The Cleaners From Venus - extra show added!

 

 

Due to spectacular demand (thank you everyone!), we are adding an extra date for The Cleaners From Venus at Islington Assembly Hall on October 5th! Best news… The Gardeners will also be performing. Tickets on sale now: https://link.dice.fm/eb85ea9a3f61

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Upset The Rhythm presents…

THE CLEANERS FROM VENUS
THE GARDENERS
Wednesday 30 September &…
Monday 5 October (newly announce show)!
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Jeae6ca73fca  /  https://link.dice.fm/eb85ea9a3f61

THE CLEANERS FROM VENUS will be performing this Autumn in London. Martin Newell will be on guitar and piano, joined by Nelson Surfquake Nice -  an original member of Cleaners back in the 80s, and half of The Brotherhood of Lizards alongside Martin. The group will be performing some classic Cleaners songs, with a Brotherhood of Lizards cameo-set thrown in!

Martin Newell is a purveyor of ingenious pop music. His music is refracted from late 60s rock only shot through with invention from the rough-and-ready explosion of DIY tape releases in 80s Britain. As a songwriter, he’s right up there with Syd Barrett and Ray Davies, capturing a peculiar Englishness that’s very much his own. 

Martin started his career in music aged 19 when he joined an Essex glam-rock band called The Mighty Plod as a singer and gigged in rough clubs, pubs and colleges for the next two years. In his early twenties he joined a hard rock/prog band from Ipswich called Gypp and gigged in the UK as well as touring northern Germany several times. In 1979, he won his first record contract and shortly afterwards his first single ‘Young Jobless / Sylvie In Toytown’ was released, first on an indie label and then with Liberty Records. In the 1980s he formed the anarchic and wonderfully offbeat Cleaners From Venus, who after much defiance of music biz convention, signed to a London record company and began making proper records which were well reviewed and well-received. He began co-writing songs with Captain Sensible in 1986, a relationship which endures to some extent to this day. In 1989 he and his friend Nelson, now of New Model Army formed The Brotherhood of Lizards, were signed to make an album and proceeded to promote it, touring the record by bicycle. This led to many TV appearances and some notoriety and amusement in the media. In 1993, with XTC's Andy Partridge in the producer's chair Martin made what was to become his most successful album ‘The Greatest Living Englishman’, hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as a rock classic. Over the last ten years Martin has continued to release exhilarating albums under his own name and as Cleaners from Venus, most recently a winsome new Cleaners album called ‘K7’ was released on CD and cassette.

A highly-entertaining live act, Martin Newell performs infrequently, refusing nowadays to tour at all.  He has been the subject of  a highly-praised documentary film Upstairs Planet (2019) which enjoyed premieres both in London and in New York. A second documentary The Jangling Man, the director James Sharp’s intimate portrait of  Newell’s life and work,  premiered in London and Los Angeles in October 2022.

https://www.cleanersfromvenus.com/


THE GARDENERS are a jangle-pop inspired indie rock band hailing from London and Southend On Sea. They have recently backed up Martin Newell as part of a live version of Cleaners From Venus. Check out their sublime new single ‘Round the West’ / ‘Falling from You’. 

https://linktr.ee/thegardenersband

Gun Outfit & Artificial Go

 

