JJULIUS and LOOPSEL are heading to London this October!

Gothenburg calling! This is going to be resplendent in every way, counting the days down to this show!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

LOOPSEL
JJULIUS
Friday 27 October
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm-10pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/zc893d7209b7

LOOPSEL conjures music like foggily remembered dreams. The songs on her new album  Öga for Öga are like paths in the forest forest, are heavily, almost treacherously, reverberated, with finger-plucked guitars acting as your signposts amongst the flora and fauna of field recordings, pads, and the cool, calm voice of Elin Engström. The album is the second from Engström as Loopsel. She is a Gothenburg-based musician and one-half of both the group Monokultur and the team behind the tiny Mamma’s Mystersika Jukebox label. During what seemed like the nadir of the pandemic, the blurry, otherworldly sounds emanating from their living room snaked into the DFA office, where the otherwise dutifully DIY pair found the scale of worldwide release and distribution.
https://loopsel.bandcamp.com/

JJULIUS is the name of the swirling, singular world built by Julius Pierstorff, somewhere deep in the cobwebs of Gothenburg, Sweden, where dub and kosmische and post-punk sounds all sit around and tell ghost stories to each other. Originally a fully DIY project on Mamma’s Mysteriska Jukebox, the label he runs with his partner Loopsel, his latest long player VOL. 2 was released worldwide in conjunction with New York’s seminal DFA Records. Now he emerges from the shadows to play some shows, it’ll be louder and looser, as it should be.
https://mammasmysteriskajukebox.bandcamp.com/album/jjulius-vol-2

Phew - London residency at Cafe OTO announced!

 

 

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

PHEW
ALISON COTTON
ME LOST ME
Tuesday 17 October
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Ne228acb66c8

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PHEW
ANA DA SILVA
SUNROOF
Wednesday 18 October
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL

7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/t6505dd3f0dc

PHEW is an avant-garde vocalist, electronics innovator and post-punk artist. Phew was a founding member of the legendary Japanese punk band Aunt Sally. After the band’s breakup in 1979, she continued her career as a solo artist, releasing a collaborative single with Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1980, and her first solo album, ‘Phew’, with Conny Plank, Holger Czukay of CAN, and Jaki Liebezeit in 1981. In 1992, her third album, ‘Our Likeness’, was released on MUTE (recently reissued), again at Conny’s studio, with Jaki Liebezeit of CAN, Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten, and Chrislo Haas of DAF. Since the beginning of the 2010s, she has released a series of works that combine voice and electronic music, and has gained international recognition as a forward facing electronic artist. She has also released collaborative works with Ana da Silva (Raincoats), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms) and others. Phew's expansive ‘Vertical Jamming’ was released on vinyl for the first time via Disciples last year, whilst Mute recently released her stunning record ‘New Decade’; a stark, haunted album, populated by voices that intone empty pleasantries in English and Japanese, against a backdrop of fractured, dubbed-out electronics.
https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/music 

ALISON COTTON is a viola player based in London working in composition and improvisation. Her debut album ’All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre’ was released in 2018 firstly on cassette on Bloxham Tapes, followed by a vinyl release on Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Feeding Tube (USA). In July 2019 her longform piece, ‘Behind the Spiderweb Gates’ was released on the Australian label, Longform Editions. As well as the viola, she uses an array of other instruments (her voice, harmonium, percussion, recorder, omnichord, shruti box and piano) to create long, haunting folk drones. Cotton’s new album ‘The Portrait You Painted of Me’, is a 6-track record – her first for Rocket Recordings. ‘Mumurations Over the Moor’ is a wordless piece of layered vocals, drifting like fog towards a sunset over the green undulations of North East England. ‘The Last Wooden Ship’ evokes the shipyards of Sunderland, laced with piano and percussion events, while her voice calls out like a siren urging listeners to a rocky demise.
https://alisoncotton-uk.bandcamp.com

