Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Nap Eyes & Cian Nugent this Saturday, Nots next Monday!


Afternoon all!
Firstly, thank you so much for coming to see Neil Hagerty & The Howling Hex last week, much fun was had, thanks for your support! This week we’ve been busy confirming new shows left, right and centre, leaving us with three to share with you. On June 16th we’re vey pleased to have Holly Herndon accomplice Colin Self bring his evocative music to a decidedly dramatic Courtyard Theatre. Using his voice, body and computer software, Self’s practice opens up a highly distinctive space that challenges the boundaries between human consciousness and technology. Self’s performance is highly charged, sumptuous and transformative and it’ll really be something to experience in the flesh. Our other two newly announced concerts will both take place this September at Café OTO. The first on September 5th features the bittersweet melodics of expansive alter-pop chanteur Chris Cohen. The second event is in collaboration with our friends Caught by the River and sees field-recording artist Kate Carr headline with support from The London Sound Survey. Carr’s music is an eerie symphony of cracking power lines, cries of water birds and the high pitched whine of nuclear towers; it cleanses and redeems all who listen.

Over the next following week Upset The Rhythm have two more dates for your diary approaching fast! This upcoming Saturday we have a co-headline show from wistful brothers in arms Cian Nugent and Nap Eyes, with Gold Foil kicking things off at MOTH Club. Whilst next Monday we’re Lexington-bound for a triumvirate of hooky post-punk energy with Nots, Monster Treasure and Es. There will be plenty of synth-weirding, gang-vocals and squalling punk to go round, so I hope you can join us! Full listings for both of these follow on…


\\\\\     SATURDAY     /////


CIAN NUGENT
NAP EYES
GOLD FOIL
Saturday 21 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, Hackney, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/352513

CIAN NUGENT is a mercurial guitar player and composer from Dublin, Ireland. Cian combines personal passions, such as suburban/coastal blues, traditional musics, late 1960s-'70s singer-songwriters, jazz ambitions, 20th century composition and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. New album, ‘Night Fiction’ is Cian Nugent's third album but his first taking on the role of singer-songwriter. Where his previous two albums: 2013's ‘Born With The Caul’ and 2011's ‘Doubles’ saw him exploring extended guitar based instrumentals with his band, The Cosmos, here he has reigned things in and focused his songwriting skills. Guitar fans, do not fear, there is still plenty of soloing and fingerpicking here. With 7 songs both solo and with his band, this album amalgamates everything Cian has done up to this point and reveals a more broad palate of influences, including The Velvet Underground, Richard Thompson, Television, Neil Young, John Lennon, Fred Neil, etc. This show is acting as Cian’s London record release for ‘Night Fiction’ and will see him perform with a full band, ‘Night Fiction’ is out now on Woodsist.
https://soundcloud.com/cian-nugent

NAP EYES hail from Nova Scotia and make crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, their songs are equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA and the Earth’s magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about insomnia and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order; solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science. It’s the sound of being young and alive in the city, a tenuous and impermanent counterpoise of recklessness and anxiety, archness and earnestness. Following last year’s reissue of their 2014 debut ‘Whine of the Mystic’ on Paradise of Bachelors, Nap Eyes released an album of all-new material entitled ‘Thought Rock Fish Scale’ earlier this year.
https://napeyes.bandcamp.com/

GOLD FOIL offer up some truly end-of-my-tether punk/post-punk. Members of various band including UTR friends and family.
https://twitter.com/goldfoilband




\\\\\     NEXT MONDAY     /////


NOTS
MONSTER TREASURE
ES
Monday 23 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/349979

