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ORGAN #195 > FEB 15th 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon
SHE WAS THE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT,  NINETY TONS OF THUNDER... 
A Secret Society? Rubbish trucks will stop in the street, birds will fall out of the trees, no one will head south at the speed of sound and now one will answer the question that is asked about any secret society. A secret society? Don’t ask us, if we said anything then it wouldn’t be a secret.

“Secret clubs have always influenced society. It is true the most powerful secret societies are actually running the world, seeking to destroy 'morality' and the family unit while publicly appearing to be the biggest champions. Their ultimate weapons are power and time. They have the power; only time will bring their obscure scheme to it's inevitable conclusions. For centuries humans have been trying to keep information from other humans. Paradoxically, many have come to the conclusion that the best way to keep a secret is to tell a group of other people and then swear them all to secrecy. Strangely as kids we all wanted to belong to a secret club. They seemed adventurous and exciting. We knew things adults didn't”.
This is getting rather Smeared, the smears and irons in fires, not tooooooo many though, never too many.. 

Back around to the start and a full circle and the smell of brown leather and the dirt of the weather, off on a British Rail cheapskate have it away day, another holiday in someone else’s misery, did we say that already? Never mind The Police reforming, or The Jam, HUGE BABY’s original line up are back in some kind of form or other (we’re surprised they’re still all alive!). Now who knows if the return of the original line up is a good thing or not, or indeed if they’ll actually make it on to the stage? Are beer crates going to fly at heads again? Will they touch that magic again? They’re at The Fly in Oxford Street on May 13th doing a KBY gig with Brighton’s rather fine Little Trophy also on the bill. The will, without doubt, be beautiful chaos. If you were there for those brief six months at the start of their lives back in the last century and the start of ORG Records then you’ll know.  You’ll be excited or apprehensive or at least burning with curiousity. If you weren’t there then go grab a history lesson. For six months Huge Baby were the only thing in town. 

"Y'know how every now and then, when your faith in music is waning, a record seems to come out of nowhere and shows you a whole new infinity of possibilities that need exploring? Happened with Public Enemy, Throwing Muses, LFO, The Young Gods and now Huge Baby. This band are most  intriguing..." Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker single of the week (1994)

"Huge Baby, in a perfect world, should provide the soundtrack to Omen III... This is an evil, malevolent and unspeakably scary record which you should only play in the hours of daylight, if accompanied by a priest, do not be fooled my children by the seemingly frivolous title. Growling satanic bass, grinding guitar which can often sound like it's actually sacrificing a live goat in the studio, whiningly inhuman vocals, horribly grimy violin-ish squeaks and somewhere along the line, macabre ambient tunes to ensure you sleep in your mum's bed for the next week" - NME  Single Of The Week

Huge Baby never touched those heights again, they made some good records, played some fine gigs, they’ll probably argue that they did make better records, we stepped away and watched from the side. That the way we’ve always done things at ORG Records and all things ORGAN, light the blue touch paper, set it off and stand back. We’re not here to build careers or push product and we’re certainly not here to deal with music industry bulshit that attempts to invade our space on a daily basis. Since that Huge Baby 10” (the second “proper” release on ORG) we’ve seen thousands of bands come and go,  we’ve had a million people shout the odds about our “bad attitude” and the way we do things (and then come band and say “wished we’d listened, you were right”). We do things our way, we like doing things our way, we’re still excited by the new music we release. There’s been around 200 CDs, albums, singles, compilations on ORG since that now legendary Huge Baby ten incher, we’re rather proud of pretty much all of it and for some reason I find myself rather excited about a Huge Baby gig that’s still three months away. Even more excited about our next batch of releases though, can’t wait to get this next batch of singles out and into your lives. Ah, fug the history and Huge Baby, we’re all about the next stuff, we were almost getting tempted to put that threatened best of ORG cd together just then, we’d never fit it all on though, we’d need a box set, nah, no time for that... 

Have you checked out THE SMEARS yet? 
 

IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME?
Following on from the rather successful release of the LEAVE THE CAPITAL single on ORG we have the following happening, all as parts of ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES

SPIRITWO – Out Feb 26th  - Part 29 of the singles series, her rather delicious version of Foundling as part of a four tracker (Foundling is a CARDIACS cover done in a rather delicate way), the EP also feature’s her extremely different disco/electro version of SEPULTURA’S Inner Self.

A SECRET SOCIETY -  Out March 5th, Part 30 in the series. A SECRET SOCIETY’s next show will be a headline at the London Astoria in late May, their last London show was a word of mouth sell out with over a thousand credit card ticket orders having to be turned down. I'd be grabbing this single rather quickly if I were you

Part 31 of the ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES is the long overdue debut single from THE SMEARS – all girl in your face punk rock action from Nottingham, out on March 19th. 

And coming up as the April release we have.... well watch this space.

LEAVE THE CAPITAL play a home town gig on Feb 23rd at Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach. THE SMEARS play Nottingham Running Horse on Feb 24th and a whole load of shows in March. 
 

THINGS TO GET SHOUTING  ABOUT? 
Rumours are that PURE REASON REVOLUTION are running in the shadow of a tusk with a chain that's broken and some albertross and are off off off on a UK/European Tour (supporting sleepy dinosaur Porcupine Tree off-shoot Blackfield). Things start at the end of this very week.. 16/02/07: UK, London, Mean Fiddler, 17/02: Holland, Helmond, Plato, 18/02: Belgium, Vosselaar, Biebob, 20/02: Germany, Hamburg, Knust, 21/02: Germany, Berlin, Kato, 22/02: Poland, Warsaw, Proxima Club, 24/02: Switzerland, Pratteln, Z7, 25/02: Italy, Milan, Alcatraz, 26/02: Germany, Bochum, Matrix, 27/02: France, Paris, Café de la Danse, 28/02: Holland, Zoetermeyer, Boerderij. Followed by some UK TOUR DATES - 05/03 – Southampton, Joiners, 06/03 - Cambridge, The Loft, 07/03 - Reading, The Fez (Homecoming Festival pt 2), 08/03 – Bristol, The Cooler, 09/03 – Leeds, Brudnell Social Club, 10/03 – Hertford, Marquee, 11/03 – London, Barfly. More from the recently hacked but not by Hackett pages over at www.myspace.com/purereasonrevolution

Legal notice: We were in no way implying that Pure Reason Revolution are this century’s Fleetwood Mac just then and no green manalishi were harmed in the making of this week’s Organ, no one had a two pronged crown and no one busted in on anyone's dreams making them see things they just don't want to see. . 
 
John on the phone......
Elliott Smith - New Moon

On May 7, 2007, Domino will release a double CD of music by Elliott Smith entitled New Moon.  The album contains 24 songs recorded 1995-1997, a prolific time in Smith's career, when he recorded his self-titled album and Either/Or (both also released by Domino).

Arguably the most gifted song-writer of his generation, Elliott Smith produced a large body of work that includes five solo albums, as well as From a Basement on the Hill (2004), a collection of songs completed before his death in 2003. Like his other work, New Moon reflects the power of Smith's ability to integrate rich, melodic music with poetic, multi-layered lyrics.

The final mixing for the double cd was done by Larry Crane, who is the archivist for the estate of Elliott Smith. A significant portion of proceeds from the album sales will go directly to Outside In, a Portland-based social service organization dedicated to providing diverse services for homeless youth and low-income adults.

Elliott Smith died October 21, 2003, in his home in Los Angeles. 

The Album will also be released in the US on Kill Rock Stars on the 8th of May who also put out the 'Either/Or' and 'Elliott Smith' records mentioned before.

www.dominorecordco.com  /  www.myspace.com/dominorecords
 


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 24th FEB -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  on OPEN ACCESS 1 via SKY 883 on Sunday 18th Feb at 11.30pm 

THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS.... 

