Matana Roberts and Kelly-Jayne Jones in collaboration, in London, in May! Count me in!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

MATANA ROBERTS & KELLY-JAYNE JONES
Wednesday 9 May
Ghost Notes, Peckham Levels, 95A Rye Lane, Peckham, London, SE15 4ST
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/431001

Internationally renowned US composer, saxophonist, mixed-media practitioner, and sonic voyager Matana Roberts (perhaps best known for her acclaimed Coin Coin project, ongoing and unfolding via Constellation Records) and British sound artist/improviser Kelly Jayne Jones. Roberts and Jones will weave their own approaches into live collaborative works informed by deeply expressive playing, tactile electro-acoustic interplay and a broader shared politics of resistance/defiance. This Upset The Rhythm show is part of the first in a series of special live shows commissioned by OUTLANDS, a new national experimental music touring network.

MATANA ROBERTS is an internationally renowned composer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist and mixed-media practitioner. Roberts works in many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, dance, poetry, and theatre, and has released a diverse body of solo and ensemble work under her own name on Constellation Records and Central Control over the past decade. She is perhaps best known for her acclaimed Coin Coin project, a multi-chapter work of “panoramic sound quilting” that aims to expose the mystical roots and channel the intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrativity, history, community and political expression within improvisatory musical structures. Constellation began documenting the Coin Coin project in 2011 and has released the first three of a projected twelve album-length chapters to date.
http://www.matanaroberts.com/





KELLY-JAYNE JONES makes use of varying combinations of prepared recordings, text, rocks, found sounds and flute. Her work beckons a tussle with uncertainty, inviting exposure and vulnerability in performance, chasing experiences that open our chasms within, without restraint. Searching for humble principles of growth; physics; sound, connecting with others in the same space/moment, customary experimental play, with threads and beads of improvisation and interactivity. KJJ has had residencies at Arnolfini in Bristol UK and Kunstalle Bergen, Norway, and has produced commissioned works for Haris Epaminonda at dOCUMENTA13, Tate Modern, ICA London, Schirn Frankfurt, Point Centre Nicosia. She has performed, solo and with part wild horses mane on both sides, at CCA Glasgow, Trieze Gallery Paris, Borealis Festival, Tectonics Reykjavik, Hangar Bicocca in Milan and at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
https://www.kellyjaynejones.org/

Upset The Rhythm: Gideon Coe's Label Of Love!

Last night Upset The Rhythm were Gideon Coe's LABEL OF LOVE on his ever excellent 6Music show, listen again here. Tracks from Normil Hawaiians, The Green Child, Terry, Sauna Youth and Robert Sotelo from 2hr 15 mins in!

 

Shopping and David Nance London show this coming week!

Alright there!   We’ve got two winning shows coming up next week for you. On Monday we’re heading to The Islington to welcome David Nance and his electrifying live band to make their live debut in London!   Nance is a master of the jagged riff, damaged howl and low-end rumble. His contagious boogie pop sings with noise as his recent album on Ba Da Bing attests. Joining the Omaha crew on the bill are Negative Space with their mysterious punk miasma and improv cluster-jammers Midnight Mines! See you there!

The second show we wanted to crow in your ear about takes place on Tuesday at Moth Club and features the London date of Shopping’s tour in support of their new sprightly album ‘The Official Body’. Shopping redefine post-punk, making it personal and polemic, it’s second nature and they achieve all this without forgetting to take the dance floor with them. With Dog Chocolate and Big Joanie playing too, all looks set to go off like a firework.   Read on for everything you need to know, including listings for our other shows this month… Gun Outfit, Dead Rat Orchestra, Greg Ashley, Mass Datura and Chain And The Gang.

You’ll also find below hot-off-the-presses concert listings for avant-guitarist Alan Licht and haunting troubadour Brigid Mae Power both coming up this March. Ana Da Silva (from The Raincoats) and Rattle have been announced today as the supports for our upcoming Protomartyr show. Plus, we’re delighted to welcome back Ed Schrader’s Music Beat to London also this May.