NOTS are a garage punk band from Memphis. Their debut album, ‘We Are Nots’, offers an aggressive blend of echoing guitars, powerful drums, synthesisers, and gang vocals. They're a united front, belligerent and dizzying in their approach. For each song on Nots’ debut album (on Heavenly), there’s a word or phrase that makes itself prominent, forcefully. They’re used as bludgeons, shouted by multiple voices, often lobbed with disdain or disgust. With these kinds of choruses, they come out of the gate with undeniable power, but Nots aren’t merely offering a surface-level veneer of "creepy" or "strange." Natalie Hoffmann, Charlotte Watson, Madison Farmer, and Alexandra Eastburn are, at times, incredibly bleak. They’re letting you know that they’ve lived through some serious stuff. Here are some of their song points of reference: a person stumbling in the dark while consumed by rage, joyless posturing, blank smiles, blood on the lawn, decay. Every member of the band plays a role in adding heft and urgency to complement the lyrics. There's Farmer's persistently ominous bass, Hoffmann's swirling and echoing hellscape guitars, Watson's unrelenting bash, and perhaps the most imperative weapon in Nots' arsenal, Eastburn's ever-present synthesiser. The structures, stories, and overall tones differ enough from song to song that this never feels like a monotone slog. They've created a surefooted, aesthetic defining opening statement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of6tfvStNdI

MONSTER TREASURE of Stockton, California are a punk-influenced power trio. They’re loud, heavy and fuzz-dipped with dreamy harmonies and cacophonous drums. Gearing their garage sound with a thrift shop heart, Monster Treaure also wield a sonic menace that will lay waste to everything in its path. They been around since 2011, and have since then released a split seven-inch with Babysitter out on Shake! Records. They also have an EP cassette release that has been sold out forever. Their self-titled debut album is available now on Brooklyn-based label Harlot, meanwhile the band are currently writing their second album.
https://soundcloud.com/monstertreasure

ES are a new band featuring Maria, Flora, Tamsin and Katy, who you may know from their other excellent bands Primetime, Gloss Rejection, The Worms and Black Fungus. Weaving sinewy keyboard lines and a direct vocal around the bass and drums they write stark songs that are as hard to pin down as they are inventive.
https://twitter.com/EsEsEs_band



Thanks hugely for reading this! One last quick reminder, our friend Paul has set up a free show on Thursday night for Entrance and Sleepy Doug Shaw at Servant Jazz Quarters, we think it’s going to be brilliant so wanted to help spread the word, check it out!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\
 
CIAN NUGENT
NAP EYES
GOLD FOIL
Saturday 21 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, Hackney, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/352513

NOTS
MONSTER TREASURE
ES
Monday 23 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/349979

DOWNTOWN BOYS
TRASH KIT
ULTIMATE GUITAR TABS
Tuesday 31 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/347811

KAREN GWYER
CONTAINER
GIANT SWAN
Friday 3 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/354985

In collaboration with Caught by the River…
DARREN HAYMAN & BAND performing ‘Thankful Villages’
JULY SKIES
Plus Spoken Word & Nature Disco
Saturday 4 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/354014 

GENEVA JACUZZI
LIBERATION
MOONBOW
Tuesday 7 June
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/353484

JOE & RICK POTTS
POTTS VETZA POTTS TRIO
VETZA
LAFMS documentary - ‘how low can you go?’
Tuesday 14 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London N16 8JN
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358852

COLIN SELF
I KNOW I’M AN ALIEN
Thursday 16 June
Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6EU
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361432

In collaboration with Cafe OTO…
JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
w/ EVAN PARKER
JOSHUA ABRAMS / EVAN PARKER DUO
Friday 17 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | https://cafeoto.co.uk/events/joshua-abrams-natural-information-society/

CC DUST
STATIC PALM
BADABOUM
Thursday 23 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/359147

TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS
AUSMUTEANTS
Friday 24 June
O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY
7pm | £17 | http://www.songkick.com/concerts/26246629-ty-segall-and-the-muggers-at-o2-forum-kentish-town

EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/353942 

LUCKY DRAGONS
JIN&DAUN
Saturday 2 July
DIY Space For London, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358213 
DIYSFL is a members club, become a member here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/ 

SONIC BOOM
Saturday 9 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
6.30pm - 10pm | £10 | http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/sonic-boom-tickets

PROTOMARTYR
Thursday 14 July
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £12.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/359028 

THE OBLIVIANS
DEAF WISH
Wednesday 27 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £16 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/355934

HEATHER LEIGH
ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday 4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358631

CHRIS COHEN
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146  

In collaboration with Caught by the River…
KATE CARR
THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY
DJ NICK LUSCOMBE
Thursday 22 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361817

UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/356180

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New show announced for Kate Carr, The London Sound Survey and Nick Luscombe!