1: TIME.SPACE.REPEAT - Joy 
2: ROSE MELBERG - Take Some Time 
3: BEYOND DAWN - Among The Sedatives
4: BEECHER - Function Function 
5: WENDYKURK - Freckles 
6: COLT - Never Know 
7: HELMET - Monochrome
8: SLIPKNOT - The Heretic 

NEXT WEEK expect, oh I don't know what you can expect, let's just kick those rat-bastards  and put our own people in charge. We have nothing to lose except fun and the joy of watching... That and the words of the good Doctor

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
Welll, once again nothing quite hit the spot enough to make us shout, we're picky around here and the policy is quality not quanity. When we say something is good we want you to be able to trust us and know this is not the work of some underhand tretcherous jabbering music pimp ready to jerk you up by the back of your pants, shoot you full of angel dust and slam you in to a Slayer pit with your nails painted pink, your mouth blazing fiery red lipstick and the tips sliced off of your thumbs. Once again there is is no demo of the week.

Last week's demo of the week - There wasn't one damn you, why does there always have to be one? 

Previous demo's of the week - STRAY BORDERS / 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

' BURN THE GALLOWS...
GALLOWS original demo from 2005 is coming your way again on Holy Roar Records om March 19th 2007

In need of no introduction right now, Gallows have recently been touted as ‘the best British punk band since The Clash’ by the NME, a completely over the top and rather inaccurate statement that kind of tells you more about what the NME don’t really know, but hey, as we’ve said around these parts several times, they’re a decent enough band. So there’s a 7” vinyl release of old demos on the way, limited to 500 copies. This strictly limited edition release of their original demos is on London’s Holy Roar Records, recorded in 2005, features three older, and different, versions of tracks which were eventually re-recorded for their ‘Orchestra of Wolves’ album, and one track which is not available anywhere else. On white vinyl, with black and silver artwork and a pressing of only 500 copies. Hay, mine had five tracks on it...

Of course the first coverage of that demo and indeed the band’s first radio play came from us music pimps here at ORGAN so don't go putting me in no subhuman Arkansas chain gang 'cause there's no demo of the week again this week... Aren't there laws about impersonating music journalists like this and peddling such whore--faced gibberish, I got my wheeeeeels of steel rolling if you're coming come quick, let's get out of here before someone notices we know

DEMO OF THE WEEK ORGAN issue 143 - OCT 31st 2005

GALLOWS - A fizzing set of meshed up hardcore slashing wholesomely flavoured pronkoid discordant raw as F punk rock goodness from the outer edges of England. Screamingly frantic vocals and urgent rushes and bites that taste of the Panixphere side of cardiac arresting life. Mayday Mayday, man overboard again! Screaming slabs of slightly complex and scratchingly violent and urgently clever shout-along hardcore – screaming mad beauty and frantically urgent threats and grab some air, let me breath again. Just because you sleep next to them doesn’t mean you’re safe. This is the captain of your ship, completely overboard. We like this lots, the kind of thrashing thrailling thrashing hardcore punkoid tantrum metal that requires a little more colour and imagination. Totally unhinged and bending around it’s own violent corners, singer man sounds like he’s about to lose everything and he can’t swim, Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attentions please, this is the captain of your ship, you need this delicate little five track violent onslaught, you’re time is up, you have no clue how much you need this..... It may be raw and very DIY and blisteringly homemade, but hey, you need this fine and tasty violent noise 

