Upset The Rhythm - label showcase x 2!

 

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

Quinie - 'Forefowk, Mind Me' - the film!

We hope you enjoy this short film documenting the gathering phase of Quinie's 'Forefowk, Mind Me' project!
 

Exploring the interdependent relationship between people, ancestors, animals and place, the project was filmed taking shape in the charged landscape of Argyll, alongside artist Dominique Rivard and filmmaker Lizzie McKenzie.
 

 

'Forefowk, Mind Me' exists as an LP and as a book too, available here.

100 Flowers - London show announced!

 

 

What a turn up for the books… 100 FLOWERS in London on Halloween, wowowowowo!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

100 FLOWERS
Friday 31 October
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/teff2cfdc2f2

100 FLOWERS are a post-punk band from Los Angeles, California, active primarily in the early 1980s. The group evolved from the politically charged punk outfit The Urinals, who were known for their raw, minimalist sound and radical brevity, many of their songs clocked in under a minute. As their musical interests expanded and matured, the trio mutated into 100 Flowers in 1981, taking their name from Mao Zedong’s “Hundred Flowers Campaign,” a brief period in Chinese history encouraging open expression. The new moniker reflected their increasingly sophisticated and experimental approach to music, while maintaining a subversive, critical edge.

The band consisted of the same core lineup from the Urinals: John Talley-Jones (vocals, bass), Kjehl Johansen (guitar, vocals), and Kevin Barrett (drums). Under the 100 Flowers name, they moved beyond the stark minimalism of their previous incarnation, embracing more complex song structures, abstract lyrics, and an eclectic mix of influences ranging from Wire and Gang of Four to Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu. Their sound retained punk’s urgency and DIY ethos but integrated funk, avant-garde noise, and jarring time signatures, all hallmarks of the emerging post-punk genre. In 1983, 100 Flowers released their self-titled LP on the independent label Happy Squid Records, which they co-founded. The album was critically well-regarded within underground circles, praised for its angular guitar work, sharp lyrical content, and inventive rhythms. Songs like “Sensible Virgins” and “Motorboat to Hell” showcased their unique fusion of intelligence, irony, and punk rebellion. The group disbanded in 1983, but their influence endured. Both 100 Flowers and the Urinals became cult favorites, especially among later generations of punk, indie rock, and lo-fi musicians. Their music was rediscovered and reissued over the years, including a retrospective compilation, 100 Years of Pulchritude, which brought renewed attention to their groundbreaking work.

https://100flowers.bandcamp.com/album/100-flowers

The Smashing Times / Linda Smith - 7" released!

What a day! 

Upset The Rhythm releases UTR174 - a split 7” single between The Smashing Times and Linda Smith. United by DIY panache, Baltimore habitats and a charmed-pop delicacy, both acts showcase two new tracks on this record. Linda Smith conjures up some keyboard-warble anthems, whilst The Smashing Times encourage all to partake of their low-fidelity daytrips. It is a real meeting of minds. Available on all streaming platforms as of… now, and as an impressive black vinyl artefact from all the best shops.

https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/

UTR
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Me Lost Me + Walt McClements - August London shows!

 

Hello again!   I hope you enjoyed the last week as much as we did, four incredible shows in five days. We're far from a spent force though, as tomorrow Upset The Rhythm returns to the atmospheric St Pancras Old Church for Me Lost Me's album launch.   Wednesday's concert will celebrate Me Lost Me's stunning new record, proudly released by UTR last month. 'This Material Moment' was described by MOJO recently as a David Lynch-directed version of The Unthanks. It certainly is a dramatic listen, and the songs? The songs! Well they are simply alive with ideas and emotional quests.   Tomorrow's performance sees Jayne accompanied by her full band featuring John Pope on electric/double bass, Faye MacCalman on clarinet, and Ewan Mackenzie (Dextro/Pigs x7) on drums. It's going to crush. We're beyond happy to have The Silver Field opening the show too. Tickets available on the door from 7.30pm, live music firing up fro 8.15pm. Read on for all the particulars.   You'll also find below the listing for our other August event (Wed 27 Aug) at Cafe OTO with ambient accordionist Walt McClements and Jacken Elswyth.

