I hope you’re having a terrific
weekend! Next week, Upset The Rhythm slip stealthily into fifth gear with four
amazing shows on the cards for you. Monday sees us head to The Lexington for a
breezy, melody-packed affair with Nap
Eyes, Robert Sotelo and Lads. Whilst on Wednesday we’re
thrilled to have Kara-Lis Coverdale,
Happy Meals and Thomas Ragsdale all in town at The Islington for a night of experimental
electronics, future-proof pop and composed atmospheres.
Then on Thursday the tempo and volume skyrockets
with Shopping, Scrap Brain, Squeakeasy
and Molar all testing the roof of
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. Prepare for lift off! Last but not least, one
week today, i.e. next Saturday, we’ve plotted out an event at The Victoria in
Dalston for out-punk harbingers Negative
Scanner and Score! It doesn’t
get better than that, what a week! We’re surely spoiling you, tickets available
for all of those still, read on for everything and more on all those shows…
\\\\\ MONDAY /////
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.
https://napeyes.bandcamp.com/
ROBERT SOTELO will make his live debut at this show,
interpreting songs honed for his eventual 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.
https://soundcloud.com/robert-sotelo-3'
LADS are Sophie,
her boyfriend, Arj; her brother, Henry; and his best friend, Wayne. They play
noisy pop that generally lasts 2:30.
https://ladsladslads.bandcamp.com
\\\\\ WEDNESDAY /////
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
KARA-LIS COVERDALE works in both acoustic and electronic media to create
works that "blur the boundary between the human and the electronic
machine" (Weird Canada). A classically trained keyboardist who studied
composition and musicology, she has held several organist and music director
positions across Canada since age 13, most recently as a notable and
controversial organist, composer in residence, and director of the MES mixed
choir in Montreal. In 2015, her solo debut 'Aftertouches' was named a top album
of the year by The Wire, The Quietus, NPR, Adhoc, and others. Coverdale's work
has explored music's sacred histories while forging its new, technologically
mediated and culturally saturated frontiers: extended harmonic resolutions
typical of Baroque keyboard music frame her approach to part writing, which she
voices with hybrid keyboards, fractured samples and digitally rendered vocals.
Her music appears in films, provocative plays, commercials, and disturbing
historical documentaries. She is active in the studio and live as a composer,
performer, and collaborator (Tim Hecker, LXV).
http://karalease.tumblr.com/
HAPPY MEALS make spellbinding experimental pop music. Sounding like the work of Saada Bonaire's long-lost slacker offspring, debut album 'Apero' is actually the produce of two Glasgow-based artists, Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook, who originally hail from the Scottish borders. Suzanne sings in a unique mix of French and Scottish, occasionally sharing the mic with Lewis over the course of six songs taking the 100% Silk/NNF pop aesthetic and psych-dub freedom of Peaking Lights to a more ambiguous, enchanted headspace. It's all top notch stuff, from the nine minute celestial sashay of 'Crystal Salutation' through the chiming boogie of 'Altered Images' to the blown-out dub-pop of 'The Age Of Love', and the Balearic acid of 'Le Voyage'. Brand new EP, 'Fruit Juice' sees Happy Meals sharpened and expanded, taking their tender experimental beginnings and unabashed pop moments into undiscovered realms glowing with possibility, check it out now through Night School Records.
https://soundcloud.com/nightschool/altered-images
THOMAS RAGSDALE is a Manchester-based composer, melding cinematic electronica with organic, immersive soundscapes. His approach to writing and producing is built around a minimalist framework, choosing to rely heavily on organic instrumentation overlaid with subtle electronic elements, whilst live performances take on a more visceral approach with tense peaks of sound in front of a full live visual show.
http://karalease.tumblr.com/
HAPPY MEALS make spellbinding experimental pop music. Sounding like the work of Saada Bonaire's long-lost slacker offspring, debut album 'Apero' is actually the produce of two Glasgow-based artists, Suzanne Rodden and Lewis Cook, who originally hail from the Scottish borders. Suzanne sings in a unique mix of French and Scottish, occasionally sharing the mic with Lewis over the course of six songs taking the 100% Silk/NNF pop aesthetic and psych-dub freedom of Peaking Lights to a more ambiguous, enchanted headspace. It's all top notch stuff, from the nine minute celestial sashay of 'Crystal Salutation' through the chiming boogie of 'Altered Images' to the blown-out dub-pop of 'The Age Of Love', and the Balearic acid of 'Le Voyage'. Brand new EP, 'Fruit Juice' sees Happy Meals sharpened and expanded, taking their tender experimental beginnings and unabashed pop moments into undiscovered realms glowing with possibility, check it out now through Night School Records.
