andrew Weatherall described them as producing some fine "machine funk
kraut-a-delia" and the duo were soon went on to headline one of his Live
From Outer Space events. Live, Warm Digits are a motoric epiphany of
drums, guitar and pulsing hardware, complete with mesmeric kosmische
visuals; all that on-stage multi-tasking making their live sets a
dynamic kraut-disco experience. The last few years have seen Warm Digits
release a second album entitled 'Interchange', tour with British Sea
Power and support the legendary Goblin, St Etienne, Future Islands and
ESG. Warm Digits now have a new album out now on Memphis Industries,
featuring vocal contributions from Field Music, Sarah Cracknell (of
Saint Etienne), Devon Sproule and Mia La Metta (of Beards). Look out for
some special vocal guests on the night of the show too!
COMFORT are a queer punk two
piece from Glasgow that make music that trades out guitar and bass for a
more electronic/sample based approach. Pulsating bass, glitchy synths,
crushed drums and vocal rhetoric all feature in their contagiously
brilliant dialogue. Check out their first collection of songs titled
‘Built to Waste’ on their bandcamp now.
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Upset The Rhythm presents…
NAP EYES
H. GRIMACE
GARDEN CENTRE
Thursday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
NAP EYES hail from Nova Scotia
and make crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax
rain. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, their songs are equal
parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one
trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to
NASA and the Earth's magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about
insomnia and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday
details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as songwriter, singer,
and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels,
struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both
real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order;
solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and
small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art,
and science. It's the sound of being young and alive in the city, a
tenuous and impermanent counterpoise of recklessness and anxiety,
archness and earnestness. Following the reissue of their 2014 debut
'Whine of the Mystic' on Paradise of Bachelors, Nap Eyes released an
album of all-new material entitled 'Thought Rock Fish Scale' last year,
following that up with two incredible London shows!
https://napeyes.bandcamp.com/ H. GRIMACE are a London-based quartet with a penchant for exhilarating rock music, having released their debut album this year it looks set to cement their status as one of the UK’s brightest prospects. Ripping between shoegaze and post-punk influences, H. Grimace are a no-holds-barred explosion of sound and energy, the foundations of which are laid by the integral guitar pairing of Marcus Brown and Hannah Gledhill, from Yorkshire and Melbourne respectively. Debut LP 'Self Architect’ is out now on Opposite Number records and has received glowing reviews. https://h-grimace.bandcamp.com/ GARDEN CENTRE is a band formed out of necessity. The specific function of the band was to tell the story of a group of people who found themselves drawn to an abandoned plant nursery in southern England. The band hoped that their messages were transmitted efficiently, broadcast via audio in the form of their debut album 'Garden Centre’. With this task well and truly complete, the members of Garden Centre have become distracted. Some members still obsess over semi-rural boredom and exploration. Others have the audacity to write love songs. The most cretinous members opt to write about energy drinks exclusively. Their distracted and unfocused efforts come to the fore in their new album 'Monster Energy'. |
Upset The Rhythm presents…
LARAAJI
(Performing two sets with an interval)
Saturday 2 September
The Tin Tabernacle
12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA
7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS
LARAAJI is a musician, mystic
and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He began
playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising trance-inducing
jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic
effects. Brian Eno saw him playing one night in Washington Square Park
and invited him to record an album for his seminal Ambient series
(Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance, released 1980). Laraaji went on to release a
prolific series of albums for a wide variety of labels, many of which
he recorded himself at home and sold as cassettes during his street
performances.
In recent years he has had his career
celebrated extensively, with two All Saints/Warp retrospectives
Celestial Music 1970-2011 and Two Sides of Laraaji - as well as reissues
on Glitterbeat and Leaving Records/Stone Throw. He has also
collaborated with a new generation of underground musicians such as Sun
Araw, their new LP Professional Sunflow (Superior Viaduct) being the
fruit of the live shows they played together in 2014.
This September sees All Saints release
a stunning pair of LPs of new studio recordings by the celestial music
pioneer. Bring On The Sun is a magical mixtape of tracks that run the
full gamut of 'Laraaji music', from blissed-out percussive jams to
reflective vocal hymnals to trance-inducing drones. A perfect Laraaji
entry-point on his never-ending creative journey through inner light.
The record is recorded by Davey Jewell (Peaking Lights/Flaming Lips) and
mixed by Carlos Nio (Leaving Records). This will be preceded by Sun
Gong, a major new self-contained work experimenting with gong
micro-tonalties processed through various electronic effects. The
results are unlike any music he has made before - two side-long
long-form pieces that evoke the sound of a shimmering metallic eternal
wave.
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See you all soon, thanks for reading!
Upset The Rhythm
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS
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WARM DIGITS
COMFORT
UTR DJs
Friday 25 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
NAP EYES
H. GRIMACE
GARDEN CENTRE
Thursday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £8 | TICKETS
LARAAJI
(Performing two sets with an interval)
Saturday 2 September
The Tin Tabernacle
12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, London, NW6 5BA
7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS
DEERHOOF
LE TON MITÉ
ROBERT SOTELO
Monday 4 September
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ
7.30pm | £14 | TICKETS
NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.
LOWTIDE
ICE BATHS
Tuesday 5 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £5 | TICKETS
ROBERT SOTELO - ‘Cusp’ album launch!
CLEMENTINE MARCH
POZI
Friday 8 September
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
CLEMENTINE MARCH
POZI
Friday 8 September
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
AMOR
BAMBOO
MIDDEX
UPSET THE RHYTHM DJs
Sunday 17 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETSThe Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
TV CRIME
Monday 9 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
PRIESTS
DOWNTOWN BOYS
BIG JOANIE
Wednesday 18 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
SHOPPING
GAUCHE
THE WORLD
THE WORLD
MOUNT EERIE
Monday 13 November
Tuesday 14 November
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS
Monday 13 November
Tuesday 14 November
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS
PROTOMARTYR
SAUNA YOUTH
BOMBER JACKETS
Tuesday 14 November
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
SAUNA YOUTH
BOMBER JACKETS
Tuesday 14 November
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
FUTURE ISLANDS
Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT
Tuesday 21 November - SOLD OUT
Wednesday 22 November
In collaboration with Parallel Lines
O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL
7pm | TICKETS
RICHARD DAWSON
(Live band show)
Wednesday 20 December
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £15 | TICKETS
(Live band show)
Wednesday 20 December
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £15 | TICKETS
