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ORGAN #197 > MAR 1st 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon
SECRETS AND CONTRADICTIONS AND DOING IT OUR WAY - WEEK BY WEEK
A Secret Society? There go those giant bats and we’re up to out necks in secret gigs and secret societies and fighting off the average music and over hyped and rather bad albums and self congratulating award ceremonies and not very inspiring demo discs and avoiding those who annoy us and the temptation to yell at the clueless who just fall for anything that’s marketed at them. Thank the tempting apple and that snake for those Smears – “We are The Smears, we are The Smears, we are we are we are The Smears!” The Smears roaring out of the radio like that was more than enough fuel for us this week, and now the sun is out and all is well with whatever is well. So we’re releasing a secret My Vitriol single on ORG this Monday, don’t be saying we didn’t let you in on the secret now. Organ is about cutting through the crap and mining for the good - about other rock, other attitudes, found sound and the fine musical creativity that’s out there waiting for you if only you could be bothered to get involved and go find it for yourselves rather than just falling for the average and consuming the junk they try to force feed you. Why do so many fall for it? The view from over here is far far better than their View, why do they insist that View is best? It clearly is an awful View. So the NME awards took place this week, did it mean less then ever or what? 

Have you checked out THE SMEARS yet? 

IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME?
EVERYTHING MUST GO are at The Uptown, Telegraph Avenue, Oakland (California), a benefit for Youth Radio. EMG promise are promising burlesque and punk rock and beer and more beer and they didn’t say anything about outrageous explosions but this is Everything Must Go. The gig is on March 1st. (that’s today if you’re on the case and checking this out on the very day it goes up, if noth, then you missed it, tough) Those of you who haven’t been paying attention won’t know that Everything Must Go have an EP out on ORG called I Hate Music, four slices of spit in your face US hardcore street punk earfood from some punk rock royalty. EMG are people from Christ On Parade, Neurosis and Strychnine  Find out more here

Talking of Oakland, Oakland CA rock band and all round Organ favourites THE MASS (on the excellent Crucial Blast label in the USA and the equally as fine Monotreme label here in the UK) have announced the departure of bassist Andrew Lund, who played with the band throughout 2006. The band will record an EP in March with Lund on bass featuring material written during his time in the band.  Recording will take place at Louder Studios in San Francisco with producer Tim Green (of The Fucking Champs) at the helm.  THE MASS are currently planning an active 2007 involving tours both national and international, as well as writing and recording a full-length album. If you haven’t let The Mass in to your life yet then you really really must – think thrash metal Van Der Graaf Generator for prog-head Slayer fans who like stomping on Porcupine Tree bordom - www.themass.us / www.myspace.com/themass

BLONDE REDHEAD - “The blog savvy among you will already know that not only are Blonde Redhead back but also that their new album is something of a landmark in their career” so says this piece of e style paper that just arrived in the e.mail box. “Entitled 23” (nothing to do with the Jim Carrey movie that's seemingly being panned everywhere, and rightly so, stop messing with our numbers, Bob will get you, the Church of Subgenius will move in and the 23 bus will run you over, Genesis P Orridge will be driving, stay away from our number don't mess with the things you don't understand,thee ov little faith...) “and out on 4AD, it's in keeping with their label's recent quality output -  TV On The Radio's 'Return to Cookie Mountain', Beirut's 'The Gulag Orkestar' and Scott Walker's 'The Drift' -  and is a record I strongly urge you to check out” (this e.mail came in direct from the band’s record label) .  “Recorded and produced by Blonde Redhead in New York City late last-year, they enlisted the help of Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio) to engineer and Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Killers, Nine Inch Nails) and Rich Costey (Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Bloc Party) to share mixing duties. The album is released on April 16th 2007 over here and they're playing their first shows in the UK in May...”

May 2007  24th  Manchester Academy 3, 26th  Glasgow Oran Mor, 27th  Nottingham Dot To Dot Festival, 29th  Bristol Thekla, 30th  London KoKo. Blonde Redhead also play the 4AD showcase at this year's SXSW Festival (if any of you are out there) at Emos on the 14th of March. Also on that bill are Beirut, Emma Pollock, The Mountain Goats and Wolf & Cub.
 

