Hello
everyone!
Thanks
for coming out this week to see Marisa Anderson and Sick Llama / Thurston
Moore, two fantastic shows I hope you agree! We’re back in live mode next
Monday for Halloween at the Sebright Arms. We have spooked goth-pop from Vice Cooler planned, making his solo
European debut no less! Mums will be
coming down from Widnes to play their first show in London in ages, they are
megalithic as in rocking large! Plus I
Know I’m An Alien will be channeling music from the outer rim of another
solar system for your pleasure too! Tickets are £6 and live music will commence
from around 8.30pm, more below for the thorough people out there! You’ll also
find our full listing for our upcoming Nap
Eyes, Robert Sotelo and Lads show that is fast approaching at
The Lexington on Monday 7 November. Can’t wait for that solid lineup!
Also
next week, Ravioli Me Away will be
celebrating their imminent new album release on a boat on the Thames. It sounds
fantastic, here’s the poster for the free party, expect sets from RMA, Static Palm and Design A Wave (probably some tidal waves from the river too) and
DJs galore. Next Thursday is the date for your diaries! Bring your sea legs!
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VICE COOLER
MUMS
I KNOW I’M AN ALIEN
TRASH KIT DJs
Monday 31 October
Sebright Arms
VICE COOLER is an American musician, music video director, and photographer. He has been
recognised by people as disparate as High Places and Henry Rollins as an
“inspiration”. He has collaborated with Peaches on many of her ventures,
prompting her to crown him as the ‘world’s greatest performer’. Cooler started
performing music live in 1998 with the highly influential noise rock band
XBXRX. His energetic solo project Hawnay Troof was active for the first decade
of 2000s until he started performing as Vice Cooler. Vice also drummed for the
band KIT (on Upset The Rhythm) and has also guested as live drummer for Chicks
On Speed and The Raincoats. This show will be his European debut performance as
Vice Cooler on his favourite night of the year… Halloween! Look out for some hot
and heavy electro pop that would fit in perfectly at either the grimiest
after-hours basement party or the top of the pop charts.
MUMS are the most
intimidating and feral rock force ever to hail from Widnes, dealing in a
fearsome demolition derby of Melvins-style riff worship, balls-to-the-wall rock
ballast and an omnipresent sense of humour. No gobs remain unsmacked when this
power trio are in the area.
I KNOW I’M AN ALIEN is music made by an
incarnated alien from a 5th dimensional star realm. Aware of the trappings of
3D reality, the artist utilises unconventional guitar sounds and vocals to
express his awkwardness when faced with violence, greed, love for technology
over living beings, war and just the plain zombie-like behaviour of his
fellows. He uses these sonic tools to also invite the willing listener to
surrender and join in on embarking on a journey of creating a momentary
alternative reality together. Musicians and artists are today's wizards,
shamans and magicians.
TRASH KIT DJs
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7 NOVEMBER /////
NAP EYES
ROBERT SOTELO
LADS
Monday 7 November
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
NAP EYES hail from Nova Scotia and make
crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Recorded
live to tape with no overdubs, their songs are equal parts shambling and
sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry
firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA and the Earth's
magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about insomnia and drinking too much.
In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic
concerns, as songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles
with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic
rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order;
solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small;
and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science.
It's the sound of being young and alive in the city, a tenuous and impermanent
counterpoise of recklessness and anxiety, archness and earnestness. Following
last year's reissue of their 2014 debut 'Whine of the Mystic' on Paradise of
Bachelors, Nap Eyes released an album of all-new material entitled 'Thought
Rock Fish Scale' earlier this year.
ROBERT SOTELO will make his live debut at this show,
interpreting songs honed for hisceventual long-player entitled ‘Cusp’. Sotelo intends
to channel ‘Ram’-era McCartney without the chops, at once intimate and
ambitiously layered pop music garnished in naive sincerity. Attempting to push
beyond limited means, towards the absurd and abundant idea that recreating the
feel and sound of The Beatles remains paramount an objective, the entire
project rests on the uncertainty and confusion of mid-thirties existentialism
and the exploration of the individual post-social life. Accompanied by a host
of friends this initial performance will use the recorded compositions as a
template on which Sotelo may attempt to draw out and utilise the individual
merits of each musician to reconfigure and sensualise the jams, with currently
unknowable results.
LADS are Sophie, her
boyfriend, Arj; her brother, Henry; and his best friend, Wayne. They play noisy
pop that generally lasts 2:30.
Thanks so much for reading, catch you
on Monday!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
x
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THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
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‘A spooktacular
Halloween party!’
VICE
COOLER
MUMS
I KNOW
I’M AN ALIEN
TRASH
KIT DJs
Monday 31 October
Sebright Arms
RAVIOLI ME AWAY - ’Living Is A Myth’
Album launch party!
DESIGN A WAVE
STATIC PALM
ED LEHAN (DJ set)
MIKE LEVITT & JAMES JANCO (DJ set)
Thursday 3 November
Bar & Co at Temple Pier, Victoria Embankment, Temple, WC2R 2PN
8pm - 3am | FREE !!!
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
SCORE
Saturday 12 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
HORSE LORDS
PRIMORDIAL SOUP
MIDDEX
Monday 14 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
TIM
PRESLEY
(White Fence)
(White Fence)
THE WHARVES
Saturday 19 November
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/374378
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
Upset The Rhythm
Xmas Party featuring…
APOSTILLE
BLOOD SPORT
GUTTERSNIPE
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
RATTLE
Saturday 17
December
Bethnal Green
Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
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