Morning everyone!
We’ve got two cracking shows on the horizon for next week. Wednesday sees
us heading to the 100 Club to meet up with Portuguese dream-punks Pega
Monstro and glammy pop sensations Terry from Melbourne! Al McKay’s new
band, Sook, will open this show too; dangerous high levels of fun have
been anticipated! Then on Thursday we’re very lucky to team up with Caught by
the River to host the incredible sound/place artist Kate Carr alongside
Ian Rawes’ London Sound Survey and DJ Nick Luscombe at Café OTO.
Both events look like proper winners, read on for more on both of those events,
including links to music, tickets and specifics.
This week we also announced a new concert in October for Sick Llama
& Thurston Moore, who will be joined also by Porest too. Tickets
are flying for this one already so well worth getting some soon. October 26th
is the date, The Islington is the venue. Words galore pour forth…
\\\\\ WEDNESDAY /////
PEGA
MONSTRO
TERRY
SOOK
Wednesday
21 September
100
Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
PEGA MONSTRO are sisters Júlia Reis (drums) and
Maria Reis (guitar, keyboard), both sing! Born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal,
Maria and Júlia have been playing music together since they were 15 and 17
respectively, in other groups first before resolving on becoming a duo. Back in
2010, both sisters started a record label, along with some of their musician
friends, called Cafetra Records to document Portugal’s garage punk scene.
Cafetra represents a community of like-minded musicians who all help each
other, making music that they’d want to hear, powered by enthusiasm. 2012 saw
Pega Monstro release their self-titled debut album, making for a raucous record
that met with critical national acclaim. Last summer, Pega Monstro released
their new album entitled ‘Alfarroba’ on Upset The Rhythm. The songs on
‘Alfarroba’ deal with many themes, some universal topics like love and growing
up, others focusing on the nature of writing songs themselves, whilst some try
to make sense of the world from a female perspective. Returning to London after
their spectacular performance with Deerhoof last August and February’s sold out
headline show at Moth Club, expect torrents of energy from Pega Monstro; snare
rolls triggering flights of guitar, and fogs of cymbal shimmer that form steps
for their vocals to climb.
https://pegamonstro.bandcamp.com/album/alfarroba
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 (Primo, 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.
https://terryhq.bandcamp.com/
SOOK is Al (Bin Bags/Dick
Diver), Susan (Totally/Feathers), and Lachlan (ex Die! Die! Die!). Combining a
taste for primitive electro and forty-year old wheat harvested from the top
paddocks of Australia's post-punk underground, Sook are here to blow the chaff
away and shirtfront you with some aggressively un-pastoral themes, ripping
guitars and freaky synths.
https://soundcloud.com/sookband
\\\\\ THURSDAY /////
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
KATE CARR has been investigating the
intersections between sound, place, and emotionality both as an artist and a
curator since 2010. Her work has taken her from the Arctic circle to the
borderlands of South Africa, with stops in rural Thailand, fishing villages in
Iceland, and rainforests in Mexico, along with extensive explorations of
western Europe, Ireland and the British Isles. Her music is an eerie
symphony of cracking power lines, cries of water birds and the high pitched
wine of nuclear towers, Carr’s recordings trace the temporary wetlands of
Marnay-sur-Seine, situated alongside a large nuclear power plant, just
after the flooding of the river. New album, ’I Had Myself A Nuclear
Spring’ came to fruition last year, when Carr spent a month alone
in Marnay, a small town of about 200 people in the champagne district of
France, about 120 kilometres east of Paris. The surrounding woodlands provided
an astonishing landscape to explore. Full of mud, water, rusting machinery, old
boats, logs, and birds, it is a place Carr refers to as “spectacular, eerie and
ugly”. In the spring, many of the roads into the town were closed, having been
flooded with water up to about chest height and the many dirt tracks through the
forest were transformed into fast flowing streams.
Determined to document each surrounding
sound, Carr procured a rusty bike and spent time slipping, sliding, falling and
wading through bogs, ponds, surging streams and flooded fields. “These muddy marshes
filled with buzzing electrical towers, corroded machinery, shrieking birds and
canals feeding a nuclear complex were like nothing I had ever seen,” she notes.
“Water has inundated our language. There is a watery word which can adequately
serve for almost every emotional state we can imagine. The happy tinkle of a
mountain stream, the drama of stormy seas, murky depths, and turbulent rivers.
Water is unknowable and uncontainable – it floods and overflows, forms
whirlpools and eddies. It surges, and runs away. Water leaves us to drown,
float, sink or swim. It cleanses and redeems; it stagnates and threatens.” ‘I
Had Myself A Nuclear Spring’ is released on 26th August via Caught by the
River’s Rivertones label. You can pre-order the album now here: https://caughtbytheriver.greedbag.com/
THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY collects the sounds of everyday public
life throughout London and compiles past accounts to show how the sound
environment has changed. The idea for the London Sound Survey formed while Ian
Rawes was working as a storeman in the British Library Sound Archive. Older
members of staff still referred to their workplace by its former title, the
National Sound Archive, so the website's name was a hybrid of that and A Survey
of London, the book written by John Stow in 1598. The historical aspects of
sound can be as interesting as its present-day manifestations, sometimes more
so. Ian made his first London recordings in April 2008 and the site went online
just over a year later. Since then it's grown from about 200 recordings to
2,000 and progressed from a hobby almost to a full-time project. Alongside his
own efforts he’s been pleased to feature work by Richard Beard, Andre Louis,
Stuart Fisher, Felicity Ford, Jonathan Prior and others. Ian gives regular
historical talks under the general title of London's Lost Worlds of Sound,
presenting and discussing some of the archival recordings featured in the
London Sound Survey, whilst certain recordings have also been featured on BBC
Radio London, World Service, Resonance FM, and BBC1 London news. Sounds from
the site have also been used on Radio 4 and in audiobooks released by BBC
Worldwide.
DJ NICK LUSCOMBE is a British radio DJ, having
presented various self-selected new music shows since 1999 for the likes of XFM,
BBC 6 Music, Resonance FM and BBC World service. His hugely engaging Flowmotion
radio show has been broadcast every week on FM radio since 2000. He has also
presented BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction since 2010 too.
Thanks for reading! Have a fantastic
weekend!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
x
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THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
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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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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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