We heard the sad news about about Bill Pisarri last week via Weasel Walter, Mark from Skin Graft says more than we ever could... 

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Dates are...
May 27 - Satan's Hollow, Manchester (tour with Test Switch Isolator)
May 28 - The King Edward Inn, Birmingham (tour with Test Switch Isolator)
May 29 - The Canal Club, Wolverhampton (tour with Test Switch Isolator)
May 30 - The Vic Inn, Derby (tour with Test Switch Isolator)
May 31 - The Lobby, Middlesbrough (tour with Test Switch Isolator)
Jun 1 - The Traveller's Rest, Lincoln (tour with Test Switch Isolator)
Jun 3 - The Barfly, Camden (with Trencher, Test Switch Isolator)
ED GEIN/PHOENIX BODIES/COAW TOUR
Jun 15 - The Engine Rooms Brighton
Jun 16 - The Croft Bristol
Jun 17 - Taylor John's Coventry
Jun 18 - The Star and Garter Manchester
Jun 19 - Subway Cowgate Edinburgh
Jun 20 - The Fenton Leeds (Sexpest Fest, w/ Whoresx3, Errander, Imposters..)
Jun 21 - The Old Angel Nottingham
Jun 22 - The Purple Turtle Camden London w/November Coming Fire, Cutting 
Pink With Knives
Further exploration: 
www.holyroarrecords.com
www.myspace.com/holyroarrecords
 

"Hello Organ, hope you don't mind us informing your army of readers about some upcoming gigs we have: 

31 May - The Tumbledown, Farnborough 
1 Jun  - The Hobbit, w/ Sunshine Republic, Southampton 
2 Jun - The Bull and Gate, London 
3 Jun - Corporation w/ Sunshine Republic, Lair of the Minotaur, Capricorns, Asuras, Sheffield 
4 Jun - King Edwards, w/ Sunshine Republic, Birmingham 
5 Jun - Black Valve, Stoke 
6 Jun - Bar Blu, w/ Sunshine Republic & Capguns For Arcade, Rhyl, North Wales. 
7 Jun  - Dickie Doodles w/ Sunshine Republic, Kendal, Cumbria 
10 Jun - The Fleece w/ Hazel Mills, Bristol 
30 Jun - Wheatsheaf, Oxford 

Cheers, long live the Organ!" 

Please click the link below to approve or deny this comment. We approve, but who is BRENDA? Brenda are a rather impressive, rather brooding, slowly uncoiling, dark and potentially rewarding  South of England post/prog-rock flavoured five piece who take in elements of Radiohead, Ourlives, 65Days (without the glitch), Godspeed and the general sky-touching flavours of now – the five of them are threatening to go to some of the places Twenty Six Feet were hinting at heading towards , an easy uncluttered delicate dramatic sound that’s developing in to something special  – go check them out at www.myspace.com/brendaband
 
  HERE WE GO, FRESH FLOATING ANARCHY - PLANET GONG TO PLAY LONDON! 

News from Mr Missile Bass 

“Yes folks, the suspense is over... the news worth waiting for is here. Daevid called me a week or so ago, and to my surprise, suggested it might be fun to do a one-off gig as PLANET GONG... yes - you heard it right - live floating anarchy and the works... hence the hint in the last blog... Just been setting it up, and so we can, as of 9:00pm GMT - the telepot hour, gleefully announce that Here&Now and PLANET GONG will be presenting the entire opium for the people spectacular spectrum live at DINGWALLS, Camden Lock, North London, on THURSDAY, JUNE 28th  - more news over at www.myspace.com/herenowplanetgong

CYNIC - Cult thrash heroes Cynic play Dingwalls in London on June 25.

John on the phone...

