Shopping, Es & Katy & Nick play London tomorrow night!

Hello again! Just a quick reminder that tomorrow we have Shopping, Es and Katy & Nick all playing an outstanding concert at Oslo in Hackney. It’ll be a homecoming, a post-punk odyssey and a right ole party to boot. Tickets are £10 on the door from 6.30pm, with live music gearing up around 7.30pm, all done by 10pm, mark this! It’s time to let your hair up, get snappy and shop til you drop, as Shopping only ever exceed all expectations!   Read on for all the details on tomorrow’s event along with listings for our upcoming August outings with Sauna Youth and Primo too.

As the rain starts to turn summer into mud at least we can all rely on Terry to still bring the goods. With a new album on Upset The Rhythm slated for the end of the month, we just shared with the world the band’s new traffic-tunnel trip of a video.   This is where the head bop begins, ‘Bureau’ by Terry, great job Terry!

Upset The Rhythm presents… SHOPPING ES KATY & NICK Saturday 11th August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 6.30pm - 10pm | £10 | TICKETS   SHOPPING are propulsive bass lines, primitive disco-not-disco drums and guitar lines sharp as broken glass. The band was formed in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar), Billy Easter (bass) and Andrew Milk (drums), who've all done time in a plethora of notable UK DIY bands including Trash Kit and Wet Dog. They pull from a well of 70's post-punk with a voraciousness seldom seen these days, bringing to mind the jagged aggression of Gang of Four, the voracious yelp of The Slits and the dance inducing thrust of Delta 5 . Their debut LP 'Consumer Complaints' was released November 2013 in the UK via MILK records and quickly sold out its first pressing. A US re-issue of 'Consumer Complaints' came out in 2015 via Fat Cat records, followed up by their excellent second album 'Why Choose?' The band are tirelessly committed to taking their sound to new audiences and spreading the Shopping gospel, securing impressive gigs along the way including main support for ESG and Gang Of Four as well as a BBC 6 Music session for Marc Riley. They have toured in the UK and throughout Europe numerous times over the last few years and last year toured the USA with also awesome Gauche. Shopping’s brand new album ‘The Official Body’ (FatCat) has met with glowing reviews proclaiming it as exhilarating as it is mesmerising, we can’t agree enough! https://soundcloud.com/shoppingband ES are four women based between London and Glasgow making 'mutant synth-punk for our dystopian present’ (Jes Skolnik). Tense, bass driven and synth heavy with frantic drumming and cold, direct vocals, their debut 12”, ’Object Relations’, delivers 4 tracks of gelid guitar-less post punk that is equal parts sparse and cosmic. Think of a mix of KUKL with No Defences jamming with X-mal Deutschland and you may be getting there. https://esband.bandcamp.com/releases KATY & NICK is Katy Cotterell of Gloss Rejection & ES and Nick Carlisle of Bamboo. This is their very British haunted take on synth wave. An abrasive synth punk, not the icy distance of some of the finest continental practitioners. This is the ennui of a damp bedsit in a bad Victorian conversion, not the existentialism of a brutalist estate. There’s a little bit of YMO to the hyper-simple melodies that loop throughout their songs too. An appropriate counterpoint are the arpeggiated synth bursts that thread their way through too. https://katyandnick.bandcamp.com/releases

