Hello again!
Just a quick heads up
about our three shows that will flash across the next week! Tomorrow we pitch
up at the Lexington for an evening of vibrant sound fields, damaged melodics
and drum worship courtesy of MADALYN
MERKEY (making her UK debut), MEDDICINE
and RATTLE! Then on Sunday we return
to the scene of the crime for a mesmeric CIAN
NUGENT solo show, supported by Cornwall’s tremendous RED RIVER DIALECT and (added just yesterday) ALISTAIR
MCKAY from
Melbourne’s deep pop purveyors, Dick Diver. Exciting times! If that wasn’t
enough the following Wednesday we have PURLING
HISS, PRIMITIVE PARTS and KRISTIAN HARTING all performing at
Corsica Studios too! Read on for acres more insight on those concerts, plus newly
listed events for DEERHOOF and SIR RICHARD BISHOP, playing with his
140-year-old guitar no less! I’ll leave you with our recommended soundtrack for
the morning: ‘Luxury Flats’ by MONOTONY
from their upcoming split 7” with Sauna Youth, an anthem for all the neo-Thames
nonbelievers! Enjoy!
MONOTONY – ‘Luxury Flats’
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MADALYN MERKEY
MEDDICINE
RATTLE
Friday 20
March
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
MADALYN MERKEY makes spellbinding
ambient/electro-acoustic music, flooded with exotic alien tones. As a student
of the famous Mills College it’s understandable that her work is rooted in
academic process and research, yet her new album ’Valley Girl’ (released on
‘New Images’) is also inspired by the agriculture and rolling landscapes of
Madalyn’s native California. Using computer generated tones and sequences, she
spreads out a unique topography of phase-modulated triangle waveforms and sine
tones serrated into small atolls or peaks and interspersed with
human traces of her processed, siren-like vocals redolent of some vintage
Hawaiian exotica. The result is a minimal but super rich and vibrant sound
field, one constantly in motion and quivering with lush harmonics that keep the
ear tracing its ambisonic trajectories. In other words, it's hugely recommended
for drifting off, far and away.
https://soundcloud.com/cyndi
MEDDICINE aka Monika Krol is a post-punk synthesist who plays fractured noise pop over a backing track of industrial soundscapes. With jackhammer drum machine patterns nailing down synth blasts that alternate between pulsing, menacing to full-blown white noise, Meddicine is a one-woman sound howl conjuring up Suicide or even TG. Clattering and oscillating her way through old sounds and new, Meddicine produces some of the darkest, most-damaged and affecting analogue electronic music you are likely to hear on this planet or any other.
http://meddicine.net/
RATTLE are a drumming duo based in Nottingham and comprised of Theresa J Wrigley and Katharine Eira Brown. Both musicians also play drums for two other well respected bands, with Theresa in Fists and Katy in Kogumaza. Far from the hippy bongo nightmare one might imagine from a band made up of only two drummers, Rattle instead play minimalist rhythms that remain both hypnotic and danceable heavily thanks to the delicate vocal melodies which accompany their beats. Their sound recalls This Heat or ESG whilst remaining uniquely their own.
http://rattleon.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/cyndi
MEDDICINE aka Monika Krol is a post-punk synthesist who plays fractured noise pop over a backing track of industrial soundscapes. With jackhammer drum machine patterns nailing down synth blasts that alternate between pulsing, menacing to full-blown white noise, Meddicine is a one-woman sound howl conjuring up Suicide or even TG. Clattering and oscillating her way through old sounds and new, Meddicine produces some of the darkest, most-damaged and affecting analogue electronic music you are likely to hear on this planet or any other.
http://meddicine.net/
RATTLE are a drumming duo based in Nottingham and comprised of Theresa J Wrigley and Katharine Eira Brown. Both musicians also play drums for two other well respected bands, with Theresa in Fists and Katy in Kogumaza. Far from the hippy bongo nightmare one might imagine from a band made up of only two drummers, Rattle instead play minimalist rhythms that remain both hypnotic and danceable heavily thanks to the delicate vocal melodies which accompany their beats. Their sound recalls This Heat or ESG whilst remaining uniquely their own.
http://rattleon.bandcamp.com/
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CIAN NUGENT
RED RIVER DIALECT
ALISTAIR MCKAY
Sunday 22
March
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
CIAN NUGENT is a guitar player and composer from Dublin,
Ireland who combines personal passions, such as suburban/coastal blues,
traditional musics, late 1960s & '70s singer-songwriters, jazz ambitions,
20th century composition and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style.
His music boasts an orchestrated and fully instrumented sound that is playful
and eerie at the same time. Nugent’s first widely available album ‘Doubles’ was
released in 2011 to great acclaim from Pitchfork, NPR and The Wire, and rightly
so. Nugent’s playing is a glorious thing – it twists and turns as if telling a
story, with each chord change revealing something new. Over the past few years,
he’s also linked up with a 4-piece band called The Cosmos, a motley bunch
interested in mining the same far out musical styles. ‘Born With The Caul’ was
their resultant album released by No Quarterand sounds like it exists some
place out of time. Not only is their music an era-less one but the songs
themselves are never in a hurry as they build and unfold, never wasting a note.
Since then Cian has toured Europe with The Cosmos and gone on a solo jaunt
around the USA, this show also sees Cian in solo mode, reflective and
resonating.
RED RIVER DIALECT are a five piece Cornish folk-rock band who have
drawn comparisons to the Waterboys, The Dirty Three, Fairport and Arbouretum.
