SHOW 500 and BLEACHED and MOUNT EERIE

Well I never!
Tonight sees Upset The Rhythm tolling the "500 shows old" bell all night long! When we started out back in 2003 I had no clue we'd ever reach this milestone, show two was far from our minds, and the idea that we'd still be organising events and releasing record 10 years later would have seemed hilarious, yet here we are! I am so incredibly humbled by everyone's continued support and kind words and help over the years; bands, audience and coal face, Upset the Rhythm is more than the sum of its parts and its you who make us! OK, it's not an awards ceremony, sniff, sniff… so, tonight! The Lexington, DOPE BODY, TONSTARTSSBANDHT and LAB COAST all performing for us, it's going to be the best fun and I hope you can come and celebrate with us, we'll have loads of old posters on the walls, a limited edition t-shirt featuring the poster art from our very first show (DEERHOOF at Needles bar) and so many good vibes you might need to bring a cynical friend to keep grounded. I'm also taking this opportunity to tell you about our BLEACHED and ROYAL LIMP show on Wednesday and our (nearly sold out) MOUNT EERIE show on Friday too, thanks for reading, thanks for everything...


\\\\\\  TONIGHT  /////

"Upset The Rhythm's 500th show!"

DOPE BODY
TONSTARTSSBANDHT
LAB COAST
Monday 20 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207764

DOPE BODY are a brutally primal hardcore beast from Baltimore. Born in 2008 out of the dance-friendly confines of the city’s Wham City scene, this unclassifiable, heavy group ventured out into the night to find more like-minds, and came back boasting a spasm of styles and directions. Evolving from blasting three-piece to blistering four-piece, Dope Body enjoy writing their own songs, touring endlessly and pummeling basement parties with a gleeful, wide-eyed fanaticism that the more reasonable among us might mistake for insanity (it ain’t entirely so). Dope Body writhe under their own experiments, swinging from gutterish sludge-punk to snake charmer-on-fire within the confines of a single tune. Rather than comparing their ferocity to other contender, just know that Dope Body is punk spelled upsidedown and standing on its hands. Debut LP 'Nupping' was released on Hit Dat/Hoss a year or so back, whilst stunning new album 'Natural History' came out on Drag City last year and refuses to leave our turntable! Dope Body's new 7" also through Drag City is called 'Saturday' and is available now, it's really, very, very good!
http://dopebody.bandcamp.com/

TONSTARTSSBANDHT, pronounced "TAHN-starts-bandit", are a band of brothers; Andy White and Edwin M. White, with a passion for psychedelic pop and something special they like to call "boogie rock". Hailing from Orlando via Montreal and NYC, they are currently to be seen wandering the streets in a hazy stupor. Using samples like a slowed down Big Country the duo first put together a self-released debut LP in 2009 of melodic wonder called 'An When'. Since then, Tonstartssbandht have released a further seven records, they're latest being released through Arbutus Records, who also work with Grimes and Sean Nicholas Savage. Part country, part unhinged psych soup, part Of Montreal synth-pop group, Tonstartssbandht have been busy gathering a loyal following indebted to their heavy drummed soundscapes, freaked swamps of effects and ecstatic vocal float, which they're now bringing to the UK for the first time. Last month saw Tonstartssbandht touring Russia and the Ukraine alongside Dirty Beaches, their split tour cassette from said event is essential, check out the link below to hear it!
http://tonstartssbandht.bandcamp.com/

LAB COAST have that sort of breezy layered subtle guitar pop sound that's easy to like. Invoking a bit of unpretentious retro sound reminiscent in the catalogs of labels like Slumberland and Sarah. Lab Coast keep it really catchy in that loose but tight way good bands of this variety hit on just right. The flip finds them getting a bit more psyched out and showing some of their more experimental impulses that are subtly at play in all of their songs. Look out for their recent cassette album on Night People and 7" release through Faux Discx.
http://labcoast.bandcamp.com/



\\\\\\  WEDNESDAY  /////

BLEACHED
ROYAL LIMP
Wednesday 22 May
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213360

BLEACHED are two sisters from LA creating rough-hewed, high-collared, melodic Rock & Roll. Formerly part of Mika Miko, Jessica and Jennifer Clavin were best known for their freewheeling ’77 punk and riot girl lawlessness. In Bleached, they share the same slant towards the hard-edged, but instead veer towards a more vintage ensemble of Ramones bubble-gum, Merle Haggard country, and 60’s psychedelic rock. Raised up deep in the San Fernando Valley, their suburban isolation nurtured the girls' creativity, as they started making their own music at a young age. Sneaking into punk shows over the hill in Hollywood, they grew up to become teenaged underground staples at the all-ages Downtown DIY venue, The Smell. Signed to Kill Rock Stars and Post Present Medium, their all-girl punk band Mika Miko drew international acclaim and won them slots on tours with No Age, Black Lips, and The Gossip. After the breakup of Mika Miko the Clavin sisters vowed to continue working together on music and formed Bleached. Bleached’s playful harmonizing masks the dark topics they sing about: the struggles experienced upon failed relationships and all the sad themes that Stevie Nicks once eloquently expressed. That’s the goal, the sugary and sour re-purposed by two aggressively harmonic musicians and songwriters. Bleached have 7" singles available now through Ooga Booga, Suicide Squeeze and Art Fag Recordings now, whilst last month saw the band's bombastic debut album 'Ride Your Heart' released worldwide via Dead Oceans.
http://hellobleached.tumblr.com/

ROYAL LIMP is a project that’s still fresh from the womb, so to speak. A bold “I’m here”, posted on Facebook just under a year ago, announced the return of the familiar face of Andy Auld – co-founder of the Sex Is Disgusting label and member of now-defunct Teen Sheikhs, amongst other artistic dabblings – to the musical ether. Since then it’s been something of a quiet year: a few tentative uploads to Soundcloud, a handful of shows, and some glimpsed promises, allowing Royal Limp to spend time fleshing out his “gloomy as fuck tape loops and keyboard jams” with a full band, the future is arriving every second, and we're very excited to see what it has in store for Royal Limp.
https://soundcloud.com/royal-limp


\\\\\\  FRIDAY  /////

MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364

MOUNT EERIE is Phil Elverum. The 34 year-old multi-instrumentalist has played in other bands, and worked as a producer, but remains best known for this solo project, which began under the name The Microphones in 1997. In 2003, he renamed the project Mount Eerie (and added an “e” to his last name, Elvrum) after returning from a trip to Norway, where he lived alone in a remote cabin for a winter. “Mount Eerie” specifically refers to the mountain on Fidalgo Island, an island an hour and change north of Seattle where you’ll also find Elverum’s lifelong Anacortes, Washington hometown. To date, his most critically acclaimed (and popular) album is the Microphones’ 2001 epic The Glow Pt. 2. The first official Mount Eerie album — following the Microphones’ final 2003 full-length, also called Mount Eerie — is 2005’s No Flashlight. It was followed by 2007’s Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7, a 132-page, hardcover book of his photography, packaged with a 10” picture disk. In early 2009, the journals he kept and drawings he scribbled in Norway were released as a 144-page hardcover book called Dawn. It came with 16 color photo cards and a CD of songs he wrote while living there. Regardless of the moniker, the various collections include interlocking themes, references to earlier works, and are marked by Elverum’s distinctive naturalist self-recorded lo-fi analog sound that mixes a whispered, gentle voice, which can also yell and bellow, with various strains of sound: His work can be delicately spare or booming and ambitiously layered and noisy, often in the same song. Lyrically, he focuses on memory, first-person storytelling, myth, naturalism, the everyday as sacred, and a sense of place (in and out of Washington State), among other related things. In addition to his extravagantly packaged albums, Elverum has released self-published books (which he illustrates or fills with his photographs) via his own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. Last year saw Phil release a stunning pair of sister albums called 'Clear Moon' and 'Ocean Roar' dealing with fogs of noise, observational visions and his impeccable sense of song, for this show he's backed up by a pair of bassists, keyboardist and percussion, not to mention arranging his music for multiple vocals, it's definitely going to be special!
http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/

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 'The Bloop, Julia, Train, Slowdown, Whistle, Upsweep and All The While The Hum' album is available now through the website below.
http://slushyguts.bandcamp.com/


One last thing before I go, Daniel from UTR is setting up an awesome show tomorrow at the Dalston Victoria too, featuring ANDY BOAY and EOLA from Tonstartssbandht in their solo guises along with UK faces APOSTILLE and SIR LOIN (Veg), doors 8pm, tickets £4, very reasonable and highly recommended, must go situation! Signing off...
See you lots this week!
Greatest,
UPSET
x

http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk
http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com



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CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
SHOWMAN'S WAGON
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093

MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291

THE INTELLIGENCE
HOUSEWIVES
FRED C DOBBS
Thursday 13 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222180

NO AGE
TENSE MEN
Thursday 20 June
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | Tickets only available on the door on the night!

