GOD SAVE THE KEN 

----------------- Original Message ----------------- 

From: RIP CRUNCHER 
Date: Jan  2007 07:37 

Absolutely incredible. I've never watched this show properly before, but you've got the 'live' sight of the grande magus punk himself Ken Russell holding court with spitty, sweary mouthed Donny Tourette eating out of his hand. Kens got more spell-binding stories in his little finger than this pantomime punk 'look at me I'm fuckin' Sidney Vicious' has heard in a lifetime of 'so called' debauchery. ( Lurid, fascinating tales of Tommy, Oliver Reed and The Devils etc...)  It's like watching one of those kids I saw in Debenhams over Christmas looking up at Santa...the poor boy doesn't know what’s hit him. Amazing how these fluffy neo~punks act once the drugs ‘n booze has worn off innit ?. Even Cleo Roccos is running rings 'round the silly little berk now... 

4:25 AM - 3 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove 
 

Wed 3rd  - Newcastle Academy (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
Thu 4th  - Manchester Apollo (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
Fri 5th  - Birmingham Academy (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
Sat 6th – Colchester Arts Centre (with As I Lay Dying)
Sun 7th  - Cardiff University (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
Mon 8th  - Hammersmith Apollo (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
Wed 10th – Oxford Zodiac (with As I Lay Dying)
Thu 11th – Sheffield Corporation (with As I Lay Dying)
Sun 21st – Kingston Peel (with The Legacy)
Mon 22nd – Wolverhampton Little Civic
Tue 23rd – Leeds Cockpit (with The Plight)

The album ‘Orchestra Of Wolves’ is out now via In At The Deep End Records. Holy Roar Records will also be releasing the bands pre-album demo on coloured vinyl in February in a limited pressing of 500 copies.  Visit www.holyroarrecords.com for more information. And hold on to you goats, here’s more limited vinyl news, Gallows will also be releasing a split seven-inch with friends November Coming Fire on 30 Days Of Night Records. Same deal. 500 copies, colour wax, also out mid-Feb but move fast, these beauties aren’t going to be around for long! More info at: www.thirtydaysofnightrecords.co.uk and  www.myspace.com/burnthegallows
 

John on the phone......

DOG FASHION DISCO are to split up. The band play their farewell show in Baltimore on January 13. THE RESIDENTS’ FREAK SHOW CD / DVD REISSUE OUT ON 12th FEBRUARY 2007 Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Step right up and you will see on display? a collection of some of the strangest specimens ever gathered? together -- both LIVE and preserved. THE RESIDENTS’ FREAK SHOW is released as a deluxe reissue on CD / DVD by Mute on 12th February 2007. The follow up to Tweedles, their latest studio album, described as having “more idiosyncrasy and invention than most groups muster in a lifetime” by Mojo and by The Independent as “uneasy listening”, Freak Show is the latest in an ongoing collaboration between Mute and The Residents offering definitive releases of their classic albums. Born out of a vague and uncomfortable childhood memory of a mule faced lady at the Lousiana State Fair, The FREAK SHOW album, originally released in 1990, is the story of a collection of freaks, each with their own all-too human failings and each with a haunting theme song worming its way into the listener’s brain. Meet Harry The Head, Herman The Human Mole, Wanda The Worm Woman, Mickey The Mumbling Midget and Jello Jack The Boneless Boy. “Come in”, say The Residents, “and make your mundane lives look like the kiss of bliss”. This being The Residents, once the album was released, things weren’t quite over… Whilst travelling in England they met with comic artists Brian Bolland (visual creator of Judge Dread and the “Dark Knight” Batman) and Edwin “Savage Pencil” Pouncey. Quickly the idea of a graphic novel based on the Freak Show characters took shape and ten artists including Brian Bolland, Savage Pencil and Kyle Baker came together for the Dark Horse Comics published graphic novel which followed in 1992. Two years later saw the release of the groundbreaking and award winning CD Rom game, taking players through an interactive trip through the three dimensional Freak Show tent and a year after that, in 1995, the premiere of the stage adaption opened in Prague. Mute continues this journey which started over 15 years ago with the definitive edition of THE RESIDENTS FREAK SHOW. Available on CD as a deluxe hardbook format, the release compiles the original artwork and sleevenotes alongside a bonus DVD which features animated films on Herman The Human Mole, Benny The Bouncing Bump and the Pickled Punks along with an excerpt from the Freak Show Live in Prague, the Jelly Jack video from 1992 and the original press release. Everyone comes to the Freak Show ?/ To laugh at the Freaks and the Geeks? / Life is a lot like a Freak Show? / But nobody laughs when they leave. Also available on Mute from The Residents are the definitive editions of some of their classic albums - The Commercial Album, Third Reich ‘N’ Roll and The Mole Trilogy plus 2005’s Animal Lovers and the latest album, Tweedles, all available in deluxe limited edition hardback packages. So -- step this way, folks come on in, you know you can't resist.? Come in and make your mundane lives look like the kiss of bliss. www.mute.com www.myspace.com/theresidents x

