Whoooooooo, you didn’t like our choice of Lost Prophets as single of the week last time around did you? Tough, we’ve liked them since their Lozt Prophetz demo days and they just get better end better –  don’t mistake us for some kind of elitist set of indie small is best snobs, a band can be big and still be good, it doesn’t happen very often and it just so happens that most of the time small is best because for some strange reason the best usually get ignored while the watered down and compromised gets hyped. One on the case e.mailer told us he was never going to read Organ again if Lostprophets are going to get coverage – hey, we just about good music and eating nothing but purple food for three days of the week to clean out your system... so we didn’t put an issue up last week, what you foing ot do? Call your lawyer? The World Cup is on, We’re making magazines and TV shows and a lot of mess and arrhhhhggggggggggggg.... 
 

THIS WEEK WE START WITH SOMETING A LITTLE TOO SERIOUS AND FAR TOO REAL THOUGH. Our thoughts are with Billy

Here’s the Billy appeal press release 

Billy Bell was attacked in Camden on Thursday 22nd June (after their show at the Barfly, the night of Croatia v Australia and Hope of the States at Koko) after getting off the number 29 bus in Camden whilst trying to avoid the attentions of his attacker. We would appreciate any help you could give us, or the police in finding the people responsible. Billy plays in the band Les IncompetentS. 

Our thoughts and prayers are with Billy and his family. If you have any information and would rather not speak to the police directly (although we would urge you to) please contact; 020 7434 3446 / Phil - 077971 143962 / Scott - 07939 039 070

POLICE STATEMENT: 
Police are appealing for witnesses and information to a serious assault in Islington.

We were called at approx 23:00 on 22/6/06 to reports of a man having been assaulted as he got off a No.29 bus in Camden Road, Islington.

The victim, aged 19 alighted the bus in Camden Rd, near Brecknock Rd, N7. The suspect got off at the same stop and assaulted the victim.

LAS attended and the victim was taken to a central London hospital, suffering from head injuries. His condition is described as life threatening.

The suspect is described as a white male, aged approx 28 yrs, with dark hair and possibly an Australian accent. He was wearing a white shirt and blue jeans.

DS Sean Smyth from Islington CID said; "The suspect and victim are believed to have exchanged words on the bus before the assault took place and I am appealing for information from anyone who was on the 29 bus just before 23.00 on the 22/06/06.

"I am also appealing for anyone who witnessed the assault in Camden Rd, near Brecknock Road to come forward. Witnesses reported having seen the suspect laughing as he headed north towards the Holloway Road after the attack.

"If it helps to jog people's memories the assault took place the night Australia beat Croatia in the World Cup." - No arrests. Inquiries continue.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the CID at Islington on 020 7421 0350 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Message posted by Billy’s Brother:

Ok. Things are no longer positive.  Today Billy underwent a 5 hour operation, a piece of his skull was removed to relieve pressure on his brain, this was done successfully. However his brain is now very inflamed, this inflammation has spread to the rest of his body.

The next 48 hours are crucial, there are three possibilities. The first is that the inflammation causes him to pass away in the next 48 hours, the second is that he makes it through, in which case he will be in a coma for a considerable time, he may wake up and no longer function properly, he may however also wake up and be ok.

Bill has damage to his brain, the next 48 hours are crucial. Things are touch and go. Essentially Billy could pass away. The doctors say the brain is so complicated that they cannot tell us how likely any of the possibilities are, we just have to wait and see.

Please try to think positively for bill, however irrationally this may sound I cant see this being the end, its just not bill. We can only hope and pray. We will keep you updated, and please, respectfully do not come to visit the hospital.

Thank you again for all your messages of support, Im sorry I havent responded to many. Your kindness is touching at this trying time. Stan xx

BBC London News Story - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5132152.stm

Latest news on Billy can be found over at Drowned in Sound where Billy is a contributor

John on the phone......

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MASTODON have now finished work on their new album,'Blood Mountain', the first for Warner Bros. Produced by Matt Bayles, it will include the following songs: 'Circle Of Cysquatch', 'Hunters Of The Sky', 'The Sleeping Giant', 'Bladecatcher', 'The Colony Of Birchmen', 'Pendulous Skin', 'The Siberian Divide', 'Capillarian Crest', 'Hand Of Stone', 'Crystal Skull', 'The Wolf Is Loose' and 'This Mortal Soil'.

