Friday, 23 September 2016

Grumbling Fur and Sauna Youth shows in London next week, plus new Kristin Hersh concert announced!


Hello again!

Huge thanks to all of you for coming out this last week to support our Kate Carr, Pega Monstro and Terry shows. Next week is also a busy one for Upset The Rhythm as we have two more shows on! On Tuesday we’re hosting an evening at OSLO for the truly sublime Grumbling Fur, whose new album is a swirling world of perfect pop head-warps. In support we’re very lucky to have Dan Hayhurst of Sculpture performing a solo set too. Then next Saturday we’re welcoming Sauna Youth home from their vastly awesome US tour with a concert planned at Kamio (formerly the Red Gallery). David West, Score and Middex will also be playing that one, plus General Echo Soundsystem will be holding down the decks all night, tops! Full details on both of those winners to follow, plus ticket available for both too, links below.



Today, we’re also ecstatic to announce a further Kristin Hersh show after her first one has sold out so quickly! Popular demand demanding it and all that! So, if you haven’t got a ticket already, Wednesday 23rd November is the new date for this additional show at St John on Bethnal Green. Tickets now onsale here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/376510




\\\\\     TUESDAY     /////



GRUMBLING FUR
DAN HAYHURST
Tuesday 27 September
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

GRUMBLING FUR is the joint manifestation of Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan which, since 2011, has birthed a series of increasingly focussed albums of psychedelic pop. Shaping their sound are some long-standing shared musical affections, a polyglot music encompassing orchestrated poptones, collage, dub and beat-making as well as experimental and drone elements: touchtones might include Faust, Arthur Russell, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Moondog, Michael Nyman, Gate, Syd Barrett, Stereolab, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Ashtray Navigations, Cc Hennix and Madlib.
 
2016 is a already a year of intense activity for Tucker and O’Sullivan outside of Grumbling Fur: Tucker’s latest comic was featured in Art Review, a full publication, World In The Force, is due soon on Breakdown Press, along with a new solo album. O’Sullivan has been at the core of the wildly successful This Heat reconstitution, and with Massimo Pupillo of Zu recently released Laniakea. As part of Ulver, he released ATGCLVLSSCAP, a pan-zodiacal excursion in sound, and imminently there’ll be a new album from Æthenor (a collaboration between O’Sullivan, Steve Noble and Stephen O’Malley). In the guise of the Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra, Tucker and O’Sullivan have just released a 12” of ROSE, their collaborative piece with Turner Prize-nominee Mark Titchner, who in turn produced the artwork for forthcoming GF album, ‘Furfour’. There’ve also been a series of live collaborations with Charlemagne Palestine.

New album, ‘Furfour’, is a record that’s the sum of a dizzying array of creative projects. It’s an album whose warm heart is shaped, say Grumbling Fur, by birth, loss, friendship, death, those things that happen to us all. Yet as ever with this duo, it’s altered through fantasy and sci-fi, Carlos Castenada, shamanic mind warp, house ghosts and meditation. It’s a curious, generous-hearted and organic-sounding record that has its mood set by the easy harmonising of O’Sullivan and Tucker’s voices as they oat melodiously above clackering rhythms of "Milky Light," strings as celestial beings in "Silent Plans," scraps of half-heard spiritual texts and, conversely, the synth pop banger of "Acid Ali Khan" which sounds, as one writer once summed up Grumbling Fur, “like Depeche Mode in a stone circle”. ‘Furfour’ is out on September 16th on Thrill Jockey records, release party anyone?
https://www.facebook.com/grumblingfur/ 

DAN HAYHURST, sonic section of AV duo, Sculpture, performs structurally unstable material from his new solo LP, Critter Party, assimilating elements of technological psychedelia, noise, media collage and shape shifting electronics. This is music that operates at the point where patterns emerge from chaos (or perhaps the point of disintegration). Emotional and direct performance is skewed through a matrix of tape decks, samplers and electronic instruments. Warped guitar and percussion moiré meet fragments of media detritus and electronic sound. Post-criticality... critters just want to party.




\\\\\     NEXT SATURDAY     /////



SAUNA YOUTH
DAVID WEST
SCORE
MIDDEX
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

SAUNA YOUTH 
are an evolving band of future humans making truly irregular punk, not quite comparable to anything else. "Weird" is a meaningless platitude and "art punk" is a classifier that shouldn't be required. Consisting of Boon (drums, vocals), Pines (guitar), Ecke (vocals, sampler) and Mince (bass), Sauna Youth are a punk band that's happy to embrace all of the contradictions that go along with that notion. On paper, Sauna Youth sound considered - live, they can barely be contained. They are at times furious, unstoppable and severe, with the sampler wailing like an alarm coming from a parallel universe - then chugging, poppy, harmonious and fun. Forever loud. Last year’s totemic ‘Distractions’ album (Upset The Rhythm) is a record that feels instinctive and natural, flowing freely from a band that have come to terms with the sum of its parts. This jam-packed show welcomes back Sauna Youth to their hometown following on from their debut US tour this month.
http://lostinidea.blogspot.co.uk/                  

DAVID WEST draws inspiration from free-thinking artists of the past and present on his new polyphonic platter (‘Peace or Love’), from soft indie strumming and free soundscapes, to disco and soul-pop. West currently plays in the guitar pop band Rat Columns, synth-pop project Liberation and post-punk trio Rank/Xerox, and has been in varied acts such as Lace Curtain, Burning Sensation, Total Control and Whalehammer. Peace or Love (out now on Tough Love) is a collection of songs stemming from wild and free bedroom four-track cassette recordings and personal hard drive sample raiding, with contributions from various musical friends in Perth, Western Australia and SF/LA, California.

SCORE make blown-out energetic no wave/anarcho noise; all the right amounts of harsh, sassy structure, bile and beauty. Members of Woolf, Dregs and Cop come together in a gritty torrent of rawboned hardcore bratpunk, primitive and pounding, searing and surging. Demo imminent, no link yet!

MIDDEX
 trades in suburban deliberation and galactic musings. This is outer space hidden in the outer boroughs plastered over the flat thump of frosted Perspex hearts. Check out his two lathe cut 7”s out now on Polytechnic Youth.

GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)


Thanks for your time! Have a wonderful weekend!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\
   
GRUMBLING FUR
DAN HAYHURST
Tuesday 27 September
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL

SAUNA YOUTH
DAVID WEST
SCORE
MIDDEX
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
SAMARA LUBELSKI
LC PUMPKIN
Tuesday 4 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB

UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL

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

In collaboration with Caught by the River…
MARISA ANDERSON
LAURA CANNELL
Tuesday 25 October
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL

SICK LLAMA & THURSTON MOORE
POREST
Wednesday 26 October
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT

NAP EYES
ROBERT SOTELO
LADS
Monday 7 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB

KARA-LIS COVERDALE
HAPPY MEALS
THOMAS RAGSDALE
Wednesday 9 November
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, N1 0XT
£7 | 7.30pm | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/373659   

SHOPPING
SCRAP BRAIN
SQUEAKEASY
MOLAR
Thursday 10 November
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £8 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/374130

NEGATIVE SCANNER
Saturday 12 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

TIM PRESLEY
(White Fence)
Saturday 19 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/374378

An Evening With…
KRISTIN HERSH (Second night added due to popular demand!)
Wednesday 23 November
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA

An Evening With…
KRISTIN HERSH
Thursday 24 November
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £20 | SOLD OUT

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