Tuesday 24 March 2020

PRIMO! share their new video for 'Machine'!

PRIMO! put in some serious elbow grease with their new video for 'Machine'! Premiered by The Line Of Best Fit!

"Whether it’s the impact of working digitally on our remaining sanity, or the argument for a four-day week, it seems as if questions surrounding our 9-5 consistently feature somewhere on the public agenda. Cue Melbourne-based Primo! joining the conversation with their new single 'Machine'."

'Machine' is taken from the band's forthcoming album 'Sogni' out April 17th!


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Wednesday 18 March 2020

Health check vs sound check!

 
 
Keep it healthy everyone!
 
Just a quick update from Upset The Rhythm that due to the COVID-19 outbreak our scheduled events are now on hold for the foreseeable future. Many are postponed with future dates forthcoming and one or two are cancelled. Check out our upcoming list of events for details. Refunds are available through ticket vendors, original tickets will remain valid for all new dates too. Thanks for all the kind messages of support over the last few days, we echo them back to you and wish you all the best over these next few trying weeks/months.
 
To tide you over until we’re firing on all cylinders again we wanted to share with the extraordinary Limpe Fuchs set from last Saturday night at Iklectik too! Fearless, resourceful and abundantly humane, Limpe will set the tone for our Corona break. Enjoy the percussion fest!
 
 
 
 
Whilst our live events are temporarily up in the air, I’m happy to say that our webshop is still very much open for business. We have pre-order links up now for forthcoming albums from Es and Primo! Both increds. Plus recent releases in stock now from Handle, Kaputt and Robert Sotelo, not to mention over 100 excellent back catalogue titles too. Hit our virtual crates and we’ll send you some vital sparks of life through the mail!
 
One last thing, we’ve just announced a new event for you (I know) in the hopefully calmer month of July with FUZZ (Ty Segall, Charles Moothart & Chad Ubovich) at the Electric Ballroom. Tickets are on sale now and flying out the door faster than you can say “ do you still have any paracetamol”? Full details in our upcoming shows section below.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Stay safe and sound everyone!
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS 
 
SPINNING COIN - POSTPONED
BAS JAN
ROBERT SOTELO
Wednesday 18 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
Upset The Rhythm & The Barbican present…
RICHARD DAWSON: Delight is Right - POSTPONED
CIRCLE
HANNAH DIAMOND
HUMMING DOGS
BAMBOO
ASIQ NARGILE
YAMA WARASHI
METTE RASMUSSEN
Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS
Saturday 28 March
3pm - 11pm | SOLD OUT
 
IRMA VEP - CANCELLED
SOFT WALLS

THE TUBS
Friday 3 April
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
Upset The Rhythm & SA Recordings present…
LEA BERTUCCI - ‘Acoustic Shadows’ release party! - POSTPONED
RHODRI DAVIES
Tuesday 14 April
Ecology Pavilion, Mile End Park, off Haverfield Rd, Grove Rd, London, E3 5TW
7pm-10pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
Upset The Rhythm & The Barbican present…
LANKUM
SHIRLEY COLLINS & IAN KEAREY
CAROLINE
Wednesday 15 April
Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS
7.30pm | £17.50-£22.50 | TICKETS
 
NAP EYES - POSTPONED
Wednesday 15 April
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
PAN AMERICAN - POSTPONED
MIYAGI-LAMMARDO DUO
ASUNA
Tuesday 21 April
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS 
 
BONNIESONGS - POSTPONED
YUMI AND THE WEATHER
GARRET MOORE

Wednesday 22 April
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB
7.30pm | £6.50 | TICKETS
 
PROTOMARTYR
Monday 27 April
Peckham Audio,133 Rye Ln, Peckham, London, SE15 4ST
7.30pm | £15 | SOLD OUT
PROTOMARTYR
Tuesday 28 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £15 |  SOLD OUT
 
OLD TIME RELIJUN - POSTPONED
Wednesday 29 April
PinUps (formerly The Islington), 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS
 
LUNGBUTTER
MICHAEL
ADULKT LIFE
Thursday 30 April
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS

7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
Friday 1 May
EartH Kitchen, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
SHOPPING
Tuesday 5 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
ESCAPE-ISM
(Ian Svenonius of Chain & The Gang, The Make-Up)
Thursday 7 May
Space 289, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £11 | TICKETS
 
FRAN
Friday 29 May
PinUps (formerly The Islington)
1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
BRIGID MAE POWER (full band)
Wednesday 10 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB
£10 | 7.30pm | TICKETS
 
FUZZ
Wednesday 22 July
Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP
7pm | £17.50 | TICKETS
14 + show (under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult)
 

Thursday 12 March 2020

FUZZ return to London this July! Electric Ballroom oi!


