DAN DEACON back in London Feb 2020!

The long-awaited return of DAN DEACON to London! Look out Feb 6th at Scala! New album 'Mystic Familiar' out early 2020 on Domino Records! Sensational!!

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Upset The Rhythm presents…

DAN DEACON
Thursday 6 February
Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, London, N1 9NL
7.30pm | £15 | Tickets on sale from Thursday at 10am: https://link.dice.fm/4c55Yqg890

DAN DEACON returns in February 2020 with ‘Mystic Familiar’, his first album in five years and the stunning result of years of obsessive work, play, and self-discovery. It’s not only his most emotionally open record but also his most transcendent! Eleven kaleidoscopic tracks of majestic synth-pop that exponentially expand Deacon’s sound with unfettered imagination and newfound vulnerability. Since 2015’s ‘Gliss Riffer’, Deacon has branched out from his core body of work into a dizzying array of collaborative projects: scoring eight films, collaborating with the New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer Justin Peck on the dance piece The Times Are Racing; performing expanded arrangements of his music with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; and for the first time producing and co-writing an album with friends Ed Schrader’s Music Beat. Throughout all this Deacon was also working on a new suite of songs that wield the profundity of a philosopher and the absurdity of a jester. These songs make up his forthcoming ‘Mystic Familiar’ album, painting life as a psychedelic journey brimming with bliss and disruption, darkness and light.

Opening track “Become a Mountain” immediately announces itself as something new, for the first time ever on record presenting Dan’s natural singing voice, unprocessed and with only minimal accompaniment. When Deacon proclaims “I rose up” here, it is Dan Deacon singing in the first person as Dan Deacon—a startlingly vulnerable shift in a songbook abundant with characters, metaphors, and distorted vocals. “Hypnagogic” takes us deeper into Deacon’s mind, a synth swirl similar to those which have begun his recent performances, absorbing the pulse of the room and extending that abstract moment in which a journey begins. From there, ‘Mystic Familiar’ then takes a propulsive leap with the robotic drums and soaring melodies of “Sat By a Tree” and the four-part “Arp” suite offering up a dialectic view of life. It’s an album that captures an artist mindfully evolving his music from playful beginnings to encompass a prismatic cosmos of addictive ideas, melody and purpose! This special Scala show celebrates the release of ‘Mystic Familiar’ and Dan’s long-awaited return to his spiritual kingdom of London!
https://dandeacon.com/ 

Upcoming London shows for Carla dal Forno, Robert Sotelo, Lankum, Thor & Friends & The Gotobeds!

Friday again!   Where are these weeks going? Zoom! In the spirit of running through 2019 apace we’ve chosen to outline today all the events Upset The Rhythm have plotted for the rest of the year! Look out below for full listings for our next show on November 12th at Electrowerkz with Carla dal Forno, Cucina Povera and Low Company DJs, alongside upcoming concerts for Robert Sotelo (New River Studios / Friday 15th November) Lankum (Tufnell Park Dome / Thursday 21st November), Thor & Friends (Friday 22nd November / MOTH Club) and The Gotobeds (Tuesday 26th November / The Islington).   That’ll keep us busy!

Also, we wanted to share with you this extraordinary video of Rattle performing 'Disco' at DIY community hub x-church in Gainsborough, Lincs. Thanks to Orange 'Ear for recording this! ‘Disco’ features on Rattle’s stunning, recent album ‘Sequence’, out now on Upset The Rhythm. Rattle continue their European tour with Thurston Moore tomorrow in Prague, here are the remaining dates if you want to dust off that passport:   26/10 - Prague, Czech Rep @ Lucerna Music Bar * 27/10 - Munchen, Germany @ Strom * 28/10 - Vienna, Austria @ WUK * 30/10 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Das Bett * 31/10 - Brussels, Belgium @ Les Ateliers Claus w/ Caroline Profanter   * w/ Thurston Moore Group