Upset The Rhythm presents… ME LOST ME - ‘This Material Moment’ album launch! THE SILVER FIELD Wednesday 6 August St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i7853be3d99b 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 - arriving on Upset the Rhythm on 27th June - 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. Concerned with physicality, interpretations, and, yes, materiality, ‘This Material Moment’ is an album akin to rummaging through a box of long-forgotten trinkets. With each song, Me Lost Me extracts something from the box and asks us to consider it from every angle. "This is an album which uses words as a material, a playful tool for experimentation, full of metaphor, abstraction and analogies." Jayne says, "it has softness and anger, humour, hope and despair, intensity of feeling in all directions expressed as textures, objects, places." ‘This Material Moment’ was written and arranged solo, but played with a core band of John Pope on electric/double bass, Faye MacCalman on clarinet, and now with the addition of Ewan Mackenzie (Dextro/Pigs x7) on drums - bringing in live drums and electric bass for the first time. The album was recorded by Sam Grant at Blank Studios in Newcastle, who also worked on RPG. https://www.melostme.com/   THE SILVER FIELD is an Oram award-winning project built from the sound world of Rose Kindred-Boothby. Voice, tapes, bass, samples, synthesis, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water. Using her modular synthesiser and other self-built electronic instruments, Coral weaves together song-soundscapes, creating a rich and dream-like tapestry of sound that draws from folk music tradition, experimental electronics and psychedelia. https://thesilverfield.co.uk/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   WALT McCLEMENTS JACKEN ELSWYTH Wednesday 27 August Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q090a15c33bd   WALT McCLEMENTS is an accordionist, multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles. His solo compositions focus on processed accordion, creating patient and emotional meditations that nod to drone and ambient music. His debut record, “A Hole in the Fence” was released in 2021 on American Dreams, and utilized a minimal palette of accordions treated through guitar pedals to create glacial soundscapes and odes to hidden worlds. On his latest record and first for Western Vinyl, “On a Painted Ocean”, he expands his sonic tools to include lush synths, droning pipe organs, and spirited horns, creating a vibrant journey from solitary stillness to community exuberance. The record also follows last year’s “Rain on the Road”, a collaborative album with harpist Mary Lattimore, released on Thrill Jockey.   Prior to releasing music under his own name, McClements has been a touring member of Weyes Blood, Hurray for the Riff Raff, and Dark Dark Dark, as well as leading New Orleans art-punk brass ensemble Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship? and one man band Lonesome Leash.   https://www.waltmcclements.com/   JACKEN ELSWYTH is a London-based folk musician, banjo player, and instrument builder. In her music making she is focused on exploring traditional tunes, developing extrapolations on folk styles and techniques, and investigating drone, ambience, and improvisation within and beyond folk music. Her debut album At Fargrounds (Wrong speed Records, 2024) was described as a ‘folk-thesis for our times’ by The Quietus. Jacken also organises the Betwixt & Between split tape series, and plays in Shovel Dance Collective too.   https://jackenelswyth.bandcamp.com/

See you tomorrow at St Pancras, thanks for reading! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

ME LOST ME - ‘This Material Moment’ album launch!
THE SILVER FIELD
Wednesday 6 August
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL

7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i7853be3d99b

 

WALT McCLEMENTS
JACKEN ELSWYTH
Wednesday 27 August
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q090a15c33bd

 

SIR RICHARD BISHOP
Saturday 11 October
Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, E9 6DF
7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/V7e42376f168

 

LANDE HEKT
Wednesday 15 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £12.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/fbcab145bcce

 

STEVE GUNN
Thursday 23 October
St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8DD
7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Kbeb8bca6565

 

LUNG LEG

UNMARRY ME!