www.myspace.com/burnthegallows / www.holyroarrecords.com
 

'NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEE
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
MONOGONO – Amuk (Mother Should Know) - Oooooo, that second track just seriously grabbed our attention. New name to us, didn’t know a thing about them, just threw the CD on... Started with some nice pastoral peaceful keyboards that, predictably, erupted like a million extreme metal band albums do, oh well, same old same old then...  Yeap, Monogono were threatening to be just another cookie monster vocalist screaming and growling over a slightly interesting noise type extreme metal band until somewhere around a minute in to The untold Story Part 1 and hang on! Those guitars just went all bendy and Seaside Treats Gibbering and Twitching on us - things have started to go off and things, squalor is alive again. (actually now I go back and listen again, those keyboards at the start are rather sinister and discordantly dark). Amuk has taking off, we’re talking serious Cardiac-Bundleist action and clever jazzy interludes and Pat Metheny jumping on Meshuggas’ toes whilst King Crimson’s tongues are roasted in ferocious aspic. Oooooooh yes, we got a live one, strap yourself in for a raving and drooling review. Where the hell did Monogono come from? There’s four of them, they’re from Portugal, serious musicians, relentless creative clever extreme noise terror, laced with warm creativity and plenty of light and shade. Four tracks in and we’re hooked, things have turned seriously heavy now, less Cardiacs, more Voivod and their chaotically organised jazzyness has given way to serious sludge and metallic delight so good we get to name drop The Mass! Hey, when we name drop The Mass you know things are special, this is Trapped Under A Ice serious!! Predictable Crime is anything but predictable and if this is a crime then bring on a wave of it. “Renato, Dani and Nuno studied jazz at college together and then joined forces with Goncalo to produce their own brand of music with hiphop influenced lyrics underpinned by powerful rock riffs and jazz keyboards” – We’re not hearing that much of a hiphop flavour, we are hearing seriously inventive boundary pushing front-line progressive (in the real sense) avant-metal.  Hang on, they’ve warped out and gone very bendy and experimental and no-wave Wire reader chin-stroker on us with a fifty-seven second track called Agnosa, I like their style and sense of diverse pace. They’re back to pummelling us with riffs that are very early Cardiacs now, oh, no, they’ve gone all jazzy and experimental and instrumental and multimental and on an Endless Trip (Part One and Two), we’ve gone somewhere else completely, every time I think I’ve worked them out they contradict things in a most delightfully positive manner. And as for the hidden extra bonus track, now that is serious avante manicness and screaming over some kind of alien code and hey, one of the albums of 2007 just invaded our lives - you’re gonna be hearing lots more about Monogono around these parts. This album rules – if you’re in to Mr Bungle or Cardiacs or Meshugga or The Mass or King Crimson then go investigate - www.mothershouldknowrecords.com / www.myspace.com/monogonoband

ALSO CHECK OUT
ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY – Open Fire (Relapse) – Leaner and meaner this time around, eleven slices of first rate Southern flavoured hard edged stoner rock. Kind of Sabbath/Kyuss for Molly Hatchet fans and armed with powerful new vocalist Kyle Thomas (Exhorder, Floodgate). Righteously cool old school hard rock and a short sharp and toooooo the point review with no riding down the road and no flirting with disaster, whatever next? Released in Europe on March 12 – www.atprva.com / www.relapse.com 

MAGNUM – Princess Alice and The Broken Arrow (SPV) – Thirteenth studio album from the distinctive English pomp rock band. Magnum fans will be more than satisfied, Princess Alice is more of the band doing what they do best, those bouncing anthems and stirring tales of dragons and knights – there’s moments where they hit previous heights, there’s moments that sound a little like nothing more than filler material... The album is out in March, they tour the UK in May, Magnum fans will be happy, no one else will care, no one will get hurt, he'll carry on drving that red Ferrari and annoying the English butler, solving crime in some kingdom of madness, how far Jerusalem, at least they sound like they're supposed to, now get it out of here now please – www.magnumonline.com

ASTERIA – Slip Into Something More Comfortable (Broken English) – Standard issue mid-west US emo pop. Polite, breezy, harmlessly infectious, they do their thing really well. Heard it all before, no trace of identity, no hint of any kind of desire to be even the slightest tiny little bit different. No idea why or what the point is but hey, if you want another US emo-pop band who sound like loads you already heard then Indiana’s Asteria do it rather well. www.asteriarock.com / www.brokenenglishrecords.com

How polite we were this week....
 
 
Last week's album of the week - BILLY NO MATES

Previous album's of the week APSE / 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

terrorists!! mice!! prostitutes!! Weasel says check out VESSELS
"Hey WEASEL, 

Hope you're good. Just thought I'd let you know that we, VESSELS, are touring and releasing a single very soon". 