Hello there!   The glorious day has arrived to share the sprawling wonder of Process and Reality - Gun Outfit’s astonishment of a sixth album! Gun Outfit is a long running lifestyle band out of Los Angeles, California. For two decades the group has been making unclassifiable underground rock music that strives to remain humble and true to life. Beginning as a crude duo, they have solidified into a crack five piece; a post punk band playing experimental folk rock with a local flavour.   The sound has grown mellower, more expansive and more intimate in response to the schizophrenic environment in which we live.         Process and Reality is Gun Outfit's most ambitious record yet. Self-recorded over the course of a month on a ranch in Pine Flat, California while a forest fire burned ten miles away, the album is an apocalyptic improvisation on a passing world. A series of sonic landscapes and a set of discrete and inviting songs,   Process and Reality is a maelstrom of vibe grounded by lyrical engagement and limited means. Dulcimer, autoharp, keyboard, melodica, sitar and a variety of other instruments in novel arrangements widen the sound, a collaborative approach to songwriting broadens the emotional scope and intuitive mixing and a commitment to analogue gear gives the production a subtle mystical resonance.    Order Process & Reality on DLP or CD from our webshop here! Principle songwriters Dylan Sharp and Carrie Keith grew up in rural Washington state, forming Gun Outfit in Olympia in 2006. Daniel Swire has been drumming in the band since 2010; on this record he plays a variety of other instruments as well. Multi-instrumentalist Henry Barnes (of Amps For Christ) joined in 2015, but this record emphasizes his virtuosity on his homemade instruments and electronics. Kayla Cohen has been playing bass in the band since 2019. Other collaborators - Chris Cohen, Warren Lee, Danny Sasaki and others - have all left their mark on this majestic double LP.            “Taking the worldly wisdom of heartland rock and infusing it with cosmic acceptance” 8/10 UNCUT “A dreamtime of reverb-drenched echoes of Grouper, Neil Young and Bardo Pond” * * * * MOJO   “Gun Outfit’s answer to Zen Arcade and Double Nickels On The Dime” THE WIRE   Alright! Upset The Rhythm also have an amazing live show on the horizon.   Next Wednesday at New River Studios we're beside ourselves to host Cincinnati new wave pop sensations Artificial Go! They're literally the most catchy, fun band going, plus we have excellent Feel It Records labelmates No Peeling coming down from Nottingham to shake things wildly up too. Tickets are £10 in advance or on the door, see you very much there!   Read on for all the specifics. You'll also find newly added shows for Carla dal Forno, Jake Xerxes Fussell, EarthBall and R.M.F.C. in our listings section.   Upset The Rhythm are also getting ready to partake in the always >F>U>N> and (hopefully sun-blessed) Independent Label Market this Saturday at Coal Drops Yard. We'll have lots of new and forthcoming releases with us, tons of back catalogue gems and some vanishingly rare warehouse finds! See you there from 11am - 6.30pm, do stop by and say hello!         Upset The Rhythm presents… ARTIFICIAL GO NO PEELING Wednesday 13 May New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/P1af2a986141 ARTIFICIAL GO hail from Cincinnati, USA, and bring the beat to life with their New / No / Whatever Wave weirdness! Last year they released ‘Musical Chairs’, building on 2024’s 'Hopscotch Fever', an album of ten existential post-punk chamber pop tracks. Recorded at Lambda Research and the haunted attic of the band’s house, the core trio of Angie Willcutt, Micah Wu, and Cole Gilfilen have traded the sparse jangle of their debut for a broader, fuller sound. ‘Musical Chairs’ deftly meshes the angular excitability of 'Hopscotch Fever' with a spectral warmth and expensiveness able to encompass acoustic guitars, Wu’s almost metaphysical funk bass lines, tape loops and blips and bleeps, a guest spot by Eric Dietrich (of The Drin and Sorry Eric) on saxophone, and Gilfilen’s hip moving boom-bap drumming add to the excitement. In Willcutt’s hands, the struggles, and at times terrors, of our current age are playfully subverted with agile world play and dynamic vocalization that moves from sweet and dreamy to cartoonishly exaggerated as she charts an emotional course through such topics as the difficulties of playing the role of “woman” in a misogynist world (“Playing Puppet”) or the injustice of anthropocentric hierarchy (“Tightrope Walker”). Musical Chairs is serious music not meant to be taken too seriously, a playful act of resistance, a meditation on the good and bad of this world, and ultimately a remarkable statement on the continuing growth of Artificial Go. https://artificialgo.bandcamp.com/ NO PEELING formed in 2025 as a studio project by five friends in the fertile Nottingham DIY underground. September 2025’s self-titled EP was the perfect introduction to the No Peeling universe. Bandcamp Daily picked it as an Essential Release, calling it “a clanging collection of get-in-get-out egg punk that doesn’t ask for more than 10 minutes of your time and overdelivers on every front”. It managed to cram a lifetime of idea-nuggets into seven songs that rarely exceeded the minute mark. A blast of enthusiasm and hyperactivity, the EP was the audio equivalent of a barrage firework: exhilarating and energising. Whilst the first EP was completed before the band had played live; the forthcoming EP2 hits a little differently.  EP2 has the garage punk clatter and sparkly efficiency of their debut but is somehow faster and weirder. The guitar and synth seem to be engaged in a constant (playful) fight, tumbling further and further away from the song structure being held together (and propelled) by one of the tightest rhythm sections around. The scrawl and skronk might occasionally recall No Wave but those grooves are locked down. This all provides the perfect foundation for the wry, dry observations of Sophie Diver. From pasta post and fluff-clad delinquents to clingfilm catastrophes and poor working conditions, all modern life’s bases are covered and emerge miraculously from a magic-eye explosion of clangs, thwacks and bloops.  https://nopeeling.bandcamp.com/album/no-peeling         Upset The Rhythm & Weird World presents... DISCOMBODURATION: HEN OGLEDD joined by special guests!  Saturday 6 June Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD  2pm-10pm (8 hour set) | Free to all! | Just turn up on the day! HEN OGLEDD are a Scottish-Welsh-Geordie-Lancashire-Australian supergroup. They will be performing a special 8-hour sound-ritual in the most haunted and wondrous locale of The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury, London this early summer. Splintering their latest album DISCOMBOBULATED through prisms of drone, improvisation, dance, caterwauling, kinetic-sculpture, befuddlement, squelching, dreamiest of dream-pop, ha-ha-harp, horrible stuff, coo-ing and large blasts - this extended un-concert is bound to be an immersive overwhelming experience and a pivotal moment in the history of people having a nice time.  DISCOMBODURATION explores themes of collapse, persistence, and collective imagination. With costume and a life(ish) size, pop up book set’ artist Rachael MacArthur will bring forth a lucid psychogenic fantasy episodic landscape with each stage of the performance. Hen Ogledd are exploring what it means to perform through crisis, to dance, speak, and imagine within the ruins, and to build, even temporarily, a space for a shared vision. Please join us for DISCOMBODURATION on 6th June, in entirety from 2pm til 10pm, or drop in as you please/at your own peril. https://www.henogledd.com/  Thank you for your time! Upset The Rhythm                             UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

