Upset The Rhythm presents...
THE SPACE LADY
Thursday 17
April
Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Rd, Baker Street, NW1 6XT
7pm | £9.00 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/256007
Friday, 17 January 2014
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
PETE SWANSON and HELM and DAVE CURRIE this FRIDAY
Hello 2014!
I
hope you all had a well-deserved break and you’re now fully recharged.
Upset The Rhythm returns this Friday with an awesome show for PETE SWANSON, HELM and DAVE CURRIE, plus our friends at LONDONEARS will be playing many pummelsome, brain-melting records too! Read on for the whole story, including new shows announced for THE SPACE LADY and THE JULIE RUIN. Here are the words…
\\\\\\ FRIDAY /////
PETE SWANSON
HELM
DAVE CURRIE
LONDONEARS DJs
Friday 10 January
Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
PETE SWANSON
is a New York-based musician, once a member of the exhilarating noise
duo Yellow Swans, he’s been making plenty of solo music since they
disbanded in 2008. Straddling a line between free guitar noise and
singed electronics, Swanson's game-changing album on Type last year,
‘Man With Potential’, showed that Pete had moved into a techno
multiverse, where the dank pulsing soundscapes that helped birth his old
band have only got wilder. Earlier this year, Swanson continued to
explore his deformed warehouse techno sound with 'Punk Authority'. This
four-track stomper for Software Recording Co. is by far his most damaged
solo offering to date. With a sly nod to Police Academy, 'Punk
Authority' launches into a barrage of debauched, regressive noise
punctuated by the kind of beats you’d more readily expect to find on an
Underground Resistance 12” (And that’s as effortlessly engaging as it
sounds). Using a deceptively simple synth/tape setup, Swanson siphons
his club constructions through a coarse mix of saturation and overdrive,
resulting in something aggressive yet effortlessly foot pushing.
Swanson has successfully re-tooled a genre to fit his needs, and 'Punk
Authority' is his chance to really crack his knuckles. It might not be
easy listening, but who said life had to be easy?
HELM is the solo project of Luke Younger, one half of the London/Berlin noise/drone duo Birds Of Delay, and label boss at Alter Records (Hieroglyphic Being, ELG, Bomber Jackets, Liberez). Younger's compositions build a dense aural landscape that touches on musique concrete, uncomfortable sound poetry, noise, and hallucinatory drones. He recently released 'Impossible Symmetry', his third full-length record, on the Berlin-based PAN label. It marks a new chapter in the artists' canon as it's his first to be informed by live performance rather than studio experimentation, incorporating more extensive use of electronic elements and moments of rhythmic dark ambience recalling the outputs from early Coil and Cabaret Voltaire at times. This sound is steered through a melange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organised feedback, all coalesced in a post-industrial fashion with a commitment to homemade exploratory zeal. Look out for new EP ‘The Hollow Organ’ out next week also on PAN.
DAVE CURRIE is a New Zealander living presently in London, lining up stammering drum machines, damaged synth noise and spooked slow-motion atmospheres into a deliriously heady cloud of tripped out dance music. It's cryptic, propulsive and a force unto itself, listen loud!
LONDONEARS DJs
http://www.londonears.com/
HELM is the solo project of Luke Younger, one half of the London/Berlin noise/drone duo Birds Of Delay, and label boss at Alter Records (Hieroglyphic Being, ELG, Bomber Jackets, Liberez). Younger's compositions build a dense aural landscape that touches on musique concrete, uncomfortable sound poetry, noise, and hallucinatory drones. He recently released 'Impossible Symmetry', his third full-length record, on the Berlin-based PAN label. It marks a new chapter in the artists' canon as it's his first to be informed by live performance rather than studio experimentation, incorporating more extensive use of electronic elements and moments of rhythmic dark ambience recalling the outputs from early Coil and Cabaret Voltaire at times. This sound is steered through a melange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organised feedback, all coalesced in a post-industrial fashion with a commitment to homemade exploratory zeal. Look out for new EP ‘The Hollow Organ’ out next week also on PAN.