X

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 
 

1: SIKTH - How May I Help You (Gut)
2: BEECHER - Function Function (Earache)
3: HELMET - Monochrome  (Bodum)
4: 65DAYSOFSTATIC - Drove Through Ghosts To Get There (Monotreme)
5: YOUR CODE NAME IS: MILO - Wait A Minute (V2)
6: RUBY SUNS - Maasai Mara (Memphis Industries)
7: CULT OF LUNA - Back To Chapel Town (Earache)
8: MUNICIPAL WASTE - Unleash The Bastards (Earache)
 

DEMO OF THE WEEK

THE VELCROS – Creamy alternative melody driven girl fronted indie pop. Simple, classy, intelligent, flirty, infectious. They’re a three piece from London and they’re rather fine, well put together songs, bit of a Throwing Muses, Sidi Bou Said vibe, a hint of Polly Harvey in that voice, quality... www.thevelcros.com or www.myspace.com/thevelcrosband
 

Last week's demo of the week - MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI

Previous demo's of the week - FANTAPLASTIC / 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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2
DEATHSKULLS – The Real Deal (Rejected) - Old school proper thrash-edged English hardcore punk for people who still treasure those early DRI/MDC albums and remember how it really should be done. The nostalgic sound of things like Cromags or Agnostic Front or Broken Bones or indeed Discharge, hardcore anarchy indeed, burn burn burn... ... Deathskulls are from the seaside stench of Southend (guess someone has to be). OK, cut the crap, what we have here is some proper nailed-down old school bulshit-free thrashing violent wholesome switched on politically aware angry hardcore punk rock, (and thankfully none of the elitist scenester crap that comes with hardcore these days). Hey look, you don’t need no smartass word-heavy review, this is just right-on-the-nail shoutalong streetwise fast thrashing hardcore punk rock from a band who’ve been blasting the UK underground punk/squat gig scene for the last few years. Fits right in there next to SSS with it’s oldschool no messing energy, fits right in there with all your old hardcore classics, oh yes, all over your face, a beautifully violent noise. Highly recommended again, the real deal indeed, fine start to 2007, nice one Deathskulls. www.myspace.com/deathskulls or www.rejectedrecordscjb.net

ALSO CHECK OUT
FROM THE SKY - Like Crystal In A World Of Glass (Sound Devastation) – The UK band possess a rather unfortunate name for an outfit who are so clearly influenced by Explosions In The Sky, kind of gives it away just a little. The large chunks of rather obvious Godspeed You Black Emperor are going to jump out most of all though. From The Sky are guitar-based and, without that added Godspeed orchestration, they've perfected that particular style of echoed mandolin-like epic post-rock sound. Indeed they’ve created a rather warm, slow-climaxing set of instrumentals, and they are rather good at that emotive swollen hope-filled build-up thing. There may be dozens of Godspeed/Sigur Ros/Mogwai flavoured bands around right now, From The Sky's sonic depth along with the organic warmth of their production does make them stands out though. If you're unfamiliar with Godspeed, then this mini album may well sound stunning.  What you don't hear on this five track debut album, are the things that make GSYBE (and the related A Silver Mt Zion) such a culturally, historically important band: the implied politics, the sense of onrushing apocalypse, the ongoing collapse of society, the sense of pain and grief and graft that they went through to make their ultimately life-affirming and strengthening music.  From The Sky have cherry-picked the beautiful, uplifting and soothing elements, they’ve used them to make an easy on the ear, beautiful (if not very original) album.  There are elements of 65Daysofstatic in the mix as well – in the more straightforward guitar parts and chord structures, structures that are aimed straight at the emotional guts. From The Sky put do put heart into the emotive thrust, there are plenty of hopeful positives here and these recordings are well worth exploring, a little more vision and a little less imitation is going to be required next time around though, for now, this is a hopeful positive start, we look forward to their next moves and something a little more daring  www.sounddevastation.co.uk  or  www.fromthesky.net