LUCKY DRAGONS
MARY OCHER
Wednesday 3 July
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217821

SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195

SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364

MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293

WARM SODA
BED RUGS
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927

PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791

MIKAL CRONIN
Monday 19 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223847

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
Thursday 12 September
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223544

BLACK PUS
DAN FRIEL
Monday 23 September
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223545

THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365

FUZZBOX and 500th SHOW

Once more unto the breach!
Firstly, we just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone for coming to our DIRTY BEACHES and DANIEL HIGGS shows already this week, both were truly brilliant, endgame synth punk vs banjo shamanism, we hope you had as much fun as we did! That's not us done for the week though as show 499!!! raises it's head tomorrow at Tufnell Park's Dome with an incomparable lineup of garage rock freakdom and punk psychedelics we've cobbled together under the title of FUZZBOX. Personally I think this could be our biggest, boldest and brightest lineup yet with PURLING HISS, WHITE FENCE, MIKAL CRONIN and JACCO GARDNER all performing alongside (a newly announced) KING TUFF too! Tickets are just £10 (bargainous), and we will have some saved to buy on the door, which opens from 6.30pm, here's tomorrow's show times, how useful…

7.25pm - JACCO GARDNER
8.20pm - KING TUFF
9.15pm - MIKAL CRONIN
10.25 - WHITE FENCE
11.30pm - PURLING HISS

Read on for loads more blurb about FUZZBOX and about Monday's 500th Upset The Rhythm show with DOPE BODY and TONSTARTSSBANDHT too!!!!!! More than 1 show every week for 10 years!!! In other news, we've just confirmed new events in September for SHANNON AND THE CLAMS and an awesome double-headed beast of a party with BLACK PUS (Chippendale from Lighting Bolt's solo warp) and DAN FRIEL (of Parts & Labor), check those listings…


\\\\\\  TOMORROW  /////

Upset The Rhythm & Le Guess Who? present FUZZBOX
Featuring…
PURLING HISS
WHITE FENCE
MIKAL CRONIN
KING TUFF
JACCO GARDNER
Thursday 16 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
Doors 6.30pm / Live music from 7.20pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208879

PURLING HISS is an umbrella moniker for guitarist Mike Polizze's home recorded overdriven maximal rock excess. He's been stockpiling solo tapes for years, and since 2009, a steady stream of Purling Hiss material has appeared on labels like Woodsist and Permanent. Polizze's recordings don't have the flow of typical home-recorded lo-fi music. Songs stop and start haphazardly; sequencing seems arbitrary, with the albums unfolding more like candid snapshots than cohesive statements. This casual, tossed-off quality is part of the band's charm. Last year's 'Lounge Lizards' on Mexican Summer showcased six songs that stick around like sedan carpet matted with spilled Pepsi and Pat’s wrappers, a hard drill that penetrates historical musical hits, like the Cars through Dinosaur Jr through Monoshock and into the cold, acrid air of present times. Polizze has recently struck gold, recruiting a live band consisting of fellow Philadelphia rock veterans Mike Sneeringer, on drums, and Kiel Everett, on bass. The trio expands the tinny sound of Purling Hiss' records considerably, resulting in workmanlike, head-bopping anthems that set Polizze's guitar pyrotechnics front and center. New album 'Water On Mars' (Drag City) is barely contained, ready to flow through your streets of rage and fire and ruin. Purling Hiss cares, and they've stacked up the guitars, bass and drums to stand tall above the alienated masses.Car-wrecking anthems, for all the right reasons.
http://purlinghiss.bandcamp.com/

WHITE FENCE is a solo project gone band, this time with the inimitable Tim Presley from San Francisco as the man in control. Since 2010, White Fence have released 4 full-length albums and several EPs, a live cassette and the terrific 'Hair' collaboration LP with Ty Segall on Drag City. Presley's albums are all nearly overcrowded by sonic ideas and psychedelic twists. Even one of his simpler songs, the acoustic track 'Balance Yr Heart' off 'Family Perfume Vol. 1', gives the impression that he spliced together two different-but-similar songs that were floating in his head. In just three years, he's managed to poise himself as a prolific artist in a town that runneth over with prolific artists. Presley tempers the softer acoustic moments of his sound with songs slathered in acid-burnt fuzz, stretching it out with echoing psych guitar solos after hammering out a simple, solid power chord hook. Last month, Castle Face released 'Cyclops Reap', a collection of orphan tracks that slipped the noose of previous releases. 'Make Them Dinner at Our Shoes', like every other track on the album, it's masked under a thin layer of hiss. It's hard to tell exactly what he's singing in places - his vocals are occasionally swallowed by his guitar or another sound - but one phrase is always clear: "clear open sky." Those words are backed by bright major chords on an electric guitar and the soft, steady ambiance of a shaker. Like most of White Fence's lyrics, it's unclear what those words are trying to communicate in a literal sense, but packaged the way they are, the emotional connection is clear. 
http://whitefenceartcollective.blogspot.nl/

MIKAL CRONIN was raised in Laguna Beach, California, where as a teenager he developed a passion for both surfing and rock & roll. While attending Laguna Beach High School, he fell in with a handful of like-minded music fans, and formed a band that played local parties. After a spell as bassist in surf-punk Charlie & The Moonhearts, Mikal began working on his own garage-accented pop tapping into his love of 80's indie rock. Around the same time, Mikal also befriended kindred spirit Ty Segall, joined his live band and also collaborated on an album together called 'Reverse Shark Attack'. Mikal Cronin's self-titled album was released by Trouble in Mind Records in September 2011. Conceived and recorded as a sort of therapy to help cope with adjusting to life post-college, an ensuing break-up and geographic isolation, Mikal’s solo debut is fully realized, cohesive and beautiful, with themes as personal as they are universal; questioning your future, accepting your past and living in the moment. Taking influences such as late sixties Del Shannon and The Everly Brothers and filtering them through his own mutant California fuzz, Mikal deftly explores his singer/songwriter side that at moments feels like a punk Harry Nilsson or Curt Boettcher that balances sweet melodies and chords with chunky, psychedelic guitar freak-outs. Cronin's brand new album 'MCII', and his first disc for Merge Records, is all about new beginnings, looking at new relationships and growing up in the 21st century. Other than a few guest appearances from Charles Moonhart, Petey Dammit and Ty Segall, Cronin recorded all the instruments / parts himself, lending the record a unique personal pop focus, it's so good! Total must hear for 2013 territory!
http://mikalcronin.bandcamp.com/

KING TUFF aka Kyle Thomas is one of the best guys going in the good-time rock 'n' roll department. He was in a folk collective called Feathers, is the frontman in a stoner-metal band with J Mascis called Witch, and also plays in a great rock band called Happy Birthday. A more enigmatic nomad of a furioso frontman/artist/guitar legend could not be imagined. You can’t make this up. Grinning gold teeth behind blonde shades, in black, skeletal denim, with a studded “KING TUFF” across the shoulders where feral locks fall. His charisma is magnetic, his shows are akin to cheap-beer-soaked tent revivals, he combines the stadium-sized guitar licks of Erik Cartwright with the bratty whine of Eric Cartman, and his solo debut, 2008's 'Was Dead', was the sort of album most scuzz-loving musicians would incinerate their garages to make. Back last May, Sub Pop released King Tuff's self-titled new album. Irreverence is paramount to being in a garage-rock band and Thomas has this in spades. In "Keep on Movin'", he shouts out arcane dance moves and, in his own words, lets his guitar (whose name is Jazijoo) drool. He lets out a comically puny bark in "Stranger". He gives his songs titles like "Loser's Wall" and "Swamp of Love", which sound like landmarks where misfits in the Deep South meet to make out. The album art bears the image of a cartoon bat holding a Gibson guitar and a magic wand. Clichés frowning upon judging a book by its cover need not apply here. There's the too-appropriately-titled opener "Anthem", carried by a double-neck lead begging to be greeted with devil horn gestures. There's the Lynyrd Skynyrd-esque boogie of "Stranger", the freewheeling and fun "Baby Just Break", and climactic closer "Hit & Run". Album highlight 'Bad Thing' is Hunx's 'Hairdresser Blues' spiked with brown liquor and loaded with a supercharged chorus. Completely free of abstraction, King Tuff goes for maximum impact and that's exactly what he achieves!
http://www.subpop.com/artists/king_tuff

