Current Free Newsheets

Gagged - South Wales Anarchist Newsletter PO Box 70, Newport NP20 5XX. Issue 15 is out now - download a pdf here http://lists.riseup.net/www/d_read/gagged/gagged15.pdf

Gay Bishop - Reading readinggaybishop@yahoo.co.uk or write to Gay Bishop, c/o RISC, 35-39 London Street, Reading, RG1 3JE.

Porkbolter - Worthing - www.eco-action.org/porkbolter

Rough Music - Roughin' it up on the streets of Brighton - www.roughmusic.org.uk

Forthcoming...

Voices of Resistance from Occupied London - a new "anarchist bulletin of news, theory and action from the British capital after the empire". The first issue will be out early/mid-March - on time for the global day of action for Iraq on March 19. Looking for contributors now – deadline March 1st 

Video
ClearerChannel - is an online resource with lots of local and international independently made videos to download for free see www.clearerchannel.org

Indymedia Video - For a list of groups active in the UK see www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/video.html

CultureShop - online retailer of hard to find political films UK and international. See www.cultureshop.org
 

SchNEWS is calling out for interest/involvement in an Alternative Media Conference in Brighton in early May this year, which will be held over a weekend at the Cowley Club. This will cover video, web and print media and will be partly workshops for those newly involved, and also open discussions about all aspects of the media activist malarkey. Some accommodation will be sorted, and help is needed to set this up. Email SchNews if you are interested in helping or coming. Watch out for updates... - www.schnews.org.uk
 

John on the phone......

DINOSAUR JR - NEW ALBUM DETAILS -  The long awaited new album from the original line-up of J. Mascis, Lou Barlow & Murph - collectively Dinosaur Jr - entitled “Beyond” is set for release by P.I.A.S on April 30th 2007.  Beyond will be the first studio release from them in 18 years.  After recording three albums, “Dinosaur”, “Bug” and  “You’re Living All Over Me” Dinosaur Jr. single-handedly moved the indie scene from the rigid ideology and rapid fire bursts of hardcore and post-punk into a new era of introspective yet no less powerful expression.  After the release of “Bug” the original trio implode.  Fast forward to 2005:  a tentative reunion was undertaken to support the re-issues, a TV show here, a club appearance and some Japanese dates there.   In the 16 years since the band had toured a lot had changed.  The mix of influences and the sheer volume of the music were no longer a semiotic problem for fans, the band members had grown up and become stronger songwriters. The band curated their own day at All Tomorrow’s Parties in May 06, and then appeared again at the Thurston Moore curated event in December, where they had to play two sets to accommodate the number of people that wanted to see them.   “It was almost like they’d been reborn as a hardcore band” said Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth).  The success of the live shows prompted the band to go into J Mascis’s Bisquiteen Studios to write and record a new album and “Beyond” is the result.   “Beyond” is a monster of form (so says this press release that just came in). From the staggeringly paced guitar spew that opens “Almost Ready” To classic soft/throb dynamism of “What If I Knew”, it is an exquisite slab of pure Dinosaur Jr.  It’s hard to understand the alchemical relationships that exist within certain bands. Some groups can change line-ups without anyone noticing.  But that was never the case with Dinosaur Jr.  The pieces that fell away over the years were missed. But now they have all been collected together in one place.  For how long no one can say. So just dig it while it is. The full tracklisting for the album is:  Almost Ready/Crumble/Pick Me Up/Back To Your Heart/This Is All I Came To Do/Been There All The Time/It?s Me/We?re Not Alone/I Got Lost/Lightning Bulb?/What If I Knew. For more info check out www.dinosaurjr.com or www.myspace.com/dinosaurjr