We heard about Bill Pisarri last week via Weasel Walter, Mark from Skin Graft says more than we ever could so I hope no one minds us taking Mark’s words from the Skin Graft Records site.  ...Our Friend Bill Pisarri... "Hi Everyone, This is Mark writing. This is the most horrible news update I've ever had to write.  Bill Pisarri, best known to you guys as the bass player of The Flying Luttenbachers on the "Revenge" and "Gods Of Chaos" albums, has passed away.  He died of a heart attack.  This has come as a shock to everyone that knew him. I'm struggling to wrap my head around this... but I want share with you what Bill meant to me... and I think it's indicative if what he meant to so many others.  Bill was a genuine friend and an inspiration. He was full of energy and ideas - a remarkably talented artist, musician, filmmaker and performer - who was always extremely generous with his time. His involvement in Skin Graft was significant and went way beyond the role of a typical member in a typical band on a typical record label. His work in the Flying Luttenbachers has been well documented, and as much as I love what Weasel has done (and continues to do) with the various incarnations of the band - the Trio with Weasel, Chuck and Bill will always be my favorite. Bill was a great graphic artist - in the fine art sense. His artwork on the Gods Of Chaos CD set a high water mark for albums designed on this or any other record label. The fold out front cover was a huge, incredible cut and paste collage with only the gentlest of retouching in Photoshop. Up close and personal, it was a real sight to see. There was a time in the mid-to-late 90's where Bill played a big part in the construction of the artwork for many Skin Graft releases. At the time, I didn't have a computer set up that could handle designing albums in-house, but  Bill and his roommate Colm did. Bill designed Colossamite's Economy of Motion LP, and assisted me in assembling many others, including the original pressing of Ruins "Refusal Fossil", You Fantastic! "Homesickness", and the Camp Skin Graft "Now Wave" compilation, which also featured an incredibly cool track by Bill's solo project ZZZZZ. I spent many, many days and nights at Bill's apartment working on cover art with him during this period, And all throughout our "work" we would goof off and talk about our favorite topics. With Bill there was never an uncomfortable silence because there was always so much to talk about - everything from obscure comic artists to even more obscure musicians, "art" - was always a favorite topic - and movies, everything from Japanese Monster mashes to French New Wave Cinema.  Even more unknown to most is Bill's work on the Skin Graft Oop indoors shows. Bill was a key player in our Oops Theater Group, which would perform all kinds of theatrical bits and stunts throughout an evening of bands. He played lots of different roles over the years and was a big participant in generating the ideas behind the skits. He also created the costumes for the two "Mighty Fucking Robots" - I still have the cardboard heads of each with me here. One night Bill dressed up as "Grampa", set up in a corner of the now defunct club Lounge Ax, and berated attendees to sit and have their portrait drawn. When Grampa would finally corral a willing customer, the portrait was always unflattering to the subject, but even moreso to Grampa. Grampa was up there in years and he couldn't see very well. His hand was shaky and the portraits would never come out quite as Grampa had planned. He played the character perfectly.  But as much as I loved the character of Grampa, my favorite Bill Pisarri creation was his "Swami". The Swami played a pivotal role in an entire series of Oops theater sketches performed in a few different cities. The scenario involved a character called Pete Panty Monster and Pete's inner struggle to rise above his addictions - with guidance provided by the Swami and Straight-Edge Santa. Rather than go into detail on the story, I think it's enough to say that Bill's Swami was hilarious. No matter how tightly we plotted the story line, when performing the stuff live, the actors would always have to deal with the unexpected. Bill would often have to improvise his way through difficult situations and no matter what happened, he'd never break character. He'd somehow find a way to make it a memorable moment.  After awhile, we retired the Oops Theater Group, the Luttenbachers trio that Bill was a part of disbanded, and I finally got a computer to handle album layouts on my own. In 2000, I moved away from Chicago and since then have lived  between St. Louis and Vienna, so I haven't seen terribly much of Bill in the last few years. But through it all, he remained a part of this label.  Bill had been working in advertising and focusing on filmmaking. If through these avenues an opportunity came his way that he thought might  benefit Skin Graft, Bill would always take the time to share it with me.  He often let me know how proud he was of his association with this label.  And that meant the world to me.  I last saw Bill about a year ago, when I returned to Chicago for a Skin Graft art show.  Bill came to meet me and brought me a DVD full of his short films and copies of other things he thought I'd appreciate - the 70's Marvel TV production of Dr. Strange, the Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell Pre-Evil Dead films, and a copy of Stuart Gordon's From Beyond. He had borrowed a stack of Kamandi comic books from me years ago and remembered to return them  (all in excellent condition by the way!). Bill was the kind of guy that even if we hadn't spoken in months or seen each other in years - there was never any awkwardness - we'd always pick up right where we left off.   After years of "we have to do it" talk, just last month Bill and I spoke again about buckling down and assembling the old Skin Graft Oops indoors footage with the intention of building a DVD release around it. He was also working on a Flying Luttenbachers documentary, assisting fellow filmmaker Rusty Nails on what promises to be an incredible George Romero documentary, and developing about a dozen of his own films. Every time I spoke with him he was brimming over with projects. Alive, Bill had so much to do and so little time. It seems so unfair that his time was cut short. We're all stunned by this. I'm so sorry for his family - so sorry for his friends. And I'm so sorry for me. I won't have another chance to share wild and crazy ideas with him. I won't get to work with him again. I miss my friend. I'm fortunate to have known Bill. He's one of the people that really had an impact on my life. I'm fortunate that he was part of the group that huddled around Skin Graft and put so much into it, knowing all along that the financial  benefits were slim - the world was just too short on nuts like us to expect much. Now, it's one nut shorter - and the world is all the worse for it. But Bill was here  - and I'm grateful he left me with some of himself that I can share with you. Bye for now”  Mark www.skingraftrecords.com

