Wednesday 30 September 2015

MATANA ROBERTS and ERIC CHENAUX performing in London next week!


Morning everyone!
Next week we’re very lucky to have the prodigious MATANA ROBERTS arrive in London for a show at Hackney’s OSLO. Matana is a storyteller, musician, ethnographer, historian, bandleader, arranger, improviser and activist. Three albums deep into her ‘Coin Coin’ album project for Constellation it’s become clear that she’s also responsible for one of the most provocative ongoing bodies of work by any American artist. For this performance, her first in London since the project begun, she’ll be joined by friend and label partner ERIC CHENAUX, known for his ingenious balladry and entwining guitar and vocal improvisations. Read on for the whole story , it’s going to be a really special show, that much is certain.


\\\\\  NEXT TUESDAY  /////



MATANA ROBERTS
Coin Coin Chapter Three
ERIC CHENAUX
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL

MATANA ROBERTS is an internationally renowned composer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist and mixed-media practitioner. Roberts works in many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, dance, poetry, and theater. She made two records as a core member of the Sticks And Stones quartet in the early 2000s and has gone on to release a diverse body of solo and ensemble work under her own name on Constellation and Central Control over the past decade. She is perhaps best known for her acclaimed ‘Coin Coin’ project, a multi-chapter work of “panoramic sound quilting” that aims to expose the mystical roots and channel the intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrativity, history, community and political expression within improvisatory musical structures. Constellation began documenting the ‘Coin Coin’ project in 2011 and has released the first three of a projected twelve album-length chapters to date.

The third chapter of ‘Coin Coin’, entitled ‘river run thee’ and released on Constellation on February 2014, finds Roberts constructing a sound art tapestry from field recordings, loop and effects pedals, and spoken word recitations, alongside her saxophone and singing voices. ‘Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee’ which Roberts will be performing at this concert, could arguably be considered first and foremost a vocal work, and notwithstanding its experimental and esoteric structure, a deeply narrative work as well. Not unlike 2013’s ‘Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile’, this most recent chapter unfolds as an uninterrupted album-length flow, this time in what Roberts calls “a fever dream” of sonic material, woven in surrealist fashion.


   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXI5pXB0_Ac


“At my artistic core, I am firmly dedicated to creating a unique and very personal experiential body of sound work that speaks to, and reminds people of all walks of life to reach, stand up, give voice, regardless of difference, created from mere labels of intellectual classification. In my ideal world the idea of ‘difference’, is an illusion designed only for the purpose of modern economic division and elitist intellectual hierarchy. Through my life’s work, I stand creatively in defiance.” Matana Roberts

Roberts has played with and alongside Rob Mazurek, Myra Melford, Vijay Iyer, Roscoe Mitchell and Greg Tate to name but a few and has also recorded as a guest musician with rock, pop and electronic groups as diverse as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, TV On The Radio, Savath & Savalas, Thee Silver Mt. Zion, and performance artists My Barbarian.
http://www.matanaroberts.com/


ERIC CHENAUX is an adventurous guitarist, singer and composer based in Paris. Having been an active player in Toronto experimental music circles with a host of group and collaborative works, Chenaux has more recently amassed a body of solo work across five albums on the Constellation label, centering around his dextrous, fried guitar playing as juxtaposed with a gorgeously lyrical vocal style. An ingenious recombinant use of traditional folk, psychedelic pop and consort music in earlier albums has over time evolved into a wholly uncategorisable form of balladry, shot through with a singular vernacular of guitar improvisation. 2015 has seen Eric release ‘Skullsplitter’, perhaps the strongest document yet of the exquisite, poetical songcraft he snake-charms from the roiling and changeable sonic environments bedded beneath. Alongside it has seen a blooming of his collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Eric Cazdyn, with a set of visual pieces made for each track on the album testament to their ongoing exploration of a fresh, symbiotic approach to music-video.

He has performed with Pauline Oliveros, John Oswald, Michael Snow, Brodie West, Han Bennink, Michael Moore, Josephine Foster, Wilbert De Joode, Gareth Davis, Jacob Wren and Norberto Lobo among many. Eric also composes and performs music for film and contemporary dance, and collaborates on numerous sound installations with visual/sound artist Marla Hlady, including Smedaholmen Tourist (with Amplifiers) (2012) for The Thousand And One Birds festival in Norway. Together with Eric Cazdyn he undertook a two-week residency at The Cube Cinema in Bristol, UK, where they produced and performed the film Play The Cube in 2014.
http://cstrecords.com/eric-chenaux/



Thanks for reading, have a terrific week!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x




\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  UPCOMING    SHOWS   \\\\\

MATANA ROBERTS
Coin Coin Chapter Three
ERIC CHENAUX
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL

AARON DILLOWAY
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
Two performances.
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 

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

CALVIN JOHNSON
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306

SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

MOSS LIME
Monday 7 December
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES

Thursday 24 September 2015

PC WORSHIP tonight, TROPICAL TRASH tomorrow and BAMBOO video!

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Alright!
Just a quick reminder about our two shows this week at the newly opened DIY SPACE FOR LONDON. Tonight we have PC WORSHIP, HOUSEWIVES and TAR POOLING all performing, whilst tomorrow night TROPICAL TRASH, PERSPEX FLESH and APOSTILLE take their turn. Both events cost only £5, are both BYO 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 by the way. Excitingly, TOME RECORDS will be staying open later than normal tonight and tomorrow, so you can check that out in the same building too!

In other news, you’ll also find below the full listing for our show on Sunday evening at Café OTO for TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN LA. Rarer than hen’s teeth that one! Yesterday we confirmed a concert in December for SLIM TWIG and TARZANA too, details can be found in our programme at the end of this message. We also announced this week that we’re releasing BAMBOO’s debut album ‘Prince Pansori Priestess’ on December 4th, as a special lunchtime treat here’s their video that premiered yesterday on Clash, bon appetite…

http://clashmusic.com/videos/premiere-bamboo-stone




                                                                   \\\\\     TONIGHT     /////




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



\\\\\     TOMORROW     /////

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.
http://apostille.bandcamp.com/



\\\\\     SUNDAY     /////  



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

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



See you later on, have a great day!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x




\\\\\  UPSET THE RHYTHM   /////
/////  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

MATANA ROBERTS
Coin Coin Chapter Three
ERIC CHENAUX
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL

AARON DILLOWAY
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
Two performances.
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 

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

CALVIN JOHNSON
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306

SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS

Tuesday 22 September 2015

From Hebden Bridge to Albuquerque / Upset The Rhythm artists on tour!


BAMBOO
07.10 – UK – London – St John On Bethnal Green


DEERHOOF
05.11 – USA – Las Vegas – Sayers Club (w/ Cy Dune, The Anti-job)
06.11 – USA – Los Angeles – Echoplex (w/ Cy Dune, The Anti-job)
07.11 – USA – Tucson – Night Of The Living Fest (w/ Of Montreal)
08.11 – USA – Albuquerque – Sister (w/ Cy Dune, The Anti-job)


ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT
08.10 – USA – Baltimore – Metro Gallery
10.10 – USA – Cleveland – Happy Dog
11.11 – USA – Ann Arbor – Blind Pig
12.10 – USA – Chicago – The Empty Bottle
13.10 – USA – Indianapolis – State Street Pub
14.10 – USA – Milwaukee – Lucky Cat
15.10 – USA – St Paul – Turf Club
16.10 – USA – Fargo – The Aquarium
17.10 – USA – Bismarck – Laughing Sun Brewing Co
19.10 – USA – Missoula – Ole Beck VFW Post 209
21.10 – USA – Bellingham – The Shakedown
23.10 – USA – Seattle – Fun House
24.10 – USA – Portland – Bunk Bar
26.10 – USA – Reno – The Holland Project
28.10 – USA – Oakland – LoBot Gallery
29.10 – USA – San Francisco – Hemlock Tavern
31.10 – USA – Phoenix – The Lost Leaf Bar
02.11 – USA – Houston – Walter’s Downtown
03.11 – USA – Austin – Mohawk
04.11 – USA – Baton Rouge – Chelsea’s Café
05.11 – USA – New Orleans – Siberia
06.11 – USA – Tallahassee – Wolf’s Den
07.11 – USA – Orlando – Will’s Pub
08.11 – USA – Miami Beach – Kill Your Idol
10.11 – USA – Jacksonville – Rain Dogs
11.11 – USA – Athens – 40 Watt Club
12.11 – USA – Knoxville – Pilot Light
13.11 – USA – Raleigh – Nice Price
14.11 – USA – Winston-Salem - Reanimator


MONOTONY
25.10 – UK – Preston – The Continental (w/ Sauna Youth, Maximum Joy)




NORMIL HAWAIIANS
24.10 – UK – London – The Lexington


PEGA MONSTRO
10.10 – PORTUGAL – Guimaraes – CAAA
22.10 – PORTUGAL – Lisbon – Musicbox


THE PHEROMOANS
04.10 – UK – London – Power Lunches (w/ Bohman Brothers, Acolytes)


RAVIOLI ME AWAY
01.11 – UK – London – Power Lunches
19.11 – UK – London – The Islington


SAUNA YOUTH
09.10 – UK – Oxford – Modern Art Oxford
10.10 – UK – Leeds – Hedrow House (w/ Traams)
24.10 – UK – Hebden Bridge – Trades Club (w/ Hookworms)
25.10 – UK – Preston – The Continental (w/ Monotony, Maximum Joy)
30.10 – UK – Brighton – Green Door Store (w/ Protomartyr)
05.11 – UK – London – DIY Space For London (Static Shock Weekend)
13.11 – UK – London – The Lexington (w/ Sheer Mag)


SPRAY PAINT
08.10 – USA – Memphis – Murphy’s (w/ Nots)
09.10 – USA – Chicago – Empty Bottle (w/ Strange Wilds)
10.10 – USA – Detroit – Marble Bar (w/ Protomartyr)
12.10 – USA – Cleveland – Now That’s Class (w/ Strange Wilds)
13.10 – USA – Pittsburgh – Spirit (w/ Strange Wilds)
14.10 – USA – Annandale-On-Hudson – Smog Bard College
15.10 – USA – WFMU Taping (6pm – 10pm)
16.10 – USA – New York – Cake Shop (early show 7.30pm)
16.10 – USA – Brooklyn – Union Pool (w/ PC Worship)
19.10 – USA – Winston – Reanimator
20.10 – USA – Atlanta – The Earl
21.10 – USA – New Orleans – Siberia
22.10 – USA – Austin – Hotel Vegas


VEXX
29.10 – USA – San Francisco – Brick & Mortar


THE WHARVES
19.10 – UK – London – Old Blue Last

Monday 21 September 2015

PC WORSHIP and TROPICAL TRASH this week at DIY SPACE FOR LONDON!

Hello there!
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.




\\\\\     THURSDAY     /////

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.



\\\\\     SUNDAY     /////  

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

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
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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/

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

MATANA ROBERTS
Coin Coin Chapter Three
ERIC CHENAUX
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL

AARON DILLOWAY
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 

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

CALVIN JOHNSON
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306