Gad Whip tomorrow, and this month's London concerts!

Hello there! Friday night is coming up, so we're back in your locale to invite you over to New River Studios for our Gad Whip concert tomorrow.   What's a Gad Whip I hear thee say?   Well it's a huge, heavy whip that's cracked about on Palm Sunday as is the custom of some villages of rural Lincolnshire.   It's also an intriguing band making a hodgepodge of high-energy, low-fidelity DIY mulch and post-industrial musique concrète, who also... mainly hail from Lincolnshire.   All fans of suburban sprawl, anti-rock heat and leftfield musings turned inspired prophesy come gather. New group The Phone Call will be performing too, they're cryptically catchy and feature members of David Cronenburg's Wife.   Sean Smith will also be DJ-ing throughout the night and is even interacting with the start and end of Gad Whip's set I believe. Join him on the cross fade. Total night out with the outsiders! £7 on the door from 7.30pm, done!

Alright! Our full listing for tomorrow's fun and games follows next. Read on for all the highlights from our next month's worth of concerts in London too.   We have ample tremendous events planned for Nightshift, The Pheromoans, Bertie Marshall, Luvia, Buffet Lunch, Me Lost Me, Shake Chain, Old Time Relijun and Order Of The Toad! Quite the heady brew, something for everyone in there.   Enjoy!

