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ORGAN #193 > FEB 1st 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon
What shall we put here this week? 
COWELL: MUSIC'S A JOB, NOT A PASSION: According to the Sun (I found a copy on the 18 bus this morning, honest guv, we would never dream of buying the thing, it’s The Mirror every time), Simon Cowell has said he rarely listens to music for pleasure, a fact that doesn’t doesn't surprise us one tiny little bit. The grubby tabloid tells us that Cowell says he goes "weeks and weeks without listening to music for pleasure", adding: "If you work at a fish and chip shop, it's unlikely you're going to eat fish and chips at night. The idea of sitting in an audition room for 14 hours then putting on my iPod - it's like, 'No! I can't do it!'" And that, sadly, is what we observe time and time again from the people we encounter at big record labels, booking agencies, mainstream press people, people who we’ve shared time and space with over the life span of all things Organ  – these people are in love the music business game and the power trips, they may as well be playing stocks and shares – it’s all about the ego of the sales figures and the chart position and look who we got on the playlist or the front cover or signed before the other person did.  The same people who were once in passionately struggling bands or writing committed zines that dripped with enthusiasm or thrillingly running labels out of their bedrooms, all of them sucked in and the passion drained out of them, at least Mr Cowell is honest and open about it. 

This week we’ve reproduced a lot of what those good people over at the ever informative SchNews have to say, the reasons should be obvious, welcome back SchNews, you had us worried there for a couple of weeks... 

This week is for the impressively big man who who came over every day covered in factory grime and taught us to eat a whole grapefruit everyday like it was just a mere orange if you want to get through the day. This thing will not blow over, contact and switch the other, we’ve done with undercover. Thanks Alfiehead. 

IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME?
...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD are going on tour. Here are the trail of dates. 12 March Birmingham Academy, 13 Mar: Dublin TBMC, 14 Mar: Glasgow Oran Mor, 15 Mar: Manchester Academy, 17 Mar: Leeds Cockpit, 18 Mar: Bristol  Mar:ekla Social, 19 Mar: Oxford Zodiac, 20 Mar: London Koko, 22 Mar: Brighton Concorde II, 23 Mar: Northampton Roadmender, 24 Mar: Liverpool Carling Academy, 25 Mar: Nottingham Rescue Rooms

SICK OF IT ALL are to play Manchester Music Box April 11, Newcastle Trillians 12, Stoke Underground 13, London Tufnel Park Dome 14, Southampton Nexus 15.

BENEFIT GIG IN MEMORY OF WIZ - A special benefit gig will take place at the Islington Academy (London)  on 4 March in memory of the late Mega City Four frontman Darren 'Wiz' Brown who, as previously reported, died suddenly last month after suffering from a blood clot on the brain. The gig will feature Andy Cairns (Therapy?), Carter USM, Mark Keds (Senseless Things), Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Midway Still and Reuben. The evening will be fittingly compered by Steve Lamacq. Tickets are twenty quid, and all profits from the gig will go to the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice and The International Fund For Animal Welfare. It should be a great night, and a fitting tribute to and celebration of Wiz, so well worth checking out. Info and booking stuff at www.ticketweb.co.uk

New Zealand 6 piece THE RUBY SUNS are coming over to the UK to play a batch of dates supporting label mates Field Music and The Holloways. The tour is in support of their debut album. The album came out  January 29th and has had critics rather excited – including us here at Organ where we featured it as album of the week back there. Expect instrument swapping, pitch perfect harmonies and generally good vibrations at the following dates... Feb 23 - ICA London w/ Field Music, Feb 25 - Whelan's Dublin w/ Field MusicPatrick, Feb 26 - Cockpit Leeds w/ Field Music, Feb 27 -Glee Club Birmingham w/ Field Music, Feb 28 - Head of Steam, Newcastle, Mar 3 -Yo Yo @ The Welly Club Hull, Mar 4 - Fez Reading , Mar 5 - The Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth, Mar 6 - 53 Degrees Preston, Mar 8 - Central Station Wrexham, Mar 9 - Liquid Lancaster, Mar 10 - Leadmill Sheffield . For more on the band go to www.myspace.com/ryanmcphunandtherubysuns
 

THINGS TO GET SHOUTING  ABOUT? 
Where have the Schnews team been in 2007? We were getting a little worried (we still miss those FIN Cells and cups of tea at 99 Torriano Avenue while strange men in black cars watched who came in and out), they’re back, here, the (sch)news... 