OK, last things last, here’s the latest fix of our Upset The Rhythm radio show, episode number five for arts hub CAMP. Please enjoy two terrific hours that’ll speed by in the company of Minimal Man, No Babies, Yeah You and Dancing Did.  We’ve even included some hits from David Nance and Shopping in the show to get your motor running, listen up and listen loud.

Upset The Rhythm presents...   DAVID NANCE NEGATIVE SPACE MIDNIGHT MINES Monday 5 February The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   DAVID NANCE, Omaha veteran of warble and hiss, returns with ‘Negative Boogie’ (Ba Da Bing Records), his new concoction of chug, throb and greasy swagger. For ‘Boogie’, Nance trades in his beaten up Tascam 488 for the bulletproof, glass walls of A.R.C. Studios. Where else can you brew the negative boogie? It’s a bit like Canned Heat but with Pere Ubu’s queasy rhythms and someone playing five-finger fillet with Swell Maps. Ensconced in his ivory tower and soundproof rooms, Nance reached for unlikely weapons to tear down his own lofty experiment. He had his pick of rare guitars, cowbells, steel drums, vintage amps, Crazy Horse microphones, mellotron, and the restless but indefatigable rhythm section of Kevin Donahue and Tom May. They started at sunrise and recorded 15 songs by midnight. Maybe it’s his Midwestern work ethic, maybe he’s a sonic cheapskate. Maybe it’s just the sound of negative boogie. These songs stab and flow into one other like a perfectly orchestrated classic. They’re drenched with Nance’s most biting and comic lyrics to date, peaking on “D.L.A.T.U.M.F. Blues”. And ripping through the entire thing is the cracked power he yanks out of the guitar, a veritable The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of riffage. This is a departure for Nance. It’s bigger and grander but it’s far from easy music. It’s his Plastic Ono Band, his For Your Pleasure, his fever dream of Rocket from the Tombs. Shredders sit with jangling rockers, manic energy spills into depressive torpor, providing the ultimate record experience: one of power, nuance and emotion. https://davidnance.bandcamp.com   NEGATIVE SPACE play mysterious gay hardcore. Negative Space released their debut album 'Gestalt' through new London-based queer label Always Restrictions and Drunken Sailor late last year. The record focuses almost exclusively on the miasma of larger inner-city living and the effects of gender dysphoria on the self, 'Gestalt' pushes an overbearing aural disquiet that expands on the band's established tense minimalism while upping the ire, recalling post-punk forefathers like Wire or a peppier Gang of Four while simultaneously feeling wonderfully, urgently now. https://spacenegative.bandcamp.com/   MIDNIGHT MINES are a self-styled ‘spontaneous music ensemble’ eschewing formal songwriting for laying down improvised bursts of music during their recording sessions. The resulting live jams are subsequently chopped, screwed and assembled into tracks, filtered through their love of obscure 60s garage no-hopers, outsider folk, The Fall, fried dub, early industrial and other esoteric concerns. Baron Saturday and Private Sorrow swap instruments and splice together tracks built out of old drum machines, feedback, 2-note riffs, atonal harmonies, transistor organs and repetitive mantras.  Check out their recent LP on Mystery Plane and the duo’s ‘We Are The Primitives of a New Era’ cassette. https://midnightmines.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   SHOPPING DOG CHOCOLATE BIG JOANIE Tuesday 6 February Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   SHOPPING are propulsive bass lines, primitive disco-not-disco drums and guitar lines sharp as broken glass. The band was formed in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar), Billy Easter (bass) and Andrew Milk (drums), who've all done time in a plethora of notable UK DIY bands including Trash Kit, Sacred Paws and Wet Dog. They pull from a well of 70's post-punk with a voraciousness seldom seen these days, bringing to mind the jagged aggression of Gang of Four, the voracious yelp of The Slits and the dance inducing thrust of Delta 5 . Their debut LP 'Consumer Complaints' was released November 2013 in the UK via MILK records and quickly sold out its first pressing. A US re-issue of 'Consumer Complaints' came out in 2015 via Fat Cat records, followed up by their excellent second album 'Why Choose?' The band are tirelessly committed to taking their sound to new audiences and spreading the Shopping gospel, securing impressive gigs along the way including main support for ESG and Gang Of Four as well as a BBC 6 Music session for Marc Riley. They have toured in the UK and throughout Europe numerous times over the last few years and last year toured the USA with also awesome Gauche, look out for a new album ‘The Official Body’ through FatCat imminently! https://soundcloud.com/shoppingband    DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals from London. Having played in many other bands including Yeborobo, Limn and Gasp! Cracking Eggs, united they recognise Dog Chocolate as their one true love. Abandoning notions of elegance, cred and professionalism they embrace the ramshackle, instant and fun, capturing a vivid spontaneity with their music. Their sound is a shabby, fast, over-excited ball of wet fur falling down the stairs, knocking over plant pots along the way and staining the carpet. With an average song time of 2 minutes, Dog Chocolate are on to the next treat before fully digesting the last. Chewing up bits of punk, post-punk, noise and pop, Matthew and Robert's guitars race around each other like wasps, pitch-shifting and phasing all over the place while Jono's rolled-up-newspaper drums chase them round the room. The band's new album ‘Moody Balloon Baby’ is readying for release through Upset The Rhythm, who also released their debut 'Snack Fans' in 2016. http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/   BIG JOANIE are a black feminist punk band based in London, UK. They formed in July 2013 to play First Timers in November that year - a gig where every band played their first set. Big Joanie are Chardine Taylor-Stone (drums & vocals), Stephanie Phillips (guitar & vocals) and Estella Adeyeri (bass & vocals). Big Joanie are influenced by Nirvana, Throwing Muses, X-Ray Spex, The Bags, My Bloody Valentine, Darlene Love, Tina Turner, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Breeders, PJ Harvey, Shop Assistants... They're like The Ronettes filtered through 80s DIY and riot grrrl with a sprinkling of dashikis. Big Joanie formed to make powerful music but also to create a continuum for black punks by presenting a strong, powerful vision of black womanhood and discussing the black punks who came before them. By making black punks more visible, they believe they can inspire young black punks to start the bands they always wanted to hear. https://bigjoanie.bandcamp.com/

