Hello there!
This Monday we’re celebrating twice. Not only are we releasing THE PHEROMOANS’ brilliant new album Hearts Of Gold, but we also have a terrific double-headline show for POW! and GARY WAR planned too. SOFT DRINKS
will be playing that one too, full details on this mind-melting evening
of proto-punk to follow! We also have an album launch party for The
Pheromoans readying for next Friday night. They’ll be performing at
Bethnal Green’s Working Men’s Club along with KEEL HER, SAUNA YOUTH, TOM JAMES SCOTT and EMOTIONAL, all for £5! Not bad!! Here’s a new track called Province Baby to whet your appetite. Read on for all the particulars…
\\\\\ MONDAY /////
GARY WAR
POW!
SOFT DRINKS
Monday 9 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, London, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 | TICKETS
GARY WAR has
previously served alongside John Maus and Ariel Pink in Haunted Graffiti
and also has a burgeoning catalogue of solo material released on
Captured Tracks, Spectrum Spools and Knife Slits Water, and Sacred
Bones. Gary War makes awesome zonked-out future music oozing with a
disembodied soul and draped in heavy drones, unafraid to deploy feedback
and thick waves of analogue fuzz for a luciously head-warping effect.
His tonal insobriety, from one song to the next is a true sign of the
times, where artists are driven to explore different avenues, melding
genres, vocal styles and instrumentation to arrive somewhere new, all
the while taking the listener along for the ride. Pulling from
influences that hold as much up to Chrome as they do Syd Barret, Gary
War is able to wrangle them from every corner, and he even covers The
Alan Parsons Project without sounding misguided, or a late arriving
hippie on a hotbox high. War's most recent release was a split LP on
Upset The Rhythm with Purple Pilgrims that takes even deeper steps into a
pool of progressive maximal wave and distinctly modern psychedelia. http://garywar.blogspot.co.uk/
POW! emerge from the tech-waste of a shiny new San Francisco – deep 80’s synth bass percolating under the circuit-swamp-fried-egg guitar, the drums are a teenage tiger’s heartbeat and vocals are delivered like a dead-pan face-slap from a kid half your age. Hot on the heels of their recent 'High-Tech Boom' LP (released through John Dwyer's Castle Face records), POW! deliver more sneering vocals, wriggling keyboard lines and stinging fuzz guitars with their new EP on Grazer. A-side "One Eyed Scorpion" writhes and squirms before transforming into a full-on synth meltdown, all while being propelled by singer Byron Blum's agitated Eno-isms. The songs on the flip burn with proto-punk inspired misanthropy, complete with the primordial rhythms that Simply Saucer and Nervous Gender once supplied. Like their Castle Face debut, the tracks here show a band seething over the state of their city. Lucky for us, they're still channeling that anger into enduring anthems. https://www.facebook.com/straighttothekisser
SOFT DRINKS began as a home recording project focused on writing and recording fast & not worrying about the end result. They became a band at the end of 2013; now three (people) strong, they still value ideas and brevity over execution, and try and explore the gap between Guided By Voices and Young Marble Giants. Soft Drinks' first tape came out for last Xmas on Life Dunk International, the second is due in time for the World Cup third place playoff. https://soundcloud.com/lifedunkinternational/born-to-do-it
POW! emerge from the tech-waste of a shiny new San Francisco – deep 80’s synth bass percolating under the circuit-swamp-fried-egg guitar, the drums are a teenage tiger’s heartbeat and vocals are delivered like a dead-pan face-slap from a kid half your age. Hot on the heels of their recent 'High-Tech Boom' LP (released through John Dwyer's Castle Face records), POW! deliver more sneering vocals, wriggling keyboard lines and stinging fuzz guitars with their new EP on Grazer. A-side "One Eyed Scorpion" writhes and squirms before transforming into a full-on synth meltdown, all while being propelled by singer Byron Blum's agitated Eno-isms. The songs on the flip burn with proto-punk inspired misanthropy, complete with the primordial rhythms that Simply Saucer and Nervous Gender once supplied. Like their Castle Face debut, the tracks here show a band seething over the state of their city. Lucky for us, they're still channeling that anger into enduring anthems. https://www.facebook.com/straighttothekisser
SOFT DRINKS began as a home recording project focused on writing and recording fast & not worrying about the end result. They became a band at the end of 2013; now three (people) strong, they still value ideas and brevity over execution, and try and explore the gap between Guided By Voices and Young Marble Giants. Soft Drinks' first tape came out for last Xmas on Life Dunk International, the second is due in time for the World Cup third place playoff. https://soundcloud.com/lifedunkinternational/born-to-do-it
\\\\\ NEXT FRIDAY /////
THE PHEROMOANS ***Hearts Of Gold*** Album Launch
KEEL HER
SAUNA YOUTH
TOM JAMES SCOTT
EMOTIONAL
HALO HALO DJs
Friday 13 June
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £5 | TICKETS
THE PHEROMOANS are a
six-piece experimental rock band from the South East of England who deal
in a deadpan DIY music. Married to the mundane yet surreal reportage of
our lives, their music manages to address the truly restless boredom
and absurdity of everyday life. The Pheromoans write songs for the end
of the queue, songs that prowl the periphery, songs that stand up on the
bus and stare out through the window, blasted through with brilliant
sprawling sunshine. Over the last six years the band have released a
slew of records, including numerous EPs, 7"s, mini-albums and LPs
through labels as diverse as Night People, Convulsive, Sweet Rot,
Monofonus Press, Clan Destine and their own imprint Savoury Days. These
recordings largely focused on a ramshackle, wayward rock ethic,
underpinned by lyricist Russell Walker's dry, observational musings that
tread an almost diary-like path throughout the songs.
New album, Hearts Of Gold, is the band’s sixth album proper, following on from 2012’s well received ‘Does This Guy Stack Up?’, also released by Upset The Rhythm. It’s with eyes open that ‘Hearts Of Gold’ strides forward, casting its net across a diverse array of topics, including short distance holidays, ageing trendsetters, parenthood, functioning alcoholism and Hugh Laurie’s blues career. Through all the mess and melody, through the trivial and the achingly true there’s a grander point to be made, coming slowly into focus, the point of it all and with this album The Pheromoans do everything but spell it out. 'Hearts Of Gold' will be released through Upset The Rhythm on June 9th. http://thepheromoans.blogspot.co.uk/
KEEL HER is Rose Keeler-Schäffeler, an alien-obsessed bedroom musician with a prolific workrate to show up every studio-dithering band as heel-dragging slackers. The 18 tracks collected on her debut for Critical Heights are a mere sample of the hundreds the Brighton artist has posted online in recent years, a patchwork of lo-fi hits, throwaway doodles and flashes of studio inspiration. Its mixtape nature means it isn’t yet the concise album Keel Her might one day produce, but the breezy likes of ‘Go’, ‘Riot Girl’ and ‘Don’t Look At Me’ are tuneful pop pastiches in the vein of Dum Dum Girls and Ariel Pink. Lightening her introverted tendencies with an offbeat humour, ‘Keel Her’ is sustained by a ‘first thought, best thought’ attitude that feels truly punk. http://keelher.bandcamp.com/
SAUNA YOUTH are an evolving band of young future humans making truly irregular punk not quite comparable to anything else. The band, attracted to the possibilities apparent within a DIY philosophy have been self-recording and self-releasing their own music since 2010, creating a number of seven inches, splits and cassettes. Artistic affinities are pledged to Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Pissed Jeans and The Intelligence, but as Kurt Cobain once asked "Why can't we be both Black Sabbath and The Beatles?", Sauna Youth consistently and urgently pose the question, 'Why can't we be both The Ramones and Steve Reich?'. Sauna Youth's debut album, 'Dreamlands' was released in 2012 through Gringo Records and Faux Discx, whilst their most recent 7" 'False Jesii Pt. II' came out last year through Static Shock Records. http://lostinidea.blogspot.co.uk/
TOM JAMES SCOTT is a classically trained guitarist and a mainstay of the improvising collective CYRK. Tom's influences stretch far and wide, touching upon aspects of traditional music, improvisation, vocal music, composition, and field recording to name but a few. Tom's previous albums for Bo' Weavil, were both guitar based with added piano, distilled through a minimalist mind set to create some of the most beautiful elemental melodic lines that take the listener on a journey of meditative contemplation. 'Drape' is Tom's new Limited LP of solo piano pieces. Strings of single notes become humming, shadowy resonances within the body of the instrument, echoing into frequent pause and fragmentation. https://soundcloud.com/tomjamesscott
EMOTIONAL are a London based electronic/experimental pop duo, providing the after-hours entertainment when The Pheromoans have finished playing. The true nexus of the party! https://soundcloud.com/emotionalmusic-1
HALO HALO DJs http://halohalomixmix.blogspot.co.uk/
New album, Hearts Of Gold, is the band’s sixth album proper, following on from 2012’s well received ‘Does This Guy Stack Up?’, also released by Upset The Rhythm. It’s with eyes open that ‘Hearts Of Gold’ strides forward, casting its net across a diverse array of topics, including short distance holidays, ageing trendsetters, parenthood, functioning alcoholism and Hugh Laurie’s blues career. Through all the mess and melody, through the trivial and the achingly true there’s a grander point to be made, coming slowly into focus, the point of it all and with this album The Pheromoans do everything but spell it out. 'Hearts Of Gold' will be released through Upset The Rhythm on June 9th. http://thepheromoans.blogspot.co.uk/
KEEL HER is Rose Keeler-Schäffeler, an alien-obsessed bedroom musician with a prolific workrate to show up every studio-dithering band as heel-dragging slackers. The 18 tracks collected on her debut for Critical Heights are a mere sample of the hundreds the Brighton artist has posted online in recent years, a patchwork of lo-fi hits, throwaway doodles and flashes of studio inspiration. Its mixtape nature means it isn’t yet the concise album Keel Her might one day produce, but the breezy likes of ‘Go’, ‘Riot Girl’ and ‘Don’t Look At Me’ are tuneful pop pastiches in the vein of Dum Dum Girls and Ariel Pink. Lightening her introverted tendencies with an offbeat humour, ‘Keel Her’ is sustained by a ‘first thought, best thought’ attitude that feels truly punk. http://keelher.bandcamp.com/
SAUNA YOUTH are an evolving band of young future humans making truly irregular punk not quite comparable to anything else. The band, attracted to the possibilities apparent within a DIY philosophy have been self-recording and self-releasing their own music since 2010, creating a number of seven inches, splits and cassettes. Artistic affinities are pledged to Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Pissed Jeans and The Intelligence, but as Kurt Cobain once asked "Why can't we be both Black Sabbath and The Beatles?", Sauna Youth consistently and urgently pose the question, 'Why can't we be both The Ramones and Steve Reich?'. Sauna Youth's debut album, 'Dreamlands' was released in 2012 through Gringo Records and Faux Discx, whilst their most recent 7" 'False Jesii Pt. II' came out last year through Static Shock Records. http://lostinidea.blogspot.co.uk/
TOM JAMES SCOTT is a classically trained guitarist and a mainstay of the improvising collective CYRK. Tom's influences stretch far and wide, touching upon aspects of traditional music, improvisation, vocal music, composition, and field recording to name but a few. Tom's previous albums for Bo' Weavil, were both guitar based with added piano, distilled through a minimalist mind set to create some of the most beautiful elemental melodic lines that take the listener on a journey of meditative contemplation. 'Drape' is Tom's new Limited LP of solo piano pieces. Strings of single notes become humming, shadowy resonances within the body of the instrument, echoing into frequent pause and fragmentation. https://soundcloud.com/tomjamesscott
EMOTIONAL are a London based electronic/experimental pop duo, providing the after-hours entertainment when The Pheromoans have finished playing. The true nexus of the party! https://soundcloud.com/emotionalmusic-1
HALO HALO DJs http://halohalomixmix.blogspot.co.uk/
Huge thanks to everyone for
coming out this week for Shannon & The Clams and Daniel Bachman,
both were completely different but equally great! Hoping this all
reaches you well, have the best weekend,
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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\\\\\ UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
POW!
GARY WAR
SOFT DRINKS
Monday 9 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, London, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 | TICKETS
THE PHEROMOANS
\\\ Hearts Of Gold /// Album Launch
KEEL HER
SAUNA YOUTH
TOM JAMES SCOTT
EMOTIONAL
HALO HALO DJs
Friday 13 June
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £5 | TICKETS
BRENDAN FOWLER (BARR)
ASHLEY PAUL
Sunday 15 June
Power Lunches, 446 Kingsland road, Dalston, E8 4AE
6pm | £6 | TICKETS
NATURAL SNOW BUILDINGS
BEN NASH
STEREOCILIA
Monday 23 June
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | TICKETS
GUARDIAN ALIEN
DON'T ARGUE
WILLIAM REES
FAT CAT DJs
Tuesday 8 July
Power Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
8pm | £6 | TICKETS
SLEAFORD MODS
THE LOWEST FORM
MARK WYNN
Friday 18 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
PROTOMARTYR
Tuesday 19 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £6 | TICKETS
JACK OBLIVIAN
STRAIGHT ARROWS
THE SHEIKS
Sunday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
SPRAY PAINT
Friday 31st October
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £5 | TICKETS
Friday 31st October
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £5 | TICKETS
FUTURE ISLANDS
Thursday 6 November
O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8TT
7pm | £15 | WEGOTTICKETS
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