Sheffield's jazz-synth-noise merchants Rolo Tomassi are heading off for a slew of UK dates over the next couple of months before settling down  to study hard for their A-Levels. Old friends I Was A Cubscout (XL Recordings) have personally asked them along to support at a couple of dates as part of their own UK tour. Other dates include shows with London casio-grind kings Trencher, Cutting Pink With Knives and WhoresWhoresWhores. The band are also performing at a free afternoon show in London with Down I Go  Rolo Tomassi's untitled EP is available now on Holy Roar Records – you no doubt heard it being featured lots of the ORGAN OTHER ROCK SHOW on Resonance 104.4FM Catch the band at the following dates: Feb 10  Roundabout High Wycombe UK (with Score One For Safety) Feb 11  Camden Barfly London UK (with Trencher, Cutting Pink With Knives) Feb 15  Port Mahon Oxford UK Feb 16  The Core Club Brighton UK Feb 17   Notting Hill Arts Centre London UK (free afternoon show) Feb 23   The Town Mill Mansfield UK (with Whoresx3) Feb 24   Sunflower Lounge Birmingham UK (with Trencher) Mar 16   The Vine Newark UK Mar 23  The Old Blue Last London UK (Toy Pirate night) Mar 31  The Bivouac Lincoln UK (with I Was a Cub Scout) Apr 1    The Town Mill Mansfield UK (with I Was a Cub Scout) Apr 7    The Cricketers Sheffield UK (with Whoresx3) Apr 13   The Planet Wolverhampton UK Apr 22   The Counting House Pontefract UK (All dayer) Apr 28   333 Old St London UK (Howl night) www.holyroarrecords.com www.myspace.com/holyroarrecords

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 
 

THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS.... 

THE LOW LOWS - Dear Flies Love Spiders 
65 DAYS OF STATIC - Drove Through Ghosts To Get There 
CULT OF LUNA - Back To Chapel Town 
ZABRINSKI - Exectutive Decision 
LIARS - It Fit When I Was A Kid 
THE TELESCOPES - Flying 
DUREFORSOG - Living In Vain 

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 OF THE WEEK
Well now, we listened to lots and nothing grabbbbbbed us enough to be demo of the week this cold snowy week

Last week's demo of the week - STRAY BORDERS

Previous demo's of the week - FOUR LETTER FRIEND / 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

Camden is more like a different planet than just a different place on a Friday night like this, tonight the Barfly came to life, the usually cold and soulless pit actually has a buzz of warmth, an actual atmosphere - people are out and ready to kick the weekend off, people are seriously up for this gig. Three bands all with something going for them right now and there’s a more than healthy expectant crowd in checking out the vibrant openers. 

FARRAH are a well formed rather classy four piece, rewarding pop sensibilities, clever powerpop harmonies, positively breezy radio friendly Weezer flavours, Beach Boys harmonies, a touch of Supergrass growing around the edges of their infectious up-beat energetic sugary sparkle. A rather good start to the evening’s events, Farrah impress, they’re clearly moving on in a positive way. 

LEAVE THE CAPITAL are on in the middle and you know well we have their debut single out on our label ORG this very week. you’re pretty much expecting us to tell you they’re the wonderful next coming of everything you ever wanted aren’t you. Well they were rather splendid tonight and the Cardiff five piece are rather special. Last time they came to London things were a little out of focus, it was back in December and they played to a rather less than full Barfly on a cold wet Tuesday night - this time around there a whole new pace and a new found confidence - not a swagger, they’re not a cocky band, it isn’t about attitude with Leave The Capital, more about crafted class and refined restrained understated warmth. There’s a quite a crowd in here in time for their set and there’s clearly a lot of people wanting to find out what’s going on, word is out now, Leave The Capital are band to check out. Now look, I’m seeing a lot of lazy journalism already, even when people are being very positive about the band. Sure there is a touch of Editors and a sense of Elbow about LTC, a hint of Doves, but hey, come on, would they really have their debut release out on ORG if that was all there was to them? Elbow do nothing much for us, neither do those Editors, harmless enough, Doves have always disappointed and if that was all that Leave The Capital had to offer then you can be sure that they would not be coming to you via our label. This is the quintet’s first London show since the radio started to picked up on them, there’s a big cheer when they smoothly work in to Matchsticks (and a big queue of people wanting to buy singles off us afterwards). You see, there’s a genuine need for Leave The Capital and what they do right now – what they do is (unknowingly) take the bold expanse of the current post-rock thing and distill it in the same simple way that bands like 65Daysofstatic or Explosions In The Sky do - of course it’s very different in terms of result, but that is why Leave The Capital’s sound works so well. They take some of the best elements of post rock and focus those elements in to something beautifully accessible, they’re probably the only band out there actually bringing those elements in to the conventions of an uplifting cleverly simple song. There’s always a need for a big epic, for a warm uplifting song, for textures that aren’t obvious, for subtle dimension, for bands willing to honestly fly in the face of current industry requirements. Leave The Capital are not concerned with the current requirements or this week’s marketable style, they’re a band who’s sound is completely natural, this is what they’d be doing whatever else was going on  – Singer Ben James is full of genuine emotional, he’s subtle. Everything about Leave The Capital is done in a subtle way - nothing soppy or schmaltzy, there’s a real rare genuine emotion in there, a pure uplifting emotional whack to the side of your head, they make those other bands - the Elbows and The Doves of this world - seem rather crude and obvious and tonight in deepest Camden Leave The Capital leave us feeling rather good about everything, they really are building ships, tonight they really were special. 