Upset The Rhythm presents…

FUZZ
Wednesday 22 July
Electric Ballroom
7pm | £17.50 | https://link.dice.fm/ABBalSTAL4
14 + show (under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult)

FUZZ are back! Ty Segall, Charles Moothart and Chad Ubovich’s electrifying trio return to London this summer! Fuzz have released two studio albums to date on In The Red, their self-titled release debuting back in 2013, and the more heavy metal influenced II dropping in 2015. Moothart and Segall originally formed the group, as Moothart was a touring member and guitarist for the Ty Segall backing band, and later became the drummer of Segall’s current touring group The Freedom Band. Regarding their sophomore album Ubovich stated in an interview with La Weekly: “We all kind of did something we’ve never done before, which was write together as a band. That was a first for all of us. Usually in our respective projects it’s all about writing on our own, and that process. This time we tried something definitely new.” Look out for a new release entitled this summer too! It will be heavy, chaotically controlled, softly serpentine, and blindingly barbaric. To translate the auditory from ethereal to saliva soaked semantics is to shatter a promise as it’s made. In the meantime, Ty, Charles, and Chad walk on. It is what it is. Just like everything else.
https://www.facebook.com/Fuzz-424864160921258/

Monday 9 March 2020

Handle - 'In Threes' out now! Plus Limpe Fuchs in London this weekend!

 
 
Alright there!
 
We’re pleased as punch to let you know that Handle’s debut album ‘In Threes’ is officially out now! As debut albums go, this one is something else, nothing short of an exercise in twisting post-punk into a wound-up spring. Handle are a trio very much focused on movement within sound, with an elastic bass, all-consuming dance riot of drums and percussion and an impressionistic lyrical flow that bobs and weaves throughout. This is kinetic, instinctual future music of the highest degree! But no need to take our word for it, check out scorching new track ‘Step By Step. It's a clangorous leviathan of beat-forward dance punk, peppered with Leo's fluid vocal, dizzying yet divinely exuberant.
 
 
Handle are made up of Giulio Erasmus and Nirvana Heire (former members of D.U.D.S) and Leo Hermitt, a multidisciplinary artist, renowned for their challenging, thought-provoking work. The music they make together is occupied by dark shapes that move beneath a roiling surface. Jolting, shattering, cracking, smoothed, bounded, punctuated. ‘In Threes’ is a collection of frenetic sounds for frenzied forms, released now on LP, CD and digitally! Available from Upset The Rhythm & our friends Maternal Voice too!
 
Web shop hither!
 
 
 
 
 
Thank you to everyone for coming out to see Islet and The Silver Field last week, both shows proved momentous. This week we have two special events planned with the 79-years young German composer and architect of large-scale acoustic installations and visual happenings Limpe Fuchs! Her live performances are always enthralling in their inquisitive experimentation. Limpe explores the boundaries of composition with flurries of rhythm, swooping metallic glissandos and eerie combinations of bell-like resonances and string vibration.
 
On Saturday night at Iklectik we’re pleased to have Limpe perform a concert, whilst on Sunday afternoon she will host a workshop, inviting participants to play her unique instruments in the sound installation and bring their own instruments along too if desired. We’re excited to have Waterless Hills joining us on Saturday night for their first performance in London also, full details on both days can be discovered below.

 
We have an epic concert planned with Spinning Coin, Bas Jan and Robert Sotelo at The Lexington next week (March 18th) also outlined below and a similarly packed New River knees-up on April 3rd with Irma Vep, Soft Walls and The Tubs too! You’ll also find in our upcoming programme a newly added concert for Chicago’s Fran (May 29th) and a freshly confirmed set from folk icon Shirley Collins with Ian Kearey in support of Lankum next month at The Barbican (April 15th), enjoy!

