You see, we’ve probably been doing this thing for far longer than you, we’ve certainly got more scars than you, we’ve had more fights than you, and we still get more excited than most of you – new music excites me, I’m addicted, afflicted, it’s worth fighting for. New music and fresh bands have ruined my life, the music is better than ever if you go make the effort to find it, today we are really excited (well yesterday we were, we wrote this yesterday, today is a whole new exciting day). It’s an addiction, a passion, a massive thorn, we love it. This is not what I planed to do – too late now and this won’t be the first and it won’t be the last (my dear). It’s these damn pesky meddling bands you see, I would have got away with is all if it hadn’t been for those damn pesky meddling bands. If only they didn’t send us these damn demos that distract us and sink our hand-built ships well before we ever get anywhere near to setting sail. If only we could resist the temptation to play the damn things – they keep distracting, we’ve been trying to build our ship to get us the hell out of here for so so long - there’s always a damn band with a new demo ready to sink it. There’s always one more band (and I know this one won’t be the first and it won’t the last my dear) they’ll keep on distracting us from our ships, standing up with their hands in the air – children stand up, children put your hands up in the air. And we’ll never get the hell out of here – and we can’t help ourselves out because this damn demo is so good (and it won’t be the first and it won’t be the last my dear) and ah hell, here we go again - that rush, that buzz. Damn, there’s that salt in the eye before the morning sun - another brilliant demo that I just can’t keep to myself – it’s still better than the come down, the buzz is still much better than the price that is the come down.  This one won’t be the first and it won’t be the last my dear, I’ll keep on building these ships and I’ll never get the hell out of here. 

So who distracted us this time? You see, all day I’m throwing music in to the broken CD machine in the corner (yes it’s worn out, the thing has been snapping them in and out like some ankle chewing music sucking reptile, up to our knees in the blood of broken CDs). All day, throwing on music, and then something stops it all. Just like this one did the other day... 

We are very pleased to announce that much talked of, rather tinglingly and deliciously blissful Cardiff band LEAVE THE CAPITAL will have their debut single out on ORG Records on November 13

The band, who in recent glowing reviews have been compared to delicate things like Doves, Elbow and more importantly Explosions in The Sky, have been causing quite a stir over the last year. They’ve been clever though, keeping it low key and turning down invites to things like South By South West until they were ready to do things their way and on their terms, they’ve kept it all low key while cook up that vital slice of delicious x factor. Now they’re ready. 

The band played the Barfly in Camden early this evening, they were every bit as good as we hoped they would be. The lead track on the CD will be Matchsticks and it will clear all that salt in the eyes, that seashell horn at the start announcing the arrival and that throbbing bass line and those tingling explosions in the sky, those shimmering vocals.... ah yes, we have another one for you, why would we ever want to build a ship and get out of here, we love our addiction, we don’t need no ships, we’re here to make omlets and crack eggs and race pigeons and I thinks you’ll be needing this single.... 
 

PATTI SMITH CLOSES CBGB'S - Patti Smith is to play the last ever show at the legendary CBGB's in New York. This sadly happens on October 15 – I mean sad that the place is closing not that Ms S is playing. The Roundhouse in Camden is to draw on its musical history once again in the new year with the return of seminal UK space-rockers the PINK FAIRIES on Jan 22nd – regular fixtures at the Roundhouse in the 70s. And talking on CBGB’s, The original BAD BRAINS line-up is to re-form for two shows at the legendary club in New York next month. The line-up is vocalist H.R., guitarist Dr. Know, bassist Darryl Jennifer and drummer Earl Hudson. And what are THE FLESHIES up to on Saturday 21st October? Some kind of thing at An Undsiclosed Location Warehouse – don’t ask us, we’re just your organ of cummunication. Fleshies, Shellshag, Tulsa, Brainhole (featuring Bill from Federation X) Someplace in Bayshore, San Francisco, look on www.myspace.com/fleshies right before the show... $?, ?pm, all ages . The Golden Bull in Oakland is closing as well, another fine venue lost. TROUBLEMAKER (stars of ORGAN RADIO 21) are on the last ever bill. The full line ups: Decry (Scott swears they'll show up this time!), La Plebe, Infect (from Seattle - ex Oozies), Troublemaker and Snatch And The Fingers - doors 6pm, show 7pm. 

