John on the phone......

WHAT’S WEASEL WALTER UP TO TODAY?  “Whazzup . Whew. I'm on tour playing drums with Lair Of The Minotaur and having a really good time. I'm finding lots of new inspiration in playing metal right now. We're on tour with some really great bands... Cattle Decapitation are totally killing and Goatwhore rule old school Satan style. I was always a little skeptical about Cattle, but their new album is miles beyond their old stuff and with Kevin Talley sitting in with them on drums for the tour, they are just totally destroying. Goatwhore are great guys and they play a totally kickass mixture of black/death metal with catchy riffs and great drumming. It was a lot of work for me to learn the 50 minutes of material I needed to get in my brain for this tour, but it's been worth it. I'm going to continue to play with Lair as long as everything works out (the long distance thing is the only big issue, but shouldn't be a problem). It's nice to take a break from being a f**king goddamn avant gardist for a while and just go out there and assault a drum kit, making some intense rock happen.”  Coming soon: Weasel Walter Quartet "Revolt Music" CD on ugEXPLODE 12/15/06, Barr/Walter/Hillmer 10" EP (finally), Aurora Josephson Group CD early 2007, Weasel Walter early 4track recordings CD on Savage Land, xbxrx experimental record on important, xbxrx "wars" lp on polyvinyl 4/07, Luttenbachers "Tales Of The Mad Robot" CD late 2007, etc. nowave.pair.com/weasel_walter  x

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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 

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

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You can catch the ORGAN TV show on the OPEN ACCESS 2 channel via SKY 173 at 10.30pm UK time every Wednesday. 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
Didn't really hear anything worth calling demo of the week this week... we're very picky.

ALSO CHECK OUT
DOBERMANN – Two thirds of Dobermann were once in Team, this new band is some kind of bluesy grungy stonery beast, and yes there is a compelling musical honestly. Could possible be something interesting threatening to burst out here maybe, but then again maybe note, we’ll sit up here on the fence and wait and see. If you want to know where part of the Team team went then www.myspace.com/thedobermannband

Last week's demo of the week - FANTAPLASTIC

Previous demo's of the week - CLUB LE SHARK / THEY DIED TOO YOUNG / INVASION / OPHELIA TORAH / THE MERLIN BIRD / 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

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SEASICK STEVE – Dog House Blues (BronzeRat) Rather fine old school real-deal lo-fi blues, Seastick Steven Wold, genuine American freight-train hoping blues playing hobo and a rather impressive album that really could have been made any time in the last fifty years, actually if someone had told me this was recorded in 1947 I’d have believed them. Seems he’s pretty much done it all, played with Lightning Hopkins in the 60’s, left home at 14 and learnt his first chords off old Delta guys in his teenage years. He has a gravel-sweet voice, he’s drenched in soul. Seems he was in Seattle in the 90’s and people like Modest Mouse and Bikini Kill got his vibe. Hey look, thirteen fine slices of raw stripped back to the bone old school lo-fi blues played with just the right amount of soul and attitude. Pretty clear why people who know far more than me about this kind of stuff say he’s one of the finest bluesmen in the world. www.bronzerat.co.uk

TRISTANIA – Illumination (SPV) - Lush dark symphonic Norwegian female/male duel vocal goth metal with an occasional heavy edge for fans of HIM or Evanescence or Lacuna Coil. They add an edge of their own, if this is your kind of thing then they’re rather good at it, bit of a Sisters feel here and there, actually you dark disciples of the old school will be more than happy . www.tristania.com

AS SILENCE FALLS – As Silence Falls (Sugarshack) - Melodic, energetic emo screamo metal with an old school epic edge. A debut five track mini album from South Wales and they’re for all you Bullet For My Valentine fans who like a bit of Maiden on the side. ASF (hey, isn’t that Alien Sex Fiend!) do it really well, heard it all before though, no identity, no x factor - really good at what they’re choosing to do but hey, (and they’ve gone very very Maiden now and there’ll probably be a free pull out poster and a load of hype in Kerrang any week now) just what is the point? I don’t know, if it sounds interesting here’s a link, live and let live and they do do it really well, they deserve a mention  www.sugarshackrecords.co.uk