THE PLAN

Saturday 25 October

MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU

7pm-10pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Uf5bde2d3be1

 

PROLAPSE

MODERATE REBELS

Sunday 26 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/of4172f9538d

 

JOHN MAUS

Monday 3 November

O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Rd, London NW5 1JY

In collaboration with Parallel Lines

7pm | £25 | Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/2uctuz6b

 

PHEW
FREDDIE MURPHY
Tuesday 4 November
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j37d81ca0772

 

PROTOMARTYR

MARCEL WAVE (Nov 12)

HONESTY (Nov 13)

Wednesday 12 November - on sale!
Thursday 13 November - sold out!
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
7.30pm | £21 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ha26f4ea47ea  

 

TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD
ANNA PEAKER
Friday 14 November
St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, London, N16 8DD
7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/C2c8f1fbb937

 

 

Tristwch y Fenywod - return to London this November!

 

 

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD
ANNA PEAKER
Friday 14 November
St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, London, N16 8DD, UK
7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/C2c8f1fbb937

TRISTWCH Y FENYWOD is a band of three queer women who play avant garde gothic music using dual-zither, bass and electronic drums. Their lyrics are sung entirely in the Welsh language (Cymraeg), and flicker in the moon-glow. Tristwch y Fenywod (translated as… The Sadness of Women) are Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth (Guttersnipe, Petronn Sphene), Leila Lygad (Hawthonn) and Sidni Sarffwraig (Slaylor Moon, The Courtneys). Formed in 2022 in Leeds, where the band are primarily based, Tristwch y Fenywod sounds like an early 4AD group dredged from the waters of an Anglesey swamp. Sapphic love and desire, existential darkness, political and environmental anguish/celebration, psychogeographic romance, pagan mysticism, imaginal explorations of Celtic history and myth, psychedelia, and myriad other variations of reverie are fantasised through their songs.

In August 2024 they released their self-titled debut album through Night School Records to critical acclaim, and have since performed at various UK festivals such as Supernormal and Supersonic, including two memorable nights with Upset The Rhythm at St Pancras Old Church back in January this year.

https://night-school.bandcamp.com/album/tristwch-y-fenywod


ANNA PEAKER is an artist based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, who began experimenting with sound in 2016. Her work centers around quiet electronics, amplified objects, and processed autoharp. She has released music with Longform Editions, Alter, Infant Tree, Chocolate Monk, and Regional Bears.

https://annapeaker.bandcamp.com/

Deerhoof and Michael Beach next week in London!

 

Hey there!   Massive thanks to all of you for coming out to see Daily Toll  this week, what a highly enjoyable triple bill, really felt special.   Upset The Rhythm are impressively busy next week, so we wanted to send the flag up the pole. On Monday and Tuesday, we're brimming to be back at Bush Hall with ultimate live band Deerhoof!   Both of these shows are close to selling out, so well worth buying a ticket in advance if you wish to attend. Monday sees Me Lost Me performing her evocative concoctions in solo mode, whilst on Tuesday we're pleased to announce that Gimic are down to shake things up. Deerhoof will be performing different sets each night too, what's not to love?   Then on Thursday night we have a Chris Cohen concert booked at the Ivy House which is already sold out.

We're then rounding off the week with an amazing event at The Lexington on Friday evening with Michael Beach.   Equally informed by the songwriting of Bill Fay and Peter Laughner, the minimalism of Conrad and Riley, and the rock and roll heart of the Goner Records roster, Beach is a revelation! This will be Michael's only show in the UK, wow. We're very lucky to have Expiry and Caroline No both performing at this one too, cannot wait!   Read on for more detail on each of these events and for news of our upcoming album launch for Me Lost Me (with full band) on August 6th at St Pancras Old Church.   We also have a newly added performance from Lande Hekt on Oct 15th listed in our programme now too. Enjoy!