ME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. Led by Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music, the project has transformed since 2017 from a solo endeavor to an expanded group; regularly collaborating with acclaimed North-East jazz musicians Faye MacCalman and John Pope. Me Lost Me’s music has been described in The Guardian as "stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out", and by BBC Radio 6's Tom Robinson as a "brilliant peculiar noise". Me Lost Me’s incredible new album ‘RPG’ is due for release on July 7th via Upset The Rhythm.
https://www.melostme.com/  

ANA DA SILVA is a founding member and songwriter of the pioneering post-punk band The Raincoats. Across four daring full-length records, The Raincoats helped shape the timeless notion that punk is what you make it - an act of raw expression, not any one sound. The Raincoats have offered creative and spiritual inspiration for several generations of artists. They set a crucial precedent for feminist work within a DIY punk context, marked all the while by Ana’s poetic lyrical style and innovative noise guitar playing. After The Raincoats’ hiatus in 1984, Ana collaborated with The Go-Betweens, This Heat’s Charles Hayward and choreographer/dancer Gaby Agis. In 2005, Ana released her solo debut, ‘The Lighthouse’ - a self-recorded collection of spare, elegant experiments in electronic indie-pop. Ana has also collaborated with Phew on an extraordinary album ‘Island’ released by Newhere Music in 2018.
http://www.anadasilva.net/

SUNROOF is the pairing of Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones. Their new album, ‘Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2’ is available via the Parallel Series of Mute. ‘Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2’ is a set of eight improvised modular electronic music instrument pieces recorded at the duo’s respective home studios. The recording sessions followed release of their debut from 2021 but where Vol. 1 was the result of four decades of friendship and collaboration, this new album came together in a relatively short space of time. Recorded in the same spirit as their previous sessions - with no pre-planning and no rehearsal - they met up with “unpatched” modular systems, and began improvising. Without any of the parameters they followed in the first sessions, the duo allowed the pieces to expand naturally, keeping editing to a minimum.
https://mute.ffm.to/sunroof-emivol2

Feeling the 'Heat!'

Post-Trash just premiered Me Lost Me's new single 'Heat!', what a solstice souvenir!

"Heat!... opens with a foreboding bass line, punctuated by recordings of chirping birds and flute trills. It’s uneasy in its slow pace, until a minute in when pounding percussion re-contextualizes the spacious vocal melody and bass into a powerful upbeat groove. Even with the colorful instrumental, Dent’s expressive vocals are always the focal point, winding between power and frailty. The track continues to shift and surprise throughout its runtime, adding new textures which culminate in a chanting choral finish."

http://post-trash.com/news/2023/6/20/me-lost-me-heat-post-trash-premiere

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The Smashing Times - London show announced!

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

THE SMASHING TIMES
Thursday 28 September
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i167d908f749

THE SMASHING TIMES are a psychedelic twee freakbeat group from a Baltimore basement. Instruments played by humans, bare feet touching the ground. Wrinkled button downs, sweaters filled with holes, music audibly and sometimes visibly made by humans. Can you change the strings on your guitar? Maybe, can you buy me dinner? Lock up your Rickenbackers, Thee Jasmine Monk is coming to town, can they stay on your couch? Recent album ‘Bloom’ was released by Meritorio Records, featuring fractious, chiming riffs and Dan Treacy meets Stephen Pastel style vocals and an impressive collection of genuinely memorable tracks. The Smashing Times’ new album will be coming out on K Records soon.
https://thesmashingtimes.bandcamp.com

 

 

The Toads - 'In The Wilderness' LP released today!

Absolute pleasure to release The Toads debut album today! ‘In The Wilderness’ is a gleeful clatter along the knife edge of life. 

The Melbourne quartet have nailed down their sound with sardonic kicks, an expansive vision and ripping absolution from existential drift. The Toads delight in the dour, yet they still pack a punch and keep the whole record beguiling, full of twists, turns and toughing it out!

The Toads’ ‘In The Wilderness’ is out now digitally and on strikingly azure 180g vinyl courtesy of Upset The Rhythm: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Huge thanks to Anti Fade for bringing us on board for this immense record!
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Water Machine - 7" EP announced!!!

