Zuton-free and in your face

Last week we got a press release here at ORGAN about a new music show starting up on
Channel 4 - the press release boasted about having the Foo Fighters (with Brian May no less),  Razorbloodylight and (gasp, hold your breath) the damn Zutons (how many times a week  Channel 4?). Why is UK music TV so safe and predictable? Why is it always the same compromised bland bands? Is it just about marketing and major label safe options? And why does the mainstream  media always ignore what's really happening anyway? Is that down to marketing and advertising budgets and who's up who's corporate ass as well?

Organ TV will now be on twice a week - Wednesday, 10.30pm OPEN ACCESS 2 on SKY 173 and now repeated on SUNDAYS (after the Organ radio show) at 11.30pm on OPEN ACCESS 1 on SKY 883 

John on the phone......

Well someone was on the phone, we were busy though, it's going to print week... THE LOST PLAYGROUND thingy, that we told you about last week, is bleedin’ well orf. The Lost Playground, due to happen at Alexandra Palace in London on September 23, has been cancelled, due to local authority regulations. The promoters hope to re-schedule the event, which was to feature Killing Joke, Therapy?, Pitchshifter and Ozric Tentacles and well...... we told you about it last week so now we’re telling you this.

ORGAN ON YOUR RADIO @ RESONANCE 104.4FM - NOW IT'S WEEKLY! - See, even they've noticed "An oasis of subversion within a desert of corporate ass-rimming; a place to hear tomorrow's music today" NME (shame they don't cover the music themselves though) X

What's it all about? Simple, just good music, and the art of good video making...  Same musical policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just handy signposts, as long as the music and video making has that X factor - expect a healthy eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post rock, post punk, post man pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever..... music and creativity for the open minded 

(and if you think your video should be on then shout in our direction) 

Music TV done ORGAN style 

Coming up in the next few weeks things such as Mastodon, Weapons, Liars, Colt, MC Lars, Trencher, High On Fire, Tiger Force, 65Daysofstatic, Spit Like This, Gene Serene, Hafdis Huld, Against Me, Soviettes, Amon Tobin, Deerhoof and who knows who or what.... 

DEMO OF THE WEEK
Yeah, I know, not many reviews this week, we're busy getting the September issue of Organ off to print, and making TV shows and radio shows and  ARRRGHHHHHHHH Nothing that exciting turned up this week, well there is FTSE100, they rule but we're out of time, you'll have to wait until next week, or... 

ALSO CHECK OUT

MOTHER TRUCKER – Electric Blacksmith – Five slices of pretty standard instrumental stoner rock with a psychedelic fuzzed-out mellow edge. Not quite sure what the point is? The Birmingham band sound like they’re having a blast, they sound like a bunch of Black Sabbath/Pelican/Kyuss fans jamming (rather well) in a pre-gig sound check. All technically proficient – no, still not quite sure what the point actually is. Nothing we haven’t a thousand times before and no real stamp of personality – still if you want some instrumental psychedelic stoner rock then -  www.mother-trucker.co.uk

Last week's demo of the week - STEAL GANDHI / ALL DARK MORNINGS

Previous demo's of the week -SHADY BARD / SHILOE / THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE / BATTLEWITCH / THE FLESH HAPPENING / VESSELS / BLACK JACKSON / INNER RAGE / ALLERGO / BROOKE / CARTRIDGE / PERHAPS CONTRAPTION / THE PROCESS VOID

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WALLS OF JERICHO – With Devils Amongst Us All (Trustkill) – Modern sounding metallic hardcore venom from deepest Detroit rock city. Pretty standard intense modern crunching brutal metal with all the required yelling brutality and thrashing drums and chopping riffs. Standard sounding until the skin peels back a little and the detail is exposed. The thing that lifts Wall Of Jericho out of the hardcore metal pack are those melodic edges that somehow are still intense and blistering and relentless rather than opting for the usual tedious emo/screamo wussness – Walls of Jericho have a little edge of their own, I’m starting to really like this, or I was until the ninth track and the over sensitive No Saving Me, we could do without that lapse in to REO Speedwagonness, we were really enjoying it until this dreadful interlude, put me right off me fish and chips that has, worse than a Papa Roach power ballad. Thankfully they pick up the pace again with more brutalic intent and a couple more colourful puss-bursting metalcore bruisers, worth getting hold of then copying so you can edit out the damn ballad – www.trustkill.com

THE SKY DROPS – Clouds Of People (Fridabear) – A five track mini album and some rather mellow modern-retro psychedelia from Wilmington. Delaware. USA.  Girl/boy voiced, creamy, swirling, kind of Warlocks, Spaceman 3, Whipped Cream things that slowly uncoils in that laid back mellow way. Glowing in a very unobtrusive way, they’re a blissed out two piece, a shoegazing Every brothers so it says here on this piece of paper that also tells me they’re are over here playing three dates in London in mid September  - www.skydrops.com

GARY LUCAS & GODS AND MONSTERS – Coming Clean (Side Salad) – Gary Lucas is an extremely well respected cult legend of a guitarist/singer-songwriter, not hard to work out why after a couple of spins of this fine disc. And you don’t have to be no ice creaming for crows Sherlock Holmes to work out that he’s spent a good few years at part of Captain Beefheart’s rather excellent Magic Band.  There’s been all kinds of people who have collaborated with (and indeed emerged via) Gods And Monsters in the past – indeed Gary pretty much discovered and nurtured the talent of Geoff Buckley (as well as played on Grace and Songs For No One). This time we have David Johansen, Alabama 3, Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads amongst the cast – it’s very much a Captain Beefheart kind of thing, that rather distinctive rather clever, easy on the ear, mellow, vibrant, effortless, slightly left field swampy blues thing – if the Beefheart style is your thing then it’s clear that Gary Lucas has been a big part of the sound and this comes rather recommended. www.garylucas.com or
www.myspace.com/sidesaladrecords

Yeah, I know, not many reviews this week, we're busy getting the September issue of Organ off to print, and making TV shows and radio shows and  ARRRGHHHHHHHH 
 
 

Last week's album of the week - OPTIMIST CLUB  / THE MINOR LEAGUES Previous album's of the week - WHORES WHORES WHORES / THE LOW LOWS / WEAPONS / THE SOUND MOVEMENT / PINK MOUNTAIN / YOU AND THE ATOM BOMB / VIKING MOSES / MOTORHEAD / THE WEEGS / JOHNNY CASH / TRIGGERMAN / 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)

Friday 25th August 2006 – London
The Cartoon in Croydon.  Admission £6.00.  Conflict, Lost Cherrees, Subhumans and a well established group making a one off appearance.  This event is being filmed for the forthcoming Conflict video, ‘Tilt’.  We are hopeful that Paco will be well enough to attend the event to thank people in person – health permitting. As Croydon finishes, a three day festival commences in North London with some great bands appearing - more details on the Conflict site soon.

Saturday 26th August 2006 – Stockport
The Thatched House. Admission £10.00 – supports Dogsflesh, Refuse All and External Menace.

Bank Holiday Sunday 27th August 2006 – Derby
First Floor (Supanova), 33 Babbington Lane, Derby DE1.
The Gathering of the Thousands Festival – with Conflict, Broken Bones, The Varukers, 4 Past Midnight, No Choice, Spit Roast and more to be confirmed.  Admission £14.50  Tickets are also available from The Victoria Inn, Derby.

Please attend these benefit these events if you can.  Details of these and other appearances at http://www.conflict-uk.com/appearances.php

Thank You  (Colin Jerwood  - Conflict)

Anarchist Yellow Pages
Find a friend, a radical bookshop or a campaign -  http://ayp.subvert.info
 

THE GRESHAM FLYERS – Shiftwork (Barryland) – Classic English indie pop and a very fine debut seven inch single – on blue vinyl, limited to 500 (mine is number 93).  They’re from London and they have quite a contrast in sounds, the a-side is very Wedding Present/New Order boy voiced indie-pop proper stuff, the real deal, the b-side is spiky new wave squelchy bouncy synth driven girl-voiced , the b-side is called Car Hits Car. The two contrasting sides work as one fine whole, I like this. Proper infectious real classic simple indie pop for fans of Belle & Sabastian, Sparks, Smiths and mostly New Order and Wedding Present and actually every time I play it I love it just a little bit more, it’s infectious, I keep going back to it and I have no idea which side is my favourite. – www.thegreshamflyers.com

ALSO CHECK OUT
JULIETTE AND THE LICKS – Hot Kiss (Hassle) - Infectious rock-chick radio-friendly pop rock stuff, Joan Jett and guitar pop and hook lines and radio rock and purple feathers (watch the video) and all very throwaway in a harmlessly good way .The difference is that Juliette and her Licks sound like she/they mean it all. Doesn’t sound like it’s manufactured in the marketing department with Marty from A&R calling the shots on the hairstyle front. It sounds natural, it sounds right, it’s how throwaway poprock should be. www.julietteandthelicks.com

Last week's single of the week -  THE DRESDEN DOLLS / THE ANSWER

Previously - DEAD DISCO / THE BLACK TULIPS / METRO RIOTS / PATCHWORK GRACE / TANGAROA / SHRAG / LOSTPROPHETS / STASI / DOLIUM / SERENA-MANEESH / DECORATION / i LIKE TRAINS / THE OXFAM GLAMOUR MODELS / PSAPP / GREENSPACE
 

PAST ISSUES -

ORGAN 170 - STEAL GANDHI, ALL DARK MORNINGS, THE AUTHENTICS, OPTIMIST CLUB, ESTRADASPHERE, WOLFGANG BANG, ELECTRONIC, CURSIVE, AGAINST ME, TRANSIT KINGS, TRANSMISSION, DUN 2 DEF, THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS, PHOENIX BODIES, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, THE ANSWER, THOM YORKE....

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ORGAN 165 - THE FLESH HAPPENING, MOTORHEAD, RUSSIAN CIRCLES ,TERROR, THE HUCKSTERS, TANGAROA, SHARP END FIRST, TOUCHSTONE, And just who is MOIST PAULA?

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ORGAN 159 - INNER RAGE, THE GHOSTS, ALPHA DISTRICT, INTEROGATE. ABOUT. DODDODO, DEADSTAR ASSEMBLY, AD AAD AT, ROBIN GUTHRIE, BANG! BANG!, FEU THERESE, CERBERUS SHOAL, HERESY, SERENA-MANEESH, PUNISH THE ATOM, The RampArt Community, GO SPIDERMUM - A gang of anarchist Robin Hood-style thieves, ORGAN TV will be back for more, ORGAN on your radio 

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ORGAN 151 - Out in print now, 40 pages 

ORGAN 150 - NEXT LIFE, CRETIN, HAWNAY TROOF, SYMMETRY, GREENSPACE, DRUGDEALER CHEERLEADER, LAST PARTY, ALEX WARD, BURNT, INTENTION, TRACTOR SEX FATALITY, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, PROUDFLESH, THE GHOSTS, SPEED THEORY, EL TOPO, THE CULT WITH NO NAME, THE PROCESS VOID. 

all the past has been deleted (for now)