DAVE CURRIE is a New Zealander living presently in London, lining up stammering drum machines, damaged synth noise and spooked slow-motion atmospheres into a deliriously heady cloud of tripped out dance music. It's cryptic, propulsive and a force unto itself, listen loud!
LONDONEARS DJs
http://www.londonears.com/
Thank you all for reading and to everyone who helped us celebrate our 10th birthday back in December. See you all on Friday,
UPSET
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FUTURE ISLANDS
GENTLE FRIENDLY
Tuesday 11 February
Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, 2 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, N1 6NU
8pm | £11.00 | SOLD OUT
Sunday, 5 January 2014
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
TURNING TEN TOMORROW
Merry Times!
We’re celebrating our 10th anniversary tomorrow at the Courtyard Theatre (Pitfield Street) with a show for FICTIONAL BOYS, MICKEY GLOSS and THE WHARVES.
Astral-pop, party punk, heavy melodies galore! What a way to see out
2013! Extending the festive spirit to all, we’re doing a quick
competition to win 10 free pairs of tickets for tomorrow’s show! Think 10 letters long and then send us your best made-up band name, the funnier/weirder the better. The first 10 that make us laugh will win tickets! Submissions to upset_the_rhythm@yahoo.com
Roll on tomorrow…
\\\\\\ TOMORROW /////
UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10th BIRTHDAY PARTY
Featuring…
FICTIONAL BOYS
MICKEY GLOSS
THE WHARVES
Wednesday 18 December
Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
FICTIONAL BOYS is John Webster Johns
AKA Jack Name, a songwriter that Tim Presley recently described as a
'stubborn genius'. Currently a touring guitarist for Presley's band
White Fence, Johns spends much of his time releasing music under various
monikers (Fictional Boys and Muzz) and working behind-the-scenes as a
studio wizard /collaborator for the likes of Ariel Pink and Cass
McCombs. Next year, the Los Angeles native will release his debut album
under his latest project, Jack Name. Titled 'Light Show', it’s due out
January 21st via Drag City / Ty Segall's imprint God? Records. In
anticipation, Johns has shared his lead single 'Pure Terror' with the
interweb. It's a whirring psych-pop jam that couples his laid-back,
cloaked vocals with rambunctious guitars, it nicely balances the low-key
and lo-fi with straight-up wild, technicolor energy. He's singing about
terror, and as the song comes to its conclusion, his voice is enveloped
by these high, astral, childlike voices.
MICKEY GLOSS
is a psychedelic/punk party experiment that left the east coast of
Australia for London amidst the chaos and disorder of the riots in
summer 2011. Their compelling new album, 'Astral Projections For The
Kinetically Deranged', was released on November 18th through H Badger
Records. Signposting their anarchy and energy is lead single 'Are You
Happy?', where wry social commentary meets garage freakout in a
distillation of antipodean sun and London melancholia.
THE WHARVES
feature Marion Andrau on drums, Gemma Fleet on bass and Dearbhla
Minogue on guitar. The latter pair duet in counter-harmony and joyful
unison across their songs, a swirling, heavy, melodious mix of
charged-up electric folk and splashes of girl-group wonder. Think
Fairport Convention mixed with a primed Sleater Kinney vocal interplay.
Check out their new split LP with The Rosy Crucifixion on Soft Power
now!
See you tomorrow!
Keep it warm!
UTR
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PETE SWANSON
HELM
DAVE CURRIE
LONDONEARS DJs
Friday 10 January
Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
FUTURE ISLANDS
Tuesday 11 February
Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, 2 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, N1 6NU
8pm | £11.00 | SOLD OUT
Thursday, 12 December 2013
UTR turns 10 next week, plus announcing a new FUTURE ISLANDS show!
Morning everyone!