Tour dates are: 

Sunday 11th - Exeter, The Cavern 
Wednesday 14th - London, 333 
Thursday 15th - Cambridge, The Loft 
Friday 16th - Southampton, The Hobbit 
Saturday 17th - Sheffield, The Cricketers Arms 
Monday 19th - Manchester, Dry Bar 
Wednesday 21st - Lancaster, Yorkshire House 
Thursday 22nd - Dundee, The Balcony Bar 
Friday 23rd - Glasgow, O'Henry's 
Saturday 24th - Leeds, The Brudenell 
Sunday 25th - Kingston, The Peel 
Monday 26th - Oxford, Port Mahon 

7inch single/digital download "Yuki/Forever the Optimist" out on Cuckundoo Records on 5th
March. Available for pre-order on myspace and at shows. 

''Dynamic post rock which stalks around your room before launching itself through a window.'' 
- Steve Lamacq (Radio 1) 

Here's the ORGAN demo review from June 2006 (yeah, yeah, that’s three repeats this week, Huge Baby, Gallows and Vessels, what the hell...)
 

VESSELS – Now this band really do stand out, one of those treasures that very occasionally lands here unexpectedly, one of those delights that stops everyone and has us (politely) fighting over who gets to play it on the radio first. They have such a beautifully easy style. Post rock that takes all the time it needs to just unwind in a deceptively clever way and then delicately exploded in just that right uplifting soothing reassuring manner. Vessels are doing all the right things that are needed to be so so right for right here right now (and especially for this sticky summer heat where every action is an effort). That easy glowing flow of Appleseed Cast, the musical demands of Battles or Don Cabellero, the positive beauty and sparkle of 65Days - no glitch here though, flow rather then glitch – 65daysofquietglowingsparkle. It's like Vessels have naturally absorbed all the best musical things from these golden times and then filtered it all in their own refined and delicate way to come out with something just as equally as fine as all those bands we've just mentioned themselves. And when you think it's just going to be an instrumental thing, the emotional, no not emo, the occasional understated emotional vocals lift you up even more. Look At That Cloud really is like looking at a cloud on a sunny evening – "another wave of electric-blue noctilucent clouds  (NLCs) swept across northern Europe last night.  These mysterious clouds favour high latitudes, but they have been sighted in recent years as far south as Colorado and Utah.  Northern summer is the season for NLCs, so be alert after sunset for sinuous, blue-glowing ripples in the western sky".Five tracks, its impossible to pick out a favourite. Armed To The Teeth is beautifully quiet in the finest of Thee More Shallows at 2AM kind of ways. Actually there is some restrained delicate glitch in the re-mixed fourth track Happy Accident – ah, this is so so good, so much power and emotion in the delicate restrained, sometimes quiteness is where the real power is and less really is so so much more -  - www.myspace.com/vesselsband
 

SINGLES
So we have three singles of the week this week, so what? We had a good week for singles and we don't mean on no hornymatch dot com either...

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT / MOTHGUTS – spilt 12” (Kitchen Dweller) – Red vinyl, we like red vinyl and we like this! Yes we like this lots, let me run a little test... yeap, turn it up loud and just as expected, everyone comes running to see who what and where.  Going to need some serious dancing around architecture to get anywhere near describing Honey Ride Me A Goat with mere words as tools – help! Twisted turning obtuse instrumental post rock pronkoid springly boingy avant jazz-rock post-punk jazzness that’s seriously way out there without ever once getting too far out there. The sound is unique, all the challenge and complexity of Upsilon Acrux or the Aleuchatistas, challenging enough to be on a respected label like say Cuniform or Skingraft. Honey Ride Me A Goat are from Medway (Kent) and who needs Cuniform when you have Kitchen Dweller and curried cod recipes. Thing is Honey are clever and complex and as pretentious as this is, it never ever is annoyingly pretentious  Hold the boat, I just got through the glorious thirteen minute mind-boil of Honey and Mothguts are now pummelling us with some seriously heavy post-rock Van Der Graaf Sax style Ornette Coleman flavoured pronkoid earfood, that’s easily as challenging and wholesomely reward as Honey Ride Me A Goat  Mothguts are from New Jersey and they complement the English band perfectly,  an excellent match up. There’s only 300 on these beautiful slices of red vinyl to go around so we suggest you stop reading this and go grab one for yourself right now – highly recommended. www.kitchendweller.com

