Good afternoon!
Thanks so much to all
of you who’ve come recently to see Purling Hiss, Future Islands and Neil Hagerty
at Upset The Rhythm! It’s been such an unusual few weeks, I’m really glad you
could come along with us on such an interesting trip. We haven’t quite arrived
yet though as this Thursday we’ll set up base camp at Power Lunches for a Night
School Records double-header with the ascendant HAPPY MEALS and APOSTILLE
both performing. We’re also privileged to have DESIGN A WAVE playing too, who is without a doubt one of our
favourite musicians. Now that’s what I call cosmic, warped and willful music,
Volume One! Full details on that show can be found below in full.
Furthermore, this
Sunday you’ll find us at the inaugural Hackney Record Fair, we’ll have most of
our back catalogue for sale (including a copy of our very first record!), new t-shirts
/ badges / stickers and some rare items too! This poster gives you the total
gist.
This is too good an
opportunity to pass on telling you about our upcoming WETDOG album party on April 18th so find that listing coming up
next. Also at Power Lunches, this show sees NO BRA, MUSIC RECORDINGS
and JOHN DAKER all supporting on the
lineup. Lots to read, I’ll leave you to it…
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HAPPY MEALS
APOSTILLE
DESIGN A WAVE
Thursday 9
April
Power
Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
HAPPY MEALS make sensual, spellbinding lo-fi pop. Sounding like the work of Saada Bonaire's long-lost slacker offspring, debut album ’Apéro' is actually the produce of two Glasgow-based artists, Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook, who originally hail from the Scottish borders. Suzanne sings in a unique mix of French and Scottish, occasionally sharing the mic with Lewis over the course of six songs taking the 100% Silk/NNF pop aesthetic and psych-dub freedom of Peaking Lights to a more ambiguous, enchanted headspace. It's all top notch stuff, from the nine minute celestial sashay of 'Crystal Salutation' through the chiming boogie of 'Altered Images' to the blown-out dub-pop of 'The Age Of Love', and the Balearic acid of 'Le Voyage’. ’Apéro' is available now on LP/CD through Night School Records.
https://soundcloud.com/nightschool/altered-images
APOSTILLE is the recording and performing project of Night School head honcho Michael Kasparis (of Please and The Lowest Form). Having started as a home-damaged pop music, Apostille has grown into a live-wire synth punk prospect that bridges physicality with emotive bleed. Insistent flickering beats hold down a sturdy framework for Kasparis' clouds of echoed vocals and synth cluster quests. Sometimes Michael's voice soars above the music, hanging their like an apparition, other times the cloaked notes surge forwards, bouncing between distorted handclaps, wonky basslines and oblique incantations to deliriously wondrous effect. Apostille’s debut album ‘Powerless’ will be released next month through Night School records.
http://apostille.bandcamp.com/
DESIGN A WAVE is the long standing project of London-based artist Tom Hirst. Propelled equally by the misuse of digital signal processing, analogue synthesizers and parasitic earworms, these recordings serve as a milestone in this continuing adventure. Electronic tones multiply and subtract thoughout the release in a sublime cosmic flurry, paying homage to electro pioneers that came before. Above the transistorised jumble, crystalline synths emerge through deeply rooted rhythms. Weaving throughout experimental electronics to more dance ready tracks, Design a Wave veers sharply left, to carve his own wayward path.
http://www.degsianwvae.co.uk/
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WETDOG *** ALBUM LAUNCH ***
NO BRA
MUSIC RECORDINGS
JOHN DAKER
Saturday 18
April
Power
Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Haggerston, E8 4AE
WETDOG are Rivka Gillieron, Sarah
Datbylgu and Billy Easter, three individuals with an expertise for chasing down
melodies across their songs. Previous albums on Angular and Captured Tracks
have indicated their interest with the minimal palette of post punk and whilst
that remains a glowing core to their coals over the last five years WETDOG have
evolved in their approach to making music. Whereas their debut album
‘Enterprise Reversal’ was overflowing with melodic clatter, their follow up
‘Frauhaus’ seemed decidedly darker and disparate. Since that release WETDOG
have become a transatlantic proposal. Separated by an ocean, the trio have had
to work harder than ever to rope together their instincts. This commitment to
staying in touch with each other as well as in touch with their sound can be
heard throughout their new album ‘Divine Times’, released by Upset The Rhythm
on May 4th. It has all of the tropes of what you’d expect from WETDOG, the
characteristic fervor, deadpan humour, falling-to-bits willfulness, yet ‘Divine
Times’ transcends the band’s love of all things disjointed and accidentally
happy. It’s the sound of WETDOG confident out there on their own limb.
https://www.facebook.com/wetdogband
NO BRA is the music/art project of Susanne Oberbeck, active since 2003. Known for her signature long straight hair and steely vocal delivery, German native Oberbeck became something of a cult icon amongst London’s alterna-queer set. Currently based in New York, she recently released the follow-up to 2006’s ‘Dance and Walk’ called ‘Candy’, an exploration of the pervasiveness of casual harassment. Repeating “cross the line/don’t cross the line/cross the line/don’t cross the line,” Oberbeck puts the listener in juxtaposed positions, trading off between being the victim or the victimiser, whilst building up a feeling of uncomfortable tension, asking: “What is your candy store?”
http://www.nobra.co.uk/
MUSIC RECORDINGS aka Max Syed-Tollan was long assumed lost to the vagaries of time, he is the Quintessential Horse Whisperer’ as his songs attest! You will not believe your eyes. You will pulsate rhythmically and gurgle like a frog. You will not have the opportunity to purchase merchandise.
https://soundcloud.com/music-recordings
JOHN DAKER are two women making music from the words stored at the sides of their brains, fractured keyboard beats and surreal melodies. Putting the performance into musical performance!
https://myspace.com/johndaker
https://www.facebook.com/wetdogband
NO BRA is the music/art project of Susanne Oberbeck, active since 2003. Known for her signature long straight hair and steely vocal delivery, German native Oberbeck became something of a cult icon amongst London’s alterna-queer set. Currently based in New York, she recently released the follow-up to 2006’s ‘Dance and Walk’ called ‘Candy’, an exploration of the pervasiveness of casual harassment. Repeating “cross the line/don’t cross the line/cross the line/don’t cross the line,” Oberbeck puts the listener in juxtaposed positions, trading off between being the victim or the victimiser, whilst building up a feeling of uncomfortable tension, asking: “What is your candy store?”
http://www.nobra.co.uk/
MUSIC RECORDINGS aka Max Syed-Tollan was long assumed lost to the vagaries of time, he is the Quintessential Horse Whisperer’ as his songs attest! You will not believe your eyes. You will pulsate rhythmically and gurgle like a frog. You will not have the opportunity to purchase merchandise.
https://soundcloud.com/music-recordings
JOHN DAKER are two women making music from the words stored at the sides of their brains, fractured keyboard beats and surreal melodies. Putting the performance into musical performance!
https://myspace.com/johndaker
Have a great
week, see you Thursday!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
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
WILD WILDERNESS
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
8pm | £10.00
| SOLD OUT
SIR RICHARD BISHOP
MARKERS
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
7.30pm | 12 |
SOLD OUT
ROSE MCDOWALL
THE WHARVES
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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