Hang on, stop this, it’s not just another week is it? Well  you see we could just put another weekly on line version of Organ, but then we hear our fellow zine writer and underground music activist is back in hospital again – so we stopped writing this week’s issue and you can go check out George Tabb and see why, we’ll be back next week... hopefully George will still be...

John on the phone......

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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 

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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
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Last week's demo of the week - FTSE100 

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

An opera based on the life and times of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi is going to be toe-tagged 'controversial' even before birth. I'm fortunate enough to attend the final dress rehearsal/preview of this major work before the flak, plaudits, pontificating etc begin, so bring only a vague memory of Asian Dub Foundation being pretty good, and looking forward to something with a bit more spectacle than, say, the back room of the Dublin Castle what with it being the English National Opera n'all.  Ok, and hope that no crassness will be done, fluent arse spoken, ideas half-baked, none of that kind of thing. 
I really could have left my cynicism glands at home, because Gadaffi: A Living Myth mesmerises from the opening moments. This is great story-telling.  Projection-driven staging that creates bold, elegant statements; incredibly immersive when meshed with the human action on stage.  These relatively new technologies of clear, near cinema-quality projections, controlled with precision, are becoming an art form in themselves within the rock world, but the potential is greater. Here, it's sychronised with inventive theatre and bold on-stage action.  The music - a blend of electronica (often leaning towards drum n bass), middle-eastern orchestral arrangements, hints of garage and pop (think M.I.A at her best), and a choral, massed-chant combination of all this that sounds pretty unique and wildly compelling - this music carries the story via a (usually) spoken rather than sung libretto. In fact, the story of, first, Libya, her people, her bloody history, then the rise of Gaddafi, even the political wranglings of revolution and counter-insurgency - the story comes through loud, clear and involving.  The style achieved by Asian Dub Foundation with the ENO orchestra becomes very natural in this context. There is nothing tacked-on or culturally jarring to fear - it works. 
Superb cast - great choreography... Ramon Tikaram perfectly cast as Gaddafi. This is a tale of a real country, and real events, but an examination of how a real person becomes a symbol - the living myth of the title. Almost a documentary, as told vividly by the desert village storyteller.  This is not, as a couple of papers have suggested, Jerry Springer The Opera with terrorists.  (There are some sharp laughs).  Gaddafi: A Living Myth is thought-provoking, rather than just provoking.  Terrorism is not condoned or even romanticised (those high-stepping women with guns and battle fatigues are Gaddafi's famed personal guard).  This is much more about dictatorship, and the inevitable post-revolution downward curves, and Western dissembling.
Of course, the first thing you want to know on hearing about this work is: how are they going to handle the grim stuff?   Lockerbie - simple and dignified, short. Conspiracies mooted over who really committed crimes.  Gaddafi's funding of international terrorism provides one of the most memorable moments - certainly the most chilling.  A stage full of dancers dressed in the uniforms of such organisations freezes, long enough for their stance to sink in. I don't think I've ever had a gun pointed directly at me before. 
Gaddafi: A Living Myth is long, but aside from scenes concerning revolutionary committees where the action was hard to follow (possibly a dress-rehearsal sound issue) it was absorbing all the way through, with moments of sheer exhilaration, of imagination, sometimes poetry.  If you can, go see it.  (Marina)

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Last week's single of the week - THE VITAMINS

Previously - THE GRESHAM FLYERS / THE DRESDEN DOLLS / THE ANSWER / 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
 

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