Hello
again!
Upset the
Rhythm are heading over to The Islington tomorrow for a very special show
celebrating 20 years since Milky
Wimpshake released their superbly charming debut album ‘Bus Route To Your
Heart’. As true advocates of the UK underground for over two decades, Milky
Wimpshake fronted by the inestimable Pete Dale always impress. They are
sincere, funny, moving and sometimes pointed and it’s a great pleasure to host
them for this epic milestone. Joining them on stage will be two support sets
from the beguilingly melodic Robert
Sotelo and hot off the presses Southend group The Plan, featuring members of Wetdog, Private Trousers and Subway
Sect. Tickets are £8 on the door from 7.30pm, with live music commencing an
hour later.
Full
write-ups can be read below, including one for our upcoming Wolf Eyes show this
month, with all the DJs taking us into the Wolf rave now announced.
We also
moved up the Priests concert from The Victoria to OSLO due to phenomenal demand
for tickets. So take note that we now have some more available for a short
time.
OK, we’ll
leave you with a brand new track from our upcoming Rat Columns album ‘Candle
Power’, pre-empting the only attitude that’ll get you through the downpours
today. Get soaked!
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\ TOMORROW / / / / /
MILKY WIMPSHAKE
‘20th Anniversary
Show!’
ROBERT SOTELO
THE PLAN
Saturday 4 March
The
Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
MILKY WIMPSHAKE are a passionate punk band from
Newcastle Upon Tyne. The band formed in the early 1990s as part of the Slampt
Underground organisation, a label and arts umbrella that supported many of the
best UK DIY acts including The Yummy Fur, Pussycat Trash, Red Monkey and
personal favourites Bette Davis & The Balconettes. Milky Wimpshake play
love songs for punk rockers, protest tunes, covers of Northern Soul classics,
and some new classics of their own. Characterised by Pete Dale’s wry lyrics and
playful, direct guitar riffs, Milky Wimpshake are true stalwarts and legends of
the underground and have recorded several ‘personal vs political’ albums in
recent times for the mighty Fortuna Pop imprint. This show celebrates the 20th
anniversary of their 100% brilliant debut album 'Bus Route To Your Heart',
times flies!
http://www.microsofa.net/mw/
ROBERT SOTELO intends to channel ‘Ram’-era McCartney
without the chops, at once intimate and ambitiously layered pop music garnished
in naive sincerity. Attempting to push beyond limited means, towards the absurd
and abundant idea that recreating the feel and sound of The Beatles remains
paramount an objective, the entire project rests on the uncertainty and
confusion of mid-thirties existentialism and the exploration of the individual
post-social life. Accompanied by a host of friends this initial performance
will use the recorded compositions as a template on which Sotelo may attempt to
draw out and utilise the individual merits of each musician to reconfigure and
sensualise the jams. Sotelo’s astonishing debut album ‘Cusp’ will be released
through Upset The Rhythm later this year.
https://soundcloud.com/robert-sotelo-3
THE PLAN harness unruly beats and stamp sweet
vocal harmonies all over them. Post-punk in origins but evolving and revolving,
its members have previously appeared in bands like Wetdog, Private
Trousers and Vic Goddard's Subway Sect, and all live by the sea in sunny
Southend.
https://theplan1.bandcamp.com/
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\ FRIDAY 24 MARCH / / / / /
WOLF EYES - ‘Undertow’ Album launch
MUMDANCE
GUTTERSNIPE
DJ sets from:
ΚΕΜΑΛ (Berceuse
Heroique/Ancient Monarchy)
Paco (La Vida
Es Un Mus)
General Echo
Sound System
Arcola B2B Too
Fucked To Dance
Friday 24 March
EXFED, Unit 4, 199
Eade Road, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
WOLF
EYES are the USA's
longest-running homemade, primitive, electronic, poetry & radical vibes
trio. They don't just release albums they launch scotched, taped nuclear audio
fronts on humanity. Wolf Eyes dropped a behemoth of a record last year with 'I
Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces' on Jack White's Third Man Records, but this time
they are switching things up in more ways than one for their forthcoming
'Undertow' album. The Detroit dark ambient sculptors are launching a new
imprint called Lower Floor Music, and the album will be the first release on
the label. The first foray into the new album is the title track, which is
self-described as a "sea-bottom R&B sound lurch" featuring
ambient synth and haunting spoken vocals. This show acts as an official album
launch, celebrating the release of 'Undertow' into the world.
MUMDANCE has built a reputation as one of the world’s most
inventive DJs and producers, drawing from sounds from across the world but
always putting his own unique spin on them. His early days as a producer saw
him collaborate with big names from both Europe (Brodinski, Jammer, Skepta) and
further afield, such as Mexican legend Toy Selectah, Brazilian groups Bondo Do
Role and Banda Uó, and later Egyptian mahraganat icon Sadat. In 2013, following
a two-year hiatus from original music, Mumdance released his most critically
acclaimed music to date. His 2013 mixtape Twists & Turns was named FACT
Magazine’s best album of the year, while his collaborations with Novelist,
‘Take Time’ and ‘1 Sec’ (released on legendary label XL Recordings), mark two
of the biggest anthems from grime's recent revival, and topped end of year
charts from Resident Advisor, Mixmag, FACT, Dummy, Noisey and more. Recently
Mumdance has also launched Different Circles, his record label with Logos that
specialises in ‘weightless’ - an already-influential combination of grime,
techno, ambient music, sound design and more, and collaborated with artists
such as Micachu, Pinch, AJ Tracey and Nozinja. For this performance Mumdance
will present a new set of modular synth workouts.
GUTTERSNIPE are a Leeds drums/guitar duo who dive
straight into a cauldron of hellish improv-skronk, paint-stripping abstract
noise and nightmarishly deconstructed sonic catharsis – imagine the esoteric
mayhem of Angel Blood combined with the venue-destroying psychic power of early
Boredoms and Naked City, and you ain’t even close. Comprising the duo of
Xylocopa Violacea and Bdallophytum, if Guttersnipe don’t blow away your
cobwebs, nothing will.
Thanks for your time! Catch you
tomorrow!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS
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MILKY WIMPSHAKE
‘20th Anniversary
Show!’
ROBERT SOTELO
THE PLAN
Saturday 4 March
The
Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
WOLF EYES - ‘Undertow’ Album launch
MUMDANCE
GUTTERSNIPE
DJ sets from:
ΚΕΜΑΛ (Berceuse
Heroique/Ancient Monarchy)
Paco (La Vida
Es Un Mus)
General Echo
Sound System
Arcola B2B Too
Fucked To Dance
Friday 24 March
EXFED, Unit 4, 199
Eade Road, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
MARY OCHER
BAMBOO
MOONBOW
Wednesday 5
April
The
Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT
RAT COLUMNS
Wednesday 19 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
OOIOO
Thursday 20
April
Kamio, 3
Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
DANIEL BACHMAN
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
Monday
1 May
Cafe
OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
EX-CULT
Wednesday 3 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road,
Islington, N1 9JB
IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
RESINA
Monday 8 May
OSLO,
1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
XIU XIU
Monday 22 May
Kamio, 3
Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JL
PRIESTS
Thursday 25 May
OSLO,
1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
NOTS
Wednesday 7 June
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
SPRAY
PAINT
THE REBEL
Tuesday 15 August
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
DEERHOOF
LE TON MITÉ
Monday 4 September
Village
Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London,
EC2A 3PQ
NB. This is the
new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.