A PAUSE FOR THOUGHT AS SchNEWS MAKES THE FIRST MOVE...

"Welcome back for 2007 as SchNEWS enters its thirteen year of producing this 'ere news sheet you hold in your hand. The new year has brought a significant change for us - leading to a longer Xmas break than usual. We've quit the Metway, the Leveller's building, and moved into the Brighton's autonomous social centre, the Cowley Club. Thanks must go to the Levellers, who back in 1994 gave Justice? (Brighton's anti-Criminal Justice Act collective) an office to base their myriad of activities - from direct action to community squats to a certain weekly newsletter. The band probably thought the raggle-taggle Justice? crew wouldn't need the office for very long - and indeed Justice? ran its natural course after several years - but they ended up giving the office to us for free for eight years, providing a solid base for SchNEWS to go on to produce nearly 600 issues in our twelve years there.

What took us away from the Metway was the opportunity to be at Brighton's social centre, and closer to the hub of libertarian activity here. The Cowley Club was opened as a co-op in 2003, and likewise has its roots in the local direct action milieu, and the string of squatted street-front cafes often under the 'Anarchist Teapot' banner. The Cowley Club is a cafe/bookshop by day, a pub and gig venue at night, and is the centre of a whirl of countless groups, meetings, screenings, open days, jumble sales and gatherings.

Just as SchNEWS is run entirely by an unpaid (and unemployable) crew, all roles at the Cowley Club, from cooking, cleaning, bar and admin are undertaken by volunteers. Both projects show what people can do when they cooperate, and put the building of a better community - and a sustainable world - as a higher priority than doing the sort of jobs which only reward you with new cars and flat-screen TVs.

www.schnews.org.uk
 
John on the phone......
Crap Arrest Of The Week

For Taking The Biscuit...

The crunch came during a mid-December's night party in Cornwall for one bunch of SchNEWS reading punks when the drummer in a local hardcore band was arrested for throwing chocolate digestive biscuits at the outside of the bar he'd just gigged in. His mate was then arrested, beaten, CS sprayed, cuffed and locked in isolation for asking why he was being arrested, whilst another was nicked for trying to film it and calling the police "F*ckers" when he couldn't. Police overreaction perhaps? Crumbs.

BLING STING - Anti-road campaigners in Southend, Essex, stormed into their Council's recent self-congratulatory shindig and declared the cancellation of the road-widening scheme that will tarmac over an Anglo-Saxon burial site at Camp Bling (See SchNEWS 514). Despite this plan, Southend Borough Council had managed to win the British Archaeological awards last year for the discovery of the very same Saxon King's burial ground that they are about to build a road over!

When council bureaucrats (with no apparent sense of irony) accepted the award, they were lambasted by a faking-it 'Mayor', local campaigner John Smith who took to the stage and apologised on behalf of the Council for their intention to destroy the burial site, promised to return the award, and then dramatically announced the immediate cancellation of the scheme! Masquerading as an alternative Mayor, he admitted he had 'finally listened to and taken note of the majority of people in Southend who have been shown repeatedly to oppose it.' Chaotic scenes ensued.

A recent review of the cost of the scheme makes it the most expensive stretch of road ever, at 25 million quid for under a mile of carriageway. A nice not-so-little earner for someone.

