Tuesday 20 August 2013

YARD PARTY

FlamingodsFlamingodsRob St JohnSpencer ClarkSpencer ClarkMichael Chapman
Michael ChapmanCut HandsCut HandsCut HandsCut HandsSauna Youth
Sauna YouthSauna YouthFat White Family BandFat White Family BandScott & Charlene's WeddingScott & Charlene's Wedding
Las KelliesLas KelliesLas KelliesU.S. Girls / Slim TwigU.S. Girls / Slim TwigU.S. Girls / Slim Twig

YARD PARTY, a set on Flickr.

What a weekend!!! Thanks everyone!!! x

Wednesday 14 August 2013

YARD PARTY tomorrow!!!


Hey there!
Once it seemed so far away and now its knocking on the door, YARD PARTY starts tomorrow! We have 24 amazing acts performing over the next 3 days at our favourite venue in London, The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick. Tickets will be available on the door as well as in advance (see ticket links below) plus full show times follow along with some short blurbs on everyone playing. We hope you can join us, this is going to be the most fun! Here you go…


\\\\\\  YARD PARTY  /////

Thursday 15 August
--------------------------------------------
CUT HANDS - 10.15pm
MICHAEL CHAPMAN - 9.15pm
SPENCER CLARK - 8.15pm
ROB ST JOHN - 7.15pm
FLAMINGODS - 6.15pm

Friday 16 August
--------------------------------------------
US GIRLS & SLIM TWIG - 10.15pm (two sets)
LAS KELLIES - 9.15pm
SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING - 8.15pm
FAT WHITE FAMILY BAND - 7.15pm
SAUNA YOUTH - 6.15pm

Saturday 17 August
--------------------------------------------
JOE MCKEE - 1pm
APOSTILLE - 1.45pm
HALO HALO - 2.30pm
YONG YONG - 3.15pm
YEAR OF BIRDS - 4pm
SEX HANDS - 5pm
TERRORBIRD - 5.45pm
SILVER FOX - 6.30pm
EARTH ROD - 7.15pm
EX EASTER ISLAND HEAD - 8pm
MARK MCGUIRE - 9pm
MERCHANDISE - 10pm
PLEASE - 11pm


YARD PARTY is a three day music festival presented by Upset The Rhythm, taking place at Hackney Wick's tremendous and intrepid Yard Theatre. Focusing on a wide variety of international underground music from folk to noise by way of damaged romantic pop, Yard Party's intention is to haul the DIY concert out of it's expected parameters and into 'interesting pastures new' to enhance the potency of the music, its effect on the audience and to deconstruct the passive nature of what witnessing live music in 2013 shouldn't be.

YARD PARTY will take place on Thursday 15 August and Friday 16 August from 5pm - midnight, and then on Saturday 17 August from noon - midnight, all-dayer style! and will take place at The Yard Theatre. The full address for the event is The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN


YARD PARTY - DAY 1
-------------------------------

MICHAEL CHAPMAN – Full on legend, inspiration and timeless guitar wizard with songs spanning folk, ragtime, jazz and blues.
http://www.michaelchapman.co.uk/

CUT HANDS – William Bennett of Whitehouse infamy channeling Ghanaian percussion and vast arrays of djembes and doundouns into a powerhouse of maximal dance/noise music.
http://williambennett.blogspot.co.uk/

SPENCER CLARK – Of Skaters, Vodka Soap, Monopoly Child, Pacific City etc. generating time slips and brain distortions with clustering keyboard euphorics, focused drones and elastic loopage.
http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/7066

ROB ST JOHN - Lancastrian Rob St John plays drawn-out and ghostly songs underpinned by the creaks and drones of the harmonium, analogue synth and field recordings.
http://robstjohn.tumblr.com/

FLAMINGODS – Structured ensemble of drums, world percussion and delay drenched chants that court the party-ready hypnotic.
http://flamingods.bandcamp.com/

Thursday 15 August
The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
5pm-midnight | £12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346



