Hello again!
Our DEERHOOF album is released on Monday
and you can hear it streaming now via The Guardian if you’re interested. Listen
to what get’s Henry Rollins blood going and what reminds Graham Coxon of
Ornette Coleman, whilst Jonny Greenwood likens them to Soft Machine singing
about a duck…
But before that
we return to live music mode for a Halloween show at the Dalston Victoria
tomorrow. For an epic £5 you can get spooked with us and SPRAY PAINT, THE REBEL, THE GUTTERS and THE WORMS. No wave minimalism, weirding pop, traditional English
musick and freshly locked punk will all be fully represented! It’s going to be
a great night and we have the full listing for that show below, along with that
for next Wednesday’s RODION G.A.
show at OTO.
Whilst we’re
whispering in your ear we also wanted to flag up that ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT embark on their European tour this week
too! They are one of the most brilliantly bizarre and bizarrely brilliant live
forces you will ever behold, go check them out from Barcelona to Paris with
lots of cities (including London) in between. Thanks as ever for reading!
01.11.2014 BARCELONA – PRIMAVERA CLUB
02.11.2014 NANTES – SOY FESTIVAL
03.11.2014 CHERBOURG – BAR LE TRANSAT
04.11.2014 BRUSSELS – MADAME MOUSTACHE
05.11.2014 UTRECHT - ACU
06.11.2014 LONDON – O2 SHEPHERD'S BUSH EMPIRE
07.11.2014 GLASGOW – OLD HAIRDRESSER’S
08.11.2014 SHEFFIELD – TYE DIE TAPES
09.11.2014 MANCHESTER – KRAAK
10.11.2014 LONDON – THE LEXINGTON
11.11.2014 AMSTERDAM – DOKAZAAL
12.11.2014 DRESDEN – GROOVESTATION
13.11.2014 HAMBURG – HAFENKLANG
15.11.2014 BERLIN – SCHOKOLADEN
16.11.2014 PRAGUE – BASEMENT BAR
17.11.2014 VIENNA – RHIZ
18.11.2014 ESSLINGEN – KOMMA
19.11.2014 FREIBURG – SLOWCLUB
21.11.2014 LYON – GRRRND ZERO
22.11.2014 PARIS – POINT EPHEMERE
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SPRAY PAINT
THE REBEL
THE GUTTERS
THE WORMS
Friday 31
October
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
SPRAY PAINT are a no wave punk outfit from Austin, Texas
made up of Chris Stephenson (drums/vocals), Cory Plump (guitar/vocals) and
George Dishner (guitar/vocals). Some of you may already know these guys from
other projects such as When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, Expensive Shit and Dikes
of Holland. Spray Paint’s buzz-sawing guitars run headlong through labyrinthine
tunnels of reverb, chased down by some wildly brain-bashing drums. All three
members of Spray Paint sing too, helping create an uncontrollable sense of
fervour as they jostle for the words. They work up a tone of paranoia amid the
jagged rhythms, locking into a motoric groove that’s impossible to escape from,
offset with stormy blasts of distortion. Since forming in 2012, Spray Paint
have released two LPs and 7”s through SS-Records as well as readying an
upcoming LP for Monofonus Press. They’ve wasted no time with hitting the road
either, touring the US five times, most recently with their friends Protomartyr
and The Rebel. They’ve also played at Fun Fun Fun Fest, Chaos in Tejas,
Gonerfest, Cropped Out, SXSW and a live on-air performance on WFMU. This
October sees Spray Paint head over to Europe for the first time, in support of
their fierce new 7” EP through Upset The Rhythm, entitled ‘Cussin’.
THE REBEL is prolific London outsider Ben Wallers; a
charismatic lone wolf in a cowboy hat or trilby and a tie whose electrified
howls are too idiosyncratic to be broken down into market-oriented terms. It is
difficult to sketch a thumbnail summary of a musician who has amassed a vast
and unwieldy discography under a variety of names and genres: the most widely
acclaimed is probably the Country Teasers, but he also moonlights as, or in,
the Rebel, the Company, the Male Nurse, the Beale, the Stallion, the Black
Poodle and Skills on Ampex, across folk, country, garage, post-punk, no wave
and electronic pop. In the main part The Rebel is centred around twisted Casio
drones, clanging guitar and some defiantly deadpan vocals, all thrown in the
pan and pressure-cooked in Wallers' mind. Wallers has amassed a
near-unquantifiable discography over the past 20 years, from scores of more or
less “official” LPs, EPs and 7”s to seemingly endless self-released cassettes.
Look out for a new record he's working on with Spray Paint to be released
through Monofonus.
THE GUTTERS play raw stripped down garage punk from Portland
U.S of A. Their auditory maelstrom is like taking a time machine to London in
the late '70s, where every tinny punk had a band and everything was snarling
and snotty. But the Gutters' tongue-in-cheek playfulness cuts those spiky
allusions with fun vignettes, as found on their recent release "Should We
Make a 7-Inch?" 7-inch. Other hilariously punk entitlements, such as
beginning the song "Born in the Gutter" with "one, two, fuck
you!" hint more at the duo's willingness to parade their love affair with
the old guard than attempt to build upon it. This is all a-okay; the band's
sewer serenades are a breath of fresh air, and at bite-sized intervals of
roughly one to two minutes apiece, the Gutters are a fist-pumping hoot. Look
out for their album on Tadpole Records too!