And so for the main event, The BLACK VELVETS are back in town. Now those of you who have been paying attention to the big-mouthed things we say around these here fractured frantic rantic parts will know that we think The Black Velvets are a very very good thing indeed.  Beats me why they aren’t everywhere, why aren’t they all over our so-called alternative radio and packing out far bigger places that this by now? That debut album was laced with good tunes, some juicehead somewhere at the label seriously messed that release up, should have been a massive album. The Black Velvets are just about the most satisfying proper live rock band in England right now, they do it in such an obviously massive no messing suck-on-this kind of way. They clearly know how good they are as well, they have that knowing swagger, that attitude - nothing arrogant, they just know they’re good, they have everything actually – most of all they have absolutely killer songs. Songs that hotwire themselves in to your brain without ever getting anywhere near annoying you. Tonight we’re hearing a lot of healthy new material along with already classic things like Glamstar, Get On Your Life and the anthemic harmonised blues-rock brilliance of Once In A While. The Liverpool band rock through a near perfectly balanced set of old and new, the front is jumping, the floor is shaking, boots are stomping, you can’t help but air-punch when the B.Vs are around.  Look, they’re so simple, they’re so obvious, why aren’t this band playing giant football stadiums by now? The Black Velvets are so gloriously brilliantly nailed-on obvious, they’re a proper big timeless stomping (glam) rock band - cocksure working class classic rock from the North  - they’re a relentlessly healthy assault of no thrills Oasis, of anthemic Slade, they’ve got huge bits of stripped down no messing Seventies flavoured big bold Zeppelin laced with massive sing/shout/stomp-along Beatles melodies, they’re Guns N’Roses without the superstar bulshit, they’re Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Primal Scream, they’re the Stones Roses and T-Rex all at once – 3345, shaking rattling and blowing the room apart. Paul Carden is a no messing cool as F front man with just the right voice and presence to pull it all off just right, everything about them is so obviously right, some bands are just meant to be massive. A no thrill proper swaggering rock band like they don’t build anymore, they’re rocking so right tonight that I can even manage to overlook that filthy red rag of a shirt with that yellow bird crest thing that the stage invading roadie insisted on wearing – THE BLACK VELVETS JUST ROCK! SO SO OBVIOUS REALLY. 
 

BILLY NO MATES – C’monletmeseeyoupogo (Ten Past Twelve) – Now just how good is this second Billy No Mates album. Hey, we expected it to be good and we knew Duncan wouldn’t let us down, but this is goooooooood... Who’s Duncan? Duncan in a punk rock superhero, Billy No Mates is Duncan’s thing, Duncan is the singer and drummer from Snuff.  You may not know it, but without Snuff your musical landscape would look a hell of a lot different – if you do know that already then just cut to the chase, Billy No Mates have done the business and that’s all you need to know, you don’t need us to tell you, just go get it. If you don’t know, then you need to. Snuff pretty much wrote the blueprint back there when it comes to the melodic punk pop sound. Snuff have influenced a million bands, they’ve been imitated by two million more – any one of your favourite US punk/pop bands on labels like Fat Wreck will happily acknowledge Snuff as the guvnors, it is not a fact that anyone disputes.  Yeah, I know this isn’t a Snuff album, but you see it still kind of sounds like it is, it has all the hallmarks and the positive heart and class of a Snuff album, the trademarks are here and it feels like a Snuff album for all the right reasons. That Snuff sound that’s often imitated, no one ever quite gets it though – it’s the soul, there’s so much natural old school Tamla soul in there with the hints of The Who, The Jam and early Motorhead. The London punk rock sound of Snuff/Billy No Mates is bursting with sweet Northern Soul, the song writing is always first rate, song writing is always the most important thing whatever your sound and style.  You want melodic punk pop with soul and bite? You want an album that lets you think you have it worked out before it drops drop Japanese noise and all kinds of sideways swiped on you? You want those Hammond driven Snuff sounds? You want great big chunks of positive proper triumphant punk rock that’ll make you feel so good about everything? You have all that and more. More? Yes more, the Japanese noise – we expected a good album, we got more than we expected - go explore. www.myspace/billynomates  / www.triumphantsound.co.uk