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 27th May we have the following videos...

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 

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

THE SCHLA LA LAS - 1, 2, 3, 4 
THE PRISCILLAS - All My Friends Are Zombies 
ANTI PRODUCT - Better Than This 
YIP YIP - Candy Dinner 
ZERO CIPHER - Stupid People Make Me Angry 
SIKTH - How May I Help You 
VIKING MOSES - Little Emma's Smile 
MY VITRIOL - This Time 

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
MONTY CASINO – Ha, what do we have here? A band who fall (downstairs) somewhere between Art Brut and Don Caballero! (well maybe a frantic manic Don Cab?) “Hello Organ, we’re a Bradford based three piece. Someone suggested you’d like our music so here we are!” Damn right! Whoever that was, we thank you (are we really that predictable!?). I could have been a great leader but social circumstances crushed me – only I shall know the truth. Falling upstairs rather than downstairs, never trust an escalator, those moving staircases must be the work of the devil. Ah yes, more “wrong pop”, more wanderlust, made by ordinary men who maybe could crush you in the palms of their hands – ah yes, stop start repetition. Positive staccato pointy repetition and four fine tracks – is she falling up or down the stairs? Who is Gorbachev? I am Gorbachev... and they’re all scratchy frantic guitars and Northern voices so it maybe a little silly to say they make me think of Servotron – maybe it’s the frantic insect scuttling, that and the Antarctic Monkeyness – ah yes, we like lots, get me to the radio station right now, I have more new music to play you – www.myspace.com/montycasino

DEMO OF THE WEEK 2
TO THE BONES – Anytime you’re ready? To the bone machine, we’re on a roll now, I love it when we get on a demo roll and there’s more falling up stairways and going off and things. Scuzzy filthy alternative indie rock to make it all better and just when they’re easing you in with their Pixies bass line rumble they go and explode in a ball of urgent energy and collisions and noise that blasts you to the other side. To The Bones are from Bolton, we got three tracks here and hey, they got us hooked and on the case straight away. All kinds of garage fuzz and pounding urgent explosive passion and just when you think you’ve got them pinned they throw out a brilliant curveball with the second track Tycho (dare I say Tim Smith guitar? Nah? Alright we’ll ban all future mentions of the boss and his band in reviews). Tycho is and an excellent slice of slightly quirky indie punk god-knows-what-pop that’s kind of contradicts itself and that so deliciously English anthemic buzz-rock and throaty vocals with a clever American alt.style undercurrent  – ah look, I had enough of trying to write about bands with mere words, let’s get on the bleedin’ dog and bone and put this out as a single – it may be as raw and scuzzy as hell but hey, they got something buzzing here and you’re gonna want a slice – right, let me go get a plan together – you can go explore www.tothebones.co.uk or www.myspace.com/tothebones while we see if they want to put this out as a single...