Meanwhile, the happy campers at Camp Bling protest site continue to keep a watchful eye over the place. 16 months in the making, the camp now boasts the deepest ever tunnel in the history of the anti-roads movement. Numbers at the camp have grown as a decision on the funding for the road is soon to be given. See www.savepriorypark.org
 

Jeeeeeeeeez, we just caught the video for GIRLS ALOUD vs SUGARBABES version of  Walk This Way, it was kind of like the same morbid curiosity that draws you to a car crash. Oh dear, we may need therapy... the GET CAPE, WEAR CAPE video was waiting for attention, but hey, that’s just one whinny voiced emo car crash too many, that's two videos you won't be catching on ORGAN TV!

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 
 


ORGAN TV - WEDNESDAY 31ST  JAN -10.30pm on OPEN ACCESS 2 via SKY 173 so you probably missed it, but but but you still have time to catch the repeat that's repeated on OPEN ACCESS 1 via SKY 883 on Sunday 4th Feb at 11.30pm 

THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS.... 

1: READ YELLOW - The Association 
2: HELMET - Monochrome 
3: STAR SPANGLES - I Live For Speed 
4: CIRCLESOUND - Can't Blame Me 
5: MC LARS - Ahab
6: ZERO CIPHER - The Thrills The Kills The Rapture 
7: YIP YIP - Candy Dinner 
8: DRESDEN DOLLS - Backstabber 
9: VIKING MOSES - Little Emma's Smile 

NEXT WEEK expect THE TRUDY, TIME.SPACE.REPEAT and more...

Now that's what I call music TV. 

Want to get your video on? Well all you need to do is make us aware of what you have, send
us a link to your video on MySpace or You Tube or wherever, or a VHS or a DVD and if you have something that we want to broadcast then we'll chase you for a master broadcast format and wallop, sorted 

DEMO TIME
Like 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
STRAY BORDERS – Deletive Expleted – Just nice, nice breezy refreshing, clever, uncluttered, simple, uplifting. Stray Borders are from Cardiff, they’re warm and refined, they’re mostly instrumental and when they do bring in the vocals they’re refined and unobtrusive and balanced just right. Stray Borders are a well balance band, I guess you could say they do indeed stray that border between delicate guitar indieness and slightly (very slightly) raw understated post-rock. Ah look we have to mention GodspeedYBE again (not so obvious as most of the others though) and Slint and they’re dipping in to the same waters as the rather fine Truckers Of Husk and Leave The Capital – there’s something happening in those Cardiff waters, it’s almost weekly now – FTS100, those Mayors Of Miyazaki... Stray Borders caress, where have they been, where’d they hide? The sparseness of the vocals add, when they do come in they have a real emotional impact. Three fine progressive tracks, with the eight minutes of “In Case of Emergency Break Glass” just about winning out (close thing though, all three tracks are rather fine). Nice artwork as well, fine hand made block print cover - a band who clearly care -  www.myspace.com/strayborders
 

Last week's demo of the week - FOUR LETTER FRIEND

Previous demo's of the week - ALSATIAN / THE VIPERS / LILY GREEN / THE VELCROS / MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI / 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

'NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK……
ALBUM OF THE WEEK

 APSE -  Spirit (Acurela) - Subtle, elegant and gorgeous, greater than the sum of its parts: a reviewers' nightmare.  This huge, world-sized album is so easy on the ear, yet so rich; simple in structure, yet dense with organic detail. Apse are a US collective - based around New York and Boston - who have been developing out of a post-rock kind of direction over the last few years.  Whatever they were up to before, Spirit must be a fresh slate, a year zero.  Strangely reminiscent of all kinds of neglected sounds, mixed into new formulae, it blows away the endless parade of GSYBE/Sigur Ros plagarists and reminds these exhausted ears that the fun has only just begun.  It does those good things like take long journeys, build big spaces, pull and soar, but these are fresh and strange and glowing with an immediate, honest sound.  The sound is scattered with suprising references, all making sense - a slow building, dubby Killing Joke, that eighties invisible-underground sound, Earth Covers Us hinting at both Gong and The Cure and thus coming out like Webcore, the Ullulators and the O'Roonies (wonder if anyone reading remembers them!). Then there's the almost Cardiacs/Sea Nymphs-like melodies of opening track From The North. If Spiritualised had had any imagination or melodic genius, they might have approached the tribal psychedelia of The Crowned... Sonic Youth come closer, so did parts of the music for Gadaffi - The Opera.  The closest thing out there may well be (shamefully obscure) Austin band Gorch Fock (I was convinced it was them at first) but If Apse can be compared to any contemporary, it must be the current incarnation of the Liars - the sound is warmer, less peculiar than Liar's 2006 groundbreaker Drum's Not Dead, but Spirit shares the feel of something grown from intensely evolving percussion and sonic workouts.  Both have a sense of newness born of concentrated, iterated playing and sculpting and playing: drums, and the most atavistic, dna-deep rhythms first, built up from the guts and laid with exotic, unsettling melody.  Both, like landscapes and living things, are simple from a distance, but zoom in and no two moments are alike.  In the end, it's about feel, about putting something undefinable, something magical and personal into the creation. 
Apse have achieved something with this album that many musicians and bands have aimed for, but not quite reached.  Spirit has so much going on inside it, try to give any of it a name - alien blues, classical psychedelia, ambient gothic - and you diminish the thing.  It's simply one of the finest albums to come our way these twelve months, and certainly the most sweetly elusive. www.acuareladiscos.com
 

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THE PAYBACKS – Love, Not Reason (Savage Jams) – Sometimes you only need the open twenty seconds to know you’re going to love an album, Not heard The Paychecks before, seems they’re from Detroit, and boy don’t they sound like they are! They have the Motorcity in their soul, they have the Cat Scratch Fever, they have it all.  Mostly The Paybacks are drenched in classy hard rock edged old school garage blues, their sound is laced with proper attitude and they taste of The Faces. The Paybacks  have the primal scream of The Stones, they’re not afraid of an extended Zeppelin monster riff or five, they don’t get too self indulgent though, they have it balanced just right.  The whole thing just sounds so right and so naturally honest – nothing forced or manufactured, nothing put together by design, this is just naturally right, naturally happening like they were always meant to be. Eleven fine tracks, they really are Faces cool, Primal Scream cool - they’re right up there with The Black Velvets, the much missed Young Heart Attack and cool suss of The Vacation (where are The Vacation?). And drenched in that raw whisky-sweet blisteringly dirty early days Rod Stewart vocal sound – a proper hard rock band and every bit as good as the first twenty seconds told us it would be. Highly recommended – www.thepaybacks.com

BLOC  PARTY – A Weekend In The City (Wichita)  Second album and the living noise of a metropolis or something like that. Songs about life in a/the big city (and the starfish splat from the 99th floor of a suicide machine?). Doesn’t really sound like the city I live in (well maybe the gentrified pubs and the...) guess I’m not visiting for just a weekend and we all have our own encounters and our own slant on things, it is a big big city and we don’t need me stating the obvious. Bloc Party seem to be having a lot of encounters with vampires. So what have we got here then? a one album hype or a band capable of moving forward and leaving a musical legacy? East London is a vampire, it sucks what?  Bloc Party have certainly made an interesting album, a brave album, an unobvious potentially lasting album - they haven’t really grabbed me before, didn’t really care either way, didn’t think they were that important, another mainstream hype that were at best alright. They’re starting to win me over a little now (maybe?). Not sure what kind of person actually knows the times of the trains on the Northern Line and some of those lyrics don’t really stand up to too much close examination, is this a little Duran Duran sounding around the edges? You know, The Chauffeur and things that briefly seemed clever for a moment back there. Some of it really does hit the spot, (I was Walking in the Park, whooops). Kreuzberg and I Still Remember are triumphant shouts over playgrounds and roof tops and just as you’re thinking yes, you catch the details of another lyric you wish you hadn’t. And (whisper it) more bits of Misplaced Childhood and euphoric guitars and concept albums and endless summers and lavenders blue dilly dilly. Yeap, there’s no denying it, Bloc Party are the new Marillion.  I think I rather like it. www.blocparty.com

