TRASH KIT - European tour starts today!

TRASH KIT embark on their European tour today, look out Amsterdam, they're starting with you tonight!

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Robert Sotelo videos!

Glasgow-based cosmic pop melodist Robert Sotelo has just had two new singles go live recently from his extraordinary ‘Infinite Sprawling’ album, out on Friday! The title track video just premiered on Clash: “a blistering slice of outsider songcraft with a vivid extra-dimensional pop element”, whilst Raven Sings The Blues were kind enough to host his brand new ‘Mister’ video: “a fuzz-beset pop-skimmer, slinging twang and jangle equally!” Enjoy!

September London shows: Kaputt, Daniel O'Sullivan, Kurws & Handle, Trash Kit and EXEK!

Morning everyone! Thanks to so many of you for coming out recently to see Deerhoof and Mary Lattimore play London, you really helped make both shows incredibly special. Now we’ve stealthily slipped in September we thought we’d acquaint you with our five shows for the month.   Next Tuesday, Upset The Rhythm will pop up at The Islington for an event celebrating Kaputt’s forthcoming debut album ‘Carnage Hall’ on UTR! Hailing from Glasgow, Kaputt race away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, blurting out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Joining them for this somersault of sound will be The Cool Greenhouse and Sniffany & The Nits too, highly recommended for fans of all things alive!

Then one week today, Friday 13th September, we will set up shop at The Lexington for a remarkably ambitious concert from experimental, multi-instrumentalist Daniel O’Sullivan (Grumbling Fur, Mothlite, Æthenor etc), who hot on the heels of his excellent ‘Folly’ album (O Genesis) has pieced together an octet of performers collectively known as Dream Lyon to interpret his work. Peter Broderick and Thighpaulsandra (of Coil and Spiritualized) will both feature in Dream Lyon, and the potently profound Brigid Mae Power will lend her talents in support too. The stars have aligned.

Then on Saturday week (Sept 14th), busy much?, at New River Studios we have planned a rhythmic face-off from Kurws and Handle! Kurws are a deconstructed rock group from Wrocław, Poland, who since they formed in 2008 have released more than 10 albums drawing on post-punk, krautrock, funk and noise to bolster their brusque, musical arm-wrestle. Equally impressive are Handle from Manchester, who destroyed at Supernormal this year. On guitar and drums you have Giulio Erasmus and Nirvana Heire, former members of the much-loved punk band DUDS; while upfront on vocals and keyboards is Leo Hermitt, a genderqueer multidisciplinary artist renowned for their challenging, thought-provoking work in their city’s arts and literary scenes. This colossal double-headline show is not one to miss!

Later in the month we have a headline Trash Kit concert planned for Saturday 21st September at Café OTO with Child’s Pose, The Plan and some choice DJs on the cards. Whilst we see off September in style with Australian avant-punks EXEK on Sept 27th at MOTH Club with errant warps The Rebel and Es for company too. Plenty afoot as per usual, read on for all you need to know and we’ll bump into you down the front, thanks as always!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   KAPUTT are a recently hatched post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland. Numbering six, Kaputt feature Simone Wilson and Cal Donnelly on guitars and vocals, Chrissy Barnacle also sings and plays saxophone. Tobias Carmichael is responsible for bass, whilst Rikki Will and Emma Smith cover drums and percussion respectively. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There’s a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. Kaputt’s debut album ‘Carnage Hall’ will be released this September on Upset The Rhythm, this show appears as part of their tour in support of this stunner of an LP. https://kaputt1.bandcamp.com/ THE COOL GREENHOUSE make hypnotic home-brew post-punk. Their two 7”s and tape (also released on 10” through Lumpy) are a treat of elusive DIY moves and sarcastic wit. Very reminiscent of the early 80s post-punk cassette scene and messthetics compilation groups. www.thecoolgreenhouse.bandcamp.com SNIFFANY & THE NITS are an itchy, twitchy new pogo punk outfit feat members of Artefact and The Snivellers.