Upset The Rhythm presents… SAUNA YOUTH – ‘Deaths’ Album Release Party! CURRENT AFFAIRS PINK GRIP Saturday 25 August Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm - 1.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   SAUNA YOUTH are a London-based punk band featuring Boon, Mince, Ecke and Pines. They played together in the band Monotony, and between them have played or do play in other bands and music projects including Primitive Parts, Feature, Child’s Pose, Lilac, Cold Pumas, Oblate, Teufelskreis, Mind Jail, Gold Foil, Tense Men as well as being involved with the organisations Good Night Out, The Positive Press, Constant Flux & Heart n Soul. Sauna Youth are releasing their third album this September under the thrilling and fatal moniker ‘Deaths’. This album will once again be released by Upset the Rhythm. The final part in a trilogy of LPs that started with Dreamlands in 2012 (wide-eyed, naive beginnings introducing listeners to the world the records inhabit), followed by Distractions three years ago (what happens while you’re heading towards a destination, the unknowns, the unexpected outcomes), the songs that comprise Deaths are collectively about the act of finishing, an ode to ‘the ending’. The 12 tracks touch on political rhetoric, artistic legacy, action and passivity, work and leisure, and, of course, distraction, referencing many musical genres in the process while never leaving punk’s orbit. This show will act as their album release party! www.lostinidea.blogspot.com CURRENT AFFAIRS are pure new wave excitement from Glasgow. Joan, Josh, Andrew & Seb are a sassy, thumping, ’tune after tune’ post-punk party hit-machine. Their queer, goth punk is laden with addictive bass hooks, frantic guitar screeches, bullet punch drum hits, whirring keyboards and commanding calls. Sharing members with Anxiety, Rose McDowall and Shopping. https://currentaffairs.bandcamp.com/ PINKGRIP make loud, pummelsome hardcore punk in London. Their songs are sludgy, pointed and thrash in an oddly addictive way. Check out their demo on Far So Far below! https://farsofar.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2

Upset The Rhythm presents…   PRIMO! RAINHAM SHEDS SLUSHY GUTS Wednesday 29 August The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   PRIMO! are Xanthe Waite, Violetta DelConte Race and Suzanne Walker. As a trio from Melbourne writing up-tempo, terse chorus and verse, Primo make use of two guitars, drums, sound effects and a group vocal sensibility to ornament their enquiries into deconstructed punk and indie rock. Their songs chime and charm, sounding at times bountiful, at others brittle, always buoyant with attention to detail. Primo songs are alive and inquisitive, chasing down questions for answers long sped-away, amidst minimalist shuffle beats and ringing-out chords. The group’s debut album ‘Amici’ is a triumph of the underplayed, its small details pull focus, allowing the album to treat us to unexpected truths in plain sight. Primo's newest member since 2018 is Amy Hill, who also plays in Terry and Constant Mongrel, on bass. Outside of Primo, Xanthe and Violetta both have lent their guitar skills to Terry and The Shifters respectively, whilst Suzanne works in film too. The band’s debut album ‘Amici’ will be released as LP and CD on Upset The Rhythm on July 13th and followed up in August with a European tour. http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/primo.shtml RAINHAM SHEDS is Post-punk, all female maximum art-core on a primitive tip. Conceptual skronk noise. They sing about theorists, Art stars, bad jobs, sex with furniture and reminding themselves that he’s not her dad. Their new EP is available on Permanent Slump now! https://permanentslump.bandcamp.com/album/rainham-sheds SLUSHY GUTS started life in late 2009 as the one man project of London artist Steve Keane. Initially a bare bones solo endeavour, over the course of a number of CDR and tape releases the recordings gradually became more textured and layered, necessitating the recruitment of additional players for (sporadic) live appearances, of which by this point there have been a rotating cast of many. The current group is formed of Steve along with good friends Sam and Luke Walsh, Ben Goodwin, The Spirit of James Rowland and the mysterious Paddy O'Furniture, resulting in a more traditional Rock n' Roll set up (see Velvet Underground/Wedding Present/The Fall) without the loss of any of the awkward experimentalism of previous incarnations. Brand new album, ‘The Blasted Stump’ is Slushy Guts fourth album proper and the first on which the production duties have been shared with someone else, (Sam Walsh) resulting in a comparatively polished sounding record, parting the hiss and allowing the songs to shine through. https://slushyguts.bandcamp.com/

See you tomorrow, thanks for reading! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