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ONSLAUGHT – Killing Peace (Candlelight) - Now what the hell do you want from Onfugginslaught in 2007? You want the same torn unwashed stinking black jeans that have been on yer festering legs for a hell of a lot longer than four damn insipid indiecrap days, you want pit-scuzzed once-white hole-in-the-sole held together with insulation tape baseball boots, you want the ‘thrax opening for Metalicker at The O, you want tape trading and Sabbat demos and Hellbastard and Heresy and Ripcord and Civilised Society and you want support bands making the walls bleed at Slayer gigs in Wardour street. You want the punked up metal spirit of the mid Eighties, you want Fourarm Smash and Phoenix Militia, you want to bang your head with us - Exodus, you want Cliff Burton and Warfare and Neat and Metal Forces and Shades Record shop, you want Kerrang still being worth the paper it was printed on, and you want to throw shit at bands as long as it doesn’t hit their fuel (you don’t want the words baby baby in every fuggin song!!). You want to be tested to destruction, you want shock ‘n awe, you want proper bulshit-free crunching biting slamming old school thrash fuggin metal – well that’s what you got brothers and sisters!! Get to the church for it has been spoken, a no thrills, no messing, back-to-basics (totally unoriginal) headbanging onfugginslaught of Onfugginslaught! Onslaught sounding just how you want them then to damn well sound and done just right (and wrapped up in one of those terrible 80’s metal artwork covers as well, I like the attention to detail, if you’re gonna do it do it right!). Nailed down production care of (Sabbat’s) Andy Sneap and a totally triumphant return to their roots and some top form metal (if they hadn’t done it so well it would have been dreadful and we would have politely ignored it like we do with most old bands making a comeback when they really should know they’re way past their sell by date.). Onslaught in good album shock! Who the hell would have thunk it in 2007? Wreckomended, five Ks, ten Crunchers, whatever the hell top score is for these damn things. And if that review went over your head then Onslaught are not for you, stay the f away! For metalheads only.  www.onslaughtfromhell.com / www.candlelightrecords.co.uk

SMOKE OR FIRE – This Sinking Ship (Fat Wreck) – Second album on the Fat imprint and Smoke And Fire have dropped just what you’d kind of expect from a Fat Wreck band – that driving/melodic US punk/pop thing that may not be breaking any new ground but has enough depth, class and indeed Snuff style musical soul to more than carry it through. You may already have lots of albums from a lot of bands that kind of sound like this but Smoke Or Fire do have a new album that has just enough X factor and enough of a genuine heart to make it worth adding this to your collection. www.fatwreck.de / www.smokeorfire.com

VANILLA – Vanilla – (Charlatan) - More McCartney’s Wings than McCartney’s side of The Beatles, comfortable XTC, mellow hints of ELO, Tom Petty, maybe even a hint of laid back Pink Floyd gentleness in those pleasant guitars easy on the ear guitars. Fourteen tracks linked together with mildly strange country bits and refined Sgt Pepper style psychedelia. Intelligent dignified adult orientated pop/rock with some considerable depth to it. Vanilla are from Tacoma, WA (USA), members of Liar’s Club and The Jet City Fix apparently – laced with hooks and harmonies and just a really good, intelligent refined impressive album. www.vanillaband.com

ERRANDER – The Need To Know (In At The Deep End) - The Yorkshire band enjoyed a lot of very early rather positive exposure from us here at Organ back when they first started making their noisy moves (somewhere at the end of the last century), tracks on free Organ Radio compilations CDs, rather positive demo reviews and such. They we’re called P>S>P back then and their extreme metal was delivered with a potentially thrilling raw naive blistering punky attitude, they were threatening to evolve in to a band who might just matter. Fast forward a few years and Errander’s debut album ‘proper’ has just dropped through our letterbox. The name is changed (something to do with Sony Playstations and lawyers) and the packaging is plush and I’m not sure what they’ve been up to or sounding like in the gap since we last encountered them. What I do know is the whole metal scene had evolved quite a bit since we last encountered the hopeful early moves of P>S>P and although there’s nothing massively life challenging here (and the packaging/artwork is awfully cliched and really didn’t get our hopes) there are some really fine extreme blistering relentless screaming twisted gut churning moments to be found, some nice abrasive discordance and thirty three minutes of almost never relenting first rate extreme metal.  There are moments of genuine light and shade (and no, not that annoying screamo quiet/loud stuff). Errander, we’re genuinely pleased to say, have dropped a rather good extreme metal album, and if you’re comfortable with being constantly creamed at while guitars relentlessly riff at you and rhythm sections pound your head then there is some rewarding colour here. 
- www.iatde.com / www.myspace.com/errander