Their self-released LP ‘awellupontheway’ was released in July 2012 and promptly
sold out on vinyl, drawing many positive reviews. In fact The Quietus described
it as “fusing folk-rock’s past with its future, carrying forward the energy,
urgency and melody that has long served the form well, and merging it with the
more experimental, avant-garde approach of some of our most exciting guitar
bands”. They are currently working on a follow up.
ALISTAIR MCKAY plays guitar and sings in Melbourne’s deep pop
thinkers Dick Diver. Dick Diver’s brand new album ‘Melbourne, Florida’ (Chapter
Music / Trouble In Mind) pays tribute to Jim Morrison, Kylie, confused
travellers, high school quiz nights and much more, all in the space of 12 very
beautiful pop songs. For this show Al will performing a rare solo set on guitar
and vocals.
\\\\\ WEDNESDAY /////
PURLING HISS
PRIMITIVE PARTS
KRISTIAN HARTING
Wednesday 25
March
Corsica
Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
PURLING HISS’ Mike Polizze has put in much time in the fried
Philly blooze overdrive of the group Birds of Maya, but in his own vehicle he’s
expanded his grotty guitar wailing into the further cosmos, still shredding
speakers aplenty. With releases out on Drag City, Richie, Woodsist Records, and
a previous LP on Permanent, Purling Hiss became a full-fledged touring unit in
2010, revealing themselves to not only be purveyors of Rallizes
Denudes/Vermonster-style guitar jams, but to have a serious 90’s grunge/pop
ethic not too far removed from bits of Bleach-era Nirvana. Lots of ooh-oohs to
coincide with the growls, severe hooks to get lodged in your cranium. Full-tilt
with tunes, aggro riffs, feedback peals, stoned soul-searching, pop turnarounds
and magisterial portraits of the go-nowhere lifestyle in abstract, new album
‘Weirdon’ is also a new-phase Purling Hiss album, using the songwriting and
guitar style of Polizze to come up with a quicksilver sound touched on only
briefly on previous records. Replete with handclaps, pounding pianos,
tambourines and vocal effects, but steeped in guitar roar, Purling Hiss
streamlines up nicely, serving the new songs and directions of ‘Weirdon’ while
still slamming down hard on your ears like they like to do.
PRIMITIVE PARTS are three friends from London, consisting of
Lindsay Corstorphine of Sauna Youth and Monotony, and Male Bonding's Kevin
Hendrick and Robin Christian. Last year, they released their “Open Heads” b/w “Signal” 7″, and it proved really great. The band
recently released a new 7” on Faux Discx too entitled “TV Wheels” b/w “The
Bench,” and is every inch the charged-up fuzz-bomb you’d expect, never stinting
on melody.
KRISTIAN HARTING is inspired by sufi-music, mali-blues, western
lo-fi pop and the avant-garde. His aim is pure, to write beautiful songs and
music using what’s at hand only pulled into the realms of the gritty, noisy and
beautiful. Harting does this via the mediums of guitar, voice, circuit-bending,
effects-pushing and diverse electronic and acoustic trips. ‘Float’ released by
Exile On Mainstream last year is his most recent release and it’s well worth
checking out!
Enjoy the
eclipse (don’t stare directly) and we’ll see you tomorrow!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
MADALYN MERKEY
MEDDICINE
RATTLE
Friday 20
March
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
CIAN NUGENT
RED RIVER DIALECT
ALISTAIR MCKAY
Sunday 22
March
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
PURLING HISS
PRIMITIVE PARTS
KRISTIAN HARTING
Wednesday 25
March
Corsica
Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
FUTURE ISLANDS
THE VASELINES
Monday 30
March
Tuesday 31
March
In
collaboration with Parallel Lines…
The
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Rd, London NW1 8EH
7pm | SOLD
OUT
NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY
Two different
sets
Friday 3
April
Cafe Oto, 22
Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
HAPPY MEALS
APOSTILLE
DESIGN A WAVE
Thursday 9
April
Power
Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
WETDOG *** ALBUM LAUNCH ***
NO BRA
MUSIC RECORDINGS
JOHN DAKER
Saturday 18
April
Power
Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Haggerston, E8 4AE
SCREAMING FEMALES
GLOBELAMP
Friday 24
April
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
MOON DUO
PINKSHINYULTRABLAST
Thursday 30
April
Village
Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PQ
RICHARD DAWSON
POWERDOVE
LONDON SACRED HARP
Wednesday 13
May
Bethnal Green
Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
SIR RICHARD BISHOP
Friday 22 May
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA UK
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313250
Friday 22 May
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA UK
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313250
THE JULIE RUIN
Tuesday 26
May
Electric
Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, Camden, NW1 8QP
ROSE MCDOWALL
Thursday 28
May
St Pancras
Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
PROLAPSE
ART TRIP AND THE STATIC SOUND
Friday 29 May
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £10
| SOLD OUT
PROLAPSE
THE WOLFHOUNDS
Saturday 30
May
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
MIKAL CRONIN
Monday 1 June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
NO BABIES
MARGY PEPPER
COMMISERATIONS
Tuesday 9 June
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
LITURGY
Thursday 11
June
Electrowerkz,
7 Torrens Street, Angel, EC1V 1NQ
DAN DEACON
Tuesday 16
June
Oval Space,
29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT
7pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/312457
REIGNING SOUND
THE NUMBER ONES
THE CASTILLIANS
Monday 22
June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
8pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308293
VEXX
HUMAN FORM
VERTICAL SLUMP
Wednesday 1
July
Montague
Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
DEERHOOF
Tuesday 25 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313096
Tuesday 25 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313096
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