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Hello there!
It was brilliant to see so many of you at the Crystal Palace Bowl for Future Islands a week ago, thanks loads for whipping up a storm and making it such an epic day.
This August we have three Upset The Rhythm events looming. The first takes place one week today at Cafe OTO and sees us engage full label-mode by throwing a UTR showcase. We're over the moon to have Australian synth punks Screensaver in town for the first time, plus Me Lost Me and Marcel Wave will be performing too, I know! We're exceedingly proud to work on records with so many incredible artists, this night will be celebratory to say the least.
Read on for all the specifics, you'll also find write-ups on our other two events this month: Screensaver at New River Studios this time at the end of their tour (Aug 24th) accompanied by The Rebel and Jade Hairpins, and a date for the inimitable Jake Xerxes Fussell and Sam Moss who will be playing for us at Lafayette (Aug 30th).
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Also, our friends at Bonzo are organising an awesome party with Anastasia Coope, Moon Diagrams (Moses from Deerhunter) and The Narrator at Servant Jazz Quarters on Aug 29th, heavy recommend!
Look out in our listings section for newly announced shows for Dean Spunt (of No Age), Guests, Grazia, Sassyhiya, Nightshift and Robert Sotelo & Mary Currie too! So much to look forward to. |
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Upset The Rhythm label showcase featuring…
SCREENSAVER
ME LOST ME
MARCEL WAVEWednesday 14 August Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £11 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q72f781acc64SCREENSAVER are finally making their way to Europe and the UK this August. The Melbourne synth-punks blend the dark and moody elements of post-punk and new wave with synth sounds both caustic and cosmic to create a sound that is tense, direct, and often undeniably danceable. Their sophomore album ‘Decent Shapes’ was released late 2023 on Upset The Rhythm to critical acclaim, with praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, Post-Trash and Maximum Rock’n’Roll. With extensive US and Aussie tours already under their belt, the band are excited to make it to the UK and EU for the very first time. https://screensaver.bandcamp.com/ ME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. Led by Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music, the project has transformed since 2017 from a solo endeavor to an expanded group; regularly collaborating with acclaimed North-East jazz musicians Faye MacCalman and John Pope. Me Lost Me’s music has been described in The Guardian as "stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out", and by BBC Radio 6's Tom Robinson as a "brilliant peculiar noise". Me Lost Me’s latest album ‘RPG’ was released last summer on Upset The Rhythm. https://www.melostme.com/ MARCEL WAVE write eulogies for tragic actresses, ancient riverbeds and concrete obscenity. Their inaugural sonic instalment ‘Something Looming’ (Upset The Rhythm) is part trades club symphony, part itchy serenade, and part wistful lament. As their heady concoction of ‘Meades meets Pat-E-Smith meets Kirklees Borough Council’ gets prepped to be formally baptised on a dank stage near you. Formed when Lindsay Corstorphine and Christopher Murphy of Sauna Youth and brethren Oliver and Patrick Fisher of Cold Pumas were summoned by northern ink-slinger Maike Hale-Jones, Marcel Wave’s debut offering is a walk through a smoke-filled pub with yellowing wallpaper and all eyes on you. It’s a chronicle of the death of the docklands, the decline of industry, of the high street, of civic pride, of civilisations, of hopes and dreams. https://marcel-wave.bandcamp.com |
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Upset The Rhythm presents… SCREENSAVER
THE REBEL
JADE HAIRPINSSaturday 24 August New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Harringay, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Re3674c6d206SCREENSAVER are finally making their way to Europe and the UK this August. The Melbourne synth-punks blend the dark and moody elements of post-punk and new wave with synth sounds both caustic and cosmic to create a sound that is tense, direct, and often undeniably danceable. Their sophomore album ‘Decent Shapes’ was released late 2023 on Upset The Rhythm to critical acclaim, with praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, Post-Trash and Maximum Rock’n’Roll. ‘Decent Shapes’ is loaded with bubbling tension, a low grade but growing fever, a rising rage. The frustration is so tangible you can taste it. Detachment and dissociation become survivalist coping mechanisms. With extensive US and Aussie tours already under their belt, the band are excited to make it to the UK and EU for the very first time. https://screensaver.bandcamp.com/ THE REBEL was born Benedict Roger Wallers in 1971. Since 1989 BR Wallers has recorded & hand-distributed a bewildering array of impossibly hard-to-find home-made cassette-albums, under a variety of guises. Wallers is a charismatic lone wolf in a cowboy hat 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 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 30 years, from scores of more or less “official” LPs, EPs and 7”s to seemingly endless self-released cassettes. https://the-rebel.bandcamp.com/JADE HAIRPINS is the pop-indie project of Mike Haliechuk and Jonah Falco of Fucked Up. Their debut LP, “Harmony Avenue” (Merge Records), is a whirlwind touch of fizzing synths, Talking Heads-Esque guitar interplay set to long melodic vocals and dancey drums. The band live the added strengths of Tamsin M. Leach (Es) and Jack Goldstein, bringing the songs to life. Check out the group’s new single “Unreliable,” a punched-up, baggy, pop-kissed barb of post-post-punk that is, according to the Hairpins’ frontman Jonah Falco, “about living up to the ideals and expectations of an ever changing brain, will, body, and world.” https://jadehairpins.bandcamp.com/ |
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Upset The Rhythm presents… JAKE XERXES FUSSELL
SAM MOSSFriday 30 August Lafayette, 11 Goods Way, London, N1C 4DP 7pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Qb1bff0f94a7 JAKE XERXES FUSSELL is a singer, guitarist and folk music interpreter who has distinguished himself as one of his generation's preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so traditional) "folk" songs, a practice which he approaches with a refreshingly unfussy lack of nostalgia. By recontextualizing ancient vernacular songs and sources of the American South, he allows them to breathe and speak for themselves and for himself; he alternately inhabits them and allows them to inhabit him. In all his work, Fussell humanizes his material with his own curatorial and interpretive gifts, unmooring stories and melodies from their specific eras and origins and setting them adrift in our own waterways. On his latest album, When I’m Called—his first LP for Fat Possum, and his first as a parent - Fussell returns to a well of music that holds lifelong sentimental meaning, loosely contemplating the passage of time and the procession of life’s unexpected offerings. The album was produced by James Elkington and mixed by Tucker Martine. In addition to Elkington, it features the playing of Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station) and Joe Westerlund (Bon Iver, Califone). Blake Mills contributes guitars on several tracks. Joan Shelley and Robin Holcomb provide backing vocals. https://www.jakexerxesfussell.com/SAM MOSS is a songwriter and instrumentalist based in Staunton, Virginia. Shapes (2020) is the latest full length LP in his wide ranging discography, one which has been acclaimed by publications like The Boston Globe, NPR, The Wire, and Paste. He has played hundreds of shows around the country and shared bills with Joan Shelley, Diane Cluck, Doug Paisley, and others. Moss plays violin on a duo album with guitarist Rob Noyes (Rob Noyes & Sam Moss) and can sometimes be seen accompanying songwriters like Kris Delmhorst and Jackson Emmer. This summer he released a Lagniappe Session for Aquarium Drunkard. He is also a woodworker. https://sammoss.bandcamp.com |
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