Upset The Rhythm presents… GAD WHIP THE PHONE CALL SEAN SMITH (DJ) Friday 15 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/zoP2qXE2Agb      GAD WHIP formed in 2014 and blend avant-garde sensibilities with a contemporary take on the place where DIY culture meets post-punk. Hints of deconstructed garage rock and interstellar voyaging through sweat drenched waking dreams. Immediate, powerful, confounding and kept in place by wry, sometimes observational, semi-spoken vocals. This is music primed perfect for any 21st century meltdown in a suburban sprawl. Their music has been released by a range of labels, from NYC’s Ever/Never Records, Germany’s X-Mist Records, Canada’s Arachnidiscs Recordings and UK/Poland based Fourth Dimension Records. https://gadwhip.bandcamp.com   THE PHONE CALL feature rogue members of David Cronenburg's Wife and Gloaming Knave. Clicky riffs, synth pizzazz, frothy shuffles of beat and some superior observant commentary abound, arcane and everyday in equal measure. The Phone Call formed in 2019 as a strange brew of Fine Young Cannibals, The Fall and The Bhundu Boys. https://soundcloud.com/user-313083705   SEAN SMITH (DJ set) https://soundcloud.com/undeleted/punkrockdisco-witch-hunt?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1 https://undeleted.wordpress.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   NIGHTSHIFT THE PHEROMOANS Friday 29 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ZGB7YNg89gb   * Please be responsible and test yourself before coming this show and please do not attend if you are feeling unwell.   NIGHTSHIFT formed in 2019 in the ecosystem of Glasgow's current indie scene. The city's fertile & creative group of musicians have been committed to pushing the boundaries of and blurring the lines between DIY, punk, experimentalism and indie pop for decades now. Nightshift fit right in, featuring members from current indie stalwarts Spinning Coin, 2 Ply and Robert Sotelo. The band was formed by David Campbell (guitar), Andrew Doig (bass), Eothen Stearn (keyboards/vocals) & Chris White (drums) as a "No Wave/No New York/early Sonic Youth/This Heat-esque" group, but their sound quickly evolved once guitarist/vocalist/clarinetist Georgia Harris joined (as the band was writing ‘Zöe’). Nightshift self-released a full-length cassette on CUSP Recordings in early 2020, laying the foundation of their sound; hypnotic, melodic, understated indie post-punk with hooks that stick around long after you've heard them.   Unlike the band's previous album, the songs on ‘Zöe’ weren't conceived live in the band's practice space, but rather pieced together and recorded remotely during quarantine lockdown. The isolation actually allowed for an openness and creativity to flow and many of the songs took on radically different forms from when they were originally envisioned. Vocalist & primary lyricist Eothen Stearn says "The process of writing these songs separately during lockdown was a kind of exquisite corpse - I liked this gesticulation of reaching out to one another and responding. Building up the next layer and passing it on." Stearn says "poetic restraints" to writing & Eno & Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies concepts were on their mind when composing the words to the songs, and highlights the influence of author Rosi Bradiotti's book ‘The Posthuman’. ‘Zöe’ kicks off with ‘Piece Together’, a mesmeric song anchored by the band's chanted vocals and serpentine guitar licks. ‘Spraypaint the Bridge’ showcases Harris' clarinet in an unexpected & delightful melodic shift during the song's anti-chorus. Elsewhere tunes like the swooning ‘Infinity Winner’ and  ‘Outta Space’s minimalist, slinky rhythm swirl in a late-night vibe, while ‘Make Kin’ ruminates on "Looking to kinship as a way of engaging with entangled environmental and reproductive issues... how a band is a bond" and lurches forward with kinetic guitar strangling & staccato rhythmic percussion from White & Doig. ‘Power Cut’ is the album's centerpiece, luring the listener into involuntary movement with its waves of harmonies, synth drones and metronomic pulse, until they all come crashing down in the song's dissonant midsection.  The band acknowledges the whiffs of nostalgia prevalent in ‘Zöe’s songs, and the nature of writing & recording the album is soaked in the self-work, reflection & reevaluations involved not only personally but creatively in each member's lives. Consequently, ‘Zöe’ has become a collection of sketches of hope, growth, awareness of the power of the world & the power of self and possibility. https://nightshiftgroup.bandcamp.com/   THE PHEROMOANS are a rock band from the South East of England who deal in a deadpan DIY music. Married to the mundane yet surreal reportage of our lives, their music manages to address the truly restless boredom and absurdity of everyday life. The group have released albums on Alter, Upset The Rhythm and Savoury Days. They would like this review from 2014 by Peter Rea to best sum up their sound. “Akin to The Fall, someone who clearly wants to be Mark E. Smith fronts a band of great sounding musicians. Using his microphone stand to remain upright, the lead singer slurs words with little coherence, occasionally managing to fit in nicely with his exceptional band members – possibly by accident. He mentions Jerry McGuire, swears loudly a lot, and then keeps saying “David Lynch”. It’s an amusing spectacle, but I’d like to hear someone more sober and poetic. The second to last tune is actually pretty great, which goes some way to make up for some cringeworthy and laughable moments.” http://thepheromoans.blogspot.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents… BERTIE MARSHALL - ‘Exhibit’ album launch LUVIA Saturday 30 October Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/xRG9evauYgb   BERTIE MARSHALL is a writer/ performer. He is also an acclaimed memoirist, most well known for his book ‘Berlin Bromley’ (2006) about his transformation from Bertie, an anxious, androgynous, depressed teenager, into Berlin, a teenager who would reject suburban values and become a founding member of punk’s “Bromley Contingent”, alongside Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, and Billy Idol. He’s currently working on ‘Looking: Backwards To Go Forwards’, picking up from where ‘Berlin Bromley’ left off. His other books include the debut novel ‘Psychoboys’ (1997), ‘Nowhere Slow’ (2014), ‘From Sleepwalking to Sleepwalking’ (2016), ‘Wild - re write’ (2017), ‘The Peeler’ (2018) and ‘Pete’s Underpants’ (2019). In 2015 the British Library purchased his writing archive.   From 1980-83, Bertie was the frontman for post-punk boundary-pushers Behaviour Red - they released one single (favourably played by John Peel), did a mini-tour and broke up. At various times Behaviour Red featured Noel Blanden of Normil Hawaiians and fine artist Nicola Tyson. Their sound was characterised by looseness and freedom, boasting at times tribal drumming, streams of vocals, dazed guitars and feedback. Bertie continued sketching out atmospheric compositions afterwards too, walking a tightrope between bewildered pop and gothic folk. Central to everything is Bertie’s commanding voice; heartfelt, impassioned and masterfully leading you through the story.   Bertie became interested in spoken word and performance poetry in the 90s, which then led him into writing and performing in his own plays and devised theatre pieces. He did regular readings and performances in NYC and began writing books inspired by the visceral talents of Acker & Burroughs. Having lived in Berlin, San Francisco, and Brittany, Bertie now lives in London.   October 29th sees Upset The Rhythm release ‘Exhibit’ by Bertie Marshall, collecting for the first time his songs and spoken word tracks from this fertile period of the 80s-90s. This show will be its timely album launch featuring Bertie reunited with many original musical collaborators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNoaEbLP7Zo   LUVIA aka Maddie Vincent makes ethereal, melancholic pop. Luvia’s haunting vocals and honest, emotive storytelling are based upon a dissociative state. Inspired by cinematography and film, finding a muse in bold characters and dreamscape visuals, her music has been described as an escape. https://soundcloud.com/luvia_music

Upset The Rhythm presents… BUFFET LUNCH ME LOST ME SHAKE CHAIN Saturday 6 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £7 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/v9oNFWFE7hb   BUFFET LUNCH are a Scottish group who make it their mission to craft satisfyingly imperfect pop songs filled with imagery and humour. The group's elementary parts are Perry O'Bray (Vocals/Keys/Guitar), Neil Robinson (Bass), John Muir (Lead Guitar) & Luke Moran (Drums), united by a shared love of music on the ABBA-to-Beefheart axis. These four ricochet between Glasgow and Edinburgh, creating music that bristles with DIY spirit and upbeat wonkiness. Their tracks are vigorous excursions, meandering into clattersome terrain as often as hiking up into the breezy, melodious foothills. The desire to lead the listener along a curious tale helps tie things together, showcasing a lyrical playfulness that pins down their puzzle of sound. Following on from their excellent ‘The Power of Rocks’ album (Upset The Rhythm), the band return this November with a vigorous new 7” EP featuring the tracks ‘Mild Weather’ and ‘Cheeks’. https://buffetlunchband.tumblr.com/   ME LOST ME is the electronic music project of Newcastle based musician Jayne Dent. Described by BBC Radio 6's Tom Robinson as a "brilliant peculiar noise", Me Lost Me delights in experimenting with genre, taking influence from folk, electronica, art pop, ambient and noise music to create a beguiling mix of soaring vocals, synth, field recordings and hypnotic rhythms. Her live shows are atmospheric, dark and playful, with a repertoire that explores storytelling through original songs, improvisations and reworkings of traditional ballads. She recently released her second album 'The Good Noise’, out November 2020, was described as 'stunning' and 'remarkable' by NARC Magazine demonstrates a maturing of her sound and a deepening of her exploration of site and experiments with genre. https://www.melostme.com/   SHAKE CHAIN are a 4-piece experimental group formed of Artists Kate Mahony (Vocals), Jenna Finch (Drums), Robert Eyres (Guitar/Synth) and Chris Hopkins (Bass Synth) hailing from Goldsmiths College, Nottingham Trent and Wimbledon, University of the Arts. Formed through a love of thought-provoking performance art and a yearning for disruption, they recorded their debut EP ‘Neil Yonge and Bob Doylan Live at Hyde Park’ in 2019 with sound artist David Carugo at Oxford Brookes University, released by Permanent Slump. Shake Chain provide a fusion of post-punk experimental sampled noise grooves and chaotic lamenting on the current state of things. https://katemahony.com/Shake-Chain