OZRIC TENTACLES - The Floor's Too Far Away (Magna Carta) - Describing the Ozric Tentacles as veterans may be something of an understatement, but for such a long-lived outfit they're incredibly well-preserved.  This album fizzes with energy and what can only be described as youthful freshness. Don't expect anything new, groundbreaking or very original from them, however. The Ozrics have been loosely jamming on the same theme for a quarter of a century (and that was just the one festival... aww, sorry, couldn't resist), spiralling around and gently reworking that familiar collection of riffs and grooves - and that's just fine because the Ozrics have never, ever let everyone down. They're the most unpretentious band ever, making this relaxed but awake, uplifting, straightforward driving psychedelia, pretty much inventing trance along the way.  Even when Ozric Tentacles would magically appear on anything that looked vaguely like a stage with a bunch of people near it and squat there for playing hours, days, weeks at a time, I can't recall even the most hardened mohawk ever objecting. Frankly, an English summer is just not complete without the sound of them Om-riffing through the walls of a tent, accompanied by the smell of squashed greensward and generator diesel. 
It's a warm, pleasurable, somehow satisfying sound that hangs out in the background like a easy-going friend - and every so often, comes up with the kind of variation that reminds you that there's a bit more to Ozric Tentacles than expected. The Floor's Too Far Away could easily deliver a series of standard-issue Ozrics extended jam, and everybody would be fine with that, but it's actually packed with splendid moments: the ecstatic, almost Birds Of Fire-quality guitar/bass interplay at the end of Disdots; drumming in Armchair Journey and the elegant multicultural 7/8 lope of Vedavox. The whole album - long tracks n'all - just cruises by, gently changing its colours, never too sweet or entirely obvious, dropping little delights.  It's all very odd, actually - most bands who hang about this long have either lost the plot, sold out, fossilised into robotic fanbase-pleasers or turned into ripe cheese (those of the progressive persuasion are particularly prone to the latter).  Ozrics, confusingly, seem to have incorporated new technology without losing their warmth, have gone even funkier without embarrassment, and manage to still sound like Gong, Steve Hillage, Tangerine Dream and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, whilst casually incorporating elements from the entire dance/rave culture (they helped spawn in the first place). Is that possible?  After listening to a zillion hardcore/post rock/avant whatever albums, it is kind of nostalgic - but not as much as it should be.  Hell, it's just... brilliant playing with an easy, innocent attitude, driven by musicians still imaginative and as enthusiastic as kids. No wonder they're underground-huge in the States.
Playful, good-natured and surprisingly timeless, you can take The Floor's Too Far Away anywhere. Ozric Tentacles on top form. What's not to love?  www.magnacarta.net
 

RADIO MOSCOW – Radio Moscow (Alive) - An old school Sixties/Seventies sounding Psychedelic blues band from Ames, Iowa (and not the 80’s band that formed out the wreckage of the original Diamond Head spilt). They have that fuzzed out acid garage sound, they have the sound spot on, making all the moves in the right places, they certainly know their thing (and they’ve got the guy out of the Black Keys in the production seat). I don’t know, lacking that little something, that spark of authentic soul, they sound like they recreating something without quite having the magic or an edge of their own. Radio Moscow are like watching a really good tribute band, spot on authentic sound and everything but... www.alivenergy.com