ARTIFICIAL GO NO PEELING Wednesday 13 May New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Fe9ef9f4142d  DISCOMBODURATION: HEN OGLEDD joined by special guests!  Saturday 6 June Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD  2pm-10pm (8 hour set) | Free to all! | Just turn up on the day!   ALISON COTTON ECKA MORDECAI Wednesday 1 July The Old Church, Church St, Stoke Newington, London, N16 9ES 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/z09756e9c72e   PROLAPSE JETSTREAM PONY Friday 7 August 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Ia90705d4651   JEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY LIDDERS  CHRISTINA CARTER  Saturday 8 August Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g5abdad7e406   LINDA SMITH & BAND TRASH KIT STUART MOXHAM  Thursday 20 August The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S95c334aac7b   EARTHBALL Tuesday 25 August The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Y653a0c64eb6   MARISA ANDERSON Thursday 3 September Theatreship, South Quay Plaza, London, E14 9SH 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/f5f9fa0cf04d   THE CLEANERS FROM VENUS Wednesday 30 September Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Jeae6ca73fca   CARLA DAL FORNO GUESTS Thursday 1 October ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £16.50 | Tickets: https://dice.fm/event/69f1eedac3bbec0001965111   R.M.F.C. Saturday 3 October The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ta72c863481e   JAKE XERXES FUSSELL NAIMA BOCK Wednesday 14 October Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, Islington, London, N1 2UN 6.30pm | £22 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/gabfbf797f55   TARA CLERKIN TRIO - Two Day residency Tuesday 20 October &... Wednesday 21 October ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/A84511d5ee4a  /   https://link.dice.fm/D620a1b54750   WENDY EISENBERG - Two Day residency Sunday 8 November &... Monday 9 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J45b4549b556  /  https://link.dice.fm/ea3ed6db0595

Jake Xerxes Fussell - Union Chapel show announced!

