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ORGAN #180 > OCT 19th 2006 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon
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LEAVE THE CAPITALHeads on, eyes on, brains on – Destroy All Music: The ever never ending search for nutritional earfood and no one looks a bit like Jesus around here and no one talks like a gentleman, How’s that headpecker? What was it you said again? The agony of what those people had done, good morning. That’s as close as basically being there. Is it fiction? Why is it powerful? Well now where were we? This week we’ve been pulled down by the ugly fish who spoilt the pond and filled it with poison, we’ve had delightfully laughable threats of violence (and more) from scummy rightwing racist types who didn’t like it when we took a few bites back when they tried to get their sick and rather filthy music past our radar. We’ve been flooded off the air over at Denmark Street and Resonance FM (back now, did you miss us last week?). None of it can stop us. Things are kicking up again, no swans around here no more, too busy for swans, too orangey for crows and too spiky to sit on. The Gene Serene EP is let loose with the geese, heard new ORG releases on several radio stations yesterday, yeah I know it strange for us to still get a buzz out of radio play, we do, the day we don’t get that buzz is the day we fly away. It’s still all about the music, all the pecking can’t destroy that, it can destroy a lot of things, but not that. I don’t know what it is, you’ve thrown everything you have in to putting out some piece of music by some band that excites you and it just sounds extra special hearing it coming out of a radio, it still does, after all this time. Anyway, we set loose the Gene Serene single, it’s lining up like this with the singles series – October: Gene Serene, November: Leave The Capital, December: Spirriitwo and that extremely tasty version of Foundling and then in January well woooooooo. 
IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME
ZAG AND THE COLOURED BEADS - This just came in, if you don't know who The Beads are then way back in he days of Ring (and before the days of Levitation) there was a wonderful band who those of us who were in the Pond at the time very much considered part of the Cardiacs family - seems ZAG AND THE COLOURED BEADS are back with a new line up and ready to play some of that classic Sawtooth Gripmaster and Loaf of Legs

“The Beads are going to be doing some gigs soon. We've got a headline at The Bull & Gate on Thursday 7th December and are talking to the guy at the Luminaire and those Plum people. We are going to be doing all old stuff from Sawtooth Gripmaster and Loaf of Legs. Our lineup has two new faces - Keith Roache (drums) and James Larcombe (kbds) replace Tom Rosenbloom and Bob White. I've sent you a flyer in case you feel you might want to come along and was hoping you might give us a plug on the Organ website. Many thanks” Paul Howard - z.a.t.c.b

PEEPING TOM, the band featuring Mike Patton, are to headline Liverpool Academy November 25, London, Camden Koko 26, Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 27. Also on the bill are Dub Trio.

TERROR have announced several UK headline shows: Bristol Croft November 22, Brighton Concorde II 23, Sheffield Corporation 24, Luton University 25, Manchester Music Box 26, Wolverhampton Canal Club 27.

Space Weather News for Oct. 19, 2006
http://spaceweather.com

ORIONID METEOR SHOWER: This weekend, a mild but pretty flurry of meteors will shoot out of the constellation Orion. The source is Halley's Comet. Although the comet itself is far away, ancient clouds of dust from the comet are nearby, and Earth is about to run through them. The best time to look is Saturday morning, Oct. 21st.  Dozens of meteors might streak across the sky during the hours before sunrise.  Dark skies are recommended!

AURORA WATCH:  A solar wind stream is heading toward Earth, and it could spark a display of auroras when it arrives on Oct. 20th or 21st.  Check http://spaceweather.com for updates.
 

THINGS TO GET SHOUTING  ABOUT? 
SPACE INVADERS

* The squatted theatre in Dalston Lane, Hackney, is in danger of eviction as the council has got permission to demolish the building from this week. The theatre is used as a community centre since occupation began in February. There is a general call-out for support now. For more see http://opendalston.blogspot.com

* Queens Market, in Upton Park - London's most multi-ethnic market – is threatened with destruction as part of 'renewals' for the 2012 London Olympics - which include building 240 executive apartments on the site Residents from the borough of Newham are protesting against the loss of the market with a march and samba carnival - all welcome - from Plashet Park along Green St to the market, at 11am on October 28th. The protest will be directed at St Modwen, the developers, to pull out - as ASDA did four months ago under public pressure. Nearest tube East Ham and Upton Park. For more details see www.friendsofqueensmarket.org.uk