NIGHTRAGE – A New Disease Is Born (Lifeforce) New disease? Same as the old disease – histrionic bombastic battle/death metal From the Greek band who somehow mutated to Sweden. A million over the top riffs crammed in to every track, along with the generic screaming growling vocals, and who knows what, all shoehorned in to each relentless over-crowded track. Nightrage are powerful and they sure can play but hey, just how many unadventurous heard it all a million times before metal cliches do we need in a day? Frustrating thing is, the last of the twelve tracks, a rather refined and inspiring three minute instrumental suggests that if they had a little more spine then they could be an interesting challenging groundbreaking rewarding band rather than the rule obeying safe option they seem content to be right now. If you like your battle/death metal without any real musical risks then this is one for you, they do their thing rather well, now get it our of here - www.lifeforcerecords.com
 
Last week's album of the week - HOLLY THROSBY / MINSK

Previous album's of the week BLACK ELK / NUM 9 / SHORT SHARP SHOCK / DEATHSKULLS / FUCKED UP / 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

terrorists!! mice!! prostitutes!!
And more from SchNews...

ONE FOOT IN THE RAVE?

Alternative media and the co-op movement in Britain are just pieces in a larger jigsaw of creating a sustainable and egalitarian future - in the here and now - and not waiting for a utopian revolution which isn't gonna happen. Both show that these types of project can, and in fact must be, embedded in the community on a long term, cross-generational and multi-racial basis - proving that anarchism is for life, not just for yer two post-degree year's dole-drums. This movement is inhabited - and inhibited at times - by some hard cases here for the long haul.

The Cowley Club is one of a network of autonomous social centres across Britain - and beyond - some of which arose in a wave since 2005, building up to the G8 Summit in Scotland, while others arose from previous movements, such as Bradford's 1 in 12 Club, which was started in 1981, or Kebele in Bristol which started in the mid-nineties. These 'legit' social centres rise out of the squatter movement as veterans seek to break the eviction cycle. Either way - whether a centre is part of the new wave, or part of previous movements, or totally separate from these circles, these centres are all about creating community spaces away from commercialisation and prejudice - a place where you can nurse a cup of rooibosch tea all afternoon, and where activities cultural and political can happen. For a list of autonomous social centres in Britain see over the page.

CAUGHT IN THE NET

Likewise SchNEWS is part of a network of alternative media, which has the same goals of creating an autonomous media free from commercial forces. Obviously these days the network of regional Indymedia websites is at the heart of it all, but on top of this there's a plethora of regional or campaign specific websites, publications, independent video crews and more.

The work of video crews like Glasgow's Camcorder Guerillas (or SchMOVIES) feeds into free online distribution points like ClearerChannel, while at the grass roots level we find that there is still a healthy amount of highly localised free newsletters around the country such as Gagged in South Wales, or Gay Bishop in Reading, or Brighton's virtually fact free Rough Music - proving that the web can't reach the places a piece of paper still can. Again, this is no new phenomena - it serves a need which has always been there - and what we have now carries on from the FIN's (Free Information Network) zines produced on a regional basis which were a popular format in the years between the anarch-punk zines of the eighties, and now the web.

Which brings us to the next point... SchNEWS has survived by growing with the political networks it is part of - and the technologies (it was around before mainstream use of the web). It has (tried to) stay relevant by keeping involved in these movements, and has always been open to feedback and participation by anybody. The move to the Cowley Club over the new year, leading to the longest break SchNEWS has ever taken has plunged us into a bout of navel-gazing.