Upset The Rhythm & Caught by the River present...



KATE CARR
THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY
DJ NICK LUSCOMBE
Thursday 22 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361817

KATE CARR has been investigating the intersections between sound, place, and emotionality both as an artist and a curator since 2010. Her work has taken her from the Arctic circle to the borderlands of South Africa, with stops in rural Thailand, fishing villages in Iceland, and rainforests in Mexico, along with extensive explorations of western Europe, Ireland and the British Isles. Her music is an eerie symphony of cracking power lines, cries of water birds and the high pitched wine of nuclear towers, Carr’s recordings trace the temporary wetlands of Marnay-sur-Seine, situated alongside a large nuclear power plant, just after the flooding of the river. New album, ’I Had Myself A Nuclear Spring’ came to fruition last year, when Carr spent a month alone in Marnay, a small town of about 200 people in the champagne district of France, about 120 kilometres east of Paris. The surrounding woodlands provided an astonishing landscape to explore. Full of mud, water, rusting machinery, old boats, logs, and birds, it is a place Carr refers to as “spectacular, eerie and ugly”. In the spring, many of the roads into the town were closed, having been flooded with water up to about chest height and the many dirt tracks through the forest were transformed into fast flowing streams.

Determined to document each surrounding sound, Carr procured a rusty bike and spent time slipping, sliding, falling and wading through bogs, ponds, surging streams and flooded fields. “These muddy marshes filled with buzzing electrical towers, corroded machinery, shrieking birds and canals feeding a nuclear complex were like nothing I had ever seen,” she notes. “Water has inundated our language. There is a watery word which can adequately serve for almost every emotional state we can imagine. The happy tinkle of a mountain stream, the drama of stormy seas, murky depths, and turbulent rivers. Water is unknowable and uncontainable – it floods and overflows, forms whirlpools and eddies. It surges, and runs away. Water leaves us to drown, float, sink or swim. It cleanses and redeems; it stagnates and threatens.” ‘I Had Myself A Nuclear Spring’ is released on 26th August via Caught by the River’s Rivertones label. You can pre-order the album now here: https://caughtbytheriver.greedbag.com/
https://soundcloud.com/katecarr 

THE LONDON SOUND SURVEY collects the sounds of everyday public life throughout London and compiles past accounts to show how the sound environment has changed. The idea for the London Sound Survey formed while Ian Rawes was working as a storeman in the British Library Sound Archive. Older members of staff still referred to their workplace by its former title, the National Sound Archive, so the website's name was a hybrid of that and A Survey of London, the book written by John Stow in 1598. The historical aspects of sound can be as interesting as its present-day manifestations, sometimes more so. Ian made his first London recordings in April 2008 and the site went online just over a year later. Since then it's grown from about 200 recordings to 2,000 and progressed from a hobby almost to a full-time project. Alongside his own efforts he’s been pleased to feature work by Richard Beard, Andre Louis, Stuart Fisher, Felicity Ford, Jonathan Prior and others. Ian gives regular historical talks under the general title of London's Lost Worlds of Sound, presenting and discussing some of the archival recordings featured in the London Sound Survey, whilst certain recordings have also been featured on BBC Radio London, World Service, Resonance FM, and BBC1 London news. Sounds from the site have also been used on Radio 4 and in audiobooks released by BBC Worldwide.
http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/

DJ NICK LUSCOMBE is a British radio DJ, having presented various self-selected new music shows since 1999 for the likes of XFM, BBC 6 Music, Resonance FM and BBC World service. His hugely engaging Flowmotion radio show has been broadcast every week on FM radio since 2000. He has also presented BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction since 2010 too.
http://www.flomotionradio.com/ 
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SAUNA YOUTH - European Tripping / May & June 2016



Here are some long-awaited tour dates for Sauna Youth around Europe for you (this month and next), taking in lots of Germany and some shows with Orden Mundial, Sleaford Mods and Royal Headache, very nice! Hopefully they're coming to your town, check out the dates...



