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| ORGAN
#197 > MAR 1st 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon |
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| 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.
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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
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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 |
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DEMO TIME |
Like
we already said - we shall no longer be reviewing a million demos,
we're just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more
time for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective,
when we tell you it's goood then it really is goooooooood
DEMO
OF THE WEEK
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)
ALSO
CHECK OUT
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 |
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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
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'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
ALSO
CHECK OUT
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
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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 |
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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
ALSO
CHECK OUT
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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