Hey everyone!
This week we
released TRASH KIT’s excellent new
album ‘Confidence’ and to celebrate
we’re throwing an album launch party tomorrow at Bethnal Green Working Men’s
Club. Not only will TRASH KIT be
playing but we’re very lucky to have solo sets from ANA DA SILVA of The Raincoats and ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO of Old Time Relijun planned too, whilst the
ever-awesome AS ONDAS will open the
show! Tickets are £5 and we will have some on the door from 7.30pm, live music
kicking off around 8.20pm by the way! This will be our last show of the year so
I hope you can all join us. We return in January with a special series of shows
from one of our favourite artists RICHARD
YOUNGS. These will all take part in Tower Hamlets in a trio of unusual
places with support from TOM JAMES SCOTT,
LAURA CANNELL and DYLAN NYOUKIS. Read on below for our
full listing as well as new show announcements for DEERHOOF and TRASH KIT
next February, including an Upset The Rhythm show in Belgium! Yep, Eurostar
here we come!
\\\\\ TOMORROW /////
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
7.30pm | £5 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/292988
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/
\\\\\ NEXT JANUARY /////
RICHARD YOUNGS
A Tower Hamlets Trilogy
‘Three different performances in three
different places’ …
Friday 16
January
Supported by TOM JAMES SCOTT
Balfron Tower
Community Cabin, 82 St Leonard's Rd, Poplar, E14 0QU
7.30pm - 10pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
Saturday 17
January
Supported by LAURA CANNELL
St George's
German Lutheran Church, 55 Alie St, Aldgate East, E1 8EB
7.30pm - 10pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
Sunday 18
January
Supported by DYLAN NYOUKIS
Mile End
Ecology Pavilion, Haverfield Rd off Grove Rd, Mile End, E3 5TW
2pm - 5pm |
£8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
* Ltd. Three
day pass for £20 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
RICHARD YOUNGS is an iconic figure of the UK underground,
having spent the last 30 years working on an incomparable output of solo
records alongside numerous collaborations. Originally from Cambridge, but based
in Glasgow for the last two decades, Youngs is as prolific as he is diverse
turning his hand to lush folk hymnotics, a cappella minimalism, tactile improv,
synth pop, hardcore punk and avant garde weirding. Youngs is even in a band
with his six year old son Sorley and long time collaborator Andrew Paine called
The Flexibles, who have a devolved industrial rock arc to them. All of these
eclectic musics have amassed on almost as many labels with key releases being found
on VHF, Jagjaguwar, MIE Music and Ba Da Bing! as well as on his own No Fans
imprint. Over the years Richard has also lent his skills to a number of bands
including Ilk, Vibracathedral Orchestra, A Band and Sunroof! as well as playing
bass for Jandek during his debut series of live concerts, and has collaborated
on joint works with Luke Fowler, Andrew Paine, Makoto Kawabata and Simon
Wickham-Smith to name a few. Richard Youngs plays an eclectic range of
instruments on these records from guitar to zither, homemade modular synth to
recordings of a motorway bridge, yet central to all this is the importance he
places on his own unadorned vocal, which almost acts like a rope pulling
together all the disparate tangents and unpredictable projects into his very own
transcendent realm of sound.
For this very
special trilogy of shows in London’s Tower Hamlets, Richard has been working
with Upset The Rhythm to take live music away from its safe domain of
established venues to somewhere different in search of a more radical and
memorable experience. Over the three nights Richard Youngs will perform an
entirely different in tune with each specific place and supported by the following
artists:
TOM JAMES SCOTT is a classically trained musician interested in
rich, densely treated atmospheres and lucid reflective moments. 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 the title of Tom's recent 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. New album ‘Teal’
was released last month on LP via Skire Music. Uniting all these records is
Scott’s rare ability within ambience to stop everyday life dead in its tracks,
forcing an invitation for consideration and contemplation at every moment.
LAURA CANNELL is a young woman drawing on ancient
transcendental and earthly musics, playing fiddle, overbowed fiddle, double
recorders, sometimes percussion and other rarefied wind instruments. Her sense
of space, dynamics and working with acoustics is super sensitive. Whether solo
or otherwise she explores the spaces between ancient, traditional and
improvised music, often utilising a fragment from a medieval theme to her own
end in a manner that embraces the apparitional, historical or the otherworldly.
Her seemingly wild side, in such rarefied circles makes her involved yet
emotive music really bristle and connect. Laura’s exquisitely-realised solo
album Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth was released in July 2014. Haunting
chords move the heavy air of the church as fiddle drones drift across the
flatlands of East Anglia. Her current live music show finds her performing
improvisations on ‘over-bowed’ fiddle and double-barrelled recorders creating
spell-binding new interpretations and breathing new life into lost and
forgotten melodies from the 5th – 14th centuries.
DYLAN NYOUKIS (of Chocolate Monk / Blood Stereo) is a master
of the vocal/performance stink and brain flummox. His solo vocal and tape work
continues to push the envelope in terms of the expressive options offered by
amplified physicality, making a music that’s so intrinsically human it feels
like you're listening from inside of his jaws. Sounds range from the
describable (gloveless hands messing with steaming innards) to the impossible
(Dylan as a match-striking dog), his range of squelch and rumble unconstrained
by bodily functions. His recent album 'Carrion Hut' collects five very
different pieces recorded between 2003 and 2007. “The Frosted Growth” finds
Nyoukis in Dubbletwee mode, snarling and barking at his multitracked self.
While on the side-long “Late Night Vocal Gravy”, Nyoukis is at his most
composerly. The real diamond, though, is the text piece “Strange New Ache”,
originally written for Inside Wino Lodge but left off the final cut. The text –
read out loud, inverted and mangled, by a half dozen-strong assemble of male
and female voices runs. “These strange new muscles have started to ache, these
new muscles won’t stop aching...”. Isn’t this what’s going on in Nyoukis’s
lunatic sound poems? Psychosis felt as physical pain, delusions of the mind
transferred into inexplicable sensation, expressible only in gibbers and howls.
Thank you for
reading, see you tomorrow!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x
\\\\\ UPSET
THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
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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
7.30pm | £5 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/292988
RICHARD YOUNGS
A Tower Hamlets Trilogy
‘Three different performances in three different places’…
Friday 16
January
Supported by TOM JAMES SCOTT
Balfron Tower
Community Cabin, 82 St Leonard's Rd, Poplar, E14 0QU
7.30pm - 10pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
Saturday 17
January
Supported by LAURA CANNELL
St George's
German Lutheran Church, 55 Alie St, Aldgate East, E1 8EB
7.30pm - 10pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
Sunday 18
January
Supported by DYLAN NYOUKIS
Mile End
Ecology Pavilion, Haverfield Rd off Grove Rd, Mile End, E3 5TW
2pm - 5pm |
£8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
* Ltd. Three
day pass for £20 | http://www.wegottickets.com/f/8532
WHITE FENCE
ULTIMATE PAINTING
FAMILY
Thursday 29
January
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
8pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/287769
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
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/298722
DEERHOOF
TRASH KIT
Friday 20
February
Maison Folie,
8 Rue des Arbalestriers, Mons, 7000, Belgium
8pm | FREE
DARK BLUE
Monday 23
February
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/298723
DEERHOOF
TRASH KIT
Thursday 26
February
Oval Space, 29-32
The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT
7pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/301127
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
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