JACCO GARDNER is a baroque pop multi instrumentalist. He creates a unique sound by combining the sounds of harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical instruments with raw psychedelic effects. Gardner recorded and engineered new album 'Cabinet of Curiosities' at his Shadow Shoppe Studio in Holland, playing every instrument himself save the drums, having mastered recorder, clarinet, bass, guitar, keyboards and violin as a child. As an adult he also appears to have got to grips with the harpsichord, mellotron, flute and organ, because they're all part of his chamber-pop palette. Expect charmed chord sequences and unexpected key changes, and don't be surprised when things take a turn for the melancholy, even sinister. 'Watching the Moon' has the same creepily Old English air that pervades Syd Barrett's work. 'Lullaby' is the eeriest of all: "I will bury you where the sun goes down," sings Gardner, "deep within the night, sleep when stars are bright." There's something horribly lovely about that image, and something freakily intriguing about Gardner's Cabinet.
http://www.jaccogardner.com/


\\\\\\  MONDAY  /////

"Upset The Rhythm's 500th show!"
DOPE BODY
TONSTARTSSBANDHT
LAB COAST
Monday 20 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207764

DOPE BODY are a brutally primal hardcore beast from Baltimore. Born in 2008 out of the dance-friendly confines of the city’s Wham City scene, this unclassifiable, heavy group ventured out into the night to find more like-minds, and came back boasting a spasm of styles and directions. Evolving from blasting three-piece to blistering four-piece, Dope Body enjoy writing their own songs, touring endlessly and pummeling basement parties with a gleeful, wide-eyed fanaticism that the more reasonable among us might mistake for insanity (it ain’t entirely so). Dope Body writhe under their own experiments, swinging from gutterish sludge-punk to snake charmer-on-fire within the confines of a single tune. Rather than comparing their ferocity to other contender, just know that Dope Body is punk spelled upsidedown and standing on its hands. Debut LP 'Nupping' was released on Hit Dat/Hoss a year or so back, whilst stunning new album 'Natural History' came out on Drag City last year and refuses to leave our turntable! Dope Body's new 7" also through Drag City is called 'Saturday' and is available now, it's really, very, very good!
http://dopebody.bandcamp.com/

TONSTARTSSBANDHT, pronounced "TAHN-starts-bandit", are a band of brothers; Andy White and Edwin M. White, with a passion for psychedelic pop and something special they like to call "boogie rock". Hailing from Orlando via Montreal and NYC, they are currently to be seen wandering the streets in a hazy stupor. Using samples like a slowed down Big Country the duo first put together a self-released debut LP in 2009 of melodic wonder called 'An When'. Since then, Tonstartssbandht have released a further seven records, they're latest being released through Arbutus Records, who also work with Grimes and Sean Nicholas Savage. Part country, part unhinged psych soup, part Of Montreal synth-pop group, Tonstartssbandht have been busy gathering a loyal following indebted to their heavy drummed soundscapes, freaked swamps of effects and ecstatic vocal float, which they're now bringing to the UK for the first time. Last month saw Tonstartssbandht touring Russia and the Ukraine alongside Dirty Beaches, their split tour cassette from said event is essential, check out the link below to hear it!
http://tonstartssbandht.bandcamp.com/

LAB COAST have that sort of breezy layered subtle guitar pop sound that's easy to like. Invoking a bit of unpretentious retro sound reminiscent in the catalogs of labels like Slumberland and Sarah. Lab Coast keep it really catchy in that loose but tight way good bands of this variety hit on just right. The flip finds them getting a bit more psyched out and showing some of their more experimental impulses that are subtly at play in all of their songs. Look out for their recent cassette album on Night People and 7" release through Faux Discx.
http://labcoast.bandcamp.com/


See you sooner than soon!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x

http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk
http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com



> > > UPSET THE RHYTHM  > > >
> > > UPCOMING SHOWS    > > >

BLEACHED
ROYAL LIMP
Wednesday 22 May
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213360

MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364

CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
SHOWMAN'S WAGON
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093

MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291

THE INTELLIGENCE
HOUSEWIVES
FRED C DOBBS
Thursday 13 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222180

NO AGE
Thursday 20 June
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | Tickets only available on the door on the night!

LUCKY DRAGONS
MARY OCHER
Wednesday 3 July
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217821

SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195

SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364

MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293

WARM SODA
BED RUGS
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927

PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
Thursday 12 September
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223544

BLACK PUS
DAN FRIEL
Monday 23 September
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223545

THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365

SUPREME DICKS tomorrow and DIRTY BEACHES on Monday

Hello, hello!
Tomorrow we have a really rare treat for you! Underground weirdo-rock legends SUPREME DICKS will be performing for us at Dalston Victoria. It's their first show in London for seventeen years, time, absence and hearts fonder grown! In support we have Matt from Talibam!'s new PLATINUM VISION horn party and CHALAQUE from Manchester will also expounding loudly. All the specifics follow, including new listings for DANIEL HIGGS (a second performance added due to demand!), DIRTY BEACHES announced as our secret headliners next Monday in Bethnal Green, plus a new show shouted from the rooftops for personal favourites THE INTELLIGENCE next month! Read up…


\\\\\\  TOMORROW  /////

SUPREME DICKS
PLATINUM VISION
CHALAQUE
Thursday 9 May
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/205122

SUPREME DICKS are an experimental rock group formed in 1984 in Amherst, Massachussetts by Jon Shere, Steve Shavel and Danny Oxenberg. Their glorious music combines dissonant lo-fi noise, avant-garde, and psychedelic sounds to warped song structures. Rising out of the same scene that produced Dinosaur Jr, Supreme Dicks were vital contributors to the lo-fi and avant garde genres. The band’s constantly revolving line-up (Lou Barlow was a Dick now and again) centered around Daniel Oxenberg, Jon Shere, Steve Shavel, Mark Hanson, and Jim Spring, whose psychedelic-yet-twangy brand of rock’n'roll came out of the band’s roots at Hampshire College in the Reagan era. The Dicks released a clutch of incredible records - three albums, a single, a split single and a 12" EP - over a four-year period before not-so-much disbanding as dispersing at the end of 1996. This slow, brooding, hugely affecting body of warped psychedelic work was released as a box set by Jagjaguwar in 2011 entitled 'Breathing And Not Breathing'. In 2012, Supreme Dicks came back together to play a limited number of shows in the US, making this ever-so-rare European tour their first major jaunt in almost 17 years. In the live setting, the band upholds a tradition of inviting others to play with them onstage - musicians who have done so include Beck, Dan Kapelovitz and Ariel Pink. Their legendary Amherst jams were known to continue for anywhere up to 15 hours at a time (although, on this tour, we'll be looking at more traditional set lengths). This is going to be the unforgettable!
http://www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=supremedicks

PLATINUM VISION is Matt Mottel from Talibam!'s new sophisticat-jazz out project. Keyboards, wailing guitar, bass and brass all spinning out a landscape for Matt's (often absurdist) slouchy blues vocal to walk out, leading you serenly through equal parts calm and chaos. All expectors of the unexpected will be primed.
http://platinumvision.bandcamp.com/

CHALAQUE aka Nick Mitchell of Manchester's Golden Lab records, will be providing some exceptionally wonky guitar noise. At first, you might think you’ve got Nick pegged as a psych guitarist with stock moves, but listen for a few minutes and you’ll suddenly wonder where the hell you are. One guitar, two amps, feedback stacked into walls and high-pitched soloing.
https://www.facebook.com/chalaque?ref=ts&fref=ts



\\\\\\  MONDAY  /////

DIRTY BEACHES
FEMMINIELLI
PLANTAGENET 3
Monday 13 May
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211298