Thanks for reading, have the best weekend! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

DAVID NANCE

NEGATIVE SPACE

MIDNIGHT MINES

Monday 5 February

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS

 

SHOPPING

DOG CHOCOLATE

BIG JOANIE

Tuesday 6 February

Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU

7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS

 

GUN OUTFIT
DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA

CALMING RIVER

Tuesday 20 February
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS

 

GREG ASHLEY

MASS DATURA

Saturday 24 February

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS

 

CHAIN AND THE GANG

MILKY WIMPSHAKE (SOLO)

Monday 26 February

OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL

7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS

 

KA BAIRD

DIANA POLICARPO / JEJUNO

HACK MYSTIC
Tuesday 6 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS

 

SHANNON LAY

Wednesday 7 March

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS

 

ALAN LICHT

Sunday 11 March

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

6.30pm | £7 | TICKETS

 

BILL ORCUTT & CHRIS CORSANO:

* DUO PERFORMANCE

RATTLE

Saturday 17 March

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

* SOLO PERFORMANCES

Sunday 18 March

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

BRIGID MAE POWER

Tuesday 27 March

Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London N16 8JN

7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS

 

JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY

Monday 2 April

OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL

8pm | £11 | TICKETS

 

NO AGE

MIAUX

VITAL IDLES

Wednesday 4 April

Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB

7:30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

JAMIE STEWART (Xiu Xiu)

ERIC CHENAUX

Monday 9 April

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT

Monday 7 May

Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU

7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

 

NAP EYES
Tuesday 8 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS

 

PROTOMARTYR

ANA DA SILVA

RATTLE

Thursday 10 May

Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL

7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS

 

SCREAMING FEMALES

Wednesday 23 May

OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL

7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS

 

Ana Da Silva and Rattle announced as supports for Protomartyr this May in London!