YARD PARTY - DAY 2
-------------------------------

U.S. GIRLS & SLIM TWIG – Bewitched classic pop tropes, glooping glam and a shroud of abstraction cloaking two strikingly original voices. Meghan and Max will be playing two sets FYI.
http://yousgirls.blogspot.co.uk/
http://slimtwig.blogspot.co.uk/

SAUNA YOUTH - Four piece punk rock band from London, posing the question “why can't you be the Ramones and Steve Reich?” in much the same way Kurt Cobain once asked “why can't you be Black Sabbath and the Beatles?”
http://saunayouth.bandcamp.com/

SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING - Songs about heartbreak, working crappy jobs to survive and the loneliness of public transport, linking the swagger of the Velvets to the off kilter pop perfection of the Only Ones.
http://scottandcharleneswedding.bandcamp.com/

FAT WHITE FAMILY BAND – Possess a unique and slightly unnerving ability to work razor sharp Spaghetti Western riffs, hyper punk energy, sprawling Americana and wild blasts of garage rock all into the same enthralling live show.
http://fatwhitefamily.bandcamp.com/

LAS KELLIES – An all-girl trio from Argentina, twisting out a bunch of wonderfully bare-boned post-punk shapes with a viciously infectious clatter.
http://kellies.bandcamp.com/

Friday 16 August
The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
5pm-midnight | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346



YARD PARTY – DAY 3
-------------------------------

MERCHANDISE – Beguilingly wayward rock music from Tampa, Florida, one minute dripping in dynamic weirdo postpunk, the next cascading after dreamy drifter ballads.
http://merchandisetheband.wordpress.com/

MARK MCGUIRE – Cosmic guitarist from Emeralds, dealing in texturally-attuned axe marathons, twinkling loop techno and flickering synth oscillation.
http://mcguiremusic.blogspot.co.uk/

JOE MCKEE - Formerly with Aussie band Snowman, McKee torches his past to delightful, lushly atmospheric effect, breathy echoes and evocative lush arrangements.
http://joemckeemusic.tumblr.com/

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

SILVER FOX – Newcastle’s dreamiest noise pop quartet with a deliriously swoonsome album on the way for Upset The Rhythm.
http://wearesilverfox.blogspot.co.uk/

EX EASTER ISLAND HEAD – Precise and pulsing rhythmic minimalism from the Liverpool-based ensemble, composing and performing music for solid-body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments.
http://www.exeasterislandhead.com/

TERRORBIRD – Nikki Nevver's voice has grown into a formidable instrument, a towering, unabashed vocal whose resonance curls around her synth and drum machine production.
http://terrorbird.bandcamp.com/

YONG YONG – Duo operating out of Lisbon, making a welcome addition to the hazy tape-music scene with their clunky lo-fi drawl.
https://soundcloud.com/rodolfo-brito

HALO HALO – Primal, hyper-melodic music that makes you want to dance into the mountains and throw a rope around the moon.
https://soundcloud.com/halohalo

SEX HANDS - From Manchester, spinning out vibrant garage pop that blows the roof off with its blend of yelping vocals and washed out, high end guitar scree.
https://soundcloud.com/sexhands

PLEASE – Duelling guitarists and an activated drummer spoiling us all with their ramshackle garage slap and wrong-footed prog rush.
http://pleees.bandcamp.com/

YEAR OF BIRDS - Loud Fall-esque squall from Teesside’s favourite artpunks, two riffs, shorts songs, tonnes of feedback and distorted vocals. 
http://yearofbirds.bandcamp.com/

APOSTILLE – Michael Kasparis’ sublime solo pop project dealing with vocal incantation, the self-realisation of performance an audience engagement.
https://soundcloud.com/apostille

Saturday 17 August
The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
Noon-midnight | £15.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346

N.B. Tickets cost £33 for a three day festival pass!
All options are available here: http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346


See you sooner than soon!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x

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



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

MIKAL CRONIN
ABJECTS
FURROW / ANCIENT TIMES
Monday 19 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | SOLD OUT

SKY NEEDLE
MAD NANNA
THE PHEROMOANS
Wednesday 11 September
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/225994