SAUNA YOUTH - EURO TOUR

27/05 - Paris, FRA @ Villette Sonique w/ Sleaford Mods
28/05 - Sheffield, UK @ The Lughole w/ Orden Mundial, Protex, Detergents
31/05 - Antwerp, BEL @ Music City
01/06 - Köln, GER @ Sonic Ballroom
02/06 - Mannheim, GER @ Kurzbar
03/06 - Düdingen, SWZ @ Bad Bonn Kilbi
04/06 - Frankfurt, GER @ Au-Fest
05/06 - Halle, GER @ Party Hasi
06/06 - Leipzig, GER @ Noch Besser Leben
07/06 - Dresden, GER @ Chemiefabrik
08/06 - Berlin, GER @ Urban Spree
09/06 - Hamburg, GER @ Hafenklang
10/06 - Groningen, NED @ Vera w/ Royal Headache



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Thursday, 12 May 2016

Brand new shows announced for Chris Cohen and Colin Self!!!


Upset The Rhythm presents…

COLIN SELF
Thursday 16 June
Courtyard Theatre, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Shoreditch, N1 6U
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361432  

Colin Self utilises the voice, the body and computer software in his practise to open up a highly distinctive space that challenges the boundaries between human consciousness and technology. His music explores the transformative power of the human voice drawing on a diverse set of influences that include queer theory, liturgical ritual, trap rhythms and electro-acoustic sound design. He is known for his highly charged, physical performances that combine his vocal virtuosity with choreographed movement and electronic processing, unfolding into a compelling play of transmutation.

Elation is the debut solo release from Colin Self. The album is comprised of music from The Elation Series, a six-part opera demonstrating themes of transformation and global consciousness. He has performed in galleries worldwide, from the global queer underground to contemporary art galleries such as PS1 MoMA and Issue Project Room. He is also a close collaborator of Holly Herndon, contributing vocals/production on her latest record ‘Platform’ as well as being a member of her new live set up.
https://soundcloud.com/colin-self




Upset The Rhythm presents…


CHRIS COHEN
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146  

Chris Cohen is a native of Los Angeles currently residing in the farmlands of Vermont. He is the child of a former music business executive and a former Broadway actress. His resumé of prior musical projects is a long one: as a contributing member of The Curtains, Cryptacize, Deerhoof, and Natural Dreamers, he released 10 full-length albums between 2002 and 2008. Along the way, Cohen was also a touring player with White Magic, Cass McCombs, Haunted Graffiti and Danielson, among others, for stints both short and long. All of this culminated in his first release under his own name, and his first for Captured Tracks, 'Overgrown Path'. A singing drummer who writes psychedelic pop music, Cohen also records his own bass, Casio MT65, piano, and guitar. Tracks like “Caller No. 99″ and “Monad” follow idiosyncratic forms, but are still melodic in an unconventional and homegrown way – like the best of Robert Wyatt, Mayo Thompson, Syd Barrett, and Jerry Garcia. 'Overgrown Path' unfolded its delicate and unexpected arrangements around Cohen’s relaxed baritone, unhurriedly revealing the detailed world wrapped up in each song. ‘As If Apart’, the long-awaited sequel to Chris Cohen’s 2012 soft psych garden of unearthly alter-pop, follows on from its predecessor with another bittersweet ensemble of dreamy, complex songs. Pushing the idiosyncrasies of Cohen's melodic and rhythmic approach into even more fractured, shifting spaces, ‘As if Apart’ unsettles lazy pop conventions, upending jaded heads and hearts with an expansive, moody psychedelia.
https://soundcloud.com/capturedtracks/chris-cohen-in-a-fable


 
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Monday, 9 May 2016

Geneva Jacuzzi and Liberation poster!

Wonderful Geneva Jacuzzi poster, designed by Braulio Amado!

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Sunday, 8 May 2016

Neil Michael Hagerty in London next week and Cian Nugent, Nap Eyes soon!