Upset The Rhythm presents…   DANIEL O’SULLIVAN BRIGID MAE POWER Friday 13 September The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   DANIEL O’SULLIVAN is a composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer living and working in South West London and has been contributing a vibrant, chameleonic brew to the music landscape since the late 1990's. He has achieved acclaim writing, recording and performing with a myriad of groups including Grumbling Fur (with longtime friend and collaborator Alexander Tucker), Ulver, Mothlite, Sunn O))), Guapo, Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses, Miracle, Æthenor and This Is Not This Heat. He has composed several sound works for film and installation. Whether solo or in his varied collaborative projects, O’Sullivan’s work is remarkable in the way it infuses familiar everyday experience with traces of the uncanny, the secret and the magickal. His 2017 solo album VELD distilled these tangled realities into a rich and complex soundworld, strikingly dense and allusive. Released in April by O Genesis, Folly is O’Sullivan’s second album under his own name and embodies a confident, evolution from VELD. This cycle of twelve songs deftly illustrates O'Sullivan's ascent as a unique and multidimensional songwriter. Moving from the familiar pantheon of experimental music and arriving upon a universal narrative probing the human condition from the inside out. Both lyrically and within the intricate lattice of arrangements, traditional forms are reshaped into transcendent pop symphonies. Both intimate and alien, archetypal and atypical, joyous and melancholic, the aperture of Folly is wide open and light streams in. For this special performance O’Sullivan will perform his new songs as an ensemble of eight, featuring Peter Broderick and Thighpaulsandra (Coil, Julian Cope Band, Spiritualized) who also recorded and mixed Folly at his Aeriel studio premises in Wales. http://mothlite.blogspot.com/ BRIGID MAE POWER is an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, like Judee Sill, Micky Newburyor Linda Perhacs before her, paints her songs in dreamily expansive strokes, transporting earthly compositions into universal and exultant realms. Her self-titled debut on Tompkins Square was a majestic suite of reverb-swathed laments for voice, guitar, piano, accordion, and harmonium, recorded at the Portland studio of key musical foil Peter Broderick. Themes include transformation, change, motherhood, acceptance, strength, courage and trust. In the words of Power, the album was about "trusting if you lose yourself or your way - you can come back". New album 'The Two Worlds' is another masterful collection of effortless, hypnotic folk, and an album that furthers the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist's already stellar reputation. Live, Brigid can encapsulate the timeless magic of her songs either solo or as a duo with Peter. Thus far she has toured throughout Ireland, UK and the US together with artists including Lee Ranaldo, Richard Dawson, Alasdair Roberts, Peter Broderick and Ryley Walker, with performances at Le Guess Who? and TUSK festivals along the way. http://www.brigidmaepower.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   KURWS HANDLE Saturday 14 September New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   KURWS (from Wroclaw, Poland) formed in May 2008 as an unexpected result of a ping pong session. Since then together they pursue their own search, not as much in areas of defined genres, but within the very foundations of rock “base”, expression and sound. It is a workshop, where improvisations penetrate through composed material, which seems to be a congealed form of the creation process. Armed with repetitions, recombinations, variations and contrasts, they frolic with memory and expectations. Post punk, krautrock, rock in opposition, funk, no wave - modes of playing, motives, riffs we heard time and time again, are being here presented in a totally different context - they are dissected from their original environment, placed side by side, used in a brand new manner, deconstructed and distilled. https://kurws.bandcamp.com/album/alarm HANDLE are a recently formed trio featuring a few familiar faces from Manchester’s creative underground scene. On bass guitar and drums, there’s Giulio Erasmus and Nirvana Heire, former members of the much-loved punk band DUDS; while upfront on vocals and keyboards is Leo Hermitt, a genderqueer multidisciplinary artist renowned for their challenging, thought-provoking work on the city’s arts and literary scenes. The end result, in Handle, is a wonderful amalgam of each member’s respective CVs – a band which absorbs punk, poetry, politics and the avant-garde, while wearing its Manc DIY credentials proudly on its sleeve. Powered by looping, hypnotic synth lines, tribal percussion and urgent, agitated vocals, their songs – all of which clock in around the two minute mark – owe as much to performance poetry as they do to post-punk and new wave. In these times of anxiety and confusion, Handle provide a much-needed dose of musical catharsis. https://absolutefiction.bandcamp.com/album/handle-demonstrations

