UPSET THE RHYTHM: Milky Wimpshake, Robert Sotelo & The Plan in London tomorrow!

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.

In other UTR news there’s a fascinating interview with Ravioli Me Away that went live on The Quietus this week that we’d recommend checking out.

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!

\ \ \ \ \ TOMORROW / / / / /

MILKY WIMPSHAKE

‘20th Anniversary Show!’

ROBERT SOTELO

THE PLAN

Saturday 4 March

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

7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/382704

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/

\ \ \ \ \ 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

8pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/389301

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.

http://wolfeyes.net/

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.

https://soundcloud.com/mumdance

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.

https://guttersnipe.bandcamp.com/releases

Thanks for your time! Catch you tomorrow!

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MILKY WIMPSHAKE

‘20th Anniversary Show!’

ROBERT SOTELO

THE PLAN