DEMO OF THE WEEK 3
4 OR 5 MAGICIANS – The 2nd or 3rd EP - Buses mate, three in a row, must have been the magicians (or the pixies) and these people are clearly not wasting their time in a band and what do we know? Quite a lot (some would say, others wouldn’t), this is great as well, so many good bands around if you can be bothered to go look for yourself (why the hell are the mainstream thrusting the View at us then? And why as so many happy to sell themselves short and consume these safe options? Damn well change your damn jeans, everything is not average you average Kaisers! Everything on daytime XFM maybe is, down here in the scuzzy undergrowth the treasures are thick on the ground). 4 or 5 Magicians are from Brighton, of course they are, we’re talking three great bands in a row, one of them had to be from Brighton! Ah look, three tracks, first one is very Pixies in a positive impressive effortless kind of way – kind of tastes of a lot of classic US alternative bands really – Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr, Pavement and a bit of  Weezer-esque pop sensibility as well – no clones though, no mere aping of others, just healthy flavours and a promising potentially explosive alt.rock indie-pop X factor edge of their own – www.myspace.com/4or5magicians
 

Last week's demo of the week - JACK SHIRT

Previous demo's of the week - HERZOGA / 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

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
TOMAHAWK – Anonymous (Ipecac) – Third album finds Tomahawk trimmed down to a trio and this time reverentially interpreting traditional native American music for these Other Rock post-everything avant musical times we happily swim in. Anonymous apparently refers to the un-credited sources of the song material – those sources being the written accounts and transcriptions of early native American songs of the late 19th century that Duane Denison has researched in order to make this album. That’s right, this time Patton and company really so sound like Tomahawks. Let’s let them explain it:  “At the turn of the millennium, Duane Denison (U.S.S.A, ex-Jesus Lizard) while playing with Hank Williams III, would frequently find himself on Indian Reservations - “I was somewhat disappointed by the Native bands.” Duane explains, they were usually very conventional, kind of blues and country type stuff, or too much like 'new age' music. I figured there must be native music out there somewhere that was more aggressive, spookier, and more kinetic.” Duane began to research the culture’s music...” - This is a result, an album of American native folk music and rhythms that kind of sound how you’d expect Tomahawk to make them sound. The album was recorded in two parts, Duane Denison and John Stanier (Battles, Ex-Helmet) recorded guitars and drums respectively in Nashville, while Mike Patton added vocals and such in San Francisco.  Yes, it does work, a reverential album that takes the spirit and the rhythms and well, takes it all and prog/post-rocks it up in a mellow uplifting way (and without ever violating or disrespecting anything) Reverential really is the word, this is going back to an original source and freeing things up, throwing off the chains of Western musical convention - some of it is very traditional Native American sounding (most of it is actually). Some of it goes off almost in to Mr Bungle territory (even though this feels more like Denison’s baby than Patton’s), some of it is just upliftingly happy – Antilope Ceremony really does sound like a simple happy celebration of a successful hunt and food for the family (the hopes for a positive hunt, didn’t they do these dances and ceremonies before the hunt?). Stunning and the total opposite to the twee world of world music. Western music is stuck in rut, most world music has now been effected (infected) by Western music, this turns is all on its head – this isn’t about being experimental, this is about being free of what you’re familiar and safe with. Whoooooo, listen to the way those drums follow the bass lines. Song Of Thunder sounds like Koenjihyakkei, yes, that good!  Sun Dance is probably the nearest they get to the heavier sound of previous Tomahawk albums (this really is a departure, forget everything you previously knew about this band). Totem sounds like one of the stranger Faith No More moments. Ah look, they made a very different, rather rewarding very respectful, rather fine album, an album that, in going back to the source may well just be groundbreaking. 
Release date is June 19.  Available in the UK via Southern Distribution – www.southern.net or check out www.ipecac.com (hear some on our radio shows this and next week)