XisLOADED – Trench (Sugar Shack) – Second album and more of their semi-ambitious/rather obvious radio friendly mix of hard edged anthemic indie rock, not doing much but then neither do most radio friends things, some of it sounds like U2, some of it like Foo Fighters, some of sounds like, oh never mind, their second album is on the way, some of you will be interested so here’s the link if you want to know more – www.sugarshackrecords.co.uk

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS – In Vogue (Golf) More relentless screamo metal for fans of Underoath and The Bled and the bit just before Bagpuss wakes up and we all wake up and that wooden professor bird thing screams why they hell is it that when one band has a good idea a million more have to follow in through the door and do the same damn thing in such a hackneyed sledgehammer to crack a nut cliched lemmings over a cliff, fuck art and being creative, let’s all cash in on this right now kind of way?  If I were Norma Jean I’d be taking the pills as well. Oh hell, here comes the inward looking piano bit and the whispered vocal line about how he’s dying of a broke heart, serves him right, I hope he’s got an ingrowing toenail as well and why the hell is there never any pickle when I want cheese and pickle on toast and no more of this screamo by numbers predictability. You know normally we’d just let an album this pass without saying anything, we haven’t got time to clutter up our pages with this kind of thing - just throw it in the corner with all the other stuff we didn’t think was worth a mention, throw it over with all the other time wasting musical compromise that wastes our precious time. Me and the wooden professor bird and the pink and white striped cat are getting kind of mad about this now, it’s way way worse than back when the nu-metal toilet cistern went to hell and all the crap spewed out over the top and swamped the original stuff that had a spark or two of creative originality, this compromised emo-screamo conformity must be wiped out!!

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA – Dear Love A Beautiful Discord (Golf) – What a diabolically stupidly dumb name for a band and you know what, I was still prepared to give these shitehawks the benefit of the doubt and listen to their damn album with an open mind! What a load of old horsepoop, I know we have policy of not bothering to waste our time with anything we don’t have a positive word for but ‘ave a listen to this crap won’t yer! Bleedin’ ell! Worse than Drop Dead Gorgeous!!! Their pathetically stupid name is about the best thing they have going for them! What a pile of predictable cowardly steaming emo bit/screamo bit/stupid gothic keyboard bit/screamo bit again/mummy mummy emo bedwetting bit /another death metal cliche bit/another predictable screamo bit pile of bulshit. Take this damn CD out back and smash the hell out of it right now, things like this make me (and the wooded professor and the pink and white cat) angry and no, we’re not putting up a link to their website, they don’t deserve it. 

LOVEHATEHERO – White Lies (Ferret) - A guy is sitting at a bar in a skyscraper restaurant high above the city. He's slamming tequila left and right. He grabs one, drinks it, grabs another, slams that one as well, slam slam slam, five six seven, slams an eighth, goes over to a window and jumps out. The guy sitting next to him can't believe what he seeing. He’s even more surprised when, ten minutes later, the same guy, unscathed, comes walking back into the bar and sits back down next to him. The astonished guy asks "How did you do that? I just saw you jump out that window and we're hundreds of feet above the ground!" The jumper responds by slurring, "Well, I don't get it either. I slam a shot of tequila and when I jump out the window, the tequila makes me slow down right before I hit the ground. Watch." He takes a shot, slams it down, goes to the window and jumps out again. The other guy runs to the window and watches as the guy falls until right before the ground, slows down and lands softly on his feet. A few minutes later, he walks back into the bar. The other guy has to try it too, so he orders a shot of tequila. He drinks it and goes to the window and jumps. As he reaches the bottom, he doesn't slow down at all...SPLAT! The first guy orders another shot of tequila and the bartender says to him, "You're really an ***hole when you're drunk, Superman.". Lovehatehero? Worse than The Devil Wears Prada. How many more times do we have to listen to these shitehawk cowardly copycat rule obeying bands? I mean, the rules weren’t that good in the first place. And look at the photo, I don’t know which one I’d want to punch first. 
 