* The Stockton Heath Primary School - is a large, listed Edwardian red-brick school in Warrington threatened with replacement by a new concrete job knocked up on the cheap - as well as 400 new homes on the land waved through by a dodgy council deal. This is part of the Govt's £17.5 billion 'Building Schools for the Future' programme which aims to 'renew' all secondary schools in the UK over the next 10-15 years - which will see half of current schools demolished in quick-buck PFI projects. A local pressure group is fighting the plan, and needs to raise £1million to refurbish the current building see www.savestocktonheath.co.uk

Positive SchNEWS

An eco-friendly Australian company is launching a new, 100% biodegradable material with the potential to replace a large number of plastics. Called Zelfo, the petro-chemical free material is made using recycled natural fibres, such as hemp, sugar cane, waste paper and textiles. The treated fibres can then be spray moulded to produce all the sexy rounded one-piece shapes plastic designers know and lust after. The resultant product is stronger and lighter than many plastics, with wood-like properties meaning it can easily take nails and screws etc. While we of course need to cut down on unnecessary consumption, things will always need to be made and maybe this is the stuff to make them from... See for yourself at www.zelfoaustralia.com
 
John on the phone......
Well this week we've been mostly trying not to answer the phone, it can suck up so much time answering the phone.... AND WE'RE BACK AFTER THE RESONANCE FM FLOOD!
ORGAN ON YOUR RADIO @ RESONANCE 104.4FM - NOW IT'S WEEKLY! - every Sunday night, 10.30pm, one hour of us on the radio.
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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 TIME
ophelia torahLike we already said - we shall no longer be reviewing a million demos, we're just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more time for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective, when we tell you it's goood then it really is goooooooood

DEMO OF THE WEEK
OPHELIA TORAH – Now if Portishead were to be a moody metal flavoured band (no, not metal, just a big powerful rock band) with a line in big monster riffs and understated screams... There’s four of them, three males and a female – she’s the voice (bet you guessed that from the Portishead mention, no flies on you today Sherlock ). Held together darkly with all the dignity and restraint they claimed to have lost. They said it would be both beautiful and filthy and it is indeed both – never obvious though, never obviously beautiful or filthy - they don’t take the obvious route. London based (I think) and rather intriguing, very powerful, it’s not obviously metal, they just have the powerful riffs and the ability to stomp and they’d clearly blow away most mere metal bands. Ophelia Torah are different and they’re confident enough to know it – yeah, ok, so we can leave it without mentioning the Queen Adreena slant of the quiet whispered breathless hatstand girl (who understated rather dark scream could tear down buildings) and the explosive riffs that go off while her pretty flowers grow. More of a powerful beast though, the naked brooding left field power of a Soundgarden and a colour all of their own to take your hand and make you see  – www.myspace.com/opheliatorah
 

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

'NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK……
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
ME FIRST AND AND THE GIMME GIMMES – Love The Country (Fat Wreck) – In which our punk rock supergroup superheroes (Joey, Dave, Jackson, Mike and Spike from such fine and wholesome outfits as NoFx, Lagwagon, The Swingin’ Utters and those Foo Fighters) express their love for their country (no not that one, we’re talking country music) and go and cover twelve country and western classics in just the right heads-down no-nonsense fast and lose (well very tight actually, so sloppy playing here) way you’d expect them to do it. Hey, you have to have a bit of fun now and again, they’re not messing around though, they’re playing it straight and respectful and all at a very classy punk rock speed – I love it! They’re covering some classics here and they’re covering them good – and is there anything more punk rock and rancid than fumbling for your cleanest dirty shirt than Kris Kristofferson’s Sunday Morning Coming Down anyway? Great version of Annie’s Song (shut up you blades with your greasy chip butties, it’s not as good as Take Me Home Warwick Road) and an equally good take on Dolly Parton’s Jolene. You got East Bound And Down - the Smokey And The Bandit song (that starts out sounding like it’s going to be The Damned’s Love Song and finishes like it too,  I thought I heard them cleverly working The Damned in there), covers of Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, Dixie Chicks (very fine version of Goodbye Earl) and Kenny Rodgers. Their version of Hank Williams’ I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry is very nearly almost as good as the Real Mckenzies version (and saying that was a big compliment, regular readers will know that around these here parts some of us think no one betters the McKenzies). Galloping version of Ghost Riders in The Sky  - yippie aye ey! Every one a winner, even their Eagles cover (never did like them Eagles much) Straight in, straight out, ramming speed.... spot on – love it, they pulled it of in a flawless (and rather respectful) fashion... Easily album of the week, a work of genius, and it makes me glad to say that it’s been a lovely day – www.gimmegimmes.com

