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Good morning all!
Let there be… The Yummy Fur.
Today we’re over the moon to release Everybody Talks About The Weather, the brand-new album from uproarious Glasgow legends The Yummy Fur - their first collection of new material in over 27 years!
Enticing, ambiguous and exhilarating, Everybody Talks About The Weather
is a rapid dash through scenes from art, myth, life and fantasy; a
witty whole assembled from glittering scraps. Meaning is never
flattened; curious twists are embraced. Their wiry songs have grown into
underground pop anthems, boasting sing-song melody and palpable menace
in equal measure.
Everybody Talks About The Weather is out now on limited ‘blue sunshine’ vinyl, black vinyl, CD and digitally!
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The Yummy Fur are about to tour the UK too:
25/09 - Glasgow - Poetry Club
05/10 - Oxford - Little Bully
06/10 - Exeter -The Cavern
07/10 - Brighton - The Prince Albert
08/10 - Norwich - The Holloway
09/10 - London - The Lexington
10/10 - Bristol - Cafe Kino
11/10 - Manchester - Kamera
16/10 - Glasgow - Hug & Pint
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan grab the mic and jam with the band”?
The Yummy Fur passed him the tambourine!
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Alright, on to London shows now! Firstly, thank you all kindly for coming to see Hana Stretton and Marisa Anderson recently.
Next Thursday we're very lucky to have Carla dal Forno playing for us at the ICA. Joined by The Guests - its going to be fantastic. Well worth snapping up a ticket sooner rather than later, as tickets are dwindling.
Then on Saturday 3rd October we're upping sticks to The Lexington for a lively evening in the company of R.M.F.C. and The Hobknobs, this one is also close to selling out FYI. Not one to miss!
You can read more about both of these events below, along with our listing for October 5th's concert for The Cleaners From Venus at Islington Assembly Hall. This is the follow-up show to Sep 30th's sold out date.
New UTR events announced for Tara Clerkin Trio, Trash Kit and Maria Reis to be found detailed below. Enjoy!
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Upset The Rhythm presents… CARLA DAL FORNO
GUESTSThursday 1 October ICA, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH 7.30pm | £16.50 | TicketsCARLA DAL FORNO
is an Australian composer, songwriter and producer based in
Castlemaine, Victoria. Working between post-punk minimalism,
experimental pop and atmospheric electronics, she has built a dedicated
international following through a series of acclaimed releases and
extensive touring across Europe and North America.Her albums have been
praised by outlets including Pitchfork, The Quietus and Resident
Advisor, alongside airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music. Beyond her recorded
work, dal Forno hosts a monthly radio program on NTS Radio, where she
curates eclectic selections spanning experimental electronics, dub,
post-punk and leftfield pop - offering insight into the wide-ranging
influences that inform her own practice. She has performed
headline shows and festival appearances throughout the UK, Europe and
the United States, including dates in London, Berlin, Paris and New York
City, as well as appearances at Unsound Festival and Le Guess Who? Her
fourth studio album, Confession, expands her signature sound while
maintaining the minimal, immersive qualities that have defined her work
to date. On stage, dal Forno delivers a focused and atmospheric set that
moves between brooding electronics and melodic immediacy - a
performance that is both restrained and quietly powerful. https://carladalforno.bandcamp.com/ GUESTS
is the home recording project of Jessica Higgins and Matthew
Walkerdine. Vaguely named as such to avoid any problems with the poster
if they pull out of a gig (which has only happened once) but also to
capture a sense of reverse hospitality, like what happens when private
worlds meet each other, making or having been made a space for. Their
debut record, “I wish I was special” (World of Echo, 2024) was variously
described as “a collage of concrète experiments and outerzone pop
gestures, music that sounds as if it’s been written from the depths of a
dream”; “music for people who love music but also hate it too”. Their
recently released second LP Common Domestic Bird continues in this vein,
layering synthesiser, keyboards and samples over rudimentary drum
rhythms and field recordings, which are in turn sung or spoken with to
create nine new songs. https://by-guests.bandcamp.com/ |
Upset The Rhythm presents… R.M.F.C.
THE HOBKNOBSSaturday 3 October The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £15 | TicketsR.M.F.C.
is the recording project of New South Wales’ Buz Clatworthy. Buz
Clatworthy seemingly writes songs with natural born ease, both unfussy
and hyper catchy. Since 2018 R.M.F.C. have released a slew on 7”s on
Anti Fade, Total Punk and Goodbye Boozy and 2023’s debut full-length
‘Club Hits’. This album gained energy and charm from both punchy songs
and subtly, with each song moving R.M.F.C. forward, whilst holding
something memorable. Since then Clatworthy has continued to push
himself creatively through singles, which feels like the smart play. He
is allowed the freedom to experiment and express without really having
to harken back to any trace of his beginnings of automaton-inflected,
fast-paced wormy punk from his youth. Most recent 7” ‘Ecstatic Strife’
dips its mug into the punch bowl of what’s best about New Zealand’s ’80s
jangle pop scene, with Clatworthy’s assured drumming keeping it on
edge. B-side ‘Golden Trick’ is a magical stunner that delves into
something more meditative. It’s meditative and lush and hopefully a
promise of more to come. https://rockmusicfanclub.bandcamp.com/ THE HOBKNOBS
debut album ‘Helmets Off’ is released this June, by themselves and
12XU. Every word and every strum sounds like it’s placed in exactly the
right moment. Perhaps it is this bareness of the songs, that makes it
feel as if The Hobknobs are speaking to the listener directly. It is
clear that they don’t want anything to cloud this human interaction.
Yaël Dekker, whom you may also know as the singer of The Klittens, and
Arie van Vliet, who used to spread his word through the band Lewsberg,
were once described as loving misanthropes. Listening to ‘Helmets Off’,
this description seems rather accurate. Dekker and Van Vliet’s voices
seem to know each other well, in a way that magnifies the songs beyond
their deceptive simplicity. https://thehobknobs.net/ |
Upset The Rhythm presents… THE CLEANERS FROM VENUS
THE GARDENERSMonday 5 October Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £18 | Tickets THE CLEANERS FROM VENUS
will be performing this Autumn in London. Martin Newell will be on
guitar and piano, joined by Nelson Surfquake Nice - an original member
of Cleaners back in the 80s, and half of The Brotherhood of Lizards
alongside Martin. The group will be performing some classic Cleaners
songs, with a Brotherhood of Lizards cameo-set thrown in! Martin
Newell is a purveyor of ingenious pop music. His music is refracted from
late 60s rock only shot through with invention from the rough-and-ready
explosion of DIY tape releases in 80s Britain. As a songwriter, he’s
right up there with Syd Barrett and Ray Davies, capturing a peculiar
Englishness that’s very much his own. Martin started his career
in music aged 19 when he joined an Essex glam-rock band called The
Mighty Plod as a singer and gigged in rough clubs, pubs and colleges for
the next two years. In his early twenties he joined a hard rock/prog
band from Ipswich called Gypp and gigged in the UK as well as touring
northern Germany several times. In 1979, he won his first record
contract and shortly afterwards his first single ‘Young Jobless / Sylvie
In Toytown’ was released, first on an indie label and then with Liberty
Records. In the 1980s he formed the anarchic and wonderfully offbeat
Cleaners From Venus, who after much defiance of music biz convention,
signed to a London record company and began making proper records which
were well reviewed and well-received. He began co-writing songs with
Captain Sensible in 1986, a relationship which endures to some extent to
this day. In 1989 he and his friend Nelson, now of New Model Army
formed The Brotherhood of Lizards, were signed to make an album and
proceeded to promote it, touring the record by bicycle. This led to many
TV appearances and some notoriety and amusement in the media. In 1993,
with XTC's Andy Partridge in the producer's chair Martin made what was
to become his most successful album ‘The Greatest Living Englishman’,
hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as a rock classic. Over the last ten
years Martin has continued to release exhilarating albums under his own
name and as Cleaners from Venus, most recently a winsome new Cleaners
album called ‘K7’ was released on CD and cassette. A
highly-entertaining live act, Martin Newell performs infrequently,
refusing nowadays to tour at all. He has been the subject of a
highly-praised documentary film Upstairs Planet (2019) which enjoyed
premieres both in London and in New York. A second documentary The
Jangling Man, the director James Sharp’s intimate portrait of Newell’s
life and work, premiered in London and Los Angeles in October 2022. https://www.cleanersfromvenus.com/THE GARDENERS
are a jangle-pop inspired indie rock band hailing from London and
Southend On Sea. They have recently backed up Martin Newell as part of a
live version of Cleaners From Venus. Check out their sublime new single
‘Round the West’ / ‘Falling from You’. https://linktr.ee/thegardenersband |
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