 
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
LIMPE FUCHS - Concert
WATERLESS HILLS
Saturday 14 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
LIMPE FUCHS - Workshop
Sunday 15 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
1pm-3pm | £15 | Very limited places: TICKETS
 
LIMPE FUCHS is a German sound artist and instrument builder whose vibrant performances develop from a real time engagement with the ecology of the space at hand. Using wood and granite stone rows, ringing bronze within pendulum string instruments and employing the percussion, viola and voice she studied at the Munich Conservatory she sensitises the process of hearing through an exploration of music-making as a part of everyday life. An original member of ‘70s Krautrock duo Anima Sound, Limpe and then husband sculptor Paul Fuchs embodied a radical form of free living, farming and building instruments like the Fuchshorn, Fuchszither and Fuchsbass at a professional metal workshop in their Pfarrhof—a thousand-year-old former priest house—in rural Bavaria. Anima Musica' epitomised the ingenious marginal freak scene of the sixties and seventies and are often cited as a key influence on Krautrock. In 1971 they hitched a handmade mobile home and stage to an old Hanomag tractor and toured Europe bringing their anarchic, uncompromising improvisations to an impromptu public at 19 kilometers per hour. A champion of egalitarian performance, Limpe quit the group in the ‘80s when new experimental theatre work demanded agreement with more members and she felt that her voice was being compromised. Ever since she has devoted herself to “making music while listening to the streaming of time…with simplicity and emotion”, following the influence of soundscape artists. Whether improvising solo or with other players, Limpe unfailingly coaxes an otherworldly atmosphere from the sounds and silence of her surroundings with a childlike wonder, always open to surprise. Her engaging performances require attention from the audience as she moves freely in space evoking her natural sound-scapes while playing her viola woodhorn, bamboo flute, pendulumstring, a four-meter- steel constructed lithophone, sheet metal, pieces of wood and singing in her unique ephemeral bird-like style.

We follow up the Saturday night concert with a Sunday afternoon workshop based around a sound installation of Limpe Fuchs. Limpe invites participants to play her instruments in the sound installation and they can bring their own instruments too. Only three are playing, the others are listening. When all have played in different combinations, we decide how to go on. It is important to stay simple, so that the instruments are treated with love and the skill of ones hands is not overstrained. The sound of the ensemble has to be in balance between chaos and order. When the handling of the tools and precision of listening is growing starts nonverbal communication with music.
http://www.limpefuchs.de/en/

WATERLESS HILLS is a new project put together by drummer Andrew Cheetham (now playing with Richard Dawson, Kiran Leonard, Irma Vep, Yerba Mansa, Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura etc). The group consists of Andrew and two further members of the Manchester Underground wrecking crew - dbh (Kiran Leonard band, Irma Vep band, Jim Ghedi band, his own bad self) on violin; Gavin Clarke (DSDV) on bass – and augmented by Cambridge-based avant-folk musician C Joynes on electric guitar. Their debut album 'The Great Mountain' (out 29th Feb on Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube Records) was recorded in one day direct to 1/4” tape at Hallé St Michaels, Manchester. All tracks were wholly improvised, and the tapes document a slowly-evolving interplay and, at times, ‘on-the-edge’ exchange between the players. The results were eventually shaped into an imaginary soundtrack to an orientalist western loosely themed around Freya Stark's 1935 travelogue 'The Valleys Of The Assassins' and the surrealist occult art of Ithel Colquohoun.
https://waterlesshills.bandcamp.com/
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
SPINNING COIN
BAS JAN
ROBERT SOTELO
Wednesday 18 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
SPINNING COIN are Sean Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Jack Mellin (vocals, guitar), Rachel Taylor (bass, vocals, keyboards) and Chris White (drums). Hailing from Glasgow their cascading melodicism is topped with some amazing shredding. Their music connects into a local music scene more associated with Orange Juice, Teenage Fanclub, and of course The Pastels, who release the band’s records via their Geographic Music imprint. Their music is beautifully rough-hewn guitar pop that takes in frustration, but also gracefulness and splendour, in equal measure. On February 21st, Spinning Coin will release their second album ‘Hyacinth’. A brave step forward, ‘Hyacinth’ is an album full of poetry, light and warmth of heart, and presents a band holding nothing back. Throughout there is joy in spades, but also melancholy, and a checked fury, threading the group’s political vision through their reflections on the personal and the interpersonal. Jack explains that the new songs “are about the need for love in an often very unloving world. Trying to find a balance of some kind between feelings of apathy, negativity, detachment and action, positivity and oneness.” Whilst Mellin’s songs were more pointedly political on debut LP ‘Permo’, here he has built more complexity into his writing. Ultimately Spinning Coin’s ethos stays true to itself, as Sean expands about the experiences and the motivations behind the new music: “It’s trying to connect with other people on a human level, doing something that we love, and trying to embrace the unknown.” This show sees them head to London date during their European tour in support of ‘Hyacinth’ in March!
https://spinningcoin.net/

