UT Play the JT Soar Fest, Nottingham
UT play the JT Soar Fest on Saturday, November 2nd, 2024. The Nottingham-based festival continues on Sunday, November 3rd. The shows will take place not at JT Soar’s primary space but at The Old Cold Store, a local independent venue.
The festival features an eclectic lineup that includes the Nightingales, Scotland’s Lung Leg, the latest incarnation of Swell Maps, Detroit indie stalwarts TYVEK, Milky Wimpshake and many more. You can find the whole lineup over at JT Soar’s Instagram feed.
November 2023 Show at the Grace (London)
UT have announced a London show on November 16 at The Grace in Highbury Islington, formerly known as Upstairs at The Garage. The band will be joined by some special guests to be announced.
- Pre-Sale starts at 10am (BST) on Thursday, September 28
- General Sale starts at 10am (BST) on Friday, September 29
Show announcement poster for Ut’s November 16 show at the Grace, Highbury-Islington, London.
Spring 2023: UT Hits the North
Ut have announced a trio of Northern UK dates this spring, as follows:
April 30: Salford Sounds from the Other City Festival
May 26: Middlesborough, Disgraceland (17 Baker St.)
May 27: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Lubber Fiend (81 Blandford St.) → BUY TICKETS
UT Reissue Final Studio Album Griller
The Steve Albini-engineered album has been remastered and will be available on vinyl and CD (extra studio tracks on CD).
Recorded at The Greenhouse by Steve Albini and at Cold Storage by Tim Hodgkinson and Charles Bullen, Griller marked Ut’s apex as a four piece with the inclusion of Charlie D on drums.
Griller has been recognized as Ut’s definitive raw power record, with their intensity being well captured by their label mate Albini. It features some of their most classic and well-loved songs, such as “Wailhouse, “Rummy” and “Dr. No.” The reissue also has the special inclusion of “Sharktown” – a great favourite of Ut’s that was recorded at The Greenhouse, but left off the original record because it had been previously released as a special single.
Ut disbanded in 1990, but began performing again in 2010. The band has been reissuing its entire remastered catalogue, available on vinyl, CD and digital download, on Out Records through Forte Distribution. Other upcoming Ut reissues will include a 7” vinyl of the single “Ampheta Speak”/“While I Wait” and a compilation of their Peel Sessions.
VINYL TRACKLIST
- Safe Burning 2. How It Goes 3. Canker 4. Rummy 5. Posse Necks 6. Wailhouse 7. Sharktown 8. Griller 9. Dr. No
CD TRACKLIST
- Safe Burning 2. How It Goes 3. Canker 4. Rummy 5. Posse Necks 6. Fuel 7. Wailhouse 8. Sharktown 9. Scrape 10. Griller 11. Dr. No 12. Naked City 13. Spore 14. Griller X
Ut will be performing at Cafe Oto on April 23. tickets
2/10/19 | Out Records and Forte Distribution announce the next Ut release in the remastered reissue series of Ut’s back catalog.
The band’s first studio album Conviction will be reissued on April 5, 2019, on LP, CD and digital download. Originally released in 1986 on Out Records and distributed by Rough Trade, it was later re-released by Blast First when Ut joined them in 1987.
The 2019 remastered reissue of Conviction will include an introduction by Stewart Lee, song lyrics and photos of the band. The CD will add Ut’s previously unreleased 7” single “Ampheta Speak / While I Wait,” recorded for Charles Ball’s Lust/Unlust label in 1980. A CD booklet will feature the poster for the original 7” release and some of the cover artwork.
To celebrate the release of Conviction, Ut will be playing the following live shows:
- April 6: Sonic Protest Festival in Paris
- April 18: The Islington in London
- April 20: Le Public Space in Newport, Wales
“Conviction, their debut LP, is a threatening car crash that bulldozes its way through the skin, subversively sucking at the senses…” -Ron Rom, Sounds
“It’s an obsessive sound, one that, if you let it, creeps under your fingernails and never lets go… the personalities laid open… An uniquely brilliant debut album.” -Papa Legend!, NME
“I would say that Ut are the only band that matters… Ut’s instrumentation is carefully structured to take shape that can easily be mistaken for random. But random it ain’t, and that’s evident via the energy, the taste with which Ut select what sounds to make and when to make them. Every element on Conviction (3 distinct lead voices, electric and acoustic guitars, basses, drums and saxes, all frequently swapped, doubled or omitted) is part of the rhythm section, weaving a tight mesh of sound… their wild instinctual, gaunt scrape of sex/wonder/ambition would define the potential of electric rock. Their call to arms (fuck history and demand that the instruments do your bidding) could bring electric music to the level of Klee, Kandinsky, or Erich Mendelsohn.” -Tim Sommer, The Village Voice
The Ut reissue campaign began on November 17, 2017 with the release of the UT EP and Confidential 12″ on vinyl, CD and digital download, followed by Ut Live at The Venue (April 2018) and Early Live Life (November 2018). Other upcoming reissues will
include their studio albums In Gut’s House and Griller.
9/13/17 | The Ut EP and Confidential 12″ vinyl and CD will be released on November 10 by Out Records with Forte Distribution.
DIAL News
Dial, the experimental noise rock band of Jacqui Ham (Ut), Rob Smith and Dom Weeks , have moved their catalogue — infraction (1996), Distance Runner (2000), 168k (2007) and Western Front (2012) — to Bandcamp.
New #UtLive Track
Independent art space Extrapool’s new sound archive Outside Sounds has launched — and it includes a newly remastered live version of “Confidential” from our 2010 Issue Project Room show. We think it sounds great — hope you do too.
Just for Fun: “Sham Shack” Lyrics
Over on @utmusicnow, @sethtisue asked us about the official lyrics to “Sham Shack.” Without further ado, here they are. (Note that the last line has been tweaked from the recorded version!)
Contact Ut
Contact us at Utmusicnow@gmail.com or reach out on Twitter: @utmusicnow.
Ut Cancels End of an Era 2 Appearance
Via @atpfestival: due to unforeseen circumstances, Ut have reluctantly decided to pull out of End of an Era 2. The band’s statement in full:
“We are sorry to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances, Ut are very reluctantly obliged to cancel their performance at ATP on the 30th of November. We are extremely disappointed as we were so excited about playing in the End of an Era Festival at Camber Sands. There are some gigs planned for 2014, so we hope that you will be able to come and see us then. Many thanks for your understanding and support.”
Quietus Mix 43: UT Instinct
In advance of their first proper UK tour in 20 years, Ut contribute a mix to UK webzine The Quietus.
On Site: Theoretical Music
Hank Shteamer hails Ut’s Issue Project Room show as “enthralling,” “triumphant” — “three distinct musical personalities meshing in multiple equally effective configurations.” Reprinted from The Wire, December 2010.
Ut Reunited at Issue Project Room
Some fantastic photos by Lori Bally over at Brooklyn Vegan.
Ut Is Back
A lovely shout-out over at Kathleen Hanna’s blog.
Feminist Music Geek: Taylor Swift vs. Ut
Alyx Vesey on Ut and the current pop landscape: “High school me wouldn’t listen to Taylor Swift, but she didn’t know about no wave either.”
Ut: A No Wave Trio Returns
Jordan Mamone: “It borders on criminal that more postpunk connoisseurs aren’t hip to the jarring No Wave trio Ut.” From the Nov. 1 issue of Time Out NY.
Providence Phoenix Editor’s Pick, 11-10
Jim Macnie: “Dissonance and calamity intermingled in the music of Ut when the New York trio made its splash in the early ’80s. It was a thorny and magnetic blend.”
Boston Phoenix Editor’s Pick, 11-10
“No Wavers Ut have more cred than a first pressing of Pink Flag.”
2010 Issue Project Room Press Release
Ut returns for their first US concert since 1989. “The raw power and sheer drive of Ut is quite straightforward and unmistakable. This is a true threatening guitar band.” — New York Rocker
Organized by musician David Grubbs and art historian Branden Joseph, Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983 is a three-day event examining the intersections as well as the failed encounters of art, music, and cinema in downtown Manhattan from 1978-1983.