Huge
thank yous to all of you for coming to see Lonnie Holley last week,
what a truly fantastic performance! I hope you enjoyed it as much as we
did, Lonnie included. We now have only one show remaining this year,
falling next Wednesday, we’ll be celebrating our tenth anniversary of
Upset The Rhythm in style at the Courtyard Theatre with FICTIONAL BOYS, MICKEY GLOSS and THE WHARVES. Full details run away down the page, as well as news of a special show for FUTURE ISLANDS
in February at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen. The band will be
previewing new material from their forthcoming album at
this decidedly intimate venue for fans and fanatics alike, tickets will
go onsale tomorrow morning, 9am, both outlets listed below, don’t miss
out…
\\\\\\ NEXT WEDNESDAY /////
UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10th BIRTHDAY PARTY
Featuring…
FICTIONAL BOYS
MICKEY GLOSS
THE WHARVES
Wednesday 18 December
Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
FICTIONAL BOYS is John Webster Johns
AKA Jack Name, a songwriter that Tim Presley recently described as a
'stubborn genius'. Currently a touring guitarist for Presley's band
White Fence, Johns spends much of his time releasing music under various
monikers (Fictional Boys and Muzz) and working behind-the-scenes as a
studio wizard /collaborator for the likes of Ariel Pink and Cass
McCombs. Next year, the Los Angeles native will release his debut album
under his latest project, Jack Name. Titled 'Light Show', it’s due out
January 21st via Drag City / Ty Segall's imprint God? Records. In
anticipation, Johns has shared his lead single 'Pure Terror' with the
interweb. It's a whirring psych-pop jam that couples his laid-back,
cloaked vocals with rambunctious guitars, it nicely balances the low-key
and lo-fi with straight-up wild, technicolor energy. He's singing about
terror, and as the song comes to its conclusion, his voice is enveloped
by these high, astral, childlike voices.
MICKEY GLOSS
is a psychedelic/punk party experiment that left the east coast of
Australia for London amidst the chaos and disorder of the riots in
summer 2011. Their compelling new album, 'Astral Projections For The
Kinetically Deranged', was released on November 18th through H Badger
Records. Signposting their anarchy and energy is lead single 'Are You
Happy?', where wry social commentary meets garage freakout in a
distillation of antipodean sun and London melancholia.
THE WHARVES
feature Marion Andrau on drums, Gemma Fleet on bass and Dearbhla
Minogue on guitar. The latter pair duet in counter-harmony and joyful
unison across their songs, a swirling, heavy, melodious mix of
charged-up electric folk and splashes of girl-group wonder. Think
Fairport Convention mixed with a primed Sleater Kinney vocal interplay.
Check out their new split LP with The Rosy Crucifixion on Soft Power
now!
Thanks for reading, increasingly festive times!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10TH BIRTHDAY
Featuring…
JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS
MICKEY GLOSS
THE WHARVES
Wednesday 18 December
Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
PETE SWANSON
HELM
DAVE CURRIE
LONDONEARS DJs
Friday 10 January
Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
FUTURE ISLANDS
Tuesday 11 February
Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, 2 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, N1 6NU
8pm | £11.00 | Tickets available from 9am tomorrow:
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
SILVER FOX ALBUM and LONNIE HOLLEY tomorrow and our 10TH BIRTHDAY PARTY
Greetings everyone!
This week sees the release of another new album through UTR, the seriously brilliant debut record from SILVER FOX.
It’s a stunning album of raucous, sad, powerful and wistful
reflections, full of responsive harmonies and primal beats at its heart.
Hitting the shops this coming week, it’s also available from our online shop now.
Why not listen here (hear)?
We
also wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about our final two
shows for 2013. Tomorrow we’re at Café OTO with a transcendent show for
Dust To Digital’s LONNIE HOLLEY and DURGA. Then on December 18th (two weeks today!), we’ll be celebrating 10 years of Upset The Rhythm with FICTIONAL BOYS, MICKEY GLOSS and THE WHARVES
at the Courtyard Theatre. We’ve done approximately one show every week
for a whole decade! Where does the time go? I hope you can join us for
the party. We’re also announcing today HELM as support to PETE SWANSON in January too. Lots more detail follows next…
\\\\\\ TOMORROW /////
LONNIE HOLLEY
(Dust To Digital)
DURGA
Thursday 5 December
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
LONNIE HOLLEY
was born on February 10, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, the seventh of 27
children. From the age of five, Holley worked various jobs: picking up
trash at a drive-in movie theatre, washing dishes, and cooking. He lived
in a whiskey house, on the state fairgrounds, and in several foster
homes. His early life was chaotic and Holley was never afforded the
pleasure of a real childhood. Since 1979, Holley has devoted his life to
the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music, born out
of struggle, hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of furious
curiosity and biological necessity, has manifested itself in drawing,
painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and sound. Holley’s
sculptures are constructed from found materials in the oldest tradition
of African American sculpture. Objects, already imbued with cultural and
artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that
commemorate places, people, and events.
