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Hello once more!
What a run we've had recently, so many amazing concerts with Jake
Xerxes Fussell, Wolf Eyes, Sophia Djebel Rose and Tara Cerlkin Trio -
it's been non-stop, but a lot of FUN.
We've got something very special planned for Halloween Friday next week (October 30th). The truly unique, and somewhat macabre, Evil Sword
will be boarding Theatreship from their native Philadelphia. Barely
controlled chaos-punk, packed with gallows humour and ghoulish overtones
await. Plus, arty no-wavers Rainham Sheds and Ebby
(featuring members of Lewsberg and Pip Blom), will also be performing.
Sounds like an amazing show, right? Will it be spooktacular? You better
believe it!
Read on for a full write-up of next Friday, along with listings for our Mississippi Records evening at the Horse Hospital (Nov 3rd), and our birthday bash on December 12th at Chats Palace with Maria Reis, Trash Kit and Dog Chocolate. We've also added a new event next February for one of our favourite groups, Old Saw. Enjoy...
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Now with our Upset The Rhythm record label hat on... we have some excellent news to share!
EarthBall’s debut LP ‘It’s Yours’ is now back in print
with a new deliriously yellow colour scheme. Updated artwork and
transparent sun-yellow vinyl, there’s never been a better time to let
the Canadian scorched-improv unit into your solar system.
Available now from all the best shops and our very own Bandcamp hither. |
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Upset The Rhythm presents… EVIL SWORD
RAINHAM SHEDS
EBBYFriday 30 October Theatreship, South Quay Plaza, London, E14 9SH 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/f5f9fa0cf04d EVIL SWORD
are Kate Ferencz and Ben Furgal from Philadelphia, USA. Their chaotic
live shows combine elements of noise, cryptic metal overtones,
performance art, and gallows humor and feature macabre props, flashing
lights, stage sets and costumes. There are hardly any instruments in
this group, but they make such a racket you’d never know it. The bass
and the percussion sound like they’re having a great time, telling each
other jokes. Then the words come in and it all locks together in these
strange, hypnotic rhythms. Recent album ‘Basket Fever’ (Magic Pictures,
2023) features electrocuted bells, backwards parts, rusty horns; I’m
pretty sure I even heard a clarinet in there somewhere. But, what’s this
new racket? Crashing pots and pans, flashing lights, literal bells and
whistles, exploding furniture… this parade of dreams and nightmares
could only be Evil Sword’s new split 12” LP with Miss Pussycat - ’The
Skit Split’. These unhinged songs conjure up a world of fairy tale magic
and monstrosities in equal measure. Evil Sword formed on a Halloween,
and now they return to London to work through their demons. https://evilsword.bandcamp.com/album/the-skit-split RAINHAM SHEDS
present all-female maximum art-core no-wave on a primitive tip. Both
incomparable and conceptual, the five Shedwomen divest themselves of all
cultivated musical norms and graces to most efficiently deliver crude
skronk with cloven hooves. Brainchild and performance artist Kate Mahony
ruminates on subjects including French philosophy, sex with furniture
in damp flats and the nuclear threat. Featuring members of bands
including Shake Chain, Flat Soufflé, The Chop and Sassyhiya among
others, you are never far from a Shed and upon watching, we are reminded
that we are all a little part Shed. https://permanentslump.bandcamp.com/album/rainham-sheds EBBY
are a minimalist indie-rock band from Rotterdam, Netherlands, centered
around songwriter and former Rats on Rafts member Doortje Hiddema.
Originally a solo project, the group expanded into a trio featuring
guitarist Michiel Klein (Lewsberg) and bassist/rhythm-box player Casper
van der Lans (Pip Blom). https://ebbyband.bandcamp.com/album/abcde |
Mississippi Records presents…. A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF MUSIC Tuesday 3 November Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD 7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Ya21ea072733A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF MUSIC
is a slideshow / lecture / film presentation which draws from archival
film, sound clips and images to tell a history of global music scenes
that struggled and endeavoured during periods of authoritarianism. The
project, developed by Eric Isaacson, is a timely and compelling story of
how powerful interests try to control music and how people fight back,
nimbly evading systemic repressions by puritans, corporations and tech
lords alike. Making wide, bold swings, the show covers music from
Ethiopia, Germany, North Korea, Cambodia, Brazil, Kenya, the USA and
beyond, while drawing on Eric’s colourfully described, personal
experiences of the fascist creep. Eric Isaacson is the founder of
Mississippi Records and many other small esoteric record labels such as
Cairo, Pyramid and Velvet Ramp. Over the past twenty- three years he's
released over 390 records and 165 mixtapes of DIY music from around the
world. Eric is known for his humbly comical, singular style and for his
ability to revitalize audiences through digging up buried treasures from
the global music underground. https://www.mississippirecords.net/ |
Upset The Rhythm presents… MARIA REIS
TRASH KIT
DOG CHOCOLATESaturday 12 December Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, London, E9 6DF 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/A967cfb2af7a
MARIA REIS
has been steadily creating a legacy that will undoubtedly endure in the
portuguese songwriting canon for years to come. Co-founder of the
Lisbon based Cafetra label-collective, Reis spent her teenage years
honing her craft, particularly with her co-leading role on Pega Monstro
with her sister Júlia Reis, with albums like 'Alfarroba' and 'Casa de
Cima' on Upset The Rhythm and whose indefinite hiatus since 2018 opened
the gateway for a prolific solo venture. 2019 saw the release of the
celebrated 'Chove na Sala, Água nos Olhos', a definitive statement of
Reis' almost casual gift of painting vivid and impressionistic portraits
of everyday life, conveying all the anger, resignation and melancholic
joy of moving on. Two years later, following a string of widely praised
live appearances, Reis records the 'Flor da Urtiga' EP with assistance
from Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear (Maria plays in Panda’s live band), a
sweeter affair, shot through with witty irony, through layered acoustic
guitars, lightweight percussion and joyful harmonies. Maria Reis
returned recently with a newfound maturity on 'Suspiro’. An attentive
and sensitive observer of both intimate and surrounding spaces, Maria
Reis continues to explore wordplay in her very personal manner, a poetic
act as brutally honest as filled with imagery allusions, enchanting the
mundane with lyricism. Touched by a resigned and dreamy melancholy,
‘Suspiro’ settles, for the most part, on electric and acoustic guitar
lines, simple but expressive rhythms, floating vocal harmonies and a
voice almost tangible in the way it conveys memorable hooks without fear
of appearing both fragile and tenacious. https://mariareis.bandcamp.com/album/suspiroTRASH KIT
are Ray Aggs (guitar, vocals), Rachel Horwood (drums, vocals) and
Clémentine March (bass). Three deeply creative individuals united by a
shared musicality that surges through their bodies, hearts and heads.
Their songs, once succinct, patchwork post-punk numbers of an honest
diary-like nature now tussle more with long-form songwriting,
expeditious polyphony and cascades of sung-spoke vocals. Songs on their
last album Horizon (Upset The Rhythm, 2019) have had their very fabric
stretched into smart new shapes, allowing the band to run away with
refrains and unlock the dancefloor. Although Trash Kit have their
forebears in bands like Sleater Kinney, The Ex and The Raincoats, their
sound is still very much their own take on facing forwards and relies as
much on the naturalism of an internalised folk music as on their
sincerity of vision. 2026 marks a new reinvigorated era for the
band as they are joined by bassist Clémentine March. Breathing fresh
life into their back catalogue on stage and jumping head first into
sharing new material live, her spirited and responsive playing is once
again steering the trio into new, expansive territory. They can’t wait
to get back on the road to light up DIY venues across the the UK with
what promises to be an energetic and joyous experience for the band and
the audience alike. https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/horizonDOG CHOCOLATE
are a post-pop-"pencil case" punk band, much indebted to lasting
friendship. 15 years into their journey as a band, and somehow
continuing after the upheaval and weirdness since the virus, they’ll
probably still exist in some form when we’ve all been replaced by
cyborgs. Their most recent album “So Inspired, So Done In” is Dog
Chocolate’s most cohesive yet. Tying together everything that came
before, with repeated themes of work, city life, escapism into nature
and the creative process, often looking at minutiae to express big
ideas. Musically they’re a loud, multicoloured scribble of noise, often
eschewing choruses to find the next melodic nugget that connects the
puzzle pieces. The live experience is part cathartic explosion, part
group therapy, using sincerity and buffoonery in equal measures to try
and get a rise or make a connection. https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/so-inspired-so-done-in |
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