Talking of ORGAN RADIO 21 (which we probably won’t do too many more times, it’s pretty much been and gone now) I-DEF-I will be hitting the road this week, starting a series of UK dates that will span over October. Showcasing new material from the bands recent recording sessions for their debut full length album, these dates will be the bands 3rd. UK trek in 6 months continuing a relentless year which has already seen the band play Download 2006, support Breed 77 (another band who emerged through ORGAN RADIO compilations and a single on ORG back in the last century – hey, i told you already we have no time for history) and release debut mini-album 'Bloodlust Casualty' to widespread critical acclaim. That first taste on RADIO 21 got them on Radio 1 and in for a session and all that stuff, you get the new bands first on ORG but hey, you know that already. 

Catch I-DEF-I live at: Oct 6th  The Square Harlow, Oct 7th  Monsters of Mayhem Runcorn, Oct 8th  Weamstock @ Liberty's Middlesbrough, Oct 9th  Music Box Manchester, Oct 13th  Unit 22 Southampton, Oct 18th  Little Civic Wolverhampton, Oct 19th The Hub Exeter, Oct 21st  St Ives FC St Ives (Cambs), Oct 22nd  2 Day Takeover @ The Harlequin Redhill  w/ Skindred, Oct 26th  Tom's Sanctuary Pontypridd, Oct 27th Midnight Massacre @  Purple Turtle London, Oct 28th  Touchdown Festival @ Rios Bradford w/ American Headcharge. A taster from the recent studio sessions, new track 'Prosthetiquette' is now available for streaming at www.myspace.com/idefi

John on the phone......

Who's on the phone this week John? Well I did call Foxtons...  x

ORGAN ON YOUR RADIO @ RESONANCE 104.4FM - NOW IT'S WEEKLY! - every Sunday night, 10.30pm, one hour of us on the radio. X

The new year long series of ORGAN TV  is on your screens in the UK right now. Every   Wednesday evening, 10.30pm  on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY 173. And now due to the fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY 883 at 11.30pm.

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 

This week on ORGAN TV we have the following fine videos - you can catch the  show on the OPEN ACCESS 2 channel via SKY 173 at 10.30pm UK time. The show is repeated on Sunday nights at 11.30pmon OPEN ACCESS 1 via SKY 883 

Now where else are you going to get to see Spider Baby or Colt or Yip-Yip or Zero Cipher on UK music TV?

THE RUNDOWN for this SUNDAY, 11.30pm SKY 883

1 ZERO CIPHER - Stupid People Make Me Angry
2: COLT - Demon In My Wheels
3: YIP-YIP - Candy Dinner
4: SPIDERBABY - Lovebuzz
5: THE MONO EFFECT - Confidence
6  LIARS - It Fit When I Was A Kid
7: THE HUMAN VALUE - Give Me
8: OUT FROM ANIMALS - I Let My Schooling Interfere With My Education

Go spread the word and get your popcorn in 

Oh and next Wednesday night at 10.30pm on SKY 173 the line up looks like this...

1: SPIDER BABY - Lovebuzz 
2: TANGAROA - Vietnamese Killing Queens 
3: ZERO CIPHER - It's No Secret 
4: THE MONO EFFECT - Confidence 
5: ANTI PRODUCT - Better Than This 
6: CATS AND CATS AND CATS - Young Person's Guide 
7: CARDIACS - Day Is Gone 
8: PURE REASON REVOLUTION - Intention Craft

The week after that? Well what have you got for us? 
 

DEMO OF THE WEEK
You know, I listened to so so many demos this week, I didn't hear anything worthy of the honour this week, we're very picky around these parts. If we tell you something is good the nit means it really is good, we don't want to be wasting anyone's time around here, this ain't so suck up to everything we ever get free type websites - hang on here's a good one

THE MERLIN BIRD – They’re from Melbourne Australia (and from what I can see, in some kind of throws of relocation to London). Full on unashamed behind the mask old school Seventies sounding ambitious crafted folky progressive tock. Male/female harmonies and melodic tastes of clever/easy on the ear (rather English sounding) Yes, Jethro Tull, Fleetwood Mac and maybe a little bit of US West Coast Jefferson Airplane. They’re really rather good at it, they have this unflustered natural flow, one for you progheads who like it melodic and clever and delivered with no regard for fashion. I like it, very fine indeed, totally uncool and just right - www.merlinbird.com.au or www.myspace.com/merlingbird

ALSO CHECK OUT
YEAR OF FORMS – Emo band from Shrewsbury, same as all the other emo bands from all the other middle size English towns, here’s a link should you feel the need – www.myspace.com/yearofforms

Last week's demo of the week - LEAVE THE CAPITAL

Previous demo's of the week GRAVANZIA / CHET / LADY PROMISE / FTSE100 / 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