Ana Da Silva (from The Raincoats) and Rattle announced as our supports for Protomartyr this May at The Scala! Now that's... what I call MUSIC!

Tickets here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/420727

Alan Licht to make a rare live appearance in London on March 11th!

Thrilled to have the one and only... Alan Licht coming through town next month!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

ALAN LICHT

Sunday 11 March

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

6.30pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/430373

ALAN LICHT is an American guitarist, composer and writer, revered for his work in the Blue Humans and Text of Light, and a key figure in the pantheon of experimental solo guitar players (such as Jim O’Rourke, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Bill Orcutt and Oren Ambarchi). Licht was born in New Jersey in 1968, began taking guitar lessons at the age of ten and went on to enrol at Vassar College, where he studied electronic music with Linda Fisher and composition with Annea Lockwood and Richard Wilson. By the time he graduated in 1990, Licht had already published articles on Minimalist composers La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, and Charlemagne Palestine, and had recorded with former John Coltrane drummer Rashied Ali (on Rudolph Grey's Mask of Light LP). Licht then relocated to New York City, focussing on pursuing free improvisation (with Rudolph Grey's group the Blue Humans and guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors) as well as indie rock (the bands Love Child and Run On), as well as a brief stint with legendary 60’s psychedelic rock band Arthur Lee & Love.

Licht then began developing a repertoire of structured improvisation pieces for solo electric guitar, documented on a series of albums starting with 1994's ‘Sink the Aging Process’. These brought together his interests in re-harmonisation, process, repetition, extended duration and the textural vocabularies of rock and noise music. The albums also include tape pieces and organ works. In 2001 Licht co-founded the ensemble Text of Light with Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, a project that brought together free improvisation with screenings of historic examples of experimental cinema. Some of Licht’s most recent activities include recording and touring with Lee Ranaldo & the Dust, an improv trio with Aki Onda and artist/filmmaker Michael Snow, a duo with Yeah Yeah Yeahs drummer Brian Chase, and a book-length interview with Will Oldham, ‘Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy’. For this performance Licht will be performing a set similar in style to his Editions Mego album ‘Four Years Older’, a set of compelling guitar pieces that mine the rich seams of minimalism, noise and avant-garde, equal parts lyrical and corrosive.

http://alanlicht.tumblr.com/

Dead Rat Orchestra & Calming River announced as supports for Gun Outfit this Feb!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

GUN OUTFIT
DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA
CALMING RIVER
Tuesday 20 February
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/420213

GUN OUTFIT's enveloping 'Western Expanse' aesthetic of guitar levitations and honky-tonk hexes are like the stones eroded by years in the arroyo, they've become gradually smoother over time. Their fifth LP (Out of Range on Paradise of Bachelors) ranks as their most brutally beautiful statement yet. Drawing from mythologies both classical and postmodern, Out of Range builds a world in which Brueghel, St. Augustine, and the goddess Cybele ride with John Ford, Samuel Beckett, and Wallace Stevens on a Orphic-Gnostic suicide drive towards the hallucinatory vanishing points of the Southwestern desert, debating the denouement of the decaying American dream.
https://gunoutfit.bandcamp.com/

DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA see themselves as adrift in a sea of sound and possibility, plucking textures and melodies to craft their idiosyncratic vision of what music can be. Raw, elemental and poignant with a love of idiosyncratic folk traditions and antiquated technology. Their performances have featured flailing axes, salt and sawdust, throbbing harmonium, grinding fiddle and 2000 shards of micro-tuned steel cast to the floor in cascading, shimmering joy.
http://www.deadratorchestra.co.uk/

