Afternoon
everyone!
Tomorrow
we’re throwing a record launch for SAUNA
YOUTH, as their new album on Upset The Rhythm called ‘Distractions’ is released
on Monday! This will be taking place at Hackney Wick’s Old Baths and promises live
sets from RATTLE, PRIMETIME and RICHARD ROCK-N-ROLL alongside Sauna Youth themselves. Tickets are
just £5 and we will have some on the door, live music starting around 8.15pm,
so think early arrival. It’s going to be beyond brilliant, I hope you can join
us!
In
other news NO BABIES and MARGY PEPPER are touring the UK right
now, both bands are as electrifying as each other and are a total must see!
They arrive in London on Tuesday night and you can find our listing below, for
those of you elsewhere, here are the other UK dates before they head back into
Europe.
NO BABIES / MARGY PEPPER UK TOUR
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Thu
4 June – Bristol – Roll For The Soul
Sat
6 June – Nottingham – JT Soar
Sun
7 June – Glasgow – Old Hairdresser’s
Mon
8 June – Leeds – Wharf Chambers
Tue
9 June – London – Dalston Victoria
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SAUNA
YOUTH // Album launch //
RICHARD
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
PRIMETIME
RATTLE
Friday 5 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
7.30pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/317117
SAUNA
YOUTH are an evolving band of future humans
making truly irregular punk, not quite comparable to anything else. 'Weird' is
a meaningless platitude, and 'art punk' is a classifier that shouldn't be
required. Consisting of Richard
Phoenix (drums, vocals), Lindsay Corstorphine (guitar), Jen
Calleja (vocals, sampler) and Christopher Murphy (bass), Sauna
Youth are a punk band that’s happy to embrace all of the contradictions that go
along with that notion. On paper Sauna Youth sound considered - live they can
barely be contained. They are at times furious, unstoppable and severe with the
sampler wailing like an alarm coming from a parallel universe – then chugging,
poppy, harmonious and fun. Forever loud. As Kurt Cobain once asked
"Why can't we be both Black Sabbath and The Beatles?" Sauna
Youth consistently pose the question, “Why can't we be both The Ramones and
Steve Reich?”
‘Distractions’
(released on June 8th through Upset The Rhythm) marks the first time
the band has managed to write everything in a room together and also documents
the first time they’ve entered a studio to record; the songs in turn created
through the process of learning to write together. Made up of 14 songs,
Distractions is an album about desire, but most importantly, about that area
just out of reach of desire. It looks at what it means to be distracted from
being yourself. It thrives in the desire to be someone else, the very idea
that you could be someone else. It’s also an album that feels instinctive and
natural, flowing freely from a band that have come to terms with the sum of its
parts. Ultimately though, Sauna Youth have made a colossal record which is
impossible not to enjoy. This show at Hackney Wick’s Old Baths marks the launch
of the album, come celebrate its release and look out for a special guest too!
http://lostinidea.blogspot.co.uk/
RICHARD
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL will be coming up from Billingshurst
to perform a one-off improvised set for us. A regular for many years at the
long running integrated night The Rock House in Brighton. Richard RnR could
rival Mark E Smith in the number of musicians he's had back him over the years,
turning up on the night with a folder of lyrics and a head full of ideas, a
band will be formed there and then and you never quite know what will happen.
On Friday night members of Sauna Youth will be his backing band, trying to put
the Rock n Roll in Richard Rock n Roll. Constant Flux will also have a cassette
release of Richard's album, ‘Everybody Is Crazy’ recorded with Boon from Sauna
Youth in 2011.
PRIMETIME are self-proclaimed
'chaotic neurotics', finding their balance amid spirited punk clatter with a
sense of propulsive fun and maximal energy. Their songs are rampages of sound
as raw and minimal as they are inventive, and the band are soon to release
their debut four track EP through La Vida Es Un Mus. Harking back to the glory
years of 1979 to 1982, 'Tied Down' from the EP is their calling card, a
scratchy mix of Kleenex and Delta 5 with an instant hook that won't fail to get
you moving.