Hello again!
Summer has well and truly arrived this weekend, I’m typing this whilst holding an ice cream. I hope you’re enjoying a park somewhere with a full complement of food, drink and sunshine. We’re gearing up for next week’s Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex show! Taking place at MOTH Club on Tuesday night, we’re very fortunate to have Manchester’s outer limits rockers Irma Vep and the dulcet Alistair McKay lending their talents to the evening too.
It’s going to be an auspicious night of howling guitars and snaking songs from the Royal Trux/Pussy Galore member with tickets on the door for £10 and live music commencing from 8.10pm. Come and wade deep in the New Border Sound!
You can also find below the full listing for our upcoming Cian Nugent, Nap Eyes and Gold Foil show, also at MOTH Club, this time on May 21st. If you like your music to walk an intelligent line from brisk observation to unwound abandon then this show will overfloweth your cup.
 
Our complete program of concerts can be found at the conclusion of this message too, including events for Ty Segall, Lucky Dragons, Eartheater and The Oblivians, to mention just a few. To stem your interest further, here’s a poster we made this morning for next month’s Karen Gwyer, Container and Giant Swan concert to end all concerts. All colours are popping!




 
 

NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX
IRMA VEP
ALISTAIR MCKAY
Tuesday 10 May
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX have stepped back out into the sunshine for the first time since ‘The Best Of The Howling Hex’ back in 2013. Since then they have refocused on the immediate pleasures found within the writing and playing of a single song. This direction, explored in a pair of limited edition singles released over the past two years, reaches a populist zenith on the new album, ‘Denver’ on Drag City, in which an entire community and geographic region are tapped for their energy, the celebratory pulses of which feed the new music. To achieve this effect in the ultimately democratic conception of The Howling Hex’s New Border Sound, Neil cranked up his guitar-playing to dominant levels that recall his playing in Pussy Galore and Royal Trux. Coupled with the beats and, at times, requiring different inflections from the beat, Neil’s howling guitar sounds elevate the music of ‘Denver’ to an ecstatic communal expression, the likes of which will no doubt massage pleasure centres in the make-up of modern popular music listeners. As guitarist in Pussy Galore, Neil Hagerty re-invented long hair and blue jeans. As one half of Royal Trux he forged a guitar/vocal/boogie paradigm unheralded in contemporary music. The mercury sound of Royal Trux however will never be imitated. Somewhere past Sonny and Linda Sharrock, out past the fuel rig blast of time, Hagerty's textural shifts are uniquely, harmolodically hung.
IRMA VEP is the long-term project of Edwin Stevens. As the alpha member of the Manchester underground music nerd set – a mirror world of the city’s explicit culture, where benevolence, good vibes, an active pursuit of self-doubt and a hazy absence of self-importance are paradoxically coupled with your usual countercultural aural fuck-you-ism – he’s played regularly in at least five completely stylistically unconnected formations at any one time since moving to the city from North Wales about eight years ago. Recent Golden Lab release, ‘Disappointment’ is a unification of everything he’s been brilliant at within various contexts. From ecstatically ripping it up ostrich freestyle to singing beautiful, sincere songs of apology and regret, both disparate elements coalesce in Irma Vep into a wondrously weird, hypnotic, earnest, outer limits rock. For this show Edwin will be accompanied by a full band of sonic miscreants.
ALISTAIR MCKAY from Melbourne, now living in London, plays guitar and sings in Australia’s deep pop thinkers Dick Diver. Dick Diver’s recent album ‘Melbourne, Florida’ (Chapter Music / Trouble In Mind) pays tribute to Jim Morrison, Kylie, confused travellers, high school quiz nights and much more, all in the space of 12 very beautiful pop songs. For this show Al will performing an intimate solo set on guitar and vocals.


CIAN NUGENT - ‘Night Fiction’ release party!!!
NAP EYES
GOLD FOIL
Saturday 21 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, Hackney, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
CIAN NUGENT is a mercurial guitar player and composer from Dublin, Ireland. Cian combines personal passions, such as suburban/coastal blues, traditional musics, late 1960s-'70s singer-songwriters, jazz ambitions, 20th century composition and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. New album, ‘Night Fiction’ is Cian Nugent's third album but his first taking on the role of singer-songwriter. Where his previous two albums: 2013's ‘Born With The Caul’ and 2011's ‘Doubles’ saw him exploring extended guitar based instrumentals with his band, The Cosmos, here he has reigned things in and focused his songwriting skills. Guitar fans, do not fear, there is still plenty of soloing and fingerpicking here. With 7 songs both solo and with his band, this album amalgamates everything Cian has done up to this point and reveals a more broad palate of influences, including The Velvet Underground, Richard Thompson, Television, Neil Young, John Lennon, Fred Neil, etc. This show is acting as Cian’s London record release for ‘Night Fiction’ and will see him perform with a full band, ‘Night Fiction’ is out now on Woodsist.
https://soundcloud.com/cian-nugent