Holley
did not start making and performing music in a studio nor does his
creative process mirror that of the typical musician. His music and
lyrics are improvised on the spot and morph and evolve with every event,
concert, and recording. In Holley’s original art environment, he would
construct and deconstruct his visual works, re-purposing their elements
for new pieces. This often led to the transfer of individual narratives
into the new work creating a cumulative composite image that has depth
and purpose beyond its original singular meaning. The layers of sound in
Holley’s music, likewise, are the result of decades of evolving
experimentation. 'Just Before Music' features Holley’s first studio
recordings made in 2010/2011 and was released last year by Dust To
Digital to widespread acclaim. New album, 'Keeping A Record Of It' came
out last month and has seen Lonnie touring with Deerhunter and Bill
Callahan across the USA in support of the record ahead of his first
proper European tour.
DURGA
is a psych-prog landscapist duo: Berlin school electronics with
jazzgazing guitar trails. Modal digressions, faux-Mellotronix,
vapour-thin celestial scaffolding and heavy sunburst widescreen vistas.
\\\\\\ 10TH BIRTHDAY /////
UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10th BIRTHDAY PARTY
Featuring…
JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS
MICKEY GLOSS
THE WHARVES
Wednesday 18 December
Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
FICTIONAL BOYS is John Webster Johns
AKA Jack Name, a songwriter that Tim Presley recently described as a
'stubborn genius'. Currently a touring guitarist for Presley's band
White Fence, Johns spends much of his time releasing music under various
monikers (Fictional Boys and Muzz) and working behind-the-scenes as a
studio wizard /collaborator for the likes of Ariel Pink and Cass
McCombs. Next year, the Los Angeles native will release his debut album
under his latest project, Jack Name. Titled 'Light Show', it’s due out
January 21st via Drag City / Ty Segall's imprint God? Records. In
anticipation, Johns has shared his lead single 'Pure Terror' with the
interweb. It's a whirring psych-pop jam that couples his laid-back,
cloaked vocals with rambunctious guitars, it nicely balances the low-key
and lo-fi with straight-up wild, technicolor energy. He's singing about
terror, and as the song comes to its conclusion, his voice is enveloped
by these high, astral, childlike voices.
MICKEY GLOSS
is a psychedelic/punk party experiment that left the east coast of
Australia for London amidst the chaos and disorder of the riots in
summer 2011. Their compelling new album, 'Astral Projections For The
Kinetically Deranged', was released on November 18th through H Badger
Records. Signposting their anarchy and energy is lead single 'Are You
Happy?', where wry social commentary meets garage freakout in a
distillation of antipodean sun and London melancholia.
THE WHARVES
feature Marion Andrau on drums, Gemma Fleet on bass and Dearbhla
Minogue on guitar. The latter pair duet in counter-harmony and joyful
unison across their songs, a swirling, heavy, melodious mix of
charged-up electric folk and splashes of girl-group wonder. Think
Fairport Convention mixed with a primed Sleater Kinney vocal interplay.
Check out their new split LP with The Rosy Crucifixion on Soft Power
now!
This Sunday Upset The Rhythm will also be taking part in the Café OTO / LUX Christmas fair,
alongside a host of terrific independent publishers and labels. Xmas
presents anyone? The fair runs from noon – 5pm at OTO and also features
selected film screenings and live performances too.
