Firstly, huge thanks to everyone for coming to see PROTOMARTYR this week, was a real winning show I’m sure you’ll
agree, all cylinders firing. They told me it was their favourite show of the whole
tour, we aim to please! Well, we’re picking up that ball and running into next
week as we have four, yes four, upcoming shows lined up for you. Next Thursday
we’re lucky enough to have JULIE BYRNE
and HEIDI ALEXANDER both playing
their debut London shows with us, with SLUSHY
GUTS opening the evening of hushed-swoon, acoustic revelry. Then on Friday we
pitch up at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club for an Upset The Rhythm label
showcase with five incredible UK bands playing, including SILVER FOX, TRASH KIT, THE PHEROMOANS, RAVIOLI ME AWAY and DOG
CHOCOLATE. Saturday finds us at Power Lunches with art-core movers/shakers SUN FOOT, MEN OH PAUSE and CODY NOON.
Whilst we tie things up on Sunday with JACK
OBLIVIAN, STRAIGHT ARROWS and THE SHEIKS, face-melting garage anyone?
If that wasn’t enough to contend with we’re also announced this week a new show
for WHITE FENCE and a new album for DEERHOOF. Deerhoof are pretty much the
reason why we started Upset The Rhythm back in 2003, so eleven years later it
feels like a circle is completing in the most rewarding way possible, epic
grins pervade. The album is titled ‘La Isla Bonita’ and will be released
on November 3rd, marking the band’s 20th anniversary! I know! You can hear
their amazing new track ‘Exit Only’ and pre-order the record
by clicking below, so much to communicate! Enjoy!
\\\\\ THURSDAY /////
JULIE BYRNE
HEIDI ALEXANDER
SLUSHY GUTS
Thursday 28
August
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
JULIE BYRNE creates elegant,
deliberately wrought songs that chronicle memory, hope, and loss using finely
crafted lyrics and complex fingerpicked guitar run through delay. The somber,
dreamlike quality of her songs is similar to a stripped-down Grouper, or an
echo-splashed Anne Briggs, with restraint and measure in her deep, unusual
vocal timbre. Byrne’s voice is so delicate it sounds like she’s harmonizing
with a breeze, her songs so transfixing — the sun is setting, and the
magic-hour light is warm and enveloping — that those of us who’ve gathered to
watch her are sitting slack-jawed. Julie's first recording for Orindal was a
7" called 'Faster Or Greener Than Now'. It was produced by Owen Ashworth
& was released on December 4, 2012. Her debut album, 'Rooms With Walls and
Windows' collects twelve tracks from two limited edition cassette releases,
recorded between 2011 & 2012 by Jake Acosta in Chicago, IL. Each song was
recorded live, with Julie accompanying herself on pastoral guitar. 'Rooms With
Walls & Windows' was released on vinyl, CD & digital formats in early
2014 by Orindal. It's songs unfold from bare folk simplicity to abstracted
tales of homelife and longing that conjure up a simultaneous feeling of
warm-cabin intimacy and a deep interior sadness. This will be Julie's debut
show in London during her first European tour.
https://soundcloud.com/juliebyrne
HEIDI ALEXANDER is the songwriter/guitarist of San Francisco's sad-pop trio The Sandwitches. She also traverses the musical landscape as Earth Girl Helen Brown and Pruno Truman and has leant her vocals to the Fresh & Onlys, Thee Oh Sees and The Intelligence. Heidi relocated from San Francisco to Los Angeles last Autumn in pursuit of a graduate fellowship in Architecture at UCLA, and since then has been working on a French language LP, 'Qu'est-ce Qui se Passe?' for Moi J'Connais Records. Heidi's songs bring that flicker of vacuum tube light to the memory cluttered space of a dark room. The reverb touches and soft string arrangements stir the definitive flagship revered Americana sound of San Francisco, where Heidi moves the sleepy sung narrative of natures across vistas of beautiful coasts to home bound, love-longing spells. Heidi will be traveling in Europe for architectural research in solar-optic structures and supporting summer releases through Southpaw and Empty Cellar.