Upset The Rhythm presents…   TRASH KIT CHILD’S POSE THE PLAN DJs: TREE TRUNKS & ROZI PLAIN Saturday 21 September Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 |  TICKETS   TRASH KIT are Rachel Aggs (guitar, vocals), Rachel Horwood (drums, vocals) and Gill Partington (bass). Three deeply creative individuals who play in a multitude of other groups including Bas Jan, Sacred Paws, Shopping and Bamboo, united by a shared decade of spry musicality that surges through their bodies, hearts and heads with Trash Kit. Their songs once succinct, patchwork post-punk numbers of an honest diary-like nature now tussle more with long-form songwriting, expeditious polyphony and cascades of sung-spoke vocals. This new focus began with their last album ‘Confidence’ (2014) and has now grown into something exhilarating and rapturous. New songs like ‘Disco’ have had their very fabric stretched into smart new shapes, allowing the band to run away with refrains and unlock the dancefloor. Although Trash Kit have their forebears in bands like Sleater Kinney, The Ex and The Raincoats, their sound is still very much their own take on facing forwards and relies as much on the naturalism of an internalised folk music as on their sincerity of vision. Since forming in 2009, Trash Kit have released two albums for Upset The Rhythm and a selection of singles, this July however they made their most majestic move yet with their resoundingly huge Horizon album. An album that forever listens for the next moment and will meet you once more at the vanishing point. https://www.facebook.com/TRASH-KIT-329766302806/ CHILD’S POSE play punk-inflected pop music, something like if Elastica had built their home in the Slampt Underground instead of making a #1 record. Their caustic slash-and-burn style is sneering and ebullient all at once, detached yet intimate, trim and nervy songs that reward listen after listen, personnel from Woolf, Sauna Youth, Sarcasm, and Nekra sparking joy and dread in equal measure. It’s the sound of the first warm day of spring and the accompanying cans in the park and the crisp cool wind chasing you home at dusk, that sinister manic magic feeling of learning how to inhabit your body again after a long cold winter. It’s been winter for years now and we all need warming up. Let Child’s Pose take you with them. https://childspose.bandcamp.com/ THE PLAN have perfected a stop/start abrasiveness with their stirring, woman-powered dispatches from Southend-On-Sea. Boasting members of Wetdog and Vic Goddard’s Subway Sect, they fuse post- punk with folk, no wave with psych. It’s a heady brew and endlessly inventive. Jangly Kinks guitar, cryptic lyricism, cherubic vocal harmonising, dervish leaps into The Ex-like noise... there’s enough room under this tarpaulin for everyone. https://theplan1.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents…   EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   EXEK thrive amidst noirish, dub-dilated post-punk, with lyrics skirting the sardonic, mired in disdain. Situated in a reservoir of space echo and assisted by the heavyweight bass-and-drum brunt of Henry Wilson and Sam Dixon, vocalist Albert Wolski conveys an oblique, literate nihilism that resembles both a sneer and a smirk. Wicked turns of phrase are spiked with black humour and surrealism as the rest of the band summon sparse, reverb-drenched runs of percussion and a thickset low end prone to detour and dysfunction. Exek recently followed up their ‘Ahead Of Two Thoughts’ LP released last year on W.25TH (Superior Viaduct) with their astonishing ‘A Casual Assembly’ EP. This new record from Melbourne's audio-wranglers coalesces around a stirring theme for synthesizer, trumpet and bass, bringing together reference points to Laurie Spiegel, Jah Wobble and The Velvet Underground's ‘The Gift.’ Frontman Albert Wolski's disembodied narration – at times reminiscent of Samuel Beckett or Robert Ashley – unfolds over a series of dark vignettes set in a dystopian near-future. Autotune has been banned, secret police patrol the redoubts of the wealthy, and world beaches have been cleared of their sand for the construction of enormous urban prisons. As these events turn more fraught and absurd, Wolski reveals just how much is gained through EXEK's stripped-down arrangements and dreamlike tones. https://exek.bandcamp.com/ 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. https://therebelband.bandcamp.com/ ES are the soundtrack to your no-wave nightmares, proffering 'mutant synth-punk for our dystopian present' (Jes Skolnik). Ethereal synths, tense basslines, wired drums and cold vocals collide, proving curiously dark, intense and unrelenting. After releasing their debut 'Object Relations' 12" EP on La Vida Es Un Mus in 2016, all members now reside in London and are working towards their debut album. ES feature members of Public Service, The Worms, Primetime and Scrap Brain. https://esband.bandcamp.com/releases