BAS JAN are a London-based experimental post-punk trio built around the remarkable and distinctive voice and songs of multi-instrumentalist and composer Serafina Steer. Named after the Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who was last seen setting out to sail across the Atlantic in 1975, Bas Jan’s earliest songs were initially conceived as Serafina Steer solo material, until Bas Jan co-founder members Sarah Anderson and Jenny Moore triangulated the whole collaboration and, in 2015, the band was born. Since recording Yes I Jan, both Sarah and Jenny have moved on to other projects, and currently joining Steer in the new incarnation of Bas Jan are violinist, bassist and vocalist Emma Smith (Meilyr Jones, Seamus Fogarty and founder member of the Elysian Quartet) and drummer and vocalist Rachel Horwood (Trash Kit, Bamboo). Bas Jan’s utterly brilliant debut album Yes I Jan was released via Lost Map Records in 2018.
https://basjan.bandcamp.com/

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. Last 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.
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
IRMA VEP
SOFT WALLS
THE TUBS
Friday 3 April
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
IRMA VEP is the on-going, evolving main vehicle for polymath musician Edwin Stevens and on his latest album Embarrassed Landscape, due 3rd April via Gringo Records, the project has reached a zenith. Primarily recorded in Stevens’s adopted home town of Glasgow over two days with frequent collaborators Ruari Maclean and Andrew Cheetham, Embarrassed Landscape is an album that breathes in a fetid skip full of millennial dread, self-effacing anxiety and doubt before exhaling it as heartbreaking songs and ecstatic abandon. Built around the skeleton of Stevens’s songwriting and fleshed out with loose, virtuoso playing, it’s a body of work that could have been the anxious songs of an over-thinker but rendered here Embarrassed Landscape revels in a kind of un-selfconscious confidence. Indeed, various tensions through out the album are constantly revealing. Lyrics are riven with poetic, crushing self-analysis and absurdity only to be performed against a backdrop of trance-rock music skewered with Stevens’s own instantly recognisable guitar playing, a style free and full of fire. Songs wring nuggets of uncanny truth out of prosaic, every day activities while sounding like Rolling Thunder Revue era-Dylan. Songs that seem hewn from some unspeakable personal pain are laced with a disarming streak of black humour, massive, world-ending psych jams that harken to Vibracathedral Orchestra’s wall of sound dissipate into tender songs that deserve to be picked apart and cried to. Tension needs release and here the release needs tension. To celebrate the release of this new album, Irma Vep is going on tour with Soft Walls.
https://irmavepirmavep.bandcamp.com/

SOFT WALLS (Dan Reeves of Cold Pumas) released his third album ‘Not as Bad as It Seems’ last year on cassette, now it’s been picked up for an LP release by Part Time Records! The album kicks off with ‘Misperception’, which comes across as a bit Deerhunter via Spacemen 3. A steady drum beat, a simple guitar melody, and Indian raga inspired keyboard drones. For what is essentially a one-man band, Soft Walls comes across as surprisingly lively (even amidst all that lo-fi scuzz). That is largely down to the drums which despite coming out of a machine, when rendered through a dodgy 8 track, can easily pass as someone churning out a bit of motorik. Soft Walls also have amazing records available through Tough Love and Trouble In Mind.
 
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. The Tubs try to locate The Ignorant Sound on debut single I Don't Know How it Works (out now on Prefect Records). An admission of pure incomprehension, The Tubs spend 2.30 minutes sonically failing to grasp almost every aspect of modern existence. Operating a simple can opener? They don't know how it works. Logging on to their favourite 'chatting app'? They don't know how it works. Creating jangle music under a regime of Capitalist Realism? They simply don't know how it works.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Have a fantastic week and we’ll see you over Saturday/Sunday.
Thanks as always for your time!
Upset The Rhythm
 
 
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS 
LIMPE FUCHS
WATERLESS HILLS
Saturday 14 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm |£10 | TICKETS
 
LIMPE FUCHS - Workshop
Sunday 15 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
1pm-3pm |£15 | Very limited places: TICKETS 
 
SPINNING COIN
BAS JAN
ROBERT SOTELO
Wednesday 18 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
Upset The Rhythm & The Barbican present…
RICHARD DAWSON: Delight is Right
CIRCLE
HANNAH DIAMOND
HUMMING DOGS
BAMBOO
ASIQ NARGILE
YAMA WARASHI
METTE RASMUSSEN
Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS
Saturday 28 March
3pm - 11pm | SOLD OUT
 
IRMA VEP
SOFT WALLS

THE TUBS
Friday 3 April
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
Upset The Rhythm & SA Recordings present…
LEA BERTUCCI - ‘Acoustic Shadows’ release party!
RHODRI DAVIES
Tuesday 14 April
Ecology Pavilion, Mile End Park, off Haverfield Rd, Grove Rd, London, E3 5TW
7pm-10pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
Upset The Rhythm & The Barbican present…
LANKUM
SHIRLEY COLLINS & IAN KEAREY
CAROLINE
Wednesday 15 April
Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS
7.30pm | £17.50-£22.50 | TICKETS
 
NAP EYES
Wednesday 15 April
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
PAN AMERICAN
MIYAGI-LAMMARDO DUO
ASUNA
Tuesday 21 April
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS 
 
BONNIESONGS
YUMI AND THE WEATHER
GARRET MOORE

Wednesday 22 April
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB
7.30pm | £6.50 | TICKETS
 
PROTOMARTYR
Monday 27 April
Peckham Audio,133 Rye Ln, Peckham, London, SE15 4ST
7.30pm | £15 | SOLD OUT
PROTOMARTYR
Tuesday 28 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £15 |  SOLD OUT
 
OLD TIME RELIJUN
Wednesday 29 April
PinUps (formerly The Islington), 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS
 
LUNGBUTTER
MICHAEL
ADULKT LIFE
Thursday 30 April
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS

7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
Friday 1 May
EartH Kitchen, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
SHOPPING
Tuesday 5 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
ESCAPE-ISM
(Ian Svenonius of Chain & The Gang, The Make-Up)
Thursday 7 May
Space 289, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £11 | TICKETS
 
FRAN
Friday 29 May
PinUps (formerly The Islington)
1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
BRIGID MAE POWER (full band)
Wednesday 10 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB
£10 | 7.30pm | TICKETS
 

FRAN in London this May! Just announced!


Upset The Rhythm presents…

FRAN
Friday 29 May
PinUps (formerly The Islington), 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £7.00 | https://link.dice.fm/3uACqjjvI4

FRAN aka Maria Jacobson began writing songs during a time of great personal upheaval. Working as an actor at a summer repertory theatre in rural Indiana after a disillusioning stint in the Chicago theatre scene and a series of failed relationships, she bought a guitar and taught herself to play. Through this instrument and her voice, she discovered a way to process the experience of recent events and draw ambiguities closer to conclusions. Landing an English teaching job with sparse hours in a small city in Mexico afforded the time and space to develop as a songwriter: playing and writing all night until it became clear that a body of work was forming, she then returned to Chicago to form a band. ’A Private Picture’, the debut album by Fran (out now on Fire Talk), delivers a collection of extremely personal experiences that have been distilled and abstracted to the point that you can see yourself in their imagery, it’s a conversation. It’s a mature and clear-eyed sound that features some of the wit, complexity, and R.O.C.K. you might expect from Aimee Mann or the Pretenders. At the dead center of the sound is Jacobson’s voice. A voice true and full, ranging from an almost-whisper to a pitched scream and soaring to incredible heights.
https://franband.bandcamp.com/



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Friday 6 March 2020

Handle - 'In Threes' out today on LP, CD and digitally!


Handle’s next-level incredible debut album ‘In Threes’ is released today on LP, CD and digitally! ‘In Threes’ is an exercise in twisting post-punk into a wound-up spring. This is kinetic, instinctual future music of the highest degree! Elastic bass, an all-consuming dance riot of drums and percussion and an impressionistic lyrical flow that bobs and weaves throughout.

Available now from Upset The Rhythm & our friends Maternal Voice too!

Listen to ‘Step By Step’ premiered by God Is In the TV here.



Web shop hither: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
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Monday 2 March 2020

Islet this Thursday, The Silver Field on Friday and much more for March!

 
Alright there!
 
Two top London shows for you this week! On Thursday at Space 289 we’re thrilled to be hosting Welsh, lysergic pop group Islet. The Powys trio release their astonishing, multifaceted album ‘Eyelet’ this very Friday and so Thursday night squarely lands us in album launch territory. Overflowing with sublime synth lines, fizzing drum machines and expansive lyrical themes it’s a dazzling listen, really looking forward to seeing them play this live! Also, Despicable Zee from Oxford will be showcasing her deeply evocative cycles of song too, see you very much down the front. Tickets available from the link below and on the door from 7.30pm too, roll up, roll up!
 
 
 
Our second show of the week kick-starts the weekend with some exemplary, questing pop this time in the shape of The Silver Field. Diaries open to Friday night, venue this time SET in Dalston. Hypnotic, honest and verdantly bejewelled, The Silver Field’s sound is enveloping and intimate, truly otherworldly. London-based French multi-instrumentalist Clémentine March will also share songs from her brand new record of joyfully alive music at this event, plus Loose Joints and Katayoun Jalili will keep the party furnace stoked with some bountiful DJ sets too.
 
You’ll also find below the details of our two events planned with Limpe Fuchs at Iklectik on March 14th (concert) / 15th (workshop)!
 
Limpe Fuchs is a German composer of acoustic and visual happenings who creates sound with unusual, large-scale instruments. After studying piano and violin in the early sixties at the school of music in Munich she started Anima Sound, a collective name for twenty years of ‘sound research’ with her partner, sculptor Paul Fuchs. They epitomised the ingenious marginal freak scene of the sixties and seventies and are often cited as a major influence on Krautrock, her subsequent solo work has proved equally fascinating and original!
 
 
 
A rather epic concert planned with Spinning Coin, Bas Jan and Robert Sotelo at The Lexington on March 18th is also outlined below, making you fully up to speed with everything we have on this month!
 
Since we last talked we’ve added some new events to our upcoming concert programme too, including shows from Lungbutter, Brigid Mae Power (full band), Ian William Craig and an album release party for Lea Bertucci in Mile End Park’s Ecology Pavilion! So much to look forward to this year already!
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
ISLET
DESPICABLE ZEE
Thursday 5 March
Space 289, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS
 
ISLET are a Powys trio whose free-spirited invention and exuberant intensity flows through experimental pop: hypnotic, exhilarating and defiantly unique. They began in Cardiff in 2009 when Emma Daman and brothers Mark and John ‘JT’ Thomas resolved to form a band with one rule: that anything was possible. Soon after, they were joined by Alex Williams. The band had no lead singer or set roles, switching instruments from song to song, melding psych rock, ethereal atmospherics and jagged post punk, with most gigs seeing the walls and spectators played as instruments. They were soon surrounded by a buzz of excitement and mystique, cherished locally, then globally. They wrote about their philosophy in their own zine, started a festival, helped other bands; they are stalwarts of the Welsh DIY community. Two albums (‘Illuminated People’, 2012 – shortlisted for the Welsh Music Prize – and ‘Released By The Movement’, 2013) and a handful of EPs followed, released on their own label, Shape Records. Now Islet have signed to Fire Records, with Emma Daman Thomas moving into focus with her unleashed, mesmerising vocals against a synth-driven sound, unexpected shifts of rhythm, playful inventive lyrics; an exhilarating, electronic purr that provokes thought and feeling. They have matured, are more tender and composed, but still eclectic, mysterious and intriguingly themselves. Brand new album ‘Eyelet’ will be released on March 6th!
https://islet.bandcamp.com/

DESPICABLE ZEE is the solo project of Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani, who has been writing and performing for more than 15 years. She is the director of the Young Women’s Music Project, which continues to inspire her. Zahra specialises in leftfield, electronic lo-fi-pop – wonky yet meditative tunes, punctuated by biting rhythms. With echoes of The Knife, Tirzah, CocoRosie and Madame Gandhi, her recent EP sounds like longing, like searching, like hacking away at old vines to reach what’s behind them.
https://despicablezee.bandcamp.com/
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
THE SILVER FIELD
CLEMENTINE MARCH
LOOSE JOINTS (DJ Set)
KATAYOUN JALILI (DJ Set)
Friday 6 March
SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London, E8 3DF
7.30pm-2.30am | £6 | TICKETS
 
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. March 2020 sees multi-instrumentalist Coral and drummer Kiran Bhatt (Red River Dialect) take to the road across the UK, sharing songs from their forthcoming second album, to be announced early 2020, as well as selections from The Silver Field's debut Rooms. Recorded by Coral at home in south London, Rooms was brought to the world in January 2019 by Tim Burgess' O Genesis Recordings and received high praise for its dreamlike tapestries of tape loops, reverb and folk instrumentation, including plays on BBC 6 Music, BBC 3's Late Junction, NTS and Soho Radio, as well as print and online love from The Quietus, Electronic Sound, God Is In The TV and many more.
https://thesilverfield.bandcamp.com/

CLÉMENTINE MARCH is a London-based chanteuse, composer and filmmaker, her musical forays portray a very personal approach to the pop song, playing with languages and textures, with a Brazilian savoir-faire and a post-punk edge.
 
