Ship to runner, ship ship to runnerbean, are we there yet? No we’re never going to get there, there’s always some lowlife wanting a fight over something, it’s usually because we haven’t given some ego-bound band a big enough review or enough attention, kind of goes with the territory really. Yeah, there’s always some scumbag or other with a messed up agenda, this week it’s with a little more of a nasty edge, this week we’re under delightful attack from some sad sack of old and aging punk scumbags who took pride in releasing a load of tired old racist crap masquerading as ‘punk history’ last year. Seems they’ve got all worked up because we wouldn’t let it through and give them some coverage, no platform for it here you see, not around these parts. Now we have a policy of ignoring all the releases on that particular label or indeed anything associated with them – guilt by association, I mean would you want to be seeing your releases on the same label as a band like that? Seems this week the label and their bands want to up the game. We’re not going to name them, no oxygen gasps of publicity for that kind of filth here. Hey, those racist dinosaur scumbags are still out there trying to twist things and clean up their history and keep it alive when it all should be buried. Keep an eye and a spare ear open, don’t let the scum in under the radar – they may try and pass it off as punk rock and underground zine culture/history but hey, come on, there should be no platform whatsoever, especially when you have luxury of hindsight. Enough of that unpleasentness, let them yell at us, wile they bugging us they’re leaving someone who might have got suckered in to their crap alone... What a wonderful world. 

Where were we? Ducking the hatred and the threats and silly attempts to mess with us while we feast on guitars that sound like your chewing on broken glass. Is It just the pick of destiny or the page of destiny and the wizard and the demon almost killed each other with an evil kapow or something like that. Is it really better than a diamond on a platinum chain? Lizzy Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, here’s what demanded our attention in a good way this week...

DEBBIE HARRY TO PLAY AT CBGBS FINAL WEEKEND - As previously reported, legendary New York club CBGBs closes this weekend. As also previously reported, CBGBs is closing after a long fight with the venue's landlords, who wanted to make more rent from the property, but will reopen in a new space in Las Vegas. As also also previously reported, Patti Smith will play the final gig at the New York venue on Sunday night. As not previously reported, Debbie Harry and fellow Blondie star Chris Stein will play an exclusive acoustic set there on Saturday night, ahead of a headline set by The Dictators.
 

Hi Sean, 
OMG OMG OMG in fact f'ing blooming heck. Got an email today to let me know that Omnia Opera are back together and gigging.  Brings back those memories of Cloud Nine Magazine, Organ Radio Tapes and jelly splats!!!  Here's their website in which they give Organ the kudos you all deserve. http://www.omniaopera.co.uk/

peace  - PeyoteLee
 
 

John on the phone......

Well yes, he often was, asking about bands or saying he liked a release and telling us he was going to play it and saying thank you - no, thank you John, thank you so so much. 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?

DEMO OF THE WEEK
oh look, loads to tell you about, next week alright - busy busy busy, i'll play some on the radio on Sunday... how's that for a deal...

Last week's demo of the week - THE MERLIN BIRD

Previous demo's of the week - LEAVE THE CAPITAL / 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
I said I ain't not got no time this week
 

Last week's album of the week - BLUT AUS NORD Previous album's of the week - CATS AND CATS AND CATS / I LOVE POLAND / 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 /

NEWS WHITEOUT - One story that didn't blow up in the mainstream media this week was, on 6th October, the discovery of the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in the country. Normally this would be the cue for screaming tabloid front pages about the enemy within, wild allegations about those arrested and the appearance of the Home Secretary to warn us all of the need for further crackdowns in the 'War on Terror'. However, unluckily for the government propaganda machine, this time round it's white supremacists with BNP links. In other words when we're supposed to be focussing on the 'clash of civilisations' with Islam - damn, it's the wrong kind of bombers and inexplicably the story didn't even make the national news. For more www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/828
 

