Well that was a busy
week!! Thank you to everyone for coming to see Rat Columns and the inimitable
Martin Newell, we’ll be looking at bringing The Golden Afternoon back to
London next year too, as he (along with all or us) very much enjoyed the
experience. Turning our attentions now to this week, we’re extremely excited to
have two back-to-back days of music planned in celebration of ‘DIY Space For London’ opening last week. DIY
Space For London is a cooperatively-run social centre located in South
London, just off Old Kent Road. During the day, they offer low cost creative
facilities, meeting rooms and social areas, including a library, darkroom,
music rehearsal and printmaking facilities, and in the evening they focus on
screenings, talks and performances with a focus on the creative work of their
members. You have to be a member (or a guest of one) to attend the space and
this can take 48 hours to enact, so if you haven’t already it’s a good idea to
join up here, only takes a minute and costs £2 for the entire year:
On Thursday night we
have PC WORSHIP, HOUSEWIVES and TAR POOLING all performing, whilst on Friday night TROPICAL TRASH, PERSPEX FLESH and APOSTILLE
take their turn. Both events cost only £5 and have a swift curfew of 11pm, so
head down early if you don’t wanna miss anything. Tickets are only available on
the door each night by the way. Read on for everything we have planned,
including the full listing for Sunday’s rare appearance of TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN LA at Cafe OTO too.
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PC WORSHIP
HOUSEWIVES
TAR POOLING
Thursday
24 September
DIY
Space For London, Unit 1, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
8pm
| £5 Members & Guests | Tickets on the door, become a member of DIYSFL
here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/
PC WORSHIP is a band, solo project & collective of musicians, trimming steadily on the outskirts of punk, while enlisting methods of new music and free improvisation. For five years they’ve been the sort of amorphous New York ensemble that can only be defined by a series of question marks. Is this an improv noise group? A "mutant soul band"? A casual experiment in home-recording? If so, why is their loft called Le Wallet? Did they really all meet as New School jazz majors? Is it true they build their own instruments? And why is one called "the shitar"? PC Worship is, in essence, a twisted, low-pitched vision of subterranean psychedelia—variously made of bad-moonlit trash-punk, droning minimalism, prepared pianos, and Albert Ayler-worshipping sax freak-outs—as imagined by one Justin Frye, who handled vocals, guitars, tape manipulations, and keys as the writer, recorder, and producer of their latest behemoth, ‘Social Rust’ (Northern Spy / Dull Tools). Frye has played back-up for experimental synth-cyborg Gary War as well as Baltimore weirdos Teeth Mountain, both of which offer only a surface idea of PC Worship's frayed, pummelling avant-gardism. Music is everywhere, and the expanses are chaotic, and understanding the cacophony of sound (and life) is futile. Now, though, freaks of all-ages and places can hear ‘Social Rust’ and feel that giddy sense of hope crawling in their skin because these out-sounds are being twisted from someplace new.
https://pcworship.bandcamp.com/
HOUSEWIVES tangle guitar, drums and layers of vocals to delirious effect, creating vast webs of rhythmic pulse-and-slap. Unfolding like a never-ending map, their songs creep out of chaos into urgent bursts of energy and loud focus.Born out of the influence of composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass, dosed up with no/new wave, and dragged through Cecil Taylor backwards, Housewives build a hypnotic wall of sound from the simplest elements. Look out for the band’s forthcoming LP, following on from their sold out cassette tape on Faux Discx.
https://soundcloud.com/housewivesband
TAR POOLING used to be called Rabbit Milk, but in late 2014 a tragedy struck. You know that sludge from the end of 'Oliver!' that Fagin drops his jewellery and coins into? All his instruments fell into that. It was very disastrous. However he had a drum machine fortunately left thankfully and so was still able to make some kind of songs by singing over the top, these are the results.
https://tarpooling.bandcamp.com
\\\\\ FRIDAY /////
TROPICAL TRASH
PERSPEX FLESH
APOSTILLE
Friday
25 September
DIY
Space For London, Unit 1, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
8pm
| £5 Members & Guests | Tickets on the door, become a member of DIYSFL
here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/
TROPICAL TRASH hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, make loud, abrasive sludge-punk that descends from the sky straight into your brain stem. Their songs are executed as short, sharp bursts of fury, each is dipped in a hot vat of tar and seared until they form a gnarled crust.Percussion refuses to do anything but stampede forward, backed by thick, buzzing bass and the weight of hook-heavy guitar slime. Vocals are spewed out as raspy, spit-drenched growls, all stirred together to create this fuming pile of garbage that’s already doused in gasoline and ready to explode into a roaring fire. After releasing a pair of awesome 7 inch records and a few appearances on cassette, the band finally come together for their official debut album, 'UFO Rot' released here in UK/Europe via Riot Season and in the states via Load Records.
https://tropicaltrash.bandcamp.com/
PERSPEX FLESH are from Leeds, writing unhinged and abstract hardcore punk that carries on the legacy of bands such as Rudimentary Peni through to Cold Sweat of creating an all-encompassing feeling of claustrophobia through their music. Featuring members of Broken Arm and The Flex, Perspex Flesh focus on the ugly, nihilistic, and uncompromising, with their live show leaving you breathless. Check out their recent crop of releases on Static Shock Records now!
https://perspexflesh.bandcamp.com/
APOSTILLE is the recording and performing project of Night School head honcho Michael Kasparis (also of Please and The Lowest Form). Having started as a home-damaged pop music, Apostille has grown into a live-wire synth punk prospect that bridges physicality with emotive bleed. Insistent flickering beats hold down a sturdy framework for Kasparis' clouds of echoed vocals and synth cluster quests. Sometimes Michael's voice soars above the music, hanging their like an apparition, other times the cloaked notes surge forwards, bouncing between distorted handclaps, wonky basslines and oblique incantations to deliriously wondrous effect. Apostille’s debut album ‘Powerless’ was released last year through Night School records, and it is essential listening.
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TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN LA
CASUAL SECT
CLAIRE
Sunday 27 September
In collaboration with Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/q26dany
Sunday 27 September
In collaboration with Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/q26dany
TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN LA have spent most of the last two and a half decades ploughing through genre boundaries in riotous fashion. Founded by Tom Smith in 1990, To Live and Shave in L.A. (aka TLASILA) rip through sonic boundaries and demolish cultural mythologies with a kinetic mélange of violent, constantly shifting musique concrète structures, splintered electronics, and stark, dramatic vocalisations. Their powerfully evocative compositions can take the form of forty-minute Kuiper Belt freak-outs or dense, demonic, two-minute pipe bomb pop. Their avowed enemy is genre itself, their ultimate goal, unknowing. Hyper-literate texts, ungovernable performances, and a ruthlessly meticulous production regimen yield recordings without referent, sounds that garrote taxonomy. For this OTO show they appear as a special five-piece line-up:
- Lucas Abela (Justice Yeldham, The Band From Bloody Elle, Martin Ng Turntable Orchestra)
- Tom Smith (Boat Of, Merkwürdig Riechen, Miss High Heel, Ohne, Peach Of Immortality, Pussy Galore, Rope Cosmetology, Three Resurrected Drunkards, X Narrative)
- Graham Moore (Black Meat, Branks, Cursory, Exploring Therapeutic Encounter, Graveyard Wanderers, Offerings, X Narrative)
- Rat Bastard (Bubonik Stupefaktion, Laundry Room Squelchers, The)
- Balazs Pandi (Cuts, Metallic Taste Of Blood, Obake, Rope Cosmetology, Slobber Pup, Wormskull).
https://toliveandshaveinla.bandcamp.com/
CASUAL SECT is a four piece non-prophet organisation formed in London in 2015 and comprising of Thom D Bleasdale, Kevin Morpurgo , Robbie Judkins and Maggie Muldoon. Influenced by the Discordian philosophy of Chaos and adherents to The Church of the SubGenius’ principle of Slack, they write short blasts of fuzzy punk exploring topics as diverse as David Icke, the Hadron Collider and narcotic induced abdominal distension.
https://casualsect.bandcamp.com/
CLAIRE are a four-piece band from Milton Keynes. Originally formed in 1984, Peter Devine and Ian Wilson, Andy Williams (ex Exit-stance) and Ian Williams (ex Chronic Outbursts) explore improvised noise-mutated funk, thrash, pop and er… noise! Following a John Peel Session in 1987 and the recording of their LP – Maxi Power Bulge they spontaneously combusted in the early Nineties but are back and throbbing once again.
www.claire-band.co.uk
Thank you for
taking the time,
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
PC WORSHIP
HOUSEWIVES
TAR POOLING
Thursday
24 September
DIY
Space For London, Unit 1, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
8pm
| £5 Members & Guests | Tickets on the door, become a member of DIYSFL
here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/
TROPICAL TRASH
PERSPEX FLESH
APOSTILLE
Friday
25 September
DIY
Space For London, Unit 1, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
8pm
| £5 Members & Guests | Tickets on the door, become a member of DIYSFL
here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/
TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN LA
CASUAL SECT
CLAIRE
Sunday 27 September
In collaboration with Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/q26dany
Sunday 27 September
In collaboration with Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/q26dany
MATANA ROBERTS
‘Coin
Coin Chapter Three’
ERIC CHENAUX
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
AARON DILLOWAY
SISSY SPACEK
SISSY SPACEK
MOOR MOTHER GODDESS
Tuesday 13 October
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/nuz7eot
THE SPACE LADY
MELTING HEARTS
Wednesday 14 October
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
NORMIL
HAWAIIANS
Saturday 24 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
MAXIMUM JOY
JD TWITCH (OPTIMO / DJ Set)
BULLION (DJ Set)
Tuesday
27 October
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
PROTOMARTYR
WITCHING WAVES
TENSE MEN
Monday 2 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/331014
WITCHING WAVES
TENSE MEN
Monday 2 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/331014
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
THE CREEPING IVIES
Wednesday
11 November
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
MIKAL CRONIN
Tuesday
17 November
Scala,
275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
7.30pm
| £13 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325344
CALVIN JOHNSON
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
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