AHLEUCHATISTAS - What You Will (Cuneiform) - Way, way out there winning in the time-change olympics, Ahleuchatistas are an instrumental three-piece delivering dazzling, stripped-down yet mega-complex sonic acrobatics.  Gloriously intricate, a superabundance of contrast and ideas contained with a framework of untempered drums, bass and guitar, their third album What You Will - out now on the ever-essential Cuneiform Records - shimmers with track after track of easy brilliance - and no filler. 
  Ahleuchatistas are of their time. Right now, there's a relatively unreported movement of avant-rock out there - a natural groundswell of bands messing with progressive punk, structured experimentalism and sheer joyous guts, doing its thing without check or self-conciousness. Raising the bar, Ahleuchatistas may well have given us the ultimate expression of that slighty nervous but expedient term, math rock. But that implies a dry exercise in counting, and the sameyness some bands who have embraced the idea end up with. Ahleuchatistas are far too into melody and contrast to make that mistake.  They stuff a lot of jaw-droppingly tight explosive twists and mellow breakdowns, a lot of quiet/loud, stops, starts and sprints into each track... in fact, they sound like they're having a lot of fun, free-running around the vertiginous drops and angles of their compositions. The tunes, and the feel, stay important.
Natural comparisons are Ruins, Don Caballero, King Crimson, John Zorn and Hella, and most of all Upsilon Acrux (whether or not they've ever come across the latter, they do that playing-like-the-CDs -glitching thing too).  They're based in Asheville, North Carolina: Sean Dail on drums, Shane Perlowin, guitar and Derek Poteat on bass, all sharing a secret love of progressive rock and varying degrees of jazz, anarcho-punk and metal.  Song titles like 'Remember Rumsfeld at Abu Ghraib' and 'Shell In Ogoniland' display a desire to reach out and bring a wider reality into their music.  But what ultimately keeps this pleasing is a light touch, an ability to give each other space, a down-to-earth, live sound, a human feel.  What You Will comes with three quicktime videos of the band playing live, sounding just as colourful, natural and agile and delighting in every twist.   Oh... and the name comes from a Charlie Parker song they wholeheartedly recommend, called Ah-Leu-Cha, and a modest homage to the Zapatista rebels.
www.ahleuchatistas.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com

ALSO CHECK OUT
BEATNIK FILMSTARS – Barking: A Collection of Oddities (International Lo-Fi Underground) - What the hell do the Beatnik Filmstars sound like? Well they sound like the Beatnik Filmstars. You never know what they’re going to sound like - I still haven’t worked it out after all these years and eight albums (and loads of John Peel sessions and singles and EPs and...) but they do always somehow, whatever they’re doing or wherever they’re going or however they’re sounding, always somehow come out sounding like no one but the Beatnik Filmstars. Sometimes fluid, sometime lush, sometimes fractured, sometimes creamy, sometimes psychedelic (in an edgy way) - always laced with these little details that I’d guess you’d call Lo-Fi. Hey if they were American we’d be celebrating them as much as we do Pavement or Guided By Voice or any of the other lo-fi alt-rock heavyweights - but they’re not, they’re from Bristol (and Mr Peel isn’t around anymore) and so their beautiful skewed sound is missed by most. This album is the perfect introduction actually, a collection of singles and sessions and bits from here and there, a collection that takes you on a subtle detailed lo-fi roller-coaster ride of smooth creamy jagged fractured ups and downs. As English, and indeed as rewarding, in their own way as The Fall, wonderfully diverse without ever losing that fingerprint. There’s a million bands to check out  , if you haven’t caught up with the Filmstars, this 31 track collection is the perfect way to do so.
www.myspace.com/theinternationallofiunderground