Upset The Rhythm presents…   CARLA DAL FORNO CUCINA POVERA LOW COMPANY DJs Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS CARLA DAL FORNO has entered a new era with her forthcoming album ‘Look Up Sharp’, pushing her dub-damaged DIY dispatches to the limits of flawless dream-pop. In a transformative move towards crystal clear vocals and sharpened production, ‘Look Up Sharp’ is an evolutionary leap from the thick fog and pastoral stillness of her Blackest Ever Black missives, You Know What It’s Like (2016) and The Garden EP (2017). Three years since her plain-speaking debut album, the Melbourne-via-Berlin artist finds herself absorbed in London’s sprawling mess. The small-town dreams and inertia that preoccupied dal Forno’s first album have dissolved into the chaotic city, its shifting identities, far-flung surroundings and blank faces. ‘Look Up Sharp’ is the story of this life in flux, longing for intimacy, falling short and embracing the unfamiliar. Dal Forno connects with kindred spirits and finds refuge in darkened alleys, secret gardens and wherever else she dares to look. In her own territory between plaintive folk, pop and post-punk, dal Forno conjures the ghosts of AC Marias, Virginia Astley and Broadcast through her brushwork of art-damaged fx and spectral atmospheres. ‘Look Up Sharp’ is a singular prism in which sound and concept bend at all angles. A deeply personal but infinitely relatable album its many surfaces are complex but authentic, enduring but imperfect, hard-edged but delicate. A diamond. Released on dal Forno’s own imprint Kallista Records this October. https://www.facebook.com/carladalfornoyes/ CUCINA POVERA is from Glasgow via Finland and Luxembourg. Maria Rossi's project utilises looped and layered vocals, field recordings and minimal synthesis to create alternately earthy and celestial raptures. Working from a dual framework of fortuity and precarity, Maria creates her own uniquely textured and ever-evolving world with sound. Trained at the Conservatoire Nationale de Luxembourg, she moved to Scotland in 2009 and became involved in the music scene in Glasgow through promoting nights and making radio shows, before learning music production at Green Door studios. Her solo project has taken her all over the UK, Europe and as far as Canada and the U.S., with more shows and a third record due out in 2019. https://cucinapovera.bandcamp.com/ KENNY WHITE (Low Company / DJ set) https://soundcloud.com/kenufeelit

Upset The Rhythm & Incredible Society present…   ROBERT SOTELO BARRY LIFE DRAWINGS New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London N4 1DN Friday 15 November 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   ROBERT SOTELO is a cosmic pop melodist; a heartfelt multi-instrumentalist whose direct songs are curiously affecting. His debut album ‘Cusp’ from 2017 was packed with miniature psych overtures and earnest musings, he then followed this up in 2018 with an album called ‘Botanical’, more keyboard-minded and playful with its near-absurdist palette of sound and reflective mood. This September Upset The Rhythm released Sotelo’s third album ‘Infinite Sprawling’, his first record since relocating from London to Glasgow and partly inspired by his new city’s inclusive and collaborative musical world. Recorded with Ruari MacLean (of Vital Idles, Golden Grrrls) and Edwin Stevens (Irma Vep, Yerba Mansa) at their home studio Namaste Sound, ‘Infinite Sprawling’ grew out of Sotelo’s sketchbook of skeletal songs, with MacLean and Stevens developing their own drum, guitar and keyboard parts. These songs pulled together like a wakeful stretch on a Sunday morning, flowering with a lightness of touch, sounding both carefree and brisk. https://robertsotelo.bandcamp.com/   BARRY are South London’s quintessential queer guitar pop band and they are here to make you dance your socks off. Members Bart, Helen, Kathy and Mark made the leap from spectators to creators in mid 2018, as an extension of their life long collective obsessions with music. Inspired by a similarly named antipodean band, Barry take a multi vocal approach to classic jangle pop and make it their own with tales of public urination, gentrification and not giving up! Delve into the world of four gay ‘grown ups’ living in a city that’s becoming increasingly difficult to inhabit freely. Tape out on Permanent Slump now! https://www.facebook.com/barryband/   LIFE DRAWINGS are an un-googleable band of tip-top punks using lo-fi vocals, low key guitars, catchy bass bits, cheap keyboards, drums and advanced admin for songs almost exclusively inspired by Country Teasers and The Fall. https://www.facebook.com/LifeDrawingsBand/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   LANKUM JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   LANKUM have an alchemical ability to combine traditional folk roots with contemporary undercurrents to forge music that is dark, mysterious and transcendental. Comprising brothers Ian Lynch (uillean pipes, tin whistle, vocals), Daragh Lynch (vocals, guitar) alongside Cormac Mac Diarmada (fiddle) and Radie Peat (harmonium, accordion, vocals), Lankum channel a diverse set of influences and histories to create a beautifully rare thing: a songbook from and for the people. Born of years criss-crossing Dublin's folk and experimental scenes, their two albums Cold Old Fire (2013, recorded under former name Lynched) and Rough Trade debut Between The Earth and Sky (2017) breath new life into ancient/modern rituals with urban punk fervour, rural psycho-geography and, underpinning it all, the eternal drone of the uilleann pipes. This new live show will be in support of their much-anticipated 3rd album, 'The Livelong Day', out 25th October through Rough Trade Records. http://lankumdublin.com/ JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN is a singer and multi-instrumentalist whose work centres around traditional and folk material from Ireland and further afield. He is a founding member of the band, Skipper's Alley, with whom he has toured extensively throughout Europe and America. John is an active session musician around Dublin and has recorded with artists such as Lankum and Ye Vagabonds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vuIIIOBr0M

