The Organ radio hour, brought to you by Organ magazine, will return to the airwaves via London’s legendary radio station RESONANCE 104.4 FM on Sunday nights from April 8th at 9.30pm as part of the new spring schedule. The Organ show took a winter break after a two year run – we’re back this week – are you ready? 

Resonance 104.4FM goes out on the FM dial all over London and listened to worldwide via www.resonancefm.com

The Organ hour will alternate - one week the Other Rock Show, the following the Organ show with Sean O ...

Sean Organ will be bringing you an eclectic mix of diverse left-field things from all points in between and beyond - the best new releases and demos that are circulating around the underground fanzine channels and landing here in the Organ office, along with news of forthcoming events and general alternative music news and goings on in and around London – punk, prog, post-rock, hip-hop, the more challenging end of metal, alt.rock, country, who knows what..

The Other Rock Show is presented by Marina O, The Other Rock Show is about exploring 'other' time signatures within structures of rock and filtering out the conventions of the 4/4 time easy option in favour of something a little more challenging – Deerhoof, Hella, Cardiacs, 65Daysofstatic, Gentle Giant, Thee More Shallows, Battles...

Expect waves of fresh challenging alternative music each week, the kind you don’t often get on ‘normal’ music radio shows and stations. Expect special guests, expect who knows what... expect to find links and details so you can explore all that you hear on www.organart.com after each show 

Sean O will broadcast on April 8th, Marina’s Other Rock Show on the 15th and then alternative weeks until...
 

TOMAHAWK, featuring Mike Patton, are planning to release their new album in late June. It's to be called 'Anonymous'. 

BLOODSTOCK Open Air Festival will now happen from August 16-18, and not on July 6/7, at Catton Hall in Derbyshire. On the bill will be In Flames, Arch Enemy, Testament, Lacuna Coil, Dream Evil, Wolf, Korpiklaani, Memfis and Rise To Addiction. As a result, the indoor Bloodstock festival won't be happening this year
 

Bring It On! The debut three track single from THE SMEARS, the April installment of the ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES (Part 31) hits the shops on 16th April, advance orders and subscribers copies will be going out straight after the Easter chocolate break. You can mail order a copy now, we’ll be sending them out on Tuesday. Three tracks, three slices of scathingly raw punk rock. Next confirmed gigs are the Leftlion magazine extravaganza in Nottingham on Friday 13th April and the Leeds Ladyfest show on Sunday 15th, scroll down the page for details and links.  LEFTLION is a Nottingham based magazine and a week on Friday, that’s the 13th April, you can catch the Left Lion Extravaganza at the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham. On the bill you’ll find Old Basford, THE SMEARS, We Show Up On Radar, Spotlight Kid (members of Bent and Six by Seven), The Elementz, Karizma and DJ Squigley – you can find out lots more here or by hitting the flyer, you’ll also be able to pick up a copy of The Smears new single Bring It On at the gig.

Then you have a day to recover before you follow those SMEARS to Leeds where you can catch them on April 15th performing at the last day of the week long Leeds LADYFEST alongside Sky Larkin, Baba Yaga, Drunk Granny and quite a few more. The show is at Joseph Wells, the event starts at 2:30pm and runs all day until 11:00pm.  What is Ladyfest? Well here’s a quote from the Leeds Ladyfest site - “Ladyfest Leeds 2007 is going to be a week long of arts events taking place in venues across Leeds - all in the of celebrating creativity, diversity and promoting gender equality. It will place from Tuesday 10th to Sunday 15th April 2007. Ladyfest Leeds aims to down the barriers between the art world and those of us who are creative day – we want to celebrate the talents of *all* women”. Ladyfest events have been running all over the world since the turn of the century, there’s a piece that Andy from Linus wrote for Organ in 2002 here. What is Ladyfest? Anything you want it to be

John on the phone......