Scottish band MAN MUST DIE have made history, by being the first UK band to sign to excellent Relapse label. Their debut album 'The Human Condition', is expected to be released during the early Summer.

65DAYSOFSTATIC - New news from the 65 came in on Tuesday, February 27, 2007....    65, Youthmovies and Cats and Cats and Cats.  Everyone likes news. 65 can confirm that they will be playing with Youthmovies and Cats And Cats And Cats at the following shows: 16th: Oxford, Zodiac, 17th: Cambridge,  Junction, 18th: Brighton, Concorde 2. These are warm up dates prior to the main album tour where 65 will be playing with other bands that will be announced shortly. ALSO Some European dates have been added with more to come. As always never trust this space.  For more info and less disappointment go to www.65daysofstatic.com

www.myspace.com/youthmovies
www.myspace.com/catsandcatsandcats

THINGS TO GET SHOUTING  ABOUT? 
CAMDEN CRAWL LINE UP - You all know what the Camden Crawl is right? A damn good reason to stay out of Camden for a few days and avoid that indie rage and that awful temptation that is a no no no... It's just that I've got to go through and swap the slashes for commas, so to bring the line up I've just been sent in line, no no slashing out at bad copy-cat hair cuts and tossy elitist scenester targets and  I could do without having to do any explanation type stuff here in the intro. The Crawl takes place 19 and 20 Apr. Two day passes are an overpriced £45, the price of a one day pass is an outrageous £26.50 (you’d have to pay us a hell of a lot more than that to attend the damn thing without the aid of a very sharp chainsaw), if you really must, then find our more at www.thecamdencrawl.com

LINE UP of bands who you could easily see on most nights of the week without all the self congratulating bulshit and without shelling out a small fortune is....

Appearing on both days: Air Traffic, Akala, The Barker Band, Blood Red Shoes, Bonde Do Role, Cajun Dance Party, Calvin Harris, Cherry Ghost, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Emmy The Great, Example, Findlay Brown, Foals, Friendly Fires, Hadouken!, Hot Club De Paris, I Am Kloot, I Was A Cub Scout Kid Harpoon, Killa Kella, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Late Of The Pier, Marvin The Martian, Kate Nash, Jack Penate, Professor Green, Pull Tiger Tail, Shy Child, Statik, These New Puritans, Tigerforce, Xerox Teens.

Appearing on Thursday only: Adele, Fear Of Music, Foreign Beggars, Goose, iLiKETRAiNS, Johnossi, Loney Dear, Laura Marling, Malcom Middleton, New Young Pony Club, Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, Popular Workshop, Shakes, Simple Kid.

Appearing on Friday only: Alterkicks, Chrome Hoof, The Dykeenies, Fear Of Flying, Eamon Hamilton (Brakes), The Hot Puppies, Hafdis Huld, I Say Marvin, Ali Love, Pete And The Pirates, Polytechnic, Roll Deep, Vincent Vincent And The Villains, The Whip.

Venues participating this year, with the media/clubby types acting as host at each, as follows: Koko (Sonic Mook), Electric Ballroom (FROG), Barfly (John Kennedy X-Posure), Underworld (Kerrang!), Dublin Castle (Bugbear), Lock 17 (Club Fandango), Enterprise (Boss Music), Purple Turtle (Artrocker), Oh! Bar (Steve Lamacq), Bullit (Moshi Moshi & Grecoroman), Earl Of Camden (Fallout), The Black Cap (Queens Of Noize), Monsta (Shuffle - 250), Cuban Bar (Adventures Close To Home).

RATM CONFIRM MORE REUNION SHOWS - So, Rage Against The Machine will definitely be playing at least four reunion gigs this year - the previously reported set at California's Coachella Festival, and then, as announced yesterday, a set at each of the three dates of the touring hip hop festival Rock The Bells, which is staged in New York on 29 Jul, San Bernardino on 11 Aug and San Francisco on 18 Aug. According to Rock The Bells promoter Chang Weisberg those four dates will be it as far as the RATM reunion is concerned, for 2007 at least. He told reporters: "Rage will do four shows and just four in 2007. Coachella is first, that's the granddaddy. And now these three with the Wu Tang Clan represent a very, very special thing".