DIRTY BEACHES is the sound of waves against a picturesque and putrid shore, the silent rumble of a Chevy as it speeds by in slow motion. Sparse but condensed, relentlessly edging forward: this is music for locomotive travel, for racing your weary motorcycle through neon archways and into tunnels at dusk. The man behind Dirty Beaches is Alex Zhang Hungtai; solo performer, sound-smith, and trans-Pacific nomad. Born in Taiwan, Hungtai has made Toronto, Honolulu, Montreal, and Vancouver his homes. Like Bo Didley or minimalist synth provocateurs Suicide, Dirty Beaches’ compositions are not so much stripped down as refined to their essence. Drum loops entrance, Hungtai’s croon enchants, and the yearning melodies draped overtop belie as much a sense of haunting mystery as they do romanticism and wry humour.
http://dirtybeaches.bandcamp.com/

FEMMINIELLI is Montréal producer Bernardino Femminielli, an artist whose already left a significant mark on the Canadian music scene before releasing his third album 'Double Invitation', having toured as a live member of Dirty Beaches and producing some tracks for Montreal pop-star-in-waiting Jef Barbara. But on 'Double Invititation', Femminielli has made it clear that he is possibly the best current Italo songwriter/producer in the world. Drawing equally from the camps of Moroder and Gainsbourg, his music is divided between creepy synthpop singles like "Chauffeur" and "A Que Quieres Jugar" and epic long-form dark disco. Carefully constructed down to the last detail, it sounds so authentic it's difficult to believe it isn't from the late 1970s. 'Double Invitation' is out on Desire Records.
https://soundcloud.com/femminielli

PLANTAGENET 3 like to think of their music as a misguided combination of spaghetti Western soundtracks, 1960s surf/spy-theme guitars and minimalist rock, with the end result being a bit like Young Marble Giants covering Ennio Morricone. They've released one previous single and an album, been featured by the likes of Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music, as well as blogs like This is Fake DIY and the 405, and Rough Trade who once described them as invoking "the ghost of Joe Meek and the most searching of 90s post rockisms to form something shimmering, mysterious and beguiling".
https://soundcloud.com/plantagenet3/sets/the-darkening-green/


Thanks for your continued support and for reading this wayfaring missive!
One last thing before we go! If you need something brilliant to do on Sunday evening make sure you check out SUNK SEASON at Cafe Oto who have organised an awesome evening of synth sorcery and knew-age experimentalism, it's going to be the best, more here: http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/sunk-season-the-innercity-asterism-tidal.shtm
Thank you and goodnight!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x

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http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com



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DANIEL HIGGS
Tuesday 14 May
St Margaret's House Chapel, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PL
7pm | SOLD OUT!
9pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222171

Upset The Rhythm & Le Guess Who? present FUZZBOX
Featuring…
WHITE FENCE
MIKAL CRONIN
PURLING HISS
JACCO GARDNER
THE PHEROMOANS
Thursday 16 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
7pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208879

"Upset The Rhythm's 500th show!"
DOPE BODY
TONSTARTSSBANDHT
LAB COAST
Monday 20 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207764

BLEACHED
ROYAL LIMP
Wednesday 22 May
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213360

MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364

CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
SHOWMAN'S WAGON
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093

MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291

THE INTELLIGENCE
Thursday 13 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222180

NO AGE
Thursday 20 June
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | Tickets only available on the door on the night!

LUCKY DRAGONS
MARY OCHER
Wednesday 3 July
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217821

SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195

SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364

MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293

WARM SODA
BED RUGS
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927

PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791

THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365

EXTRA HIGGS

Due to demand nearing frenzy, we've added a further performance by DANIEL HIGGS on Tuesday 14th May at St Margaret's House Chapel, this is a later set in the evening, 9pm - 10.30pm, tickets £10, booking highly advisable (40 only!)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222171

PARENTHETICAL GIRLS and SUPREME DICKS next week!!!

Whoop!
Bank Holiday looming! Thanks to everyone for coming to our BARN OWL show earlier this week, great performances all round! Loved it! Next week we have two more brilliant shows lined up for you. Monday sees us back at The Lexington this time with UTR faves PARENTHETICAL GIRLS, the tremendous ERGO PHIZMIZ and our friend Avi's new project VOLUNTEERS PARK, now that's what we call juxtaposition! All over the shop and better for it! Then, next Thursday we're overjoyed to have SUPREME DICKS grace our stage, after a brief 17 year gap, true legends of the weirdo rock underground, it's a real privilege to get to work on this ultra-rare show! Plus Matt from Talibam!'s new PLATINUM VISION band and CHALAQUE from Manchester will also be ripping it up. Read on, on, on, for all you need to know and probably more…


\\\\\\  BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY  /////

PARENTHETICAL GIRLS
ERGO PHIZMIZ
VOLUNTEERS PARK
Monday 6 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/212951

PARENTHETICAL GIRLS are an experimental pop band formed back in 2003 in Everett, Washington, currently living in Portland, Oregon. Throughout their bewilderingly unorthodox discography, Parenthetical Girls have become a singular force of obsessional pop. It's a peculiarity that they've learned to embrace, a single-minded conviction that pours itself over every corner of their latest album, 'Privilege' (Marriage Records / Slender Means). Returning to the band's core membership of vocalist/creative director Zac Pennington and producer/arranger Jherek Bischoff (composer and collaborator with David Byrne, Amanda Palmer, Xiu Xiu, etc), 'Privilege' retains the group's signature ambitions: visceral intimacy, camp austerity, lurid eloquence, while confidently embracing the perfect pop pastiche their previous records only alluded to. Anchored by Pennington's distinctively lilting vibrato, 'Privilege' is a cascade of grim particulars and gallows humour, an unflinching treatise on privilege, indiscretion, betrayal, sex and class politics, failure, and resignation. This is Parenthetical Girls in fighting trim: unbridled, unambiguous, and with a new creative candor that's felt in both its words and music. 'Privilege' is a 12-track statement of purpose: a bold, strikingly cohesive pop clarion call that further solidifies Parenthetical Girls' place amongst the most surprising and uncompromising pop groups at work today.
http://parentheticalgirls.com/main/

ERGO PHIZMIZ first came to critical attention for his experimental electronica and sound collage and being name checked in John Peel’s autobiography. As a composer and music conceptualist the last decade has seen him active in nearly every form of music from film scores ( including for art star Christian Marclay to Channel 4) to chamber operas, such as the increasingly cultish The Mourning Show to award winning radio commissions of all kinds for German National radio and BBC3 and 4. Most recently his music has been reaching the ears of a wider audience with his distinctive and crafted approach to song-writing which has been received to widespread critical acclaim. Never playing a song the same way twice he’s currently assembled a basic ramshackle trio to charm and blunder his way through his latest album “Eleven Songs” along with newly penned numbers.
www.ergophizmiz.net

VOLUNTEERS PARK is Aviram Cohen of Silk Flowers and Soiled Mattress & The Springs' new project. Being a chameleon is one of Cohen’s strong suits, morphing from free jazz in Soiled Mattress to cold electronics in Silk Flowers, with Volunteers Park, he’s come to a fork in the road and sent parts of himself down both paths. Certain tracks are elemental, dark and glass-shattering like a horror soundtrack, others cascade with Casio sublimity whilst lyrics about a dentist’s daughter unfurl. Cohen must have a madhouse of bleeps and bloops playing pong in his head, a multiple-aesthetic-personality-disorder, but whatever’s going on is working. He doesn’t sound spread thin, just serenely scattered. Check out PPM for his most recent 7"!
https://soundcloud.com/volunteers-park


\\\\\\  THURSDAY  /////

SUPREME DICKS
PLATINUM VISION
CHALAQUE
Thursday 9 May
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/205122

SUPREME DICKS are an experimental rock group formed in 1984 in Amherst, Massachussetts by Jon Shere, Steve Shavel and Danny Oxenberg. Their glorious music combines dissonant lo-fi noise, avant-garde, and psychedelic sounds to warped song structures. Rising out of the same scene that produced Dinosaur Jr, Supreme Dicks were vital contributors to the lo-fi and avant garde genres. The band’s constantly revolving line-up (Lou Barlow was a Dick now and again) centered around Daniel Oxenberg, Jon Shere, Steve Shavel, Mark Hanson, and Jim Spring, whose psychedelic-yet-twangy brand of rock’n'roll came out of the band’s roots at Hampshire College in the Reagan era. The Dicks released a clutch of incredible records - three albums, a single, a split single and a 12" EP - over a four-year period before not-so-much disbanding as dispersing at the end of 1996. This slow, brooding, hugely affecting body of warped psychedelic work was released as a box set by Jagjaguwar in 2011 entitled 'Breathing And Not Breathing'. In 2012, Supreme Dicks came back together to play a limited number of shows in the US, making this ever-so-rare European tour their first major jaunt in almost 17 years. In the live setting, the band upholds a tradition of inviting others to play with them onstage - musicians who have done so include Beck, Dan Kapelovitz and Ariel Pink. Their legendary Amherst jams were known to continue for anywhere up to 15 hours at a time (although, on this tour, we'll be looking at more traditional set lengths). This is going to be the unforgettable!
http://www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=supremedicks

PLATINUM VISION is Matt Mottel from Talibam!'s new sophisticat-jazz out project. Keyboards, wailing guitar, bass and brass all spinning out a landscape for Matt's (often absurdist) slouchy blues vocal to walk out, leading you serenly through equal parts calm and chaos. All expectors of the unexpected will be primed.
http://platinumvision.bandcamp.com/

CHALAQUE aka Nick Mitchell of Manchester's Golden Lab records, will be providing some exceptionally wonky guitar noise. At first, you might think you’ve got Nick pegged as a psych guitarist with stock moves, but listen for a few minutes and you’ll suddenly wonder where the hell you are. One guitar, two amps, feedback stacked into walls and high-pitched soloing.
https://www.facebook.com/chalaque?ref=ts&fref=ts


Have the best break this weekend!
See you Monday,
UPSET
x

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SPECIAL GUESTS
(announced on Sunday!)
FEMMINIELLI
PLANTAGENET 3
Monday 13 May
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211298

DANIEL HIGGS
Tuesday 14 May
St Margaret's House Chapel, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PL
7pm | SOLD OUT!

Upset The Rhythm & Le Guess Who? present FUZZBOX
Featuring…
WHITE FENCE
MIKAL CRONIN
PURLING HISS
JACCO GARDNER
THE PHEROMOANS
Thursday 16 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
7pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208879

"Upset The Rhythm's 500th show!"
DOPE BODY
TONSTARTSSBANDHT
LAB COAST
Monday 20 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207764

BLEACHED
ROYAL LIMP
Wednesday 22 May
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213360

MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
WAY THROUGH
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364

CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093

MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291

NO AGE
Thursday 20 June
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | Tickets only available on the door on the night!

LUCKY DRAGONS
MARY OCHER
Wednesday 3 July
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217821

SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195

SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364

MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293

WARM SODA
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927

PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791

THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365

WOLF EYES tomorrow

Good afternoon!
Still reeling from last night's incredible NOBUNNY show, what an a-mazing performance! Also huge thank yous to you all for helping sell out our SUN ARAW and JESSICA BAILIFF shows last week too! Our next event, is our 493rd since we started Upset The Rhythm (yes we have actually counted them all and yes not long now to number 500!), and sees WOLF EYES make an exclusive stop off in the UK to play for us at Corsica Studios tomorrow alongside LIBEREZ and OCCULT HAND. It's going to be truly brilliant, loads more details follow on plus new listings for of a show we've planned with LUCKY DRAGONS and MARY OCHER and a tiny intimate chapel show for DANIEL HIGGS next month too…


\\\\\\  TOMORROW  /////

WOLF EYES
LIBEREZ
OCCULT HAND
Tuesday 23 April
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208130

WOLF EYES' infamous blistering noise propelled them from being a dank Ann Arbour, Michigan basement sensation to the finest ranks of Sub Pop without ever losing a shred of credibility. From touring with Sonic Youth and Andrew W.K., Wolf Eyes have crossed  borders into popularity which few other such confrontational units of their ilk have been able to and kept straight and narrow on their blazing path. Originally started as the solo project of former Nautical Almanac member Nate Young, he was soon joined by  Aaron Dilloway in 1998, John Olson in 2000 then Mike Connelly and now Crazy Jim. They has released over 150 recordings in their relatively short lifespan, on labels such as Bulb Records, Troubleman Unlimited, Fusetron, and Sub Pop, as well as on Olson’s American Tapes label, Dilloway’s Hanson Records, Mike Connelly’s Gods of Tundra label and Nate Young’s AA Records. This show sees WOLF EYES play a one off UK show in support of their incredible new album 'No Answer: Lower Floors' out this month on De Stijl Records and as anyone whose seen them play live can attest the overwhelming force of a Wolf Eyes performance must be seen/felt/heard to to be believed.
http://www.wolfeyes.net/

LIBEREZ is the latest incarnation of a long running music collaboration between John Hannon and Pete Wilkins. Their album 'The Letter' was released last year via Alter Records and features multi-instrumentalist Tom James Scott and vocalist Nina Bosnic as new members. Repetitve dual vocal patterns are augmented with amplified percussion, light rhythms, guitar and violin dissonance to create a sense of abstracted ritual which can't help but draw listeners into the labyrinth. A new LP lurching around Britain's industrial past called 'Sane Men Surround' is out now on Savoury Days.
http://www.liberez.moonfruit.com/

OCCULT HAND are a mysterious pairing from Brighton, Isa Brooks and Henry Holmes. Their music is an eerie blur of sinister static, tremulous organ, punctuated by found sounds and effected voice, that builds to ghastly peaks before dispersing with a chilling lack of fanfare. Look out for a tape on SixSixSixties soon!
https://soundcloud.com/occult-hand


Thank you for reading!
See you tomorrow.
UTR
x

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BARN OWL
KOEN HOLTKAMP
A-SUN AMISSA
Wednesday 1 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/202474

PARENTHETICAL GIRLS
ERGO PHIZMIZ
VOLUNTEERS PARK
Monday 6 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/212951

SUPREME DICKS
PLATINUM VISION
CHALAQUE
Thursday 9 May
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/205122

SPECIAL GUESTS
FEMMINIELLI
PLANTAGENET 3
Monday 13 May
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211298

DANIEL HIGGS
Tuesday 14 May
St Margaret's House Chapel, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PL
7pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/219542
*Advance booking recommended, only 40 tickets available!

Upset The Rhythm & Le Guess Who? present FUZZBOX
Featuring…
WHITE FENCE
MIKAL CRONIN
PURLING HISS
JACCO GARDNER
THE PHEROMOANS
Thursday 16 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
7pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208879

"Upset The Rhythm's 500th show!"
DOPE BODY
TONSTARTSSBANDHT
LAB COAST
Monday 20 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207764

BLEACHED
Wednesday 22 May
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213360

MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
WAY THROUGH
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364

CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093

MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291

LUCKY DRAGONS
MARY OCHER
Wednesday 3 July
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217821

SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195

SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364

MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293

WARM SODA
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927

PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791

THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365

JESSICA BAILIFF and SUN ARAW and NOBUNNY next week in London!

Hello again!
Not one, not two but three shows for you next week, here's a quick heads up! On Wednesday we're at Cafe Oto for JESSICA BAILIFF's debut UK show, well worth the wait I'm sure and backed by an eerie incarnation of BODUF SONGS and MATAWAN too. Then on Thursday we're at Corsica Studios for a night of heavy hypnotics courtesy of SUN ARAW, DEEP MAGIC, VISION FORTUNE and BASS CLEF (DJ Set), nothing short of sublime. Then Sunday brings the week to a close in duly chaotic style with an epic party with NOBUNNY at the Brixton Windmill. It's gonna be great, here's all the detail…


\\\\\\  WEDNESDAY  /////

JESSICA BAILIFF
BODUF SONGS
MATAWAN
Wednesday 17 April
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/197657

JESSICA BAILIFF is a singer-songwriter from Toledo, Ohio. From her first records in the last gasp of the 1990s, Bailiff has carved out her own spectral path. She's collaborated with Dave Pearce of Flying Saucer Attack, Odd Nosdam, Casino Versus Japan and Rivulets among many, giving you some idea to expect the unexpected as her music ranges from short piano pieces to slowly ascending 20-minute feedback driven monsters. Brand new album, 'At The Down-Turned Jagged Rim Of The Sky' released by long-term label Kranky, is her first since 2006, suffused with her cool, half-chanted singing, plenty of sonic murk and a clear focus on arrangement and precision. Opener, 'Your Ghost Is Not Enough' is a strong meditation on the tensions and feelings of long-distance relationships, and two songs later, 'Sanguine' revolves around an epic blush of organ, bass, and increasingly louder guitars. The latter brings to mind the Doors fronted by Trish Keenan at first, but it transforms into something that's all Bailiff by the end. And then 'If You Say It' takes it to a further level with what could be gentle flutes bubbling through the mix. Bringing scope and space to a more intimate level, the miniature epic 'This is Real' demonstrates the virtues of the slow build and Bailiff's careful placement: repeated keyboard parts are matched by guitars, then voices take the place of the guitars as new guitars are added into the background. It feels like sweeping exultance, a sigh, and the title's reach for something grounded. For this show, Jessica will be performing with a band, consisting of Mat Sweet of Boduf Songs on drums and Clive Henry on bass, this will be her first ever show in the UK, seriously exciting!
http://jessicabailiff.tumblr.com/

BODUF SONGS has evolved from Mat Sweet's minimalist acoustic approach, showcased so well on previous albums for the Kranky, to a more adventurous and experimental treatment of his songs. Dark psychedelics are crafted from a combination of raw electronics, manipulated samples and heavy guitar. Where once other instruments were rare interludes betwixt brooding vocals and carefully plucked guitar, now they have a much bigger part to play, shaping entire songs into an animated whole. New album, 'Burnt Up On Re-Entry', released on Southern Records, is very much another galaxy for Boduf Songs, allowing Sweet to explore new black holes and interstellar clouds, resulting in expanding sounds that interact powerfully with his finely honed songwriting, and presenting a new hypothesis of the universe.
http://www.bodufsongs.com/

MATAWAN focus heavily on textural relationships, seeking to portray an aural journey that often treads a fine line between brooding density and compelling melody. Specifically choosing to use electric guitars as their primary medium, the band's compositions vary organically with each performance, which helps to give Matawan their own sense of freedom.
https://soundcloud.com/matawanmusic


\\\\\\  THURSDAY  /////

SUN ARAW
DEEP MAGIC
VISION FORTUNE
BASS CLEF (DJ set)
LONDONEARS DJs
Thursday 18 April
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/200244

SUN ARAW aka Cameron Stallones has over multiple cassette releases, three EPs, six albums and some arresting visual work, evolved as a singular purveyor of low-end psychedelia, melted afrobeat and warped dub. This month Stallones will bring his music to scorched and transcendental plains in the live setting. After the empire-like sonic scope of last year’s 'Ancient Romans' LP, 2012 saw Sun Araw ascend yet further with the release of 'ICON GIVE THANK', an incredible collaborative album between Cameron, long term collaborator M. Geddes Gengras and roots reggae vocal legends The Congos via the RVNG label as part of their FRKWYS series. This Summer will see the release of a brand new Sun Araw album, 'The Inner Treaty', so expect plenty of new songs from that on this April tour as Cameron continues his prolific and idiosyncratic artistic ventures: producing visually arresting videos for some of his totemic tracks, producing and DJing killer outsider dub/dancehall as Duppy Gun Soundsystem (also with M.Geddes Gengras) and emitting countless DJ mixes, rerubs, unofficial edits and spontaneous jams. It's going to get hazy that's for sure!
http://www.sunaraw.com/

DEEP MAGIC is the solo project of LA's Alex Gray. Utilizing found sound, minimal but twitchy rhythms and a whole mixed bag of production tricks, DEEP MAGIC speeds things up a bit and throws some light industrial and house curveballs to make for a bizarre and rewarding listen. Deep Magic is an ascent of vibrating dreams, a reverence for the past and narrative bliss. Deep Magic is archaic spirit hymns, total, healing music.
http://deeptapes.com/

VISION FORTUNE are brothers Alexander and Austin Peru who first met Andres Cuatroquesos in a small boys boarding school in Menen, Belgium. They rekindled their friendship in London seven years ago, and proceeded to meet up every week at an after-college music club perfecting a rhythmic tension and phasing repetition between guitars and drums that's plunges their epic, mesmeric songs into transcendental territories. Their debut LP, 'Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune', is out 13 May 2013 and is a split release between Faux Discx and Gringo Records, a duo of labels that has been behind previous releases from like-minded artists such as Cold Pumas, Sauna Youth and Hookworms.
https://soundcloud.com/visionfortune

BASS CLEF is rooted in London and has a very distinct but ever-morphing sound of deep modular zonage, delving into the deliriously trippy yet also moving onwards and rave-wards. For this show Ralph Cumbers will be working on a special DJ set of dubbed-out mixes, flying the afro-disco flag via the world of deliciously un-smooth groove.
http://www.myspace.com/bassclefbass


\\\\\\  SUNDAY  /////

NOBUNNY
BAD SPORTS
ATOMIC SUPLEX
WAKE UP DEAD
MEAN BIKINI
CANDY HIGHWAY
Sunday 21st April
Brixton Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton, SW2 5BZ
5pm | £9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/210794

NOBUNNY (one word, all caps) has been captivating audiences of dedicated fans and new believers since Easter 2001 (the day Joey Ramone died). Born in the desert outside of Tucson AZ, NOBUNNY started as an animal Elvis impersonator before deciding to try out his hand at songwriting. The raucous rabbit's music is a intoxicating concoction of all the rights and wrongs that make up the heart and the soul of real rock n roll. Songs that sound as though they were written at the Brill building by a punk rock mutant back from the future. Some batshit brilliant bullshit. NOBUNNY stayed deep underground for his first 6 years doing DIY solo tours, burning limited CDRs, and building a dedicated group of fans across the USA. NOBUNNY shows were purported to include a dizzying act that often featured nudity, dancing, chaos, and costumes (most notably NOBUNNY's filthy rabbit mask). 2008, saw his first LP titled "Love Visions" released on 1234GO! Records. The album was a hit among critics, punks, and nerds alike. A modern RNR classic filled with inept production, and songs as catchy as catchy. In 2009 Burger Records released the Mixtape/LP "Raw Romance". An acoustical confessional brainstorm exploration of cassette goodness . In 2010 the rascally rabbit released a "warts n all" Live Album on Jack White's Third Man Records. The year ended with Nobunny's 2nd proper LP, "FIRST BLOOD". Released on the Memphis' Goner Records, the album is NOBUNNY's off the deep end, poptastic, psych-o masterstroke. NOBUNNY loves you, and has made it damn near impossible not to love him back. Follow the white rabbit!
http://www.facebook.com/THENOBUNNY

BAD SPORTS are Orville Neeley, Greg Rutherford and TV Daniel Fried from Dallas, Texas. Having done stints in Texas bands including the Mind Spiders, the Wax Museums, the High Tension Wires and OBN III, Bad Sports have focussed things into fuzzy, frictive, raging with high spirits, balancing Who-like power chords with Ramones-y blistered pop. Check out their records on Total BS, Nashville's Dead and Burger and recent album 'Kings Of The Weekend' on Dirtnap.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bad-Sports/117644598247026

ATOMIC SUPLEX are a London four piece of helmet-toting garage rockers with an album 'Bathroom Party' out now on the legendary Crypt label. This is probably what Bill Haley sounds like if you have the worst tinnitus in the world. Not so much a sonic cathedral as a sonic corrugated iron shed.
http://www.atomicsuplex.co.uk/

WAKE UP DEAD are a punk band from London (ex/present/ephemeral members of Black Time, Black Mamba Beat, The Jazz June, Atari, Work That Skirt, Live Fast Die, Crawling Age, Thee Exciters, etc...), in short amazing!
http://wakeupdead.bandcamp.com/

MEAN BIKINI are a garage/new wave quartet also from the Capital. Both the energy and attitude of their songs are dipped in total punk gloop. This band of young women sound like a Japanese power-pop group like Thee 50s High Teens, only raked through the hiss, making for some raw demos, leading us onwards.
http://meanbikini.bandcamp.com/

CANDY HIGHWAY are purveyors of only the finest anti-post postmodern punk!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Candy-Highway/447406985309890