THE WORMS proffer petty punk
and mundane minimalism and tackle the struggle to accept both ambiguity and
conviction, the peril of finding meaning in nostalgia, the useless urge to
reject yourself and other such self-absorbed subjects. For what it's worth,
they comprise of members of Tense Men and Omi Palone.
https://soundcloud.com/the_worms-1
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RODION G.A.
BAMBOO
ROB SHUTTZ
Wednesday 5
November
Café OTO, 22
Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
RODION G.A. are without doubt, one of music’s
best-kept secrets. That’s despite being around for nearly forty years. The
story begins when a musical visionary decided to form his own band in Romania
four decades ago. It was between 1975 and 1976, when the Rodion G.A. story
begins. That’s when Rodion Rosca formed the band that bore his name. This
would be no ordinary band, far from it. Rodion G.A. would become one of the
most innovative bands in Romanian musical history. In 1975, Rodion joined with
Gicu Farcas and Adrian Caparu to complete the lineup of Rodion G.A. By
1975, Rodion had amassed an eclectic selection of equipment and established a
reputation as a D.I.Y. tech wizard. He created his own unique way of creating
music on reel-to-reel tape recorders, using the various tape machines to
multitrack. His nascent studio included several Tesia tape recorders, drum
machines, phasers, flangers and fuzz pedals. Then there were a toy Casio VL
Tone and a Soviet made Faemi organ. Like the music Rodion G.A. were making, the
equipment they were using was just as leftfield and eclectic.
Sadly, Rodion G.A.‘s career lasted just over ten years. In 1987, after the death
of his mother, Rodion Rosca walked away from music. For the next twenty-five
years, nothing was heard of this charismatic, enigmatic and mercurial musician.
Then Luca Sorin, a blogger and filmmaker became interested in the mythology
that surrounds Rodion. Luca discovered a handful of tracks by Rodion and
footage of their 1980 NYE concert. He posted this online. This came to the
attention of Future Nuggets. They’re a collective of musicians and producers
who are determined to preserve Romania’s musical heritage. Then in 2012, Rodion
G.A. made their comeback, after twenty-five years away from music. Then a year
later, Rodion G.A. released their debut album 'The Lost Tapes', on Strut
Records to acres of praise and press attention. Since then, Rodion G.A.’s comeback
has continued apace.
Earlier this year, another Rodion G.A. release hit the shops. This was
none other than Rodion G.A.‘s soundtrack 'Delta Space Mission' released on
Record Store Day 2014. Fans worldwide were determined to get a copy of this
previously unreleased musical Magnus Opus. The lucky ones weren’t disappointed.
Now Rodion G.A. have decided to embark on their first European tour and will be
making their debut London performance for us at Cafe OTO on bonfire night.
Suitably exciting I'm sure you'll agree and no need for any "there will be
fireworks" punnery as that is a given!
https://soundcloud.com/rodionga
BAMBOO is a new collaboration
between Rachel Horwood of Trash Kit/Halo Halo and Nick Carlisle of
Peepholes/Don't Argue. Based in Brighton and London respectively, Nick's
reverberating synths and 808 rhythms combine with Rachel's looped and
octave-pedalled Asian banjo and crystalline vocals to create a mystic folk pop
soundtrack to a Studio Ghibli yet to be made.
https://www.facebook.com/bamboosongs
ROB SHUTTZ plays a solo, hacked
bass, looped type of music. Elements of shoegaze, folk, experimental and others
are present. His portfolio piece 'Looming' represents, in purpose and theme, a
personal checkpoint. It is a culmination of years of inaccurate appropriation
and the most complete piece he has donated to the worldwide spectrum. A peek at
a future lurking around the corner. From its ugly, trudging bass-line and
lamenting mantra, a timid yet hopeful melody grows into a defiant crescendo.
The accompanying video is an exact copy of the song's live structure, and shows
a little of the way he make these sounds. Part 1 of a collection of sounds,
currently recording, more soon.
https://soundcloud.com/robshuttz
See you
tomorrow, looking forward to it!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
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SPRAY PAINT
THE REBEL
THE GUTTERS
THE WORMS
Friday 31
October
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
RODION G.A.
BAMBOO
ROB SHUTTZ
Wednesday 5
November
Café OTO, 22
Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
FUTURE ISLANDS
ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT
CELEBRATION
Thursday 6
November
O2 Shepherd’s
Bush Empire, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8TT
7pm | £15 | SOLD OUT
ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT
SEX HANDS
DOG CHOCOLATE
Monday 10
November
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
TY SEGALL
MOVIE STAR JUNKIES
Wednesday 12
November
Electric
Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP
7.30pm |
£15.00 | SOLD OUT
GUERILLA TOSS
USA NAILS
DIYOA
Tuesday 25
November
Old Blue
Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
TRASH KIT - 'Confidence'
Album Launch!!!
ANA DA SILVA
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO
AS ONDAS
Thursday 4
December
Bethnal Green
Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
WHITE FENCE
Thursday 29
January
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, London, W1D 1LL
FUTURE ISLANDS
Tuesday 31
March
In collaboration with
Parallel Lines…
The
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH
7pm | £20 | SOLD OUT
FUTURE ISLANDS
Monday 30
March
In collaboration with
Parallel Lines…
The
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH
