UPSET THE RHYTHM: Daniel Wakeford London show and Independent Label Market tomorrow!

Morning all!

We have an eventful Saturday coming up tomorrow as Upset The Rhythm will be heading down to Old Spitalfields market in the day for London’s Independent Label Market, before jetting to DIY Space For London for our Daniel Wakeford show with Constant Flux.

The Independent Label Market will run from 11am, and we’ll be there until 5pm selling all sorts of wares from t-shirts to cassettes, posters to records. We have managed to unearth lots of rarer titles alongside all of our recent releases and have some bargainous prices in mind, so come on down and say hello! Upset The Rhythm will occupy pitch 68, opposite our friends Drag City and sandwiched between Erased Tapes and East London Printmakers. There are over 100 records labels taking part and rather suitably given the hot weather predicted we’ll be joined by 27 breweries too, sounds dangerous!

Tomorrow evening, we’re teaming up with Constant Flux at DIY Space For London to present an evening of bottled charisma and unstoppable fun in the shape of Daniel Wakeford, Dog Chocolate and 2Decks. Daniel Wakeford is an astute singer-songwriter, delivering his songs straight from the heart and into that part of your brain that becomes fixated with all things beguiling and buoyant. In support of his first proper album, this show sees Daniel’s debut tour draw to a triumphant climax. Having the irrepressible party-punk of Dog Chocolate and 2Decks’ fresh take on hip-hop at our disposal tomorrow too can only be a marvelous thing! Tickets will be available on the door as well as in advance for £6, with live music erupting from 8.30pm.

Since we last caught up we’ve also confirmed a new concert for Nova Scotia’s Nap Eyes in November at The Lexington. Their literate guitar pop and shambling charm quaked London when they were last here with Cian Nugent in May so it’s a joy to have them back for their first headline show. Full details and ticket links can be found below in our listings section.

Last week we also unveiled the first video from Rattle’s debut self-titled album. Whoever thought you could use a misted spray of water as a piece of percussion? Watch Rattle get to work with drums, vibraslap, bells and vocals galore here!

Rattle will be available on LP and CD from August 5^th, plus we’ll be hosting an official London release party on August 11^th at St Pancras Old Church with support from Charles Hayward and Ex-Easter Island Head (in solo mode), full details to follow along with full write-ups on our next three shows including The Oblivians next week and Heather Leigh and Asiq Nargile the week after!

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In collaboration with Constant Flux…

DANIEL WAKEFORD

DOG CHOCOLATE

2DECKS

Saturday 23 July

DIY Space For London, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF

7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/364864

NB. DIYSFL is a members club, become a member here:

http://diyspaceforlondon.org/ (Carers may attend for free)

DANIEL WAKEFORD is a charismatic and honest individual, bringing his unique brand of pure and ecstatic pop to audiences across the UK this Summer. As a singer-songwriter from the UK’s burgeoning learning disabled music scene, Daniel Wakeford lives in Brighton and writes songs about his life and things he loves, from family to friends, to bad feelings and Beethoven. With this debut tour planned by Constant Flux, Daniel will be promoting his new album, ‘The Songs of Gigs’, in accessible venues to integrated audiences with some of the best bands in the alternative music scene.

Daniel has been writing and recording music since 2009. Working alongside musician Tom Cook, Daniel brings lyrics and a melody to him every Friday and within an hour and a half a song will be created. Using this approach Daniel has amassed an impressive back catalogue, in excess of sixty songs. Ten of these songs have been taken to Metway Studios in Brighton, re-recorded, given the time and attention they deserve and compiled to create his first album proper, ‘The Songs Of Gigs’. Daniel in recent years has also gained a cult following in mainstream culture due to his show-stealing appearances on Channel 4’s ‘The Undateables’. His charisma shone through in the episodes he appeared in and that same charm inhabits all of his songs. Daniel’s new album is out now through Carousel, the learning disability arts organisation that supports him as an artist, check it out!

https://danielwakeford.bandcamp.com/

DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals from London. Having played in many other bands including Yeborobo, Limn and Gasp! Cracking Eggs, united they recognise Dog Chocolate as their one true love. Abandoning notions of elegance, cred and professionalism they embrace the ramshackle, instant and fun, capturing a vivid spontaneity with their music. Their sound is a shabby, fast, over-excited ball of wet fur falling down the stairs, knocking over plant pots along the way and staining the carpet. With an average song time of 2 minutes, Dog Chocolate are on to the next treat before fully digesting the last. Chewing up bits of punk, post-punk, noise and pop, Matthew and Robert's guitars race around each other like wasps, pitch-shifting and phasing all over the place while Jono's rolled-up-newspaper drums chase them round the room. The band's debut album 'Snack Fans' was released earlier this year by Upset The Rhythm.

http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/

2DECKS has been producing Hip-Hop and singing in various bands since forever and is ready to go it alone and show the world what he can do. 2Decks is a rapper on a mission trying to make a difference for the special needs community.

https://2decks.bandcamp.com/

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THE OBLIVIANS

DEAF WISH

Wednesday 27 July

Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ

7.30pm | £16 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/355934

THE OBLIVIANS are a garage punk trio from Memphis, Tennessee who formed in 1993. The Oblivians make music that’s legitimately funny and provocative, and they make it sound dangerous. Between 1995 and 1997, they packed in blown out guitars and snarling, guttural vocals, all of which could have been filtered through a rusted out tin can. Their songs are fast and loud, and when they made their last proper record in 1997 with New Orleans weirdo composer Mr Quintron, they sounded like the MC5 being backed by an organist. They weren't around for very long, but in their relatively short time together, they cemented themselves as godfathers to today's garage punk landscape. The band recorded four LPs, as well as a number of EPs and singles, typically recording songs live in the studio, before disbanding in 1998. Since then, all three members of the band have kept pretty busy. Jack Yarber made some solo albums under the name Jack Oblivian, most recently with his backing band The Sheiks on this year’s album, ‘The Lone Ranger Of Love’. Greg Cartwright became the frontman of the mighty Reigning Sound, whilst Eric Friedl founded Goner Records. So it’s with some solid achievements under each of their belts that they reunited in 2009 to tour with The Gories, since then they’ve played numerous reunion shows all across the world before recording their newt record ‘Desperation’ in 2013. This show at Tufnell Park Dome is their first show in the UK for decades and looks set to be very special indeed!

https://www.facebook.com/theoblivians/

DEAF WISH, over the course of eight years, have amassed one of rock’s most exhilarating bodies of work, a concise run of wooly seven-inches and white-knuckle LPs whose legendary live translation has been most accurately described as “unhinged.” All this despite their being scattered across multiple continents, with no way of getting to know one another outside of intermittent touring. “We didn’t really know what this band was,” Tjhung says. “We had something, but it wasn’t clear—we had to figure out what that was.” Last year marked the arrival of ‘Pain’, the first album they’ve written since coming together again semi-permanently in Melbourne, and their appropriately titled first full-length for Sub Pop. It is a miraculously dissonant, wonderfully immediate display of Deaf Wish at their mightiest, alive with the same wild chemistry and sense of possibility that made their first recordings so vital.

https://www.facebook.com/deaf.wish

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HEATHER LEIGH

ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday 4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358631

HEATHER LEIGH is the daughter of a coal miner, weaving a trail from West Virginia to Texas and now residing in Scotland. Heather travels the vast unexplored reaches of pedal steel guitar. Her playing is as physical as it is phantom, combining spontaneous compositions with a feel for the full interaction of flesh with hallucinatory power sources. With a rare combination of sensitivity and strength, Leigh’s steel mainlines sanctified slide guitar and deforms it using hypnotic tone-implosions, juggling walls of bleeding amp tone with choral vocal constructs and wrenching single note ascensions.

In late 2015, Heather Leigh released her first proper studio album, I Abused Animal on Stephen O’Malley & Peter Rehberg’s Ideologic Organ/Editions Mego labels to widespread acclaim. Renowned as a fearless free improviser, I Abused Animal is a breakthrough work showcasing Leigh’s songwriting prowess, foregrounding her stunning voice and her innovations for the pedal steel guitar. Warmly recorded in a secret location in the English countryside, the album transmutes the power of her captivating live performances to a studio setting, capturing her tactile playing in full clarity while making devastating use of volume and space. Heather Leigh explores themes of abuse, sexual instinct, vulnerability, memory, shadow, fantasy, cruelty and projection across the album’s psychedelic hymnals. At times the intimacy of the recordings makes you feel like she’s singing directly into your ear, playing just for you.

http://wishimage.com/

ASIQ NARGILE aka Nargile Mehtiyeva was born in Tbilisi and is now based in the Borcali region of Southern Georgia. She has been playing saz (long-neck lute) and singing since the age of 15. Fluent in Azerbaijani, Georgian, and Russian, Nargile represents the cosmopolitan heritage of old Tbilisi, a city once known as a meeting point for multilingual aşıq bards who would travel through the region serving as conduits for news, ideas, music and culture. A powerful solo performer, her vocal recital of epic folk poetry is by turns ecstatic and deeply expressive, and is interspersed with bursts of virtuosic, highly ornamented saz.

Equally comfortable performing moving laments or upbeat folk dances, Nargile is currently the only female aşıq living and performing in the ethnic Azeri region of Georgia, and has been teaching the art to new generations. Thanks to the efforts of The Sayat Nova Project, a non-profit group aiming to help preserve and promote the diverse musical dialects of the Caucasus, European audiences can now experience the elusive, hypnotic beauty of Nargile’s music for themselves. A recording of her live performance at Cafe OTO will be released soon, following on from a successful UK tour with kindred folk channeller Richard Dawson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgAb87RFgpk

Thank you for reading, have a fantastic Friday and we’ll see you tomorrow!

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In collaboration with Constant Flux…

DANIEL WAKEFORD

DOG CHOCOLATE

2DECKS