FUME – A History of Things To Come (The Devil Knows Your Dead) - Fume dish out a delightfully violent and vengefully unrelenting blast of proper old school brutal old school old school old school punk as f nihilistic metallic hardcore metal that’s laced with atmospheric doomness, delightfully dark passages and scruffy beards. A healthy kind of Stamping Ground of bolt throwing delight ‘n crunch for Terror fans who are sick of it all, and oh yes, pull up a chair, we got a good one. Fume are from Coventry (someone has to be), they rumble and then then then when you’re just about comfortable with their rumble they stomp you.  You know the first time I heard of BoltThrower it was on John Peel’s radio show, I thought he said Bulb Thrower, instantly got this image in my head of mad Dutch crust-punks throwing bulbs around some windmill in a field, got straight on to them and Bolt Thrower became one of the very first bands on ORG back when we were doing very very DIY mailorder tapes. I miss those early days, Fume take me right back there, glorious (Daz Russell should re-open the Brum Mermaid just for them). Proper old school doomy hardcore dirty stinking crust-metal. Hey, now don’t go getting the impression that this is all one dimensional, oh no. Fume are clever and they know how to explore light and shade and add a little extra imagination to their brutal stomp - they’ve even got a very delicate, almost post-rock, instrumental called Instrumental on here while they let us take that breather we all need before they get back to all the guttural growling and the menace and the brutal language and the churning riffs and demanding thrash-outs and the seas of hostile emotion and the blatant disregard of punctuation... Ah yes, I needed this, nice one Fume, a very fine debut album, proper old school hardcore metal. – www.myspace.com/fume1 or www.thedevilknowsyouredead.co.uk

OUT FOR BLOOD – Out For Blood (The Devil Knows You’re Dead) Another Coventry band (and more brutal beards) and more ferocious hardcore metal outbursts, this time more of a dense stretched to bursting doomcore scream-out of a brutal hardcore sound. Laced with thrashing metal that gallops when it needs to . Relentless and churning and brutally intense. Think Medulla Nocte, Murder One, Iron Monkey, Eyehategod style skin-peeling puss-busting slug-crushing intensity with just that extra bit of quality that sees them safely standing out from the crowd. Beautifully relentlessly ferocious and rather recommended. www.outforblood.co.uk

CRADLE OF FILTH – Thornography (Roadrunner) - Oh now, that Temptation stuff really didn’t make us want to put this on (got us some hilariously unhappy e.mail as well, mostly from Poland), the new album has been sitting on the floor and we’ve been ignoring it for the last couple of weeks. Well, more fool us, Dani and his band have thrown everything in to this one, everything you expected and some you probably didn’t. It’s a love/hate thing isn’t it (and no blacking out in no red room again). What we have here is more of their completely over the top (gloriously?) bombastic gothic black metal kitchen sink throwing and more of that “proud, priapic and unhinged” thing they do. Heavy as ever, yet more melodic and adventurous and not so obvious - great big over the top (melotrons?) orchestral stabs/slabs. It’s almost retro in places (in a black metal way). Impressive instrumental as well (Rise of The Pentagram), sounds like some Eastern European gypsy flavoured death metal thing, actually this is the first time Cradle Of Filth have really seriously impressed. Other people have been saying this is a good album, but hey, blind worship of fans, CoF could have just churned out more of the same and the fans would have been more than happy – I’m no fan, I am of this album though, very impressed (and thankfully that dreadful cover of Heaven 17’s Temptation is at the end so it can be avoided). 

NEBRASKA – The path To The Silent Country (Hometown Jam) Some kind of big bold brave expensive Jeff Buckleyish Smashing Pumpkinsy type indie rock band from South London, I guess they’re alright, not really doing that much for us but hey, if your curious about these kind of things – www.hometownjam.com

RATTLESNAKE REMEDY – Magic Man (Bem) – Debut album from some kind of rather good (should you be in the mood) UFO, Black Oak Arkansas, Guns And Roses, Buckcherry flavoured bluesy hard rock band from Birmingham -  I assume England and not Alabama, could easily be either, hang on I read the facts now, “hard-nosed Englishmen” . They do their thing well enough, classic hard rock sound.  www.rattlesnakeremedy.com
 
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

terrorists!! mice!! prostitutes!!
21st Oct is the annual London Anarchist Bookfair. 25 years of all things anarchisty including books, pamphlets, t-shirts and other paraphernalia. 10am-7pm, at the Voluntary Sector Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Rd, London, N7 6PA. (Tube - Holloway Road). www.anarchistbookfair.org

AND HERE’S SOME MORE: 

BLACK BOOK BLOC

This weekend is the 26th Anarchist Bookfair. As usual it will be chocka with 80 stalls, talks, films, discussions, and more, featuring the full gamut of groups on the libertarian side of politics tackling issues like climate change, ID Cards, asylum seeker support, worker solidarity, anti-fascism, and feminism, as well as stalls by the main alternative media crews, and purveyors of anarchist literature and paraphernalia. It'll be a pick 'n' mix buffet of information with an impossibly packed schedule. Talks and discussions will be going on all day across the spectrum from animals rights, the effect of the 2012 Olympics, the 2007 DSEI Arms Fair, NHS Privatisation, Residents Groups and the Co-op Movement through to theoretical talks about anarchism, class struggle and radical history.