To celebrate their 40th anniversary (1967-2007), Tangerine Dream have announced their only UK  concert of the year at the London Astoria on Friday 20th April.  Tickets are now on sale from the Astoria Box office. Tickets: £22.50, Ticket Hotline: 0870 060 3777, www.seetickets.com. The band will perform the entirety of their forthcoming studio album "Madcap's Flaming Duty" (released in the UK by Voiceprint on 2nd April).  The album is dedicated to Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, with song lyrics adapted from 17th and 18th century poets including Walt Whitman and William Blake. 

GLC join Burberry Workers Concert . Welsh hip hop legends (in their own legendary minds anyway) Goldie Lookin Chain are the latest act to be added to Pop Factory’s Burberry Workers Concert at the Ystrad Leisure Centre, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales on March 24th. They join The Automatic, Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals and The Alarm in registering their protest at the planned closure of the Burberry Factory in Treorchy. Burberry’s planned closure of the Treorchy Factory will result in the loss of some 300 jobs to the Far East. Workers have mounted a fierce worldwide campaign to save their factory and have received many high profile supporters from the world of entertainment for their cause including Tom Jones, Rhys Ifans, Ioan Gruffudd and Emma Thompson.

Neurosis are to release new album 'Given To The Rising' through Neurot Recordings in early May. The band are working with Steve Albini on the project.

Liverpool thrashers SSS have now signed to Earache Records, their recent album was album of the week around these parts, read the review here
 
John on the phone......
Kenwood House's concert programme after an increasing number of pop and rock events were added to the traditionally classical and jazz line up. Camden Council cut the number of events English Heritage were allowed to stage, which, the heritage body said, made the concert programme unviable. Hence their decision to cancel the programme for 2007. English Heritage themselves have set up the petition to lobby Camden Council to change its restrictions. As names started to appear on the petition, a spokesman for the body said: "There are a lot of people out there who want the concerts to return", adding that they launched the petition because of the "many calls from people who were keen to support the concerts". One signatory on the petition added the comment: "This is an absolute disgrace. Because of a few people's complaints, an integral part of the summer for all Londoners is being discontinued". Responding, Camden Council said it was "disappointed to learn that English Heritage has cancelled [its concerts] this year", saying "Camden's licensing policy acknowledges the value of entertainment and live music in the borough. But the Licensing Authority must also balance the needs of premises with those of residents".

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 28th 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 4th March at 11.30pm

THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS.... 

1: TIME.SPACE.REPEAT. - Joy 
2: THE TRUDY - Lost Summer of Love 
3: CARDIACS - Day Is Gone 
4: THE BLACK KEYS - Your Touch 
5: DRESDEN DOLLS - Backstabber 
6: THE LOW LOWS - Dear Flies Love Spiders 
7: SILVERY - Devil In The Detail 
8: ASSDROIDS - Daft Crunk 

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
KOE – Three rather fine and rewarding post/math rock instrumental pieces from a new London based band. Three clever (not too clever), challenging, rewarding, easy of the ear pieces, three warm and highly enjoyable relaxing pieces of heavy-edge post rock. Sometimes less is more, and for now this is all we need to say – highly recommended musical warmth – www.myspace.com/koeband   (nice artwork/packaging as well)
 

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THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE – More wired up raw scuzzy scathing raw raw raw punk rock. Sound like they on the run from Rampton, sounds like they’re ready to pull a bank raid, stockings on heads hiding the cut lips and bruised eyes, shooters in hand, do not mess. Mean riffs, filthy metal edge, raw and live and right in your ugly messy face. You don’t want to be sharing no late night train ride with these people, you don’t want to be a witness to any of their crimes, you would not want to be the one grassing them up. They’re from the English midlands, four new tracks, not for the faint hearted, emo kids stay away now.  www.myspace.com/theramptonreleasedate

PEYOTE MOTHERSHIP – Transmission 1 – A 15 minute slice of ambient space rock from a band who now feature Craig and Jim from the Magic Mushroom Band on their colourful flight deck. Fifteen minutes of collaged found sound and psychedelic oscillation for the Ozric minded Hawkfiends out there. Tune in via www.myspace.com/peyotemothership

Last week's demo of the week - DEATH LIST FIVE / BITCH SLAP BARBIE

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... LIVE 
No gallows were burnt yet this week, and no secret societies were infultrated 

CURSIVE / RETISONIC – Camden Barfly, London, March 1st 2007.