DEMO OF THE WEEK
 

ALSO CHECK OUT
THE FELIX SUBWAY – Folky mellow Jethro Tull flavoured gentle relaxing things for those who feel the need to mellow out in a gentle Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd kind of way. Very very very relaxed, they do their chosen thing very well. www.felixsubway.com

Last week's demo of the week - VESSELS

Previous demo's of the week - BLACK JACKSON / INNER RAGE / ALLERGO / BROOKE / CARTRIDGE / PERHAPS CONTRAPTION / THE PROCESS VOID

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 

JOHNNY CASH – American V: A Hundred Highways (American Recordings) - Four tracks in and there’s a version of Gordon Lightfoot’s If You Could Read My mind, it’s every bit as time-stopping and tear-building as Hurt was (and still is). There’s a lot of emotion here of course and we were all expecting this last album to be something very special – and of course it is, how could it not be? The last recordings the great man made, the songs he chose for what he knew would be his very last album – including the last song he ever wrote “Like The 309” – and his grasps for breath (everybody take a look, se I’m doing fine, put me in my box on the 3.09). Just brave and sparse brutally honest and full of extra heart-wrenching poignancy because it’s all so simple and strong and full of faith and frankness and you know exactly what he means when he sings about going home on the evening train. It’s just all so at ease and peaceful and simple and right and just a beautiful thing to leave. Uplifting and full of hope and reflection and hints of regret and not quite knowing. A content and very much at ease reflective mellow relaxed beautiful album. His new version of Love’s Been Good To Me is so uplifting and pure, the whole thing is. Rick Rubin deserves so much credit for the production and just for getting the very very best out Johnny Cash with these final albums – the finest things he ever did. A flower not faded or falling apart – the whole thing is just so warm and sad and happy and mesmerising and time-stopping and in the end, as he points out, we all get cut down, the rambler, the gambler, the long tongue liar. And then there’s the last of the twelve songs – I’m Free From The Chain Gang Now -  whoooooooooo, no words needed, just make sure you pick the right time and space to listen to it for the first time.... a final album as special as you knew it was going to be. www.johnnycash.com

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2

THE WEEGS – The Million Sounds Of Black (Hungry Eye) – Ah yes, you just know this is going to be so right from the off. These Weegs have us won over in the first delicious half minute, those new wave squelching keyboards, those bouncy springy dirty filthy Devo synths... Now let’s get this bit in early before we start with the ridiculous Organ type frothing and drooling that you already know is on the way. The Weegs are very Devo, very very Devo, very very very Devo. No mere set of clones though, if they were then it wouldn’t be anything to really shout about and indeed we wouldn’t be doing any goddamn fish swirling and purple and sky blue shouting that’s on the way right now. Yes indeed, it’s 4.30pm and time to shout about The Weegs. This is highest grade distorto-skronk, and wholesome no-wave bouncy pronk of the finest orer. Awkwardly fluid and easy on the ear and very much for disciples of those beautiful Cardiacs and Pere Ubo and the finest Californian No Wave and 21st Century crypto-sarcastic Residents style squonk and oh yes yes yes, shout shout shout shout! Ladies and gentlemen we have a live one here! Those bizarre honking squelching synth lines, the frantic rushes (in cheesecake trucks) and the throbbing hypnoticness of it all sucking you in like moths to a washing machine. Beautifully frantic and art-damaged and yes maybe a Birthday Party undertone or two in the scratchy outbursts and the darkness beyond and the proper angular bits (not your slight degrees in kink, proper angular) and my wars have heard the glory and squelch squelch squelchy squelchy transmission futile. Ah yes, they sound a little like Servotron, they sound a little like everything we love and there is no room for you at the top of the stairs, show yourself the door, go get your own. They’re from San Francisco (who isn’t these days?) and their fizz is filthy and pulsing and so pleasingly disjointed in such a fluid easy way – this is how it should be. Hey look, a band who sound like all the bands we just mentioned and laced with their own flavours as well, what yer waiting for? www.realgone.org/weegs or www.hungryeyerecords.com . 

ALSO CHECK OUT
RIPCORD – Live At Parkhof Alkmaar (Boss Tuneage) – The late 80’s UK hardcore minor/semi major/quite big/legendary monster legends recorded and captured in a raw warts’n all naked live state back when they were at the height of their musical powers. Blasting and roaring their way through some seventeen songs in just twenty minutes. Well we say songs, this is more like seventeen relentless rounds with a violent middleweight who has no time to stop for anything like breath or any kind of hint of even the most subtle of mood changes. Hey, this is Ripcord, who wants mood changes? Who wants light and shade? Blastin’ raw old school proper hardcore pounding and pummelling like they don’t do anymore (don’t tell anyone, but I got a little bored with it half way through, it does get a little one dimensional after the first nine or so rounds) – www.bosstuneage.com

LUXURY CAR – Annie’s Well (Biphonic) - Luxury Car are an electronic keyboard pop duo, the press release is eager to tell us they don’t sound anything like the 80’s or indeed anything like those Pet Shop Boys - they do though, in the most positive of  ways – and anyway, I have control of this review and those Pet Shop Boys are one of my favourite bands and Luxury Car are good good good. Luxury Car are nothing like Pet Shop Boys, they have all best bits of Pet Shop Boys, none of the kitsch and thankfully none of the Erasure side so don’t be worrying about the possibility of dreadful Goldfrapp alarms going off. Luxury Car are not retro or industrial or camp of searching for Berlin in 1977 (so they tell us). Luxury Car are not minimalists or goths, they are not cold, they are not stark – they tell us all this and more. Luxury Car don’t tell us that they are warm and lush and that they make the finest of warm lush wholesome (slightly dark) pop with minor explosions and a fire inside. Pop made just like those Pet Shop Boys (and Kraftwerk and Joy Division) and like none of them – Luxury Car are from Perth, Scotland and this is a rather fine album (with one or two really wonderful moments). www.idriveluxurycars.co.uk  or www.biphonic.co.uk

CAPSULET – The World Is A Tragic World, But There Is Grace All Around Us, So, Attend To The Grace (Motivesounds) – Long long passages of minimal instrumental post-rock, yes indeed, even longer than that preposterously silly album tittle. Hang on there’s some lyrics kicking in just as I was thinking about a cup of tea or walking the dog we don’t have or something like that. Post rock of a YouthMovie Explosions in the Sky Soundtrack Slint kind of nature and oh I don’t know.  Needs a little more substance and genuine invention to pull off being this pretentious and I’m a little bored three quarters of the way through the ten minutes that take up the fourth track. A little like Mogwai in that they make all the right moves without ever grabbing hold of anything interesting...  www.motivesounds.com
 

Last week's album of the week - TRIGGERMAN Previous album's of the week - FRESHKILLS / THE DEATH SET / ABOUT / DODDODO / THE KNIGHTS OF THE NEW CRUSADE / CARTRIDGE / LEAFCUTTER JOHN / LORDS / IMMUNE / THE UNIT AMA / BEATNIK FILMSTARS / CHAMPION KICKBOXER / THESE MONSTERS / SUNS OF THE THUNDER / TELEVISE / SONIC YOUTH / PSAPP / ENABLERS / SUNN O))) / CATNAP / THE DRESDEN DOLLS / PROUDFLESH / all the past has been deleted (for now)

Here's what he said. All spelling and grammatical errors are his, and nothing to do with me. The messanger decided not to care about Thom Yorke's abuse of the English language. “I have become too worn down by his blatant disregard for apostrophes”.

Yorke: "this'll make you laugh. i was told yesterday that one of the daughters of the president came to NY show 2. we were playing The Tourist at the end of the show.. and yes we did wander what the shuffling manhandling fighting was in the distance of the audience. turns out it was her 6 bodyguards clearing the way for the first daughters exit. and some pour soul objected at being manhandled by the secret service. i think i would have to. infact if i had known all this my objections would have been more forthright and extensive...if you know what i mean. which is perhaps why our lot chose not to tell me who was in the building before we went on. probably a good idea.

hmm

i don’t know if we should be

A. honoured
B. amused
C. bemused
D. ask if she had a valid ticket
E. object belatedly on moral grounds
F. ask again if she had a ticket and question whether this really what our
gigs are about
G. don’t blame the daughter for the father
H. shutup and smile

answers on a postcard" 
 

Last week's single of the week - LOSTPROPHETS

Previously - STASI / DOLIUM / SERENA-MANEESH / DECORATION / i LIKE TRAINS / THE OXFAM GLAMOUR MODELS / PSAPP / GREENSPACE
 

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