Upset The Rhythm presents…   THOR & FRIENDS MARCEL WAVE Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THOR & FRIENDS are an avant-chamber ensemble formed by polymath percussionist and all-round force of nature Thor Harris, following his tenure as a touring member of monolithic rock ensemble Swans. The project is intended as a vehicle for experimentation, with the conceptual vocabulary of American Minimalism explored and expanded on by a rotating cast of musicians from around the globe. The resultant music is an elongated greeting and ode to Thor's community, his woodworking shop, and the instruments his hands shape and bring to life. From the core trio of Harris (sundry percussion and wind instruments including some of his own devising), Peggy Ghorbani (marimba) and Sarah “Goat” Gautier (marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, organ, voice, mellotron, piano), the line-up of Thor & Friends expands and contracts with the flux of compositional and improvisational contexts. The range of tonal color depends on what instrumentalists are present or absent from the process at any given time. Thor has been announced as the artist-in-residence for Joyful Noise Recordings in 2019. Throughout the year he will release 6 records via the label, including the third full Thor & Friends album in Autumn as well as collaborative material with artists including Bill Callahan, Margaret Chardiet (Pharmakon), Lawrence English and many more. A limited run of 666 boxsets, handcrafted by Thor and containing coloured vinyl editions of all the releases, will then be released at the end of the year. http://www.thorharris.org/ MARCEL WAVE write eulogies for tragic actresses, ancient riverbeds and concrete obscenity. Meades meets Pat-E-Smith meets Kirklees Borough Council. Featuring members of Cold Pumas and Sauna Youth. https://marcel-wave.bandcamp.com/releases

Upset The Rhythm presents…   THE GOTOBEDS HYGIENE THE TUBS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS   THE GOTOBEDS are a modern rock and roll sensation that has always sounded like they have to play. The group's angular tunes and buzzy guitar-fuelled attack took the sound and vision of post-punk and indie rock and put the nervy snarl of punk back into the formula. Never maligned by having the world’s weight on their backs, The Gotobeds - Cary, TFP, Eli and Gavin - returned this May with their third full lengther, 'Debt Begins at 30' (Sub Pop). The esprit de corps and anxiety-free joy that permeates their other LPs and EPs remains intact. The octane is high-test, the engine still has knocks and pings and the battery is overcharged. The Gotobeds - as Pittsburgh as it gets, the folk music of the Steel City - have more tar for us to swallow. The Gotobeds jump between exuberant jangle, brooding romps with tribal beats and slash-and-burn guitar and wrecking ball anthems much like their partners-in-rock-crime Protomartyr. https://thegotobeds.bandcamp.com/ HYGIENE released a slew of singles and an LP on various DIY labels in the US and the UK at the turn of the decade, now the London post-punk stalwarts return from hiatus with their sophomore effort, 'Private Sector'. Where their debut LP 'Public Sector' (2011, La Vida Es Un Mus) reflected a nostalgic longing for an unrealised socialist modernist utopia, 'Private Sector' finds them confronting the grim realities of the present. Hygiene rail against the neoliberal madness of utility cartels, tax havens and privatised railways, seizing the moment as the current period of interregnum sees the old ideological certainties come into question. Proving nostalgia to be an inescapable trap, the band continue to hearken back to the kind of post-punk that existed before anybody knew to affix the 'post' prefix. New album 'Private Sector' has the signature Hygiene sound, mixing brooding melodies with a choppy, aggressive approach and a restricted pop sensibility. However, this ever-so-slightly-more mature record finds the band taking advantage of the musicianship of their friends, mixing in the odd viola, glockenspiel, piano and keyboard. Recommended for fans of Real Ale, British Rail Class 55 Deltics, Euston station and Jeremy Corbyn. https://www.facebook.com/Hygiene-126660907380779/ THE TUBS aim to channel "The Tubullar Sound"; a thick soup of influences ranging from antipodean jangle, to needling Post Punk, to traditional British Folk music. The Tubs feature former and current members of Joanna Gruesome, The Estate Agents, Garden Centre and Keel Her, music coming soon! https://the-tubs.bandcamp.com/releases