Thanks for all your time and support, enjoy the weekend! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   DANIEL O’SULLIVAN (octet performance) BRIGID MAE POWER Friday 13 September The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   KURWS HANDLE Saturday 14 September New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   TRASH KIT CHILD'S POSE THE PLAN DJs: Tree Trunks & Rozi Plain Saturday 21 September Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 |  TICKETS   EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   SHANNON LAY EMMETT KELLY NO HOME Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON Tuesday 19 November MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £16 | SOLD OUT   LANKUM Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   THOR & FRIENDS Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE GOTOBEDS HYGIENE THE TUBS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

KAPUTT on tour!

Glasgow powerhouse Kaputt begin their Euro tour today in Sheffield! Go see them play near you soon! ‘Carnage Hall’, their debut, is out on Sept 27th too!

31/08 - Sheffield - Delicious Clam

01/09 - Leeds - Wharf Chambers

02/09 - Brighton - The Pipeline

03/09 - Lille - DIY Cafe

04/09 - Brussels - Super Fourchette

05/09 - Paris - La Pointe Lafayette

06/09 - Trier - Schmit-Z Café

10/09 - London - The Islington

11/09 - Oxford - Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre 

12/09 - Bristol - The Lanes

13/09 - Nottingham - JT Soar

14/09 - Glasgow - The Old Hairdressers

Mary Lattimore in London tomorrow, Deerhoof on Monday and Kaputt coming soon!

Hello there! We have some great concerts coming up on the horizon so thought we’d share them with you!   Tomorrow Upset The Rhythm pitches up at The Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton for a pristine evening of ambient weirding, looped naturalism and spacey heaven-scapes courtesy of Los Angeles harpist Mary Lattimore. Manchester’s Nummo Twin will support with her tree-based take on meditative deep listening. We’ll have some limited tickets available on the door tomorrow from 7.30pm, plus look for the volume to swell around 8.20pm as we start the performances too.

Then our following show, taking place at EartH in Dalston on Monday, will see a real convention of some of our favourite UTR acts all playing on the same bill. Expect some pop bafflement and bluster from Dog Chocolate, serene cycles of wild melody from Trash Kit and a live set from avant-indie masterminds Deerhoof that will set a new bar for ultimate exhilaration!   Best show of the summer anyone? Not one to miss!

Read on for more detail on both of these solid events alongside our full listing for September 10th’s wrecking ball of a shindig at The Islington with Glasgow’s wonk-punks Kaputt, celebrating their forthcoming debut album ‘Carnage Hall’ on Upset The Rhythm. The Cool Greenhouse and Sniffany & The Nits are playing this one too, oh yes, so grab that hefty fluorescent marker for your diary now, this will take some beating, exclamation marks at the ready!   Excellent times await, enjoy…