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2
CHARGER – Spill Your Guts (Undergroove) – Well now, the things that unexpectedly fall through the letter box - I love the smell of fresh post in the morning. Back from the swamps and the lost confessions of a man mad enough to live amongst beasts, back home on their original label Undergroove. Recorded pretty much live in just three blistering punk rock days, this is Charger back on target and on the rawest of good form, this is Charger at their best – that blistering onslaught of slightly disturbing sludge, that slow churning brooding metallic doom that gives way again and again to that galloping punkospeedmetal stew and manic mad-dog yelping vocals. Five ram raiding slice of Charger doing just what you want and need Charger to do. Hang on through, hang on to that churning riff and that screaming bit of feedback for just one long extended never ending minute, not everything is that predictable, this is actually an eight track album, and the noisy men from Stoke open the whole damn shoot gallery with an extra slow sludged our ten minute Sleepesque Earth going extra minimal style slice of avant gloom and instrumental doom so good is almost Jaz Kammer dimensions – and they have he balls ot call it This Is Our Black Sabbath – class! And if that’s not enough they end the album with two more ten minute epics, the file one of them sounding like a way out there piece of Scott Walker Metal Box Throbbing Gristle experimentation that would have the chin strokers over at The Wire wetting their beds in orgasmic excitement with those demonic good vibrations – wouldn’t it be nice to wake to what? Inducing the gag reflex? www.undergroove.co.uk / www.myspace.com/charger

ALSO CHECK OUT
NEUROSIS – Given To The Rising (Neurot) – Are they really in their third decade? New album and more of their heavy psychedelic blackness, intense swirling doom and brooding heavy heavy heavy metal drama. You kind of expect some kind of sensory overload with every new Neurosis encounter – another reflective aggressive pummeling and prog rock in the real real sense. If this is really is like being in an isolation tank then the isolation tank is suspended from a hot air balloon that’s flying through some kind of maelstrom of an on/off end of the world storm. Everything you’d expect then, frozen stillness giving way to behemoth dooming and brooding and slow moving lashes of massive massiveness and the parting of seas and mountains falling apart under the pressure of that monster of metallic thunder and brooding brooding and if you just give in and let it all in then the disorienting brilliance is all yours and shall we end this sentence now? Just like you almost unreasonably knew you could expect again, how the hell do they keep on coming back with more? It must drain them. This is intense, this is immense, this is real innovation, captivating. I’m drained just listening to it. Neurosis are not just another band. www.neurosis.com - UK distribution via www.southern.net.