Where were we? Grasping at straws and the big bang and learning how to use our thumbs and poking things with pointed sticks and hell, do we have to go to Camden again? I’d rather play in a wasp nest then have to go to Camden on a Thursday night again. I’ve really had enough of music and dealing with the business of it all today (at least the NME awards are on tonight over in West London so that sucks up all the annoying industry hanger-on scenesters and keeps them well away and out from under our feet). Running late, sorry Persona, I hate missing the opening band, it was rude of us and there is no excuse, sorry (well there was an excuse, we’re very busy here!). We get there just in time to catch the second half of middle on Retisonic’s set cutting through the traditional bad sound of the soulsucking Barfly and instantly demanding full attention - no time for a beer stop, straight in there. Retisonic are a rather fine melodic set of challenging music makers, Retisonic are Jason Farrell from 80’s avant hardcoreists Swiz and highly respected 90’s pre math-rock outfit Bluetip, aided by rather impressive drummer Joe Grelick and bass player Jim Kimball. Retisonic are just right in a refined American alternative post hardcore challenging indie-rock kind of way – delivered with heart and soul and just that little bit extra to hang on to – they don’t swagger, they don’t need to, there’s just an unpretentious depth and simple quality that kind of has the feeling of their Discord heritage and bands Rites of Spring and Embrace without ever ramming all that down anyone’s throats. Just songs that hang about, upbeat positive harmonic twists that hook in without ever being too clever, angular without every being awkward (yeah yeah, we like is as hardboiled and difficult as possible around here, you know that, but hey, sometimes simple is just as rewarding). Cheap Trick pop sensibilities and indie-rock Americana for Minor Threat fans who love Pavement (as much as Fugazi) and the art of keeping it challenging and crisp and sparsely simple. A fine half of a set and bring on the robot f**king...

 Omaha Nebraska’s Cursive are back in town, tonight is billed as a special secret gig, not sure when they got to be big enough to be doing secret gigs - they played Koko with Forward Russia last night so I guess they’re keeping this low-key and keeping promoters happy. Seems they are big enough though, the front porch is more than full, The Barfly - despite the show only being officially announced yesterday -  is full to the back and most of the front rows know all the words – this is a real gig and Cursive have taken quite a few significant steps forward since our last (ugly) Organ live encounter. Refreshingly honest, almost earnest, led by the extremely warm and likeable Tim Kasher, they sound like a group of people who got a second shot at life and they’re going to grasp it all with both hands. There’s a razor edged sharpness to their almost slurred and rather refined relaxed American post-hardcore slightly mathy indie-rock sound. Reassuringly geeky and slightly middle-aged and a little over-weight, nothing cool here, delightfully fashion free and there was this big bang once but the clergy man doesn’t agree. Brisk and taught and laced with art rock horns and jazz-core indie-rock that once again feasts on the intelligent U.S alt.rock Pixies-Pavement heritage. Ah, reality, a real band, a band asking questions and twisting answers while most of the musical world is happy to pose, preen and play empty headed cute. Not that we have a chip on our shoulder or a need a hammer to hit it. Sardonic post-punk-pop that can push forward when it needs to. Simple yet again and tonight they have the audience totally with them – feels like a bit of an event actually,glad we came now. The sharpness of Fugazi, the feel of a genuine America, indie-rock Springsteen, Rob Crow and Pinback, Heavy Vegetable, real America, real American people, not the brash version, emo before the word made a mockery of itself - songs over style, songs you could strip down and play another way and they’d still be good – Tim Kasher is special, you can’t help but warm to him, just very unpretentious and just very very right. Tonight the NME awards are on, it’s filtered out the usual hanger-on Barfly industry audience and left the genuine fans, turned the night in to an event, you keep catching bursts of choirs you think are backing tapes until you realize the sound is actually the audience singling along – an audience who need and demand more, everything had depth. Everything is good, fiery American post hardcore pop, sometimes it really is worth making an effort and going to Camden on a Thursday night. 
 