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

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
CHARLES HOWL
Friday 13 September
Brixton Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton, SW2 5BZ
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/234991

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

FUZZ
FEELING OF LOVE
THE PAPERHEAD
Friday 27 September
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/232608

NO AGE
ERIC COPELAND (BLACK DICE)
ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT
Wednesday 2 October
KOKO, 1a Camden High St, Mornington Crescent, NW1 7JE
7pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/227464

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
SCULPTURE
Thursday 3 October
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, N1 2UD
7.30pm | £15.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/228974

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

DESTRUCTION UNIT
(ex-Reatards, Lost Sounds)
GOOD THROB
Wednesday 23 October
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/225040

SLEAFORD MODS
THE PHEROMOANS
SPOILS & RELICS
Wednesday 30 October
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/227468

NO JOY
Monday 11 November
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/230225

Thursday 8 August 2013

YARD PARTY next week!!!




Hello again!
Just a quick heads up about our three day YARD PARTY next week; so much great music at such a brilliant venue, we hope you can join us! Here’s the whole story in widescreen, enjoy the blurbs…


\\\\\\  YARD PARTY  /////

YARD PARTY is a three day music festival presented by Upset The Rhythm, taking place at Hackney Wick's tremendous and intrepid Yard Theatre. Focusing on a wide variety of international underground music from folk to noise by way of damaged romantic pop, Yard Party's intention is to haul the DIY concert out of it's expected parameters and into 'interesting pastures new' to enhance the potency of the music, its effect on the audience and to deconstruct the passive nature of what witnessing live music in 2013 shouldn't be.

YARD PARTY will take place on Thursday 15 August and Friday 16 August from 5pm - midnight, and then on Saturday 17 August from noon - midnight, all-dayer style! and will take place at The Yard Theatre. The full address for the event is The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN


YARD PARTY - DAY 1
-------------------------------

MICHAEL CHAPMAN – Full on legend, inspiration and timeless guitar wizard with songs spanning folk, ragtime, jazz and blues.
http://www.michaelchapman.co.uk/

CUT HANDS – William Bennett of Whitehouse infamy channeling Ghanaian percussion and vast arrays of djembes and doundouns into a powerhouse of maximal dance/noise music.
http://williambennett.blogspot.co.uk/

SPENCER CLARK – Of Skaters, Vodka Soap, Monopoly Child, Pacific City etc. generating time slips and brain distortions with clustering keyboard euphorics, focused drones and elastic loopage.
http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/7066

ROB ST JOHN - Lancastrian Rob St John plays drawn-out and ghostly songs underpinned by the creaks and drones of the harmonium, analogue synth and field recordings.
http://robstjohn.tumblr.com/

FLAMINGODS – Structured ensemble of drums, world percussion and delay drenched chants that court the party-ready hypnotic.
http://flamingods.bandcamp.com/

Thursday 15 August
The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
5pm-midnight | £12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346



YARD PARTY - DAY 2
-------------------------------

U.S. GIRLS & SLIM TWIG – Bewitched classic pop tropes, glooping glam and a shroud of abstraction cloaking two strikingly original voices.
http://yousgirls.blogspot.co.uk/
http://slimtwig.blogspot.co.uk/

SAUNA YOUTH - Four piece punk rock band from London, posing the question “why can't you be the Ramones and Steve Reich?” in much the same way Kurt Cobain once asked “why can't you be Black Sabbath and the Beatles?”
http://saunayouth.bandcamp.com/

SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING - Songs about heartbreak, working crappy jobs to survive and the loneliness of public transport, linking the swagger of the Velvets to the off kilter pop perfection of the Only Ones.
http://scottandcharleneswedding.bandcamp.com/

FAT WHITE FAMILY BAND – Possess a unique and slightly unnerving ability to work razor sharp Spaghetti Western riffs, hyper punk energy, sprawling Americana and wild blasts of garage rock all into the same enthralling live show.
http://fatwhitefamily.bandcamp.com/