PSYCHIC TV – PTV3 (Sweet Nothing) – Ah now I know this is going to be another one of thee headtrips that Genesis and company like to lay down now and again, exploring (and reviewing) a Psychic TV album always takes a little more time and effort. Let us glimpse behind the curtains and see what’s happening in the strange world of Ms Genesis P. Orridge this week – through the round window I think (certainly not the square one). Oh the tales we could tell, tales ov Organ encounters with thee Mr Orridge – those pioneering acid house adventures, the PA blowing episode with the fire at that confrontational Wardour Street Marquee IT benefit. That Beltane gathering where they (allegedly m’lud) gave everyone acid at the door of the Astoria - little six inch squares of clear window-sticker window-licker plastic with a big black weather map style cloud on it. “What are we supposed to do with this?” said someone, “suck it and see” said someone else. Would you suck on anything given to you at a PTV gathering? Most of the audience got naked, then got on stage and confused the hell out of the retreating bouncers – those poor meathead no-neck bouncers couldn’t deal with a naked stage invading orgy of psychedelic day-glo hippypunks, and Genesis up above in the lighting rig like some grand wizard directing the chaos, “come on bouncers join in, shed your clothes, feel the love we have for you, be at one with us” . Went around to their house in Hackney once to do an Organ interview, couldn’t miss it, ordinary terraced house, Coronation Street style - the big black door with the studded P.TV cross gave it away, that and the heavy (closed) shutters on the windows (wonder what the neighbours though?). Took them age to answer our knocks then a suspicious eye peered through a crack and said “ah it’s you Organs, hang on”, the sound of twenty or so locks and bolts being undone and we're finally in. I’m telling you all this while I digest the album and Genesis pulls feathers of black angel wings and takes us inside her mind again. Psychic TV are on of the few genuine pieces of counter culture mystery we still have. So anyway we get in to the house and there’s a great big axe hanging on the back of the door and a notice saying accept no parcels they could be bombs! “watch out, there’s a big snake lose in there somewhere” said a voice when Marina went to the loo (no door of course), and yes there was a bloody big snake. Oh yes, our many encounters,episodes and interviews with Genesis and family have always been ‘interesting’. Actually we’ve always found the “counter culture provocateur” to be a real decent helpful and all round nice chap(ess), always appreciative, a maker of a good cup of tea and of course always stimulating (even when the forces of MI5 were on his/her tail and spreading all kinds of crap about him). Anyway, we’re not here for tails of snakes and naked acid orgies, were here for the new Psychic TV album... And we talk of Him/Her because we’re exploring Pandrogeny and s/he being the same in the world of Genesis and Lady Jane – Genesis is referred to in the band’s biog as her/she now. 
      First studio album since 1995 then, and a re-invigorated Psychic TV – they’ve been busy with Thee Majesty and Throbbing Gristle in recent years, there was a rather good P.TV gig at the Royal Festival Hall a few years back, good to see a new studio album. P.TV 2007 are Genesis, his now identical partner Lady Jane (both have had body modification and same size breast implants so they look like each other – see pandrogeny and the two as one hermaproditic entity – and a new band of musicians including Edward O’Dowl (from Toilet Boys) as well as a guest appearance from Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes and Nick Zinner from Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Sounds like classic Psychic TV to me - demons flying in and out, coming and going - that mix of 60’s psychedelia and seventies punk that comes laced with a healthy amount of paranoia (or is that just me?), Genesis doing his Johnny Rotten bit now and again (or was it the other way around as well? Yeah it was), his Mick Jagger bit, his Andy Warhol bit... the throbbing industrial beat, the organic tribalism and the shamanism and is this really my flesh and come inside the door and hyperdelic provocation – there’s always been a degree of provocation with P.TV – almost daring and defying you to last a gig or indeed an album out. You’ve always had to take on the challenge to reap the reward – that Marquee gig started off as a full packed out house and ended with about a hundred defiant people pinned to the back wall of the venue (loudest gig I’ve even been to).  PTV3 then, Pyschic TV have also always been surprisingly poppy, a subversive Doors with hints of the more dangerous end of Sixties Rolling Stones heading out past The Velvet Underground and all mixed in with that tribal/industrial/shamanistic undercurrent and those flavourings from all kinds of counter-culture creative figures/thinkers/do’ers – William S Burroughs, Austin Osman Spare. John Cage – that make the Psychic TV cocktail so uniquely Psychic TV. Everything you’d expect it to be as you peel back the layers of the joy-filled positive evolution that is P.TV  Of course there’s the bits with just a little (too much?) psychedelic cake and she’s ready to explore and where there is no example imagine it and where there is no word invent it. Psychic TV are a genuine slice of real counter culture, she said I’m an extrasensualist (see, invent it, suck on it and see,curiosty never killed the cat). One of the last genuine pieces of creative forward-looking positively evolving counter culture we have left. Real cross pollination and it’s almost sad to say that, even though they’re can’t possibly be as shocking now as they were in the 80’s (I mean who bats an eyelid at boys with breast implants now), almost sad to say that we need Psychic TV and thee temple ov more than ever...   I like you, I like you, you’re very nice, you’re paradise. Psychic TV back and on top creative positive challenging form then. Surf in, tune out, question everything, love is thee law, time for me to go – you go explore: www.genesisp-orridge.com / www.myspace.com/ptv3 / www.ptv3.com / www.myspace.com/theemajesty / www.cargorecords.co.uk

RENTOKILL - ANTICHOTUS (Rude) - Blasting proper (metal-free) punk rock from Austria, a mix of raw aggression and refined hard-edged melodic structure for fans of bands like Red Lights Flash, NOFX, Descendents and such. A politically aware stance, a band who say what they need to say without ever shoving it at you in an obvious way. Lock the doors, fire up the wires, know your enemy, these are your friends. Rentokill stand out, they have an edge of their own, an impress energy to add to their obvious craft. This is a well produced fine sounding sold melodic punk rock album, an album driven by fine rasping vocals, fine sentiment, fine energy, fine everything, go get... Released in the UK on June 18th. www.ruderecordz.com / www.rentokill.com / www.myspace.com/rentokill

ABANDONED – Thrash You! (Dockyard 1) – Does exactly what it says on the tin, Abandoned thrash you in a rather harmless old school Testament, Exodus kind of way, unremarkably good at it, total unoriginal and here come the links, I’m out of here, consider this review abandoned – www.abandoned.info / www.dockyardl.com

WEATHERBOX – American Art (Doghouse) – A refined and powerfully smart pin-point sharp mix of alternative prog-edged stop/start twist n’flow American alt.art pop/rock and post hardcore (emo?) sensibility that kind of tastes of bands like Red Animal War or Criteria without really adding any significant X factor to the sound – fifty minutes that are laced with enough twists, hooks and quirky shoves to keep our ears focused without ever really totally grabbing us. if we were to sink and start giving out marks this would be a 7 out of 10 kind of album. www.doghouserecords.com

MAD CADDIES – Keep It Going (Fat Wreck) -  Ska pop and things seem awfully restrained and polite and what happened to those not so mad any more Caddies?  www.fatwreck.de

IRON SAVIOR – Megatropolis (Dockyard 1) – Solid stocky thrashy heavy powerful pounding power metal from Hamburg Germany, old-school no messing, well produced, well played, solid enough - what else do you need to know? Like Heinz baked beans or something, nothing to complain about, you know what you’re getting, heaven forbid anyone should want blue beans or anything like that, heavy metal and orange baked beans - you know if you like them beans or not, go eat your beans or move on to the next review please, nothing more to see here. www.iron-savior.com / www.dockyardl.com
 
 
 

Last week's album of the week - SHADY BARD / LOUIS LINGG AND THE BOMBS Previous album's of the week - SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM / ANTIGAMA / 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

The Anti-Yuppie Action group has been getting stuck in on  the streets of Tempa, Arizona recently. Activists gathered outside 'up for sale' yuppie-style condo houses and then let potential buyers know what they thought of them. Condo houses (think of any ubiquitous UK centre of town luxury flats) are notorious in the States as second-home buyers move in to push the locals out of the housing market (and eventually out of their homes). AYA intend more of these actions. See more at 
www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070522190834876

Irish Stew

Despite the recent legal ruling stopping road-building destruction at part of the Tara Heritage site in Ireland (See SchNEWS 585), the campaign to stop other work continues. People blocked access to the site outside Dublin for thirty hours over last weekend, holding their ground from Friday night to Saturday afternoon and halting work on the road.. The police reckoned they had a right to stand there so didn't nick anyone! Private security goons bravely assaulted a woman at the blockade. Monday saw more direct action, with all access to the site blocked for vehicles. The campaign  needs people right now with a graveyard at Collierstown under imminent threat.

Ireland's Government face a General election next week and the fallout may well see a power-sharing with the up-and-coming Green Party. The Save Tara Campaign intend to hold out till then. See  www.savetara.com

JUNE 2 - Strawberry Fair - Friendly free festival with music, arts and crafts. Kid friendly event with face painting and circus skills. Starts with a procession through the streets. SchNEWS will be there with their info stall and SchMOVIES. All day at Midsummer Common, Cambridge. www.strawberry-fair.org.uk

CRITICAL MASS - The bully boys in blue haven't yet jumped on the green bandwagon and are getting increasingly upset at the monthly Critical Mass cycle rides in London. On Monday, the Metropolitan Police won a case at the Appeal Court which ruled that Critical Mass is a 'procession' as defined by the Public Order Act (1986). This means that the "organizers" of Critical Mass have to notify the police six days in advance of the time and route of the procession - but as Critical Mass is anarchic and doesn't actually have any leaders it means the police will have a hard time securing convictions. Back in September 2005, police issued a leaflet at London Critical Mass threatening people with arrest. In response to this the next Critical Mass was one of the biggest ever in a show of defiance defending the eleven year campaign. It is likely that the next Critical Mass will be a big one in another show of solidarity against this police attack. The cops may be harder to predict... As Jesus said - Go to Mass, the Critical Mass" (in the Bible - somewhere in the middle..?) More at: www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk
 

SINGLE OF THE WEEK

OIB SPLIT VOL 1: 7” GAY AGAINST YOU / LONELY GHOSTS / MUNCH MUNCH / THE TUMBLEDOWN ESTATE (OIB) - This is gooooooooood, and you see, and you see, and you see, hang on, kettle on – four bands, four-way split seven inch from OIB Records. Who are OIB? Don’t ask me! Why are you always asking me these questions? Okay, OIB (I went and checked, proper research, I can do it if I really try...) is an independently-minded music collective based in Brighton, putting on gigs, putting out music, making zines – good we need more of this (more more more!). I like Munch Munch best, no, I like Lonely Ghosts best, yes, no, hang on...  Four bands or band shaped things – GAY AGAINST GAY, LONELY GHOSTS, MUNCH MUNCH and THE TUMBLEDOWN ESTATE, four bands, one slice of seven inch vinyl, hearts on sleeves and plenty of guarantees, fighting over treasure, everyone deserving to be noticed, all done for the right reasons, raise four flags up high, there’s nothing else to do. This is paying your dues – four fine bands, four fine tracks, well they’re not really bands, they’re one or two person band-type-sounding band-shaped operations. 
Gay Against Gay are “two subterranean creatures” who claim to occupy the middle ground somewhere between Cyndi Lauper and The Locust – they claimed it right! Part of the post-punk-happy-hardcore electro scene made famous by DJ Scotch Egg, Adaadat and the Wrong Music collectives (aren’t press releases wonderful things, you’d never know that I ripped that whole line of theirs just then would you). Lonely Ghosts is Tom Denney of Help She Can’t Swim, more avant-pop and boinging bouncing bendy electro bounce and all glued together by a very fine tune that could well be a little Cardiacish (high praise that!). Munch Munch are just brilliant and perfect and like all the best breakfast serials and wrong food and they sound like table top diy prog rock and even more C*rd**cs (yeah I know, I can’t help it), gloriously clever cut‘n paste glokenspiels and ukuleles and vocoders and shakers and computerised beats and how much does this track rule! I got a whole five days to wait until my next radio show, how can I last that long!!? The Tumbledown Estate complete the fine foursome – the fantastic four - and they’re rather fine as well, hang on they’re not a “they”, they’re a “he”, a one man orchestrated indie-surf avant-pop song-maker called Jim Morrison – do you think he’s that one? Back from the dead? Never died in the first place? Nah, maybe the one who hung out with Fruitbat? I don’t know, you go find out. Four excellent and rather different tracks that really do work as one whole, four names to watch out for (and looks like a label to keep an eye on as well...). Out on June 18th,eleven wonderful minutes. www.oibrecords.com – OIB apparently stands for One Inch Badger.  You’ll find links to all the bands and such on the OIB website. 

ALSO CHECK OUT

THE TRUDY – 3 Minutes For You - Proper 80’s sounding dreamy breezy sunny alternative indie bubblegum pop bliss for fans of glorious things like St Etienne. The Trudy are sounding better than ever, good to have them back – tune in to that Trudy love ray, available as a download from June 25th - www.thetrudy.co.uk

THEIR HEARTS WERE FULL OF SPRING – A Question Of Trust (Marketstall) – A rather impressive Divine Comedy kind of thing should you want it, they do it with an edge of quality that's deserving of your attention. www.myspace.com/theirheartswerefullofspring

STEVEN LINDSAY – Monkey Gone To Heaven (Echo) – An effortless mellow easy on the ear very radio friendly sublime sanguine cover of the Pixies classic, hard to go wrong with a song that’s pretty much perfect. I don’t know, sounds like an easy option, and as good as it is, some kind of safe polite sanitised cover of a classic that’s little more than a short cut to launch a career on. Harmless ear-friendly pop cover, think we’ll wait and see what else he has.

GALLOWS – Abandon Ship (Black Envelope) – re-issued and repackaged and on a major (Black Envelope is their own label backed by Warners) with the machine behind it now, good – told you so. There’s hope for the world, even the mainstream get it right once in a while, everything isn’t average, there’s more to life than wearing the same damn jeans for four days (have we said that already this week?). May I have your attention please, this is the captain of your Organ – told you damn well so (and told you well before anyone else did! Pay attention). Always read our demo reviews. woof woof woof, bblib bosh, booo - you don’t need us reviewing this again do you? Been there done that, go Gallows go with your progressive punk twisting and telling! www.myspace.com/gallows

ART OF DYING – (Revolver) – Big rock big ass big everything big radio friendly indie alternative hard rock Foo Fighter Feederness from Canada. Giant stadium corporate unit shifting hotdog munching fatneck rawk – harmless enough (so long as no one gives it the vote) and if the Foo Feeders of this world do it for you then would you like fries with this sir? You would? Here’s the link - www.artofdyingmusic.com
 

Last week's single of the week - WE START FIRES

Previously THE THERMALS / 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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