https://soundcloud.com/user742938554/sets/private-heidi-alexander-pruno/s-DlMSJ
SLUSHY GUTS aka Londoner Stephen Keane, is a hard act to categorise, who plays lo-fi 4-track songs of droll introspection laced with an acerbic wit, which is perhaps why he has been described as a cross between David Berman of Silver Jews and Chris Morris of ‘The Day Today'. With a string of limited cdr, cassette and vinyl releases under his belt, listening to Slushy Guts has been described as "like glimpsing the notebook of an experimental artist, who is never too precious to take risks with his selections,......vulnerable and contemplative, experimental and weird; classic bedroom recording from someone who understands the importance of this." http://slushyguts.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/juliebyrne
HEIDI ALEXANDER is the songwriter/guitarist of San Francisco's sad-pop trio The Sandwitches. She also traverses the musical landscape as Earth Girl Helen Brown and Pruno Truman and has leant her vocals to the Fresh & Onlys, Thee Oh Sees and The Intelligence. Heidi relocated from San Francisco to Los Angeles last Autumn in pursuit of a graduate fellowship in Architecture at UCLA, and since then has been working on a French language LP, 'Qu'est-ce Qui se Passe?' for Moi J'Connais Records. Heidi's songs bring that flicker of vacuum tube light to the memory cluttered space of a dark room. The reverb touches and soft string arrangements stir the definitive flagship revered Americana sound of San Francisco, where Heidi moves the sleepy sung narrative of natures across vistas of beautiful coasts to home bound, love-longing spells. Heidi will be traveling in Europe for architectural research in solar-optic structures and supporting summer releases through Southpaw and Empty Cellar.
https://soundcloud.com/user742938554/sets/private-heidi-alexander-pruno/s-DlMSJ
SLUSHY GUTS aka Londoner Stephen Keane, is a hard act to categorise, who plays lo-fi 4-track songs of droll introspection laced with an acerbic wit, which is perhaps why he has been described as a cross between David Berman of Silver Jews and Chris Morris of ‘The Day Today'. With a string of limited cdr, cassette and vinyl releases under his belt, listening to Slushy Guts has been described as "like glimpsing the notebook of an experimental artist, who is never too precious to take risks with his selections,......vulnerable and contemplative, experimental and weird; classic bedroom recording from someone who understands the importance of this." http://slushyguts.bandcamp.com/
\\\\\ FRIDAY /////
Upset The Rhythm
Label Party…
SILVER FOX
TRASH KIT
THE PHEROMOANS
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
DOG CHOCOLATE
Friday 29 August
Friday 29 August
Bethnal
Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm
| £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/280254
SILVER FOX make music with no
rules or preconceptions; pooling ideas and observations into songs that can be
raucous, sad, reflective, powerful, wistful, or whatever they need to be. With
vibrating harmonies and primal beats at their heart, their sounds and words
group together in response to the lives we all live. Silver Fox are Susie Green
(vocals, keyboards), Rebecca Knight (drums), Laura Lancaster (guitar, vocals),
Rachel Lancaster (bass guitar, vocals). They formed in 2009 in Newcastle, and
have had well-received single releases on M’Lady’s (Waves on in/Marble World)
and Milk (Capital Kiss/Arosa) in 2012. Their self-titled album with Upset the
Rhythm was released last November and due to broken bones this show will act as
an honour record launch. Silver Fox make intuitive sounds led by a responsive,
if-it-feels-good-do-it approach, giving free reign to all ideas large and
small. It's been too long since they played last in London so we had to do something
about it!
http://wearesilverfox.blogspot.co.uk/
TRASH KIT are a gang of flag-bearers with a wild feel for melody and a heartfelt kick inside each song. Mixing tumult, considered songcraft and overlapping harmonies in equal measure, the trio sound as joyful as they are focussed. Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Ros Murray formed the band in early 2009, and since then have been lighting up London, energising the UK underground with their raw performances. Trash Kit have a sound of their very own, it's both urbane and primal, drawing on the potential of punk and the naturalism of an internal folk music. After a ruminative 2013, this year the band headed out on tour with The Ex and are presently finishing a new album for Upset The Rhythm out this Autumn.http://trashkitrules.blogspot.co.uk/
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. ‘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. http://thepheromoans.blogspot.co.uk/
RAVIOLI ME AWAY are a dangerously ambitious and delusional all-girl jazzy, post-pop-punk, hip-funk outfit with a stylistic theme spanning all past, present and future human cultures and subcultures. Consider vintage Bananarama played with twice the sass and urgency, only reflected in the eyes of a much overworked and downright exhausted Julie Burchill on acid. Featuring members of Plug and Spin Spin The Dogs, Ravioli Me Away don’t shy away from the impeccable vocal melodies and clattersome hooks you’d expect. ‘Mic Check’ is as hypnotic as it is sparse with plaintive keyboard touches and interplaying vocals that gambol across the drum machine. ‘Cat Call’ is a triumph of questing basslines and eerie synth blushes, locked down by Sian’s charismatic choruses and Alice’s asides inbetween. After their split record on UTR with Dog Chocolate from last year the band have been working on their debut LP called 'The Inevitable Album', out soon through Good Job.
