It’s been a
busy week for Upset The Rhythm, not only have we announced new shows for DOPE BODY, STEPHEN STEINBRINK, JULIE
BYRNE and FUZZ, we’ve also
released an exquisite new album by WETDOG
entitled ‘Divine Times’. ‘Divine Times’ is an uncompromising
album, it’s an assured album that’s been waiting for us to catch up. It has all
of the tropes of what you’d expect from Wetdog, the characteristic fervour,
deadpan humour, falling-to-bits willfulness, yet it 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. There’s no looking down, only soaring
upward. As a special treat, you can now stream the whole album for one week
here!
Our next show
falls next Wednesday for Richard Dawson, however all tickets for that one are
now long gone, if you’re lucky enough to have one please be aware that the live
music will start around 8.30pm with London’s Sacred Harp group. I’ll leave you
with our listing for SIR RICHARD BISHOP
and MARKERS, who we have playing at
the Tin Tabernacle two weeks today, thanks as ever for reading…
\\\\\ FRIDAY
22 MAY /////
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
SIR RICHARD BISHOP is an experimental guitarist whose
improvisations and compositions often reflect the shadow worlds of India, the
Middle East, North Africa, and other points along the Gypsy trail. Bishop is
perhaps best known as a founding member (along with brother Alan Bishop) of
experimental ethnic-improv pioneers and underground tricksters Sun City Girls,
who for nearly 30 years have produced an extensive discography of over 50 full
length albums, 20 one-hour cassettes and a dozen 7” records. Bishop’s first
official solo record, ‘Salvador Kali’, was released by John Fahey’s esteemed
Revenant Records label in 1998. The album showcases Bishop's own particular
obsessions and roots, drawing from a variety of worldwide sources. Locust Music
issued his widely praised second record, ‘Improvika’ in 2004. This album
consists of nine extemporaneous pieces for solo acoustic guitar and led to
Bishop performing live as a solo artist, playing throughout Europe, Australia
and the United States, over the successive years touring extensively with
Bonnie Prince Billy, Earth, Animal Collective and Bill Callahan, amongst many
others. Throughout the previous decade Bishop has excelled himself with
numerous self-releases alongside major works on Locust and Drag City, who
released Bishop’s most recent album, ’Tangier Sessions’, earlier this year.
The conceit
of Bishop's new album, Tangier Sessions, is based in some serious guitar lore
that would make any bedroom noodler salivate. While in Switzerland last year,
Bishop stumbled into a hole-in-the-wall luthier's shop. Failing to find
anything to suit his purposes, he went to leave, but he was stopped by the
owner on his way out, who reached behind a cabinet and pulled out a very old,
remarkable guitar of unknown provenance. The only distinguishing mark on the
guitar was a tiny sticker inside which read "C. Bruno". Entranced by
its sound and mystery, but intimidated by its price, Bishop came and went
several times before finally caving and buying the guitar. Soon after this, he
found himself holed up for a week at an apartment in Tangier, Morocco, playing
the guitar furiously all day, improvising and recording at night. Tangier
Sessions is the result of these frenzied efforts. Stylistically, the album
evokes Morocco as a hub of cultural exchange. Bishop often explores the
Andalusian flamenco guitar style, infusing it with gestures from across the country’s
other borders. In the seductive, cyclical crocheting of "Mirage",
there’s traces of the Mali-centered "desert blues," a style sometimes
considered to have inspired the American blues, but which now, in contemporary
practice, re-emulates it. Elsewhere, Bishop’s haunting melodies recall the
sound of the oud, a popular lute-like instrument in North Africa, as well as in
the Middle East and Greece. This rare solo performance sees Bishop performing
with his ‘C. Bruno’ guitar in a wonderful grade II listed Victorian church in
the heart of Kilburn. The Tin Tabernacle is constructed out of galvanised
corrugated iron and its interior was remodelled in the 1940’s to house the Sea
Cadets and their cultural centre.
MARKERS are a guitar duo from London comprising of Jason
Carty and Jodie Cox. Collectively, their musical history has seen them as
founding members and collaborators with the likes of Narrows, Geiger Counter,
Foe, Exes, Rohame, Art of Burning Water and Earth. However, this project
is something different. Creating music without voice or rhythm section
leaves them very exposed, focusing attention on how each note is wrung or
coaxed for optimum emotional expression, and relying heavily on tone, dexterity
and structuring. Whilst a review of early guitar influences has bled
into their sound, there is an obvious nod to cinema and the effect music has on
steering images with sweetness, patience and intensity, both on the screen and
in the mind’s eye.
Two more
things worthy of note before I wish you a great weekend! Firstly, next Tuesday
our friends at Bird On The Wire have a show on at the 100 Club with JAD FAIR and NORMAN BLAKE, so if you fancy seeing the men behind Half Japanese
and Teenage Fanclub play together you can find tickets here:
Furthermore,
on June 8th Dictionary Pudding have UMBERTO
booked at Corsica Studios, definitely worth checking out too, highly
recommended etc:
Hoping the
weekend lasts forever for you!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
RICHARD DAWSON
POWERDOVE
LONDON SACRED HARP
Wednesday 13
May
Bethnal Green
Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
7.30pm | £10
| 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
MONOTONY // 7” Launch //
THE WORMS
DAS BOOTS THE CHEMIST
Monday 25 May
(Bank Holiday Matinee)
Power
Lunches, 446 Kingsland Road, Haggerston, E8 4AE
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
7.30pm | £10
| SOLD OUT
MIKAL CRONIN
Monday 1 June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
SAUNA
YOUTH // Album launch //
PRIMETIME
RATTLE
Friday 5 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/317117
NO BABIES
MARGY PEPPER
COMMISERATIONS
Tuesday 9
June
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
AUSMUTEANTS
Wednesday 10 June
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8
2EB
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/316346
LITURGY
CIRCUIT DES YEUX
Thursday 11
June
Electrowerkz,
7 Torrens Street, Angel, EC1V 1NQ
DAN DEACON
YEAH YOU
WUME
Tuesday 16
June
Oval Space,
29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT
7pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/312457
ARIEL PINK
HARRY MERRY
Wednesday 17 June
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
8pm | £17 | SOLD OUT
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
FUZZ
Friday 4 September
Heaven, The Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG
7pm - 10pm | £14 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318321
Tuesday 25 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313096
FUZZ
Friday 4 September
Heaven, The Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG
7pm - 10pm | £14 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318321
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
JULIE BYRNE
Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333
JULIE BYRNE
Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333
DOPE BODY
Wednesday
16 September
Old
Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm
| £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318804
MARTIN NEWELL -
‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H
8LG
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