CALMING RIVER is the pseudonym of songwriter Joshua Malcolm, who has recently relocated from Denmark back to his native Britain. The name Calming River may conjure tranquillity but there has always been a latent, opposing flow of tension and strife to be found—a fragility that emanates within delicate and darkened confines. Joshua has so far released two singles last year to critical acclaim and will be releasing more material in the coming months.
https://soundcloud.com/calming-river

Ed Schrader's Music Beat are coming back to London this May! Joy of joys!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT
Monday 7 May
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/430039 

ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT are Ed Schrader and Devlin Rice - a minimalist punk duo from the fair city of Baltimore, Maryland. In the beginning there was only Ed: a man unhinged, channelling to the world a sacred message in the form of song. His only divining instruments: a single floor tom, one light, and a commanding baritone. He's a master songsmith who has reduced pop and punk to their most basic building blocks. Ed was soon joined by Devlin on bass, who proved to be an acute match for encapsulating the space-time from whence they came. Their union quickly brought about the release of their 2012 debut album 'Jazz Mind' and 2014’s ‘Party Jail’ through Upset The Rhythm which The Wire said recalled "the percussion-heavy chants of Liars", with Ed "affecting a mournful Arthur Russell tone on the a cappella songs" whilst "roaring like Rollins" on the album's faster numbers. Since then, Ed Schrader's Music Beat have toured frequently in North America and Europe, notably alongside their friends Future Islands.

New album, ‘Riddles’ begins their new life. In search of a fresh direction, Ed and Devlin invited their close friend, electronic-pop maestro Dan Deacon, to expand their sound and experiment with them as the album’s producer, arranger, and co-writer. Working steadily in Dan’s studio for two years in total collaboration, three evolving musicians pushed through an intense period of personal tumult and found purpose in the sounds they were committing to record. The result: a polished and passionate masterpiece of nuanced alt-rock. From driving opening track ‘Dunce’ and the soaring single ‘Riddles’ to the disarmingly gorgeous closer ‘Culebra’, Ed and Devlin unapologetically channel a personal pantheon of pop and rock gods while growing into the band—and people—they’d previously kept caged inside. ‘Riddles’ is released through Carpark Records on March 2nd.

https://edschradersmusicbeat.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm - RADIO SHOW 5!

Alright then!
Here’s Upset The Rhythm’s brand new radio show for January, episode number five for arts hub CAMP. Two terrific hours that speed by in the company of Minimal Man, David Nance, No Babies, Yeah You and Dancing Did.  We’ve even included some recent field recordings from our Moor Mother and No Home concert, listen up and listen loud!




Upset The Rhythm - Episode 5
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01. Love Live Life + 1 - Love Will Make a Better You
02. Shopping - Control Yourself
03. David Nance - Negative Boogie
04. Camberwell Now - Pearl Divers
05. Flood - Blessed Be the Young Children
06. No Home - Live at Upset The Rhythm
07. No Babies - The Weight
08. Yeah You - Skin (I Have Only Lived Once)
09. Beverly Glenn Copeland - Ever New
10. Meredith Monk - Fields / Clouds
11. Hiroshi Yoshimura - Urban Snow
12. Elizabeth - You Should Be More Careful
13. Moor Mother - Live at Upset The Rhythm
14. Sunday Painters - Flex
15. Young Guv - Traumatic
16. Magits - Fragmented
17. Minimal Man - Jungle Song
18. Angus MacLise - Heavenly Blue Pt. 4 and 5.
19. Full Moon Band - Thinking About Yesterday
20. Strandgut - Endstation
21. Dulcimer - Time in My Life
22. Dancing Did - The Rhythm Section Sticks Together
23. Bernard Parmegiani - Accidents / Harmoniques
24. Slime - Robot Age
25. Ashra - Nightdust


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Brigid Mae Power to play London this March!