https://soundcloud.com/thisisprimetime
RATTLE are a drumming duo
based in Nottingham and comprised of Theresa J Wrigley and Katharine Eira
Brown. Both musicians also play drums for two other well respected bands, with
Theresa in Fists and Katy in Kogumaza. Far from the hippy bongo nightmare one
might imagine from a band made up of only two drummers, Rattle instead play
minimalist rhythms that remain both hypnotic and danceable heavily thanks to
the delicate vocal melodies which accompany their beats. Their sound recalls
This Heat or ESG whilst remaining uniquely their own.
http://rattleon.bandcamp.com/
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NO BABIES
MARGY PEPPER
COMMISERATIONS
Tuesday 9
June
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308647
NO
BABIES are a free-punk five piece from
Oakland, California. Since forming in 2008, they've worked tirelessly to
develop a unique 'new punk' sound influenced by jazz, art music and hardcore,
not unlike Old Skull playing Schoenberg, while Magma heckles from the audience.
In 2011, Upset The Rhythm released their debut self-titled album to rabid
acclaim, they have since followed that up with a number of tours and singles
released through Isolated Now Waves, Gilgongo and Folktale. Last year the band
returned with their "Yo No Soy Como Tú" EP, featuring new
members and new instrumentation, but with the same joyous and chaotic intensity
that has long been the band's signature. This new five song record for Upset
The Rhythm (and Gilgongo in the US) rapidly shifts between catchy melodies and
jarring atonality, creating a sound that is simultaneously chaotic and
controlled. Happy and angry, beautiful and abrasive.
https://nobabies.bandcamp.com/
MARGY
PEPPER are one of the most winsome slash
awesome slash rocking slash slash bands out there. Margy Pepper comes from
Olympia - a fact that should be easily identifiable when confronted with their
brazen confrontation of the seriousness usually laid upon the idea of DIY punk.
Add onto their musical prowess its affection for stories of childhood
embarrassments and triumphs, and you have a band that never ceases to delight.
Mary Pepper have heavy dreams and ghosts in the garage. There is light in the
summer and water in our mouths.
https://margypepper.bandcamp.com/
COMMISERATIONS are a trio of Leeds
post-punks responsible for a string of noisy skronk-pop hits. Members of Pifco,
Beards, Sissy Hex etc. Loud as a helicopter, jagged as a bread knife, fresh as
a daisy!
https://commiserations.bandcamp.com/
Thanks to everyone
for coming to see Mikal Cronin earlier this week, next week we’re just as busy
with LITURGY, CIRCUIT DES YEUX and AUSMUTEANTS
all performing too. See you tomorrow!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
SAUNA
YOUTH // Album launch //
RICHARD
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
PRIMETIME
RATTLE
Friday 5 June
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
7.30pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/317117
NO BABIES
MARGY PEPPER
COMMISERATIONS
Tuesday 9
June
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308647
AUSMUTEANTS
TENSE MEN
THE
CONNECTORS
Wednesday 10 June
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London, E8
2EB
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/316346
LITURGY
CIRCUIT DES YEUX
Thursday 11
June
Electrowerkz,
7 Torrens Street, Angel, EC1V 1NQ
8pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/309542
DAN DEACON
YEAH YOU
WUME
Tuesday 16
June
Oval Space,
29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT
7pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/312457
ARIEL PINK
HARRY MERRY
Wednesday 17 June
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
8pm | £17 | SOLD OUT
REIGNING SOUND
THE NUMBER ONES
THE CASTILLIANS
Monday 22
June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
8pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308293
VEXX
HUMAN FORM
VERTICAL SLUMP
Wednesday 1
July
Montague
Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
7.30pm | £6 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/310345
PEGA MONSTRO
SACRED PAWS
Saturday 15 August
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/321016
Saturday 15 August
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/321016
DEERHOOF
Tuesday 25 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313096
FUZZ
Friday 4 September
Heaven, The Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG
7pm - 10pm | £14 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318321
Tuesday 25 August
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/313096
FUZZ
Friday 4 September
Heaven, The Arches, Villiers Street, Charing Cross, WC2N 6NG
7pm - 10pm | £14 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318321
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
JULIE BYRNE
Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333
JULIE BYRNE
Thursday 10 September
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/319333
DOPE BODY
USA NAILS
Wednesday
16 September
Old
Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm
| £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318804
MARTIN NEWELL -
‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H
8LG
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