Thanks for reading and for coming to so many of our shows recently!
Have the best weekend and we'll see you next week!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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WOLF EYES
LIBEREZ
OCCULT HAND
Tuesday 23 April
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208130

BARN OWL
KOEN HOLTKAMP
A-SUN AMISSA
Wednesday 1 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/202474

PARENTHETICAL GIRLS
ERGO PHIZMIZ
VOLUNTEERS PARK
Monday 6 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/212951

SUPREME DICKS
PLATINUM VISION
CHALAQUE
Thursday 9 May
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/205122

SPECIAL GUESTS
FEMMINIELLI
PLANTAGENET 3
Monday 13 May
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211298

Upset The Rhythm & Le Guess Who? present FUZZBOX
Featuring…
WHITE FENCE
MIKAL CRONIN
PURLING HISS
JACCO GARDNER
THE PHEROMOANS
Thursday 16 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
7pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208879

DOPE BODY
TONSTARTSSBANDHT
LAB COAST
Monday 20 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207764

"Upset The Rhythm's 500th show!"
BLEACHED
Wednesday 22 May
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213360

MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
WAY THROUGH
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364

CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093

MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291

SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195

SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364

MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293

WARM SODA
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927

PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791

THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365

JACCO GARDNER added to FUZZBOX

Hot off the presses! We're adding the brilliant, baroque pop multi instrumentalist JACCO GARDNER to our FuzzBox event at Tufnell Park Dome on May 16th! . Gardner creates a unique sound, combining the sounds of harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical instruments with raw psychedelic effects.
Joining PURLING HISS, WHITE FENCE, MIKAL CRONIN and THE PHEROMOANS, Jakko also keeps the best company!


Tickets for FUZZBOX here:  http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208879

FOUR SHOWS NEXT WEEK!!!

Bank Holiday Reigns!
Thank you to everyone for selling out both our Mirrorring shows this week, what intensely quiet and beautiful performances they were! Stunning stuff, I hope they come back sooner than soon! Talking of soon, April is upon us and it's going to be busy, busy, busy for Upset The Rhythm and next week is no exception with four shows lining up for the likes of TALK NORMAL, VERITY SUSMAN, RAVIOLI ME AWAY, SIMON JOYNER & THE GHOSTS, EMPEROR X, DAVID KENNETH NANCE, BRILLIANT COLORS, PROPER ORNAMENTS, EARTH ROD, JAAP BLONK / PHIL MINTON / DYLAN NYOUKIS / LUKE POOT, ADAM BOHMAN aaaaaaaand THESE FEATHERS HAVE PLUMES. Think Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday (afternoon), full scoops follow on. We're also announcing today a show in July for the incredible PENGO with BLOOD STEREO and USURPER too, check listings for said neo-luddite, noise odyssey…


\\\\\\  TUESDAY  /////

TALK NORMAL
VERITY SUSMAN
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
Tuesday 2 April
Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate Street, Bethnal Green, E2 9AG
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/205969

TALK NORMAL are Brooklyn duo, Sarah Register and Andrya Ambro, dealing out songs that sparkle with melody and dissonance. After years of friendship, Talk Normal first emerged on the NYC music scene in 2007, initially releasing demos, cassettes and their Secret Cog vinyl EP. Following the 2009 release of their debut album Sugarland on Rare Book Room Records, Talk Normal released a handful of 7"s (including a split 7" with Thurston Moore on Fast Weapons Records) and shared the stage with the likes of Sonic Youth, Wire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Zola Jesus. Jarring rhythms and feedback-drenched guitar tones grace, recent sophmore album, Sunshine's nine surprisingly songful tunes - creating a sound informed by their predecessors (Cocteau Twins, Velvet Underground, Laurie Anderson & Creatures), but strikingly new. Tracks like "Bad Date", "Cover", and "Hurricane" carry almost a meditative emotional energy, where others like "Sunshine" and "Shot This Time" err on the side of explosive driving rock. Ambro & Register's combined voices often volley back and forth, each providing equal contributions to vocals, lyrics, and instrumentation. Combined with Register's flowing, nearly-drony riffs and Ambro's finely choreographed beats, the end result is a natural sonic cohesion to wonder at.
http://www.talknormaltalknormal.com/

VERITY SUSMAN probes new territory with her solo project after a decade as lead singer of experimental rock band Electrelane. Using music, visuals and text, her live shows create a world of psychedelic alienation, embracing the subversive possibilities of awkwardness. Often appearing in drag, her saxophone becomes an organ of musical and gender performance, confronting audiences with a queer female masculinity that is at once serious, humorous, angry and uncomfortable. At times ironic, often passionate and full of joyous heartbreak, Verity takes the audience into a collage of exploratory soundscapes, woven through surreal reconstructions of lesbian pulp romance novels and sci-fi slash fiction tales.
http://www.facebook.com/veritysusman

RAVIOLI ME AWAY work within a exacting triangle of sound; slapped snare, prodded keys and bass pulse providing a delirious future pop backdrop for tales of cat calls and Tequila Sunrises. This is smart, aware, alive music, seeing the group concentrating carefully on how it's presented in the live realm with previous shows featuring cooked omelets and fly-fishing, what comes next we can only guess at.
http://www.facebook.com/RavioliMeAway


\\\\\\  WEDNESDAY  /////

SIMON JOYNER & THE GHOSTS
EMPEROR X
DAVID KENNETH NANCE
Wednesday 3 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/206264

SIMON JOYNER & THE GHOSTS are a living, breathing entity; a full six piece band, growing out of Joyner's double-LP record 'Ghosts' released last Summer on his own Sing, Eunuchs! label. Simon Joyner should require no introduction, but despite plaudits from everyone from John Peel to Conor Oberst, who cites Joyner as a primary influence, he remains a cult figure. His sterling reputation is mostly built on thirteen albums of lyrically astute, musically dense, uncompromising songs. As a wordsmith he is peerless, often compared to both Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, while his singing voice alternately conjures an emotionally turbulent Neil Young (think “Speakin’ Out”) and Gordon Gano circa “Country Death Song.” But Joyner’s songs also bear the influence of more modern mavericks, revealing a sharp appreciation for the fringes of the American and UK underground. It’s not for nothing he cites the Dead C’s raucous 'Harsh 70’s Reality' as one of the handful of double albums that inspired 'Ghosts'. For lovers of lyrics, that fast-perishing breed, 'Ghosts' is Christmas morning. Listening to it, you may frequently find yourself covering your mouth in disbelief, exclaiming “Oh shit!” like someone just dropped a particularly scathing hip-hop metaphor. The music matches the intensity of the words. Joyner’s band is an intuitive organism never content to merely ‘back up’ the singer. Each member of the group suffuses the environments of these songs with unusual color without ever overplaying or subordinating. With, 'Ghosts', Simon Joyner couldn't have made a more extreme example of an album that so handsomely rewards total immersion and a live show incorporating guitars, viola, pedal steel, bass and drums spells out something equally special.
http://www.simonjoyner.net/

EMPEROR X is the project name of American songwriter and noise pop saboteur C. R. Matheny. In 2004, Matheny dropped his pursuit of a master’s degree in physics to self-release a string of critically acclaimed lo-fi speed folk albums. His releases grabbed the attention of NPR, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, Tiny Mix Tapes and many others. The UK’s Plan B Magazine called his music “a swollen interfusion of capricious brilliance”. His music has been described as part Daniel Johnston part Dan Deacon. His songs are always catchy with lyrics that will pull heartstrings. His sing along tunes and unstoppable energy has brought Emperor X to art galleries, bars, bookstores, university symposiums, college radio stations, garbage-strewn pedestrian tunnels, and one very confused laser tag arena in Connecticut. Matheny currently lives in Los Angeles where he writes and records new music from the top floor of a tenement building overlooking the megaphone preachers, fake ID salesmen, and tamaleros of MacArthur Park. His new album Western Teleport was released on Bar/None Records last year.
http://emperorx.tumblr.com/