https://soundcloud.com/nightschool/altered-images
THOMAS RAGSDALE is a Manchester-based composer, melding cinematic electronica with organic, immersive soundscapes. His approach to writing and producing is built around a minimalist framework, choosing to rely heavily on organic instrumentation overlaid with subtle electronic elements, whilst live performances take on a more visceral approach with tense peaks of sound in front of a full live visual show.
\\\\\ THURSDAY /////
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
SHOPPING are propulsive bass lines, primitive
disco-not-disco drums and guitar lines sharp as broken glass. The band was
formed in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar), Billy Easter (bass) and Andrew
Milk (drums), who've all done time in a plethora of notable UK DIY bands
including Trash Kit and Wet Dog. They pull from a well of 70's post-punk with a
voraciousness seldom seen these days, bringing to mind the jagged aggression of
Gang of Four, the voracious yelp of The Slits and the dance inducing thrust of
Delta 5 . Their debut LP ‘Consumer Complaints’ was released November 2013 in
the UK via MILK records and quickly sold out its first pressing. A US re-issue
of ‘Consumer Complaints’ came out last year via Fat Cat records, followed
up by their excellent second album ‘Why Choose?’ The band are tirelessly
committed to taking their sound to new audiences and spreading the Shopping
gospel, securing impressive gigs along the way including main support for ESG
and Gang Of Four as well as a BBC 6 Music session for Marc Riley. They have
toured in the UK and throughout Europe numerous times over the last few years
and recently toured the USA with also awesome Gauche.
SCRAP BRAIN play primitive hardcore punk, kind of
almost whacked-out Flipper style with a real noisy/no wave dissonant tone. The
lyrics are fantastically sarcastic and barbed, a particular favourite being the
couplet "M'lady me, I'll murder you", which may provoke a smirk or
wry smile, but is absolutely not a joke. Their demo tape is available through
all good stockists of unhappy hardcore and also via pay-what-you-want download
here: https://scrapbrainhc.bandcamp.com/album/demo
SQUEAKEASY play sexy tutti frutti jams from the
town that brought you the Magna Carta. The songs are dense and have lots of
words and different bits in them so are good if you have a short attention
span. Sounds
a bit like Sonic 2 and Earthbound with
more squeaking. Their debut album is out now on Crumb Cabin, check it!
MOLAR are an incredible all grrrl punk band
that sound like No Ditching and Bratmobile and PUNXXX. Based in London but from
all over the world, they have a demo tape and a split 7” with Pale Kids
available to listen to now! https://molartheband.bandcamp.com/
\\\\\ SATURDAY /////
NEGATIVE
SCANNER
SCORE
Saturday 12 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
NEGATIVE SCANNER are a Chicago post-punk quartet formed in 2012 by
Rebecca Valeriano-Flores (guitar, vocals), Tom Cassling (drums), Matt Revers
(guitar), & Nick Beaudoin (bass) in the wake of the breakup of Flores &
Cassling's previous band 'Tyler Jon Tyler'. A fierce live unit, they honed
their chops on Chicago's robust DIY scene, propelled by the rhythm section's
dialed-in hive-mind & the twin guitar attack of Revers & Flores, whose
powerful voice delivers her lyrics with passion & conviction. The band has
previously released two 7-inch singles in 2014 - the first on Trouble In Mind
& second on Tall-Pat Records. Negative Scanner excel at creating tension,
which sets them apart from similarly zipped-up post-punk acts. Their fast and
barbed eponymous debut LP (also on Trouble In Mind) is a potent demonstration
of how tension is most rewarding when it snaps.
https://negativescanner.bandcamp.com/
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!
https://negativescanner.bandcamp.com/
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!
See you down the front, thanks as
always for your time!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
x
\\\\\ UPSET
THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
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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
7.30pm | £7 | 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
ALEX DINGLEY
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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