Upset The Rhythm presents… DEERHOOF ME LOST ME - Monday 28 July GIMIC - Tuesday 29 July Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherds Bush, London W12 7LJ 7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/u14f27627efa / https://link.dice.fm/I74bac87ba3a DEERHOOF long ago established themselves as one of the greatest rock groups ever to stride the earth, the furiously inventive quartet releases new albums on the schedule of a young band still hungry for its first break. Their latest album ‘Noble and Godlike in Ruin’ (their 19th studio album) is either a portrait of a world descending into monstrous hate, dehumanization, and dollar signs, or a haunting self-portrait of band-as-monster, singing tirelessly of love, increasingly alienated from that world. Songs crash and break apart, then reassemble in surprising and delightful new fashion. The music is joyful and foreboding, cybernetic and deeply human, all at once. Strings that evoke avant-garde chamber music and classic horror-film soundtracks bounce off guitar and bass lines that chug on impervious to the creeping dread. The drums are sometimes filtered to sound almost electronic, but no computer could come up with rhythms so funky and dynamic, with each minute variation from one snare hit to the next conveying worlds of possibility. The world may be going down, but Deerhoof is going down swinging. For this pair of shows in London, Deerhoof will be performing different sets each night, featuring material from ‘Noble and Godlike in Ruin’ alongside epic tracks from their extensive back catalogue! https://deerhoof.bandcamp.com/ 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. On Me Lost Me's fourth full-length, This Material Moment - out now on 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 will be a solo show from Jayne, whilst her album launch on August 6th will feature her full group. https://www.melostme.com/   GIMIC are a punk band from Bristol. Their recent 7” ‘We Are Making a New World’ (Crew Cuts Records) cement them firmly into place as one of the most exciting and innovative bands rising up in the UK right now. There’s a danceable groove that echoes Fugazi, mathy time signatures, all fired-up with an energy and attitude that could almost tip things into screamo territory. Very natural, classic and essential! https://gimic.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-making-a-new-world

Upset The Rhythm presents… MICHAEL BEACH EXPIRY CAROLINE NO Friday 1 August The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7pm - 10.30pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/uc37b4f150b4 MICHAEL BEACH is a Melbourne-based and Californian-born musician. On his fifth LP, Big Black Plume, Beach reveals the vitalizing power of connection in an often hostile world. Equally informed by the songwriting of Bill Fay and Peter Laughner, the minimalism of Tony Conrad and Terry Riley, and the rock and roll heart of the Goner Records roster, Big Black Plume provides deliberate compositions adorned with genuine madness. The songs on this album range from spare, textural ballads, to spiraling psychedelic overtures connected to a propulsive cosmic pulse. The songs here aren't stick-and-poke songs that will dry and fade on the skin, aimless prayers for jams; Beach has been making deliberate things for decades. Big Black Plume is a record about connections, mercurially curated, transforming individual contributions into something strikingly communal. For years, Beach has been carefully fostering musical connections - for Big Black Plume is out July 25th, 2025, on vital independent labels Poison City (Australia) and Goner Records (US / Rest of World). Beach will support Big Black Plume with headlining tour dates and festival appearances in Australia, the United States, and Europe, including Gonerfest in Memphis, TN, Rising in Melbourne, Dark Mofo in Tasmania, and Binic Folks Blues Fest in France. https://michaelbeach.org/ EXPIRY are a 5 piece band based in London. Centred around the songwriting of Australian expat Louis Forster (formerly of The Goon Sax) the band began as a two piece with Sonny Barrett (Adulkt Life) in 2022. From early shows that featured primitive drum beats played off phones the band has evolved slowly into a roaring five piece complete with duelling guitars, piano and brothers. https://www.instagram.com/expiry__/ CAROLINE NO is a psychedelic-folk project based in London and built around the songwriting of Caroline Kennedy. Recordings of the group have been described as commanding in their nonchalance, allowing the listener to feel like they are living within the open boundaries of the song. A “unique, beguiling sound sits somewhere between archetypal Dunedin pop and languorous, textural improvisation” (Students of Decay) and “no-fi, anti-folk ditties that channel an anarchic spirit” (Chris Cobcroft 4ZZZ). Caroline No have released three albums No Language (World News / Students of Decay), Swimmers (King Crab) and Caroline No (Grapefruit Record Club). https://carolinenohello.bandcamp.com/album/no-language