Thanks for reading this modest missive,
All the best of times to you,
UPSET
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UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10TH BIRTHDAY
Featuring…
JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS
MICKEY GLOSS
THE WHARVES
Wednesday 18 December
Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
PETE SWANSON
HELM
Friday 10 January
Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
MAGIK MARKERS tomorrow!
Afternoon all!
One of our favourite bands, MAGIK MARKERS
touch down in London tomorrow, can’t tell you how excited we are! It
seems like forever since they were last over in the UK and their new
album ‘Surrender To The Fantasy’ is an incredible record,
full of squalling feedback, free-punk gravity and a newfound tender
songcraft. Tomorrow’s show at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club will also
see a special electric set from C JOYNES and William Rees aka VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE both performing too, it’s going to be the best. Here’s all you need to know…
\\\\\\ TOMORROW /////
MAGIK MARKERS
C JOYNES
VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE
Wednesday 20 November
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
MAGIK MARKERS self-referential improvisations and gritty brand of strutting, spinning and splitting in packed houses, panel trucks, and the underground sound and light discotheques, began in a Hartford basement around the Millennium. Whilst consistently releasing some wild material on their own Arbitrary Signs label the band have also spun out some remarkable records for Ecstatic Peace, Hospital Productions, Not Not Fun and most recently Drag City, who are releasing forthcoming album 'Surrender To The Fantasy'. 'STTF' (never too soon for the acronym) kicks off with that hoary old trope of punk records, the song about the Chesapeake Valley Runoff and the mating cycle of crabs. After that kind of in-your-face Attenborough-core, where could the record go? Nowhere but everywhere, all the creepy outposts of American detritus from other times, when hitchhiking and h-bombs were still hot, viable new ideas and on beyond. 'Acts of Desperation' is Shaggs-meets-Stones colour commentary on driveway laying, your mom's Merit Ultra-Light 100's and the lengths we'll go to filch a feel of some arcane notion of greatness. Here Pete "koan on loan" Nolan has nixed his kit into a galvanic psych lead. No lame attempt to smoke nutmeg for this jam; it scored real weed. For these New England nerfherders, whatever terror Hawthorne's wood was meant to hold dissolves in a beer fueled frugging party. 'Mirrorless', the deep-focus track/single-that-never- was/video-that's-about-to-be unspools its jewels and dissolves like all perfect ballads, with a giggle and a casual chorus of whistled free-melody and a sweet outro-solo. 'STTF' builds monolithically in it's penultimate moment, then blazes out with possibly the best prescription cough medicine solo in the history of Elisa Ambrogio's storied career. This is a Mainliner-ish ode to the American underbelly that spawned rock and roll heroes and bad life choices; long a topic of fascination and adoration in the MM camp, and it ends the Fantasy by beginning another.
C JOYNES is an English acoustic guitarist, a resident of Cambridge, heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical tradition. His approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste.
VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE is William Rees, a multi-instrumentalist currently based in London. Having spent six years studying Hindustani classical music in India, as well as being classically trained on the viola, Rees has a keen understanding of both Eastern and Western classical music. Rees’ viola playing is an esoteric blend of his disparate influences, ranging from Indian and Persian classical music, to modern composition and free improvisation. He released a cassette on Night Ritual Recordings in 2013, entitled A Burial Shroud.
Thanks as always for reading,
See you soon!
UTR
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LONNIE HOLLEY
(Dust To Digital)
DURGA
Thursday 5 December
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10TH BIRTHDAY
Featuring…
JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS
MICKEY GLOSS
Wednesday 18 December
Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
PETE SWANSON
Friday 10 January
Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
Friday, 15 November 2013
GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS tomorrow and MAGIK MARKERS next week!
Morning everyone!
Thank you for coming to see No Joy earlier this week and for all your support for our new releases by WAY THROUGH, GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS
too. Over the last five days we’ve spent most of our time mailing out
records to you all over the world! It’s always such an exciting time,
never gets old. Tomorrow night we return to the Shacklewell Arms for GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS’
final night of their European tour. Tickets cost only £5, will be
available on the door and the show runs early finishing by 10.30pm.
