Hey there!
Just a quick
reminder that tonight we have GUERILLA
TOSS in town, unleashing varying degrees of un/holy noise, weirded punk and
raw riffage. This is their only show in the UK! Tickets are £6 and we will have
some available on the door from 8pm, with live music starting around 8.40pm. USA NAILS and DIYOA will be supporting, so there will be no letting up! Read on
for more info and the full listing for next week’s TRASH KIT album launch. Talking of which, we now have copies of ‘Confidence’ in stock at Upset The Rhythm
HQ. The album hits the shops around the globe next Monday and is available to
order on purple vinyl via our mailorder shop right now:
This week you
can also stream the whole album via Pitchfork too, enjoy!
We’re also
announcing today the return of PURLING
HISS to Upset The Rhythm next March for a show at Corsica Studios, our
listings at the very end of this detail all our upcoming events.
\\\\\ TONIGHT /////
GUERILLA TOSS
USA NAILS
DIYOA
Tuesday 25
November
Old Blue
Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
GUERILLA TOSS were birthed from
the depths of the sweaty basements of Boston, Massachusetts and are nowadays
considered to be a New England underground staple by the freaks and weirdos
that inhabit the region. The band have churned out numerous cassettes, records,
and CDs in the past two years on on labels such as Feeding Tube Records, John
Zorn’s Tzadik, Sophomore Lounge, and Digitalis Ltd. By touring relentlessly and
providing their audience with an unforgettably intense live show that demands,
and encourages, ravaging physical body movement of the listener,
Guerilla Toss have quickly garnered a cult following. Their newest record, 'Gay
Disco' (released by NNA Tapes), is an album that draws influence from new wave
and no wave dance music, extreme dementia, drug problems, and absurdist humor.
Kassie Carlson’s ferocious vocals run the gamut of the human voice, blasting with jet engine shrieking and boiling over with urgency, while at the same time presenting a deranged and direct spoken narrative with surreal conversational lyrics. Peter Negroponte’s full force drumming spews forth alongside her like a tentacled beast, whilst guitarists Simon Hanes and Arian Shafiee duel to the death with angular and jagged riffs. The glue that binds is Ian Kovac’s synth work, which adds a healthy dose hyperactive danceability and electronic flourishing that contributes to the album’s overall doped-up disco flavor. As messy as it sounds, it all lends itself to Guerilla Toss' ability to shape-shift seamlessly between hardcore rawness, jazzy meanderings, and squealing noise rock. Guerilla Toss succeeds in using the power of dissonance, aggression, and disorientation to derail the dancefloor harnassing the essence of a high-energy live band in its loudest, rawest embodiment to date. Guerilla Toss succeed in using the power of dissonance, aggression, and disorientation to derail the dancefloor, whilst maintaining high-energy spectacle in its loudest, rawest embodiment to date.
http://guerillatoss.bandcamp.com/
USA NAILS do drawn out psychedelic punk with nods to the likes of Neu, The Stooges, and Swans. They feature current and ex-members of Kong, Silent Front and WhoresX3. Their debut album "Sonic Moist", is out on tape and vinyl in November on a bunch of European DIY labels (Unwork, I Hate My Records, Bigoût and Smalltown America).
http://usanailsmusic.tumblr.com/
DIYOA (dee-oh-ah) is a one man band from Rochester, Kent. Towing the line between improvisation and structure, DIYOA uses a blend of guitar and electronics to create an eclectic set that ranges from loose, free flowing soundscapes, to riff driven pop.
Kassie Carlson’s ferocious vocals run the gamut of the human voice, blasting with jet engine shrieking and boiling over with urgency, while at the same time presenting a deranged and direct spoken narrative with surreal conversational lyrics. Peter Negroponte’s full force drumming spews forth alongside her like a tentacled beast, whilst guitarists Simon Hanes and Arian Shafiee duel to the death with angular and jagged riffs. The glue that binds is Ian Kovac’s synth work, which adds a healthy dose hyperactive danceability and electronic flourishing that contributes to the album’s overall doped-up disco flavor. As messy as it sounds, it all lends itself to Guerilla Toss' ability to shape-shift seamlessly between hardcore rawness, jazzy meanderings, and squealing noise rock. Guerilla Toss succeeds in using the power of dissonance, aggression, and disorientation to derail the dancefloor harnassing the essence of a high-energy live band in its loudest, rawest embodiment to date. Guerilla Toss succeed in using the power of dissonance, aggression, and disorientation to derail the dancefloor, whilst maintaining high-energy spectacle in its loudest, rawest embodiment to date.
http://guerillatoss.bandcamp.com/
USA NAILS do drawn out psychedelic punk with nods to the likes of Neu, The Stooges, and Swans. They feature current and ex-members of Kong, Silent Front and WhoresX3. Their debut album "Sonic Moist", is out on tape and vinyl in November on a bunch of European DIY labels (Unwork, I Hate My Records, Bigoût and Smalltown America).
http://usanailsmusic.tumblr.com/
DIYOA (dee-oh-ah) is a one man band from Rochester, Kent. Towing the line between improvisation and structure, DIYOA uses a blend of guitar and electronics to create an eclectic set that ranges from loose, free flowing soundscapes, to riff driven pop.
\\\\\ DECEMBER 4 /////
TRASH KIT - 'Confidence'
Album Launch!!!
ANA DA SILVA
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO
AS ONDAS
Thursday 4
December
Bethnal Green
Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
TRASH KIT have a wild feel for
melody, writing songs that pull at the reins with a spontaneous charm. Having
formed the band in 2009, Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Ros Murray have since
become the glowing core of London’s DIY underground. Their music is primal yet
thoughtful, affirming yet sincere, drawing on the potential of post-punk and
the naturalism of an internal folk music. Although Trash Kit have their
forebears in bands like X-Ray Spex, The Ex and The Raincoats, their sound is
very much their own take on facing forwards. Galloping polyrhythms, overlapping
sung-spoke lyrics and entwining guitars are all drawn together into a taut
unity, sounding willfully alive. Both Rachels tangle their vocals with each
other whilst expressive drumbeats and restless guitar flurries provide the
rhythmic drive. Aggs’ guitar playing is as much informed by African fingerstyle
patterns as the percussive attitude of various no wave shredders. Horwood
approaches her drumkit with an untamable freedom, pushing it into the realm of
a vivid lead instrument. Trash Kit's music is full of pauses, woven silence and
punctuation too and this is where Ros Murray and her resonant, soulful bass
work finds a perfect home.
As a follow up to their exuberant debut album, ‘Confidence’ sticks with the “play it all live” pluck we’ve come to expect from Trash Kit. There’s a minimal bent, a lyrical directness, an unadorned ethic that all evokes the sense that the song is being written at the same time as it’s performed. Yet whilst the first album at times felt too fleeting, its succinct songs flashing by so fast, ‘Confidence’ is startlingly more assured, allowing ideas to develop, conclusions to be gathered. Tracks like ‘Hair’, ‘Skin’ and ‘Boredom’ embrace dynamics like never before. Their clatter and chime are complimented through subtler passages of introspection and the occasional noisy breakdown, with snare and cymbals approaching roar. Ros is joined by her previous bandmate Verity Susman (of Electrelane) on a few tracks including the adventurous ‘Shyness’ and lead single ‘Medicine’, lending some fluently inventive saxophone flourishes. It all adds to the heady, sensation of free-falling through the album. A feeling that the horizon has become broader. ‘Confidence’ will be released by Upset The Rhythm on December 1st.
http://trashkitrules.blogspot.co.uk/
ANA DA SILVA is a founding member of the pioneering female punk band The Raincoats. Ana has continually worked on music, in some shape or form, since the group disbanded in 1984. Soon after the release of The Raincoats’ final album album, ‘Moving’, Da Silva collaborated with This Heat drummer Charles Hayward on a project called Roseland; they recorded a few demos together, but the duo faltered after that. She also wrote music for choreographer Gaby Agis' productions, but spent much of the '80s and early '90s painting and working in an antique shop. The Raincoats' reunion spurred Da Silva and the rest of the group to write new songs, resulting in the band's fifth album, 1996's ‘Looking in the Shadows’. Da Silva resurfaced in 2005 with her solo record ‘Lighthouse’, a largely electronic collection of songs that she wrote, recorded, and produced herself for Chicks On Speed records.
http://www.theraincoats.net/
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO makes trans-utopian world music for a world that exists in fever dreams and hallucinations. Using performance and visual art, he traverses the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll. He clarified his eccentric brew of ecstatic lunacy and prophetic madness during his 15 year tour-of-duty with Olympia’s Old Time Relijun. De Dionyso’s most recent project, Malaikat dan Singa, is a trance-punk outfit featuring bass clarinet, guitars, multiple drummers and his trademark wild vocals (multi-spectral harmonic throatsinging combined with grunts, yelps, and barks) often sung in Indonesian. Pushing the envelope between musicality and pure energy, between ecstacy and lunacy, he enwraps rooms with a deeply resonant sound.
http://arrington.bandcamp.com/
AS ONDAS are a band with fresh ideas, featuring members of Dog Legs, Shopping and Wachi Wachi they start their race with a sprint. With a spartan drum, bass and guitar lineup, As Ondas deliver up a delirious, chorus-drenched prom punk alongside the occasional post punk meditation.
As a follow up to their exuberant debut album, ‘Confidence’ sticks with the “play it all live” pluck we’ve come to expect from Trash Kit. There’s a minimal bent, a lyrical directness, an unadorned ethic that all evokes the sense that the song is being written at the same time as it’s performed. Yet whilst the first album at times felt too fleeting, its succinct songs flashing by so fast, ‘Confidence’ is startlingly more assured, allowing ideas to develop, conclusions to be gathered. Tracks like ‘Hair’, ‘Skin’ and ‘Boredom’ embrace dynamics like never before. Their clatter and chime are complimented through subtler passages of introspection and the occasional noisy breakdown, with snare and cymbals approaching roar. Ros is joined by her previous bandmate Verity Susman (of Electrelane) on a few tracks including the adventurous ‘Shyness’ and lead single ‘Medicine’, lending some fluently inventive saxophone flourishes. It all adds to the heady, sensation of free-falling through the album. A feeling that the horizon has become broader. ‘Confidence’ will be released by Upset The Rhythm on December 1st.
http://trashkitrules.blogspot.co.uk/
ANA DA SILVA is a founding member of the pioneering female punk band The Raincoats. Ana has continually worked on music, in some shape or form, since the group disbanded in 1984. Soon after the release of The Raincoats’ final album album, ‘Moving’, Da Silva collaborated with This Heat drummer Charles Hayward on a project called Roseland; they recorded a few demos together, but the duo faltered after that. She also wrote music for choreographer Gaby Agis' productions, but spent much of the '80s and early '90s painting and working in an antique shop. The Raincoats' reunion spurred Da Silva and the rest of the group to write new songs, resulting in the band's fifth album, 1996's ‘Looking in the Shadows’. Da Silva resurfaced in 2005 with her solo record ‘Lighthouse’, a largely electronic collection of songs that she wrote, recorded, and produced herself for Chicks On Speed records.
http://www.theraincoats.net/
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO makes trans-utopian world music for a world that exists in fever dreams and hallucinations. Using performance and visual art, he traverses the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll. He clarified his eccentric brew of ecstatic lunacy and prophetic madness during his 15 year tour-of-duty with Olympia’s Old Time Relijun. De Dionyso’s most recent project, Malaikat dan Singa, is a trance-punk outfit featuring bass clarinet, guitars, multiple drummers and his trademark wild vocals (multi-spectral harmonic throatsinging combined with grunts, yelps, and barks) often sung in Indonesian. Pushing the envelope between musicality and pure energy, between ecstacy and lunacy, he enwraps rooms with a deeply resonant sound.
http://arrington.bandcamp.com/
AS ONDAS are a band with fresh ideas, featuring members of Dog Legs, Shopping and Wachi Wachi they start their race with a sprint. With a spartan drum, bass and guitar lineup, As Ondas deliver up a delirious, chorus-drenched prom punk alongside the occasional post punk meditation.
http://asondas.bandcamp.com/
See you
later!
UTR
x
\\\\\ UPSET
THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
\\\\\
GUERILLA TOSS
USA NAILS
DIYOA
Tuesday 25
November
Old Blue
Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
TRASH KIT - 'Confidence'
Album Launch!!!
ANA DA SILVA
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO
AS ONDAS
Thursday 4
December
Bethnal Green
Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
RICHARD YOUNGS
A Tower Hamlets Trilogy
‘Three different performances in three different places’
Friday 16
January
Balfron Tower
Community Cabin, 82 St Leonard's Rd, Poplar, E14 0QU
Saturday 17
January
St George's
German Lutheran Church, 55 Alie St, Aldgate East, E1 8EB
Sunday 18
January
Mile End
Ecology Pavilion, Haverfield Rd off Grove Rd, Mile End, E3 5TW
WHITE FENCE
ULTIMATE PAINTING
FAMILY
Thursday 29
January
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
RICHARD DAWSON
Thursday 12
February
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/295927
DOPE BODY
Tuesday 17
February
Montague
Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
DARK BLUE
Monday 23
February
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
PURLING HISS
Wednesday 25 March
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/299736
Wednesday 25 March
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/299736
FUTURE ISLANDS
Monday 30
March
Tuesday 31
March
In collaboration with
Parallel Lines…
The
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Rd, London NW1 8EH
7pm | £20 | SOLD OUT
No comments:
Post a Comment