Upset The Rhythm presents… ME LOST ME - ‘This Material Moment’ album launch! THE SILVER FIELD Wednesday 6 August St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i7853be3d99b 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 - arriving on Upset the Rhythm on 27th June - 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. Concerned with physicality, interpretations, and, yes, materiality, ‘This Material Moment’ is an album akin to rummaging through a box of long-forgotten trinkets. With each song, Me Lost Me extracts something from the box and asks us to consider it from every angle. "This is an album which uses words as a material, a playful tool for experimentation, full of metaphor, abstraction and analogies." Jayne says, "it has softness and anger, humour, hope and despair, intensity of feeling in all directions expressed as textures, objects, places." ‘This Material Moment’ was written and arranged solo, but played with a core band of John Pope on electric/double bass, Faye MacCalman on clarinet, and now with the addition of Ewan Mackenzie (Dextro/Pigs x7) on drums - bringing in live drums and electric bass for the first time. The album was recorded by Sam Grant at Blank Studios in Newcastle, who also worked on RPG. https://www.melostme.com/   THE SILVER FIELD is an Oram award-winning project built from the sound world of Coral Rose Kindred-Boothby. Voice, tapes, bass, samples, synthesis, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water. Using her modular synthesiser and other self-built electronic instruments, Coral weaves together song-soundscapes, creating a rich and dream-like tapestry of sound that draws from folk music tradition, experimental electronics and psychedelia. https://thesilverfield.co.uk/

Thank you so much for your time, see you soon! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

DEERHOOF

ME LOST ME - Monday 28 July

GIMIC - Tuesday 29 July

Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherds Bush, London W12 7LJ

7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/u14f27627efa / https://link.dice.fm/I74bac87ba3a

 

CHRIS COHEN

THE CINDYS
Thursday 31 July
The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Rd, Nunhead, London SE15 3BE
7.30pm | SOLD OUT

 

MICHAEL BEACH

EXPIRY

CAROLINE NO

Friday 1 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7pm - 10.30pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/uc37b4f150b4

 

ME LOST ME - ‘This Material Moment’ album launch!
THE SILVER FIELD
Wednesday 6 August
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL

7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i7853be3d99b

 

WALT McCLEMENTS
JACKEN ELSWYTH
Wednesday 27 August
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q090a15c33bd

 

SIR RICHARD BISHOP
Saturday 11 October
Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, E9 6DF
7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/V7e42376f168

 

LANDE HEKT
Wednesday 15 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £12.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/fbcab145bcce

 

STEVE GUNN
Thursday 23 October
St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8DD
7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Kbeb8bca6565

 

LUNG LEG

UNMARRY ME!

THE PLAN

Saturday 25 October

MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU

7pm-10pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Uf5bde2d3be1

 

PROLAPSE

MODERATE REBELS

Sunday 26 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/of4172f9538d

 

JOHN MAUS

Monday 3 November

O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Rd, London NW5 1JY

In collaboration with Parallel Lines

7pm | £25 | Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/2uctuz6b

 

PHEW
FREDDIE MURPHY
Tuesday 4 November
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j37d81ca0772

 

PROTOMARTYR
Wednesday 12 November - on sale!
Thursday 13 November - sold out!
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
7.30pm | £21 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ha26f4ea47ea  

 

 

Lande Hekt - new show for Oct 15th!

 

THRILLED to invite Lande Hekt back to London this October!


Upset The Rhythm presents…

LANDE HEKT
Wednesday 15 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £12.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/fbcab145bcce

LANDE HEKT’s music is born out of self-reflection, social and political awareness, and her capacity for evocative storytelling. Having explored this personal song-writing approach with her former band, Muncie Girls, with their punchy yet tender punk-flecked songs, Lande released her debut solo record Going To Hell in 2021 via queer and trans run independent label Get Better Records. Going To Hell presents its raw honesty amongst understatedly luminous melodies and candid, unpretentious lyrics which contemplate, among other things, her experience coming out as gay. Lande’s music sits beautifully alongside such essential artists as The Wedding Present, The Sundays, The Replacements, Sleeper and Sharon Van Etten.