ALSO CHECK OUT
You know, it hasn't been the greatest week for new albums - lotd of things not hitting thr spot this week, most not worth a mention, I just don't get what so good about the Killers and this Electric Six album is rather disapppppppointing and there's so much average metal coming in here and oh hell, here's a few things that were worth a mention 

MUSHROOMHEAD – Savior Sorrow (Megaforce) – Machine driven nu-metal that does all the things required by the consuming nu metal hoards. Tuneful bits, crunchy bits, brutal bits, bits that sound like they were born out of listening to Faith No More albums back in the day, bit of Machine Head, bits of lots of things you already heard lots of times. Mushoomhead may have been somewhere near the head of the nu metal thing and they may have been hiding behind the mask long before the others, but hey, who cares? You’re only as good as your latest album. So they open with the brutal one, follow it with the slightly clever one, then the reflective melodic moody one (that they’ll make a video for) and it’s all well and good and they do it as well as anyone and hey don’t you think this wall in here needs painting? And look at the dust and what about the price of apples? Why are there so many baby pigeons around these days? Mushroomhead? Oh yes, forgot about them, what new album? On yes, standard issue nu-metal, good at it if that's all you want, four Ks I guess, now let  go buy some beans or something

SECOND MONDAY – Imagery (Lockjaw) – Dynamic, passionate, emotional - alright, emo. Second Monday take in the drama of Muse without ever needing go all bombastic and do the heavy handed thing. The Second Monday way is the delicate refined yet powerful way, they probably lace it with a few too many emo cliches (well actually far far far too many, break some genre rules damn you!) to really be taken that seriously, but hey, if heartfelt delicate restrained colourful passionate clever emo rock be your thing then this rather American sounding emo band from Winchester South England are rather ok at it... www.secondmonday.net

Mt – Lethologica (Motive Sound) – I don’t know, polite post rock, all very nice and delicate and quiet, quiet post-rock, mostly instrumental and all kind of uplifting and slightly dark and all very very very Youthmovieexplosionsinthedaysofstaticdoncab and oh wouldn’t it be nice to find just a little twelve second passage of music on here that we hadn't heard somewhere else before. Oh look, it’s quiet post rock, it’s ‘nice’, it does just what it says on the tin, I need a lot more, can I stop listening to it now? I don’t know, I don’t like being this negative, they clearly do it well, it’s a heartfelt labour of love and they certainly have the sound just right and if it wasn’t worth a mention then we would be mentioning it would we? They do craft it very well, it jut that we’ve heard every bit of it before and quite a few times now – we need some X factor, some identity, a fingerprint or two - www.motivesounds.com

UNLEASHED – Midvinterblot (SPV) - Well they’re still from Sweden, and they still have a reassuringly unreadable logo and that we-are-very-serious, arms folded, stern, look at our old school metal T-shirts pose in the photo (except for the very serious one in the plain black too cool to wear another band’s logo shirt), if only the guitarist wasn’t such show-off a fret wanker and just stuck to the wasp-speed buzzing and the merciless death-riffs and violent ear-slicing . Bombastic dramatic heavy death metal, poundingly good jack-hammer violent rhythm section. Actually I’m starting to take to Mr Fret Wanker’s bombastic classical Malmsteenieblackmore histrionics now, and I do like the crunch - shit, just caught myself playing an invisible tennis racket. Turn lose Pavlov’s frothing dogs and the Viking metal hordes, Valhalla awaits and I have sworn allegiance, this is our world now, death will never come to us, we are immortal, no compromise. Hey, I know, we should show a bit more respect to these pioneers of Nordic mythological metal, they’ve been doing this since 89 you know – and out of the ashes of the brilliant Nihilist (the rest of them became Entombed), but hey, you’re only as good as your latest move – this latest move is uncompromising and furiously intense, damn, there goes the widdle diddle fret wankery again, ah look I can live with that, this is seriously good extreme death metal, hail to all, up the Red Devils – top line recommended metal, you got to be extra good to still pull it off in 2006.

THE DAY I SNAPPED – Hooked On Disaster (Lockjaw) – More of that same old same old indie emo guitar rock, here’s the link, I’ll have two sugars in that please – I haven’t snapped jet, nurse, sledgehammer please – www.thedayisnapped.com
 

Last week's album of the week - CATS AND CATS AND CATS / I LOVE POLAND Previous album's of the week - HOLY SMOKES  / GALLOWS / SICBAY / THE LOST PATROL BAND / SQUAREPUSHER / HATEBREED / YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE! / OPTIMIST CLUB  / THE MINOR LEAGUES / 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 /

THIS WEEK MAC THE NOUTH  SHOCKED BY CAPITAL OF CULTURE SNUB - Ian McCulloch has said in an interview with BBC 6Music that he is shocked that he was not approached to help with his hometown of Liverpool's Capital Of Culture events next year. The Echo And The Bunnymen frontman said: "I'm amazed that no-one's come even to me as an individual to help with all this, because, as far as culture in Liverpool goes, my band has given more culturally to the city over the past 28 years than anything else."