THE SINISTERS – Terminal Volume (Fading Ways) – Some kind of politely scuzzy Stooges/Zodiac Mindwarp/Dictators thing from Canada, they have all the moves, feels a little safe though. Kind of like trying to get trashed on low alcohol larger or stabilizers on your push bike or no sugar in your expresso shot or putting coke in your Jack or oh I don’t know, we were just going to let it pass but ya man kept on insisting we review it. www.fadingways.co.uk
 

Last week's album of the week - MICROWAVES / RONDELLUS Previous album's of the week - DUSTIN’S BAR MIZVAH / CRIME IN CHOIR / THE RUBY SUNS / THE SIEGFRIED SASSOON / DON CABALLERO / REIGNS / STREET DOGS / ME FIRST AND AND THE GIMME GIMMES / ALEUCHATISTAS / BLUT AUS NORD / 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 /

Mark Titchner, one of the Art world's nominees for 2006's prestigious ‘Turner Prize’ has declared the music of Napalm Death as distinctly influential in his work. Titchner explains the appeal of ‘abrasive music’ and describes his interest in how bands such as Napalm Death are able to use the voice as an instrument and push the boundaries of language.

Titchner sees a vivid resemblance between the style of Napalm Death’s music and what he depicts within his art, choosing one of the founding members Nicholas Bullen to speak on behalf of his work. In an interview about the artist, Bullen describes the similarities between the two stating that “I think in the work that I’ve made in the past in terms of music, we’ve always tried to be very dense, to distil, to compress sound into sudden bursts and forward movements, to try and move towards what we would perceive as the future, and I think Mark does that in the sense of, his work, whilst never stating a utopian vision, always hints at that and hints at a sense of joy of being alive”.

You can take a look at Mark’s work and listen to Nicholas Bullen’s opinions on it at www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2006/marktitchner.htm

Earache Records issue a 20 year anniversary edition of the highly influential debut Napalm Death album Scum in early 2007, complete with an recently filmed in-depth DVD documentary about the making of the album.
 

Another ill-fated gig, all the way to the East End for Cleckhuddersfax, but I didn’t see them. Billed to be on early, instead Cleckhuddersfax were shifted to last on the bill, and with the clock heading for 11pm I gave up, this after enduring some truly awful art college performance ‘music’. The evening wasn’t entirely lost, however. I did catch They Came From the Stars, I Saw Them, and saw something worth reporting. It’s essentially the spirit of late 80s rave without the revolutionary posturing. It’s about dancing and having a good time without worrying whether the rozzers are going to invade the place brandishing a copy of the Public Order Act. Musically, it’s an uplifting amalgam of 808 State (lots of digital technology abounds), The Shamen’s commercial edge, complete with a smattering of ‘real’ instruments that give the music an authentic edge. The lead singer, in white boiler suit, looks young enough to be at school, but he’s positively bubbling with confidence, dancing non-stop and seemingly convinced that everyone in the place is as much into it as he most obviously is. We’re a fluorescent stick away from a nightclub rave, but it’s all rather innocent and infectious, and seems at this early stage to be far less self-conscious than the initial movement which ended in the alienated scene drawn by Pulp in ‘Es and Wizz’. There are some other young outfits doing the same thing, with The Klaxons leading the way. Not my cup of tea, but, then again, we can’t ignore the kids when they start running with their idea of tomorrow’s music.
(Phil Whalley)
 

A much-anticipated London outing for Oxford’s Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies tonight. Not much has been seen of them in the capital since they finished touring their Fierce Panda debut, an unusual outing at the Soho Curzon excepted. Reports from provincial gigs suggest that there’s a lot of new material in the bag, though tonight they start with ‘Ores’, their single. Though probably the shortest and most un-crooked song in their repertoire, ‘Ores’ is still a tour-de-force of invention, and they follow with a number of newer songs, all of which I’m hearing for the first time. Initial impressions are that Youthmovies are still packing the ideas in, and aren’t afraid to work them out for as long as they feel necessary. But what is apparent is their conversion to singing. The less warbling the better seemed to be their mantra before, but now singer Andrew Mears, a plaintive crooner in the Morrissey vein, finds himself at the microphone more or less continuously. This doesn’t imply songs in the verse-chorus structure, but maybe an indication that the Youthmovies have found their voice in cultivating more of an identity beyond their twisting, epic songs and the wordy titles. There also seemed to be less input from the keyboard, none of those warm Orb-like thermals drifting around as before, though the venue is a bare room where I’ve rarely heard a decent sound.