Let’s make some waves! 🌊🌊🌊🌊

We’re releasing Glaswegian top tetrad Water Machine’s debut 7” this summer! Lead single ‘Water Machine Pt. II’ is released today; prickly yet playful punk, equal parts water and machine! Post-Trash kindly just premiered the gothic blitz of a video featuring a spectre stalking through woodland testing their powers of dehydration. Look out: http://post-trash.com/news/2023/6/6/water-machine-water-machine-pt-ii-post-trash-premiere

Water Machine’s ‘Raw Liquid Power’ EP will be released on August 4th through Upset The Rhythm on transparent red vinyl, ooooh! It is now available to pre-order in our webshop too.
“Don’t be late, hydrate!”
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Go see Water Machine play live!

23/06/23 - London - Studio 9294 w/ Shannon And The Clams
21/07/23 - Glasgow - The Rum Shack w/ Bikini Body
01/09/23 - Manchester - Fuel
05/09/23 - London - New River Studios
07/09/23 - Brighton - Pipeline
08/09/23 - Oxford - Divine Schism
09/09/23 - Sheffield - Delicious Clam

 

 

 

John Maus returns to London this summer!

The enigmatic John Maus will return to London this summer!

 

JOHN MAUS
Tuesday 22 August
EartH Theatre, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 8BH
6.30pm-10.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/u7dbda392ac6
 
JOHN MAUS is a truly enigmatic musician. Broadly cut from the synth pop cloth, he’s fashioned the frosty minimalism of its fabric into a cloak of infinite meaning, genuine grace and absurdist humor over the course of four defining albums since 2006. His music is a highly mutable affair, whilst often described as retro-futurist on behalf of the 80’s drum machines and synth sounds employed, John’s music is more personal than the nostalgic re-tread implied. There’s a cinematic quality to his songs, with pathos conjured through propelling bass-lines, trailing arpeggios and of course his deeply resonant vocal. Moroder helped map out the territory but Maus is more interested in seeking cadence through his love of Renaissance polyphony and the experimentation behind post punk. It’s an amalgamation of musical ideas as radical as its intent.

Maus is a ‘man out of time’ trying to make sense of the inhumanity of our world through his mobilisation of the language of punk rock. His aim is true as he reaches for the seemingly impossible. It’s a want to emerge as part of greater multiplicity, to appear, to become, to connect that powers his songs and the man himself. It’s now been 12 years since the widely lauded album We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves (2011) appeared like a thunderbolt of maniacal energy and turned everyone’s heads. Now regarded an experimental pop classic, Pitiless Censors was a huge breakthrough for Maus as a recognised artist and led to a vast reappraisal of his past work. 2018 saw the release of  his most recent work Screen Memories and its sister release Addendum. Screen Memories unfolds like a pageant, with its variety of songs tendering sunshine and shadow throughout. Maus is currently preparing a new album and coming to Europe this summer for a handful of select dates. This will be his only UK performance.
https://johnmaus.bandcamp.com

UTR shows for June!

 

How soon in June?   Upset The Rhythm have a parade of prevailing entertainments for you next month! This Sunday we’re staggering about in disbelief to have Editrix, Beige Palace and Es all playing for us at The Lexington, full-on, full frequency, sonic sickness guaranteed. Then the following day, June 5th  sees us team up with Cafe OTO to bring Wendy Eisenberg and Gg with Isaiah Hull to town, improv-paradise, cannot wait!   Xiu Xiu chaperoned by squalls of harsh noise their art-damaged-pop are set to perform for us at EartH Theatre on June 7th, whilst Mount Eerie pitches his tent up for a June 12/13th double header at Grand Junction. We only have 25 tickets left now for June 12th so well worth buying in advance. June 13th is already sold out.   Right now you’re probably thinking that’s pretty busy, but we’ve also been lucky enough to line up Screaming Females + Sniffany And The Nits for June 14th (Oslo Hackney) and Shannon And The Clams + Water Machine for June 23rd (Studio 9294) too! What a month, more detail on all of these incredible concerts to follow.   Also, check out our listings section for new shows from Wolf Eyes, Yeah You, Lande Hekt, Supermilk and Charley Stone too. All on sale now!

