Hello there!
As we edge into
Autumn Upset The Rhythm finds itself heading to Café OTO on Monday for our
long-awaited concert for Chris Cohen.
Over the last decade we’ve worked with Chris multiple times as a member of more
bands than you can count on your fingers. His solo albums are sublime studies
in majestic offbeat pop music and his live show is as resplendent as you’d
expect, it transports you, Monday can’t come soon enough! Joining Cohen in
support will be Melbourne’s Pikelet,
aka Evelyn
Morris, a sonic traveler cut from same cloth, interested in how fair she can push
and pull her harmonic focus. Tickets for this show are close to selling out so
buying in advance would be recommended.
Full details for Monday’s
concert can be found below along with our listing for Terry’s debut European performance on September 12th at
The Victoria. We’ll all be donning red jackets and gold boots and heading down
the front for that one, plus The Rebel
and Sarcasm are also due to perform
too. GOOD TIMES guaranteed! This show marks the kick off of Terry’s Euro tour,
here’s the tour poster in case you want to follow our van down the road.
Terry aren’t the only Upset
The Rhythm artists on tour imminently, we have huge swathes of dates announced
this week. Sauna Youth will soon
embark on their first tour of the USA, whilst Rattle have been chosen by Animal Collective and The Julie Ruin to
accompany them on many dates. The World
are teaming up with Nots during their east-coast tour, plus our tour dates page
details shows for Ravioli Me Away, Pega
Monstro, Ed Schrader's Music Beat,
Deerhoof and Bamboo too!
This week we
also shared the magnificent first track from Vexx’s forthcoming mini-album The
Wild Hunt, out next month on Upset The Rhythm / M’Lady’s. ‘Do What You Want
To’ swoons and soars with all the band’s frenzied high-geared energy flooding
through. Enjoy!
In other news
we have just announced a new show on November 9th for Kara-Lis Coverdale, Happy Meals and Thomas Ragsdale, which will sound amazing! We’ve also added Samara Lubelski to our Stephen
Steinbrink concert and the enigmatic Robert
Sotelo to the Nap Eyes gig.
Final piece of news to remember; Upset
The Rhythm will be selling some records and limited edition t-shirts on the
rooftop of Uniqlo on Oxford Street next Saturday, Sept 10th! It’s a pocket
version of the Independent Label Market only in the clouds with Secretly
Canadian, Transgressive, Ninja Tune, Dead Oceans and several other labels joining
us from 11am – 6pm. Here's hoping the vertigo clears up and the weather stays
fine! Would be great to see you there!
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CHRIS COHEN
PIKELET
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146
CHRIS COHEN is a native of Los Angeles
currently residing in the farmlands of Vermont. He is the child of a former
music business executive and a former Broadway actress. His resume of prior
musical projects is a long one: as a contributing member of The Curtains,
Cryptacize, Deerhoof, and Natural Dreamers, he released 10 full-length albums
between 2002 and 2008. Along the way, Cohen was also a touring player with
White Magic, Cass McCombs, Haunted Graffiti and Danielson, among others, for
stints both short and long. All of this culminated in his first release under
his own name, and his first for Captured Tracks, 'Overgrown Path'. A singing
drummer who writes psychedelic pop music, Cohen also records his own bass,
Casio MT65, piano, and guitar. Tracks like 'Caller No. 99' and 'Monad' follow
idiosyncratic forms, but are still melodic in an unconventional and homegrown
way; like the best of Robert Wyatt, Mayo Thompson, Syd Barrett, and Jerry
Garcia. 'Overgrown Path' unfolded its delicate and unexpected arrangements
around Cohen's relaxed baritone, unhurriedly revealing the detailed world
wrapped up in each song. 'As If Apart', the long-awaited sequel to Chris
Cohen's 2012 soft psych garden of unearthly alter-pop, follows on from its
predecessor with another bittersweet ensemble of dreamy, complex songs. Pushing
the idiosyncrasies of Cohen's melodic and rhythmic approach into even more
fractured, shifting spaces, 'As if Apart' unsettles lazy pop conventions,
upending jaded heads and hearts with an expansive, moody psychedelia.
https://soundcloud.com/capturedtracks/chris-cohen-in-a-fable
PIKELET is a Melbourne
exploratory art-synth performer called Evelyn Morris. Evelyn formed Pikelet in
2007 and has released three full-length albums (on Chapter Records), all of
which have received great critical acclaim. Pikelet started out as layered
experimental folk music and has traversed many musical territories over the
years. Currently the sound is based around experimentation with synth, odd
rhythms and found sound, all tied to a core melodic and harmonic focus. Evelyn
has also been involved in many collaborations with artists and groups such as
The Boredoms, for their Boadrum 10/10/10 performance. She's done soundtracks
for short films, art installations and dance performances. As a session
musician Evelyn has accompanied many artists such as Ariel Pink, Grand Salvo,
Laura Jean and Frida Hyvönen. Evelyn describes her new album, Tronc as
featuring “weirder pop than ever before.”
https://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/tronc
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WEEK ON MONDAY /////
TERRY
THE
REBEL
SARCASM
Monday 12 September
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
TERRY is getting ready, combing his hair, buttoning his
jacket, turning the key in the door. "I'm doing fine," sings Terry
out loud, he knows. Divide him into four and you get Al Montfort (UV Race,
Total Control, Dick Diver etc.), Amy Hill (Constant Mongrel, School Of Radiant
Living), Xanthe Waite (Mick Harvey Band) and Zephyr Pavey (Eastlink, Total
Control, Russell Street Bombings). Inevitably, Terry likes to make a noise.
Drums, guitars and all his voices come into play, making a solid raft for
Terry's inner musings to navigate the languid rapids. This all unravels at its
own pace, sometimes drifting into glam pop and country backwaters, always
conducting a conversation with the commonplace. Love is a highway, but you’re
not likely to find Terry there anymore. He’s on the plane. Terry
saw the light, he put on his sunhat and is heading to Europe for the
first time. Debut album, ‘Terry HQ’ was released this summer by Upset The
Rhythm.
THE
REBEL is prolific London outsider Ben Wallers;
a charismatic lone wolf in a cowboy hat or trilby and a tie whose electrified
howls are too idiosyncratic to be broken down into market-oriented terms. It is
difficult to sketch a thumbnail summary of a musician who has amassed a vast
and unwieldy discography under a variety of names and genres: the most widely
acclaimed is probably the Country Teasers, but he also moonlights as, or in,
the Rebel, the Company, the Male Nurse, the Beale, the Stallion, the Black
Poodle and Skills on Ampex, across folk, country, garage, post-punk, no wave
and electronic pop. In the main part The Rebel is centred around twisted Casio
drones, clanging guitar and some defiantly deadpan vocals, all thrown in the
pan and pressure-cooked in Wallers' mind. Wallers has amassed a near-unquantifiable
discography over the past 20 years, from scores of more or less “official” LPs,
EPs and 7”s to seemingly endless self-released cassettes.
SARCASM provide the dystopian post-punk, featuring members
of Efialtis, Semi and Snob. Check out their ‘Total Institution’ tape that just
came out through Far So Far.
Have a terrific weekend and we’ll see
you on Monday!
UPSET
THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS
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CHRIS COHEN
PIKELET
Monday 5 September
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/361146
TERRY
THE REBEL
SARCASM
Monday 12 September
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
PEGA MONSTRO
TERRY
SOOK
Wednesday 21 September
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
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
GRUMBLING FUR
DAN HAYHURST
Tuesday 27 September
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/grumbling-fur-tickets
SAUNA
YOUTH
DAVID WEST
SCORE
DAVID WEST
SCORE
MIDDEX
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161
GENERAL ECHO SOUNDSYSTEM (Black Time / DJ Set)
Saturday 1 October
Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL
8pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/372161
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
SAMARA LUBELSKI
LC PUMPKIN
Tuesday 4 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
UPSILON ACRUX
GUAPO
HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT
Friday 7 October
Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/356180
CALVIN JOHNSON
(Selector Dub Narcotic)
CATENARY
WIRES
SIDNEY
Monday 17 October
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/370998
Monday 17 October
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
7:30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/370998
In collaboration with Caught by the River…
MARISA ANDERSON
LAURA CANNELL
Tuesday 25 October
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
NAP EYES
ROBERT SOTELO
LADS
Monday 7 November
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
KARA-LIS COVERDALE
HAPPY MEALS
THOMAS RAGSDALE
Wednesday 9 November
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street,
Angel, N1 0XT
£7 | 7.30pm | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/373659
NEGATIVE
SCANNER
Saturday 12 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
An Evening With…
KRISTIN HERSH
Thursday 24 November
St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge
Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £20 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/368119
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