But it's not all deadly serious as there will also be a live comedy cabaret, London Class War will be discussing proposed celebrations for Thatcher's death, and yer SchNEWS will be screening the latest 'SchMOVIES' from 12 noon. Food and crèche provided. Saturday 21st October at The Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Rd, London, N7 10am-6pm, tube: Holloway Rd. For more see www.anarchistbookfair.co.uk

* Make sure you're well brewed up with a ready bail address by four at the latest for the annual scuffle with the police (for more see last year's SchNEWS 518).

LIVE
THE DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE / THE STOLEN BABIES @ Lo Fi. Seattle, Wa. October  5th

Lo Fi is a venue I’d never been to before. It’s located in a warehouse, and reminded me of various after hours parties that I frequented in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood and Mission District through the latter half of the 80’s and into the early 90’s. I very much like the warehouse atmosphere. The high ceilings, the labyrinth-like layout, the dark corners, the stairways… I was quite pleased with it upon my arrival, until I realized that the stage “area” was not raised. If I didn’t position myself accordingly, I’d likely end up standing behind rude tall people (as is often the case). I arrived far too early. I didn’t realize there were 2 opening bands, the first I will only mention enough to say that they were all very good musicians, and they had a big sound. Many horns, drums, banjo, bass, mandolin, accordion (equals too many people in one band). Okay, well maybe I’m somewhat of a snob sometimes. I would’ve liked them more if they didn’t try so hard to be weird, witty, and silly (I’m tired of fuzzy bunny ears on people. It’s no longer amusing unless the ears are the only thing they are wearing) at all times. I would have said they reminded me of a cross between Squirrel Nut Zippers and Pigbag, but sadly, they didn’t quite cut the mustard. And on top of it, the band’s name was “Awesome”, a stupid name as I see it. The theremin that was used in one song was my favorite part. Oooweeoweeoeoweeewooop.

Next up were The Stolen Babies, doing cuts from their latest CD, entitled “There be squabbles ahead”. I was absolutely delighted and pleased by this band. An internet friend of mine has been touting them highly and often, so when I heard that they were opening for DAE, I was rather pleased. They had a creepy carnival, cartoon-esque quality to them, ala The Adams Family theme song, but far better, and more raucous, and somehow refreshing. The lead singer is a charming small thing with a huge presence and a great set of pipes. She screeched, howled, screamed, sang and wailed beautifully. She played a concertina the whole time. I think it was a concertina. I always get accordions and concertinas mixed up. I liked the sound of the big steel barrel that the keyboardist/percussionist whacked often. The bassist played both the electric, and standard bass. I quite enjoyed them. I felt bad for how hard the band members all worked this night, carrying so much equipment in, setting up. I felt bad only because the turnout was not big, as I had imagined it would be. I was disappointed that more people didn’t show. These musicians all work so hard, so it’s nice when there are more audience members to appreciate them. Then again, the intimacy of a small gig can be nice too.