Upset The Rhythm presents… EDITRIX BEIGE PALACE ES Sunday 4 June The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/de59bbb09db5 EDITRIX is Steve Cameron, Josh Daniel, and Wendy Eisenberg. Steve plays bass, Josh plays drums, Wendy plays guitar and sings. Editrix came to life around 2018. Eisenberg had honed their skills as a jazz guitarist, but was drawn to noise after growing frustrated by a limited area of study. Inspired by the Northeast's thriving DIY scene, they moved from the Washington, D.C. suburbs to Boston. Editrix is as if you took music that is borderline classical in its crystalline perfection and obsessive attention to detail, and then played it through Kurt Cobain's Rat pedal, with not a shred of piety or decorum. From the first slide guitar notes of the opening title track, this is doom-laden nihilism lovingly decorated in heart stickers. It is caring, pretending not to care, resisting the emotive signals so abused in mainstream, which is what tells you that it really does care. It is the synthesis of the dialectic and the clarion call of the proletarian revolution. ‘Editrix II’ is the group’s new album, a record that’s impossible not to like. Do not expect calcified recreations of pre-existing bands, even the ones Editrix loves. But if pop is anything to do with melody, well, prepare yourself to be singing along by the second line of each track. If it's defined by rhythm, warn your head not to get caught napping because it will shortly be banging. And if for you pop equals a full-on full-frequency sonic sickness, this one grabs your ears by the ear lapels and never lets go. This is haiku rock, its minimal lyrics compressing novels into a few syllables. It sounds like it came to their heads like bolt of lightning. https://editrix.bandcamp.com/album/editrix-ii-editrix-goes-to-hell   BEIGE PALACE is a minimalist rock trio from Leeds, featuring Anthony Bedford (drums/vocals), Kelly Bishop (keys/violin/vocals) and Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe (guitar/vocals). Incubated at the noise-rock-melting-pot communal space CHUNK, and having toured with the likes of Shellac and Mclusky, the band tends to adopt a subtler approach than many of their peers. Drawing as much inspiration from Ivor Cutler and Bjork as from Deerhoof and This Heat, they have been described as "beautifully unnerving" by Kerrang! and "stalking, ominous" by Pink Wafer. Since the release of 'Leg' in April 2019, Beige Palace have been dormant more often than not, but a second LP 'Making Sounds For Andy' is due for release via Human Worth in 2023. https://beigepalace.bandcamp.com/   ES returned this month with their incredible new EP ‘Fantasy’ (Upset The Rhythm). A four-track contact-high anxiety amid fact and facsimile, the new release attempts to define a sound that still resonates in an increasingly confused public theatre, where cerebral dreams manifest in corrupt fascination. 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. Es deconstruct our modern wreckage of personhood and self-deceit, granting a sense of solidarity inside alienation. https://esband.bandcamp.com/ * Upset The Rhythm & Cafe OTO presents… WENDY EISENBERG Gg with ISAIAH HULL Monday 5 June Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 8pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j7e7e795e1fb WENDY EISENBERG is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the computer, the synthesizer and the voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues, from international festivals to intimate basements. Though often working solo as both a songwriter and improviser, with acclaimed releases on Tzadik, Ba Da Bing, VDSQ, Out of your Head, and Dear Life. They also perform in the rock band Editrix, and in endless other combinations of their heroes and peers including Allison Miller, Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Billy Martin, and Caroline Davis. They are also a writer on music and other things, with published essays on music in Sound American, Arcana, and the Contemporary Music Review. https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/ Gg improvise with guitar, drums and cello, for this performance they will collaborate with Isaiah Hull too. Featuring members of caroline.