NAP EYES hail from Nova Scotia and make crooked, literate guitar pop refracted through the gray Halifax rain. Recorded live to tape with no overdubs, their songs are equal parts shambling and sophisticated, with one eye on the dirt and one trained on the starry firmament, inhabiting a skewed world where odes to NASA and the Earth’s magnetic field coexist easily with lyrics about insomnia and drinking too much. In the world of Nap Eyes, workaday details punctuate (and puncture) cosmic concerns, as songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitarist Nigel Chapman wrestles with air and angels, struggling (and often failing) to reconcile the Romantic rifts, both real and imagined, that define our lives: between chaos and order; solipsism and fellowship; the anxiety of social (dis)orders both big and small; and the various intersections and oppositions of religion, art, and science. It’s the sound of being young and alive in the city, a tenuous and impermanent counterpoise of recklessness and anxiety, archness and earnestness. Following last year’s reissue of their 2014 debut ‘Whine of the Mystic’ on Paradise of Bachelors, Nap Eyes released an album of all-new material entitled ‘Thought Rock Fish Scale’ earlier this year.
GOLD FOIL offer up some truly end-of-my-tether punk/post-punk. Members of various band including UTR friends and family.
 
Thanks go out to all of you for coming to see The Space Lady and Daniel Bachman this week, it was great to see so many of you there.
One last thing, our friend Paul has set up a free show on May 19th for Entrance and Sleepy Doug Shaw at Servant Jazz Quarters, we think it’s going to be brilliant so wanted to help spread the word, see you there.
Thanks so much for your support, over and out!
Upset The Rhythm
x

 
UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS  
NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX
IRMA VEP
ALISTAIR MCKAY
Tuesday 10 May
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
CIAN NUGENT - ‘Night Fiction’ release party!!!
NAP EYES
GOLD FOIL
Saturday 21 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, Hackney, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
NOTS
MONSTER TREASURE
ES
Monday 23 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
DOWNTOWN BOYS
TRASH KIT
ULTIMATE GUITAR TABS
Tuesday 31 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
KAREN GWYER
CONTAINER
GIANT SWAN
Friday 3 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
DARREN HAYMAN & BAND performing ‘Thankful Villages’
JULY SKIES
Plus Spoken Word & Nature Disco
Saturday 4 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | TICKETS 
GENEVA JACUZZI
LIBERATION
Tuesday 7 June
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £7 | TICKETS
JOE & RICK POTTS
POTTS VETZA POTTS TRIO
VETZA
LAFMS documentary - ‘how low can you go?’
Tuesday 14 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London N16 8JN
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
In collaboration with Cafe OTO…
JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
w/ EVAN PARKER
JOSHUA ABRAMS / EVAN PARKER DUO
Friday 17 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | TICKETS
CC DUST
STATIC PALM
Thursday 23 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
8pm | £5 |TICKETS

TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS
AUSMUTEANTS
Friday 24 June
O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY
7pm | £17.50 | TICKETS
EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS 
LUCKY DRAGONS
JIN&DAUN
Saturday 2 July
DIY Space For London, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
DIYSFL is a members club, become a member here.
SONIC BOOM
Saturday 9 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
6.30pm - 10pm | £10 | TICKETS
PROTOMARTYR
Thursday 14 July
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS
THE OBLIVIANS
DEAF WISH
Wednesday 27 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £16 | TICKETS
HEATHER LEIGH
ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday 4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | TICKETS
UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS
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Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Upcoming shows for The Space Lady and Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex!

 
 
 
  
Afternoon all!
 