LAS KELLIES – An all-girl trio from Argentina, twisting out a bunch of wonderfully bare-boned post-punk shapes with a viciously infectious clatter.
http://kellies.bandcamp.com/

Friday 16 August
The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
5pm-midnight | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346



YARD PARTY – DAY 3
-------------------------------

MERCHANDISE – Beguilingly wayward rock music from Tampa, Florida, one minute dripping in dynamic weirdo postpunk, the next cascading after dreamy drifter ballads.
http://merchandisetheband.wordpress.com/

MARK MCGUIRE – Cosmic guitarist from Emeralds, dealing in texturally-attuned axe marathons, twinkling loop techno and flickering synth oscillation.
http://mcguiremusic.blogspot.co.uk/

JOE MCKEE - Formerly with Aussie band Snowman, McKee torches his past to delightful, lushly atmospheric effect, breathy echoes and evocative lush arrangements.
http://joemckeemusic.tumblr.com/

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

SILVER FOX – Newcastle’s dreamiest noise pop quartet with a deliriously swoonsome album on the way for Upset The Rhythm.
http://wearesilverfox.blogspot.co.uk/

EX EASTER ISLAND HEAD – Precise and pulsing rhythmic minimalism from the Liverpool-based ensemble, composing and performing music for solid-body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments.
http://www.exeasterislandhead.com/

TERRORBIRD – Nikki Nevver's voice has grown into a formidable instrument, a towering, unabashed vocal whose resonance curls around her synth and drum machine production.
http://terrorbird.bandcamp.com/

YONG YONG – Duo operating out of Lisbon, making a welcome addition to the hazy tape-music scene with their clunky lo-fi drawl.
https://soundcloud.com/rodolfo-brito

HALO HALO – Primal, hyper-melodic music that makes you want to dance into the mountains and throw a rope around the moon.
https://soundcloud.com/halohalo

SEX HANDS - From Manchester, spinning out vibrant garage pop that blows the roof off with its blend of yelping vocals and washed out, high end guitar scree.
https://soundcloud.com/sexhands

PLEASE – Duelling guitarists and an activated drummer spoiling us all with their ramshackle garage slap and wrong-footed prog rush.
http://pleees.bandcamp.com/

YEAR OF BIRDS - Loud Fall-esque squall from Teesside’s favourite artpunks, two riffs, shorts songs, tonnes of feedback and distorted vocals. 
http://yearofbirds.bandcamp.com/

APOSTILLE – Michael Kasparis’ sublime solo pop project dealing with vocal incantation, the self-realisation of performance an audience engagement.
https://soundcloud.com/apostille

Saturday 17 August
The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
Noon-midnight | £15.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346

N.B. Tickets cost £33 for a three day festival pass!
All options are available here: http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346



THANK YOU as ever for reading this!
We’re also announcing today a second show for SHANNON AND THE CLAMS, plus ERIC COPELAND and ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT as supports for NO AGE in October!
See you one week today!
UPSET
x

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



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

MIKAL CRONIN
ABJECTS
FURROW / ANCIENT TIMES
Monday 19 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | SOLD OUT

SKY NEEDLE
MAD NANNA
THE PHEROMOANS
Wednesday 11 September
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/225994

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

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
RAVIOLI ME AWAY
CHARLES HOWL
Friday 13 September
Brixton Windmill, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton, SW2 5BZ
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/234991

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

FUZZ
FEELING OF LOVE
THE PAPERHEAD
Friday 27 September
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/232608

NO AGE
ERIC COPELAND (BLACK DICE)
ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT
Wednesday 2 October
KOKO, 1a Camden High St, Mornington Crescent, NW1 7JE
7pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/227464

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
SCULPTURE
Thursday 3 October
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, N1 2UD
7.30pm | £15.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/228974

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

DESTRUCTION UNIT
(ex-Reatards, Lost Sounds)
GOOD THROB
Wednesday 23 October
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/225040

SLEAFORD MODS
THE PHEROMOANS
SPOILS & RELICS
Wednesday 30 October
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/227468

NO JOY
Monday 11 November
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/230225