Upset The Rhythm presents… OLD TIME RELIJUN ORDER OF THE TOAD Thursday 11 November New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £8.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/GNBlGK80Kgb   * NB. This event was originally planned at PinUps, it is now taking place at New River Studios.   OLD TIME RELIJUN are the rarest breed of band. Insatiable, living raw, always on the margins and consistent as hell. You know what to expect and yet never have any clue what's going to come next. Old Time Relijun give sweaty, compulsively danceable performances that never fail to inflame their audience. Their loose swagger belies years of practice, fastidious arrangements and gut-level understanding of how music hits you. Old Time Relijun was born on January 1st, 1995 in a dark and moldy basement in Olympia, Washington. The band stole some popcorn bags, talked a friend out of his inheritance and self-released “Songbook Vol. I” in 1997. They then began their long association with Calvin Johnson’s K Records. Between 1999 and 2007, Old Time Relijun toured like monsters, averaging 150 shows a year in the U.S. and Europe, releasing ‘Uterus and Fire’, ‘La Sirena De Pecera’, ‘Witchcraft Rebellion’,  ‘Lost Light’, ‘2012’ and ‘Catharsis in Crisis’. The last three albums are known collectively as “The Lost Light Trilogy;” a conceptual triptych integrating poetry, painting, and myth through multiple lyrical and musical threads. The band toured through 2008 and then quietly parted ways.  2021 reunites Old Time Relijun with newfound level of passionate indignation and a deeper musical vocabulary. The classic lineup featuring bandleader Arrington de Dionyso and Aaron Hartman (upright bass), joined by drummer Amanda Spring are primed to return to Europe. Old Time Relijun continue to make music for the revolution from a restless energy that has never settled down. https://oldtimerelijun.bandcamp.com/   ORDER OF THE TOAD are a trio from Glasgow. Melodically, Order of the Toad have something of a medieval fixation, filtered through late 60s influences which end up sounding something like Jefferson Airplane - not least in vocalist Gemma "The Wharves" Fleet's powerful lung-force - mixed with British psyche heat.. think Kaleidoscope or even Syd Barrett drug-damaged whimsy. There's no other band doing this in the U.K. that we know of, a musically rich tapestry woven from strands outside current trends. Music available now on Gringo and Reckless Yes. https://orderofthetoad.bandcamp.com/

See you all tomorrow at New River! Thanks as ever for taking the time to... Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

GAD WHIP THE PHONE CALL SEAN SMITH (DJ) Friday 15 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/zoP2qXE2Agb      NIGHTSHIFT THE PHEROMOANS Friday 29 October New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ZGB7YNg89gb   BERTIE MARSHALL - ‘Exhibit’ album launch LUVIA Saturday 30 October Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/xRG9evauYgb   BUFFET LUNCH ME LOST ME SHAKE CHAIN Saturday 6 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £7 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/v9oNFWFE7hb   PAN AMERICAN ANRIMEAL Tuesday 9 November Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ffafb77V81   (This show is rescheduled from April 21st and Aug 10th 2020 & Feb 17th 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too, awaiting postponement)   OLD TIME RELIJUN ORDER OF THE TOAD Thursday 11 November New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £8.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/GNBlGK80Kgb   SHANNON LAY NAIMA BOCK Monday 15 November St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £12.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/LWiCXICpNib    ASTRID SONNE NEXCYIA Tuesday 16 November IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG 7.30pm | £11.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/rxWz0lUxNib   THE MICROPHONES caroline Tuesday 16 November EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 6pm - 10pm | £17 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/wqbAwjtt1hb   BRIGID MAE POWER (full band) MARTA DEL GRANDI Tuesday 23 November The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/RtH8QH5df4 (This show is rescheduled from June 10th and Sept 15th 2020 & April 22nd 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   HEN OGLEDD Tuesday 7 December Corsica Studios, 4 & 5 Elephant Rd, London, SE17 1LB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ubtrl5YlLjb   SHOPPING - CANCELLED (refunds now available) Monday 14 February 2022 The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/43JnT6NN71   FUZZ (Charles Moothart, Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich) Friday 18 March 2022 Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, Camden Town, London, NW1 8QP 6pm - 9.45pm | £17.50 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/mhxLeUrBL4 (This show is rescheduled from July 22nd 2020 & March 31st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)   FUTURE ISLANDS Friday 25 March 2022 Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London, N22 7AY 6.30pm | £30.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/g3KQl6bmpgb (Promoted in collaboration with our friends Parallel Lines) KRISTIN HERSH (Electric Trio) FRED ABONG Thursday 21 April 2022 The Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, London, N5 1RD 7.30pm | £25 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/LbdJu2HTUjb   JAKE XERXES FUSSELL Saturday 7 May  OSLO Hackney, 1A Amhurst Rd, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 6.30pm-10pm | £9 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/fUuBdCfJD3 (This show is rescheduled from May 12th and Sep 8th 2020 & May 7th and September 1st 2021, original tickets valid, refunds available too)