ATHLETE'S EYE

10 on 10

PACKING IT HARD

okokokok,

so, we've sold out of the DISTRACTIONS II tapes now, i ended up making 50, it literally took me a whole 2 days to make them. Ridiculous. If you still really want one you can get them from Spastic Fantastic in Germany or from Big Love in Japan (where the proceeds go towards go to victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan)... I only posted them off today so it'll be about a week or so before they even get them and update their shops n that. ok.


Also, we're now sold out of the Chris Pell, R.M. Phoenix, Will Exley, Alicia Raitt and Lucy Jones artist editions of the LISTS 7" and there are only a couple of copies left of the others... so, if you want one get on it. Also the merch is being handed over to CJMURPHY for the next month or so and he has much nicer handwriting than me so you can look forward to some lovely  notes from him. 


ALSO, the DREAMLANDS 12" is mixed and ready(ish) to go.


ALSO we're playing a show for Tom Ellis in a couple of weeks and it's at the magnificent Power Lunches. It's with the Teal Numbers.

MY GOLD'S BANGLA

"In 2004 in the UK, following complaints from the public about postal carriers causing litter by discarding the rubber bands which they used to keep their mail together, the Royal Mail introduced red bands for their workers to use: it was hoped that, as the bands were easier to spot than the traditional brown ones and since only the Royal Mail used them, employees would see (and feel compelled to pick up) any red bands which they had inadvertently dropped. Currently, some 342 million red bands are used every year."

Since 2006 i've been picking them up, tagging and labelling them. With with dates, words, phrases, memories, locations, cryptic allusions, precise observations, relevant or completely irrelevant information associated with that red rubber band.

It has been, and still is an exercise in obsessive behaviour. My collection currently stands as a document of a 5 year period between 2006 - 2011. Initially collected as totems and omens of good luck, the compulsion turned into the piece itself. The labelling of the mundane, everyday object to imbue it with some meaning and a sense of it's own time and existence.

It was recently exhibited at the Basement Gallery in Brighton, as part of an exhibition about collectors. People seemed to be interested in it, a lot of people asked a lot of questions and a couple of people thought I was a massive fraud. I even got an article in the local paper and interviewed by a weatherman on tv about it. The people who put the exhibition did a great job of hanging the piece...

I had a tape player hanging from the wall with a loop of the song the piece is named after. The mother and daughter that were quite adamant I was full of shit and a fake collector wouldn't even believe that I was in a band, let alone the singer from the tape. A harsh lesson in the fact that if the aesthetics don't match the sonics then you won't be taken seriously. or something... 

Anyway, the exhibition went great, thanks for asking. Now, luckily for you we're putting up the piece for sale. It's available from our shop here. 

The piece comes with the 300 red rubber bands attached to fishing-wire for ease of display.

It also comes with a signed, framed original copy of the lyrics to "MY GOLD'S BANGLA". 

Also by purchasing the piece you will receive a lathe cut 7", which will be the only one in existence, the a-side being the original version of "MY GOLD'S BANGLA" and the b-side a re-working completely exclusive to the 1 of 1 pressing.

The cost includes delivery to anywhere in the world.

"Crimson plastic, 

flecks of internal luck lie 

amidst the cracks, 

the broken greys, which hold 

no interest 

except for those looking from the shoes up. 

I’m looking for omens everywhere. 

Rituals that hold no weight, 

follow our own rules and our own fates, 

unclean digits aren’t a direct cause but 

an effect,

constricted wrists stop the flow with a

band of red.


I’m looking for omens everywhere."

YUM

VERY HAPPY TO BE PLAYING THIS

Good morning everyone!
It's that time again, YES WAY 3 is upon us. Starting this evening and continuing over the weekend, our festival of underground music from the UK is now in it's third year and going strong. This year the event is taking place at the two-floor Bussey Building opposite Peckham Rye station and served by many a bus, check out our travel info at the end of this message for all the routes.

We have 42 bands performing over the next few days with tonight kicking things off splendidly with DIVORCE,  SPIN SPIN THE DOGS, PLEASE, EAGULLS, TROGONS, SILVER FOX, BEN BUTLER & MOUSE PAD and EARLY MAN breaching the flood gates of UK talent. It's going to be joyful and triumphant, we'll have weekend passes as well as plenty of day tickets on the door too for those of you sans credit card etc. Tickets are tremendously good value, with tonight costing £5, and a full Saturday and Sunday's entertainment costing £8. A weekend pass gets you into everything for just £18, all of which are available here in advance: http://www.wegottickets.co m/f/2727

YES WAY microsite -  http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/yesway/index.shtml

Doors tonight open at 6pm, whilst of Saturday and Sunday they open for lunch at 1pm, live music commences roughly an hour after doors in each instance, with exact times and running orders being announced at the venue each day, come early! Things finish up a little earlier on Sunday taking cues from the working week, so expect bands to finish on Sunday around 10.30pm.

Thanks so much for being a part of this and making it happen alongside us, it's truly humbling for UTR to be working on our 400th show on Saturday so we hope you can join us in celebrations too. Full details on YES WAY follow, with more info on all the incredible bands playing, please help spread the word and support the cause.

Thanks again,
UPSET THE RHYTHM


*^*^*^ FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY ^*^*^*

YES WAY is a weekend festival celebrating the UK's best and brightest independent art and music.

Building on the success of the last two year's sold out events, it will see 42 bands, representing the length and breadth of the British Isles, perform over two stages at Peckham art hub, The Bussey Building.

We'll have Dalston's Underground Film Club (The Pictures) screening a special compilation of DIY documentaries, music videos and no-future shorts. Some chopped and assembling projections from Charles Chintzer Lai, interpretative canvas wrangling from Tim Hill and much more. A large scale screenprinted Ice Cream Tsunami skyline courtesy of Lydia Donut has been installed and an exhibition is planned of many, many representations of this following promo photo of Mr Randy Newman:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200/drp000/p020/p02017jqrv2.jpg

Randy Newman? Yes, Randy Newman. In support of our recent release of our split Please / Spin Spin The Dogs LP whose artwork depicts the Randy above through the eyes of six different members of the band we've now broadened the obsession to everyone. If you'd like to bring your own Randy (artwork etc.), please do, come see us at the door and we'll hang it with the others.

There'll also be a temporary DIY supermarket (bring things, get involved), tasty local and afro-vegan food, and The Bussey Building's own jerk BBQ. Read on for more info on all the terrific band's performing over the whole three days!

> > DAYS + TIMES + TICKETS < <
Friday 12 August 6pm-2am // £5
Saturday 13 August 1pm - 2am // £8
Sunday 14 August 1pm - Midnight // £8
Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham Rye, SE15 4ST
Tickets including £18 three day pass from here: http://www.wegottickets.co m/f/2727


FRIDAY 12 AUGUST
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6pm - 2am // £5
Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.co m/f/2727

PLEASE
Restless and wayward psych-garage stomp
www.ouse.org.uk/please

DIVORCE
Thrilling, breakneck splatter rawk from Glasgow
www.divorcetheband.blogspot.com

SPIN SPIN THE DOGS
Absurdist, rambling, narrative-heavy post punk
www.myspace.com/spinspinthedogs

TROGONS
Quasi medieval, trouble prog from London
www.myspace.com/trogonon

SILVER FOX
Heartbreak heavy dream team from Newcastle
www.myspace.com/wearesilverfox

EAGULLS
Raging, council flat hardcore from Leeds
www.myspace.com/eagulls

BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD
Miraculously wonky, addictive synth funk
www.benbutlerandmousepad.bandcamp.com

EARLY MAN
Classic rock-n-howl live wires
www.soundcloud.com/early-man

113 DALSTON LANE DJs
www.113dalstonlane.com


SATURDAY 13 AUGUST (Upset The Rhythm's 400th show!!!)
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1pm - 2am // £8
Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.co m/f/2727

YOLA FATOUSH
Tribal math, vocal doubling trip outs
www.yolafatoush.bandcamp.com

MR PEPPERMINT
Masked and malevolent Glaswegian noise rockers
www.myspace.com/mrmrpeppermint

LET'S WRESTLE
Super catchy masterminds of the lo-finest suburban pop
www.myspace.com/letsfuckingwrestle

BLACK ABBA
Occult and darkly uncanny doom supergroup
www.myspace.com/alexanderdtucker

BAD ORB
Lopsided tape fog vs backwards hex from Brighton
www.myspace.com/itsabadorb

WAY THROUGH
Wrong-footed haunted pastoral punk
www.myspace.com/wearewaythrough

WARM BRAINS
Wiry and swoonsome popcore from London
www.warmbrains.com

BEAR MAN
Cardiff's freedom psych monoliths
www.myspace.com/bearmanbearman

PEEPHOLES
Soaring, reverb-cloaked synth and drum epics
www.wearepeepholes.co.uk

GROSS MAGIC
Vivid, glitter-grunge pop vibes from Brighton
www.thesoundsofsweetnothing.tumblr.com

GOLD BARS
Circus ragga, garage-revival punk
www.goldbarzzz.tumblr.com

SATURDAY'S KIDS
Primal, sprawling, savage rock from South Wales
www.saturdayskids.org

SEX HANDS
Manchester's fuzzed-out clang, bang and twang gang
www.soundcloud.com/sexhands

HORSES
Brash and trashy garage two-piece from Manchester
www.wearehorses.tumblr.com

LEFT LEG
Radical, post-yelping art punk
www.leftleg.tumblr.com

FEAR OF MEN
Memory jangle and emotional tangle
www.fearofmen.bandcamp.com

GENTLE FRIENDLY
Smart and primed rainbow noise
www.myspace.com/gentlefriendly

20 JAZZ FUNK GREATS DJs
www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk


SUNDAY 14 AUGUST
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1pm - Midnight // £8
Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.co m/f/2727

TENSE MEN
Spectral yet motorik herky jerks
www.tensemen.tumblr.com

WASKERLEY WAY
Trippy junked loops and nature step from Newcastle
www.myspace.com/waskerleyway

LA LA VASQUEZ
Hyper melodic scrappy surf-pop trio
www.lalavasquezband.blogspot.com

THE BOMBER JACKETS
Fresh-faced funk-glooping mundanity observers
www.myspace.com/556214273

PRIZE PETS
Nottingham brings forth mangled riffage and creeped-out vocal plots
www.myspace.com/prizepets

THROWING UP
2011, the year that puke broke
www.throwinguptheband.tumblr.com

HOOKWORMS
Wah-wrangling swampedelic unit from Leeds
www.parasiticnematode.blogspot.com

SLUSHY GUTS
Quietly spun and somewhat spooked cabin emo
www.slushyguts.bandcamp.com

FLAMINGODS
Casio-gamelan shambolism pact
www.flamingods.bandcamp.com

PROPER ORNAMENTS
Hushed and honeyed dream town harmonies
www.myspace.com/theproperornaments

BASTARD SWORD
Autotuners of the planet sinewave unite!
www.myspace.com/bastardsword2

PATRICK KELLEHER & HIS COLD DEAD HANDS
Dublin's fantasy hypno-balladeer
www.soundcloud.com/patrick-kelleher

ANGUISH SANDWICH
Frazzled, chugaholic garage from Northampton
www.anguishsandwichcamp.bandcamp.com

ELECTRICITY IN OUR HOMES
Sprightly, kilter offsetting feral melody chasers
www.myspace.com/electricityinourhomes

SAUNA YOUTH
Pulse grabbing racket from mic-throwing chaos cloud
www.lostinidea.blogspot.com

MARIA & THE MIRRORS
Industrial paradise drums and tropical electronics
www.myspace.com/mariamirrors

YUGOSLAVIAN BOYS
Leeds' unruly and unhinged new wave oddballs
www.myspace.com/yugoslavianboys

UPSET THE RHYTHM DJs
www.upsettherhythm.co.uk


>>> TRAVEL INFO <<<

The entrance to The Bussey Building is situated at 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST.

Bus | 12, 37, 63, 78, 197, 343, 363, P12
Night bus | 12, 36, 37, 345, N63, N89, N136, N171, N343, N381
Rail | Peckham Rye, New Cross Gate

More here: http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/yesway/index.shtml

UTR
xxx

Physical Attraction

"SUPERIOR TOILET LITERATURE"

"Niche Homo" 

When we first met Stroidy who does Niche Homo we had to put him to bed on a sofa in Jon Mohajer's kitchen. I blame the homebrew. PACKED zine, real interesting interviews, word layout, printed on that weird recycled paper from Footprinters that makes my fingertips ache. Mixtape wars. It's funny, weird and interesting in equal measure. HIGHLYRECOMMENDED.

"Spit on the Major"

Got this from Teodoro when I met him at the resource centre in Brighton, he was printing inlays from his new cassette release and I was printing the sleeves for our 2nd 7"... we obviously both felt pretty punk. He is a super nice, mild-mannered guy and I was taken aback when I first started reading his zine... "I write and speak English as bad as I play any instrument, I'm a horrible musician, but it's true!! Because there are people then they are Liars, they tell you: "Hey I'm a bad Musician" but one day you see them on stage and suddenly they can play their instrument, THEY ARE MUSICIANS!! They told you that they couldn't play but you realize now that they can play, FUCK!! SHIT!!" I actually want to keep typing because it only gets better, hands down one of the best zines i've ever read... So passionate about anarchy, punk and real bad musicians!! Thankfully no pretensions or irony here. It's all hand written & laid out with amazing comics & illustrations with more exclamation marks per page than any other zine i've read. I had literally no idea who any of the bands were but the way Teodoro writes about them made me feel like I should definitely get to know them. HIGHLYRECOMMENDED!!!!

"TEAM magazine"

This is from our buddies Rosie & Phil. This zine totally eschews the punk aesthetic but holds on to the DIY community element, building itself upon the idea of collaboration. It's a beautiful object & the content inside is of a similar high-standard. My brother did the cover and there's work in there from writers, designers, illustrators and photographers like - Joe Hales, Ton Hall, Owen Richards, Andreas Konrath, Katie Scott, Simon Marsham, Jen Calleja, etc.....  it's HIGHLYRECOMMENDED!

"No Zine"

Again, this zine is pretty much the polar opposite of Spit On the Major but still looks amazing. There are 6 issues, each one dealing with it's own issue number, that's a bad explanation but it doesn't really matter... Real crisp layout, 2 colour riso-graph printed, which is used is great effect throughout. This zine appeals to so many things I like in terms of the series and consistency of style, it also helps that the work is of a VERY HIGH STANDARD. HIGHLYRECOMMENDED.

Ok, that took way longer than I thought... until next time that's it for PHYSICAL ATTRACTION.

Next up... YES WAY.

FISHY n RIGHTEOUS

$$$$$ The first Tense Men tape is available HERE - limited to 50 copies, on HOT PINK. So sexy. $$$$$$