SHOPPING ES KATY & NICK Saturday 11th August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 6.30pm - 10pm | £10 | TICKETS   SAUNA YOUTH – ‘Deaths’ Album Release Party! CURRENT AFFAIRS PINK GRIP Saturday 25 August Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm - 1.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   PRIMO RAINHAM SHEDS SLUSHY GUTS Wednesday 29 August The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   SHANNON AND THE CLAMS TERRY HOLIDAY GHOSTS Tuesday 4 September The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   PROLAPSE FIVEHEAD Thursday 6 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £11 | TICKETS   LITHICS ES NO HOME Friday 7 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   PATSY NEKRA BAMYA Saturday 8 September New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   SCREAMING FEMALES SCRAP BRAIN RODENTS Tuesday 11 September 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) JEUCE DOG CHOCOLATE Thursday 13 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   TERRY THE HOMOSEXUALS RUSSELL WALKER Tuesday 18th September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   WOLF EYES MUSIC: THREE DAY RESIDENCY Friday 21st, Saturday 22nd, Sunday 23rd September In collaboration with Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 per day | TICKETS   21 SEPT: WOLF EYES with YEAH YOU WOLF EYES (short set) AARON DILLOWAY / VICKY LANGAN (Duo)   22 SEPT: UNIVERSAL EYES (Nate Young, John Olson, Aaron Dilloway, Gretchen Davidson) TRIPLE NEGATIVE VICKY LANGAN (DJ set)   23 SEPT: WOLF EYES with BEATRICE DILLON AARON DILLOWAY (solo) SHARON GAL (solo)   ROSE MCDOWALL JETSTREAM PONY Monday 1st October St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   VIRGINIA WING Thursday 11 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   THE SPACE LADY SPINNING COIN Tuesday 23 October Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   EARTHEATER Thursday 25 October The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 8pm | £10 | TICKETS   JO PASSED SLUMB PARTY Thursday 25 October The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   GROUPER Monday 29 October Hackney Arts Centre, 13 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 8BH 7pm | £16.50 | TICKETS

LOOK: Terry's new video for 'Bureau'

TERRY's traffic-tunnel trip of a video for new track 'Bureau' just premiered on Raven Sings The Blues! Take a look!

New badges and stickers!

Here's some new Upset The Rhythm badges and huge stickers, available at our upcoming shows and through our mailorder shop now!

Three show this August from Shopping, Sauna Youth and Primo!