https://soundcloud.com/ravioli-me-away
DOG CHOCOLATE are an elasticated, punk quartet based on the principles of self-propulsion and having too much fun. Jono plays a couple of drums, Matthew plays a guitar and a load of pedals, Rob plays another guitar and sings selected songs whilst Andrew sings most the songs and plays impressionistic blasts of keyboard when he’s not. Having been active in a number of other bands including Yeborobo, Limn, Gasp! Cracking Eggs, Tea And Toast Band and Moulsecoomb Sword Gang, all four members are also frantic doodlers and illustrators. This over-spill of creativity can be seen on their recent split LP on UTR, entitled ‘Or’, which sees the band sprint through ten tracks of barely-controlled chaotic glee. Never dwelling for long, Dog Chocolate treat us to songs about pregnancy, poisoned eyes, public transport and cakes. Their observational, often candid lyrics match their nonsensical attitude to their music too, which tumbles and chases pitchshifted guitars through thick forests of feedback and blasting drums.
http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/
http://wearesilverfox.blogspot.co.uk/
TRASH KIT are a gang of flag-bearers with a wild feel for melody and a heartfelt kick inside each song. Mixing tumult, considered songcraft and overlapping harmonies in equal measure, the trio sound as joyful as they are focussed. Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Ros Murray formed the band in early 2009, and since then have been lighting up London, energising the UK underground with their raw performances. Trash Kit have a sound of their very own, it's both urbane and primal, drawing on the potential of punk and the naturalism of an internal folk music. After a ruminative 2013, this year the band headed out on tour with The Ex and are presently finishing a new album for Upset The Rhythm out this Autumn.http://trashkitrules.blogspot.co.uk/
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. ‘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. http://thepheromoans.blogspot.co.uk/
RAVIOLI ME AWAY are a dangerously ambitious and delusional all-girl jazzy, post-pop-punk, hip-funk outfit with a stylistic theme spanning all past, present and future human cultures and subcultures. Consider vintage Bananarama played with twice the sass and urgency, only reflected in the eyes of a much overworked and downright exhausted Julie Burchill on acid. Featuring members of Plug and Spin Spin The Dogs, Ravioli Me Away don’t shy away from the impeccable vocal melodies and clattersome hooks you’d expect. ‘Mic Check’ is as hypnotic as it is sparse with plaintive keyboard touches and interplaying vocals that gambol across the drum machine. ‘Cat Call’ is a triumph of questing basslines and eerie synth blushes, locked down by Sian’s charismatic choruses and Alice’s asides inbetween. After their split record on UTR with Dog Chocolate from last year the band have been working on their debut LP called 'The Inevitable Album', out soon through Good Job.
https://soundcloud.com/ravioli-me-away
DOG CHOCOLATE are an elasticated, punk quartet based on the principles of self-propulsion and having too much fun. Jono plays a couple of drums, Matthew plays a guitar and a load of pedals, Rob plays another guitar and sings selected songs whilst Andrew sings most the songs and plays impressionistic blasts of keyboard when he’s not. Having been active in a number of other bands including Yeborobo, Limn, Gasp! Cracking Eggs, Tea And Toast Band and Moulsecoomb Sword Gang, all four members are also frantic doodlers and illustrators. This over-spill of creativity can be seen on their recent split LP on UTR, entitled ‘Or’, which sees the band sprint through ten tracks of barely-controlled chaotic glee. Never dwelling for long, Dog Chocolate treat us to songs about pregnancy, poisoned eyes, public transport and cakes. Their observational, often candid lyrics match their nonsensical attitude to their music too, which tumbles and chases pitchshifted guitars through thick forests of feedback and blasting drums.
