UPSET THE RHYTHM: Upcoming London shows for Tim Presley and Kristin Hersh, plus Deerhoof concert and Xiu Xiu album announced!

Good evening!

Industrious times for us at Upset The Rhythm so far this week! On Monday we had our minds blown into myriad dimensions by Horse Lords. Then, on Tuesday we were over the supermoon to announce a one-off UK show next year for Deerhoof! Taking place on Monday 6 February at Village Underground, Deerhoof are set to stun us all again with their never-the-same-twice thrill-ride of a live show. Tickets for this concert are onsale now (and selling fast), whilst the Hoof are presently touring mainland Europe with Red Hot Chili Peppers no less, yes really! Strange times afoot, well ahoof at least!

Then yesterday came along and we announced that we’ll be releasing the new album by Xiu Xiu, out February 24th, entitled FORGET. We've worked with Xiu Xiu ever since our fourth show way back in 2004 (Needles wine bar, flashbacks, oh yeh!). They’re one of our most favourite groups, endlessly imaginative and inventive, so it's a real dream-come-true scenario for us! Check out the first track from the record called 'Wondering' - it is staggering synth pop at its best, a total heart-quake.

Our pre-order for FORGET is also now open, including a clear/blue swirl LP option that is strictly limited to our mailorder! The same pre-order link also has a close up of the magnificent calligraphic cover art and the full tracklisting detailed!!

In terms of upcoming shows, we’re getting very near our winter hibernation now, but we still have time for a few corking events to see the year off in style! On Saturday night at The Lexington we have songsmith-extraordinaire Tim Presley of White Fence in town performing songs from his brand new Drag City album Wink. Tim’s new album has been described as sounding like “ Television tackling an obstacle course” and we can’t think of a more perfect summing up. Cate Le Bon contributed to the writing and recording of the album and their combined high-wire songwriting here is addictive. In support we have majestic folk-rock from The Wharves and an exclusive set from Alex Dingley, newly signed to Tim Presley’s label Birth Records. Amps on from 8.30pm, tickets £10 on the door from 7.30pm!

If that wasn’t enough, next week we also have two very unique nights at St John on Bethnal Green planned with the incomparable Kristin Hersh. Kristin has such a singular, powerful voice and vision, we’ve been eagerly looking forward to this double show for quite some time! Kristin will be treating us to two whole evenings in her company, sharing tales, songs and reading from her books throughout each night from 8pm. Full details on both of those very special shows follow, although please note we only have tickets left now for the Wednesday show. Read on for all you need to know to be in the know…

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TIM PRESLEY (White Fence)

ALEX DINGLEY

THE WHARVES

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

TIM PRESLEY is a man in a glass booth, grabbing at scraps of paper blown at his windscreen as if they were of the greatest value. They're actually of the only value. And we grin in delight in his twist and tumult; in this process, he's assembling his tunes in essential fashion, rolling around in the dust of his Id-bowl, then reordering the scrambled head-events into a barrage of phrases and stages, flickering through disembodied and re-embodied moments, held together by Tim's inviolable belief in the song progression underneath. The tension is unbreakable, a thin plastic slip, as he intones upon a maze of high wild mercury stings. On the cover of his new album on Drag City, you see a bare chest and bits of bodies sketched in ragged lines of black and white. Inside, in full calor, we find Tim Presley. The dark force behind White Fence, Drinks, Hair and Darker My Love stepping into the solo light with 'The WiNK'. When you tune in to 'The WiNK', it takes a couple minutes for you to hear a word. But then it takes only one line until "and then you die," uttered in a voice of mottled, throaty horror, as if ghosts that haven't yet shown themselves are advancing through walls. Working with the creative team of producer Cate Le Bon, drummer Stella Mozgawa, and engineer Samur Khouja, Tim's located the corners of a perfect square, with their creativity and truth crafting unique parts to function as songs within songs, giving the tunes double-jointed features that extend their original intentions. The Presley guitar hand has a powerful, yet quicksilver touch, with metallic brilliance always, especially in rhythm figurations, where it wrings chords out like panic signals, highlighting 'Can You Blame', 'Long Bow', 'Underwater Rain' and 'Clue' (to name a few), and a cover version of Willie "Loco" Alexander's 'Kerouac' (nod and a wink!), where a smooth and steadfast lyric melody is supplanted by a throw of broken guitar and shards of keys. Throughout 'The WiNK', Tim's tone is thin and princely, connecting the dots sideways and backwards to align and make the image emerge.

http://www.dragcity.com/artists/tim-presley

ALEX DINGLEY traveled from West Wales' Llansteffan to California's West Coast to make his forthcoming album, Beat The Babble, with Tim Presley, Cate Le Bon and Samur Khouja. He took it on the road supporting Le Bon on her May UK tour and early next year Presley will release it on Birth Records.
http://www.dingleydingley.com/

THE WHARVES combine gracefully minimal psyche-rock with fuzzed out folk. Their songwriting remains consistently rich, largely due to the startling harmonies of Gemma Fleet (bass) and Dearbhla Minogue (guitar) that bond together each song. They invoke the reverberated spook of 60s girl groups, the mid-fi guitar crunch of Kim Deal's The Amps, the vocal flavours of The Roches and the narrative and structural panache of 70s progressive folk. Marion Andrau's thunderous drumming drives through these compositions, ensuring the wealth of disparate influences remain focused and celebratory. Brand new album, Electa, builds on last year's 'Naz' 7" on Upset the Rhythm, refining their distinctive sound with increasingly notable elements of heavy rock and folk. Three part vocal harmonies remain staple to the format, underpinning their progressive instrumental step-up.

https://thewharves.bandcamp.com/

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An Evening With…

KRISTIN HERSH

Wednesday 23 November – TICKETS AVAILABLE

Thursday 24 November – SOLD OUT

St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA

7.30pm | £20 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/376510

*NB – Kristin will commence her performance from 8pm each night!

KRISTIN HERSH returns again to the UK for a rare solo tour in support of her critically-acclaimed new double CD and book, 'Wyatt At The Coyote Palace' (Omnibus Press) due out October 4th. From life as the reluctant front person for 4AD's Throwing Muses through the 80's and 90's, to the solo career that began with 1994's 'Hips and Makers', to her power trio 50FootWave and her new career as an author of memoirs 'Paradoxical Undressing' and 'Don't Suck, Don't Die', Kristin never stops creating. 'Wyatt' is the third release in the groundbreaking book/CD format that Kristin began with her most recent solo album 'Crooked' and the Throwing Muses' 2013 release 'Purgatory/Paradise'. "An Evening with Kristin Hersh" includes readings and songs from her works spanning her entire career.

http://www.kristinhersh.com/

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///// UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\

TIM PRESLEY (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

An Evening With…