-Upset The Rhythm presents…
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
MOCK MEDIA
POZI
Tuesday 5 November
Islington Assembly Hall, Upper St, London, N1 2UD
7pm | £20 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/i36cc53102af
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS are from Oakland, California and comprise of Shannon Shaw (vocals, bass), Cody Blanchard (vocals, guitar), and Ian Amberson (drums, vocals). Sounding like a prom band from 1964 getting dosed with acid and having the sweetest lovelorn freakout, Shannon And The Clams defy expectations. Imagine a brawling Etta James, backed up by the 13th Floor Elevators, singing Shangri La’s tunes. Shannon has a voice that can go from a sweet girl group croon to a bluesy, ballsy growl before you realize you’re headed for the (dance) floor. It’s total punk rock bop, brimming with doo-wop glory delivered to your door by the Homecoming Queen and Kings of weirdo rock ‘n’ roll.
Shannon & The Clams’ sonics go from black and white to technicolour on their new album, The Moon Is In the Wrong Place, produced by longtime collaborator Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. Faced with the unimaginable sudden loss of Shannon’s fiancé, the project is a holistic exploration of grief and celebration of life coupled with the most expansive, exciting songs and arrangements of their celebrated catalogue. The Moon Is In the Wrong Place marks Shannon & The Clams’ 7th studio album together and is now via Easy Eye Sound.
http://shannonandtheclams.com/
MOCK MEDIA, Canada’s new supergroup, contains members Evan Aasen (Painted Fruits), Garnet Aronyk Muhammad (Crack Cloud), Austin Boylan (Pottery), and Bennett Smith (N0V3L). Mock Media originated in Vernon, British Columbia, a small farming town surrounded by a blue lake and majestic mountain ranges. Such wholesome beginnings naturally sparked a heady wanderlust and DIY spirit within its founding members.
Mock Media’s debut LP Mock Media II, out Nov 17th, captures this firebrand four-piece’s head-on plunge into enthralling existential contradictions: songs that explore the darkest corners of humanity yet come out at the other end with the unwavering joy that marked their genesis. It’s an album of sneak eclecticism; the high-wired punk rock stylings serve as Mock Media’s framework to clad their agog explorations into pop, electronic, and world folk music.
https://mockmedia.bandcamp.com/album/mock-media
POZI is a band that tackles the creative cycle of deconstruction and rebuilding with relish. The second album ‘Smiling Pools’ is a testament to that. An LP that sees them at their most expansive yet, it follows a gradual swelling of their sound across two EPs preceding the urgent, self-enforced minimalism of their debut album, PZ1, in 2019. The trio of Toby Burroughs, Rosa Brook, and Tom Jones quickly established something of a foundational template on that first album: a hyper-skeletal sound palette of drums, bass and three distinct vocals disrupted by Rosa’s churning violins, from which emerged biting social observations and political angst. These hallmarks haven’t fully gone away over time, but from that urgent energy, greater confidence, and a playful desire to push further out of the loose genre tag of post-punk have emerged.
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