A message from Chris, who’s Chris? I don’t know, some random passing Chris who seems to know things that you need to know: “Hello Good People, To help celebrate the release of the stunning new album by Michael J Sheehy via Cardiff label Red Eye Music we are throwing what is sure to be a pretty special gig at The SPITZ, 109 Commercial St, Old Spitalfields Market, London. E1 6BJ on Tuesday April 10th. I know it's Easter weekend n'all but if you are in town I promise you it'll be well worth your while coming down.  Hope to see you Tuesday. Big love”, Chris.xx The album is released on April 9th, we haven’t heard it, but hey we’ve told you about Michael (and Dream City Film Club and Saint Silas Intercession) enough in the past and here’s what other people have been saying about the new album -   “A work of commendable character and craft.. Michael J Sheehy taps into a rich vein of emotional brutality”. (The Independent) “If Elvis and Nick Cave sired a composite offspring, Michael J Sheehy would be the result”. (The Guardian) Go investigate Michael over over at - www.myspace.com/michaeljsheehy then come back and say thank you. Roll up, roll up, come down from your lighthouses in your plagues and come see SUNS OF THE TUNDRA play an early Sunday show on 22 April. Suns will be onstage at 8.30pm at The Water Rats, Kings Cross, London (Grays Inn Rd, Kings Cross underground). Cost: a mere £5.00 (cheaper than Wembley by quite some margin). Why? you ask. Well, here are the band with SEVEN good reasons: !: New expanded line-up! Martin "Evangelista" Ellis is playing the MiniKorg and mandolin! Hanna "hot lips" Pettersson on saxophone!  2: New guitars! Thanks to our Hofner endorsement there will be some sweeeeet new axes on stage! 3: New tunes! A new instrumental track called "Endurance"! 4: Unpublished classics! From the vintage vault, we will be performing "Pond Life" for the first time since 1994 (Glasgow Barrowlands)  5: Our classic 1994 album "Giving birth to a stone" just got re-released on Sony BMG and we want you there to celebrate with us! 6: You can buy t-shirts and stuff from our stand! 7; Our good friends When Gravity Fails are on the same bill (stage time 9.30)!  There is only one thing that could possibly be worth missing the show for, and that is to stay in and listen to the radio and then watch your TV

The new year long series of ORGAN TV  is on your screens in the UK right now. Every   Wednesday evening, 10.30pm  on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY 173. And now due to the fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY 883 at 11.15pm.

What's it all about? Simple, just good music, and the art of good video making...  Same musical policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just handy signposts, as long as the music and video making has that X factor - expect a healthy eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post rock, post punk, post man pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever..... music and creativity for the open minded 
 

THIS WEEK WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS.... 

1: OURLIVES - Sandra 
2: YOUR CODE NAME IS: MILO - Understand 
3: THE LOW LOWS - Dear Flies Love Spiders 
4: TANGAROA - Vietnamese Killing Queens 
5: ChthoniC - Quasi Putrefaction 
6: MY VITRIOL - This Time 

And then on WEDNESDAY 11th April -10.30pm on OPEN ACCESS 2 via SKY 173 or catch the repeat that's on OPEN ACCESS 1 via SKY 883 on Sunday 15th April at 11.15pm

OURLIVES - Sandra 
CARDIACS - Day Is Gone 
YOUR CODE NAME IS: MILO - Understand 
CATS AND CATS AND CATS - Young Person's Guide 
MY VITRIOL - This Time 
THE PRISCILLAS - All My Friends Are Zombies 
THE STUFF - Your Libido 
VIKING MOSES - Little Emma's Smile 

And the week after next? Expect, oh I don't know what you can expect, let's just kick those rat-bastards out and put our own people in charge, get off the air MTV. 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 OF THE WEEK

BOMB THE SUN – Now this is seriously good, seriously seriously good! Six tracks, a very impressive three piece from South Wales and some kind of magical musical chemistry glued together by some brilliant drumming. Expansive colourful light and shade, moody, dramatic reflectiveness that gives way when it needs to in just the right way to some fine jazzy galloping rock. Nice long tracks, serious stonerness from a band who are clearly never ever happy to just settle for the cliches. Large expansive instrumental prog-scapes, fine vocals when they’re needed, a glorious unpredictable and always rewarding journey through the rough and the smooth – mellow stoner prog that never ever stops being interesting and is on more than one occasion rather breath taking . There’s an absolutely brilliant twelve minute track in the middle of this collection called Not Waving But Drowning that will take you to so many places (this is a work in progress demo that I believe they plan to release with someone as an EP sometime soon). One for fans of Led Zeppelin, Electric Wizard, Kyuss and the less cliched side of psychedelic progressive stoner rock, serious heavy-weight stuff, fuzz flavoured expansiveness, we’re massively impressed, highly recommended – www.myspace.com/bombthesun