Last week's album of the week - APSE Previous album's of the week HOLLY THROSBY / MINSK / 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

Inspiring is a word bandied about far too often these days. It is used so often to describe the most mundane of everyday occurrences that it has lost its true meaning. It is lucky for us then that evenings like this one can take place and remind us not to let such words fall into insignificance. William D. Drake and the North Sea Radio Orchestra are two of the most interesting and downright brilliant acts around at the moment, regardless of genre or anything else as equally inconsequential. So I'm sure you can imagine how the two live together is an exciting prospect indeed. The evening is kicked off in style with William treating us to some sneak previews of his two(!) forthcoming albums. Bill looks every inch the man to be filling the swanky surroundings of Bush Hall, a far cry from his time in Cardiacs where he spent most of his time looking and behaving as if he wasn't allowed to leave the house, let alone play in civilised venue such as this one. The pros of his stunning piano playing and hypnotising quality of his new material far outweigh the cons of a range that doesn't quite fit his voice. Of course this is a minor down side and one that certainly doesn't bother anyone for long. 

After far too short a set and far too long an interval, Craig Fortnam's North Sea Radio Orchestra take to the stage. Two songs into the set and my mouth is wide open and my heart and imagination are in places only seen in dreams. The sheer beauty of the music the group play is quite frankly incredible and enough to make you reconsider the worth of anything you have ever tried to write. Backed up by an eight or so strong choir, this is easily the best live set I have seen in a very long time and an experience I cannot wait to repeat. Songs like "Joy For My Heart" and "Everyday Hath It's Night" are just perfect, sensitive and intelligent music with the lyrics to match. By the time set closer "Chimes" has faded away, I feel truly inspired. This is the true brilliance of The NSRO, they manage to blow you away with complex and challenging music yet make you feel like you could do it too, given the time. I strongly urge everyone to investigate this group and really think about what modern music should sound like. There really is more than three chords and the truth. 
(Andrew Law) 
 

The Locust have posted new track 'We Have Reached An Official Verdict: Nobody Gives A
Shit' at www.myspace.com/thelocust. This comes from the album 'New Erections', due out
next month.

Will Haven are to play the following shows in the UK: Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms April 12, Cardiff Barfly 13, Leeds Cockpit 14, Glasgow Cathouse 15, London Islington Academy 17,
Nottingham Rock City 18, Birmingham Barfly 19, Manchester Academy III 20, Oxford Zodiac
21.
 

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THE ADVENTURES OF LOKI – Feminine Side (16 Tons) – I like this, I can’t pin it down – good! I like it when we can’t pin something down, I like it when bands make our lives a little more difficult and I see a little silhouette of something that smells of the blood of an English man, feeeeeeee, five, fo, fum. There’s a million bands who name-drop the absolutely life-forming brilliance of The Pixies without ever coming within a year of touching on understanding the magic, The Adventures Of Loki have earned the right to name drop The Pixies (not that they did you understand, The Adventures are not that obvious) and it is your god given right to go faster and faster. Girl/Boy wired up guitar abrasivness that’s almost as raw as the early days of the magnificent Dolium (that was meant as a massive compliment this punch drunk Sunday morning. Speed-indie and jagged scuzzy edges and you should Suck It And See. They’re far far more abrasive and confrontational than Ms Deal, Mr Black and company actually, they’re furious and lashing and raging and they clearly wake up in a bad mood everyday. They’re bored! There’s angry pissed-off punk edged and really they’re more Dead Kens than Pixies, very much a skinny sounding English thing, bit like Weapons and Muy Feo and maybe even the more pissed off moments of the much missed Cay. Snarking and snarling and barking and shouty and boy/girl vocals in equal parts, equally as snarling and angry as each other, a new way of snarling, they got it - they got it, they’ve taken if for themselves.... www.myspace.com/theadventuresofloki  / www.16tons.com

RAY – Great Strange Dream (Pito) – Rather bold, a lush sound that takes it time and hangs in the air, moody, anthemiC extremely classy in a very impressive quintessential Echo And The Bunnymen, House of Love, Tindersticks, 80’s kind of way. Ray really do have their sound sorted out,they do their chosen thing impressively well – www.raytheband.com / www.pitorecords.com

CSS – Off The Hook (Sub Pop) Brazilian girls (and boy) with some infectious sassy classy ridiculously catchy edgy indie (and rather cool) pop that’s all over the alternative radio and rightly so. www.sanseidesersexy.com
 

Last week's single of the week - THE FLESH HAPPENING

Previously - GIRL SCOUT HAND GRENADE / 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 / 

MORE NEXT WEEK, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE FOR NUMBER 195? 
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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 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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