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…
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CIAN NUGENT
NAP EYES
GOLD FOIL
Saturday 21 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, Hackney, E9 6NU
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
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
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MONDAY /////
NOTS
MONSTER TREASURE
ES
Monday 23 May
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
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://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.
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 /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS
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CIAN NUGENT
NAP EYES
GOLD FOIL
Saturday 21 May
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, Hackney, E9 6NU
NOTS
MONSTER TREASURE
ES
Monday 23 May
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
DOWNTOWN BOYS
TRASH KIT
ULTIMATE GUITAR TABS
Tuesday 31
May
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
KAREN GWYER
CONTAINER
GIANT SWAN
Friday 3 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
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
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
CC DUST
STATIC PALM
STATIC PALM
BADABOUM
Thursday 23 June
Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury Street, Dalston, N16 8JN
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/359147
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
LUCKY
DRAGONS
JIN&DAUN
Saturday 2 July
DIY Space For London, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
SONIC BOOM
Saturday 9 July
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
PROTOMARTYR
Thursday 14 July
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2
6NB
THE OBLIVIANS
DEAF WISH
Wednesday 27 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
HEATHER LEIGH
ASIQ NARGILE
Thursday 4 August
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/358631
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
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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