Have a wonderful weekend, thanks as always for your time! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

CARLA DAL FORNO CUCINA POVERA KENNY WHITE (LOW COMPANY) DJ set Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   ROBERT SOTELO BARRY LIFE DRAWINGS Friday 15 November New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London N4 1DN 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON THE SILVER FIELD Tuesday 19 November MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £16 | SOLD OUT   LANKUM JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   THOR & FRIENDS MARCEL WAVE Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE GOTOBEDS HYGIENE THE TUBS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

Rattle - 'Disco' live video!

Rattle - Disco from ORANGE 'EAR on Vimeo.

Check out this extraordinary video of Rattle performing 'Disco' at x-church in Gainsborough!
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Shannon Lay in London this Monday, Carla dal Forno and Lankum playing soon!

Hello again! We’re thrilled for our next show on Monday night! Shannon Lay, Emmett Kelly & No Home are all playing for us at SET in Dalston, what an evening that'll prove to be! Shannon Lay is a wistful singer-songwriter from LA, her songs sweep with deft fingerstyle guitar and meditative vocals, worlds away from her other band Feels’ garage punk. For this exclusive UK show Shannon will treat us to the fruits from her brand new Subpop album ‘August’, which was co-produced with Ty Segall and features Mikal Cronin on saxophone too.     Emmett Kelly you probably know from his work as The Cairo Gang and collaborations with Joshua Abrams and Bonnie Prince Billy. Opening the show we’re very pleased to have No Home stunning all with her disorientating take on emotional confession. Tickets on the door for this one from 7.30pm, live music starting around 8.15pm.

Read on for the full listing for Monday’s show alongside those for November 12th’s Electrowerkz concert with Carla dal Forno (what a new album!!!), Cucina Povera and Low Company DJs and November 21st’s eagerly-awaited evening with Lankum and John Francis Flynn! So much to looking forward to!

Also, we’re very proud of UTR artists Rattle who are presently on a European tour with the Thurston Moore Group. The Nottingham-based double drum exciters/inciters continue their tour today in Stoke before zipping down to London tomorrow for an epic ULU gig! Here are all the dates so you can book off your holiday forthwith:   18/10 - Stoke On Trent, UK @ The Sugarmill * 19/10 - London, UK @ ULU * 20/10 - Portsmouth, UK @ Wedgewood Rooms * 22/10 - Paris, France @ Trabendo * 23/10 - Koln, Germany @ Kulturkirche * 24/10 - Hamburg, Germany @ Gruenspan * 26/10 - Prague, Czech Rep @ Lucerna Music Bar * 27/10 - Munchen, Germany @ Strom * 28/10 - Vienna, Austria @ WUK * 30/10 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Das Bett * 31/10 - Brussels, Belgium @ Les Ateliers Claus w/ Caroline Profanter   * w/ Thurston Moore Group

Upset The Rhythm presents… SHANNON LAY EMMETT KELLY NO HOME Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | £7 | https://link.dice.fm/1gnIYwwCXY   SHANNON LAY is a L.A. singer-songwriter whose work is of a plainspoken mysticism that goes to the small, bright truth of things, showcasing her unusual songwriting and quietly commanding voice. Shannon has been dominating the local scene in Los Angeles over the past two years, leaving everyone who witnesses completely breathless. Her new album for Sub Pop is called ‘August’, the title referring to the month in 2017 when Lay quit her day job and fully gave herself over to music. This was her liberation as an artist, and the album is devoted to paying that forward to her listeners. “It’s a thank you to the universe,” says the L.A. artist. The title track is a mystical, folk-psych expression that builds into a gentle gallop. “Open the doors that you cannot,” she sings with a feathery lightness. In keeping with the humbled, contemplative nature of ‘August’, most tracks clock-in at three minutes or less. She saved indulgence for the production. “Some songs as they were had this room to grow,” says Lay, who recorded the album with her longtime friend, musician Ty Segall at his home studio on the East Side. “I believe whoever you record with tends to affect the mood of music and Ty really brought this jovial sense that I hadn’t really explored yet,” she says. “Once you get rolling with him, he just throws these ideas at the wall. And you’re like, ‘I would never have thought of that!’ I couldn’t have hoped for a better guide and energy to help create this record.” https://shannonlay.bandcamp.com/ EMMETT KELLY is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist from Van Nuys, California. He is the primary songwriter and recording artist of The Cairo Gang, and has contributed vocal and instrumental work to a variety of international musical projects, appearing on recordings by the likes of Bonnie Prince Billy, Azita, Joan of Arc, Ty Segall, Edith Frost, Women and Children, John Webster Johns, Jeff Harms, Chicago poet/singer Marvin Tate, Matteah Baim, Japanese musician Takuma Watanabe, Angel Olsen, and Joshua Abrams. Kelly has toured in several of the aforementioned acts in addition to with Sonny Smith, Baby Dee, Beth Orton, and Terry Reid, and in other instances, performed live with Scott Tuma and Pillars and Tongues. https://thecairogang.bandcamp.com/ NO HOME is the lo-fi rock solo project of Charlotte Valentine, who fuses the grunge and ambient songs of early 00s new york rock, with an urgent, captivating call to self preservation. Having enthralled audiences at Decolonise Fest and support slots with Downtown Boys, Moor Mother and Big Joanie, No Home's third EP 'hello this is exploitation' is full of unease and disorientation, modal melodies interwoven with rolling rhythms and noise. https://nohome.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   CARLA DAL FORNO CUCINA POVERA LOW COMPANY DJs Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS CARLA DAL FORNO has entered a new era with her forthcoming album ‘Look Up Sharp’, pushing her dub-damaged DIY dispatches to the limits of flawless dream-pop. In a transformative move towards crystal clear vocals and sharpened production, ‘Look Up Sharp’ is an evolutionary leap from the thick fog and pastoral stillness of her Blackest Ever Black missives, You Know What It’s Like (2016) and The Garden EP (2017). Three years since her plain-speaking debut album, the Melbourne-via-Berlin artist finds herself absorbed in London’s sprawling mess. The small-town dreams and inertia that preoccupied dal Forno’s first album have dissolved into the chaotic city, its shifting identities, far-flung surroundings and blank faces. ‘Look Up Sharp’ is the story of this life in flux, longing for intimacy, falling short and embracing the unfamiliar. Dal Forno connects with kindred spirits and finds refuge in darkened alleys, secret gardens and wherever else she dares to look. In her own territory between plaintive folk, pop and post-punk, dal Forno conjures the ghosts of AC Marias, Virginia Astley and Broadcast through her brushwork of art-damaged fx and spectral atmospheres. ‘Look Up Sharp’ is a singular prism in which sound and concept bend at all angles. A deeply personal but infinitely relatable album its many surfaces are complex but authentic, enduring but imperfect, hard-edged but delicate. A diamond. Released on dal Forno’s own imprint Kallista Records this October. https://www.facebook.com/carladalfornoyes/ CUCINA POVERA is from Glasgow via Finland and Luxembourg. Maria Rossi's project utilises looped and layered vocals, field recordings and minimal synthesis to create alternately earthy and celestial raptures. Working from a dual framework of fortuity and precarity, Maria creates her own uniquely textured and ever-evolving world with sound. Trained at the Conservatoire Nationale de Luxembourg, she moved to Scotland in 2009 and became involved in the music scene in Glasgow through promoting nights and making radio shows, before learning music production at Green Door studios. Her solo project has taken her all over the UK, Europe and as far as Canada and the U.S., with more shows and a third record due out in 2019. https://cucinapovera.bandcamp.com/ KENNY WHITE (Low Company / DJ set) https://soundcloud.com/kenufeelit

Upset The Rhythm presents…   LANKUM JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   LANKUM have an alchemical ability to combine traditional folk roots with contemporary undercurrents to forge music that is dark, mysterious and transcendental. Comprising brothers Ian Lynch (uillean pipes, tin whistle, vocals), Daragh Lynch (vocals, guitar) alongside Cormac Mac Diarmada (fiddle) and Radie Peat (harmonium, accordion, vocals), Lankum channel a diverse set of influences and histories to create a beautifully rare thing: a songbook from and for the people. Born of years criss-crossing Dublin's folk and experimental scenes, their two albums Cold Old Fire (2013, recorded under former name Lynched) and Rough Trade debut Between The Earth and Sky (2017) breath new life into ancient/modern rituals with urban punk fervour, rural psycho-geography and, underpinning it all, the eternal drone of the uilleann pipes. This new live show will be in support of their much-anticipated 3rd album, 'The Livelong Day', out 25th October through Rough Trade Records. http://lankumdublin.com/ JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN is a singer and multi-instrumentalist whose work centres around traditional and folk material from Ireland and further afield. He is a founding member of the band, Skipper's Alley, with whom he has toured extensively throughout Europe and America. John is an active session musician around Dublin and has recorded with artists such as Lankum and Ye Vagabonds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vuIIIOBr0M

Thanks so much for reading, see you on Monday! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

SHANNON LAY EMMETT KELLY NO HOME Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO CUCINA POVERA KENNY WHITE (LOW COMPANY) DJ set Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON THE SILVER FIELD Tuesday 19 November MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £16 | SOLD OUT   LANKUM JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   THOR & FRIENDS MARCEL WAVE Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE GOTOBEDS HYGIENE THE TUBS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

Lankum & John Francis Flynn show listing! London - November 21st!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

LANKUM
JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN
Thursday 21 November
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £16.50 | https://link.dice.fm/ICxUcAc9SX

LANKUM have an alchemical ability to combine traditional folk roots with contemporary undercurrents to forge music that is dark, mysterious and transcendental. Comprising brothers Ian Lynch (uillean pipes, tin whistle, vocals), Daragh Lynch (vocals, guitar) alongside Cormac Mac Diarmada (fiddle) and Radie Peat (harmonium, accordion, vocals), Lankum channel a diverse set of influences and histories to create a beautifully rare thing: a songbook from and for the people.

Born of years criss-crossing Dublin's folk and experimental scenes, their two albums Cold Old Fire (2013, recorded under former name Lynched) and Rough Trade debut Between The Earth and Sky (2017) breath new life into ancient/modern rituals with urban punk fervour, rural psycho-geography and, underpinning it all, the eternal drone of the uilleann pipes.

This new live show will be in support of their much-anticipated 3rd album, 'The Livelong Day', out 25th October through Rough Trade Records.

'An object lesson in how to perform old songs in new ways' The Independent

'The most convincing folk band to come out of Ireland in years' The Guardian
http://lankumdublin.com/


JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN is a singer and multi-instrumentalist whose work centres around traditional and folk material from Ireland and further afield. He is a founding member of the band, Skipper's Alley, with whom he has toured extensively throughout Europe and America. John is an active session musician around Dublin and has recorded with artists such as Lankum and Ye Vagabonds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vuIIIOBr0M

Rattle on tour with Thurston Moore!

Nottingham double drum exciters/inciters RATTLE begin their European tour with the Thurston Moore Group today! Look out London, Saturday night at ULU!

14/10 - Newcastle, UK @ Riverside w/ Thurston Moore Group
15/10 - Glasgow, UK @ Classic Grand w/ Thurston Moore Group
16/10 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club w/ Thurston Moore Group
18/10 - Stoke On Trent, UK @ The Sugarmill w/ Thurston Moore Group
19/10 - London, UK @ ULU w/ Thurston Moore Group
20/10 - Portsmouth, UK @ Wedgewood Rooms w/ Thurston Moore Group
22/10 - Paris, France @ Trabendo w/ Thurston Moore Group
23/10 - Koln, Germany @ Kulturkirche w/ Thurston Moore Group
24/10 - Hamburg, Germany @ Gruenspan w/ Thurston Moore Group
26/10 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Lucerna Music Bar w/ Thurston Moore Group
27/10 - Munchen, Germany @ Strom w/ Thurston Moore Group
28/10 - Vienna, Austria @ WUK w/ Thurston Moore Group
30/10 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Das Bett w/ Thurston Moore Group
31/10 - Brussels, Belgium @ Les Ateliers Claus w/ Caroline Profanter

 

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Bamboo album launch tomorrow in London!

Hey there! Just a swift communiqué this week! Our next show will take place tomorrow at Servant Jazz Quarters with the brilliant Bamboo. Let’s give their new album ‘Daughters Of The Sky’ a well-deserved launch! Bamboo are all propulsive beats, plucked rhythms and chases of dramatic vocal turn. Cascading synth lines flow as pure as ice. The Silver Field are also going to perform whilst Serafina Steer & Oliver Marchant will DJ under the umbrella name of Synergy! Tickets available on the door from 7.30pm, see you there!   Full details on Saturday night follow, along with listings for Subpop’s transcendent folk artist Shannon Lay on October 21st with Emmett Kelly and No Home at SET, and November 12th’s Electrowerkz concert with Carla dal Forno, Cucina Povera and Low Company DJs. Rousing times await.

One last thing, our friends at Beats To The Bar are organizing a fantastic show of UK underground excess this coming Sunday that we whole heartily recommend. The Victoria is the setting and The Birthmarks, Dog Chocolate, Clementine March and Life Drawings are all performing, here’s the poster to check out! More here: https://www.beatstothebar.com/events