Upset The Rhythm presents…   MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   MARY LATTIMORE is a Los Angeles-based musician who uses her Lyon and Healy concert grand harp to conjure up beautifully abstracted forms that evoke a host of memories, landscapes and allusions. Across a breadth of recordings, collaborations and art commissions her music explores a realm of wordless narratives and indefinite travelogues, where – with the help of effects and occasional vocals - extended harp improvisations morph into spectral songforms. In live performance she reveals the impressionist magic of her chosen instrument, blurring classical technique and ambient electronics to beguiling effect. In 2018 Mary released Hundreds of Days, her second LP on Ghostly International, as well as a collaborative album with Meg Baird entitled Ghost Forests (Three Lobed). She has moved a long way since her classical studies at Eastman School of Music, via days in Philadelphia with the likes of Espers and Fursaxa and sound-making time with Steve Gunn, Sharon van Etten and Kurt Vile. She has also collaborated with guitarist/synth player Jeff Zeigler on their 2014 album Slant of Light (Thrill Jockey) as well as composing a live score for Philippe Garrels' 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur which they subsequently toured together. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/ NUMMO TWIN plays ethereal, dream-like folk songs and noise soundscapes with an instrument she carved herself from an old christmas tree, an array of delay and reverb pedals, and feedback. She sings a lament to a forgotten place. https://nummotwin.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   DEERHOOF TRASH KIT DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS   DEERHOOF is four people. Satomi Matsuzaki plays bass and sings, Greg Saunier plays drums, John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez play guitars. But what is Deerhoof really? Hell if we know. Pitchfork went so far as to label Deerhoof as "the best band in the world.” From their humble beginnings as an obscure San Francisco noise act, they've become one of indie music's most influential bands with their ecstatic and unruly take on pop. http://deerhoof.net/ TRASH KIT are Rachel Aggs (guitar, vocals), Rachel Horwood (drums, vocals) and Gill Partington (bass). Three deeply creative individuals who play in a multitude of other groups including Bas Jan, Sacred Paws, Shopping and Bamboo, united by a shared decade of spry musicality that surges through their bodies, hearts and heads with Trash Kit. Their songs once succinct, patchwork post-punk numbers of an honest diary-like nature now tussle more with long-form songwriting, expeditious polyphony and cascades of sung-spoke vocals. This new focus began with their last album ‘Confidence’ (2014) and has now grown into something exhilarating and rapturous. New songs like ‘Disco’ have had their very fabric stretched into smart new shapes, allowing the band to run away with refrains and unlock the dancefloor. Although Trash Kit have their forebears in bands like Sleater Kinney, The Ex and The Raincoats, their sound is still very much their own take on facing forwards and relies as much on the naturalism of an internalised folk music as on their sincerity of vision. Since forming in 2009, Trash Kit have released two albums for Upset The Rhythm and a selection of singles, this July however they made their most majestic move yet with their resoundingly huge Horizon album. An album that forever listens for the next moment and will meet you once more at the vanishing point. https://www.facebook.com/TRASH-KIT-329766302806/ DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals from London. 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's new album ‘Moody Balloon Baby’ (out now) was released through Upset The Rhythm, in just under 25 minutes the band manage to cram in bucket-loads of ideas, mess, confusion and fun. http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   KAPUTT are a recently hatched post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland. Numbering six, Kaputt feature Simone Wilson and Cal Donnelly on guitars and vocals, Chrissy Barnacle also sings and plays saxophone. Tobias Carmichael is responsible for bass, whilst Rikki Will and Emma Smith cover drums and percussion respectively. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There’s a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. Kaputt’s debut album ‘Carnage Hall’ will be released this September on Upset The Rhythm, this show appears as part of their tour in support of this stunner of an LP. https://kaputt1.bandcamp.com/ THE COOL GREENHOUSE make hypnotic home-brew post-punk. Their two 7”s and tape (also released on 10” through Lumpy) are a treat of elusive DIY moves and sarcastic wit. Very reminiscent of the early 80s post-punk cassette scene and messthetics compilation groups. www.thecoolgreenhouse.bandcamp.com SNIFFANY & THE NITS are an itchy, twitchy new pogo punk outfit feat members of Artefact and The Snivellers.