Finally it was time for DAE to come up and do what it is that only they can do. I was disappointed to miss the big show at Seattle’s Moore Theater last year, so I was really looking forward to this one. Their productions and performances vary from full theatrical stage productions to intimate concerts. This was of the intimate variety. Haruko Nishimura, is the very beautiful and compelling front-woman/singer/dancer/choreographer/performer/thespian. She is a diminutive beauty with her own unique sense of style. She wore a dress that very much reminded me of a small fancy bird with shiny shiny white legs (big sexy chunky stiletto boots). She too, sang, screeched, screamed, yelled and chirruped her way through several numbers, each with different theatrics. I didn’t understand much of the lyrical content, as it was mostly in Japanese, but she gave a brief description of what each number was about, and I could pretty much interpret for myself what it was about, by the description and her rendering of said description. I think my favorite number this night was “Can’t wait to masturbate” It was short and frenzied, and—er—well---climactic. I think it was under a minute long, but it packed the necessary punch. Along with Haruko incorporating Butoh and European theater styles intertwined with everything else, the other members wore “surgeons” outfits, with interesting openings in the upper back between the shoulderblades. The men in white, the women in teal. (surgeons nurse colored?) The other two women, on violin and viola, flanked Haruko, and the men were behind the ladies. It was all very interesting and entertaining. DAE is not music one can “groove” to, or sway along in rhythm, but rather what I would call performance art with soundscapes. Definitely visionary stuff. I look forward to seeing them again for one of the bigger stage productions. I wish I were not so tired at the end of the night. I would have done them much more justice here had I been fully alert, but I am getting on in years, and I wake up with the birds these days, so by 10pm, I am feeling a bit worse for the wear. I will have to do another review in the future, I know I have only just scraped the surface of all they do. Meanwhile I must try to sleep later so I can stay up later like I used to.

Gwendolyn Witherup

Links:
http://www.degenerateartensemble.com/
http://www.stolenbabiestheband.com/

SINGLES
SINGLE OF THE WEEK
OCTOBER FILE – Swallowed By Thy Army (Candlelight)  - Whoooooooo, they took some great big giant leaps forward, this is seriously impressive (the Oxfordshire band never quite hit the spot in a recorded state before). Great big slabs of poundingly heavy killing jokes and a sound that makes you want to flex right out (in that Jaz way). The Killing Joke thing at pounding hardcore punk rock speed - very Killing Joke, in a very positive way though, relentless, brilliant, all three tracks, what more do we need to say? I’m looking forward to the 2007 album now, break right open and collect, this is not what we expected, expected, expected, expected  – magnificent, a panic gripping circus, you can start to run, it’s now for real. Time for everyone to take a serious bite on October File's very big sound -  www.candlelightrecords.co.uk / www.octoberfile.com

SINGLE OF THE WEEK 2
MOISTBOYZ – That’s What Rock And Roll Can Do (Schnitzel) – A no messing no frills Turbonegro stomp of a boot stomping glitter beat stomping stomp of a band, pissy and stompy (as someone else said) and yes, that is indeed what rock and roll can do. You know we’ve got no class, take a piece of my ass... don’t be stuck at home, you’ll only be alone, bored to the bone, lost in a headfuc....  jumping and a screaming. Shake your fist and party, it’s a blast, it’s the best you’re gonna get. Don’t get caught with your zip wide open at the public pool Roy, and that dirty rag, filthiest lyrics ever, Turbonegro for Sweet fans, we like moist boys....www.moistboyz.com

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WINTERKIDS – Tape It (Hungry Kid) – Well now, you know that angular new wave chocolate overdose we were on about down the Barfly last week, and that band we saw who’s name we were polite enough to not mention. The one who had us regurgitating half digested lumps of Galaxy all over the Chalk Farm pavement? Well here they are again trying to feed us more, three times their people have sent this in now, I guess they want us to say something? Winterkids are yet another one of those polite takes on some kind of angular Gangs of Franz for Brit pop Pulp fans and oh, how much more of it can we take today? Millions of slightly new wave slightly angular indie bands, all this chocolate is making me sick! Surely Winterkids should be hitting some kind of spot? I mean they’re not bad, and I’m really trying to eat this latest lump of chocolate, I know I like chocolate, one more piece... .no, no no... at best this is Art Brut-lite, Art Brut-Polite, hey look, it could have been any one of the 473 same as all the others identikit angular pop new wave indie chocolate dealer this year’s fashion type bands being pushed at us this week that finally sent us over the edge and running in to rehab, it’s not fair to give Winterkids a hard time, they’re no worse/better than all the others, if you’ve not had enough of all those Franz bands yet you’ll like ‘em lots, they do it well enough, live and let live, they clearly love what they’re doing.  Now get them out of here before something gets broken, (and they’re far better than that dreadful 1990’s band who’s new single I’m listening to now and who are no way getting any kind of review, ah look, Winter Kid are good at their thing, go eat chocolate now - www.hungrykid.com