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KUTOSIS – Another decent demo from the jagged Cardiff indie band who mix a kind of urgent garagey Von Bondies/Arctic Monkey sound with a bit of Buzzcocks bite and swagger. They’re frantic and energetic, impassioned and raging against the mind control machines in a way that will get the Manics fans fired up – www.myspace.com/kutosis

TEN TO NEVER - Expansive melodic moody easy on the ear Smashing Pumpkins meet Pink Floyd/Porcupine Tree neo-prog dynamics from the South coast of England. Bit of a jazz-rock edge, a touch of funk and a hint of Santana to their Temple of The Dog Manavihnu Orchestra easy listening. Extremely well played and highly professional and maybe a little to slick when we really need some danger. Four tracks, well recorded, slick artwork as well, they’re really good at their chosen thing, litle too safe and polite for us but... – www.tentonever.net

CRYSTAL ENTITY – Divine Collision – Old school quirky Sisters style skeletal goth from Holland. www.crtstalentity.com

GUNNING FOR GOLIATH – Modern sounding meaty melodic metal, with a nu/thrash edge, from some people who were once in Defenestration. Slick, well played, powerful, dynamic, very professional and unfortunately totally lacking in terms of identity or indeed the slightest hint of x factor or a desire to be different. If you’re wondering where Rob and Scott from Defenestration got to then here they are, we’ll leave it with you and them – www.myspace.com/gunningforgoliath

Last week's demo of the week - OXYGEN THIEF / THE DAWN CHORUS

Previous demo's of the week - THE SCARLET LETTER UNION / KOE / DEATH LIST FIVE / BITCH SLAP BARBIE / 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

Thee More Shallows’ new album, ‘Book of Bad Breaks’, is more electronic, harsher and perhaps (interestingly) a little more disjointed than More Deep Cuts. The familiar ingredients remain – the delicate, minimal passages and 2am whispered laments – but they are less central and instead fight for space with buzzing moogs and a more obvious aggression. Even the odd Vaughan Williams moment is glitched and fraught with a sense of the sinister.

So the intriguing question was how they would translate this harder-edge to the stage. Odd to relate, then, that Thee More Shallows were positively playful tonight. Dee Kesler grappled jokingly with a rebellious mike stand throughout, in keeping with the let’s-see-how-this-goes air to proceedings. But aside from the effects of first-night uncertainties and jet-lag, Thee More Shallows premiered a number of songs from the new album with the élan we’ve come to expect, and still replete with the slow-burning melody that makes them such a delight to listen to.

Now just a three-piece (I assume I’m not the only one to miss Odessa’s singing?), Thee More Shallows bring a real inventiveness with various effects. Kesler is fond of the sustained loop to paint a background, and the set sees all band members at various points playing the keys, still housed in the red box, with Messrs Fraser and Gonzales exchanging drums and red box duties.

It’s therefore a real team effort to create that full, lush Thee More Shallows sound, and it’s rather intriguing to see them at work and more of a spectacle than you might imagine. As they have always done, the band expertly managed the process, and the set was carefully chosen to balance the competing tendencies. ‘Night at the Knight School’ hinted at things to come, its gentle, insistent vocal line both soothing and unsettling, while ‘Eagle Rock’ and ‘White Mask’ raised the volume levels, the latter with a terrific, radio-friendly chorus. That new sense of urgency was most apparent with ‘Oh Yes, Another Mother’, whose initial serenity gave way to an epic finale, more frenzied and all-out than ‘Freshman Thesis’, its earlier counterpart.

But even though this more abrasive, harder-edged aspect of the new album was unmistakably there, the earlier material still fitted in well alongside. The more experimental Bowie-esque electronica that ends the new album wasn’t prioritised, while ‘2am’ sounded as refreshing as ever, and the magnificent, brooding ‘Cloisterphobia’ received perhaps the warmest reception of the night from a crowd clearly well-versed in ‘More Deep Cuts’.

So the initial impressions are much the same as those that greet the first hearing of the album – it’s a compelling evolution of sound and perspective, essentials in place, but with a more combative attitude, and with a nod in the direction of those seeking innovative ways of embracing electronica with their guitars still strapped on. Thee More Shallows return to London on 27th April, where you can see them at the Buffalo Bar. Go on, treat yourself.

(Phil Whalley)

www.theemoreshallows.com
 

FIELDS – Everything Last Winter (Atlantic) – Now don’t take this the wrong way, take it in a very positive complimentary way in which it is intended - Fields are just so so nice, just so easy on the ear, just so uplifting and right. Breezy mellow indie pop that’s laced with intricate details and radiant textures that take us to the edges of post rock and touch on the refreshing mellow (glitch-free) side of 65Daysofstatic or a happy positive at-ease Radiohead. Mostly it does sound like sitting in the sun in fields with good friends and no cares – simple songs, simple arrangements, almost folky – those delicious details keep you there with it, feeling good and wanting more. Bittersweet harmonies, scrumptious, Feathers in gloriously epic in a refined understated uplifting (Levitation) way, Schoolbooks will have you stopping for breath half way through. Boy/girl vocals, she sounds like Sandy Denny (spot on production as well). The whole album is just right – perfect crafted, ambitiously simple rewarding clever folky post-pop with detail that you’ll want to revisit again and again. Could be the album of the summer. www.myspace.com/fieldsband

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I-DEF-I – In The Light Of A New Day (Copro) – The long awaited much anticipated debut album from the Manc metalheads and fifteen slices of powerful melodic modern metal. It bites and crunched in all the expected places, they thrash and pound and growl without ever letting go of the power of the melody. And if they were American and had the machine behind them they’d be headlining big venues and getting the front covers and pull-out posters that advertising budgets demand (you didn’t think you get on the cover of Kerrang just because your music as good did you?). Hey look, I-Def-I are easily as good and as professional as any of the many 36CrazyKillswitchfists of this world, can’t help but think we were expecting a little more of a dangerous challenging edge though, kind of feels like they’ve played safe and made a risk-free rather slick 4K album rather than really going for it. www.i-def-i.co.uk

KTP – 2006 (Zero Youth) – There’s a certain rough charm to this stripped-back-to-basics gravel-throated DIY punk rock ‘n roll from Lawrence Kansas – there’s a passion and a fire to their defiant Leatherface styled yet very American sounding psychobilly-edge take on life. www.zeroyouthrecords.com

PROFESSOR FATE – Inferno (Feto) – Filmoid studio based bombastic baroque Hammer-Horror side-project solo gothicness from Mick Kenney (he of Anaal Nathrakh/Exploder/Mistress). Yer man certainly knows how to lay it on with a trowel, great big gothic slabs of digital orchestral ham, all a little too obvious to really satisfy, for Horror Hammer fans only. www.myspace.com/professorfate1

BLACK SABBATH – The Dio Years (Rhino) – Now keep this to yourself, don’t be telling no one I said this, we don’t want any more visits from the metal police and we know we’re really not allowed to say these things in public, but I always reckoned Dio’s Sabbath to be the best version. Alright, not as good as the very first Sabbath album but then everyone know that... 
You see, back when news first broke on the black winds that blow in the darkness of the rainbows of the night that the short New Yorker was to replace the big double O as Sabbath front man there were riots in the streets.  Unwashed hoards of festering Sabbath fans burning down rainbows and baying about there being no sun in the shadow of the wizard and the diabolical sacrilege of it all. The dark had really killed the sun and the world was soon to be full of kings and queens who’d dry your eyes and steal your dreams (meanwhile Rainbow fans were busy sticking pins in Graham Bonnett dolls and demanding the return of king Ronnie J to their band). Truth is Dio was great in Rainbow, he should never have been kicked out by broody old Ritchie Blackmood and really while Dio was without a band and what with Ozzy’s Sabbath being pretty much a washed up fading mess it was an inspired switch. Van Halen had just roasted Sabbath completely on that UK tour of ’78 or ’79. Yeah, alright, Never Say Die was, and still is, a decent enough rather underrated album but the Sabs were in reality a spent force and Ozzy was a wreck - it was all clearly over and getting rather embarrassing. So Iommi, Ward and Butter kicking out the bundling drug crazed dribbling fool Ozzy and getting band-less horn-thrower Ronnie James Dio in was an excellent move – like a Black Rainbow supergroup if you will. .Still, for a period there when Ronnie James first took over as frontman, there were some people who saw it as a sign that the end of the world was coming and flying angels fast descending and that the sky would fall in and that rainbows were evil and that they really had all just have gone to that very bad place called witches valley where they say the sun won’t go.  Popular opinion was that Sabbath should have come to an end and without Ozzy their garden was not of good and was most certainly a place of evil where the spiders only weave shadows of webs and what the hell does Ronnie James Dio mean with all those lyrics of his? Has anyone ever worked him out? Brilliant frontman but what the hell is the short one singing about? So anyway, riots in the streets and none more black (little did the unhappy Dio-loathing hoards know that five or six years later Ian Gillan would be fronting Black Sabbath and they’d be headlining Reading and preposterously encoring with a version of Smoke On The bloody Water!). It was dangerous out there, no one was safe, the mob really did rule, there was no middle ground, street battles outside Deeside ice rink, Ozzy fans versus the Rainbow fans. Most really did view poor Ronnie like some evil demon elf lurking in the dark. Those who knew the reality knew then and still know now that Heaven And Hell was and still is a total hard rock classic of an album and that the Dio-fronted Sabbath were excellent both on record and live (OK, so he wasn’t that good at singing Paranoid, I’ll give you that one!). The follow up album – Mob Rules - wasn’t bad either. The re-union stuff they did later on, “After All (The Dead)” and such, sounded a little too much like a doomy parody of the 70’s Sabbath, bit of a cash-in and let’s milk the legend really. The three new tracks recorded here for this compilation are decent enough, well worth your time if you already know about Heaven And Hell. Still haven’t got a clue what Ronnie James is on about though, he’s either worked out the meaning life completely or he got his dictionary of heavy metal rhymes and cliched lines in a complete wizard’s stew and cried wolf in the danger zone too many times when he got too close to the back side of the moon and telling us that it was a long way to nowhere so we had to leave soon and the door to dreams only opened up to nightmares and the shadows in the wind and the stripes on the tiger.  I have this theory that he must have been banned from ever singing about Rainbows while he was actually in Sabbath, seeing as he never could stop going on about them while he was in Blackmore’s band and immediately started chasing the things again (chasing them in to the dark at the end of the night where you can see the tiger and know he’s free) once he formed his own excellent band. That was a long winded review, what I mean to say was, Dio, probably better than Ozzy, Heaven And Hell, classic album, new tracks, pretty good. And they’re touring under the name Heaven And Hell as well (disgracefully greedy ticket prices though, fleece your fans why don’t you!)

RIVETHEAD – Rivethead (RH) – Modern sounding, dare we say Nu?  Yeah we can, muscled up melodic Nu Metal with a crunchy adrenaline pumping electronic edge. The North American outfit do it as well as a thousand others, polished and professional and in need of some identity and personality, desperately needing something to make them stand out from the crowd. If you like your electronic nu-metal they do it well enough - www.rivetheadonline.com

ANNIHILATOR – Metal (SPV) – I bet these aging Canadians are sick of people like me going on about Alice In Hell in every damn review, it was many many years ago now and this is at least their twelfth studio album. Thing is they’re never ever going to better that track, it is a rip crunching metal classic. Annihilator do keep on making damn fine albums though, and they’ve done it again here. Fine mix of old school mosh and technical crunch ‘n thrash, and there’s that madman Lips from the mighty mighty mighty – yes they are worthy of three whole shots of the world ‘mighty’ – Anvil. Yeap, Lips from Anvil guest vocaling right at yer on a track called Army of One and a chorus that name-drops all you’re favourite bands – “Anthrax and Motorhead, Exodus, Slayer. Bang your head!” – now that is what I call a chorus! There is no one more metal than Lips! Actually there’s loads of guests on here, people from from Trivium and Ice Age and Children Of Bodum and In Flames and such, most of them adding guest vocals to Jeff Waters and his guitar (about the only guitarist who can actually get away with the crime of technical metal show-off poodle widdling and fret masturbation).  Metal then, just like it says on the tin, bang with us, never ending madness. Says something here on the press release about this being a major landmark on Annihilator’s path to the worldwide domination of the metal world, no idea which world they live in! Come back to reality, Annihilator always have been and always will be a rather under appreciated cult of a band who every couple of years pop up with a decent enough old school thrash metal album that has a challenging moment or two in there with all the first-rate old school thrashing crunch and widdle.- so, another decent album that’s well worth your time from Annihilator - www.annihlatormetal.com
 

Last week's album of the week - HEY COLOSSUS Previous album's of the week - THEE MORE SHALLOWS / SHINING / LEFTOVER CRACK / CITIZEN FISH / THIS ET AL / FRANK TURNER  / CAR BOMB / 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

OXYGEN THIEF - We’re in The Best Of Hands - Sometimes something just turns up and in a totally unexpected unanticipated understated way just really impresses. Something that makes everything feel good, that makes life and trawling through demos and dealing with bands and promoters and everything else just a little bit more worthwhile and inviting than it seemed to be yesterday. This fine six track demo just turned up and politely waited in the pile with all the others, took a day or two to reach the top, we know nothing of Bristol’s Oxygen Thief, so it just had to wait there with the other (yeah, we admit it, if something we’ve been anticipating or excited about turns up it gets to jump the queue, everything else waits in line). Oxygen thief wages solo acoustic warfare, something that, following the demise of his previous band, he clearly has to do. He says he sings loud and plays his guitar to within an inch of its life, I de believe him as well, there’s so much energy in here with the passion. Now it would be very lazy of us to throw in names like Frank Turner or Get Cape, does give you a vague idea of where we’re at through. You need to take a little time with Oxygen Thief, you need to let his energy and his craft seep in, this is subtle (and subtle is not overrated) and he’s not going to grab you by the collar and demand you attention from the off, let his intentions shine through though, after a couple of plays you’ll know it was right to do so. This CD has been occupying days of my listening time (while the pile waiting over there waiting grows bigger). Just really good, really positive, energetic committed DIY acoustic emotion and bite and just six fine songs. Thank you Oxygen Thief.  He knows how to make things better, a simple formula to break the pattern...    www.oxygenthiefmusic.com/ www.myspace.com/oxygenthief

Hey Sean, here's my tour dates;

19 Apr 2007  The Wilmington Arms, Angel, London
20 Apr 2007  Live And Loud Bar, Guildford
21 Apr 2007  The Providence, Brighton
23 Apr 2007  Bar Coda, Southampton
24 Apr 2007  The Tardebigge, Redditch
25 Apr 2007  The Atrium, Leeds
26 Apr 2007  Coffee Moco, Sheffield
27 Apr 2007  2 Pigs, Cheltenham
29 Apr 2007  Bar En Route, Cardiff
30 Apr 2007  The Croft, Bristol

and there's a flyer here (which I've used a quote from your review on);
 

“The Oakland, California-based "ROCK against ROCK" collective SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM have set a May 29, 2007 release date for their eagerly anticipated new release, entitled In Glorious Times.  The album will drop via cutting edge Brooklyn music label The End Records”.

We’ve gone on and on about how good they are in past Organs, “SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM are a wildly unique quintet whose adventurous musical drive is equaled only by their individualistic instrumentation (the band uses many homemade devices as instruments) and idiosyncratic live performances, which are known to include furious avant-prog / rock, expressive theatrics, pseudo-scientific scholarly presentations and notable collaborations.  In creating In Glorious Times, SGM once again imbedded themselves deep in the creative process, hovering within the intricate stylings of musical evolution, the expansive world of literature and the pain and the passion of human emotion, allowing themselves to reach new plateaus on the forthcoming album.

SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM feature Matthias Bossi (drums, glockenspiel, xylophone, vocals), Nils Frykdahl (guitar, flute, vocals), Carla Kihlstedt (violin, percussion guitar, autoharp, organ, vocals), Michael Mellender (percussion, assorted melodic instruments, vocals) and Dan Rathbun (bass, piano log, trombone, lute, vocals). – go explore over www.sleepytimegorillamuseum.com / www.myspace.com/sleepytimegorillamuseum

"East Bay Dadaist death-rock band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum wants to destroy rock with ... rock." - EAST BAY EXPRESS

"multigenerational experimentalists hellbent on razing the wall between head-banging and pure-head songcraft.  The Sleepytime Gorilla Museum ethos of sensory subversion via meticulously crafted, mad-music mayhem can be traced directly to the so-called prog rock explorations of the late '70s by the Art Bears, a notoriously daring U.K. trio" - SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY

SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM have just announced European tour dates for late April, don’t make the UK we’re disappointed to say – we did chase them and try to sort something out but no one seemed to be paying attention...
 

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
SILICON VULTURES – Silicon Vultures EP (Captains Of Industry) – Urgent and biting and instantly demanding your new wave loving pointy pronky substance demanding ears – Cutting frantic pink things with maniac knives in trenches with Trencher and some unhinged Locust yelling from the yappy staccato dancing on hot coals singer and actually a little Camp Blackfoot around the edges - anyone remember those suitable cases for treatment? Nah? Thought not, what a here today gone later today musical world we live in, and let the dog eat pizza and Germs and Devo and fierce fierce frantic smart-punk yelping goodness, we like this frantic five tracer lots and lots – www.myspace.com/siliconvultures

THE SMEARS – Bring It On (ORG) – The real single of the week and don’t come here telling us we can’t review our own releases, we can do whatever the hell we want and if wasn’t exciting us then it wouldn’t be on Org would it! This in is seriously exciting, this one is a raw as hell single and single finger in the face of whatever you got for them (and us) to shove a finger in to. One minute fifty five seconds of scathing raw in your face pure punk rock energy from the Nottingham three piece – “Are you listening? You better listen”. You do not mess with these people. Babes in Toyland/Seven Year Bitch/early Mudhoney energy, screaming feedback, jagged rawness (not sloppy, they’re tight, they can play, you have to be able to play to pull it off this well) with no time for hanging around and politeness and they’ve got an itch they need to scratch it, so bring it all to them – this is as good as those raw b-sides on that debut Cay single we put out back there – yes, that good! This is why we have a record label and put up with all the crap.  And the two b-sides are just as blistering good, oh yeah, and they just happen to be girls but that’s of no real importance now is it? Go hear it here, go buy it here (just two quid including psotage and packaging) and if it doesn’t rip your head off and have you screaming with raw primal delight we’ll refund your money twice over. 

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THE SCARE – Bats Bats Bats (Dance To The Radio) – Sounds a little like it may just be another case of style over substance - they certainly look the part and they talk a good talk, they’ve got the drive and fuelled up energy, they’ve got the live swagger and all the Iggy Pop Nick Caveness attitude and GU Medicine/Sunlounger power and yes they’re a little unpredictable and potential explosive live. They do have the vitriolic power to erupt but where is the substance and the musical depth to back up the indie-media hype when they just let their music do the talking? www.myspace.com/thescare

THE TIGERPICKS – Disco Punk Electro Funk (Deltasonic) – Three piece from Manchester and single that does exactly what it says on the tin (as no doubt every smartarse review in the country will point out). Confident electro pop with emphasis of pop in a Gene Serene/Peaches kind of way – www.myspace.com/thetigerpicks

THE SWORD – Freya (Kemado) – Texas riff masters (so it says here on the press release), pretty  much standard issue stomping stoner hard rock and Sabbath riffola like we already heard a million times. The Sword do it as well as all the others, they deliver it with attitude, no hint of anything original or the least bit different, shit stomping it may well be, pointless is what it really is though, just what the hell is it with bands who are just happy to sound like a very good copy of their record collection? Put your answers on a Witchfinder General postcard and send it to www.myspace.com/thesword

Last week's single of the week - THE OOHLAS

Previously - STRIPLIGHT / ALMOS / THE LOW LOWS / I LIKE TRAINS / DINOSAUR Jr  / RADIO LUXEMBOURG / 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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