Bomber Jackets are no longer able to perform, due to unforeseen
circumstances, but we now have ample time to soak up MICKEY GLOSS’ DJ set
in full, plus the GW/ PP split LPs will be in attendance in all their
silver and black splatter vinyl splendor (easy for me to say). We’re
also announcing today our 10th birthday party show featuring JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS on December 18th and our first event of 2014 featuring PETE SWANSON on January 10th. Lots more details to follow, including the full blurb of next Wednesday’s MAGIK MARKERS show too, enjoy…
\\\\\\ TOMORROW /////
GARY WAR
PURPLE PILGRIMS
MICKEY GLOSS (DJ SET)
Saturday 16 November
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB
7.30pm - 10.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
GARY WAR
has previously served alongside John Maus and Ariel Pink in Haunted
Graffiti and also has a burgeoning catalogue of solo material released
on Captured Tracks, Spectrum Spools and Knife Slits Water, and Sacred
Bones. Gary War makes awesome zonked-out future music oozing with a
disembodied soul and draped in heavy drones, unafraid to deploy feedback
and thick waves of analogue fuzz for a luciously head-warping effect.
War is touring in support of his new split LP on Upset The Rhythm which
takes deeper step into a pool of progressive maximal wave and distinctly
modern psychedelia.
PURPLE PILGRIMS are an outsider dream pop duo of sisters from Christchurch via Hong Kong. Clementine and Valentine Nixon make delicate, hypnotic vocals hover gently above spectral waves of guitar and exotic abstraction, as subtle beds of rhythm lock step in the distance. The Pilgrims have distilled the mysterious hybrid of shimmering distortion and je ne sais quoi that have long attracted global purveyors of the N.Z. underground into it's absolute purest form. As perfect a soundtrack to observe the latest night transform into the earliest morning as one could ever dream of hearing. Following on from their first lathe cut, Upset The Rhythm have released a split LP with Gary War to coincide with their European tour.
PURPLE PILGRIMS are an outsider dream pop duo of sisters from Christchurch via Hong Kong. Clementine and Valentine Nixon make delicate, hypnotic vocals hover gently above spectral waves of guitar and exotic abstraction, as subtle beds of rhythm lock step in the distance. The Pilgrims have distilled the mysterious hybrid of shimmering distortion and je ne sais quoi that have long attracted global purveyors of the N.Z. underground into it's absolute purest form. As perfect a soundtrack to observe the latest night transform into the earliest morning as one could ever dream of hearing. Following on from their first lathe cut, Upset The Rhythm have released a split LP with Gary War to coincide with their European tour.
MICKEY GLOSS
is a songwriter, producer, DJ and serial music creep from Australia.
His goal as a DJ is to blend his own musical satisfactions into one
entity that explores a lineage of abrasive texture, pop gold and
arrangement finesse. Expect to hear remixed partitions of songs,
odd-ball classics and songs you will that will peak your curious brow.
\\\\\\ WEDNESDAY /////
MAGIK MARKERS
C JOYNES
VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE
Wednesday 20 November
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £8.00 | TICKETS
MAGIK MARKERS self-referential improvisations and gritty brand of strutting, spinning and splitting in packed houses, panel trucks, and the underground sound and light discotheques, began in a Hartford basement around the Millennium. Whilst consistently releasing some wild material on their own Arbitrary Signs label the band have also spun out some remarkable records for Ecstatic Peace, Hospital Productions, Not Not Fun and most recently Drag City, who are releasing forthcoming album 'Surrender To The Fantasy'. 'STTF' (never too soon for the acronym) kicks off with that hoary old trope of punk records, the song about the Chesapeake Valley Runoff and the mating cycle of crabs. After that kind of in-your-face Attenborough-core, where could the record go? Nowhere but everywhere, all the creepy outposts of American detritus from other times, when hitchhiking and h-bombs were still hot, viable new ideas and on beyond. 'Acts of Desperation' is Shaggs-meets-Stones colour commentary on driveway laying, your mom's Merit Ultra-Light 100's and the lengths we'll go to filch a feel of some arcane notion of greatness. Here Pete "koan on loan" Nolan has nixed his kit into a galvanic psych lead. No lame attempt to smoke nutmeg for this jam; it scored real weed. For these New England nerfherders, whatever terror Hawthorne's wood was meant to hold dissolves in a beer fueled frugging party. 'Mirrorless', the deep-focus track/single-that-never- was/video-that's-about-to-be unspools its jewels and dissolves like all perfect ballads, with a giggle and a casual chorus of whistled free-melody and a sweet outro-solo. 'STTF' builds monolithically in it's penultimate moment, then blazes out with possibly the best prescription cough medicine solo in the history of Elisa Ambrogio's storied career. This is a Mainliner-ish ode to the American underbelly that spawned rock and roll heroes and bad life choices; long a topic of fascination and adoration in the MM camp, and it ends the Fantasy by beginning another.
C JOYNES is an English acoustic guitarist, a resident of Cambridge, heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions: the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; proto-minimalist and impressionist musics from the European classical tradition. His approach to the recording and compositional process contains a subtle and unassuming experimentation, at times including collaged fragments, field recordings, processing, en-plein-air recordings, and cut-and-paste.
VIBRATIONAL TEMPLE is William Rees, a multi-instrumentalist currently based in London. Having spent six years studying Hindustani classical music in India, as well as being classically trained on the viola, Rees has a keen understanding of both Eastern and Western classical music. Rees’ viola playing is an esoteric blend of his disparate influences, ranging from Indian and Persian classical music, to modern composition and free improvisation. He released a cassette on Night Ritual Recordings in 2013, entitled A Burial Shroud.
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Have the best weekend,
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LONNIE HOLLEY
(Dust To Digital)
DURGA
Thursday 5 December
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.00 | TICKETS
UPSET THE RHYTHM’S 10TH BIRTHDAY
Featuring…
JACK NAME / FICTIONAL BOYS
Wednesday 18 December
Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
PETE SWANSON
Friday 10 January
Tufnell Park Dome, 2 Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
8pm | £10.00 | TICKETS
Monday, 11 November 2013
NO JOY tonight and new records from WAY THROUGH and GARY WAR / PURPLE PILGRIMS
Morning everyone!
It’s a busy Monday for us at Upset The Rhythm, tonight we have the brilliant NO JOY and FEAR OF MEN
playing tonight at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, plus we also have
two new releases leaping into the world today. Our first record is a
split LP between GARY WAR and PURPLE PILGRIMS who are
touring Europe presently (playing London on Saturday!), 180g
silver-n-black vinyl, 500 copies only, maximal wave and orbiting
melancholia! Our second is WAY THROUGH’s new album ‘Clapper Is Still’, 180g white vinyl and digipak CD, described by Caught By The River as “an ecstatic survey of England: clattering and chopped music of concrete, crops, rosettes and rituals.” Both are available in shops across the land now, including from our webshop where they cost £10 (including postage in the UK).
Listen here!
Thanks for reading, listening, looking…
\\\\\\ TONIGHT /////
NO JOY FEAR OF MEN
Monday 11 November
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | TICKETS
NO JOY
are a Montreal noise-pop band, rooted heavily in shoegaze ripcurls and
devastating melody. Jasamine White-Gluz, Laura Lloyd and Garland
Hastings knock down the fence between nostalgia and modernity, chaos and
control. On new album 'Wait To Pleasure' you can hear what’s happening
under the surface, a work that subverts the expectations of where a
latter-day approach to that genre might be able to take the listener.
“We get a lot of the obvious comparisons,” Laura says about the band’s
music, favorably likened to the stormier side of the pond, where bands
like Lush and Swervedriver used to reside, as well as the templates for
that sound in groups like Hüsker Dü. 'Lunar Phobia' finds Jasamine’s
ethereal vocal harmonies prismatically split in the studio environment,
with syncopated and chopped-up rhythms last heard in Alan Moulder’s work
with groups of yore like Curve, a seamless blend of digital tricks and
analog guitar crunch. Better to drill into your skull before you realize
what’s happening – better to let all of their sometimes-stinging,
sometimes-syrupy music into that new hole in your head.