Overjoyed to announce this intimate concert with Brigid Mae Power this March! Tickets now on sale!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

BRIGID MAE POWER
Tuesday 27 March
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, London N16 8JN
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/429984

BRIGID MAE POWER is an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, like Judie Sill, Micky Newburyor Linda Perhacs before her, paints her songs in dreamily expansive strokes, transporting earthly compositions into universal and exultant realms. Her self-titled debut on Tompkins Square was a majestic suite of reverb-swathed laments for voice, guitar, piano, accordion, and harmonium, recorded at the Portland studio of key musical foil Peter Broderick. Themes include transformation, change, motherhood, acceptance, strength, courage and trust. In the words of Power, the album is about “trusting if you lose yourself or your way — you can come back”.

New album ‘The Two Worlds’ is another masterful collection of effortless, affecting folk, and an album that furthers the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s already stellar reputation. Live, Brigid can encapsulate the timeless magic of her songs either solo or as a duo with Peter. Thus far she has toured throughout Ireland, UK and the US together with artists including Lee Ranaldo, Richard Dawson, Alasdair Roberts, Peter Broderick and Ryley Walker, with performances at Le Guess Who? and TUSK festivals along the way.
http://brigidmaepower.com/ 

The Green Child's debut album is released today! Plus news on upcoming shows for David Nance & Shopping!

Hello there!   Today our new release from The Green Child sprints into a world of future sound. Taking their name from Herbert Read’s 1935 utopian, communist, sci-fi novel, it is no surprise The Green Child draw their sound from an illusory past as much as they stalk into pastures new.   Broadly retro-futuristic in scope, verdant acres of lushly evocative synthesizers and blippy drum machines underpin most of their upbeat yet decidedly uncanny songs. Whilst, Raven’s measured vocal flits like a will-o’-the-wisp through the tracks, proffering a guiding hand as she walks us through the often eerie, electronic concoctions.

Mikey Young and Raven Mahon began collaborating on The Green Child, after meeting in 2013 when their bands, Total Control and Grass Widow played a show in Oakland, California. They started writing songs together in Australia in 2014 and the project has been on a slow burn since. Their self-titled debut album is the culmination of a several years of putting ideas together internationally and periodically recording in Mikey's home studio.

‘Traveler’ opens the record all redolent, beat-minded and labyrinthine. Twisting melody lines swirl and envelop like a sandstorm, whilst Raven coolly projects on a “solitary man” lost to “green oblivion”. Similarly, ‘Her Majesty II’ glistens with its playful yet plaintive vocal and iridescent arpeggios, whilst ‘Bertha’ slows things down with tumbling chimes and stately use of space.   The Green Child are adept at atmosphere, their songs are refined from gently unfolding ideas that never fail to realise and build to their potential. Tracks like ‘Walking Distance’ (featuring Al Montfort on saxophone) and ‘New Years Eve’ are exercises in evolved composition with ideas budding off and blossoming into truly resonant dimensions. The band’s cover of ‘Marie Elene’ (by Keith Pearson) and closing track ‘Destroyer’ are further crowning achievements, both pieces subtly handled with poise and ample melancholic grandeur.

‘The Green Child’ is released today through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl, accompanied by some suitably spirited sleeve design by James Vinciguerra. It is available in all good shops and directly through our webshop here.