DAVID KENNETH NANCE recently stepped out of his burned out basement in Omaha, Nebraska and steeped himself in the city of angels, provoking collective grief and inciting small riots in the hearts of the house show universe here. Rocker and singer-songwriter from that catchy, shambolic mess called The Prairies, he also plays lead guitar and shouts in Simon Joyner’s band, the Ghosts. His forthcoming, vinyl debut on Grapefruit Records, “Actor’s Diary,” was recorded late at night alone in Joyner’s warehouse studio, Casa de los Fantasmas, over a two month period leading up to his west coast pilgrimage, this is anguish and expectation and meditations on what was, is, and might be in the artist’s life. Channeling Jim Shepard, heroin-era Stones and New Zealand’s notorious Jefferies brothers through broken and poorly repaired gear, Nance rock is indeed the new pasture!
http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/album/david-kenneth-nance/


\\\\\\  FRIDAY  /////

BRILLIANT COLORS
PROPER ORNAMENTS
EARTH ROD
Friday 5 April
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207363

BRILLIANT COLORS are a four-piece from San Francisco, inspired by post-punk fervor, the spiky pop of C86 and early Flying Nun / Creation missives. Their 2009 album, 'Introducing', is one of the finest debuts in recent memory, and they followed it with 7"s on Slumberland and Make a Mess and a European tour with La La Vasquez that led to the release of another great single on Germs of Youth. Most recently, they teamed up with Belfast’s brilliant Girls Names to release a split 7". All of these singles were recorded with Oakland garage phenom Ty Segall, who spiked the ladies’ punk-pop swirl with his own special grit. Their most recent album 'Again And Again', came out last Summer on Slumberland, displaying song-writing as infectious as ever, only now the tunes are now more carefully arranged pushing the band to something as elemental as pop gets. The mood is confessional and late-night dreamy; Jess' unadorned vocals and eloquent lyrics are personal, direct and atmospherically deployed, mixed in with the songs like another instrument. They can be heard to great effect on tougher songs like "Back To The Tricks" and "Painting Truths," tempering those tunes' punchy dynamics with their melodic sensibility. Add in classic-sounding stormers like "Cult Face" and "How Much Younger" and you have all the makings of another great Brilliant Colors album, one that shows how finely they've honed their own unique brand punk-flecked crash-pop. This show sees them on day one of tour, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, touting a new flexi 7" called 'I Was Born A Fantasist', exciting!
http://itsbrilliantcolors.blogspot.co.uk/

THE PROPER ORNAMENTS make a thrillingly taut and melodic pop indebted both to the sun balm'd West Coast and the driving, terse rhythms of the British Invasion and C86 pop, centered around the close partnership of frontmen Max Claps and James Hoare (also of Veronica Falls). In 2010 were joined by bassist Michael Lovett and Let's Wrestle frontman Wesley Patrick Gonzalez, releasing a 7" on San Francisco label Make A Mess Records. 2011 saw them release a self-titled EP on No Pain In Pop, proving the band as purveyors of abrupt, perfect pop, jet propelled by super compressed drum production and the pair's DNA tight vocal interplay.
http://theproperornaments.bandcamp.com/

EARTH ROD are a trio from Leicester, featuring members of Thee Ludds and Meaty Bone-Bone. Sparring male and female vocals, surfy guitar scree, lots of crash… yes, please!
https://soundcloud.com/earthrodearthrod


\\\\\\  SUNDAY  /////

JAAP BLONK / PHIL MINTON / DYLAN NYOUKIS / LUKE POOT
ADAM BOHMAN
THESE FEATHERS HAVE PLUMES
Sunday 7 April
St Magaret's House Chapel, 21 Old Ford Rd,  Bethnal Green, E2 9PL
2pm - 5pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/209733
(Only 40 tickets available for this FYI! Booking recommended)

JAAP BLONK / PHIL MINTON / DYLAN NYOUKIS / LUKE POOT will be performing as a quartet, all a capella in this serene chapel of sound in Bethnal Green. Jaap Blonk and Phil Minton have been pioneering in the field of sound poetry and free vocalisation for several decades each, originally a saxophonist and trumpeter respectively they both abandoned those instruments long ago to concentrate on the boundless  instrument that is the human voice.  They will be joined today by two of the UKs upcoming sound poets/experimental musicians, Dylan Nyoukis & Luke Poot, for a full on all vocal quartet that threatens to blow minds and full heads with joy.
http://www.jaapblonk.com/
http://www.philminton.co.uk/
http://chocolatemonk.co.uk/enter.htm
http://pootrecords.blogspot.co.uk/

ADAM BOHMAN's personal approach to music has essentially always been acoustic, but due to his close involvement with live electronics (he is a founder member of Morphogenesis), his sounds have very often been subjected to signal processing. The Bohman aesthetic can be a dense and tangled thing to unpick and describe. Various and nefarious sounds and artistic influences merge and collide, Varèsian sound montage supporting spoken word material sourced from a pub menu, or frenetic juxtapositions between amplified shoe brushes and a frenzied tape cut-up of 17th Century instruments. Sound art which oscillates between states of the absurd and sonically grotesque, and highly articulate explorations of extra-musical sound.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Adam+Bohman

THESE FEATHERS HAVE PLUMES aka Andie Brown is a musician from London who began playing music as a bass guitarist, working with experimental band Cindytalk in her late teens. An interest in sound and experimentation led Andie to begin working as These Feathers Have Plumes in 2007, creating sonic landscapes using traditional and non-traditional instrumentation (primarily double bass and glass), found-sound and field recordings.
http://thesefeathershaveplumes.com/


Terrific, thanks for reading all of that blah! If that wasn't enough smack right in the middle of our shows next week falls a show at KOKO our friend Julia is organising in celebration of Swans' 30th Anniversary. The Mouth To Mouth Festival on April 4th will see performances by Upset faves Grouper, XiuXiu, Ben Frost and Mercury Rev’s Cinematic Silent Sound Tettix Wave Experiment all performing at the behest of Gira, who will close the evening with a truly gargantuan Swans set. All the artists were chosen for their ability to resuscitate, set fire to the air, or to mesmerise. It's going to be one for the memory bank that's for definite. Loads more info and ticket links here: http://www.koko.uk.com/listings/mouth-mouth-04-04-2013
Enjoy the Easter break!
See you lots next week!
UTR
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TALK NORMAL
VERITY SUSMAN
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
Tuesday 2 April
Sebright Arms, 31-35 Coate Street, Bethnal Green, E2 9AG
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/205969

SIMON JOYNER & THE GHOSTS
EMPEROR X
DAVID KENNETH NANCE
Wednesday 3 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/206264

BRILLIANT COLORS
PROPER ORNAMENTS
EARTH ROD
Friday 5 April
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207363

JAAP BLONK / PHIL MINTON / DYLAN NYOUKIS / LUKE POOT
ADAM BOHMAN
THESE FEATHERS HAVE PLUMES
Sunday 7 April
St Magaret's House Chapel, 21 Old Ford Rd,  Bethnal Green, E2 9PL
2pm - 5pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/209733
(Only 40 tickets available for this FYI! Booking recommended)

JESSICA BAILIFF
BODUF SONGS
MATAWAN
Wednesday 17 April
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/197657

SUN ARAW
DEEP MAGIC
VISION FORTUNE
BASS CLEF (DJ set)
Thursday 18 April
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/200244

NOBUNNY
BAD SPORTS
ATOMIC SUPLEX
WAKE UP DEAD
MEAN BIKINI
CANDY HIGHWAY
Sunday 21st April
Brixton Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton, SW2 5BZ
5pm | £9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/210794

WOLF EYES
LIBEREZ
OCCULT HAND
Tuesday 23 April
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208130

BARN OWL
KOEN HOLTKAMP
A-SUN AMISSA
Wednesday 1 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/202474

PARENTHETICAL GIRLS
ERGO PHIZMIZ
VOLUNTEERS PARK
Monday 6 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/212951

SUPREME DICKS
PLATINUM VISION
CHALAQUE
Thursday 9 May
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/205122

SPECIAL GUESTS
FEMMINIELLI
PLANTAGENET 3
Monday 13 May
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211298

Upset The Rhythm & Le Guess Who? present FUZZBOX
Featuring…
WHITE FENCE
MIKAL CRONIN
PURLING HISS
THE PHEROMOANS
Thursday 16 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
7pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208879

DOPE BODY
TONSTARTSSBANDHT
LAB COAST
Monday 20 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207764

"Upset The Rhythm's 500th show!"
BLEACHED
Wednesday 22 May
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213360

MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
WAY THROUGH
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364

CHRIS COHEN
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093

MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291

SIC ALPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195

MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293

WARM SODA
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927

PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791