 JAW, no messing angry Micks (their description if I caught those lyrics right) skinny scruffy white boy on-the-nail hip-hop rock-heads in faded Tool shirts and worn out combats. From Northern Ireland and one thing ‘bout music is when it’s real like this then they get scared. They’re down for guerilla warfare, but can they really use the n word and wave their guns in the air? Yes because they clearly really care (even though the rent is due) shit is real in here, it’s still bigger than.... Hey, they’re on first of four and there’s not many in here for them - they’re rocking it never the less and if you can feel it, feel it, if you don’t then don’t, if it ain’t real then you probably won’t – this was real and I like ‘em, they rocked with attitude – MWA. I know nothing much about them, I’ll be back for more (and let the bass line rattle my trunk some more) and I need a bigger Jaw picture (nice Dead Prez thing at the end there tooo), I think they’re based in London now, they’re back at the Barfly again in November and I walked under a ladder once and nothing bloody happened, I marked it on my wall.  Just A Word so it seems, bit of a Faith No More vibe in there – and they pull the arriving while they were already on stage crowd down to the front and things are off to a good start tonight...  www.myspace.com/justaword

    So Leave The Capital left their capital and came to the capital, up from Cardiff for a gig in London (and Marc Riley sent us an e.mail about Leave The Capitol just before the gig, “bloody cheek, i wrote that song when I was in The Fall” he said, I sold the e.mail on ebay to a Fall fanatic called Joey from New Jersey or somewhere like that). Hey look, we can’t review this can we? We’re hardly going to be negative, we have their debut single out on our label next month. Hey I hope you learnt enough about us by now to know that when it comes music we pride ourselves on telling it how it is – we have a reputation here, we’re not going to shout about it if it honestly isn’t worth our shouting, you’d soon stop trusting us and buying our releases wouldn’t you. Leave The Capital were mighty fine tonight in the nice war Barfly. The songs we hadn’t heard before made us feel good, they sounded big, bold, confident, shimmering, like big bold but not too loud explosions up there in the sky... hey we buzzed, they buzzed, other people buzzed, strangers down the front smiled at each other – that knowing smile, that hey stranger we’re sharing a good band experience here smile. They could so easily have not pulled it off in the soulsucking next please production line that is the Camden Barfly, we could have been left there cursing that damn sixth sense of our – nope, it didn’t let us down, they didn’t let us down, five people up there making warm shimmering refined and rather heroic, yet nicely understated rock. The crowd reacted, the place filed up, that word of mouth thing is happening in the way that the word of mouth thing does when there’s a genuinely good band out there - clearly they have their own following already – hey, we’re excited, this is why we do this thing, we can’t sit here and tell you how good they were, but they were and we were happy and yes! 

 Ah, yes, there was another couple of bands on afterwards, one of them was rather good, sorry other two bands, we got distracted and pretty much missed the first of two while we were talking to people and doing the thing you have to do when you’re running a wreckord label, they did seem rather good and we’ll catch up soon. Then the other one, the headliners, well they had the right clothes and right pose, they were really rather angular and Gang of Four... yes indeed, yet again, the 47th angular band running out a sound based on nothing but that now far too familiar Gang of Four blueprint. The 47th this week. Enough already – it was good for a while, it was like chocolate – yes please, yes I’ll have some more please, yes please, more chocolate. More more more, pig pig pig. Thank you, yes please.... thank you, I love chocolate, thank you... thank you but um... no, oh no, no more thank you, starting to feel a little sick of all this chocolate.... no thanks... no, really, thank you but no more... I’ve had enough now, it’s all starting to tasting the same and I liked it more when you weren’t really forcing it on me quite so much, every time I turn my radio on or go to a gig, chocolate dealers forcing me to eat their chocolate... Will you go away with your damn chocolate, I’m really starting to not like the taste of you and your chocolate, god that damn chocolate is making me sick, everywhere I go chocolate chocolate bloody angular gang of four fire engines chocolate, I’m really starting to violently hate your chocolate, chocolate makes me want to throw things at other things, go away with your chocolate. I’ve had far far far too much chocolate forced down my throat...   So we avoided the chocolate and left the Camden part of the capital and the alligators and the crocodiles and the Pete Babyshambles hats feeling really rather pleased with ourselves.  I think you’ll like Leave The Capital. 
 

ALSO CHECK OUT
 

Last week's single of the week - THE EDUCATION

Previously - JESUS LICKS / 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 178

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 174 - 

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

ORGAN 171

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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