Whereas our video collective - SchMOVIES - is new, evolving and going from strength to strength (there is a new DVD out this month), the newsletter and the website are formats which settled into place years ago. The fact that it's survived is partly because it's been a popular format, and partly because it's been a sustainable format on a weekly basis for the size of the crew. But the media world has caught up with SchNEWS - subjects we banged on about for years like globalisation, privatisation, climate change, corporate crime, and the environment are now common place not only in the Guardian and the Indy but the Daily Mail, BBC, and Woman's Weekly. Is SchNEWS now flogging a dead hobby horse?

What's missing from the mainstream is news of grass-roots resistance. People all over the world actually struggling to make a change rather than waiting for politicians to do it for 'em - and especially here in the UK, where there is a chance for you, personally, to get involved and do something about it. If you've been a regular reader of SchNEWS, or if you've only just picked one up, how about sending us your feedback? (Don't worry, we haven't quite got key demographic focus groups in mind). E-mail us and release the bees in your bonnet, or go one step further and get involved, particularly if you're in Brighton. And wherever you are, please continue to send your stories into us, and if SchNEWS isn't the right thing for your town, start your own newsletter, or see what's in your area. And if the food in your social centre isn't quite to your taste, well don't just moan, get involved with the kitchen crew!

In fact this extends to everything:- if what you see around you is beyond the pale don't just sit in a pub moaning about it, get off your arse and do something about it. If not you, who? If not now, when? Do-it-yourself. That's the one constant thing we have been banging on about for 12 years and, whatever else, will continue to do so.

www.schnews.org.uk
 

SINGLES
SINGLE OF THE WEEK

THE FLESH HAPPENING – Kamikaze/Waste (Tamworth) – The debut seven incher is in our hands at long last and.., oh... well,oh..... Look, we told you about The Flesh Happening lots and lots, we’ve celebrated them, we’ve played their invigorating demos on the radio  (we’ve soiled our hands lost in the stuck together pages of frontman Oliva Spleen’s rather fine and filthy book), They’re a frantic wired screaming joy of a four piece from Brighton, their demos have been wonderful, inspiring. Wired up balls of frantic punk energy and filthy mindf**king rides of delight. Like the finest moments of The Buzzcocks only not faking those orgasm addictions, the first Vaseline hazed daze of those You Love Us Manics, brilliant brilliant demos – but oh... Shoot the producer, this is a classic example of a band with raw wired brilliant beautiful demo getting in to a studio to do it ‘properly’ and oh dear, the energy has been drained and the seven incher has gone a little soft in our hands, Kamikaze is a shadow of its former self, still good, still best single we’ve heard this week but... Waste is carried by the sordid filth glory of the lyrics. Still good, and they are a brilliant band but shoot the damn producer, he/she sucked half the energy out without letting it cum... Go and explore this band, we dare you, but don’t judge them on the strength of this even though we make single of the week by a mile  – www.thefleshhappening.com  / www.myspace.com/thefleshhappening 

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ENTER SHIKARI – Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Four (Ambush Reality) - Throw absobloodylutely every single thing in to the pot why the hell don’t you? More of that irritating emo-brat vocal style that we/you’ve heard far far too many times now, and oh no, more of those tiresome gutteral screamo cliches that already way pass the sell by date and do nothing but drag Enter Shikari’s ambition down. Nice keyboard adventures though, adventures that fall somewhere between goth-metal, a euphoric rave-rush from around 1995 and some kind of prog/pomp rock thing – blatant use of ‘borrowed’ 70’s Genesis note for note keyboard riffs and the threat of some kind of emo/screamo Lamb Lies Down On Broadway for My Chemical Romance/Muse fans, almost good – almost, if they has the guts to ditch the tedious vocal cliches we might be a little more excited. Still, worth a passing mention. Released March 5th – www.entershikari.com