SINGLE OF THE WEEK 2
KILLA KELA – Reveal Your Inner Self (Hungry Kid) - Was he just rapping about being soaked in blood just like Tampax just then? How dare you cheapen us? How dare you be so devious? Serving up like a greasy dinner, hit you in the face if you need a reminder, so your lips inflate like Steven Tyler. This boy has front, blowing up like a bomb in where? Serious beatbox action, whatever you fink - old school (like Days Of Thunder), strait out of London looking like a muthafuggin role model. It does indeed ooooooooooze attitude. We got ourselves some clever beatbox hiphop rhyme‘n bite action going down here, the real deal, fit for purpose and ready to mess yer head. Four versions to stick on repeat and trust these words, trust these paragraphs, hello, feel the heat, come closer, you need this one, put it in your daily lives, it will impress us when you do. Tasty remixes from plan B, Super Furry Animals and Jack Beats (a collaboration of Plus One, Scratch perverts and Beni G mixologists). Every action deserve a reaction, thou shall grab a bite of Killa Kela, feel the heat, the machine you can’t rage against, front line London beatbox action . www.killakela.com / www.hungrykid.com

SINGLE OF THE WEEK 3
CHARLES CAMPBELL JONES – Most Mathematicians (Bronze Rat) - Charles Campbell Jones has a ‘problem’, you see last year Charles released the finest song of 2006 in the shape of the progtastic Stars. An epic song with the power to grab you and take you right up there, a melodic sky touching tour de force and absolute treasure, the yardstick by which everything he does must now be judged. And there’s the “problem”, Stars is just so so magical, Stars took us there instantly, and takes us there again every time we play it (and we play it lots), Stars is just too damn good! Everything else Charles Campbell Jones does is in the shadow of Stars. Most Mathematicians is subtle, Most Mathematicians takes it’s own sweet time to take you where you want to go, it does though, Most Mathematicians is every bit as good as Stars only it takes a little time to realise that. When you take the time to look and see (and see all the dirt on the floor) and you’re soaking in sweat without ever noticing how hot you were getting (and your shirt is soaked through). Let's cut to the chase with some hyperbole, see if you sit up and take notice because with songs this good Charles Campbell Jones really should be all over the mainstream radio and on your late night music TV and selling albums in millions and winning Brit awards, he should be a household name. Most Mathematicians just went on a downbeat and sent that knowing shiver down my spine. Look, he’s the new Jeff Buckley, only he’s better – is that enough over-the top hyperbole for you? Here they come, here comes that buzz and that bus that takes you home and those subtle strings and those understated choirs of mellotron-like sky touching moments are here and he’s done it again. www.bronzerat.co.uk

ALSO CHECK OUT...

THE MILK TEETH – Go Faster Stripes (Traficante) – Some kind of semi frantic Zutons meets Cramps feedback-edged scuzzy blues thing that has us semi interested. B-side As Good As It Gets kind of has us losing interest, a retro English milk bar early 60’s Dick Dale sound should you want it. Hey, there’s the link, Zutons, Cramps, Dick Dale, we told you about it, the choice is yours... www.myspace.com/themilkteeth

Last week's single of the week - TOBIAS FROBERG

Previously - THE FLESH HAPPENING / 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

  THE END BIT...
As always, thanks to SchNEWS for their alternative news bulletins - www.schnews.org.uk
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. 

