MOLLY NILSSON, IAN NAGOSKI & THE FAMILY ELAN, PHEROMOANS posters and etc

 MOLLY NILSSON makes her Manchester debut this coming Saturday 11th February at The APE & APPLE on John Dalton Street. This is the first UK date on her 'EUROPEAN HISTORY' tour and incidentally our first show at the Ape & Apple too. It will also be your first chance to see APOSTILLE anywhere in the world too. Should you wish you can buy tickets HERE.

Then we invite you to celebrate or shun St. Valentines Day February 14th with us at KRAAK, Stevenson Square where musicologist, cultural historian, curator and compiler IAN NAGOSKI will present 'TO WHAT STRANGE PLACE : The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929' wherein he'll be playing and discussing selections from the timeless and timely re-issue of the same name, before THE FAMILY ELAN perform live

More information and tickets can be found HERE

 And then to round off a pretty spectacular week, we've collaborated with GIANT HELL to bring the mighty PHEROMOANS to town to play an all-day love-in with 6 of our favourite bands from Manchester at KRAAK. LTD CHEAP TICKETS HERE

THE PHEROMOANS "the bovril boys" from movies for ears on Vimeo.

Since the world is running out of money and it cannot be long before a rat becomes a unit of currency ,  so it becomes more important than ever that we humans think carefully about how we choose to dispense our funds---hard-earned or otherwise. It is with this consideration in mind we attempt to divert some of your attention to  two projects we sincerely believe are worth investing in.


SIMON JOYNER has long been one of our heroes and is, was and forever will remain a source of inspiration to us. The first Comfortable On a Tightrope show was set up for Simon Joyner. We celebrated our 3rd Anniversary by booking a UK Tour for him. And hopefully 2012 will see him return to our shores once more. You can help make this  more likely and practicable and snag yourself some rare and beautiful artifacts all at once by following the links below.






The 6 years since Diane Cluck released a new album have felt like an eternity. We've been fortunate that, throughout that time, she's made annual visit's to the UK and performed shows wherein we've heard some new songs but that's no consolation for the absence of new recordings. Thankfully, the wait is almost over. For 6 months, from March through 'til September Diane Cluck will write, record and disseminate a  song a week. The project is called, simply 'SONG OF THE WEEK' . You can read all about it and donate HERE

WAY THROUGH, GENTLE FRIENDLY & PEEPHOLES

This Saturday February 4th sees the Upset The Rhythm 'KINGDOM' Tour make it's Manchester stop at Kraak Gallery, Stevenson Square. It's almost 2 years since WAY THROUGH were last in Manchester---they played their second ever gig at SFTOC 2010. This tour also coincides with the release of a new album 'Enclosure' on Comfortable On A Tightrope as well as new records by all three bands on Upset The Rhythm.

Over the last eight years Upset The Rhythm have inexhaustibly sought out the best underground sounds from all over the world. With fifty releases under their belt and their inspired series of YES WAY festivals they continually focus the spotlight on the UK’s own idiosyncratic DIY music. February 2012 sees the label hit the road with three incredibly inventive bands from their native soil to bring their pastoral punk, junked rhythms and tribal synth dance parties to the near and far of the United Kingdom. Upset The Rhythm’s Kingdom Tour sees GENTLE FRIENDLY, WAY THROUGH and PEEPHOLES team up to present a revolving lineup that resonates deep within landscape, drawing on forgotten pasts and remembered futures in equal measure.

Here’s a more in depth look at all the UTR artists featured on the tour…

GENTLE FRIENDLY are a duo from London, comprised of David Morris and Richard Manber, who have a penchant for circular melodies, tidal fuzz and rapid junked rhythms. With an austere setup of Casio keyboard, vocals and drums (sometimes electronic) the band push against the pop boundary, trapping their songs on record like a continuous sun-warped field recording. 2009 saw Gentle Friendly release their debut album 'Ride Slow' to critical acclaim, with Pitchfork even citing Clipse and Lil Wayne as influences on the band. Since then Gentle Friendly have remodeled and rebuilt their sound into a stronger beast at their home studio called Deep House. Bringing us up to date, new EP 'Rrrrrrr' is the first fruit to fall from the tree, with its seven tracks washing the band's insistent prism punk alongside more tender, filmic textures.

http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/gentlefriendly.shtml

 

Gentle Friendly - Speakers from lloyd bowen on Vimeo.

WAY THROUGH are a pastoral punk duo originally from Shropshire, now residing in London. Informed by the field as much as the flyover, Way Through write songs which phase in and out with guitar, tapes, damaged drums and vocals. Using wrong-footed repetition, rapid interplay and free-looping happenstance the band create a ragged yet intuitive tapestry of sound. Their songs walk the streets of market towns, wait forever at bus stops and lose themselves in edgelands. Way Through find great resonance with the spirit of place and try and channel its feeling into their music, joining the dots between lost places and deteriorating histories. Their debut album 'Arrow Shower' is out now on Upset The Rhythm, alongside the band's new deep map project of London's East End.

http://waythroughwithyou.blogspot.com/

 

Way Through - W.B. from Charles Chintzer Lai on Vimeo.

PEEPHOLES are Katia Barrett (drums, vocals) and Nick Carlisle (keyboards). The Brighton / London duo formed in 2006 after bonding over a Chinese violin and the quietest of music. Pretty soon they turned the volume up and hit on their winning strategy of soaring, stammering synth lines, tribalised drumming and low-slung vocals. Walking a tightrope between underground punk and dance music, Peepholes write cloaked anthems as likely to open celestial gates with keys of repetition as to soundtrack a slow motion fairground accident. Their sound is otherworldly, aching with wild beats, echoing with cavernous atmospheres. Upset The Rhythm have released a split 12” and a mini-album entitled ‘Caligula’ most recently.

http://wearepeepholes.co.uk/