With that new record well introduced, let’s now turn our attentions to our upcoming concerts. Through this last week we’ve confirmed new events in London for Nap Eyes, Rattle, Drag City’s Ka Baird, Greg Ashley (of The Gris Gris), Mass Datura, Screaming Females, Vital Idles, Dead Rat Orchestra, Ana Da Silva (from The Raincoats) and Milky Wimpshake. Not too shabby!   Our next two live events will take place in early February and are outlined below in all their glory. Firstly on Feb 5th, we’re very pleased to have the excellent David Nance, Negative Space and Midnight Mines all playing at The Islington. Then one day later, on Feb 6th… Shopping, Dog Chocolate and Big Joanie look set to shake up Moth Club in support of Shopping’s brand new album ‘The Official Body’. So yes, plenty to look forward to, check out our listings for a full run down of our plans for the first half of 2018. Enjoy…

Upset The Rhythm presents...   DAVID NANCE NEGATIVE SPACE MIDNIGHT MINES Monday 5 February The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   DAVID NANCE, Omaha veteran of warble and hiss, returns with ‘Negative Boogie’ (Ba Da Bing Records), his new concoction of chug, throb and greasy swagger. For ‘Boogie’, Nance trades in his beaten up Tascam 488 for the bulletproof, glass walls of A.R.C. Studios. Where else can you brew the negative boogie? It’s a bit like Canned Heat but with Pere Ubu’s queasy rhythms and someone playing five-finger fillet with Swell Maps. Ensconced in his ivory tower and soundproof rooms, Nance reached for unlikely weapons to tear down his own lofty experiment. He had his pick of rare guitars, cowbells, steel drums, vintage amps, Crazy Horse microphones, mellotron, and the restless but indefatigable rhythm section of Kevin Donahue and Tom May. They started at sunrise and recorded 15 songs by midnight. Maybe it’s his Midwestern work ethic, maybe he’s a sonic cheapskate. Maybe it’s just the sound of negative boogie. These songs stab and flow into one other like a perfectly orchestrated classic. They’re drenched with Nance’s most biting and comic lyrics to date, peaking on “D.L.A.T.U.M.F. Blues”. And ripping through the entire thing is the cracked power he yanks out of the guitar, a veritable The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of riffage. This is a departure for Nance. It’s bigger and grander but it’s far from easy music. It’s his Plastic Ono Band, his For Your Pleasure, his fever dream of Rocket from the Tombs. Shredders sit with jangling rockers, manic energy spills into depressive torpor, providing the ultimate record experience: one of power, nuance and emotion. https://davidnance.bandcamp.com   NEGATIVE SPACE play mysterious gay hardcore. Negative Space released their debut album 'Gestalt' through new London-based queer label Always Restrictions and Drunken Sailor late last year. The record focuses almost exclusively on the miasma of larger inner-city living and the effects of gender dysphoria on the self, 'Gestalt' pushes an overbearing aural disquiet that expands on the band's established tense minimalism while upping the ire, recalling post-punk forefathers like Wire or a peppier Gang of Four while simultaneously feeling wonderfully, urgently now. https://spacenegative.bandcamp.com/   MIDNIGHT MINES are a self-styled ‘spontaneous music ensemble’ eschewing formal songwriting for laying down improvised bursts of music during their recording sessions. The resulting live jams are subsequently chopped, screwed and assembled into tracks, filtered through their love of obscure 60s garage no-hopers, outsider folk, The Fall, fried dub, early industrial and other esoteric concerns. Baron Saturday and Private Sorrow swap instruments and splice together tracks built out of old drum machines, feedback, 2-note riffs, atonal harmonies, transistor organs and repetitive mantras.  Check out their recent LP on Mystery Plane and the duo’s ‘We Are The Primitives of a New Era’ cassette. https://midnightmines.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   SHOPPING DOG CHOCOLATE BIG JOANIE Tuesday 6 February Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   SHOPPING are propulsive bass lines, primitive disco-not-disco drums and guitar lines sharp as broken glass. The band was formed in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar), Billy Easter (bass) and Andrew Milk (drums), who've all done time in a plethora of notable UK DIY bands including Trash Kit, Sacred Paws and Wet Dog. They pull from a well of 70's post-punk with a voraciousness seldom seen these days, bringing to mind the jagged aggression of Gang of Four, the voracious yelp of The Slits and the dance inducing thrust of Delta 5 . Their debut LP 'Consumer Complaints' was released November 2013 in the UK via MILK records and quickly sold out its first pressing. A US re-issue of 'Consumer Complaints' came out in 2015 via Fat Cat records, followed up by their excellent second album 'Why Choose?' The band are tirelessly committed to taking their sound to new audiences and spreading the Shopping gospel, securing impressive gigs along the way including main support for ESG and Gang Of Four as well as a BBC 6 Music session for Marc Riley. They have toured in the UK and throughout Europe numerous times over the last few years and last year toured the USA with also awesome Gauche, look out for a new album ‘The Official Body’ through FatCat imminently! https://soundcloud.com/shoppingband    DOG CHOCOLATE sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals from London. Having played in many other bands including Yeborobo, Limn and Gasp! Cracking Eggs, united they recognise Dog Chocolate as their one true love. Abandoning notions of elegance, cred and professionalism they embrace the ramshackle, instant and fun, capturing a vivid spontaneity with their music. Their sound is a shabby, fast, over-excited ball of wet fur falling down the stairs, knocking over plant pots along the way and staining the carpet. With an average song time of 2 minutes, Dog Chocolate are on to the next treat before fully digesting the last. Chewing up bits of punk, post-punk, noise and pop, Matthew and Robert's guitars race around each other like wasps, pitch-shifting and phasing all over the place while Jono's rolled-up-newspaper drums chase them round the room. The band's new album ‘Moody Balloon Baby’ is readying for release through Upset The Rhythm, who also released their debut 'Snack Fans' in 2016. http://dogchocolate.tumblr.com/   BIG JOANIE are a black feminist punk band based in London, UK. They formed in July 2013 to play First Timers in November that year - a gig where every band played their first set. Big Joanie are Chardine Taylor-Stone (drums & vocals), Stephanie Phillips (guitar & vocals) and Estella Adeyeri (bass & vocals). Big Joanie are influenced by Nirvana, Throwing Muses, X-Ray Spex, The Bags, My Bloody Valentine, Darlene Love, Tina Turner, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Breeders, PJ Harvey, Shop Assistants... They're like The Ronettes filtered through 80s DIY and riot grrrl with a sprinkling of dashikis. Big Joanie formed to make powerful music but also to create a continuum for black punks by presenting a strong, powerful vision of black womanhood and discussing the black punks who came before them. By making black punks more visible, they believe they can inspire young black punks to start the bands they always wanted to hear. https://bigjoanie.bandcamp.com/