www.cursivearmy.com 
 

'NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
THIS ET AL – Baby Machine (FC Recordings) - It takes a little time to really truly get right in to the beauty of This Et Al’s debut album. They’re not one of those bands who instantly hook in to you, they’re wonderfully subtle and warmly understated. Well actually the delicious delicate uplifting beauty that opens The Loveliest Alarm does hook you straight away, the four piece know they don’t need to real you in once they have you on that hook though, Baby Machine is far more subtle and far too clever to be that obvious. The Et Al tease your ears, they play you, they know they’ve got you on that hook from the off, they know they have all the time in the world to let their fine music unwind and weave around you in such a comfortable clever way. The Yorkshire band have a savagely silky sound, their tales of social rife and institutional corruption caress rather than hammer at you. Uncompromisingly soaring and extremely rewarding (very fine production from Richard Green, not seen his name on a production credit before, he’s good – one time creative force behind Ultrasound and Sleepy People and currently with the rather fine Somatics). There’s soaring drama here, slow-fused post rock flavours that lead us in to some explosive rewarding alternative indie-pop. Think My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Trail Of The Dead and the finer moments of Bloc Party and go explore their delicious tales of paranoia and “the new post-millennial underclasses”.   This Et Al have made a very very impressive debut album, an album with so much depth and beauty, an album that doesn’t need to hook you in straight away, an album that you’ll still be listening to and finding things in long after you’ve grown bored with whatever this month’s flavour is. Recommended. And out in the UK on April 9th. www.thisetal.com 

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BIG BUSINESS – Here Comes The Waterworks (Hydrahead) - Steamroller metal, great big relentless roll-right-over-you-if-you-don’t-get-right-out-of-the-way-right-now metal. Stoner edge to their sound, mammoth riffs, no time to hang around waiting for the stoners though, this is a sound that has places to go and tongue-talking people to see. Hang on, they’ve got a little distracted down some dark bleak psychedelic side streets now – hey, why stick to the main roads all the time? Nice diversions and some rather original sounding metal – well worth yer time an ‘ard-earned. www.hydrahead.com  / www.bigbigbusiness.com 

SHERWOOD – A Different Light (My Space) – More of that goddamn emo-pop, far less irritating than most though, kind of nice pleasant demon wresting and their stormy skies are always rather sunny really – no storms here, all is perfect. And there’s nothing much wrong with the summer turning to brown anyway is there? Sherwood are all giant jars of glowing fireflies and breezy happy American emo songs that bring out the Beach Boys best in everyone - have a nice shiny happy day now, would you like an extra spoonful of sugar with that? It is a good life, Sherwood have it all almost figured out, they sound like they always make their beds and tidy their rooms and never swear and always hold doors open and they like staring at the happy moonlight and can we have another spoonful of sugar with that? Hey look, if you want your dreams carried across the sky in perfect harmony and falling asleep is good because those dreams are always so so so good and you want a band who make My Chemical Romance sound like a twistedly evil and corrosively filthy death metal face-ripping insect squashing scumsucker of an outfit in comparison - if you like overdosing on sugar and squeaky clean, nicer than nice, safer than safe AOR emo-pop boy band sugar then this is really pleasant and nice and happy and none more emo and can I have some more sugar and marshmallows with that. Can I go now? I listened to six tracks, I’m feeling a little sick now and you surely can’t be expecting me to last the whole album without something else getting broken can you... www.myspace.com/myspacerecords