Thanks for all your support, see you tomorrow at The Courtyard! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 |TICKETS   DEERHOOF TRASH KIT DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS   KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   DANIEL O’SULLIVAN (octet performance) BRIGID MAE POWER Friday 13 September The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   KURWS HANDLE Saturday 14 September New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   TRASH KIT CHILD'S POSE THE PLAN Saturday 21 September Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 |  TICKETS   EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   SHANNON LAY EMMETT KELLY NO HOME Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON Tuesday 19 November MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £16 | SOLD OUT   LANKUM Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   THOR & FRIENDS Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE GOTOBEDS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

 

Lunch Lady's debut album released today! Plus news of upcoming London shows for Mary Lattimore, Deerhoof and Kaputt!

What a morning! Today we found a feather on the floor and released ‘Angel’ by Lunch Lady, a striking debut album drawing on post-punk, kitsch and country balladry narratives to devastating effect! Available on LP, CD and digitally today through Upset The Rhythm, ‘Angel’ can be found in all the best stores as of now and from our very own webshop hither.   Lunch Lady are a sparky group from Los Angeles redolent of the desert heat and pining hearts. Numbering four, Lunch Lady consist of Rachel Birke (vocals), Juan Velasquez (guitar), Victor Herrera (bass) and Robert Wolfe (drums). The band began in 2017 when Velasquez asked Birke if she’d like to start a new music project with him, their respective other groups Abe Vigoda and Heller Keller having co-existed in LA’s DIY orbit.

Lunch Lady’s music began to grow into sun-warped vignettes, often miniaturist character-studies in outlook. Birke’s vocal is unhurried and assured, pressing her characters’ motives and words into the sprightly guitar trails and jogged rhythms that characterise the sound of the band.   ‘Angel’ is the group’s debut album, a record of resounding yearning, of cold fire and hot, sticky blood. It’s an album of troubled tales, buried hearts and wandering homeward. ‘Window’ whirls by with all the flourish of a card trick. Drums tumble whilst the guitar line twists through the taut stretch and sprint of the bass turns. Birke’s low-slung yet smouldering vocal confesses that “my hands are as clean as a remembered thing, my hands are as clean as I want them to be.”

Lunch Lady turn on all the lights in this haunted house of an album. Each room populated by a vividly drawn cast of whispered hopes and threatening dreams. ‘Angel’ is an album that murmurs like a river down the staircase, exploding with unexpected melodrama, brandishing its desire like a weapon. Let it take you by the hand and guide you out into the night. Out into the glimmer, before the stars go out and the warmth of the sun returns to cool passions.   Lunch Lady launch their debut album ‘Angel’ tonight in Los Angeles at the Hi-Hat! Check out the spot-on poster for this show of shows!

In terms of London concerts you can find below info on next week’s Mary Lattimore concert at the Courtyard Theatre with Nummo Twin in support.   We also outline our massive Deerhoof show on Sept 2nd at EartH with Trash Kit and Dog Chocolate playing too, and Kaputt's album launch party at The Islington on Sept 10th too, The Cool Greenhouse and Sniffany & The Nits on the bill also, look out!