Towards the end of the set they give an outing to ‘A Little Late He Staggered Through The Door And Into Her Eyes’, a song that wends its way through a number of moods before a short section of terrace-like chanting and clapping, with which the whole front section of the crowd join in, before the raucous finalé comes crashing in. It’s a reminder of why Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies made such an impression during their first prolonged period of exposure a couple of years ago (yep, two whole years since they blew everyone away at the Barfly, including Biffy Clyro and their gob-smacked cheerleaders). It also shows they have recruited a small band of devoted followers – and that support is no bad thing. Before the final song, guitarist Al innocently asks if anyone can lend them a floor for the night, a reminder that even with a critically-acclaimed album behind them, it’s not made things any easier. But they have persevered and, if tonight is anything to go by, Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies have been brave enough to move their sound on. They still don’t subscribe to convention or accessibility, and their set couldn’t be described merely as a series of songs. If they played the whole lot in one go it would be possible to describe it as a series of movements within a symphonic whole – there is that sense of cohesiveness within all the awkward tangents, and that’s what makes Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies a band to cherish. Good to have them back.
(Phil Whalley)
 

Last week's single of the week - DUSTIN’S BAR MITZVAH / SUPERSUCKERS

Previously - GIANT PAW / CHROME HOOF/ FRANK TURNER / ESKIMO DISCO / THE RACE / OCTOBER FILE / MOISTBOYZ / THE LOVES / 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
 

PAST ISSUES -
ORGAN 186 - MICROWAVES, RONDELLUS, DUSTIN’S BAR MITZVAH, SUPERSUCKERS, THEY DIED TOO YOUNG, LITTLE TROPHY, FANTAPLASTIC, HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE, SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM, PICASTRO, RED COTTON, THE BAZOOKAS, SOLEY MOURNING, PETER HAMMILL, VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, RADIOHEAD, BIS, UNTITLED MUSICAL PROJECT, TIGER FORCE, NOTORIOUS HI-FI KILLERS

ORGAN 185 - DUSTIN'S BAR MITZVAH  CRIME IN CHOIR, GIANT PAW, GOBSAUSAGE, GENE SERENE, EARTH, IQ, FLIPPER, THEATER DES VAMPIRES, THE KNIVES OF NEPTUNE, PETER HAMMILL, SWAD, MIKROKOSMOS, THE FLESH HAPPENING, THE OXFAM GLAMOUR MODELS...

ORGAN 184 - THE RUBY SUNS, CHROME HOOF, FRANK TURNER, CLUB LE SHARK, ENABLERS, THE DODGEMS, GRINDERMAN, RONNIE DAY, THE DISTANCE, YOUR CREATION, LIPID, MOTORHEAD, WEASEL WALTER...

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ORGAN 182 - Oh, that one was live on the radio, all 11 sleepless hours of it.

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ORGAN 180 - OPHELIA TORAH, OCTOBER FILE, MOISTBOYZ, BAUER, WINTERKIDS, GREENWICH RESIDENT, WE ARE TREES, VOICST, ME FIRST AND AND THE GIMME GIMMES, ALEUCHATISTAS, BEATNIK FILMSTARS, FUME, OUT FOR BLOOD, CRADLE OF FILTH, NEBRASKA, RATTLESNAKE REMEDY, THE DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE, THE STOLEN BABIES, ZAG AND THE COLOURED BEADS, PEEPING TOM, TERROR, SPACE WEATHER, THE ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR

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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 go grab 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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