FEAR OF MEN
draw their inspiration from art and philosophy, deliberately juxtaposes
iconic museum imagery and lyrical themes of loneliness and
fragmentation with buoyant pop melodies. Fans of Broadcast and Julie
Doiron will instantly gravitate toward their tender vocals and melodies.
The songs are beguilingly sweet while the lyrics are often bleakly
nihilistic, meaning that you’ll find yourself singing along to these
intelligent, well-crafted pop songs while unwittingly sinking deeper
into Fear of Men’s world. 'Early Fragments' (Kanine Records) was
released earlier this year, a reverse chronological collection of their
previous single releases, many of which were only available on limited
edition 7” and cassette pressings.
\\\\\\ SATURDAY /////
GARY WAR
PURPLE PILGRIMS
BOMBER JACKETS
Saturday 16 November
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB
7.30pm - 10.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS
GARY WAR
has previously served alongside John Maus and Ariel Pink in Haunted
Graffiti and also has a burgeoning catalogue of solo material released
on Captured Tracks, Spectrum Spools and Knife Slits Water, and Sacred
Bones. Gary War makes awesome zonked-out future music oozing with a
disembodied soul and draped in heavy drones, unafraid to deploy feedback
and thick waves of analogue fuzz for a luciously head-warping effect.
War is touring in support of his new split LP on Upset The Rhythm which
takes deeper step into a pool of progressive maximal wave and distinctly
modern psychedelia.
PURPLE PILGRIMS are an outsider dream pop duo of sisters from Christchurch via Hong Kong. Clementine and Valentine Nixon make delicate, hypnotic vocals hover gently above spectral waves of guitar and exotic abstraction, as subtle beds of rhythm lock step in the distance. The Pilgrims have distilled the mysterious hybrid of shimmering distortion and je ne sais quoi that have long attracted global purveyors of the N.Z. underground into it's absolute purest form. As perfect a soundtrack to observe the latest night transform into the earliest morning as one could ever dream of hearing. Following on from their first lathe cut, Upset The Rhythm will be releasing a split LP with Gary War to coincide with their European tour.
PURPLE PILGRIMS are an outsider dream pop duo of sisters from Christchurch via Hong Kong. Clementine and Valentine Nixon make delicate, hypnotic vocals hover gently above spectral waves of guitar and exotic abstraction, as subtle beds of rhythm lock step in the distance. The Pilgrims have distilled the mysterious hybrid of shimmering distortion and je ne sais quoi that have long attracted global purveyors of the N.Z. underground into it's absolute purest form. As perfect a soundtrack to observe the latest night transform into the earliest morning as one could ever dream of hearing. Following on from their first lathe cut, Upset The Rhythm will be releasing a split LP with Gary War to coincide with their European tour.
BOMBER JACKETS
are the London based trio of Russell Walker, Daniel Bolger and Sian
Dorrer. The former two names you may recognise from their roles in
prolific post-punk nitwits The Pheromoans, whilst the latter has played
in various groups in London’s thriving DIY scene and opened the
notorious London venue Power Lunches. 'The Lister’ is their first full
length and the most focussed statement of their singular and somewhat
awkward aesthetic. Musical reference points could be directed towards
early Legendary Pink Dots, Hype Williams, early European minimal synth
and even Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks score, whilst evoking a
scenario that feels a somewhat uneasy - a hungover / slightly drunk
train journey to somewhere you don’t really want to be but at the same
time can’t avoid, trying to step outside of yourself to raise a wry and
knowing smile at the misfortune along the way.
One last thing before we sign off, our friends at Baba Yaga’s Hut and Bleed are organizing a show for JAMES FERRARO tomorrow at Corsica Studios, interested parties, check this out interesting party.
See you soon!
UTR
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GARY WAR & PURPLE PILGRIMS
‘October / November’ – UK TOUR
11.11 - Prague - Pilot Club
13.11 - Utrecht - DB's
16.11 - London - Shacklewell Arms
13.11 - Utrecht - DB's
16.11 - London - Shacklewell Arms
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