Sunday, 8 May 2016

Neil Michael Hagerty in London next week and Cian Nugent, Nap Eyes soon!










Hello again!
Summer has well and truly arrived this weekend, I’m typing this whilst holding an ice cream. I hope you’re enjoying a park somewhere with a full complement of food, drink and sunshine. We’re gearing up for next week’s Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex show! Taking place at MOTH Club on Tuesday night, we’re very fortunate to have Manchester’s outer limits rockers Irma Vep and the dulcet Alistair McKay lending their talents to the evening too.
It’s going to be an auspicious night of howling guitars and snaking songs from the Royal Trux/Pussy Galore member with tickets on the door for £10 and live music commencing from 8.10pm. Come and wade deep in the New Border Sound!
You can also find below the full listing for our upcoming Cian Nugent, Nap Eyes and Gold Foil show, also at MOTH Club, this time on May 21st. If you like your music to walk an intelligent line from brisk observation to unwound abandon then this show will overfloweth your cup.
 
Our complete program of concerts can be found at the conclusion of this message too, including events for Ty Segall, Lucky Dragons, Eartheater and The Oblivians, to mention just a few. To stem your interest further, here’s a poster we made this morning for next month’s Karen Gwyer, Container and Giant Swan concert to end all concerts. All colours are popping!




 
 

NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX
IRMA VEP
ALISTAIR MCKAY
Tuesday 10 May
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX have stepped back out into the sunshine for the first time since ‘The Best Of The Howling Hex’ back in 2013. Since then they have refocused on the immediate pleasures found within the writing and playing of a single song. This direction, explored in a pair of limited edition singles released over the past two years, reaches a populist zenith on the new album, ‘Denver’ on Drag City, in which an entire community and geographic region are tapped for their energy, the celebratory pulses of which feed the new music. To achieve this effect in the ultimately democratic conception of The Howling Hex’s New Border Sound, Neil cranked up his guitar-playing to dominant levels that recall his playing in Pussy Galore and Royal Trux. Coupled with the beats and, at times, requiring different inflections from the beat, Neil’s howling guitar sounds elevate the music of ‘Denver’ to an ecstatic communal expression, the likes of which will no doubt massage pleasure centres in the make-up of modern popular music listeners. As guitarist in Pussy Galore, Neil Hagerty re-invented long hair and blue jeans. As one half of Royal Trux he forged a guitar/vocal/boogie paradigm unheralded in contemporary music. The mercury sound of Royal Trux however will never be imitated. Somewhere past Sonny and Linda Sharrock, out past the fuel rig blast of time, Hagerty's textural shifts are uniquely, harmolodically hung.
IRMA VEP is the long-term project of Edwin Stevens. As the alpha member of the Manchester underground music nerd set – a mirror world of the city’s explicit culture, where benevolence, good vibes, an active pursuit of self-doubt and a hazy absence of self-importance are paradoxically coupled with your usual countercultural aural fuck-you-ism – he’s played regularly in at least five completely stylistically unconnected formations at any one time since moving to the city from North Wales about eight years ago. Recent Golden Lab release, ‘Disappointment’ is a unification of everything he’s been brilliant at within various contexts. From ecstatically ripping it up ostrich freestyle to singing beautiful, sincere songs of apology and regret, both disparate elements coalesce in Irma Vep into a wondrously weird, hypnotic, earnest, outer limits rock. For this show Edwin will be accompanied by a full band of sonic miscreants.
ALISTAIR MCKAY from Melbourne, now living in London, plays guitar and sings in Australia’s deep pop thinkers Dick Diver. Dick Diver’s recent 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 an intimate solo set on guitar and vocals.


CIAN NUGENT - ‘Night Fiction’ release party!!!
NAP EYES
GOLD FOIL
Saturday 21 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, Hackney, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
CIAN NUGENT is a mercurial guitar player and composer from Dublin, Ireland. Cian 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. New album, ‘Night Fiction’ is Cian Nugent's third album but his first taking on the role of singer-songwriter. Where his previous two albums: 2013's ‘Born With The Caul’ and 2011's ‘Doubles’ saw him exploring extended guitar based instrumentals with his band, The Cosmos, here he has reigned things in and focused his songwriting skills. Guitar fans, do not fear, there is still plenty of soloing and fingerpicking here. With 7 songs both solo and with his band, this album amalgamates everything Cian has done up to this point and reveals a more broad palate of influences, including The Velvet Underground, Richard Thompson, Television, Neil Young, John Lennon, Fred Neil, etc. This show is acting as Cian’s London record release for ‘Night Fiction’ and will see him perform with a full band, ‘Night Fiction’ is out now on Woodsist.
https://soundcloud.com/cian-nugent

NAP EYES hail from Nova Scotia and make crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, their songs are equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA and the Earth’s magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about insomnia and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order; solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science. It’s the sound of being young and alive in the city, a tenuous and impermanent counterpoise of recklessness and anxiety, archness and earnestness. Following last year’s reissue of their 2014 debut ‘Whine of the Mystic’ on Paradise of Bachelors, Nap Eyes released an album of all-new material entitled ‘Thought Rock Fish Scale’ earlier this year.
GOLD FOIL offer up some truly end-of-my-tether punk/post-punk. Members of various band including UTR friends and family.
 
Thanks go out to all of you for coming to see The Space Lady and Daniel Bachman this week, it was great to see so many of you there.
One last thing, our friend Paul has set up a free show on May 19th for Entrance and Sleepy Doug Shaw at Servant Jazz Quarters, we think it’s going to be brilliant so wanted to help spread the word, see you there.
Thanks so much for your support, over and out!
Upset The Rhythm
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS  
NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX
IRMA VEP
ALISTAIR MCKAY
Tuesday 10 May
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
CIAN NUGENT - ‘Night Fiction’ release party!!!
NAP EYES
GOLD FOIL
Saturday 21 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, Hackney, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
NOTS
MONSTER TREASURE
ES
Monday 23 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
DOWNTOWN BOYS
TRASH KIT
ULTIMATE GUITAR TABS
Tuesday 31 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
KAREN GWYER
CONTAINER
GIANT SWAN
Friday 3 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
DARREN HAYMAN & BAND performing ‘Thankful Villages’
JULY SKIES
Plus Spoken Word & Nature Disco
Saturday 4 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | TICKETS 
GENEVA JACUZZI
LIBERATION
Tuesday 7 June
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £7 | TICKETS
JOE & RICK POTTS
POTTS VETZA POTTS TRIO
VETZA
LAFMS documentary - ‘how low can you go?’
Tuesday 14 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London N16 8JN
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
In collaboration with Cafe OTO…
JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
w/ EVAN PARKER
JOSHUA ABRAMS / EVAN PARKER DUO
Friday 17 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | TICKETS
CC DUST
STATIC PALM
Thursday 23 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
8pm | £5 |TICKETS

TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS
AUSMUTEANTS
Friday 24 June
O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY
7pm | £17.50 | TICKETS
EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS 
LUCKY DRAGONS
JIN&DAUN
Saturday 2 July
DIY Space For London, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
DIYSFL is a members club, become a member here.
SONIC BOOM
Saturday 9 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
6.30pm - 10pm | £10 | TICKETS
PROTOMARTYR
Thursday 14 July
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS
THE OBLIVIANS
DEAF WISH
Wednesday 27 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £16 | TICKETS
HEATHER LEIGH
ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday 4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | TICKETS
UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS
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