We’ve got two more shows on the horizon for you in the next week. Tomorrow we set up orbit around Bethnal Green in anticipation of The Space Lady landing her song-craft. Her wonderful, spectral music will echo off the walls of the Working Men’s Club and will be accompanied by the verdant acoustic explorations of Daniel Bachman too, sounds like a sedate one, looking forward!
 
Then next Tuesday we’re extremely happy to have Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex playing at MOTH Club in support of their brand new Drag City album called ‘Denver’. Hagerty’s outbursts of harmolodic blitz are a pleasure to behold and with Irma Vep and Alistair McKay on the bill too it looks set to be a memorable night of outer limits rock. Read on for more on both of those superb shows.
Also in the last few days, wearing our record label cap, we’ve just announced our upcoming album from Melbourne quartet Terry. Entitled ‘Terry HQ’ the album will venture forth on July 1st and collects ten of the most perfectly misshapen glam pop tracks you’re ever likely to hear. Our pre-order link is up now too!
 
Plus you can listen to ‘Don’t Say Sorry’, the first track of the album now, “why would you say sorry for that?”
 
 
 
 
THE SPACE LADY
DANIEL BACHMAN
Thursday 5 May
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | TICKETS
 
THE SPACE LADY began her odyssey on the streets of San Francisco in the late 70s, playing versions of contemporary pop music an accordion and dressed flamboyantly, transmitting messages of peace and harmony. Following the theft of her accordion, The Space Lady invested in a then-new Casio keyboard, birthing an otherworldly new dimension to popular song that has captured the imaginations of the underground and its lead exponents ever since, with the likes of John Maus, Erol Alkan and Kutmah being devotees. Of her early street sets, only one recording was made, self-released originally on cassette and then transferred to a homemade CD. "The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits" released in 2014 through Night School features the best of these recordings - mostly covers but with some originals - pressed on vinyl for the first time and features archival photographs and liner notes from The Space Lady herself. “Greatest Hits” contains The Space Lady’s personal favourites; her haunting take on The Electric Prunes’ “I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night),” a frantic “Ballroom Blitz” amidst other reconstructed pop music. Following on from this wonderful record, The Space Lady released last year a split LP with the Burnt Ones on Castle Face records which included her spectral take on ‘Across The Universe’.
https://soundcloud.com/dazedandconfused/sets/the-space-lady-greatest-hits

DANIEL BACHMAN is a 6-string and lap guitar player from Fredericksburg, Virginia currently living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From 2008 to present he’s been releasing material of almost exclusively an instrumental nature while touring everywhere from Istanbul to Los Angeles. He has been playing what he describes as “psychedelic appalachia” since he was a teenager, releasing small run editions of tapes, CDs and LPs for the past three years, with a sound that evolved from drones and banjos to a now guitar centered focus. Touring off and on since the age of 17, Bachman has managed to cover thorough ground across the US, sharing stages with like minded folk such as fellow Fredericksburg native Jack Rose, for whom he fashioned the artwork for the posthumous release of ‘Luck In The Valley’. His newest effort is the full length LP ‘River’ (Three Lobed), and simply stated it’s his best album. Unconventionally, it opens with the breathtaking and robust fourteen minute epic “won’t you cross over to that other shore.” Proving his ability to write music that keeps the listener engaged (even across such a long tune), Bachman successfully uses tempo changes, varied picking patterns and melodic exploration, all without ever getting lost in pointless improvisation too far from the overall theme. Bachman takes the listener on an aural journey through the back roads of the foothills of the blue-ridge to calm coastal waters.
https://www.facebook.com/danilbachman/
 
 
 
 
 
NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX
IRMA VEP
ALISTAIR MCKAY
Tuesday 10 May
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX have stepped back out into the sunshine for the first time since ‘The Best Of The Howling Hex’ back in 2013. Since then they have refocused on the immediate pleasures found within the writing and playing of a single song. This direction, explored in a pair of limited edition singles released over the past two years, reaches a populist zenith on the new album, ‘Denver’ on Drag City, in which an entire community and geographic region are tapped for their energy, the celebratory pulses of which feed the new music. To achieve this effect in the ultimately democratic conception of The Howling Hex’s New Border Sound, Neil cranked up his guitar-playing to dominant levels that recall his playing in Pussy Galore and Royal Trux. Coupled with the beats and, at times, requiring different inflections from the beat, Neil’s howling guitar sounds elevate the music of ‘Denver’ to an ecstatic communal expression, the likes of which will no doubt massage pleasure centres in the make-up of modern popular music listeners. As guitarist in Pussy Galore, Neil Hagerty re-invented long hair and blue jeans. As one half of Royal Trux he forged a guitar/vocal/boogie paradigm unheralded in contemporary music. The mercury sound of Royal Trux however will never be imitated. Somewhere past Sonny and Linda Sharrock, out past the fuel rig blast of time, Hagerty's textural shifts are uniquely, harmolodically hung.
 
IRMA VEP is the long-term project of Edwin Stevens. As the alpha member of the Manchester underground music nerd set – a mirror world of the city’s explicit culture, where benevolence, good vibes, an active pursuit of self-doubt and a hazy absence of self-importance are paradoxically coupled with your usual countercultural aural fuck-you-ism – he’s played regularly in at least five completely stylistically unconnected formations at any one time since moving to the city from North Wales about eight years ago. Recent Golden Lab release, ‘Disappointment’ is a unification of everything he’s been brilliant at within various contexts. From ecstatically ripping it up ostrich freestyle to singing beautiful, sincere songs of apology and regret, both disparate elements coalesce in Irma Vep into a wondrously weird, hypnotic, earnest, outer limits rock. For this show Edwin will be accompanied by a full band of sonic miscreants.
 
ALISTAIR MCKAY from Melbourne, now living in London, plays guitar and sings in Australia’s deep pop thinkers Dick Diver. Dick Diver’s recent album ‘Melbourne, Florida’ (Chapter Music / Trouble In Mind) pays tribute to Jim Morrison, Kylie, confused travellers, high school quiz nights and much more, all in the space of 12 very beautiful pop songs. For this show Al will performing an intimate solo set on guitar and vocals.
 
 
 
 
 
Thanks to all of you for coming to see Wolf Eyes last week too.
See you tomorrow, thanks for your time!
Upset The Rhythm
x
 
 
 
 
UPSET THE RHYTHM
UPCOMING SHOWS 
THE SPACE LADY
DANIEL BACHMAN
Thursday 5 May
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | TICKETS
 
NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX
IRMA VEP
ALISTAIR MCKAY
Tuesday 10 May
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS  
 
CIAN NUGENT - ‘Night Fiction’ release party!!!
NAP EYES
GOLD FOIL
Saturday 21 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, Hackney, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
 
NOTS
MONSTER TREASURE
ES
Monday 23 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
DOWNTOWN BOYS
TRASH KIT
ULTIMATE GUITAR TABS
Tuesday 31 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
KAREN GWYER
CONTAINER
GIANT SWAN
Friday 3 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
DARREN HAYMAN & BAND performing ‘Thankful Villages’
JULY SKIES
Plus Spoken Word & Nature Disco
Saturday 4 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
GENEVA JACUZZI
LIBERATION
Tuesday 7 June
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £7 | TICKETS
 
JOE & RICK POTTS
POTTS VETZA POTTS TRIO
VETZA
LAFMS documentary - ‘how low can you go?’
Tuesday 14 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London N16 8JN
7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS
 
In collaboration with Cafe OTO…
JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
w/ EVAN PARKER
JOSHUA ABRAMS / EVAN PARKER DUO
Friday 17 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
CC DUST
STATIC PALM
Thursday 23 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
8pm | £5 |TICKETS

TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS
AUSMUTEANTS
Friday 24 June
O2 Forum Kentish Town, 9-17 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1JY
7pm | £17.50 | TICKETS
 
EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS
 
LUCKY DRAGONS
JIN&DAUN
Saturday 2 July
DIY Space For London, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS
DIYSFL is a members club, become a member here.
 
SONIC BOOM
Saturday 9 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
6.30pm - 10pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
PROTOMARTYR
Thursday 14 July
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS
 
THE OBLIVIANS
DEAF WISH
Wednesday 27 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £16 | TICKETS
 
HEATHER LEIGH
ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday 4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | TICKETS
 
UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS
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