THE BLOODY HOLLIES – Who To Trust, Who To Kill, Who To Love (Alive) – Now The Bloody Hollies on the other hand don’t sound like they’re aping a style or sound, they take on board the 60’s garage psych and use that base to propel themselves aggressively in to the middle of next week. Raw and riffed up to the max, wired as hell, rusty finger cutting edges on those wires, this is good.   www.alivenergy.com

BELOW THE SEA – Blame It On The Past (Where Are my Records) Just nice relaxed unassuming post-rockish soothing left-field instrumentals, all very easy and tingly and refreshing and just nice and warm, warm and refreshing organic. Clarinets and handclaps, violins and quiet recorders and pianos and gentle guitars and timbales and just right. www.belowthesea.ca or www.wherearemyrecords.com

MONTANA – Starsign: Tarantula (Lojinx) – From Sydney Australia with some breezy head shaking happy breezy breezy breezy lightweight uplifting mellow mellow sunny indie pop, if you’re curious then you can find out more over at www.montana-music.com or www.lojinx.com
 

Last week's album of the week - FUCKED UP Previous album's of the week INTRONAUT / MICROWAVES / RONDELLUS / 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

ALSO CHECK OUT

FUTURE OF THE LEFT – Fingers Become Thumbs (Too Pure) - Some guerilla press dead rednecks on the run from the Welsh wreckage of Jarcrew and McClusky (and with a little help along the way from the rather excellent Truckers Of Husk). Loaded up with sharp-edged jagged new wave slashing and violence should solve anything and jerky and pointy and moody and brooding blisteringly relentless in a painless kind of way. Frantic and lurching and angular and gooooood and aggressively intense and a fine start and you know the lord hates a coward and put it all in a box, refrigerate, regenerate and more good things leaving the capital. www.myspace.com/futureoftheleft

TRIPPED & FALLING – Ashes And Ember (JX Recordings) – Yet another one of those My Chemical Romance/Lost Prophets type bands who like to obey all the rules and never ever dare to break any of them, that melodic indie/emo thing once more and yet again with one of those punchable whiny singers. They could be from anywhere in the world, they happen to be from Trinidad And Tobago, I don’t know why bands are happy to just ape the sound like their record collections and whatever the current fashion is but they, they’re pretty competent and professional and you My Chemical Romance fans will like them and here’s the link and blah blah blah - www.trippedandfalling.com

Last week's single of the week - THE SCHLA LA LAS

Previously - THOMAS TANTRUM / DUSTIN’S BAR MITZVAH / SUPERSUCKERS /GIANT PAW / CHROME HOOF/ FRANK TURNER / ESKIMO DISCO / THE RACE / OCTOBER FILE / MOISTBOYZ / THE LOVES / THE EDUCATION / JESUS LICKS / EINSTELLUNG / SPIDERBABY / 

PAST ISSUES -

ORGAN 188 - MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI, FUCKED UP, THE SCHA LA LAS, THE PRISCILLAS, LEISUR HIVE, ENNIO MORRICONE, ANTHRAX, KUTOSIS, FADE TO SEPIA, IRVING, COAXIAL, BRUTAL TRUTH, WINTERS

ORGAN 187 - 

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...

ORGAN 183 - O

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

ORGAN 181 - O

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

ORGAN 179

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 

ORGAN 175 -

ORGAN 174 - 

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

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....

ORGAN 169

ORGAN 168

ORGAN 167

ORGAN 166 - 

ORGAN 165 - THE FLESH HAPPENING, MOTORHEAD, RUSSIAN CIRCLES ,TERROR, THE HUCKSTERS, TANGAROA, SHARP END FIRST, TOUCHSTONE, And just who is MOIST PAULA?

ORGAN 164 -

ORGAN 163 -

ORGAN 162 -

ORGAN 161 -

ORGAN 160 - 

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 

ORGAN 158 -

ORGAN 157 -

ORGAN 156 -

ORGAN 155 - 

ORGAN 154 - 

ORGAN 153 - 

ORGAN 152 - 

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. 

all the past has been deleted (for now)