MORE NEXT WEEK, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE FOR NUMBER 196? 
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PAST ISSUES -

ORGAN 194 - BILLY NO MATES, ONSLAUGHT, SMOKE OR FIRE, VANILLA, ERRANDER, XisLOADED, DROP DEAD GORGEOUS, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, LOVEHATEHERO, TOBIAS FROBERG, THE ADVENTURES OF LOKI, RAY, CSS, THE BLACK VELVETS, LEAVE THE CAPITAL, FARRAH, WILLIAM D.DRAKE, NORTH SEA RADIO ORCHESTRA, DINOSAUR JR, ROLO TOMASSI, THE LOCUST, WILL HAVEN, INDYMEDIA, ClearerChannel, SchNEWS

ORGAN 193 - APSE, BLOC  PARTY, NIGHTRAGE, THE PAYBACKS, THE FLESH HAPPENING oh and loads more, go look...

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ORGAN 189 - SHORT SHARP SHOCK, DEATHSKULLS, THE RUBY SUNS, THE VELCROS, FUTURE OF THE LEFT, TRIPPED & FALLING, OZRIC TENTACLES, FROM THE SKY, RADIO MOSCOW, THE BLOODY HOLLIES, BELOW THE SEA, MONTANA, GALLOWS, THE RESIDENTS...

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

ORGAN 187

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

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

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

ORGAN 183 - O

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

ORGAN 181 - O

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

ORGAN 179

ORGAN 178

ORGAN 177 - CATS AND CATS AND CATS, I LOVE POLAND, AGE OF CHAOS, SANCTORUM, LOVEMAT, WOVEN HAND, LEAVE THE CAPITAL, THE APPARATUS, JESUS LICKS, RED SPARROWES, MASTODON... 

ORGAN 176 - ELLIOT SMITH, JENNIFER TERRAN, CRADLE OF FILTH, HEAVEN 17, LOVE, SUGARCUBES CHET, GRAVANZIA, VANCOUVER DELUXE, HOLY SMOKES, GALLOWS, YO LA TANGO, SKID ROW, UFO, ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, EINSTELLUNG, THE LATE GREATS, ROYAL TREATMENT PLANT, WHEN GRAVITY FAILS, DARTZ, THE TRUDY 

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ORGAN 174

ORGAN 173 - In print, on paper, got go grab get it.

ORGAN 172 - FTSE100, EMPYREAL DESTROYER, SMILEX, SQUAREPUSHER, HATEBREED, ARDENCY, TOURETTES SYNDROME, GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT, THE VITAMINS, THE RESIDENTS, WEDNESDAY 13, JOHN PEEL DAY PLANNED, RIOT COPS GATECRASH FREE PARTY, The INTREPID FOX

ORGAN 171

ORGAN 170 - STEAL GANDHI, ALL DARK MORNINGS, THE AUTHENTICS, OPTIMIST CLUB, ESTRADASPHERE, WOLFGANG BANG, ELECTRONIC, CURSIVE, AGAINST ME, TRANSIT KINGS, TRANSMISSION, DUN 2 DEF, THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS, PHOENIX BODIES, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, THE ANSWER, THOM YORKE....

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

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ORGAN 159 - INNER RAGE, THE GHOSTS, ALPHA DISTRICT, INTEROGATE. ABOUT. DODDODO, DEADSTAR ASSEMBLY, AD AAD AT, ROBIN GUTHRIE, BANG! BANG!, FEU THERESE, CERBERUS SHOAL, HERESY, SERENA-MANEESH, PUNISH THE ATOM, The RampArt Community, GO SPIDERMUM - A gang of anarchist Robin Hood-style thieves, ORGAN TV will be back for more, ORGAN on your radio 

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ORGAN 151 - Out in print now, 40 pages 

ORGAN 150 - NEXT LIFE, CRETIN, HAWNAY TROOF, SYMMETRY, GREENSPACE, DRUGDEALER CHEERLEADER, LAST PARTY, ALEX WARD, BURNT, INTENTION, TRACTOR SEX FATALITY, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, PROUDFLESH, THE GHOSTS, SPEED THEORY,EL TOPO, THE CULT WITH NO NAME, THE PROCESS VOID. 

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