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
LIMPE FUCHS - Concert
WATERLESS HILLS
Saturday 14 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
LIMPE FUCHS - Workshop
Sunday 15 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
1pm-3pm | £15 | Very limited places: TICKETS
 
LIMPE FUCHS is a German sound artist and instrument builder whose vibrant performances develop from a real time engagement with the ecology of the space at hand. Using wood and granite stone rows, ringing bronze within pendulum string instruments and employing the percussion, viola and voice she studied at the Munich Conservatory she sensitises the process of hearing through an exploration of music-making as a part of everyday life. An original member of ‘70s Krautrock duo Anima Sound, Limpe and then husband sculptor Paul Fuchs embodied a radical form of free living, farming and building instruments like the Fuchshorn, Fuchszither and Fuchsbass at a professional metal workshop in their Pfarrhof—a thousand-year-old former priest house—in rural Bavaria. Anima Musica' epitomised the ingenious marginal freak scene of the sixties and seventies and are often cited as a key influence on Krautrock. In 1971 they hitched a handmade mobile home and stage to an old Hanomag tractor and toured Europe bringing their anarchic, uncompromising improvisations to an impromptu public at 19 kilometers per hour. A champion of egalitarian performance, Limpe quit the group in the ‘80s when new experimental theatre work demanded agreement with more members and she felt that her voice was being compromised. Ever since she has devoted herself to “making music while listening to the streaming of time…with simplicity and emotion”, following the influence of soundscape artists. Whether improvising solo or with other players, Limpe unfailingly coaxes an otherworldly atmosphere from the sounds and silence of her surroundings with a childlike wonder, always open to surprise. Her engaging performances require attention from the audience as she moves freely in space evoking her natural sound-scapes while playing her viola woodhorn, bamboo flute, pendulumstring, a four-meter- steel constructed lithophone, sheet metal, pieces of wood and singing in her unique ephemeral bird-like style.

We follow up the Saturday night concert with a Sunday afternoon workshop based around a sound installation of Limpe Fuchs. Limpe invites participants to play her instruments in the sound installation and they can bring their own instruments too. Only three are playing, the others are listening. When all have played in different combinations, we decide how to go on. It is important to stay simple, so that the instruments are treated with love and the skill of ones hands is not overstrained. The sound of the ensemble has to be in balance between chaos and order. When the handling of the tools and precision of listening is growing starts nonverbal communication with music.
http://www.limpefuchs.de/en/

WATERLESS HILLS is a new project put together by drummer Andrew Cheetham (now playing with Richard Dawson, Kiran Leonard, Irma Vep, Yerba Mansa, Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura etc). The group consists of Andrew and two further members of the Manchester Underground wrecking crew - dbh (Kiran Leonard band, Irma Vep band, Jim Ghedi band, his own bad self) on violin; Gavin Clarke (DSDV) on bass – and augmented by Cambridge-based avant-folk musician C Joynes on electric guitar. Their debut album 'The Great Mountain' (out 29th Feb on Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube Records) was recorded in one day direct to 1/4” tape at Hallé St Michaels, Manchester. All tracks were wholly improvised, and the tapes document a slowly-evolving interplay and, at times, ‘on-the-edge’ exchange between the players. The results were eventually shaped into an imaginary soundtrack to an orientalist western loosely themed around Freya Stark's 1935 travelogue 'The Valleys Of The Assassins' and the surrealist occult art of Ithel Colquohoun.
https://waterlesshills.bandcamp.com/
 
 
 
 
Upset The Rhythm presents…
 
SPINNING COIN
BAS JAN
ROBERT SOTELO
Wednesday 18 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
SPINNING COIN are Sean Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Jack Mellin (vocals, guitar), Rachel Taylor (bass, vocals, keyboards) and Chris White (drums). Hailing from Glasgow their cascading melodicism is topped with some amazing shredding. Their music connects into a local music scene more associated with Orange Juice, Teenage Fanclub, and of course The Pastels, who release the band’s records via their Geographic Music imprint. Their music is beautifully rough-hewn guitar pop that takes in frustration, but also gracefulness and splendour, in equal measure. On February 21st, Spinning Coin will release their second album ‘Hyacinth’. A brave step forward, ‘Hyacinth’ is an album full of poetry, light and warmth of heart, and presents a band holding nothing back. Throughout there is joy in spades, but also melancholy, and a checked fury, threading the group’s political vision through their reflections on the personal and the interpersonal. Jack explains that the new songs “are about the need for love in an often very unloving world. Trying to find a balance of some kind between feelings of apathy, negativity, detachment and action, positivity and oneness.” Whilst Mellin’s songs were more pointedly political on debut LP ‘Permo’, here he has built more complexity into his writing. Ultimately Spinning Coin’s ethos stays true to itself, as Sean expands about the experiences and the motivations behind the new music: “It’s trying to connect with other people on a human level, doing something that we love, and trying to embrace the unknown.” This show sees them head to London date during their European tour in support of ‘Hyacinth’ in March!
https://spinningcoin.net/

