UPSET THE RHYTHM PRESENTS

started as the Friday night goof off sessions of brothers Clayton and Jeremiah McIntyre. Naming themselves after the bugs that infested the house they grew up in, they began playing impromptu shows around Omaha, Nebraska. Drummer and keyboardist Dave Goldberg saw them play a free show in a park and was convinced to join the budding "Cave Pop" band. The brothers suggested that Goldberg learn to play both instruments simultaneously instead of adding a fourth member. It took some practice. In January 2008 they released a 7" on Grotto Records and spent several months of the year touring the USA, developing outlandish outfits along the way. The record's off-kilter fuzzy pop caught the attention of Memphis's Goner Records and earned them an invite to the label's annual festival. Offering to release their next record Box Elders began working on their debut album. "Alice and Friends", named after the band's favorite cult run vegan Korean BBQ, was released by Goner last August and blasts through buoyant, unruly singalongs about necrophilia ("Necro"), staying up all night ("Stay"), and savage beasts (ahem... "Cougars") with the utmost aplomb.

are a stripped down garage party band from Brighton. They bash drums, sway on the bass and claw at guitar - often swapping over instruments between songs live - and yelp with melodic abandon and delight. The Sticks were recently dubbed as 'semi-amateur', this may be true. With cheap, unreliable equipment they manage to tease out a cacophony of crashing drums and raucous guitar melodies. Now a permanent trio, the band's sound is more curious than ever. Their songs bounce off the walls with inventive urgency. Thumping deconstructions of 60s riffage give way to more moody bass driven post-punk clatter, no better captured than on their new double 7" album released by Upset The Rhythm on CD too this December.

are a two, occasionally three, piece from North West England. Inspired by the knowingly naive songwriting of Daniel Johnston or Jonathan Richman, they conjure the spirit of golden, timeless, AM radio pop and channel it through the no-est of no-fi production we've heard in a while - recorded on a Tascam 4-track and mixed on a Sony television. Their debut 7" 'Bowie Knives' was released by Sex Is Disgusting earlier this year and a follow up single is due with them soon too.

are a new band from Manchester who make subterranean dream punk. Heavy on the vocals, the songs playfully trip through pulsing drum, guitar, keyboard crashers with a nod towards The Fall and Big Dipper perhaps. A 3 track CD is available through Nisennenmondai's label Bijin Records whilst a new tape entitled 'Haters' is now available from Comfortable On A Tightrope's blog.

8pm

£5