THE RACE – Comfort Comfort (Shifty Disco) – We’ve had a lot of good things to say about the Race and their previous output, they seem a little more frantic and a little more ordinary this time around though. Kind of sound like a lot of those rinky dinky bands that are clogging up daytime alternative radio and inkie space this month. I hope they haven’t been listening toooooo things like Young Knives and Little Man Tate too much. I don’t know, if this was my first encounter I’d be wondering what all the fuss was about. The Race are good but this latest single won’t really tell you why - www.theraceuk.com

Last week's single of the week - GIRL SCOUT HAND GRENADE

Previously - ZERO / BEATNIK FILMSTARS / DAN LA SAC vs SCROOBUIS PIP / FEAR OF MUSIC / THE RUBY SUNS / THE SCHLA LA LAS / 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

PLAYLISTS, TOP TENS, THINGS LIKE THAT
SEAN ORGAN  - TOP 10 PLAYLIST THING

1: THE SMEARS – Bring It On
2: THE BLACK VELVETS – Once In A While 
3: GIRL SCOUT HAND GRENADE – They Want You Sedated
4: THE BLACK VELVETS - Get On Your Life
5: BLOC PARTY – I Still Remember
6: TIME.SPACE.REPEAT – Joy
7: DARK CAPTAIN LIGHT CAPTAIN – They Be Underwater
8: LEAVE THE CAPITAL – You Can’t Kill An Idea
9: ONSLAUGHT – Killing Peace
10: SHINING  - Grindstone
 
 
ophelia torah
 

Hello and good day I’m one of two Emma djing extraordinaires from Unhappy Birthday Club a la Nambucca 

Here lies mon top ten tunes of the moment. 

1. Rosemary - If I Had My Way 
2. The Mules - Tule Lake 
3. Beck - Cellphones Dead 
4. Whitey - I Made Myself Invisible 
5. Hot Club de Paris - Shipwrecked 
6. Good Shoes - All In My Head 
7. Architecture In Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind 
8. Tilly And The Wall - Nights Of The Living Dead 
9. Adam Green - Cupid 
10. The Knife - Like A Pen 

DARK CAPTAIN LIGHT CAPTAIN are a beautifully delicate and deliciously fragile thing of quiet breathless breathy restrained delicate delicate beauty, they play Barden’s Boudoir in Stoke Newington (London) on Feb 22nd and they really are magical, go click on the link and swim in their sound.

Current Top 10 tracks from Dan (Dark Captain Light Captain)... 

1. Alexander Tucker - Patron Saint Of Troubled Men 
2. Can - Vitamin C 
3. John Martyn - May You Never 
4. Ensemble - Disown, Delete 
5. Jess Bryant - Belladonna 
6. Robert Wyatt - Gharbzadegi 
7. Fela Kuti - Water Get No Enemy 
8. Liars - Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris 
9. Milenasong - Standby 
10. Pavement - Trigger Cut 

Thanks 

Dan (DCLC)
 
 
 

 

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Open message to you bands, labels and anyone else with a blog or a My Space page or a webzine or who are generally out there getting involved in a positive way and spreading the word about fine music and creativity and underground/alternative art that go bump in the night. This is how it works around here; we’re perfectly happy for you to cut and paste our reviews and put them on your band/label pages or where ever you want, please please do go spread the word, that’s what this is about – the spreading of information. We encourage you to do it (unless you’re involved in something that’s a little unsavoury like one bunch of nasty little right wing scumbags we had a run in with a few weeks ago), There’s no ego here, we’re not going to come chasing you about copyright and all that crap. All we ask you to do is credit the material and add links to our pages with anything you want to use. Please feel free to use our words to spread the word, it’s how it works – word word word it’s basic netiquette, it’s weblove and only a massive ego-inflated no-mark would think any other way. Use our words, we take it as a massive compliment – please do add the link though, please tell people where you got it from and cut 'n paste away (like many others have already done), the more people who read about these bands and things the better don’t yer think? It’s the underground way. 

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