Afternoon all,   I trust you’re having a sustaining Summer, Upset The Rhythm have got three shows and one album due for you this month. ‘I’m Terry’ by, yes you guessed it, Terry, will be setting the world alight via the medium of vinyl on August 31st.   But, before that we have London concerts from Shopping, Sauna Youth and Primo all cued up in the coming weeks too. Shopping make their welcome return next week, on Saturday 11 August. Having rampantly toured the globe this year, wowing all and sundry, we’re very excited to have Shopping return to the city where the urge to shop began.   This post punk party to end all others will take place at Oslo, Hackney and will also feature performances from Es and Katy & Nick too. Please note this is an early show, doors from 6.30pm and loud bizniz tied up by 10pm.     Saturday 25 August is the next date for your diaries as we’ll celebrating the release of Sauna Youth’s new album that day at Redon in Bethnal Green. ‘Deaths’ is officially out on September 7th but we’re turning things up early with Glasgow’s Current Affairs and Pinkgrip in support.   Here’s the first defiant track to air from the Sauna Youth album, check out ‘Percentages’ here!     Our final show for August takes place at The Islington in Angel with Melbourne’s Primo in attendance. Hot off the back of their debut album, ‘Amici’, on Upset The Rhythm, Primo are coming over to Europe for the very first time to play a week of selected dates and we’re beyond happy to host them in the capital with the brilliant Rainham Sheds and Slushy Guts joining the lineup too.   This event will take place on Wednesday 29 August and is must for all fans of unruffled exposition in punk.     That rounds off August for us, however the rest of the year is stacking up too. Just this last week we’ve unveiled a number of new shows for September/October from the likes of Eartheater, The Space Lady, Spinning Coin, Terry and Rose McDowall. Lots of highlights there as we edge towards the turn of the year.   Full listings and ticket details can be found below at the end of this message, enjoy…   Upset The Rhythm presents… SHOPPING ES KATY & NICK Saturday 11th August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 6.30pm - 10pm | £10 | TICKETS   SHOPPING are propulsive bass lines, primitive disco-not-disco drums and guitar lines sharp as broken glass. The band was formed in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar), Billy Easter (bass) and Andrew Milk (drums), who've all done time in a plethora of notable UK DIY bands including Trash Kit and Wet Dog. They pull from a well of 70's post-punk with a voraciousness seldom seen these days, bringing to mind the jagged aggression of Gang of Four, the voracious yelp of The Slits and the dance inducing thrust of Delta 5 . Their debut LP 'Consumer Complaints' was released November 2013 in the UK via MILK records and quickly sold out its first pressing. A US re-issue of 'Consumer Complaints' came out in 2015 via Fat Cat records, followed up by their excellent second album 'Why Choose?' The band are tirelessly committed to taking their sound to new audiences and spreading the Shopping gospel, securing impressive gigs along the way including main support for ESG and Gang Of Four as well as a BBC 6 Music session for Marc Riley. They have toured in the UK and throughout Europe numerous times over the last few years and last year toured the USA with also awesome Gauche. Shopping’s brand new album ‘The Official Body’ (FatCat) has met with glowing reviews proclaiming it as exhilarating as it is mesmerising, we can’t agree enough! https://soundcloud.com/shoppingband ES are four women based between London and Glasgow making 'mutant synth-punk for our dystopian present’ (Jes Skolnik). Tense, bass driven and synth heavy with frantic drumming and cold, direct vocals, their debut 12”, ’Object Relations’, delivers 4 tracks of gelid guitar-less post punk that is equal parts sparse and cosmic. Think of a mix of KUKL with No Defences jamming with X-mal Deutschland and you may be getting there. https://esband.bandcamp.com/releases KATY & NICK is Katy Cotterell of Gloss Rejection & ES and Nick Carlisle of Bamboo. This is their very British haunted take on synth wave. An abrasive synth punk, not the icy distance of some of the finest continental practitioners. This is the ennui of a damp bedsit in a bad Victorian conversion, not the existentialism of a brutalist estate. There’s a little bit of YMO to the hyper-simple melodies that loop throughout their songs too. An appropriate counterpoint are the arpeggiated synth bursts that thread their way through too. https://katyandnick.bandcamp.com/releases     Upset The Rhythm presents… SAUNA YOUTH – ‘Deaths’ Album Release Party! CURRENT AFFAIRS PINK GRIP Saturday 25 August Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm - 1.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   SAUNA YOUTH are a London-based punk band featuring Boon, Mince, Ecke and Pines. They played together in the band Monotony, and between them have played or do play in other bands and music projects including Primitive Parts, Feature, Child’s Pose, Lilac, Cold Pumas, Oblate, Teufelskreis, Mind Jail, Gold Foil, Tense Men as well as being involved with the organisations Good Night Out, The Positive Press, Constant Flux & Heart n Soul. Sauna Youth are releasing their third album this September under the thrilling and fatal moniker ‘Deaths’. This album will once again be released by Upset the Rhythm. The final part in a trilogy of LPs that started with Dreamlands in 2012 (wide-eyed, naive beginnings introducing listeners to the world the records inhabit), followed by Distractions three years ago (what happens while you’re heading towards a destination, the unknowns, the unexpected outcomes), the songs that comprise Deaths are collectively about the act of finishing, an ode to ‘the ending’. The 12 tracks touch on political rhetoric, artistic legacy, action and passivity, work and leisure, and, of course, distraction, referencing many musical genres in the process while never leaving punk’s orbit. This show will act as their album release party! www.lostinidea.blogspot.com CURRENT AFFAIRS are pure new wave excitement from Glasgow. Joan, Josh, Andrew & Seb are a sassy, thumping, ’tune after tune’ post-punk party hit-machine. Their queer, goth punk is laden with addictive bass hooks, frantic guitar screeches, bullet punch drum hits, whirring keyboards and commanding calls. Sharing members with Anxiety, Rose McDowall and Shopping. https://currentaffairs.bandcamp.com/ PINKGRIP make loud, pummelsome hardcore punk in London. Their songs are sludgy, pointed and thrash in an oddly addictive way. Check out their demo on Far So Far below! https://farsofar.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2   Upset The Rhythm presents…   PRIMO! RAINHAM SHEDS SLUSHY GUTS Wednesday 29 August The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   PRIMO! are Xanthe Waite, Violetta DelConte Race and Suzanne Walker. As a trio from Melbourne writing up-tempo, terse chorus and verse, Primo make use of two guitars, drums, sound effects and a group vocal sensibility to ornament their enquiries into deconstructed punk and indie rock. Their songs chime and charm, sounding at times bountiful, at others brittle, always buoyant with attention to detail. Primo songs are alive and inquisitive, chasing down questions for answers long sped-away, amidst minimalist shuffle beats and ringing-out chords. The group’s debut album ‘Amici’ is a triumph of the underplayed, its small details pull focus, allowing the album to treat us to unexpected truths in plain sight. Primo's newest member since 2018 is Amy Hill, who also plays in Terry and Constant Mongrel, on bass. Outside of Primo, Xanthe and Violetta both have lent their guitar skills to Terry and The Shifters respectively, whilst Suzanne works in film too. The band’s debut album ‘Amici’ will be released as LP and CD on Upset The Rhythm on July 13th and followed up in August with a European tour. http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/primo.shtml RAINHAM SHEDS is Post-punk, all female maximum art-core on a primitive tip. Conceptual skronk noise. They sing about theorists, Art stars, bad jobs, sex with furniture and reminding themselves that he’s not her dad. Their new EP is available on Permanent Slump now! https://permanentslump.bandcamp.com/album/rainham-sheds SLUSHY GUTS started life in late 2009 as the one man project of London artist Steve Keane. Initially a bare bones solo endeavour, over the course of a number of CDR and tape releases the recordings gradually became more textured and layered, necessitating the recruitment of additional players for (sporadic) live appearances, of which by this point there have been a rotating cast of many. The current group is formed of Steve along with good friends Sam and Luke Walsh, Ben Goodwin, The Spirit of James Rowland and the mysterious Paddy O'Furniture, resulting in a more traditional Rock n' Roll set up (see Velvet Underground/Wedding Present/The Fall) without the loss of any of the awkward experimentalism of previous incarnations. Brand new album, ‘The Blasted Stump’ is Slushy Guts fourth album proper and the first on which the production duties have been shared with someone else, (Sam Walsh) resulting in a comparatively polished sounding record, parting the hiss and allowing the songs to shine through. https://slushyguts.bandcamp.com/   Thanks so much for your time, we’ll catch you next week! Upset The Rhythm                        UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

