UPSET THE RHYTHM: Geneva Jacuzzi tomorrow in London! Plus new music from Deerhoof and TERRY!

Hey everyone!

We’ve just the one show for you this week. Tomorrow at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, we’re overjoyed to invite the one and only Geneva Jacuzzi to play her first headline show in London. Geneva is a truly unique artist, blurring the edges of pop music, performance art and humanoid gesture. Working in the same idea-laboratory as John Maus and Ariel Pink, her live show is more than just a show, it’s visceral, absurd and engaged in the act of becoming. We can’t recommend tomorrow enough, and if you wanted further incentive we also have David West (of Rat Columns, Lace Curtain, Rank/Xerox etc) debuting his new Liberation project and synth atmospherics from Moonbow too!

Our full listing for tomorrow’s concert follows, along with that of next week’s concert for Los Angeles Free Music Society cornerstones; Rick Potts, Joe Potts and Vetza (who are also all members of the legendary proto-noise group Airway). Vetza will be performing solo and as part of a trio with the Brothers Potts. Joe and Rick will be also performing as a duo, whilst the evening kicks off with a short documentary film all about the LAFMS. This one takes place at Servant Jazz Quarters in Dalston.

Here’s some new music to listen to whilst you peruse our mailout! Both songs are from upcoming releases on Upset The Rhythm. The first entitled ‘Acceptance Speech’ is another bite from the apple of our forthcoming Deerhoof album called The Magic (out June 23^rd). Whilst the second new track is one of our favourites from TERRY’s upcoming album Terry HQ (July 1^st) and that one goes by the title ‘Third War’, listen up!

\\\\\ TOMORROW /////

GENEVA JACUZZI

LIBERATION

MOONBOW

Tuesday 7 June

Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB

7:30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/353484

GENEVA JACUZZI (born Geneva Garvin) is a Los Angeles-based visual artist, musician, composer, and playwright who is known for her synth-driven bedroom pop recordings, theatrical stage performances, and retro-style video art. She has honed a blithe and cryptic wit filled with telling people what to do, body-motional detachment, bodiless baby traffic directing, humanoid furniture, nonsense, puns and mime control. Since the early 2,000's Jacuzzi has developed a cult following after self-releasing multiple albums of analog 8-track cassette home recordings. Her lyrics describe blood being thrown onto fire, clown-like machines in search of sadness and the raging monologues of future/past elemental beings. Her videos and live performances portray the story of a once abundant Self being shattered into a variety of other personas, all being played by Jacuzzi, and all cannibalizing-commodifying their revenge upon the idea of an original Self which is now lost if not mythical, somewhere in the Islands of the Jacuzzi. Vinyl International put out 2010’s incredible ‘Lamaze’ album that Geneva toured extensively in support of alongside John Maus and Ariel Pink, whilst Medical Records recently issued her stunning new album ‘Technophelia’.

http://www.genevajacuzzi.com/_/HOME.html

LIBERATION is the alias of one David West, principal songwriter in Rat Columns, Rank/Xerox and Lace Curtain and former member of Total Control. A seasoned travelling wilbury, West’s discography crosses Blackest Ever Black, DFA, Software and soon Night School, though he is always difficult to set in stone. Liberation is a deconstruction of synth pop, R+B, 80s House music and an emotional fragility that lures the listener into West’s singular world of missed connections, night-time lovers staring across foggy bays, the untethered heart adrift in the modern world.

http://ratcolumns.tumblr.com/

MOONBOW is the sonic brainchild of London multimedia artist Eleanor Hardwick. Performing alongside a rotating cast of collaborators, it's post-internet political lyricism and spaced out pop melodies on top of industrial cold wave beats. New single 'Altering Ego' came out May 2016 followed by praise from i-D, Clash and The 405.

www.moonbowmusic.co.uk

\\\\\ NEXT TUESDAY /////

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 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358852

Aside from being founding members of Los Angeles Free Music Society, Joe and Rick also performed in legendary, early-noise group Airway, which Vetza’s electrifying vocals contributed much to, amid the subliminal messages, crashing drums and walls of tape delay. Airway is the brainchild of Joe Potts who controls the flow of chaos from the mixing desk, he has also recorded several solo documents and played in Extended Organ with Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy. Rick Potts is a multi-instrumentalist and visual artist, he played mandolin/guitar in Airway and appeared in Solid Eye and Dinosaurs With Horns, both with Joseph Hammer.

The evening will begin with a screening of ‘LAFMS: how low can you go?’. A short film portrait of the Los Angeles Free Music Society. These irreverent, LA-based experimental musicians have been fearlessly exploring sound since the early 1970’s. The collective is bonded by friendship and a love for blowing apart boundaries. The influence LAFMS has had on the explosion of international DIY culture is immeasurable. Explicitly acknowledged as a motivation for the emergence of the Japanese noise scene in the 1980s, as well as being cited specifically by the likes of Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and John Olson (Wolf Eyes), the collective that emerged in LA in 1973 resulted in countless adventurous music lovers tasting the delights of a new kind of creative freedom and getting out there and doing it for themselves.

http://www.lafms.com/

Huge thanks to all of you for coming to see Darren Hayman and Karen Gwyer last week too, both very memorable events indeed. In other show-related news today we confirmed Happy Meals as support for our upcoming Sonic Boom show, so that’ll be an amazing event. We also sadly heard that Lucky Dragons unfortunately had to cancel their upcoming European tour meaning our show in July is no longer going ahead, we hope to have them back over in the UK soon. Ah, the two sides of the same coin! Thanks for reading this, take good care and we’ll see you soon!

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