Upset The Rhythm presents… XIU XIU ME LOST ME Wednesday 7 June EartH Theatre, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 8BH 6.30pm-10.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/U47253457cae XIU XIU is the conduit for the uncompromising and unnervingly personal musical works of Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist Jamie Stewart, plus a roll call of collaborators both in studio and onstage. Streaming forth a ceaseless torrent of releases, side projects, art offerings and extensive international touring since 2002, Xiu Xiu's music has veered from damaged avant-pop to artfully orchestrated rock, squalls of black-hearted noise and most bases around and between, ever served with a bruising honesty and intensity that has ripped out the hearts of a legion of obsessive listeners. This March the band return with a devastatingly macabre, appropriately cacophonous new album, titled Ignore Grief, due for release on Polyvinyl. The current iteration of Xiu Xiu includes existing members Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo, now joined by old friend and new member David Kendrick (Sparks, Devo, Gleaming Spires). ‘Ignore Gried’ is an album of halves. Angela Seo sings on half of the record. Jamie Stewart sings on half of the record. Half of the songs are experimental industrial. Half of the songs are experimental modern classical. Half of it is real. Half of it is imaginary. Xiu Xiu has spent twenty years grappling with how to process, to be empathetic towards, to disobey and to reorganize horror; there is no other word for it other than horror. http://www.xiuxiu.org/ ME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. Led by Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music, the project has transformed since 2017 from a solo endeavor to an expanded group; regularly collaborating with acclaimed North-East jazz musicians Faye MacCalman and John Pope. Me Lost Me’s music has been described in The Guardian as "stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out", and by BBC Radio 6's Tom Robinson as a "brilliant peculiar noise". Me Lost Me’s forthcoming album ‘RPG’ will be released on July 7th via Upset The Rhythm. https://www.melostme.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… MOUNT EERIE SHAKE CHAIN (June 12) FREDA D’SOUZA (June 13) Monday 12 June - LAST FEW TICKETS Tuesday 13 June - SOLD OUT Grand Junction, Rowington Cl, London, W2 5TF 7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/w88164324bc2 MOUNT EERIE aka Phil Elverum is an artist and human being from the Pacific Northwest town of Anacortes. His recordings, released variously as The Microphones and Mount Eerie, represent just a portion of his artistic output, which has ranged from running a label and co-organizing festivals to self-publishing books, photography, and painting. But it is for his stunningly original music that he is known best, from the earliest tape experiments of the ’90s to the immersive sound-diary of Microphones in 2020. Elverum has never shied from exploring the high mountain passes, finding new ways to sculpt with sound, and trying to communicate the momentary experience of being human as clearly as the water from freshly melted snow. https://www.pwelverumandsun.com/ SHAKE CHAIN have been busy demolishing audiences and expectations for the best part of the last three years. Vocalist Kate Mahony sets that standard by anything from crawling through the audience’s legs in a bright yellow raincoat to crying and washing her hands in a nearby toilet, as the rest of the band start the set. The four-piece from London are completed by Robert Eyres (Synth/Guitar), Chris Hopkins (Bass/Synth/Samples) and Joe Fergey (Drums). Shake Chain are built of nervy bass lines, twitchy guitars that jolt and jerk and tack sharp drums, overridden by screeching vocal slurs and sampled television. Kate’s singing is a unique embrace of flights of atonal fancy, head-first repetition and ecstatic frenzy. Opinion-dividing arguably, but singular in making Shake Chain dauntingly brilliant. The band’s debut album ’Snake Chain’ is out now on Upset The Rhythm. https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/snake-chain    FREDA D’SOUZA is an artist who contentedly creates at snail’s pace. Her world is small; simplicity reveals detail and, in turn, detail reveals infinity. Her songs place the unspeakable intensity of love and life within a warm and shimmering sonic world, filled with layered vocals, lush strings and dynamic arrangements. Out June 2023, her debut EP Windowledge explores the trials of intimacy and the value of introspection and forging space for reflection. Freda cherishes space. In space, there is tenderness. https://soundcloud.com/fredadsouza

Upset The Rhythm presents… SCREAMING FEMALES SNIFFANY AND THE NITS Wednesday 14 June OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ld532d69ac2a SCREAMING FEMALES have now been a band for half the lifetime of its members. Formed in 2005 in New Brunswick, NJ, the trio has consistently created a hearty, surprising mix of indie, alt, punk and stoner-rock, all with their original line-up of Marissa Paternoster (guitar, vocals), “King Mike” Mike Abbate (bass) and Jarrett Dougherty (drums). Released on February 17th by Don Giovanni Records, the group’s new album ‘Desire Pathway’ was recorded at Minnesota’s Pachyderm Studios (where Nirvana recorded In Utero) and produced by Matt Bayles (Foxing, Pearl Jam, Mastodon, et al). Bright and full, the album captures the band at a time when nothing was certain other than their abiding desire to make music together. ‘Desire Pathway’ opens with the Sabbathy hypnotism of “Brass Bell.” Following a swelling haze of synth, feedback shrieks, martial snares advance, and the band explodes into a bracing groove. Soon, Paternoster makes the cryptic announcement: “I have flown us to the moon,” and we’re off. The song has the effect of clearing one haze and replacing it with another, much heavier one. “Beyond the Void” may gather gloomily, but it quickly releases into its jangly, memorable chorus. Single “Mourning Dove” successfully channels the Pixies into a tight, driving power-pop song that passionately declares “my love for you is too strong to hide.” Now 18 years and eight albums in, Screaming Females are still making their own path in the world, still touring DIY and releasing music without compromise. The route might cut a little off the main road, but you’ll quickly see there’s a reason they’re on it. You just might like where it leads you. https://screamingfemales.com/ SNIFFANY AND THE NITS are a deranged, genuinely troubling punk band from London featuring members of Joanna Gruesome, Ex-Void and The Tubs. The Unscratchable Itch is their debut album via PRAH Recordings. It’s Sister Sniffany, and her singular lyrical and performance style, who elevates the band beyond the sum of their influences. Her lyrics touch on a world of hidden humiliations, girl abjection, crumpled lager cans, clam chowder and lumpy, over-stuffed dollies. The band veer between atonal no-wave guitar assault, straight-up hardcore, goth/anarcho or whatever takes their fancy, while remaining identifiably Nit-like. Always grounded by a pounding, pogo-ing rhythm section, The Nits provide the perfect backdrop for Sister Sniffany’s wild, relentless live performances. https://sniffanyandthenits.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents… SHANNON AND THE CLAMS WATER MACHINE Friday 23 June Studio 9294, 92 Wallis Rd, London, E9 5LN 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/hf06661a86a9 SHANNON AND THE CLAMS are from Oakland, California and comprise of Shannon Shaw (vocals, bass), Cody Blanchard (vocals, guitar), and Ian Amberson (drums, vocals). Sounding like a prom band from 1964 getting dosed with acid and having the sweetest lovelorn freak out, Shannon And The Clams defy expectations. Imagine a brawling Etta James, backed up by the 13th Floor Elevators singing Shangri La's tunes. Shannon has a voice that can go from a sweet girl group croon to a bluesy ballsy growl before you realize you're headed for the (dance) floor. It's total punk rock bop, brimming with doo-wop glory delivered to your door by the Homecoming Queen and Kings of weirdo rock 'n' roll. Year Of The Spider, the band’s sixth studio album, rages against death and disease with the power of a thousand angry Ronettes. Songs like “All Of My Cryin',” “Mary, Don’t Go,” and “Year Of The Spider,” pulse with girl-group elegance and punk ferocity. On a Clams record, you always get both. As a songwriter, Cody Blanchard said he can get neurotic, so he tried Dolly Parton’s trick: writing songs from another person’s point of view. It worked, yielding some of Spider’s darkest songs: the howling “Crawl,” which has a roiling hard-rock guitar (“that was really fun — just a classic, rippin’ ‘70s guitar solo”) and the album's first single, “Midnight Wine," a thundering baroque-pop number that was inspired by friends and people in the Oakland arts community. http://shannonandtheclams.com/   WATER MACHINE is an office romance between Hando Morice (they/them), Flore de Hoog (she/her), Jimmy Gage (he/him) and Goda Ilgauskaitė (she/her). They play jangly punky music. They are here to have fun. https://goldmoldrecords.bandcamp.com/.../water-machine-demo