ABSCESS – Horrorhammer (Peaceville/Tyrant Syndicate) Ah yes, a twistedly evil and corrosively filthy death metal face-ripping insect squashing scumsucker of an outfit. The Oakland/Bay Area extreme gore metal legends who evolved out of Autopsy (and Death) with a wholesome seventh slice of filthy puss-leaking dark punkified putridly raw old school nasty extreme rotting rutting rancid metal. Lovely. www.peaceville.com

KILLING JOKE – Inside Extremities (Candlelight) – A double album of pre album demos and sketchbook work in progress tracks from the Extremities album, including a previously unheard track plus a full live show from the 1991 Extremities tour.  Killing Joke are one of the most culturally important bands of the 80’s and beyond, this really is for hardcore fans and the obsessed only though – if you count yourself as one of those fanatics then this is a worthwhile document, if you’re not then this isn’t the best starting point and as live performances go we’ve heard far far from the mighty Killing Joke  – www.candlelightrecords.co.uk 

SIMPLE REASON – Standard issue small-town English emo/screamo metal. Sounds like a thousand and forty seven bands we already heard this week. Six tracks, dreadful production, far too many clichés. There’s hints of something in here that suggests there may just be a decent band trying to break out somewhere and that’s why we’re bothering to give them space and time rather than just ignoring this completely  - come on Simple Reason, you can clearly do better than this. Ditch the conformity, stop aping your dreadfully conservative record collection and while we’re here, either this CD is very pressed badly or the producer needs a damn good kicking. Sounds more like a first demo than a finished album – and that annoyingly bad screamo singer needs a kicking when you’ve dealt with the producer, if he screams about the eagles soaring with him one more time then we’ll be around to do the kicking ourselves. www.crash-records.co.uk 
 
Last week's album of the week - FRANK TURNER  / CAR BOMB

Previous album's of the week MONOGONO / BILLY NO MATES / 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
“Radio One here we come! London shows in March innit! Hello, Brief Vessels update: That lovely young Welsh man Huw Stephens has kindly invited us to the Maida Vale Studios to record a Radio One session on 14th March .....  woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When we know the broadcast date we will be sure to tell you. To accompany our trip to big smoke we will be supporting Love Ends Disaster on: Tuesday 13th March at METRO CLUB, LONDON On our way back to Leeds we will also play: Thursday 15th March, at Escobar, WAKEFIELD w/ Red Stars Parade Tickets for our 6th March Brett Anderson Show are sold out - so anyone in London wishing to see Vessels please make your way to Metro on 13th March.  Cheers!  Martin x”

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

SINGLE OF THE WEEK? Well it clearly should be the A SECRET SOCIETY single with that soaring goodness and forward movement and comes spread your wings but hey, we can’t tell you about the secret and we have it out on ORG on Monday and....

SINGLE OF THE WEEK 2
THE LOW LOWS – Elizabeth Pier / Raining In Eva (Monotreme) – They have such rewarding textures, drenched in deliciously subtle reverb and gently caressing feedback. Psychedelic galaxy touching dream-pop and look at those shoes aren’t that glorious, gaze away and fly with the positive melancholy and scratched surface warmth and the stark sweetness that wraps around you with the majesty of it all. The Low Lows (from Athens, Georgia) are wonderfully (strangely) unique and very very beautiful. www.thelowlows.net / www.monotremerecords.com – they start a UK tour on the 7th March 

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LOVE ENDS DISASTER – Ladders (Yellow Noise) Sounds rather like a lot of current flavour of the month radio friendly day time indie rock things we’re hearing right now. I’m sure they were a little more creatively left field and interesting last time around, I was looking forward to this. Still, if you’re in to your Bloc Party and the current indie rock/pop thing then they’re good at it I guess, go check them out, make up your own mind, they’ll probably be all over daytime alternative radio and loved by the indie masses any day now, good luck to them. Awful lot of bands sounding like lots of things we’ve already heard far too many times, we’ll leave it with you. www.loveendsdisaster.co.uk

Last week's single of the week - I LIKE TRAINS / DINOSAUR Jr  / RADIO LUXEMBOURG

Previously - HONEY RIDE ME A GOAT / MOTHGUTS / KILLA KELA / CHARLES CAMPBELL JONES / TOBIAS FROBERG / 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

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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. 

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