Upset The Rhythm presents…   MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   MARY LATTIMORE is a Los Angeles-based musician who uses her Lyon and Healy concert grand harp to conjure up beautifully abstracted forms that evoke a host of memories, landscapes and allusions. Across a breadth of recordings, collaborations and art commissions her music explores a realm of wordless narratives and indefinite travelogues, where – with the help of effects and occasional vocals - extended harp improvisations morph into spectral songforms. In live performance she reveals the impressionist magic of her chosen instrument, blurring classical technique and ambient electronics to beguiling effect. In 2018 Mary released Hundreds of Days, her second LP on Ghostly International, as well as a collaborative album with Meg Baird entitled Ghost Forests (Three Lobed). She has moved a long way since her classical studies at Eastman School of Music, via days in Philadelphia with the likes of Espers and Fursaxa and sound-making time with Steve Gunn, Sharon van Etten and Kurt Vile. She has also collaborated with guitarist/synth player Jeff Zeigler on their 2014 album Slant of Light (Thrill Jockey) as well as composing a live score for Philippe Garrels' 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur which they subsequently toured together. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/ NUMMO TWIN plays ethereal, dream-like folk songs and noise soundscapes with an instrument she carved herself from an old christmas tree, an array of delay and reverb pedals, and feedback. She sings a lament to a forgotten place. https://nummotwin.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   DEERHOOF TRASH KIT DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS   DEERHOOF is four people. Satomi Matsuzaki plays bass and sings, Greg Saunier plays drums, John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez play guitars. But what is Deerhoof really? Hell if we know. Pitchfork went so far as to label Deerhoof as "the best band in the world.” From their humble beginnings as an obscure San Francisco noise act, they've become one of indie music's most influential bands with their ecstatic and unruly take on pop. http://deerhoof.net/ TRASH KIT are Rachel Aggs (guitar, vocals), Rachel Horwood (drums, vocals) and Gill Partington (bass). Three deeply creative individuals who play in a multitude of other groups including Bas Jan, Sacred Paws, Shopping and Bamboo, united by a shared decade of spry musicality that surges through their bodies, hearts and heads with Trash Kit. Their songs once succinct, patchwork post-punk numbers of an honest diary-like nature now tussle more with long-form songwriting, expeditious polyphony and cascades of sung-spoke vocals. This new focus began with their last album ‘Confidence’ (2014) and has now grown into something exhilarating and rapturous. New songs like ‘Disco’ have had their very fabric stretched into smart new shapes, allowing the band to run away with refrains and unlock the dancefloor. Although Trash Kit have their forebears in bands like Sleater Kinney, The Ex and The Raincoats, their sound is still very much their own take on facing forwards and relies as much on the naturalism of an internalised folk music as on their sincerity of vision. Since forming in 2009, Trash Kit have released two albums for Upset The Rhythm and a selection of singles, this July however they made their most majestic move yet with their resoundingly huge Horizon album. An album that forever listens for the next moment and will meet you once more at the vanishing point. https://www.facebook.com/TRASH-KIT-329766302806/ DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals from London. 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's new album ‘Moody Balloon Baby’ (out now) was released through Upset The Rhythm, in just under 25 minutes the band manage to cram in bucket-loads of ideas, mess, confusion and fun. http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   KAPUTT are a recently hatched post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland. Numbering six, Kaputt feature Simone Wilson and Cal Donnelly on guitars and vocals, Chrissy Barnacle also sings and plays saxophone. Tobias Carmichael is responsible for bass, whilst Rikki Will and Emma Smith cover drums and percussion respectively. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There’s a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there’s also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. Kaputt’s debut album ‘Carnage Hall’ will be released this September on Upset The Rhythm, this show appears as part of their tour in support of this stunner of an LP. https://kaputt1.bandcamp.com/ THE COOL GREENHOUSE make hypnotic home-brew post-punk. Their two 7”s and tape (also released on 10” through Lumpy) are a treat of elusive DIY moves and sarcastic wit. Very reminiscent of the early 80s post-punk cassette scene and messthetics compilation groups. www.thecoolgreenhouse.bandcamp.com SNIFFANY & THE NITS are an itchy, twitchy new pogo punk outfit feat members of Artefact and The Snivellers.

Thanks for reading, have the best weekend! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

MARY LATTIMORE NUMMO TWIN Thursday 29 August The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU 7.30pm | £10 |TICKETS   DEERHOOF TRASH KIT DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS   KAPUTT THE COOL GREENHOUSE SNIFFANY & THE NITS Tuesday 10 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   DANIEL O’SULLIVAN (octet performance) BRIGID MAE POWER Friday 13 September The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   KURWS HANDLE Saturday 14 September New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   TRASH KIT CHILD'S POSE THE PLAN Saturday 21 September Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £8 |  TICKETS   EXEK THE REBEL ES Friday 27 September Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   SHANNON LAY Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON Tuesday 19 November MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £16 | SOLD OUT   LANKUM Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   THOR & FRIENDS Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE GOTOBEDS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS