And Fierce 10 starts this week, what's that? Scroll down for that as well... 

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HOT AIR GUITAR - EGO-WARRIORS PLAN TO SAVE PLANET

Back in February, Presidential wannabe Al Gore announced that he'd be pissing on Geldof's bonfire by organising a series of concerts "bigger than Live Aid" to sort out Global Warming. Obviously a great idea judging by all the successes after Cap'n Bob's recent Live8 concerts brought such a huge amount of welcome attention to Africa and the flagging careers of a host of jet set stars.

Inconvenient Twat Al's announcement was made in Los Angeles where he was joined by Jon Bon Jovi and Sting - neither of whom, incidentally, are known for residing in LA. Also shouting out to Al was hip-hop producer and private jet owning blingmeister Pharell Williams, who hails all the way from Virginia - right on the opposite side of the country. Never mind, Pharrell could just jump in his plane to help launch the campaign raising awareness of climate change! (In case you're wondering, the return flight is the equivalent of 1.68 tons of carbon - guilt you can of course offset by planting £16 worth of trees (minus expenses) at www.co2balance.com)

Not long after the big LA who-har, last week (13th), Al was next to 'pop' up in Rio de Janeiro. That's a 3.4 ton carbon footprint all the way from Washington, presuming he's bringing the hair-stylist along! All essential resource burning in the name of promotion for 'Live Earth', which promises a global concert starting in Sydney and continuing across seven continents with shindigs in Tokyo, Shanghai, Johannesburg, London, Rio de Janeiro and New Jersey. This event will likely have the largest carbon footprint of any thing taking place this year (vying with the G8 meetings for top spot presumably). Flying popstars round the world to prevent climate chaos is a bit like leaving your windows open to deter burglars; in fact why not set fire to the entire Amazon basin to create even more awareness of the crisis!

The behind-the-scenes-svengalis are a group of not so radical businessmen, 'Save Our Selves' (and that is their genuine name! Easier to attract capitalists and pop stars with such a frank admission we would guess...) It was established by Kevin Wall - a leading venture capitalist and owner of the ominous 'Control Room', a major concert production company (for profitable clients like Bob Dylan). His dream line up is completed by edgy front man Al Gore, ex-vice president of the world's biggest polluter (while he was in office, US carbon emissions rose by 8%...) And Gore is given backing by a harmonious bunch of corporate-sponsored think tanks, such as 'The Climate Group', recently proud to announce that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation had joined the organisation. No doubt media overlord Murdoch will feel at home with fellow eco-terrorists like BP, Johnson & Johnson and Starbucks.

So the basic plan is to fly loads of pop stars all over the world to different concerts where they will be joined by tens of thousands of freeloading media types, not to mention a few million punters. And just how are most of the participants going to arrive at the gig - on foot? In their solar powered cars? But don't worry 'cos there's going to be some on-site composting - the production team are promising us a 'green' event! There'll be recycling and a few wind turbines. The, so far unwritten, guidelines will go as far as 'addressing' food, beverages and packaging as well as transportation. Radical stuff, especially as the event plans to leave an 'eco-friendly legacy' for the entertainment industry.

Anyway forget Al Bore and the Lukewarm Chilli Peppers - if you really wanna put the boot into climate change, bin the battle of the pop blands and get down to the Camp for Climate Action, from 14th-21st August. See www.climatecamp.org.uk
 

The Organ radio hour amd the Other Rock Show brought to you by Organ zine, on the airwaves via London’s legendary radio station RESONANCE 104.4 FM on Sunday nights at 9.30pm Resonance 104.4FM goes out on the FM dial all over London and listened to worldwide via www.resonancefm.com or grab more details and recent playlists here

Here’s who got played last week, you’ll find details of all tracks with links and more with the detailed playlist that’s over here

1: TRANSISTOR SIX - Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta) 
2: ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK –  The New Stone Age (Virgin) 
3: DEERHOOF – The Perfect Me (ATP/R) 
3: SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM – Puppet Show (The End) 
4: THE PAPER CHASE – Drive Carefully, Dear (Southern) 
5: HERZOGA – Things To Say (Demo) 
6: THE PAPER CHASE – I Did A Terrible Thing (Southern) 
7: GREG MALCOLM – Spanish Flang Dang (Table Of The Elements) 
8: XPERIMENTAL DENTAL SCHOOL - A Seal Is A Sharks Meal (Cochon) 
9: THE MAN FROM URANUS – Tape Music For Radio Tags (YouAreHere) 
10: TALL PONY – You’re My Girlfriend Now (Cherryade) 
11: MOMUS – Going For A Walk With A Line (YouAreHere)
12: SHINING – Asa Nisi Masa (Rune Grammofon) 
13: PERRI ALLEYNE – Jim’s Parents - Abide With Me (XL Recordings) 
14: ANTIGAMA – By And By (Relapse) 
15: BATTLETORN – Throne (Mad At The World) 
16: THE SMEARS – Bring It On (ORG) 
17: NO NECK BLUES BAND with JOHN FAHEY and COACH FINGERS – Overcome (Table Of Elements) 
18: TWO BANDS AND A LEGEND – Who The F*** (Smalltown Superjazz) 
19: SHELLAC – ORL (Touch & Go)

www.thefleshhappening.com / www.myspace.com/thefleshhappening

PELICAN are to release a new album 'City Of Echoes' through Hydra Head on June 18.

Expo Plymouth is from 22-25 June 2007.  The Expo festival is a free and fun annual event. It is the hub and playground of the experimental music and sound art scene in the UK and beyond. 

Like a sonic circus Expo travels across the UK and this year we make landfall in Plymouth. Join us for a packed weekend of installations, sonic ferry tours, performances, exhibitions, film-screenings, happenings, a large-scale sonic picnic, workshops and gigs.

Expo presents something for everyone at sites all across Plymouth including the Lido and Plymouth Harbour. You’ll hear new and amazing things, enjoy places and spaces in new ways and be part of a truly unique event.” 

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE, go explore...

www.sonicartsnetwork.org
www.sonicpostcards.org
 

STEAM TRAIN, WHOOOOO HOOOO “Hi, I’m hoping that you may be able to help by giving our upcoming festival a mention. It’s a unique little event, being hosted on a heritage railway with a steam train ride required to get to the festival site!  Thanks, Stuart” The Indietracks Indiepop Festival takes place on July 28th & 29th  2007 at the Midland Railway Butterley, Ripley, Derbyshire Ride the steam train to indiepopland! Featuring over 30 indiepop bands, so far announced are: Arthur & Martha, Bearsuit, The Bobby McGees, Cats On Fire, The Chemistry Experiment, The College Pinks, Countryside, The Cut Outs, Das Wanderlust, The Electric Pop Group, The Felt Tips, Persil, Pete Green, The Gresham Flyers, The Hermit Crabs, MJ Hibbett & The Validators, Horowitz, The Indelicates, Rose McDowell, Roy Moller, The Parallelograms, The Orchids, Santa Dog, Strange Idols, Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring, Wake The President & Wintergreen Each night will end with an indiepop disco, Saturday featuring the legendary London club “How Does It Feel?”. Ticket includes unlimited steam train rides and access to other railway attractions such as museums and a farm. Accompanied children welcome. Camping nearby. www.indietracks.co.uk

FIERCE 10 starts on May 19th in Birmingham, the tenth festival of alternative performance art.... 

“this year we are to welcome back many of the artists who have helped to establish Fierce’s at the forefront of the international art scene – with Ron Athey, Franko Gob Squad and Marisa Carnesky just a few of those returning this year with commissioned projects. Yet amongst these familiar guests are an equal number of new faces whose may not be as well known yet but whom we firmly believe are producing work will soon rank in stature alongside that of their forebears” states organiser Mark Ball . 

Go explore the mischief and surprises they have in store over at www.fiercetv.co.uk and while you’re there check out  Only a Phone Call Away
 
 

John on the phone... No, this week of Fierce we have Bernadette

How many times have you answered your telephone only to realise you’ve been phoned by a friend while their mobile phone was in their pocket? you listen or hang up? What did you hear that you weren’t mean to know? And you ever tell them? Every time you receive a ‘pocket call,’ you become a audience to someone’s life. Multimedia artist Bernadette Louise explores voyeurism by giving the audience a sense of cinematic presence within the piece ‘Only a Phone Call Away’ is exactly that: a telephone recording of a daily life story that you can access by calling either 0121 314 3330 or 0845 867 3853 (calls charged at local rate) at any point throughout the Participants can eavesdrop on pieces created by artists including Lunch, Nicole Blackman, Louis Campbell, Big Bren and Geordie Blake and herself – each of which will be on rotation during Fierce! Performances can only be accessed by dialing these numbers: UK (local rate): 0845 867 3853 Charged at local  Birmingham: 0121 314 3330 Charged at local rate and should be included mobile network minutes. Calls charged at local rate.Please note that content of these calls may not be suitable for young people. Parental and the consent of whoever pays the telephone bill is required before the call.  Call duration no longer than 3 ½ mins. May  19th Sat Lydia Lunch 20th Sun Bernadette Louise & Geordie  21st Mon Nicole Blackman 22nd Tues Big Bren 23rd Weds Louis  24th Thurs Lydia Lunch 25th Fri Bernadette Louise & Geordie  26th Sat Nicole Blackman 27th Sun Big Bren 28th Mon Louis  29th Tues Lydia Lunch 30th Weds Bernadette Louise & Geordie  31st Thurs Nicole Blackman June 1st Fri Big Bren 2nd Sat Louis  And not that we want to close things down before they've even started but... Re-Visions of Excess – the Fierce 10 closing party is to be hosted by co-curators and performance artist Ron Athey and Lee Adams. The event takes place on Sunday 3 June at the Pink Flamingo in Birmingham. A coach will be leaving London on Sunday afternoon. (reserve places on the coach by calling 0121 244 8054)  Fierce’s tenth anniversary celebrations reach a suitably spectacular climax ‘Revisions Of Exccess’. A reappraisal of Fierce’s acclaimed ‘Visions Of event in 2003 which featured artists such as Udo Kier, Marisa Carnesky Bruce LaBruce, ‘Revisions Of Excess’ is once again curated by Ron Athey – of the most influential and notorious performers on the international live scene. Taking place at the Pink Flamingos lap dancing club ‘Revisions Of takes the form of a series of works from international artists inspired the nihilistic writings of Jean Genet and George Bataille alongside more scribes such as Henry Rollins and Kathryn Dunne and includes a line worthy of our tenth anniversary closing event including Marisa Carnesky, Blackman and The Velvet Hammer and Athey himself. And with music provided by the Kaos DJs. More details via www.fiercetv.co.uk or Ron Athey’s My Space page

ORGAN TV  is on your screens in the UK right now. Every Wednesday evening, 10.30pm  on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY173. And now due to the fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY883 at 11.15pm.

This coming Sunday 20th May we have the following videos...

NOVA ROBOTICS  - Two Seven One
OURLIVES - Sandra 
ASSDROIDS - Daft Crunk 
YOUR CODE NAME IS: MILO - Understand 
LIARS - It Fit When I Was A Kid 
THE TELESCOPES - Flying 
COLT - Demon In The Wheels 
THE BLACK KEYS - Your Touch 

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

MY VITRIOL - This Time
ChthoniC - Quasi Putrefaction 
CULT OF LUNA - Back To Chapel Town 
ALL SYSTEMS GO - Tell Vicki 
OURLIVES - Sandra 
BEECHER - Function! Function!
EPHEL DUATH - The Passage 
 

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 
 

DEMO OF THE WEEK
JACK SHIRT – This is good, this is warm, minimal, different. Four fine tracks, mellow “orphaned soundtracks”. Refined whispered acoustic guitar and almost brushed glokenspiel are his mains tools of composition, an undercurrent of humming samples and guitar effects. Lyrics that open doors and prick curiosity without really making that music sense – the whole thing makes for a rather beautiful and rather unique set of rewarding flowing delightful songs. Rather rewarding, rather special – go enjoy and bask in the warmth – www.myspace.com/jackshirt

Last week's demo of the week - HERZOGA

Previous demo's of the week - LAST DAYS OF LORCA / THE DEFILED / BOMB THE SUN / OXYGEN THIEF / THE DAWN CHORUS / 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

Smears smearing London again, Sunday night in New Oxford Street - same as the old Oxford Street (only just further up the road) we won’t get fooled again (worst bar in London). Decent venue though and not a bad place to see a band on a Sunday night (or any damn night, anywhere that’s not Camden), hey Fly people, get some decent beer in, not everyone wants to drink gassed-up tasteless overpriced brain-melting chemical lager crap! The Smears are wisely over the road sitting outside a far classier joint sipping glasses of champagne and watching proceedings from a safe difference when we arrive, looking like they’re nothing to do with the rabble of metalheads and teenage mutant indie-goths waiting outside the venue. They do things in style do those riotous Smear-grrrrls - whooooooo, don’t call ‘em riot girrls, they’ll stomp you under their riotous heels, they’re no riot grrrls, just a raw raging angry rock band who just happen to be three very riotous girls alright! – “I’m the queen of the scene, fifty foot bitch baby, you know what I mean...” yells Emma Smear – boy can she yell! The debut single has just come out and things are finally on the move for the buzzing Nottingham three piece and yeah it was us what done it guv, its a fair cop, we released the single only last month. What do you mean?! We’ve gone through this before, of course we can review our own bands! Don’t coem here with your rules, we put our reputation on the line with every ORG release, we shout our big mouths off and hey if the band let us down live we’ll damn say so, the people cannot be fooled, we tell it how it is – The Smears rocked tonight! The Smears always rock! The Smears are raw and wild and focused and nailed-on tight all at the same time and yes, they do sound like all your favourite Seven Year Bitches and L7s and Tribe8 types, no clone though and they could stand up there and trade punches with any of them classic American girl punk bands (The Smears are not your typical polite English rock-chick version that so many others unfortunately are)– three howling raw punk rock girls with a touch of Mudhoney class and songs that will rip right in to you. No good having all the attitude and stomping do not mess swagger if you don’t have the songs though, The Smears have the songs – The Smears rule, they’re up there and they’re doing it, go see them, they’re the real full on fuck you riot grrrl punk rock deal when they step on a stage, they’re everything riot grrl ever stood for. The Smears rule, we stake our reputation on it, another excellent half hour ram raid that has the audience, most of whom knew nothing about them thirty minutes ago, yellping and jumping and fighting for singles, the place has taken off (are you sure we’re in London on a Sunday night?) 

All right, let's bite the bullet here right at the start: Little Trophy are very influenced by those Cardiacs.  This only gets in the way if you actually know Cardiacs' back catalogue pretty well (and quite justly feel they are the finest band on the face of the planet). Tonight, seeing as nobody in the room aside from us Organ crew and the band themselves have even heard of Cardiacs (let alone digested any of their incomparable and now very hard to find albums) Little Trophy are proving a revelatory experience.  The crowd have never seen or heard anything like it, this collective of Edwardian-dressed youths playing epic, tight rock with contemporary classical structures (i.e it starts and stops and changes rhythm like the soundtrack of an old movie) with hints of fairground strangeness and metallic guitar riffage. Actually, its this metal edge that adds Little Trophy's own personal sound to the mix; that and singer Nick's distinctive delivery and the strong keyboards adding an element of even more of that particular Englishness, if that is possible... the very English pop sound of The Playwrights, Cats And Cats And Cats and their ancestors XTC.  You might also come to it from the angle of Yes and The Who. I don't think anyone can condemn Little Trophy for those Cardi-bits, not when they're delivered with such verve and belief and sheer-minded talent - they're up there with Ring and Ad Nauseum in that respect - and they thankfully steer well clear of the wacky humour thing other Cardiacs-school outfits mistakenly seem to think is needed as well. And besides, I miss those gigs in tiny venues, and I was never at the Kingston Grey Horse in 1982, the pond should have been here, at least a puddle’s worth, yous are missing out, things are going off and things in a most positive way...

    The headline band's fans are having such a noisy party when Little Trophy start up that it doesn't sink in for a bit, but gradually, their heads are turned, and the party focuses in on what's taking place onstage.  Several intense guys, later to be confessed as Mr Bungle, Tool and Mars Volta fans, head bug-eyed towards the front.  Far more fun than the latter two, of course, Little Trophy change gear, tempo and emotion with ease. They look brilliant in their dresses and formal wear, particularly when the going gets tough and twin-guitar attack is are required. Nailed together with a superb rhythm section too.  Despite fighting mucky small-venue sound, they manage to carry the complexity of the songs to a pretty mixed and rather young audience (mostly here for their teenage mates in the headline band).  One important thing, the most important thing, Little Trophy have learnt is that melody is the icing on the world, after all - and there it is, popping up amidst the twists and turns like the sun coming out.  People listen... really listen, soak it up.   There's an air of both completeness and freshness about Little Trophy, like they're ready to take on the world.

Two rather fine bands and a rather excellent gig, no time to stick around for Hearts Under Fire, tonight is Sunday night and we have a radio show to present, time to run down the road to the Resonance radio station in Denmark Street and blast the waiting ears of the world once more – its a dirty job but someone’s got to do it, we care a lot and we’re armed with the new Sleepytime Gorilla Museum album, no time to hang around writing reviews for you - go to small gigs, support new bands, the old ones are getting tired and hardly ever play.

Further investigation:
ORG Records
The Smears
Little Trophy
KBY
 

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
SHADY BARD – From The Ground Up (Static Caravan) - Ah, the debut album is here, we were expecting something rather beautiful and we are indeed most satisfied, this more than lives up to our high expectations. Delicately warm sunny songs, slowly stretching torch songs, cats uncoiling and dust in the late afternoon sun songs, glowing whispers and church-quiet life-affirming things of such glowing beauty. And the detail, the crafted attention to detail brings it all to so much life – to life like a secret midnight garden or a long lost sun-leaking dusty attic full of forgotten treasures and old photos of places and people long gone, and don’t you forget me, and all this long before you even begin to explore the words. Words as colours and tender eloquent searches for happy endings – braking the ice in the park and this really is such a colourful album, such a beautifully rewarding set of songs, songs alive with quiet texture and glowing colour, an album that paints so so many pictures. An album drenched in genuine emotion, an album to sink yourself in for hours and hours. Pianos and gently stroked guitars and casiotones and cello, violin, Frenchhorn. And there’s so much to explore then you do let the lyrics in and allow them to be more than colours and textures. Here comes the lazy list bit and the signposts so you can get a little fix on where we are on the musical map - Shady Bard are from Birmingham, they taste of the delicate restrained glowing side of fine bands like Grandaddy, British Sea Power, I Like Trains. And when those lyrics do reach you  then your realise that in their own restrained way there are big bold points being made and Shady Bard are as concerned with the big picture as the little personal ones – and we’re all to blame in the end.  Sometimes quiet is the most powerful thing, a beautiful glowing album. www.staticcaravan.org  / www.shadybard.co.uk

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2
LOUIS LINGG AND THE BOMBS – Conspiracy (Ultrasonar) – Named after Louis Ling, the famous Chicago anarchist who took his life on death row back in 1887 after the first May Day protests - they explain why in their eloquent sleeve notes and a whole twenty-one minute spoken word and background guitar bit that’s almost at the end of the album). This Louis Lingg are a bunch of “goddamn punk rock garage pop anarcho militants”, the bombs they throw are musical, they come from Paris (they could only come from Paris!) and they’ll grab you and demand your instant attention. A mix of ultra-political anarchic punk rock and fizzing children’s nursery rhyme riot-pop. Laced with so much energy and a whole sonic attack of chaos and fizz and take a great big bag and toss in Bikini Kill, The Dickies, Rancid, The Pin Ups, Disco Pistol, Trust, The Butthole Surfers, The Buzzcocks, The Ramones, that Plastic Whatshisname and of course The Clash, shake it all up and let it explode all over the street and you’re just about half way there. Massive hooks and so much conspiracy busting energy – yeah yeah yeah! Some of it in English, some in France (and occasionally sounding like manic Japanese punk pop). Forty plus non-stop in your face minutes of proper creative homemade (very well produced) DIY punk rock (and priced in a reasonable punk rock way as well – this is how to do it yourself). They sound manic, they look manic, they are manic, this is real punk rock, this is positive energy, they look like they could start a riot in a telephone box and boy do we need bands like this! Bands who play by their own rules, bands hell bent on breaking the rules, bands who walk it rather than just talking it, bands who you can really believe in. Committed creativity, punk rock with X factor and attitude. Made well, played well (DIY doesn’t have to mean sub-standard) – yeah yeah yeah yeah! We love em!! Excellent music, excellent attitude, excellent everything – YEAH! www.myspace.com/louislinggandthebombs

ALSO CHECK OUT
CEPHALIC CARNAGE – Xenosapien (Relapse) – More extreme metal ferociousness and creative sonic violence, as extreme and heavy as ever, always creative though, always pushing the edges and relentlessly probing with their challenging mix of intense grindcore and progressive thrash-math metal. Yeap, more unkind mind grind, gonzoid intensity, brain carnage and Rocky Mountain hydro splatter from a band who really don’t sound that subtle until you let the initial shock and awe give way and really let them probe you. The cookie monster vocals don’t ever become over bearing and yes it is relentlessly intense, thing is they do understand that restraint and a stop for breath can add to the extreme intensity and the allegations and the circle of beautiful violence that is the Megacosm of the Aquaphobics.  Extreme math metal grind that more than satisfies then – another highly recommended album from the extreme metal visionaries and out in the UK on May 28th (they’re in London at the Underworld on the 27th, check websites for lots of live activity right now)  www.cephaliccarnage.net or www.myspace.com/cephaliccarnage

DRAGONS – Here Are The Roses (OHM) - Dave Francolini, he of Levitation/Dark Star (and far more importantly the legendary 90’s re-birth of Panixphere) and a rather clean cut electronic indie pop duo who more than nod in a healthy manner towards the best moments of Depeche Mode, Joy Division and the rest. The two of them, Anthony Tombling is Mr Francolini’s partner in crime, make rather decent shadowy 80’s electronic pop, pretty hard to fault, crying out for a little x factor or identity, I almost want to sing Transmission to Condition, this is really rather good strong meaty 80’s electronic pop though. There’s something not quite right, I really need some X factor, a little finger print, an edge of some kind – they do it well though, they do it very well - www.myspace.com/dragons1 or www.dragons.cc

Dragons play the follwing dates in June
Wed 6th Bristol Thekla
Thu 7th Glasgow King Tuts
Fri 8th Leeds Rios
Sat 9th Nottingham The Social
Sun 10th Manchester Roadhouse
Mon 11th London Water Rats

ORANGE GOBLIN – Healing Through Fire (Mayan) – The Goblin and their now very familiar trademark galloping stoner/hard rock, you know by now exactly what you’re going to get from Orange Goblin. They don’t disappoint with their classic Sabbath flavours and their 70’s (Quo-like) dependability. Orange Goblin doing exactly what you want them to do and doing it as well as ever, what more do you need is to say – www.orange-goblin.com

ZEN MOTEL –Stations Of The Dead (Imprint) One of those no messing in your face pop rock n’roll bands, kind of low slung infectious Wildhearts/Three Colours Red pop rock. Want some? Here’s the link, Wildhearts fans will like them lots – www.zenmotel.co.uk

KAMELOT – Ghost Opera (SPV) New studio album from the bombastically over the top American symphonic prog-metal outfit – actually they’re do their over the top bombastic thing with quite a bit of impressively subtle dexterity (well as relatively subtle as band called Kamelot could possible be - not that subtle really). Ten tons of pomp, high note singing and locked-in-the-tower romantic swoops (in the silence of the darkness). Maiden meets Magnum meets All About Eve meets cheesy power-ballads and massive guitar riffs and swathes of swirling keyboards and preposterous lyrics, (like mountains far away dressed in summer white) and all shades of symphonic pomp metal and the kind of album you keep hidden with your copy of REO Speedwagon – The Ballads (which is after all an incredibly cool album and something never to hide away). Rather good, but don’t tell anyone we said so  www.kamelot.com
 

Last week's album of the week - SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM / ANTIGAMA Previous album's of the week - END OF LEVEL BOSS / RICHARD PINHAS / MICHAEL J SHEEHY / 65DAYSOFSTATIC / FIELDS / HEY COLOSSUS / 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

anthraxukofficial.com
or www.myspace.com/anthraxuk

SINGLE OF THE WEEK

WE START FIRES – Magazine (Hot Noise) – Whoooo they’ve been polished up rather nicely, last time we encountered We Start Fires they were all fractured and messy and cut’n paste zine powered home made photocopied disco pistol glitter-teen DIY pop shout and fizz demo tapes – mind you that may well have been back in the last century (or at least at the very start of this one, Organ bills upstairs at the Garage and stuff). These days they’re mainstream press darlings and name-dropped in the Times and I catch accidental glimpses of them on my TV when I’m channel surfing and life looks to be rather good – good for them and thankfully they still sound like the band they’ve always been. We like We Start Fires and we’re pleased to hear they’ve stuck to their guns and found that the streets really are paved with gold. All fizzing pop and swirling keyboard and still glitter teen grrrl pop (though I guess they’re not teenagers now) and yes all polished up and shinny and actually produced just right, warm and like bumping in to an old friend you haven’t really seen for a few years and it seeming like it was only yesterday – and Gossip/Be Your Own Pet cool, and game arcade fizz-rays and go send it to number one and demand it all over the radio and TV and still brash and full of bite and Becky and her gang rule, pop is good, pop will eat itself and out on May 28th and can I go make coffee now please, do you have any idea how many CDs we've listen to this week– www.myspace.com/westartfires

ALSO CHECK OUT
SHIT AND SHINE – C*nts With Roses (Noisestar) – Limited edition of 300 twelve inch slices of violence and sheer bloody machine driven noise, recorded live while they were rehearsing for a nice delicate heartwarming show with that other nice polite peaceful delicate band Laibach. Relentless organic tribal multiple drum and cranked up distorted bass and throbbing rumble and crumbling eardrums and on and on they go with industrial confrontation and global noise attack - www.noisestar.co.uk

ICED EARTH – Overture Of The Wicked (Steamhammer) - Metal, none more m-e-t-a-l, how much more metal could it be? The answer is none, none more metal. Ten thousand strong they’ll seize the day or something like that. The mighty Maiden, in comparison, sound like a twee bet-wetting emo fringe-fiddling band, they got Ripper Owens in on vocals now, him from Steel Dragon, stand up! Stand up! Him with the screaming Halford-isms. Galloping epic battle metal and histrionic guitars and screaming for vengeance and everything including the kitchen sink thrown in to every track and this can’t go on I must inform the law, can this still be real or just some.... four tracks, none more metal – what’s that you say? I didn’t say if it was any good or not? Well if you like your Maiden style metal then Iced Earth are not the most original band ever but hey, they do their chosen thing well and I don’t think any animals got hurt in the making of this EP -  www.icedearth.com

Last week's single of the week - THE THERMALS

Previously DAS WANDERLUST / 65DAYSOFSTATIC / SILICON VULTURES / THE OOHLAS / 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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