Good Wednesday!
This week we released a new album by THE PHEROMOANS called Hearts Of Gold.
It’s a tour de force of sideline missives, unbridled rock and
melancholic voids that feels like new territory for the band. Norman
Records described it perfectly as “ eerie, listless, ramshackle, pastoral, kraut-flecked GENIUS ”. To celebrate, we’re having a record launch this Friday at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club where THE PHEROMOANS will be joined by KEEL HER, SAUNA YOUTH, TOM JAMES SCOTT and EMOTIONAL for a right royal knees up with HALO HALO DJing too, and all for a fiver! Read on for all you need to know along with our listing for this Sunday’s one off concert for BRENDAN FOWLER (aka BARR), which also sees the mesmerising ASHLEY PAUL performing at Power Lunches too! Today, we’re also announcing new shows for NO BALLS (Drajan Bryngelsson and Dan Råberg from BRAINBOMBS), TORTURING NURSE, JULIE BYRNE and a free screening and Q & A for Positive Force: More Than A Witness,
a feature length film by Robin Bell documenting the punk collective
Positive Force DC, including electrifying live performances from Fugazi,
Bikini Kill, Rites Of Spring, Scream, Beefeater, Nation of Ulysses etc.
Thanks for reading, enjoy the words…
\\\\\ 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/
\\\\\ SUNDAY /////
BRENDAN FOWLER (BARR)
ASHLEY PAUL
Sunday 15 June
Power Lunches, 446 Kingsland road, Dalston, E8 4AE
6pm | £6 | TICKETS
BRENDAN FOWLER is a
visual artist, a free-jazz percussionist and a performer on the DIY
underground music circuit, under the name BARR. BARR is a project in
which he half-sings over half-tunes, creating a set of confessional
songs that challenge the listener's preconceptions of what's music and
what's spoken word. Holding articulate dialogues with himself, the
listener and various third parties, Brendan's words are backed by
deceptively simple, yet emotionally disarming melodies, formed from a
sparse arrangement of bass, drums, piano and sometimes xylophone. This
minimal aesthetic is the perfect platform for candid and exploratory
songs about love, absence, realisation and experience. After his
promising debut album 'Beyond Reinforced Jewel Case', Brendan followed
this up with what seems like a classic album now called 'Summary' on
Upset The Rhythm. Whether via the dramatic simplicity of the music or
the raw and expressive lyrics, it is an album that speaks to everyone, a
body and a record of us all. After touring the album in the US and
Europe to increasing success, Brendan suddenly leaped over to the art
world and began a new journey. In his signature works, Fowler combines
up to four framed pictures, “crashing” them together. In this way, he
mixes photography, sculpture, and performance. Largely autobiographical,
the three-dimensional pictures combine snapshots of his friends,
arrangements of flowers, the artist’s studio, mirrors, and screens in
restructured narratives. Tate Modern have invited him over to do a talk
about the future of photographic art on June 14th called 'Beyond The
Frame' and whilst he's in London we've convinced him to play this
one-off, special show at Power Lunches, lucky us!
ASHLEY PAUL creates
music by coalescing her instruments, that can include saxophone,
clarinet, guitar, bells and percussion, as well as her vocals, into new
and beguiling areas of listening and perceiving. She forms delicate and
brittle sounds that lend her intensely intuitive songs free forming,
introverted melodies, caustic tones and subtle dynamics that bear close
attention. Recent recorded releases find Ashley’s voice entering more
and more into this unique audio world and song-cycles start to appear
and disappear before your ears and eyes in a dreamlike fashion or sound
vision. The listener is allowed to explore with a sense of wonder
concerning where this is all coming from, so creating a special focus,
as shards of voices manifest themselves against beautiful and simple
musical forms and acoustic experimentation. Ashley lives in New York,
USA and has performed or recorded with Phill Niblock, Loren Connors, Aki
Onda, C. Spencer Yeh, Anthony Coleman, Joe Maneri, Joe Morris, Seijiro
Murayama, Greg Kelley, Bill Nace and Eli Keszler. She has appeared on
such labels as REL, PAN, ESP-DISK, Tzadik and her own imprint Wagtail.
UPSET THE RHYTHM DJs
One last thing before we leave you! Our friends Miles Of Smiles are setting up a brilliant show on Saturday night for both ZAÏMPH (Marcia Bassett) and ANNIHILATING LIGHT (Heather Leigh & Stefan Jaworzyn). It’s at Café OTO from 8pm and you can grab some tickets here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/271254
Well worth checking out!
See you very soon,
UPSET
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\\\\\ UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
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
POSITIVE FORCE: MORE THAN A WITNESS
30 Years of Punk Politics In Action
(Film screening and Q & A with Mark Andersen)
Tuesday 24 June
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | FREE (donations welcomed)
GUARDIAN ALIEN
DON'T ARGUE
WILLIAM REES
FAT CAT DJs
Tuesday 8 July
Power Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
8pm | £6 | TICKETS
NO BALLS
TORTURING NURSE
SEALINGS
Sunday 13 July
The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road, Stockwell, SW9 0TP
7pm | £7 | 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
JULIE BYRNE
Thursday 28 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £5 | 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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