With her debut album barely a year old, 2022 saw Lande armed with a whole new collection of song-form vignettes and musings on her life and experiences with second album House Without a View (partnering again with Get Better Records and Prize Sunflower Records in the UK). Kicking off where the last record left off, House Without a View continues to explore ideas of queer identity, as well as her changing relationship with gender, dealing with childhood trauma, and confronting the isolation and period of adjustment brought by the pandemic. Lead single ‘Gay Space Cadets’ daydreams about a life of excitement and adventure instead of being “forced to buy into capitalism and become a pathetic, losing player in a game that you hate.” Although there’s darkness and sadness within the record, there’s also some shining beacons of positivity and a lighthearted side, albeit with a side of frustration.

Lande has toured in the UK, Europe, Canada and Australia supporting the likes of Alvvays, Laura Jane Grace, The Beths, Throwing Muses and the legend that is Tricky. She has also played at Glastonbury festival, as well as events for The Big Issue and Corbyn’s Labour Party.

https://landehekt.bandcamp.com/

Steve Gunn - Oct 23rd in London

Counting the days to this new show... it's 98 by the way!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

STEVE GUNN
Thursday 23 October
St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8DD
7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Kbeb8bca6565

STEVE GUNN is a New York-based guitarist and songwriter. With a career spanning nearly fifteen years, Steve has produced volumes of critically acclaimed solo, duo, and ensemble recordings on labels such as Matador Records, Three Lobed Recordings, Paradise of Bachelors, and RVNG. His albums represent milestones of contemporary guitar-driven material, and forward thinking songwriting. Steve has steadily processed his inspirations into a singular, virtuosic stream. Close listening reveals the influence of blues, folk, ecstatic free jazz, and psych in his continually unfolding output.

'Music for Writers', the first Gunn album under only his name since 2021, takes those influences to a new level. It is an instrumental album (released this August by Three Lobed Recordings), based around guitar, synths and more, it leads the listener to tightly and deeply focus on minute changes and variations in style. It is a masterpiece in fragile, small-scale world-building that occupies a unique space within Gunn's wider discography.

https://stevegunn.bandcamp.com/music

 

 

Linda Smith / The Smashing Times - 7" split EP announced!

Cor Blimey! On August 15th Upset The Rhythm will release a split 7” EP by Linda Smith and The Smashing Times. Both based in Baltimore and both best buds, this record celebrates that friendship sharing two new tracks by each act; united by DIY spirit, a bedroom-pop sensibility and now a puddle of black vinyl. Today you can witness their tea-based, umbrella-powered advertisement, listen to Linda’s track ‘So Long Ago’ (streaming through the digital ether) and even choose to pre-order the coveted disc yourself from our Bandcamp or UTR webshop.
 
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Songwriter Linda Smith has a gentle but unconventional experimental style that continues to evolve as she adds new entries to her storied catalogue. Smith’s pioneering work with four-track production in the '80s found her at the beginning of a home-recording movement that would set the pace for the decades of indie rock that followed. During this most active period, Smith's music was limited mostly to obscure cassette and 7" releases. This trailblazing time was recently revisited on Captured Tracks’ compilation ‘Till Another Time: 1988-1996’. Shortly after Smith’s retrospective, she teamed up with like-mind and collaborator Nancy Andrews to release an album of beguiling pop entitled ‘A Passing Cloud’ (2023). The duo performed songs from that record at Upset The Rhythm’s 20th anniversary party at Café OTO that same year. 2024 saw further reissues of Smith’s music including Nothing Else Matters (1995) and I So Liked Spring (1996).
 
The Smashing Times are a premier East Coast Pop Experimental Group. They have also gleefully performed in London for Upset The Rhythm twice in quick succession. Known for their dogtooth style, waggish mod attitude and tumbledown sound, The Smashing Times have holes in their socks and sit idly between The Kinks and Tori Kudo. Their previous albums on K Records, Perennial and Meritorio are a cherished commodity steeped in Paisley psych and slapdash panache.
 
This split 7” EP comprises 4 new tracks. Two from Linda Smith in keyboard-warble anthem mode and two low-fidelity daytrips by The Smashing Times. It will be released on 500 black vinyl 7”s by Upset The Rhythm on August 15th 2025.