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#193 > FEB 1st 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon |
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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. |
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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
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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
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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
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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 |
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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
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STEAL GANDHI /
ALL
DARK MORNINGS / SHADY BARD / SHILOE
/ THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE / BATTLEWITCH
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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
ALSO
CHECK OUT
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
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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
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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
ALSO
CHECK OUT
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
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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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