Hoping you have a fantastic weekend, Thanks so much for your time, Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

DAVID NANCE NEGATIVE SPACE MIDNIGHT MINES Monday 5 February The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   SHOPPING DOG CHOCOLATE BIG JOANIE Tuesday 6 February Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   GUN OUTFIT DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA Tuesday 20 February Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   GREG ASHLEY MASS DATURA Saturday 24 February The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   CHAIN AND THE GANG MILKY WIMPSHAKE (SOLO) Monday 26 February OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   KA BAIRD HACK MYSTIC Tuesday 6 March The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   SHANNON LAY Wednesday 7 March The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £6 | TICKETS   BILL ORCUTT & CHRIS CORSANO: * DUO PERFORMANCE RATTLE Saturday 17 March The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   * SOLO PERFORMANCES Sunday 18 March The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   JOSHUA ABRAMS - NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY Monday 2 April OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL 8pm | £11 | TICKETS   NO AGE VITAL IDLES Wednesday 4 April Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB 7:30pm | £12 | TICKETS   JAMIE STEWART (Xiu Xiu) ERIC CHENAUX Monday 9 April The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   NAP EYES Tuesday 8 May OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   PROTOMARTYR ANA DA SILVA Thursday 10 May Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL 7pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   SCREAMING FEMALES Wednesday 23 May OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS