FORMER GHOSTS - 'New Orleans' VIDEO

This is one of our favourite tracks from Freddy's upcoming album 'New Love', out on Upset The Rhythm on November 9th!!! The video just premiered on Pitchfork today and you can watch it above. Directed by Michael Fierstein, the video inspired by "New Orleans" features a young women pushing away the idea of "love" that she fells she no longer wants and has been forced upon her. It was shot in the Silverlake and Echo Park districts of Los Angeles over the course of two days. Burning flowers are such a potent image I can't believe I haven't seen that before. DARK
x

"If you leave this city take me with you, or don't look back"

DAN DEACON tonight!!!!!!

Hello everyone!
Our Dan Deacon show TONIGHT is now taking place at FABRIC due to technical issues with XOYO. Here's the times for you and we'd appreciate it if you could help spread the word, thanks!

DAN DEACON - 10pm
SEWN LEATHER - 9.20pm
DJ DOG DICK - 8.40pm

Thursday 16 September

FABRIC, 77A Charterhouse Street, Farringdon, EC1M 3HN
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86407

Best,
UTR
xxx

FUTURE ISLANDS TOO

Hey everyone!
Stop the presses... FUTURE ISLANDS are going to play tomorrow evening's show too as they wanna warm up before braving the wild's of Europe, super lineup alert!!!
Yours,
UTR


IDIOT GLEE
FUTURE ISLANDS
MOON UNIT
SLUSHY GUTS
Wednesday 15 September
Old Blue Last, 39 Great Eastern Rd,EC2A 3ES
8pm | £5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/89521

IDIOT GLEE comes from Lexington, Kentucky and has a sound that lies somewhere between Jens Lekman’s thoughtful crooning and the classic auteur-pop of Brian Wilson or even Another Green World’s Brian Eno. James Friley, who is Idiot Glee, creates songs that resemble lo-fi, fuzzy, scratchy versions of tunes from a musical about the late 1950s directed by David Lynch. Friley describes what he does as "post-doo wop", the music being light on instrumentation and heavy on vocal harmonies, it's got a similar spectral feel to Perfume Genius but also sounds deeply haunted by the ghosts of Bobby Vee, Bobby Vinton and Bobby Darin. Idiot Glee have a 7" EP out now on Hop Hop from Lexington and a forthcoming single planned with Moshi Moshi, they are currently on tour in Europe with Women.
http://www.myspace.com/idiotglee

FUTURE ISLANDS are a new-wave dance band from North Carolina, now residing in the fertile "music capital of awesome", Baltimore. Future Islands play a terse yet passionate music wrought from a stripped back palette. Gerrit Welmers' cartwheeling synthesizer melodies tumble across the austere wilderness of William Cashion's post-punk bass pulse, driven ever forward by an ecstatic feel for rhythm. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the band's sound however, takes the form of Sam Herring's guttural vocal, delivered as Glen Danzig if he ever found himself in a Shakespearean tragedy. At times on its knees at others belted out like it's the end of the world, Herring's vocal lends a raw emotional warmth to the group's resolute synth-punk bounce. Debut album 'Wave Like Home' was released on Upset The Rhythm, whilst new album 'In Evening Air' came out on Thrill Jockey earlier this year to great reception.
www.myspace.com/futureislands

MOON UNIT are an elevating Glaswegian trio consisting of Ruaraidh Sanachan (Nackt Insecten), Andreas Jonsson of Lanterns, and Peter Kelly. Moon Unit write songs with a cosmic magnitude whilst trying to keep things as telepathic as possible. They have a debut LP available through Krayon Recordings and a new record on Blackest Rainbow called 'Hell Horse And Heady Stratus'. The five tracks on this new LP make up one of the best psyche out, freak out full lengths we've heard this year. It's an incredible record filled with furiously wild drum explosions, keyboard zone outs, sci-fi guitar shredding, and wailing feedback.
http://www.myspace.com/wearemoonunit

SLUSHY GUTS is a deliberate stripping back to basics, a concerted effort to write a song one could whistle and an exercise in embracing fear. At once melodic and dissonant, poetic and honest, intimate and claustrophobic, Slushy Guts is awkward pop music, naked and uncomfortable, a bundle of subtle unease and a maze of contradictions, a too long sentence, a load of heartfelt non-sense. It tried to just be happy but got confused and came out kinda sad. The recent ' LIV EATT HEW IND MILL' EP and the '5 Songs Forgotten Or Mum's Obviously Punked' CDR are available now through Chaos Vs Cosmos.
http://www.myspace.com/slushyguts

UPSET THE RHYTHM - Episode 8 - PEEPHOLES

Upset The Rhythm TV #8: Peepholes from Charles Chintzer Lai on Vimeo.

Get acquainted with one of our favourite U.K. bands, Peepholes. Kat & Nick tell us the story of how they became best friends and acknowledge a special person as their biggest influence. See them energise Offset Festival with performances of Sleep in the Shower, Kingdom, and Alpine Song.

Directed, filmed & edited by Charles Chintzer Lai. Hosted by Andy Disgusting and Freya Watson.

Upset The Rhythm TV - Episode 7 - ZOLA JESUS

Upset The Rhythm TV #7: Zola Jesus from Charles Chintzer Lai on Vimeo.

Nika Roza Danilova of Zola Jesus talks to us about challenging the media-constructed narrative of her identity as a goth, her favourite sci-fi novelist, and how she learned to believe in love. See and feel her stunning live renditions of Run Me Out, I Can't Stand, and Trust Me.

Directed, filmed & edited by Charles Chintzer Lai. Hosted by Felix Lee.

OMAR SOULEYMAN show tomorrrow!

Yeh, check out Diego Mena's poster for our show tomorrow, he'll be selling some limited edition screenprinted versions of these at the show for £10.

x

UTR televison - EPISODE 6 > > > JOHN MAUS

Upset The Rhythm TV #6: John Maus from Charles Chintzer Lai on Vimeo.

We visit the house of classical music composer Handel with John Maus. Our resident scholars Adam Harper and Felix Lee get conceptual with Maus about harmonic vs. melodic songwriting, how music is contextualised within film, and the relation between music and society. See Maus pour his heart and bones into a live set @ The Grosvenor.

Directed, filmed & edited by Charles Chintzer Lai

YES WAY 2010!!!

Are you ready to have fun?

YES WAY!

Tomorrow evening through to the end of the weekend will see us hosting along with mega-friends Auto-Italia a three day celebration of the verdant underground art and music communities across our Sceptred Isle. We've entitled this festival YES WAY in the spirit of venture and positivity. The event will take place from 6pm til Midnight on Friday and Noon til Midnight on Saturday and Sunday and takes place at Auto-Italia's gallery space in Peckham (address and directions below). The space used to be a car showroom so we're able to run two stages in the two adjoining warehouse rooms. 41 different bands are going to perform and many artists will exhibit over the whole weekend. None of the music will overlap and the timings will be announced only at the event each morning. There'll also be a temporary DIY supermarket, a YES WAY zine collecting work from the bands and artists involved this year, a live TV lab opening the festival up to viewers on the internet, an impromptu dance lesson in the park, a selection of great food (vegan/veggie/meaty/cakes galore) for sale and a not-for-profit bar helping to support the event. I've been looking forward to this for so long I'm half delirious that it's finally upon us, time to build some staging, screw some lights to the ceiling and construct the sound systems!

Everything you need to know is summarised nicely here:
http://www.autoitaliasoutheast.org/yesway10.html

More specifics to follow...


> > > FRIDAY and SATURDAY and SUNDAY < < <


YES WAY
"A weekend celebration of the UK's art and music underground" featuring...
No Womb / Male Bonding / Lovvers / Cold Pumas / Munch Munch / Pheromoans / Male Bonding / The Human Race / Family / Cleckhuddersfax / Fair Ohs / Islet / Please / Slowcoaches / Ghost Hunter / Hype Williams / School Tour / Chora / Blood Stereo / The Haxan Cloak / Time / Temperatures / Former Bullies / Waiters / Golden Grrrls / Tqqundo Frrrrrr / Plug / Veronica Falls / Gentle Friendly / Runners / Dam Mantle / Human Hair / Ultimate Thrush / Covergirl / Two Wings / Jelas / Way Through / Klaus Kinski / Bitches / King Alfred Man Of Leisure / La La Vasquez

New Display Strategies / Eddie Peake / Paul Simon Richards / Danielle Dean/ Daren Banks / Katie Horwich / Kristina O'Donnell / Julia Crabtree / Will Evans / Lucky PDF / Rachal Bradley / Ruth Edwards / Rosie Cooper / Morag Keil / Manuela Gernedel / Yuri Pattison / Mitchell Bridges / Katrina Palmer / Chris King / Frances Scott / Charles Chintzer Lai / Tristram Bellotti / Tqqundo Frrrr / Bill Aitchison / Lulu Li / Lois Macdonald / Daniel Swan / Peter Caul / Amy McDonough / Studio Downturn / Grace Schofield / Paul Peroni / Alec Steadman / Charlie Wooley / James Early / Robert Carter / Lorenzo Tebano /

Friday 13 - Sunday 15 August
Auto-Italia South East, 1 Glengall Road, Peckham, SE15 6NJ
Bus: 21, 53, 63, 78, 168, 172, 363, 453
Night bus: N21, N63, N381, 453
Tube: Borough, Elephant & Castle

******************************************************************

ADVANCE TICKETS HERE: http://www.wegottickets.com/f/1824

Fri £5 (6pm - 12am) | Sat or Sun £8 (12pm - 12am) | Three day pass £18

WE WILL HAVE TICKETS ON THE DOOR TOO SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT SELLING OUT EARLY ON

******************************************************************


> > > SELECTED INFO ON SOME OF THE ARTISTS INVOLVED < < <

NEW DISPLAY STRATEGIES will present 'Art in the service of interdependence'. Taken from the idea of Art in the service of the revolution, the artists re-present Russian constructivist theatre design as sophisticated propaganda.

EDDIE PEAKE & PAUL SIMON RICHARDS will be presenting a new video performance that draws links between the beautiful horrors of the body as explored in Shakespearean tragedy and YouTube dance instruction videos. These bodies take the form of characters and objects as well as media languages such as television sitcom and football.

DANIELLE DEAN works with bright colours and sculptural forms, real or imagined, to explore contemporary ideas of race and social difference. She will be collaborating with photographer, Theo Cook, to create images with reference to a variety of media - science fiction, advertising and pornography.

JULIA CRABTREE & WILLIAM EVANS build consuming sets with reclaimed materials. They will present experiments with found footage and outmoded display equipment.

LUCKYPDF will specially construct a television station, shortcast inside the Auto-Italia building and streamed online, with live transmissions throughout the weekend.

RACHAL BRADLEY is producing a giant cape costume, which the drummers of different bands will physically inhabit. Huge arrows create an energy flow towards the performers with the force field marked out by crystals harnessing all of the nest energy in the world.p>

RUTH EDWARDS is making a celebratory monument. Suspended above the bands as they play, it will depict imagined interactions between the different groups and people involved throughout the weekend. To mark this occasion she will also be releasing a flock of Doves in the park across the road from Auto-Italia.


> > > FRIDAY MUSIC < < < (6pm - 12am)

MALE BONDING
Party hard echo-blown popcore
www.myspace.com/malebonding

LOVVERS
Wild and carefree weirdo rockers
www.myspace.com/letscommunicate

COLD PUMAS
Ecstatic and motorik repeato-jammers
www.myspace.com/coldpumas

MUNCH MUNCH
Technicolour epics of flight or fight acceleration
www.myspace.com/munchmunchband

THE HUMAN RACE
Deeply catchy, ramble punk odd jobs
www.myspace.com/tthehumanRACE

FAMILY
Wide stretching blurred synth dreampop
www.myspace.com/familychoirs


> > > SATURDAY MUSIC < < < (12pm - 12am)

CLECKHUDDERSFAX
Progressive glam bounce party gang
www.myspace.com/cleckhuddersfax

FAIR OHS
Tropically popping tribal garage
www.myspace.com/theemighty...

ISLET
Energetic faith leapers and swap-arounds
www.thisisislet.com

PLEASE
Restless, prancing psychedelic adventurers
www.myspace.com/pleees

SLOWCOACHES
Fuzzed-out interlocking screwballs
www.myspace.com/slowcoachessux

GHOST HUNTER
Dripping cave step and island ambience
www.myspace.com/robrobrobmusic

HYPE WILLIAMS
Chopped-n-screwed ritualistic fourth world trance
www.myspace.com/hypheewilliams

SCHOOL TOUR
Slow blossoming evocative bliss trips
www.myspace.com/schooltourmusic

CHORA
Kitchen sink gamelan, tape loops and freaked vocalisations
www.myspace.com/chora

BLOOD STEREO
Unholy inside-out noise headspinners
www.myspace.com/bloodstereo

THE HAXAN CLOAK
Blackened sorrowscapes of harrowed solemnity
www.myspace.com/thehaxancloak

TIME
Eerie guitar, saddened viola and vocal psych laments
www.noiseimmemorial.blogspot.com

TEMPERATURES
Unruly arrhythmic free hypno-rock
www.myspace.com/temperatures...

FORMER BULLIES
Heart in the mouth sweetly spun beat combo
www.myspace.com/formerbullies

WAITERS
Slow tumble clang and bang with added quiet sentiment
www.myspace.com/kuwaiters

GOLDEN GRRRLS
Winsome tunesmiths of lo-finest pop
www.myspace.com/goldengrrrls

TQQUNDO FRRRRR
Shrine-based channelling sonic soup
www.myspace.com/tqqundofrrrrr


> > > SUNDAY MUSIC < < < (12pm - 12am)

PLUG
Clatter punk post-something pop minimalists
www.myspace.com/plugddd

VERONICA FALLS
Supernatural jangle and heartfelt tangle
www.myspace.com/veronicafallshard

GENTLE FRIENDLY
Smart and primed rainbow noise
www.myspace.com/gentlefriendly

RUNNERS
Expansive, phasing, inverted disco synth explorers
longdistancerunners.wordpress.com

DAM MANTLE
Fluxing quakes and whispered pulselines
www.myspace.com/porcelainpoems

HUMAN HAIR
Yelped sloganeering, intricate riffs and lurching rhythms
www.myspace.com/humanhairband

ULTIMATE THRUSH
Frenzied scream-n-thrash revolt
www.myspace.com/ultimatethrush

COVERGIRL
Pulse-quickening chaotic funk-punk supergroup
www.clubmilk.blogspot.com

TWO WINGS
Spooked soul and medieval mind-leap psychedelia
www.myspace.com/benreynoldsmusic

LA LA VASQUEZ
Super melodious surfy DIY discords
www.myspace.com/lalavasquezband

JELAS
Crooked and passionately impatient no-riot-math-grrrl-wave
www.myspace.com/thejelas

WAY THROUGH
Wrong-footed haunted prism punk
www.myspace.com/wearewaythrough

KLAUS KINSKI
Fast-n-primal disturbation heaviness
www.myspace.com/klausruddykinski

NO WOMB
Uninhibited free vocal whirlwind vs. detuned punk
www.myspace.com/nowomb

BITCHES
No messing, no stressing burrito punk enthusiasts
www.myspace.com/peaceandbitches

KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
Stripped-back dubby garage mesmerists
www.myspace.com/kingalfred...


All hands on deck, I've got to dash off now! Way too many things to finish for tomorrow, but if you have a bit of time check out our next episode of UTR television, this one documents NO AGE and their stay with us in London last week...

http://upsettherhythm.blogspot.com/2010/08/upset-rhythm-episode-5-no-age.html

See you soon and thanks again for supporting all we do, we wouldn't be able to organise a festival like this if it wasn't for your continued interest in brilliant music.
UPSET THE RHYTHM
xxx

http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk
http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/upsettherhythm
http://www.flickr.com/groups/upsettherhythm



UPCOMING UPSET 2010 > > >

WILD NOTHING
FRANK (just FRANK)
WEIRD DREAMS
Friday 20 August
The Luminaire, 311 Kilburn High Rd, London, NW6 7JR
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/84287

OMAR SOULEYMAN
"Performing both a rare Mawal set and a Dabke/Choubi set"
Saturday 28 August
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant St, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | 15.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86456

ZOLA JESUS
THE HAXAN CLOAK
Wednesday 1 September
Camp Basement, 70-74 City Road, Old Street, EC1Y 2BJ
8pm | 6.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/82739

IDIOT GLEE
SLUSHY GUTS
Wednesday 15 September
Old Blue Last, 39 Great Eastern Rd,EC2A 3ES
8pm | 5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/89521

DAN DEACON
DJ DOG DICK
SEWN LEATHER
Thursday 16 September
XOYO, 32-37 Cowper St, London, EC2A 4AW
8pm | 10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86407

DUCKTAILS
DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE
JASON URICK
Thursday 23 September
The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road, Stockwell, SW9 0TP8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86297

FUTURE ISLANDS
CYMBALS
Wednesday 29 September
Camp Basement, 70-74 City Road, Old Street, EC1Y 2BJ
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/82740

GRASS WIDOW
TRASH KIT
Thursday 30 September
Old Blue Last, 39 Great Eastern Rd,EC2A 3ES
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/84223

ABE VIGODA
NAKED ON THE VAGUE
Wednesday 13 October
Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY
8pm | 8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/87306

NO AGE
MALE BONDING
ABE VIGODA
Thursday 14 October
XOYO, 32-37 Cowper St, London, EC2A 4AW
8pm | 14.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86410

DEMONS
SICK LLAMA
HELM
Monday 18 October
The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road, Stockwell, SW9 0TP
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86451

THE EX
NISENNENMONDAI
TRASH KIT
Tuesday 19 October
The Dome, 178 Junction Rd, Tufnell Park (opposite the tube), N19 5QQ
8pm | 9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86296

GUN OUTFIT
GUMMY STUMPS
HUMAN HAIR
Thursday 21 October
The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road, Stockwell, SW9 0TP
8pm | 5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/84224

QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT
Friday 22 October
The Dome, 178 Junction Rd, Tufnell Park (opposite the tube), N19 5QQ
8pm | 6.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86406

SCREAMING FEMALES
Wednesday 27 October
The Luminaire, 311 Kilburn High Road, Kilburn, NW6 7JR
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/84397

XIU XIU
ZOLA JESUS
FORMER GHOSTS
Monday 1 November
XOYO, 32-37 Cowper St, London, EC2A 4AW
8pm | 13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/88075

UPSET THE RHYTHM - EPISODE 5 - NO AGE

Upset The Rhythm TV #5: No Age from Charles Chintzer Lai on Vimeo.

Here is the latest episode of Charles Chintzer Lai's Upset the Rhythm TV, where No Age are filmed at Dial House, Essex and live at The Grosvenor, Stockwell.
At the start of the episode, Randy comes face to face (or maybe face to neck) with his larger than life recreation, part of Charlotte's art project. Said giant Randy now watches me all day while I work.

Enjoy!

UTR TELEVISION - EPISODE 4 - BARN PARTY

x