Hello there!
I hope you’re
having a good week, we’re still reeling from the Rattle album launch, thank you
very much for helping make that such a success. We have shows for Chris Cohen, Pikelet, Terry, The Rebel and Sarcasm all on the horizon too, so please find info on those early
September events outlined in full below.
Next Monday
you’ll find us at Moth Club for the UK premiere of ‘Half-Cocked’. The film
follows a group of kids who steal a van full of music equipment and pretend to
be a band in order to stay ‘on the road’. Featuring Ian Svenonius (who has also
provided a special video introduction) and members of Slint, Rodan and the
Grifters playing versions of themselves, the film from 1994 (financed by
Matador Records) has never been screened before in the UK. It’s an incredible
window into America’s underground music scene and the best bit is that tickets
are free, you just need to rsvp here, see you there: https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/half-cocked-uk-premiere
This week we also
proudly announced that Sauna Youth
will be performing for us on October 1st at Kamio. Following on from
their US tour, this special homecoming show will also feature David West (of Rat Columns and
Liberation), Score and General Echo Soundsystem (Black Time /
DJs). It’ll be so great to welcome them home and to see them play a blazing set
after many weeks touring. Tickets on sale now!
Due to popular
demand (you asked, we listened) we’ve also re-printed our John Maus t-shirt, which has been out of stock for what seems like
forever. Considered by many in our inbox as a modern classic, the original
black on white design is back in our webstore now, in a variety of sizes: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
Oh yes and it’s
‘LIVE’ as in living, not necessarily just as in playing live! Printed by the
good people at The Positive Press, let’s enact a powerful new being through the
wearing of said garment!
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5 /////
CHRIS COHEN
PIKELET
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146
CHRIS COHEN is a native of Los Angeles
currently residing in the farmlands of Vermont. He is the child of a former
music business executive and a former Broadway actress. His resume of prior
musical projects is a long one: as a contributing member of The Curtains,
Cryptacize, Deerhoof, and Natural Dreamers, he released 10 full-length albums
between 2002 and 2008. Along the way, Cohen was also a touring player with
White Magic, Cass McCombs, Haunted Graffiti and Danielson, among others, for
stints both short and long. All of this culminated in his first release under
his own name, and his first for Captured Tracks, 'Overgrown Path'. A singing
drummer who writes psychedelic pop music, Cohen also records his own bass,
Casio MT65, piano, and guitar. Tracks like 'Caller No. 99' and 'Monad' follow
idiosyncratic forms, but are still melodic in an unconventional and homegrown
way; like the best of Robert Wyatt, Mayo Thompson, Syd Barrett, and Jerry
Garcia. 'Overgrown Path' unfolded its delicate and unexpected arrangements
around Cohen's relaxed baritone, unhurriedly revealing the detailed world
wrapped up in each song. 'As If Apart', the long-awaited sequel to Chris
Cohen's 2012 soft psych garden of unearthly alter-pop, follows on from its
predecessor with another bittersweet ensemble of dreamy, complex songs. Pushing
the idiosyncrasies of Cohen's melodic and rhythmic approach into even more
fractured, shifting spaces, 'As if Apart' unsettles lazy pop conventions,
upending jaded heads and hearts with an expansive, moody psychedelia.
https://soundcloud.com/capturedtracks/chris-cohen-in-a-fable
PIKELET is a Melbourne
exploratory art-synth performer called Evelyn Morris. Evelyn formed Pikelet in
2007 and has released three full-length albums (on Chapter Records), all of
which have received great critical acclaim. Pikelet started out as layered
experimental folk music and has traversed many musical territories over the
years. Currently the sound is based around experimentation with synth, odd
rhythms and found sound, all tied to a core melodic and harmonic focus. Evelyn
has also been involved in many collaborations with artists and groups such as
The Boredoms, for their Boadrum 10/10/10 performance. She's done soundtracks
for short films, art installations and dance performances. As a session
musician Evelyn has accompanied many artists such as Ariel Pink, Grand Salvo,
Laura Jean and Frida Hyvönen. Evelyn describes her new album, Tronc as
featuring “weirder pop than ever before.”
https://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/tronc
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12 /////
TERRY
THE
REBEL
SARCASM
Monday 12 September
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
TERRY is getting ready, combing his hair, buttoning his
jacket, turning the key in the door. "I'm doing fine," sings Terry
out loud, he knows. Divide him into four and you get Al Montfort (UV Race,
Total Control, Dick Diver etc.), Amy Hill (Constant Mongrel, School Of Radiant
Living), Xanthe Waite (Mick Harvey Band) and Zephyr Pavey (Eastlink, Total Control,
Russell Street Bombings). Inevitably, Terry likes to make a noise. Drums,
guitars and all his voices come into play, making a solid raft for Terry's
inner musings to navigate the languid rapids. This all unravels at its own
pace, sometimes drifting into glam pop and country backwaters, always conducting
a conversation with the commonplace. Love is a highway, but you’re not likely
to find Terry there anymore. He’s on the plane. Terry
saw the light, he put on his sunhat and is heading to Europe for the
first time. Debut album, ‘Terry HQ’ was released this summer by Upset The
Rhythm.
THE
REBEL is prolific London outsider Ben Wallers;
a charismatic lone wolf in a cowboy hat or trilby and a tie whose electrified
howls are too idiosyncratic to be broken down into market-oriented terms. It is
difficult to sketch a thumbnail summary of a musician who has amassed a vast
and unwieldy discography under a variety of names and genres: the most widely
acclaimed is probably the Country Teasers, but he also moonlights as, or in,
the Rebel, the Company, the Male Nurse, the Beale, the Stallion, the Black
Poodle and Skills on Ampex, across folk, country, garage, post-punk, no wave
and electronic pop. In the main part The Rebel is centred around twisted Casio
drones, clanging guitar and some defiantly deadpan vocals, all thrown in the
pan and pressure-cooked in Wallers' mind. Wallers has amassed a
near-unquantifiable discography over the past 20 years, from scores of more or
less “official” LPs, EPs and 7”s to seemingly endless self-released cassettes.
SARCASM provide the dystopian post-punk, featuring members
of Efialtis, Semi and Snob. Check out their ‘Total Institution’ tape that just
came out through Far So Far.
Talk again soon! Have a great weekend!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
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UPCOMING SHOWS
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CHRIS COHEN
PIKELET
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146
TERRY
THE REBEL
SARCASM
Monday 12 September
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
PEGA MONSTRO
TERRY
SOOK
Wednesday 21 September
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
KATE CARR
THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY
DJ NICK LUSCOMBE
Thursday 22
September
Cafe OTO, 22
Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361817
GRUMBLING FUR
DAN HAYHURST
Tuesday 27 September
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/grumbling-fur-tickets
SAUNA
YOUTH
DAVID WEST
SCORE
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161
DAVID WEST
SCORE
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
LC PUMPKIN
Tuesday 4 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/356180
CALVIN JOHNSON
(Selector Dub Narcotic)
CATENARY
WIRES
SIDNEY
Monday 17 October
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/370998
Monday 17 October
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/370998
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
MARISA ANDERSON
LAURA CANNELL
Tuesday 25 October
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
NAP EYES
ROBERT SOTELO
LADS
Monday 7 November
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
NEGATIVE
SCANNER
Saturday 12 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
An Evening With…
KRISTIN HERSH
Thursday 24 November
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge
Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £20 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/368119
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