BAUER – Bauer EP (Naz) – This is just ‘nice’, hey come back, we can do ’nice’ around here as well you know and this time that ‘nice’ wasn’t meant as some kind of insult. I mean, I don’t really know who this band are and I don’t feel inclined to go search and see. This is just nice in a way the more mellow moments of U2 can be nice, or Coldplay or Snow Patrol can be nice - and an much as I really wouldn’t cross the road to see or hear any of those ‘nice’ bands, you know, I don’t mind them being on in the background now and again while I’m doing the washing up (I said now and again XFM, not every 20 minutes, they played Kings Of Leon today and four tracks later they damn well played them again, I turned to the play on Radio Four about Byron burning his manuscripts or something). This is just nice and lush and breezy and classy and warm and uplifting and I guess they’d like us to talk of skyscraper melodies and it’s just ‘nice’ and  now I’ve taken it out of the CD player I’ll probably never hear it again (I don’t feel the need to ever hear it again) unless I hear it on the radio (which I probably will lots if I accidentally ever turn daytime XFM again) 

GREENWICH RESIDENT – I Hid My Heroes (Robot!) – Five track EP, lap steel guitar, mandolins, cello, violin, singer/songwriter evolved in to a rather fine full band playing mellow refined rewarding alt.country rock. Kind of warm uplifting mellow and rather un-English sounding (they’re Liverpool based) Elliott Smith flavours, I rather like it’s warm glow – www.robot-robot.co.uk

WE ARE TREES – Piece Of Plastic – harmony laden 60’s inspired space rock groove with eastern electric piano and bits of Stone Roses crashing gracefully in to bits of Hawkwind. Ah damn, now I lost it in the mess and can’t tell you what label it was on - www.wearetrees.co.uk

VOICST – Acts of Fire (Duurtland) Some kind of semi urgent Dutch power rock/pop, kind of blistering with energy and oh I don’t know, says his head is on fire, I don’t really care either way, should I grab an extinguisher or just look the other way and pretend I haven’t noticed – want some Dutch power rock/pop, step this way and hit the link  -  www.voicst.com

Last week's single of the week - THE LOVES

Previously -THE EDUCATION / 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
 

PLAYLISTS, TOP TENS, THINGS LIKE THAT
SEAN ORGAN  - TOP 10 PLAYLIST for this week in no particular order (besides the first one) 

1: WEAZEL WALTER – Crank Up The Bullshit
2: VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR – After The Flood (well it had to be after the Resonance flood)
3: ART BRUT – Nag Nag Nag
4: ME FIRST AND THE GIMMIE GIMMES  - Sunday Morning Coming Down 
5: THE SLITS – Number One Enemy
6: THE RUTS – In A Rut
7: 120 DAYS - Come Out....
8: ME FIRST AND THE GIMMIE GIMMES  - Annie’s Song/Jolene
9: ME FIRST AND THE GIMMIE GIMMES  - Ghost Riders in The Sky
10: CARLENE CARTER – Baby Ride Easy
11: DAVE ALVIN – Border Radio
12: ROSE TATTOO – Live At Reading 82
13: TOM OVANS – Killing Me 
14: LEAVE THE CAPITAL – Matchsticks
15: THIN WHITE ROPE - Take It Home 
 

Weasel Walter’s list for Oct 17 (Weasel makes good lists so we stole it, he's a Flying Luttenbacher you know)

Cecil Taylor Unit - Hamburg '76 bootleg, 3 hours of ROCK
Lily Allen - allright still
Sweet - '76 tour bootlegs (THE BEST BAND EVER)
Stargazer/Portal/Martire (Australia, land of brutality)
Cockney Rebel - the psychomodo (2nd album, reminds me of doctors of madness)
XBXRX - "wars" upcoming lp mixes
Lair Of The Minotaur (I have to learn a bunch of their songs this month)
Edits for upcoming Weasel Walter Quartet cd
remastering Luttenbachers  - Destroy All Music
Kate Bush "wuthering heights" (banned from listening to this when Maria is home)
Wire - I Should Have Known Better
Motorhead - various trax from 1st LP, Overkill, Ace Of Spades and Iron Fist
Damon Smith talking about his i-pod
Damon Smith showing me videos of his cat on an i-pod

Movies: 
Hard Candy
Pretty Persuasion
Marx Brothers - all
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Ali G. 
Jackass 2
Burial Ground
Scorpio Rising
Edit for Luttenbachers DVD

Food:
Acai cereal
Bengal lentils
Pancakes in the morning
Tea with milk and honey

Books:
Dixonia
Midnight Movies
Kid Creole and the Coconuts bio
Books about Stockhausen ("pretentious!" as some kid in England says...)

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