Elsewhere in the interview, the singer revealed that the band plan to play the whole of seminal long player 'Ocean Rain' at a gig at the Roundhouse next year, saying: "We'll go in the middle of the arena so everyone can see the back of your head. We're going to do that with an orchestra and play Ocean Rain from start to finish, plus other songs, but that will be the kind of centrepiece of the gig".

ALSO CHECK OUT
THOM YORKE – Analyse (XL) - The line between Thom Yorke solo and Radiohead is really blurred with this one, jut sounds like a very fine Radiohead single and from where we sit Radiohead are one of the finest bands in the world, you don’t really need us to tell you that do you.

TOBIAS FROBERG – Somewhere in The City (Poptones)  - The tittle track from the fine Swedish singer/songwriter’s most recent album – a breezy Marc Bolan, Simon And Garfunkel with extra added weird-shit details and textured and sunshine and happiness and Viking Moses/Brian Jonestown Massacre style creativity – www.tobiasfroberg.com

SOHO DOLLS – No Regrets (Filthy Pretty) – The London electro pop boys and girls get all lush and polished and cleaned up. Have they lost that dangerous threatening (seedy) edge they had in abundance this time last year? Could it be time to get off their bus? Cleaned up and packaged for mass consumption where once they were gloriously dirty and danferous -  www.filthypretty.com

HUMANZI – Out On A Wire (Fiction) – Another one of those new wave angular bands, bit of The Jam, bit of Gang of Four, they have certain defiant spirit, they do it well enough, I heard 37 others like this already this month. www.humanzi.com

KLAXONS – Magick (Rinse) They have a certain twist to their new wave brit pop, a vague hint that they might almost dare to hint of times and things more dangerously edged, they almost hint at taking a musical risk or two and nearly add a Kraut slant to their FranzyKaiserness, make that the 38th this month – almost, next please... 

THE CUBES – Started Looking EP (Everlasting) From Wrexham with some mellow sounds that taste like The La’s or one of those North West bands from the late 80's/early 90’s, early Roses, those Love flavoured bands, Johnny Marr, The Coral, pretty good at it, easy on the ear, mellow – www.thecubes.org

THE GRATES – Science Is Golden (Dew Process) - More polite poppy door opening, after you thank you new wave girl fronted artrock, catchy yes but alas far fat too polite, knocks on the door and holds it open all day when you want that door kicking down – the good bits sound like sanitised versions of minor pop glories from way back there. The Grates sound like one of those glossy US new wave pop bands from 1982, far too harmless to be that offensive, they sound like your typical major label pop-rock hype. www.thegrates.com

ONE TO AVOID
(+44) - Lycanthorpe (Interscope) - Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus out of Blink 182 with an even more sanitized even more commercial (sold-out) version of their former band. Pronounced Plus 44 so says the bit of paper, your mummy and daddy would love you to like nice wholesome polite bands like this. Instantly forgettable 

Last week's single of the week - JESUS LICKS

Previously - EINSTELLUNG / SPIDERBABY / THE VITAMINS / 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
 

PAST ISSUES -

ORGAN 177 - CATS AND CATS AND CATS, I LOVE POLAND, AGE OF CHAOS, SANCTORUM, LOVEMAT, WOVEN HAND, LEAVE THE CAPITAL, THE APPARATUS, JESUS LICKS, RED SPARROWES, MASTODON... 

ORGAN 176 - ELLIOT SMITH, JENNIFER TERRAN, CRADLE OF FILTH, HEAVEN 17, LOVE, SUGARCUBES CHET, GRAVANZIA, VANCOUVER DELUXE, HOLY SMOKES, GALLOWS, YO LA TANGO, SKID ROW, UFO, ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, EINSTELLUNG, THE LATE GREATS, ROYAL TREATMENT PLANT, WHEN GRAVITY FAILS, DARTZ, THE TRUDY 

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ORGAN 173 - In print, on paper, got get it.

ORGAN 172 - FTSE100, EMPYREAL DESTROYER, SMILEX, SQUAREPUSHER, HATEBREED, ARDENCY, TOURETTES SYNDROME, GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT, THE VITAMINS, THE RESIDENTS, WEDNESDAY 13, JOHN PEEL DAY PLANNED, RIOT COPS GATECRASH FREE PARTY, The INTREPID FOX

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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. 

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