Upset The Rhythm presents…   BAMBOO THE SILVER FIELD SYNERGIE DJs (Serafina Steer & Oliver Marchant) Saturday 5 October Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, London, N16 8JN 7.30pm | £5 | https://link.dice.fm/xD0iyxnRiZ BAMBOO is the majestic pop project of Nick Carlisle and Rachel Horwood. Their music is vivid and deeply poignant, locking into a magnetic pull between Rachel's flawlessly resonant folk cadence and Nick's pristine synth-pop production. Live Bamboo are a quartet and they're ready to launch their third record Daughters of the Sky with this intimate show. http://www.bamboosongs.co.uk/ THE SILVER FIELD is a sound world of Coral Rose & friends. Voice, tapes, bass, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water. https://thesilverfield.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… SHANNON LAY EMMETT KELLY NO HOME Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | £7 | https://link.dice.fm/1gnIYwwCXY   SHANNON LAY is a L.A. singer-songwriter whose work is of a plainspoken mysticism that goes to the small, bright truth of things, showcasing her unusual songwriting and quietly commanding voice. Shannon has been dominating the local scene in Los Angeles over the past two years, leaving everyone who witnesses completely breathless. Her new album for Sub Pop is called ‘August’, the title referring to the month in 2017 when Lay quit her day job and fully gave herself over to music. This was her liberation as an artist, and the album is devoted to paying that forward to her listeners. “It’s a thank you to the universe,” says the L.A. artist. The title track is a mystical, folk-psych expression that builds into a gentle gallop. “Open the doors that you cannot,” she sings with a feathery lightness. In keeping with the humbled, contemplative nature of ‘August’, most tracks clock-in at three minutes or less. She saved indulgence for the production. “Some songs as they were had this room to grow,” says Lay, who recorded the album with her longtime friend, musician Ty Segall at his home studio on the East Side. “I believe whoever you record with tends to affect the mood of music and Ty really brought this jovial sense that I hadn’t really explored yet,” she says. “Once you get rolling with him, he just throws these ideas at the wall. And you’re like, ‘I would never have thought of that!’ I couldn’t have hoped for a better guide and energy to help create this record.” https://shannonlay.bandcamp.com/ EMMETT KELLY is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist from Van Nuys, California. He is the primary songwriter and recording artist of The Cairo Gang, and has contributed vocal and instrumental work to a variety of international musical projects, appearing on recordings by the likes of Bonnie Prince Billy, Azita, Joan of Arc, Ty Segall, Edith Frost, Women and Children, John Webster Johns, Jeff Harms, Chicago poet/singer Marvin Tate, Matteah Baim, Japanese musician Takuma Watanabe, Angel Olsen, and Joshua Abrams. Kelly has toured in several of the aforementioned acts in addition to with Sonny Smith, Baby Dee, Beth Orton, and Terry Reid, and in other instances, performed live with Scott Tuma and Pillars and Tongues. https://thecairogang.bandcamp.com/ NO HOME is the lo-fi rock solo project of Charlotte Valentine, who fuses the grunge and ambient songs of early 00s new york rock, with an urgent, captivating call to self preservation. Having enthralled audiences at Decolonise Fest and support slots with Downtown Boys, Moor Mother and Big Joanie, No Home's third EP 'hello this is exploitation' is full of unease and disorientation, modal melodies interwoven with rolling rhythms and noise. https://nohome.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   CARLA DAL FORNO CUCINA POVERA LOW COMPANY DJs Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS CARLA DAL FORNO has entered a new era with her forthcoming album ‘Look Up Sharp’, pushing her dub-damaged DIY dispatches to the limits of flawless dream-pop. In a transformative move towards crystal clear vocals and sharpened production, ‘Look Up Sharp’ is an evolutionary leap from the thick fog and pastoral stillness of her Blackest Ever Black missives, You Know What It’s Like (2016) and The Garden EP (2017). Three years since her plain-speaking debut album, the Melbourne-via-Berlin artist finds herself absorbed in London’s sprawling mess. The small-town dreams and inertia that preoccupied dal Forno’s first album have dissolved into the chaotic city, its shifting identities, far-flung surroundings and blank faces. ‘Look Up Sharp’ is the story of this life in flux, longing for intimacy, falling short and embracing the unfamiliar. Dal Forno connects with kindred spirits and finds refuge in darkened alleys, secret gardens and wherever else she dares to look. In her own territory between plaintive folk, pop and post-punk, dal Forno conjures the ghosts of AC Marias, Virginia Astley and Broadcast through her brushwork of art-damaged fx and spectral atmospheres. ‘Look Up Sharp’ is a singular prism in which sound and concept bend at all angles. A deeply personal but infinitely relatable album its many surfaces are complex but authentic, enduring but imperfect, hard-edged but delicate. A diamond. Released on dal Forno’s own imprint Kallista Records this October. https://www.facebook.com/carladalfornoyes/ CUCINA POVERA is from Glasgow via Finland and Luxembourg. Maria Rossi's project utilises looped and layered vocals, field recordings and minimal synthesis to create alternately earthy and celestial raptures. Working from a dual framework of fortuity and precarity, Maria creates her own uniquely textured and ever-evolving world with sound. Trained at the Conservatoire Nationale de Luxembourg, she moved to Scotland in 2009 and became involved in the music scene in Glasgow through promoting nights and making radio shows, before learning music production at Green Door studios. Her solo project has taken her all over the UK, Europe and as far as Canada and the U.S., with more shows and a third record due out in 2019. https://cucinapovera.bandcamp.com/ KENNY WHITE (Low Company / DJ set) https://soundcloud.com/kenufeelit

Have a wonderful weekend, thanks for reading! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

BAMBOO THE SILVER FIELD SYNERGIE DJs (Serafina Steer & Oliver Marchant) Saturday 5 October Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, London, N16 8JN 7.30pm | £5 | TICKETS   SHANNON LAY EMMETT KELLY NO HOME Monday 21 October SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London E8 3DF 7.30pm | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO CUCINA POVERA KENNY WHITE (LOW COMPANY) DJ set Tuesday 12 November Electrowerkz, 1st Floor, 7 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON Tuesday 19 November MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £16 | SOLD OUT   LANKUM JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN   Thursday 21 November Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, London, NW5 1HL 7.30pm | £16.50 | TICKETS   THOR & FRIENDS Friday 22 November Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE GOTOBEDS HYGIENE THE TUBS Tuesday 26 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS