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Upset The Rhythm presents…LUNG LEG
UNMARRY ME!
THE PLAN
Saturday 25 October
MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, London, E9 6NU
7pm-10pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Uf5bde2d3be1
LUNG LEG formed in Glasgow in 1994 and were part of the city’s vibrant DIY underground scene. They blended elements of post-punk, C86, and riot grrrl, creating a sound described as indie rock, pop-punk, and garage rock. The original lineup included Jane McKeown ("Jane Egypt"), Annie Spandex, Amanda "Jade Green" Doorbar, and Maureen "MoMo" Quinn. They released two EPs in the mid-1990s: ‘The Negative Delinquent Autopsy’ and ‘Shagg the Tiger’. The band's debut album, "Maid to Minx," was released in 1997. Lung Leg’s songs are soaked in hedonistic tales of Glasgow nights out, living life on the central Scottish edge between the dole and the pub, the music pumped full of adrenalin. Seriously, if you tune your mind into just the guitars you’ll be doing mental somersaults. But you’d also be missing the vocal interplay, call-and-response work, lyrics that read like surrealist, grimy narratives. At the turn of the century Lung Leg imploded, scattering their component members to different parts of the country or to other groups. After a reissue of the singular ‘Maid To Minx’ album in 2022, the band reformed with new members Paul Thompson, Simone Antigone and Hando Morice, playing a reunion gig in Glasgow that December. They have since featured in the documentary ‘Since Yesterday: The Untold Story’. Lung Leg will be releasing their first new record in October. A limited edition split 7" with Unmarry Me! is also coming out soon on Second City Static.
https://lungleg.bandcamp.com
UNMARRY ME! is a triangular shaped group, comprising of Lise Frances, Jon Slade and Chris Rowley. London to Brighton and back again. Unmarry Me! are a group that have been together for about 6 months in a world at war and in trouble. Unmarry me! are therefore a group trying to carve out some joy and light as form of resistance, no small feat, and maybe grandiose but worth the stating. Unmarry me! Is comprised of personnel who have all had time or continue to have time in other groups who did not take easy routes or money and didn't make many friends, so it goes. These groups respectively or chronologically were and are Huggy Bear, Comet Gain, I’m Being Good, Help She Can’t Swim, Snoozers and Adulkt Life. Bands that time will record as being on the right sides of history and her story. Unmarry Me! are of a completely different stripe or ilk but comprise the antagonist and peculiar DNA that honour this. Unmarry Me! play and record and create and make do in a DIY syncretism that's useful to themselves, distinct and not worth talking about. Unmarry Me! are about bending, queering, breaking and resetting rules, smudging boundaries and in the main having a lot of excellent fun!!
THE PLAN breeze in from Southend, keeping the flame burning for the kind of askew provincial pop captured on all those Messthetics compilations. Featuring folks formerly of Wetdog, The Ghosts and Vic Godard & The Subway Sect, the group ply a combination clattering beats, clanging guitars and conversational tunes. Their songs often move in unexpected directions and are pinned together by Rebecca Gillieron's sometimes defiant/sometimes soft vocal melodies. New album, ‘Mountain View’, to be released on Divine Schism in September.
https://theplan1.bandcamp.com/
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