 

One of our favourite artists, Jake Xerxes Fussell, will return to London this October. It will be sublime to see Jake play his inventive folk renditions at the magnificent Union Chapel, what a perfect match! Plus, we’re very lucky to have the talented Naima Bock perform at this concert too. Tickets on sale from 10am on Friday morning.
 

 

Upset The Rhythm presents…

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
NAIMA BOCK
Wednesday 14 October
Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, Islington, London, N1 2UN
6.30pm | £22 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/gabfbf797f55

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL is a singer, guitarist and folk music interpreter who has distinguished himself as one of his generation's preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so traditional) "folk" songs, a practice which he approaches with a refreshingly unfussy lack of nostalgia. By recontextualizing ancient vernacular songs and sources of the American South, he allows them to breathe and speak for themselves and for himself; he alternately inhabits them and allows them to inhabit him. In all his work, Fussell humanises his material with his own curatorial and interpretive gifts, unmooring stories and melodies from their specific eras and origins and setting them adrift in our own waterways.

On his latest album, When I’m Called - his first LP for Fat Possum, and his first as a parent - Fussell returns to a well of music that holds lifelong sentimental meaning, loosely contemplating the passage of time and the procession of life’s unexpected offerings. The album was produced by James Elkington and mixed by Tucker Martine. In addition to Elkington, it features the playing of Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station) and Joe Westerlund (Bon Iver, Califone). Blake Mills contributes guitars on several tracks. Joan Shelley and Robin Holcomb provide backing vocals. 

https://www.jakexerxesfussell.com/

Aug 25th - EarthBall!

 

EarthBall have only just left the UK, but…. they’ll be back this Summer to play Krankenhaus Festival, so we’ve snapped them up to play London again! Bring it!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

EARTHBALL
Tuesday 25 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Y653a0c64eb6

EARTHBALL are an avant/noise/rock wrecking ball of a band from Nanaimo, Canada. Rooted in total improvisation, free expression, and a deeply psychedelic sensibility, EarthBall operate on pure instinct. They hurtle onwards in a combustion of spontaneous composition, shooting from the hip, as they fall out of the sky ablaze. The group encompass Isabel Ford (vocals, bass), John Brennan (drums, percussion), Jeremy Van Wyke (vocals, guitar, trumpet), Kellan Maclaughlin (guitar, talkbox), and Liam Murphy (saxophone). Each member brings a rich and varied musical history, with past and present projects including Shearing Pinx, Plan Your Future, Kamikaze Nurse, Eschatons, and Psychedelic Dirt. Collectively and individually, they have collaborated with artists such as Deerhoof, Raven Chacon, Chris Corsano, and William Hooker, deepening the band’s exploratory reach and collective language.

Since forming in 2021, EarthBall have released six cassettes and three fervently received LPs on Upset The Rhythm, including November’s widely acclaimed Outside Over There. Their latest release, Actual Earth Music - Volume 3 & 4 (out June 26th), follows the first instalment in the series and captures two mind-quaking highlights from last winter’s European tour. This is EarthBall plunging to full fathom five, transforming into something rich and strange - channeling the fleeting moment as it fractures, erupts, and dissolves into the unknown. Actual Earth Music - Volume 3 & 4 marks another ascent in EarthBall’s ever-expanding, totemic discography, an ecstatic storm of raw immediacy and unfiltered expression. EarthBall came, conjured and opened the portal! Blink and it’s gone. What was that? Actual Earth Music! 

https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/outside-over-there
 

Carla dal Forno - London show on Oct 1st!

 

 

We’ve been playing Carla dal Forno’s affecting new album ‘Confession’ non-stop over the bank holiday, and now we’re delighted to confirm there’s a London concert planned for October 1st! How exciting?

Tickets on sale from 9am this Friday


Upset The Rhythm presents…

CARLA DAL FORNO
Thursday 1 October
ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
7.30pm | £16.50 | Tickets: https://dice.fm/event/69f1eedac3bbec0001965111 

CARLA DAL FORNO is an Australian composer, songwriter and producer based in Castlemaine, Victoria. Working between post-punk minimalism, experimental pop and atmospheric electronics, she has built a dedicated international following through a series of acclaimed releases and extensive touring across Europe and North America.Her albums have been praised by outlets including Pitchfork, The Quietus and Resident Advisor, alongside airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music. Beyond her recorded work, dal Forno hosts a monthly radio program on NTS Radio, where she curates eclectic selections spanning experimental electronics, dub, post-punk and leftfield pop - offering insight into the wide-ranging influences that inform her own practice.

She has performed headline shows and festival appearances throughout the UK, Europe and the United States, including dates in London, Berlin, Paris and New York City, as well as appearances at Unsound Festival and Le Guess Who? Her fourth studio album, Confession, expands her signature sound while maintaining the minimal, immersive qualities that have defined her work to date. On stage, dal Forno delivers a focused and atmospheric set that moves between brooding electronics and melodic immediacy - a performance that is both restrained and quietly powerful.

https://carladalforno.bandcamp.com/ 

R.M.F.C. heading to London this October!

A whole new level of EXCITEMENT needed for this show in October!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

R.M.F.C.
Saturday 3 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ta72c863481e

R.M.F.C. is the recording project of New South Wales’ Buz Clatworthy. Buz Clatworthy seemingly writes songs with natural born ease, both unfussy and hyper catchy. Since 2018 R.M.F.C. have released a slew on 7”s on Anti Fade, Total Punk and Goodbye Boozy and 2023’s debut full-length ‘Club Hits’. This album gained energy and charm from both punchy songs and subtly, with each song moving R.M.F.C. forward, whilst holding something memorable.

Since then Clatworthy has continued to push himself creatively through singles, which feels like the smart play. He is allowed the freedom to experiment and express without really having to harken back to any trace of his beginnings of automaton-inflected, fast-paced wormy punk from his youth. Most recent 7” ‘Ecstatic Strife’ dips its mug into the punch bowl of what’s best about New Zealand’s ’80s jangle pop scene, with Clatworthy’s assured drumming keeping it on edge. B-side ‘Golden Trick’ is a magical stunner that delves into something more meditative. It’s meditative and lush and hopefully a promise of more to come.

https://rockmusicfanclub.bandcamp.com/ 

Season 2 - out now!

Hello everyone!   The sun is shining on Season 2’s debut album today! This jaw-dropping bop of an album, Power of Now, is now released by Upset The Rhythm.  Season 2 formed in late 2024, bringing together seasoned Melbourne musicians with previous and current projects including Parsnip, The Stroppies and Phil and the Tiles. The five piece, comprising Carolyn Hawkins, Claudia Serfaty, Charlotte Zarb, Freya McLeod and Matt Powell, quickly set to work writing winsome, DIY, shimmer-pop hits that careen through your mind in a gratifying dizzy rush.   The result is… Power of Now - a cerebral explosion of melody, hooks, drones and rhythm. In the vein of The Feelies, The Vaselines and The Clean, Season 2 have whipped up a sonic whirlwind. It's a total thrill of snappy slap, catchy gang vocals and crystalline guitar refrains. Power of Now is available from all the best shops and our own webstore.       Read on for more info on our upcoming London shows for May and June with the magnificent Artificial Go and Hen Ogledd. You'll also find two newly announced concerts with Wendy Eisenberg in November in our programme that concludes this message.   100% heartfelt thank yous to everyone for coming out in droves over this last ten days to see so many concerts, every one a highlight, we've had an absolute blast!         Upset The Rhythm presents… ARTIFICIAL GO NO PEELING Wednesday 13 May New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/P1af2a986141 ARTIFICIAL GO hail from Cincinnati, USA, and bring the beat to life with their New / No / Whatever Wave weirdness! Last year they released ‘Musical Chairs’, building on 2024’s 'Hopscotch Fever', an album of ten existential post-punk chamber pop tracks. Recorded at Lambda Research and the haunted attic of the band’s house, the core trio of Angie Willcutt, Micah Wu, and Cole Gilfilen have traded the sparse jangle of their debut for a broader, fuller sound. ‘Musical Chairs’ deftly meshes the angular excitability of 'Hopscotch Fever' with a spectral warmth and expensiveness able to encompass acoustic guitars, Wu’s almost metaphysical funk bass lines, tape loops and blips and bleeps, a guest spot by Eric Dietrich (of The Drin and Sorry Eric) on saxophone, and Gilfilen’s hip moving boom-bap drumming add to the excitement. In Willcutt’s hands, the struggles, and at times terrors, of our current age are playfully subverted with agile world play and dynamic vocalization that moves from sweet and dreamy to cartoonishly exaggerated as she charts an emotional course through such topics as the difficulties of playing the role of “woman” in a misogynist world (“Playing Puppet”) or the injustice of anthropocentric hierarchy (“Tightrope Walker”). Musical Chairs is serious music not meant to be taken too seriously, a playful act of resistance, a meditation on the good and bad of this world, and ultimately a remarkable statement on the continuing growth of Artificial Go. https://artificialgo.bandcamp.com/ NO PEELING formed in 2025 as a studio project by five friends in the fertile Nottingham DIY underground. September 2025’s self-titled EP was the perfect introduction to the No Peeling universe. Bandcamp Daily picked it as an Essential Release, calling it “a clanging collection of get-in-get-out egg punk that doesn’t ask for more than 10 minutes of your time and overdelivers on every front”. It managed to cram a lifetime of idea-nuggets into seven songs that rarely exceeded the minute mark. A blast of enthusiasm and hyperactivity, the EP was the audio equivalent of a barrage firework: exhilarating and energising. Whilst the first EP was completed before the band had played live; the forthcoming EP2 hits a little differently.  EP2 has the garage punk clatter and sparkly efficiency of their debut but is somehow faster and weirder. The guitar and synth seem to be engaged in a constant (playful) fight, tumbling further and further away from the song structure being held together (and propelled) by one of the tightest rhythm sections around. The scrawl and skronk might occasionally recall No Wave but those grooves are locked down. This all provides the perfect foundation for the wry, dry observations of Sophie Diver. From pasta post and fluff-clad delinquents to clingfilm catastrophes and poor working conditions, all modern life’s bases are covered and emerge miraculously from a magic-eye explosion of clangs, thwacks and bloops.  https://nopeeling.bandcamp.com/album/no-peeling         Upset The Rhythm & Weird World presents... DISCOMBODURATION: HEN OGLEDD joined by special guests!  Saturday 6 June Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD  2pm-10pm (8 hour set) | Free to all! | Just turn up on the day! HEN OGLEDD are a Scottish-Welsh-Geordie-Lancashire-Australian supergroup. They will be performing a special 8-hour sound-ritual in the most haunted and wondrous locale of The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury, London this early summer. Splintering their latest album DISCOMBOBULATED through prisms of drone, improvisation, dance, caterwauling, kinetic-sculpture, befuddlement, squelching, dreamiest of dream-pop, ha-ha-harp, horrible stuff, coo-ing and large blasts - this extended un-concert is bound to be an immersive overwhelming experience and a pivotal moment in the history of people having a nice time.  DISCOMBODURATION explores themes of collapse, persistence, and collective imagination. With costume and a life(ish) size, pop up book set’ artist Rachael MacArthur will bring forth a lucid psychogenic fantasy episodic landscape with each stage of the performance. Hen Ogledd are exploring what it means to perform through crisis, to dance, speak, and imagine within the ruins, and to build, even temporarily, a space for a shared vision. Please join us for DISCOMBODURATION on 6th June, in entirety from 2pm til 10pm, or drop in as you please/at your own peril. https://www.henogledd.com/  Have a wonderful weekend! Upset The Rhythm                             UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

ARTIFICIAL GO NO PEELING Wednesday 13 May New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Fe9ef9f4142d  DISCOMBODURATION: HEN OGLEDD joined by special guests!  Saturday 6 June Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD  2pm-10pm (8 hour set) | Free to all! | Just turn up on the day!   ALISON COTTON Wednesday 1 July The Old Church, Church St, Stoke Newington, London, N16 9ES 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/z09756e9c72e   PROLAPSE JETSTREAM PONY Friday 7 August 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Ia90705d4651   JEFFREY ALEXANDER & THE HEAVY LIDDERS  CHRISTINA CARTER  Saturday 8 August Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g5abdad7e406   LINDA SMITH & BAND TRASH KIT STUART MOXHAM  Thursday 20 August The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S95c334aac7b   MARISA ANDERSON Thursday 3 September Theatreship, South Quay Plaza, London, E14 9SH 7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/f5f9fa0cf04d   THE CLEANERS FROM VENUS Wednesday 30 September Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Jeae6ca73fca   TARA CLERKIN TRIO - Two Day residency Tuesday 20 October &... Wednesday 21 October ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/A84511d5ee4a  /   https://link.dice.fm/D620a1b54750   WENDY EISENBERG - Two Day residency Sunday 8 November &... Monday 9 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J45b4549b556  /  https://link.dice.fm/ea3ed6db0595

EarthBall - UK tour begins!

 

Wotcha! EarthBall are about to kick off their UK tour!

Both London dates are now sold out, but they are traveling all around the UK, so many phantastic opportunities to catch them.

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EarthBall are a wild ensemble from Canada, mainly based on Vancouver Island. EarthBall's live shows epitomise their commitment to spontaneous composition, offering audiences a unique experience with each performance. The last few years have seen EarthBall release their debut LP 'It's Yours' and a live album entitled 'Actual Earth Music - Volume 1 & 2' featuring Chris Corsano and Steve Beresford on Upset The Rhythm. Last winter they returned with their best effort to date 'Outside Over There’ - a gathering of sound at the forest's edge; where feedback, saxophone screams, and ecstatic vocals dissolve the boundary between chaos and clarity. New album ‘Actual Earth Music - Volume 3 & 4’ is a total triumph of barely controlled chaos, and will be forthcoming in June.

 

Wendy Eisenberg - London residency this November!

Upset The Rhythm are thrilled to invite Wendy Eisenberg back to London this November for a Two-Day residency at Cafe OTO. Wendy’s brand new self-titled record is phenomenal, can’t wait to see how these two concerts will take shape.


WENDY EISENBERG
Sunday 8 November
Monday 9 November
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/J45b4549b556  / https://link.dice.fm/ea3ed6db0595 

WENDY EISENBERG has spent the past decade as a fixture of independent music and an artist of inspired multiplicity. As a singer-songwriter, improviser, and virtuoso guitarist, the coordinates of their artistry are ever-shifting, from art-rock to jazz to blistering free improv and eloquent folk. On catalogue highlights including 2020’s Auto and the 2024 free-jazz sprawler Viewfinder, they’ve made a signature of ambition. After spending the past five years experimenting in different bands, genres, and creative challenges, and following a period of self-confrontation that they liken to a personal exorcism, Eisenberg has arrived at a milestone. The poetic and formally daring folk songs of Wendy’s self-titled new album (Joyful Noise) comprise their most certain vision yet.

These songs began to take root in 2020 when Eisenberg moved from Western Massachusetts - where they’d lived for a few years after attending Boston’s New England Conservatory - and relocated to Brooklyn. Longing for the pastoral feel of their former home, Eisenberg gravitated towards the warm sounds of country and folk. “The songs are genuinely folk songs,” Eisenberg says of their record. “The production is less about seeing what the guitar might be capable of and more accepting the inherent strangeness of the languages it has spoken for the last century and a half.”

https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/ 

Gun Outfit - 'Teardrops (Classic Hell on Earth)'

Today we’re sharing the third remarkable single from Gun Outfit’s forthcoming double-album ‘Process and Reality’ (out May 8th). ‘Teardrops (Classic Hell on Earth)’ is a brisk reverie written in the wake of wildfires. Dealing with themes of futility, redefining hope and inevitability, it’s a contemplative song of endurance and unflagging spirit. 

 Daniel Swire edited the beaut of a video drawing upon ‘The Western Ends’ film shot by Joe DeNardo and Mike Stoltz. Re-emerge from the smoke and breathe deep.