http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/
\\\\\ SATURDAY /////
SUN FOOT
MEN OH PAUSE
CODY NOON
Saturday 30
August
Power
Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
SUN FOOT are a Portland/Los
Angeles trio who play low volume tunes through small amps and a drum set that
consists of a hand drum, cymbal, pan lids, and electronic drum pad, all three
singing, playing random cheap electronic keyboards maybe, and switching of
instruments probably. Good to listen to if you are interested in the sun and
tired of negativity. Sun Foot features Ron Burns (of Smog, Hot Spit Dancers,
Swell), Chris Johanson (the painter, The Deep Throats, Tina Age 13) and Brian
Mumford (Dragging an Ox through Water, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Thicket, Jewelry
Rash) all as members. Imagine Flipper and Chuck Mangione getting together and
you’re almost there.
http://sunfootrbc.neocities.org/
MEN OH PAUSE are a dark DIY punk outfit from the darker recesses of the Sussex countryside. Featuring Jacindy Cartland from 'King Alfred, Man Of Leisure', Maureen Bourne from 'Leopard Leg' and Flo Brooks from 'Chaps'. Their debut EP, 'Pulse Check', was recorded in Lewes in winter 2013/14. The EP features four slices of claustrophobic, anxiety-strewn, lo-fi DIY punk, pressed in a run of 250 on black vinyl with download code included, Tuff Enuff Records, check it!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/MEN-OH-PAUSE/555328167848700
CODY NOON are Charlie Butler and Suzy Antoniw. They are a stripped-down two piece beat combo from London, who play instrumental, minimal yet atmospheric droning mazes of sound to varying degrees of proficiency.
http://codynoon.bandcamp.com/
http://sunfootrbc.neocities.org/
MEN OH PAUSE are a dark DIY punk outfit from the darker recesses of the Sussex countryside. Featuring Jacindy Cartland from 'King Alfred, Man Of Leisure', Maureen Bourne from 'Leopard Leg' and Flo Brooks from 'Chaps'. Their debut EP, 'Pulse Check', was recorded in Lewes in winter 2013/14. The EP features four slices of claustrophobic, anxiety-strewn, lo-fi DIY punk, pressed in a run of 250 on black vinyl with download code included, Tuff Enuff Records, check it!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/MEN-OH-PAUSE/555328167848700
CODY NOON are Charlie Butler and Suzy Antoniw. They are a stripped-down two piece beat combo from London, who play instrumental, minimal yet atmospheric droning mazes of sound to varying degrees of proficiency.
http://codynoon.bandcamp.com/
\\\\\ SUNDAY /////
JACK OBLIVIAN
STRAIGHT ARROWS
THE SHEIKS
Sunday 31
August
Bethnal Green
Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
JACK OBLIVIAN, depending on whom
you ask, is either a rock legend or an absolute unknown. This dichotomy is
well-understood by Memphis musicians, as underground "fame," for all
its rewards, has, with a few exceptions, been the ceiling for local acts for
decades. And no one knows this dichotomy better than Jack 'Oblivian' Yarber,
who may be Memphis' most influential active rock musician. The list of
noteworthy bands Yarber has been a member of over the years is massive and
includes Johnny Vomit & the Dry Heaves (a high school punk project that
also featured future Squirrel Nut Zipper Jimbo Mathus), new-wavers the End, '68
Comeback, Knaughty Knights, and Tav Falco's Panther Burns. Two of Yarber's
former bands — the Compulsive Gamblers and the Oblivians — have seen their
reputation and following swell in the decade since their demise, especially the
Oblivians, whose international fan base borders on rabid. Due largely to his
stint in these bands, both partnerships with Greg Cartwright, now of the
Reigning Sound, Yarber has been an acknowledged influence on artists such as
the White Stripes and Jay Reatard. In the years since, Yarber has toured and
released a string of successful solo albums as Jack Oblivian, on a range of
labels including Fat Possum and Sympathy For The Record Industry.
https://soundcloud.com/jackoblivian
STRAIGHT ARROWS started out with Owen Penglis yelling about getting dumped and kicked out of bands into a four track cassette machine in his bedroom, soon to be joined by Alex Grigg, Angela Bermuda, and Adam Williams, all friends with coloured musical pasts. Slowly the four honed their reverb-laden, catchy, fuzzed out punk garage into something barely listenable and less antisocial. Unable to actually get any shows, Straight Arrows started putting on their own at the notorious (and now abandoned) Newtown Hotel, culminating in the release of their first 7" record ‘Something Happens/Can’t Count’ on their newly formed label Juvenile Records. Forward two years and Straight Arrows are no longer kids, now with a host of 7"s and a debut LP under their belt, tours and shows with amongst others Thee Oh Sees, Eddy Current Suppression Ring and The Black Lips, the band come forth with their astonishing new album 'Rising', through Agitated.
http://straightarrows.bandcamp.com/
THE SHEIKS are touring with Jack Oblivian during this epic Euro tour. Bringing that Memphis rock'n'roll swagger to their distinct brand of garage-y psychedelia, the band's debut, self-released album, 'Witches and Mystics', blends howling vocals and explosive drumming with reverbed-to-hell guitars that are drenched in filthy distortion.
http://thesheiks901.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/jackoblivian
STRAIGHT ARROWS started out with Owen Penglis yelling about getting dumped and kicked out of bands into a four track cassette machine in his bedroom, soon to be joined by Alex Grigg, Angela Bermuda, and Adam Williams, all friends with coloured musical pasts. Slowly the four honed their reverb-laden, catchy, fuzzed out punk garage into something barely listenable and less antisocial. Unable to actually get any shows, Straight Arrows started putting on their own at the notorious (and now abandoned) Newtown Hotel, culminating in the release of their first 7" record ‘Something Happens/Can’t Count’ on their newly formed label Juvenile Records. Forward two years and Straight Arrows are no longer kids, now with a host of 7"s and a debut LP under their belt, tours and shows with amongst others Thee Oh Sees, Eddy Current Suppression Ring and The Black Lips, the band come forth with their astonishing new album 'Rising', through Agitated.
http://straightarrows.bandcamp.com/
THE SHEIKS are touring with Jack Oblivian during this epic Euro tour. Bringing that Memphis rock'n'roll swagger to their distinct brand of garage-y psychedelia, the band's debut, self-released album, 'Witches and Mystics', blends howling vocals and explosive drumming with reverbed-to-hell guitars that are drenched in filthy distortion.
http://thesheiks901.bandcamp.com/
Have a
terrific weekend, endless thanks for taking the time to read this!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x
\\\\\ UPSET
THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
\\\\\
JULIE BYRNE
HEIDI ALEXANDER
SLUSHY GUTS
Thursday 28
August
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
Upset The Rhythm
Label Party…
SILVER FOX
TRASH KIT
THE PHEROMOANS
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
DOG CHOCOLATE
Friday 29 August
Friday 29 August
Bethnal
Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm
| £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/280254
SUN FOOT
MEN OH PAUSE
CODY NOON
Saturday 30
August
Power
Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
JACK OBLIVIAN
STRAIGHT ARROWS
THE SHEIKS
Sunday 31
August
Bethnal Green
Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
Mississippi Records
on tour: 'A Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music according to
Mississippi Records' (A film & talk presentation)
Including live
performances from…
MARISA ANDERSON
LORI GOLDSTON
DRAGGING AN OX
THROUGH WATER
Monday 15 September
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
MAGIK MARKERS
SICK LLAMA
ALISON’S BIRTHDAY
Tuesday 23 September
Tuesday 23 September
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10
| http://www.wegottickets.com/event/280978
Mississippi Records
on tour: 'A Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music according to
Mississippi Records' (A film & talk presentation)
Including live
performances from…
MARISA ANDERSON
LORI GOLDSTON
DRAGGING AN OX
THROUGH WATER
Tuesday 30 September
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/286496
SPRAY PAINT
$HIT AND $HINE
THE GUTTERS
TENSE MEN
Friday 31st October
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/277625
Friday 31st October
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/277625
FUTURE ISLANDS
Thursday 6
November
O2 Shepherd’s
Bush Empire, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8TT
7pm | £15 | SOLD OUT
TY SEGALL
THE INTELLIGENCE
Wednesday
12 November
Electric
Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP
7.30pm | £15.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/279358
7.30pm | £15.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/279358
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