BAS JAN are a London-based experimental post-punk trio built around the remarkable and distinctive voice and songs of multi-instrumentalist and composer Serafina Steer. Named after the Dutch conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who was last seen setting out to sail across the Atlantic in 1975, Bas Jan’s earliest songs were initially conceived as Serafina Steer solo material, until Bas Jan co-founder members Sarah Anderson and Jenny Moore triangulated the whole collaboration and, in 2015, the band was born. Since recording Yes I Jan, both Sarah and Jenny have moved on to other projects, and currently joining Steer in the new incarnation of Bas Jan are violinist, bassist and vocalist Emma Smith (Meilyr Jones, Seamus Fogarty and founder member of the Elysian Quartet) and drummer and vocalist Rachel Horwood (Trash Kit, Bamboo). Bas Jan’s utterly brilliant debut album Yes I Jan was released via Lost Map Records in 2018.
https://basjan.bandcamp.com/

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. Last 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.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS 
ISLET
DESPICABLE ZEE
Thursday 5 March
Space 289, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS
 
THE SILVER FIELD
CLEMENTINE MARCH
LOOSE JOINTS (DJ Set)
KATAYOUN JALILI (DJ Set)
Friday 6th March
SET, 27A Dalston Ln, Dalston, London, E8 3DF
7.30pm-2.30am | £6 | TICKETS
 
LIMPE FUCHS
WATERLESS HILLS
Saturday 14 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
7.30pm |£10 | TICKETS
 
LIMPE FUCHS - Workshop
Sunday 15 March
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG
1pm-3pm |£15 | Very limited places: TICKETS 
 
SPINNING COIN
BAS JAN
ROBERT SOTELO
Wednesday 18 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
Upset The Rhythm & The Barbican present…
RICHARD DAWSON: Delight is Right
CIRCLE
HANNAH DIAMOND
HUMMING DOGS
BAMBOO
ASIQ NARGILE
YAMA WARASHI
METTE RASMUSSEN
Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS
Saturday 28 March
3pm - 11pm | SOLD OUT
 
IRMA VEP
SOFT WALLS

Friday 3 April
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
Upset The Rhythm & SA Recordings present…
LEA BERTUCCI - ‘Acoustic Shadows’ release party!
RHODRI DAVIES
Tuesday 14 April
Ecology Pavilion, Mile End Park, off Haverfield Rd, Grove Rd, London, E3 5TW
7pm-10pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
Upset The Rhythm & The Barbican present…
LANKUM
CAROLINE
Wednesday 15 April
Barbican Hall, Silk St, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DS
7.30pm | £17.50-£22.50 | TICKETS
 
NAP EYES
Wednesday 15 April
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
PAN AMERICAN
MIYAGI-LAMMARDO DUO
ASUNA
Tuesday 21 April
Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS 
 
BONNIESONGS
YUMI AND THE WEATHER
GARRET MOORE

Wednesday 22 April
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8 2EB
7.30pm | £6.50 | TICKETS
 
PROTOMARTYR
Monday 27 April
Peckham Audio,133 Rye Ln, Peckham, London, SE15 4ST
7.30pm | £15 | SOLD OUT
PROTOMARTYR
Tuesday 28 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £15 |  SOLD OUT
 
OLD TIME RELIJUN
Wednesday 29 April
PinUps (formerly The Islington), 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS
 
LUNGBUTTER
ADULKT LIFE
Thursday 30 April
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS

7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
Friday 1 May
EartH Kitchen, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS
 
SHOPPING
Tuesday 5 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
ESCAPE-ISM
(Ian Svenonius of Chain & The Gang, The Make-Up)
Thursday 7 May
Space 289, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA
7.30pm | £11 | TICKETS
 
BRIGID MAE POWER (full band)
Wednesday 10 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB
£10 | 7.30pm | TICKETS