SHOPPING ES KATY & NICK Saturday 11th August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 6.30pm - 10pm | £10 | TICKETS   SAUNA YOUTH – ‘Deaths’ Album Release Party! CURRENT AFFAIRS PINK GRIP Saturday 25 August Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm - 1.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   PRIMO RAINHAM SHEDS SLUSHY GUTS Wednesday 29 August The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   SHANNON AND THE CLAMS TERRY HOLIDAY GHOSTS Tuesday 4 September The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   PROLAPSE FIVEHEAD Thursday 6 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £11 | TICKETS   LITHICS ES NO HOME Friday 7 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   PATSY NEKRA BAMYA Saturday 8 September New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   SCREAMING FEMALES SCRAP BRAIN RODENTS Tuesday 11 September 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) Thursday 13 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   TERRY THE HOMOSEXUALS RUSSELL WALKER Tuesday 18th September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   WOLF EYES MUSIC: THREE DAY RESIDENCY Friday 21st, Saturday 22nd, Sunday 23rd September In collaboration with Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 per day | TICKETS   21 SEPT: WOLF EYES with YEAH YOU WOLF EYES (short set) AARON DILLOWAY / VICKY LANGAN (Duo)   22 SEPT: UNIVERSAL EYES (Nate Young, John Olson, Aaron Dilloway, Gretchen Davidson) TRIPLE NEGATIVE VICKY LANGAN (DJ set)   23 SEPT: WOLF EYES with BEATRICE DILLON AARON DILLOWAY (solo) SHARON GAL (solo)   ROSE MCDOWALL Monday 1st October St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   VIRGINIA WING Thursday 11 October OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   THE SPACE LADY SPINNING COIN Tuesday 23 October Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   EARTHEATER Thursday 25 October The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 8pm | £10 | TICKETS   JO PASSED SLUMB PARTY Thursday 25 October The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   GROUPER Monday 29 October Hackney Arts Centre, 13 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 8BH 7pm | £16.50 | TICKETS

 

Lithics poster!

Eartheater - London concert this October!

The other worldly conjuring of Eartheater may be witnessed live in London this October 25th at The Courtyard Theatre, tickets now on sale.

Upset The Rhythm presents…

EARTHEATER
Thursday 25 October
The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/446547

EARTHEATER (aka Queens based artist Alexandra Drewchin) distills foley-filled digital production, a three-octave vocal range, and classical composition into works suspended between obsessively detailed sonic tapestries and almost recklessly romantic and gestural electronica. A body of viscerally emotive live performance stands alongside her recorded output, realized by her fearless physical investment and gut-wrenching vocal sincerity.

‘IRISIRI’, Eartheater's third full-length record (out now on Pan), lays out a shifting network of abstract song craft, laced with sudden structural upheavals and collisions of mutated tropes from numerous sonic vocabularies. Modular synth staccato plucks hammer out in arrhythmic spirals over a carefully muzzled grid of pumping kicks - unleashed in unpredictable disruptions. Technoid stabs mingle with crushed black metal. An icy OS reads poetry against a bed of granular synth swells. Drewchin's sirening whistle-tone vocals drape over relentless live harp arpeggios. Drewchin's lyrics, strewn with flourishes of wordplay and symbolism, explore themes of her autodidactic experience - playing with the tutelage of the ‘pupil’ within the ‘iris' mirrored in the palindrome IRISIRI. Eartheater confounds expectations of structure and resolution before deciding to thread in a sugary melody that snaps us back into some conception, however hazy, of pop songwriting. 


Drewchin performs and collaborates with art duo and close friends FLUCT. In February 2017, she starred in Raul de Nieves and Colin Self’s opera The Fool at the Kitchen. In April 2017, featured on two tracks from Show Me The Body’s Corpus I mixtape alongside Denzel Curry and Moor Mother. She’s currently composing work for the contemporary chamber orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, that will debut in May 2018. Her new live set sees her accompanied by the concert harpist Marilu Donivan. 

https://alexdrewchin.bandcamp.com/releases

"In Eartheater’s burgeoning musical world, women don’t need to fold their voices in service of beauty. They are free to make a ruckus, to sound monstrous, to gnash their teeth at anyone who would pen them in." - Pitchfork

"The risks taken here make it Eartheater's most striking full-length. In the album's endless subversions and contradictions, Drewchin occasionally hits on something profound, like sepulchral atmospheres, or the way her vocals run circles around the harp strums. Her music can feel frustratingly fragmented one second and suddenly coalesce into something brilliant the next." — Resident Advisor
 


“All artistic gestures feel connected in her world: music, dance, poetry, film, stripped of conceptual baggage and made accessible, full of feeling and expression built on a pounding intellect." – The Wire
 

The Space Lady & Spinning Coin this October!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Space Lady & Spinning Coin are both coming through London on October 23rd to play this special night at Moth Club for us! 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

THE SPACE LADY
SPINNING COIN
Tuesday 23 October
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/446468
 

THE SPACE LADY began her odyssey on the streets of San Francisco in the late 70s, playing versions of contemporary pop music an accordion and dressed flamboyantly, transmitting messages of peace and harmony. Following the theft of her accordion, The Space Lady invested in a then-new Casio keyboard, birthing an otherworldly new dimension to popular song that has captured the imaginations of the underground and its lead exponents ever since, with the likes of John Maus, Erol Alkan and Kutmah being devotees. Of her early street sets, only one recording was made, self-released originally on cassette and then transferred to a homemade CD. "The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits" released in 2014 through Night School features the best of these recordings - mostly covers but with some originals - pressed on vinyl for the first time and features archival photographs and liner notes from The Space Lady herself. “Greatest Hits” contains The Space Lady’s personal favourites; her haunting take on The Electric Prunes’ “I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night),” a frantic “Ballroom Blitz” amidst other reconstructed pop music. Following on from this wonderful record, The Space Lady released a split LP in 2015 with the Burnt Ones on Castle Face records which included her spectral take on ‘Across The Universe’ and a brand new LP this year through Mississippi entitled ‘On The Street Of Dreams’.
https://soundcloud.com/dazedandconfused/sets/the-space-lady-greatest-hits

SPINNING COIN are a fiercely independent rock group from Glasgow, something you could probably guess by listening to any of their songs. Their roots are all over the place but a simple love of playing together in their rehearsal space, and almost never turning down shows, has seen them coalesce a winning group sound in almost no time at all.  Drummer Chris White is part of the Winning Sperm Party collective, who document of a world of shadowy Glasgow music running all the way from the Glasgow Music Collective to Fuzzkill Records today. Where Spinning Coin branch out from things is in their cascading melodicism topped with some amazing shredding.  This connects into a slightly different Glasgow music scene more associated with Orange Juice, Teenage Fanclub, and of course The Pastels, who released their debut album through their Geographic Music imprint.  Their music is beautifully rough-hewn guitar pop that takes in frustration, but also gracefulness and splendour, in equal measure. The fourteen songs on debut ‘Permo’ trace all kinds of terrain, though the overarching story might be that of a group looking for escapism, somehow and anyhow, in the midst of a social and cultural climate that’s closing down possibilities for difference and community.
https://soundcloud.com/spinning-coin
 

 

Rose McDowall heading to London this October!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

ROSE MCDOWALL
Monday 1st October
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/445801

ROSE MCDOWALL’s trajectory from punk provocateur to chart-subverting pop star to underground neo-folk musician has been one peppered with unknowns and adventure. McDowall began her career in her hometown of Glasgow, operating within the nascent punk scene with her first group The Poems. After a meteoric rise to pop stardom with Strawberry Switchblade (along with friend Jill Bryson), McDowall submerged herself in the post-industrial landscape, becoming a member of Current 93 during their purple patch and a guest on records by artists as diverse as Psychic TV, Felt, Coil and Nurse with Wound, McDowall’s status as the unofficial queen and muse of the underground is well deserved. After the recording of several demos which resulted in the ‘Cut With The Cake Knife’ album (Night School/Sacred Bones, 2015), McDowall formed Sorrow to further explore her interest in psychedelic, folk music. Considerably darker in tone than Strawberry Switchblade, but still resplendent in McDowall’s angelic, heartfelt vocal, ‘Under the Yew Possessed’ is a cult album that belies a classic pop song writing sensibility. Issued in a limited gold vinyl edition for Record Store Day 2018, ‘Under the Yew Possessed’ enjoys a full Night School reissue later this summer, followed swiftly by ‘Gem’( in October) a new album of recordings with Canadian musician Shawn Pinchbeck. This Oct 1st concert will be a rare performance from Rose with her new live band, comprising of several members of Scotland’s ever burgeoning music scene featuring Russel Burn ex of Fire Engines/WIN/Spectorbullets and Jeremy Thoms ex-Revillos/Strawberry Tarts and currently The Cathode Ray amongst them.

https://rosemcdowall.bandcamp.com/

TERRY confirm London show for this September!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

TERRY

THE HOMOSEXUALS

RUSSELL WALKER

Tuesday 18th September

Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU

7.30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/445421  

TERRY is getting ready, combing his hair, buttoning his jacket, turning the key in the door. "I'm doing fine," sings Terry out loud, he knows. Divide him into four and you get Al Montfort (UV Race, Total Control, Dick Diver etc.), Amy Hill (Constant Mongrel, Primo, School Of Radiant Living), Xanthe Waite (Primo, Mick Harvey Band) and Zephyr Pavey (Eastlink, Total Control, Russell Street Bombings). Inevitably, Terry likes to make a noise. Drums, guitars and all his voices come into play, making a solid raft for Terry's inner musings to navigate the languid rapids. This all unravels at its own pace, sometimes drifting into glam punk and country backwaters, always conducting a conversation with the commonplace. Terry also make us a bit queasy at times, singing about police beatings and nationalism and all that. But they’re not out to hurt you. They’re like the kindly bearer of bad news. There’s some awful stuff going on around the world. Terry puts it in terms that speak to all. It’s a tragicomedy. I’m pretty certain Terry isn’t perverse, they’re just the harbinger of the encroaching perverse world. I’m pretty certain Terry wants to be my friend, and your friend. Our friend, Terry. ‘I’m Terry’, the band’s third album in three years, is out this summer through Upset The Rhythm.

https://terryhq.bandcamp.com/  

THE HOMOSEXUALS are the inspired focus of Bruno Wizard! Bruno Wizard is an underground music luminary, an iconoclast, an evangelist for DIY practice, who formed The Homosexuals out of the ashes of The Rejects in 1976. The Homosexuals were a strange prospect. Seemingly, their music should fit into a similar spot as that of angry young men like Wire and Magazine who carried their penchants for art-school angst in the midst of proto-thug posturing, like badges of authentic alienation. And of course, in many ways, these bands were alienated at least from what had been passing for British rock prior to 1976. However, L'Voag (aka Jim, Amos, and now, Xentos), Anton (aka George Harassment) and Bruno were also part of a different scene, where more "progressive" notions of artistic protest were at stake: This Heat, Family Fodder and Chris Cutler's bands Henry Cow and the Art Bears were some of the names going at it in these circles. Their music was a sprawling bag of angular power-pop, quasi-dub, garage-punk and other stuff I'd liken to Faust or some such lunatic mob. Releasing a few 7”s, a tape and a posthumous LP by 1984, the band then called it a day. Bruno continues though, having reformed the band since 2003 with a variety of new lineups. 2016 saw The Homosexuals release their ‘Important If True’ record collecting new and unreleased recordings from the band committed to tape in NYC. Bruno also starred in ‘The Heart Of Bruno Wizard’ documentary about his creative life that premiered at Cannes in 2014.

https://thehomosexuals.bandcamp.com/

RUSSELL WALKER, known as the uncanny lyricist/vocalist for The Pheromoans, Bomber Jackets etc, treats us to an exceedingly rare solo live appearance. Walker released his solo album proper in 2016 through Vitrine, contributed to a recent compilation on Kye and has a spoken album due out on Chocolate Monk soon called ‘Half Time 1916’.  Walker also published his latest book ‘When New Towns Act Tough’ in 2016, well worth tracking down on Larching Books!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnVtAsspaKM

FIRST LISTEN: Sauna Youth - 'Percentages' %%%

The first track from Sauna Youth's forthcoming album 'Deaths' just premiered on DIY!
Check out 'Percentages' now, turn it up!



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