Monday, 29 May 2017

OOIOO and Bamboo in London tomorrow, Nots next week!

Good morning all!
 
 
Thank you for attending en masse our recent Xiu Xiu and Preists shows. Both were incredible, I trust you enjoyed them as much as we did. Tomorrow Upset The Rhythm are heading to Kamio in Shoreditch for a very rare concert from Japan’s OOIOO. We’ve been hoping to host them since year dot, so this really will be a special event. Featuring Yoshimi from The Boredoms as the band’s eye of the storm, OOIOO make music that’s as embracing and colourful as it is inventive and ecstatic. Joining in with all the psychedelic tones and primitivist rhythms will be our very own Bamboo too, celebrating the release of their stunning new album entitled ‘The Dragon Flies Away’. Read on for the full picture, along with the scoop on next week’s NOTS show at Café OTO with The Worms too, that’s going to one to remember!
 
In terms of brand new shows confirmed this week, we have just the one for you, but it is a roof-raiser as the incendiary Downtown Boys will be coming back to London this October after their new album on Sub Pop drops.
 
Tickets are now onsale, see our concluding show programme for details, plus you can check out the opening track from ‘The Cost Of Living’ here!
  
 

 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
OOIOO
BAMBOO
Tuesday 30 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £12 | TICKETS
NB. New date for April’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.
 
OOIOO has always created a musical language all its own. Under the leadership of Yoshimi, also a founding member of Boredoms, the group has recorded six albums that have subverted expectations and warped perceptions of what constitutes pop and experimental music. Four years of work went into to making Gamel, their bold new album inspired by the Javanese style of gamelan and the first new music from Yoshimi in over five years. Gamelan is an ancient form that has inspired a great many composers and musicians over the past century, from Erik Satie and Claude Debussy to Mouse on Mars and Sun City Girls. The introduction of this traditional form transformed the group into a super tribe, side-stepping the road between the past and the future. Their focus is not to replicate these ancient styles, but to incorporate them into their consistently inventive, constantly shifting musical frameworks. They take their love of indigenous music into an entirely new dimension by freely weaving organic and electric tones into a vivid tapestry, employing their keen sense of color and texture.
 
Yoshimi began her music career in 1986 playing drums in UFO or Die with vocalist Eye, and later joined him in the revolutionary noise-pop group Boredoms. Her explosive drum performances captivated audiences and even inspired Wayne Coyne to name a now-famous Flaming Lips album in her honor. While the band's tours of the United States are infrequent, they are as the New York Times has stated, transcendent.
 
BAMBOO is the sublime project from Nick Carlisle (of Peepholes, Don't Argue) and Rachel Horwood (of Trash Kit, Halo Halo). Their music is vivid and deeply poignant, locking into a magnetic attraction between Rachel's flawlessly resonant folk cadence and Nick's pristine synth pop production. Bamboo's second studio album, The Dragon Flies Away, is due 26th May on Upset The Rhythm on LP, CD and digitally. Initially released last winter on a limited run of 50 cassettes with an accompanying zine designed by Horwood, The Dragon Flies Away tells a story loosely associated with the Hannya demon mask of Noh theatre plays such as Dojoji, and reflects the range of emotion the Hannya mask is capable of displaying: obsession, jealousy, sorrow and rage. 'The Dragon Flies Away' presents its story in two acts and is now presented newly re-mastered with a gatefold sleeve and lyric / artwork sheet. Horwood's evocative paintings are given centre stage with the packaging, allowing the album's story to grow beyond sound, making the journey all the more immersive.
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
NOTS
THE WORMS
Wednesday 7 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
NOTS are a 4 piece, all XX, "nuevo no wavo" band from Memphis, TN. Unpredictable guitars, celestial synths, and punctuated vocals swirl around the repetition of a powerful rhythm section to form a sound and a live show not easily classifiable but entirely addictive. Drummer Charlotte Watson and guitarist / frontwoman Natalie Hoffmann are the band's two constants throughout a handful of roster changes. NOTS' current lineup also includes Alexandra Eastburn on synth, an instrument she picked up to join NOTS and to record on their first full-length LP We Are Nots, and bassist Meredith Lones, another new Memphis musician, and the most recent addition to the band. NOTS' newest punk-noise-psych-collision LP, Cosmetic, aggressively follows on the heels of their debut LP, foreshadowing an ever expanding experiment in direction of things to come for the band. NOTS have releases on Heavenly & Goner Records, plus a brand new live 7" on Third Man.
 
THE WORMS is a stripped-down, future-primitive negative-capability trio making politely furious snotty punk minimalism. A snarling update on Messthetics culture with even more of the fat boiled off and the anger dialed up.
 
 
 
Thanks for reading, see you tomorrow!
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS 
OOIOO
BAMBOO
Tuesday 30 May
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £12 | TICKETS
NB. This is the new date for April’s postponed event, original tickets valid.
 
NOTS
THE WORMS
Wednesday 7 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
THE SPACE LADY
FLOWERS MUST DIE
Tuesday 20 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
RICHARD DAWSON (Full band show)
STILL HOUSE PLANTS
Thursday 22 June
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7pm | £15 | TICKETS
 
TERRY
CHILD'S POSE
HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Friday 30 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
 
SHEER MAG
SPECIAL GUESTS
TV CRIME
Thursday 20 July
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £10 | TICKETS   
 
PIKACYU-MAKOTO
Saturday 12 August
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS
 
SPRAY PAINT
THE REBEL
Tuesday 15 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
NAP EYES
H. GRIMACE
GARDEN CENTRE
Thursday 31 August
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
 
DEERHOOF
LE TON MITÉ
Monday 4 September
Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ
7.30pm |  £14 | TICKETS
NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.
 
LOWTIDE
Tuesday 5 September
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
 
DOWNTOWN BOYS
Wednesday 18 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
FUTURE ISLANDS
Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT
Tuesday 21 November
In collaboration with Parallel Lines
O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL
7pm | TICKETS 
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