Thanks as ever for all your support, see you on Sunday! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

EDITRIX BIEGE PALACE ES Sunday 4 June The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/de59bbb09db5 WENDY EISENBERG Gg Monday 5 June Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL (Produced by UTR  and Cafe OTO) 8pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/j7e7e795e1fb   XIU XIU ME LOST ME Wednesday 7 June EartH Theatre, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 8BH 6.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/U47253457cae   MOUNT EERIE FREDA D'SOUZA (June 12) SHAKE CHAIN (June 13) Monday 12 June Tuesday 13 June - SOLD OUT Grand Junction, Rowington Cl, London W2 5TF 7.30pm | Tickets:  https://link.dice.fm/w88164324bc2  SCREAMING FEMALES SNIFFANY AND THE NITS Wednesday 14 June OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ld532d69ac2a   SHANNON AND THE CLAMS WATER MACHINE Friday 23 June Studio 9294, 92 Wallis Rd, London, E9 5LN 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/hf06661a86a9    BARBARA MANNING JOWE HEAD Monday 24 July Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL (Produced by UTR and Cafe OTO) 8pm | £12 | Tickets: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/28th-day-barbara-manning/   CURRENT AFFAIRS THE PLAN Wednesday 26 July The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/O2543ad5f210   DEERHOOF Monday 21 August Lafayette, 11 Goods Way, London, N1C 4DP 7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Ef612b08c524    LANDE HEKT SUPERMILK CHARLEY STONE Monday 23 October The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/s8612f0fbfaf   PROTOMARTYR Thursday 26 October Electric Ballroom 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP 7pm-11pm | £17.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/hca4d1d3c365   WOLF EYES YEAH YOU Sunday 5 November 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/b59d2922fb18 LANKUM Wednesday 13 December Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8EH (Produced by UTR and Parallel Lines) 7.30pm | £22.50-25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ff42bd8be939

 

June activities!

 

How soon in June? Upset The Rhythm have a parade of prevailing entertainments for you next month! 

 On June 4th we’re staggering about in disbelief to have Editrix, Beige Palace and Es playing for us at The Lexington, full-on, full frequency, sonic sickness guaranteed. June 5th  sees us team up with Cafe OTO to bring Wendy Eisenberg and Gg with Isaiah Hull to town, improv-heaven! Xiu Xiu chaperoned by squalls of harsh noise their art-damaged-pop are set to perform for us at EartH Theatre on June 7th, whilst Mount Eerie pitches his tent up for a June 12/13th double header at Grand Junction. Right now you’re probably thinking that’s pretty busy, but we’ve also been lucky enough to line up Screaming Females for June 14th (Oslo Hackney) and Shannon And The Clams for June 23rd (Studio 9294) too! 

What a month, more info on all of these incredible concerts here: https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/

LANDE HEKT - London show announced for October 23rd!

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

LANDE HEKT
Monday 23 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/s8612f0fbfaf

LANDE HEKT crafted politically aware, heart-on-sleeve, punchy yet tender, punk-flecked songs with her band Muncie Girls, more recently she turned her hand to an even more personal songwriting approach by writing a solo record - 2021’s Going To Hell. The debut full-length was released via queer and trans run independent label Get Better Records and documented her experience coming out as gay. It set out her stall as a solo artist with supreme storytelling abilities and a knack for understatedly luminous melodies. Lande’s music sits beautifully alongside such artists as The Wedding Present, The Replacements and Sharon Van Etten.

Lande met 2022 armed with a whole new collection of song-form vignettes and musings on her life for her second album House Without a View. This record continued 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. This year Lande Hekt continues her poignant musical introspection with two new singles ‘Pottery Class’ and ‘Axis’. Bittersweet ‘Pottery Class’ captures the feeling of yearning for someone and longing for a space to share with that person. In the song, Lande reflects: “we could move to the city, go to shows and join a pottery class / But you’d always be overwhelmed by everything that moves too fast / I don’t care where we live, I just want you back.”

https://landehekt.bandcamp.com/