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ORGAN #210 > JUNE 21st 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon
We're still revising excess... and Act Art - to those bones!
Have we recovered from it all yet? No! Woof woof woof. Swamped in wrong pop and all feeling so so... Things to do, things to say, I’m wearing my disguise, how do you write a problem? How do you solve a problem like Ma... Organ 210 and more things we found and experienced and things we feel the need to share so you can go explore and and and contact and switch the other and... 

Happy Solstice... Set those control for the heart of the sun. Explore the contradictions, do not assume anything 
 

IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME?
ORGAN on RESONANCE 104.4 FM

The Organ radio hour and the Other Rock Show brought to you by Organ zine, on the airwaves via London’s legendary alternative 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

But you won't find us on Sundays in July because ths is happening...
 
RESONANCE 104.4 FM – presents A MONTH OF SUNDAYS 

Resonance 104.4fm broadcasts a series of live programmes 'A Month of Sundays' from the stage at The Corsica Studios in London every Sunday in July. 

In the style of Robert Altman's recent film 'A Prairie Home Companion', the audience contribute to their favourite Resonancefm shows and programme-makers adapt their usual shows for the stage.

We invite our most efferent comedians such as Simon Munnery, sound artists such as David Toop and renowned artist Bob and Roberta Smith (Apathy Band) returning radio to the live theatre. Dexter Bentley presents an open bike night show with the audience as batteries and Jonny Trunk brings his convivial auction to the floor.

The July 1st launch night features acts spread over two rooms. Headlining the night are the male members of The Guillemots, playing a "boulder 'n' roll" set. They are joined on the bill by pastoral laptopper Leafcutter John, vest-clad jazz-punkers Morviscous and melodramatic folk songstress Mary Hampton. There's also a voltaic tape splicing performance by audio magician Sculpture and station manager Chris Weaver delivers a conflux of animate hand-built electronics. 

July 1st - 8pm - 12midnight (doors open 7:30) Corsica Art Studios, London - www.corsicastudios.com  - nearest Tube: Elephant and Castle, For more information see the A Month of Sundays webpage - www.resonancefm.com/mos.htm
 

 

SUB FISH WHO?

CITIZEN FISH have a whole load of tour dates starting 12th July in Kettering and ending 22nd July at London's Underworld. And talking of SUBHUMANS, which of course we were kind of in the shape of Citizen Fish, those Subhumans have some dates coming up at the end of June starting in Brussels on the 20th and ending in Folkstone on the 30th. We love those Subhumans and their more intelligent lyrics and music far more diverse than most so called punk, their attitude was (and still is) self-searching and strongly DIY – fine full details of both bands and their dates over at www.citizenfish.com

THINGS TO GET SHOUTING  ABOUT? 
CARDIACS will play the songs YOU love live in session on MARC RILEY'S ROCKET SCIENCE RADIO SHOW on BBC 6 MUSIC from 7pm. Thursday 28th June 2007. YOU will stand by YOUR radio. YOU will press up YOUR vile ear to the tinny-sounding speaker. YOUR heart will erupt and YOUR guts will swirl. Like the angry sea, like all biblical storm. YOUR big eyes might POP OUT OF YOUR HEAD. THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN guarantees this.

Organ favourites OPTIMIST CLUB have announced their death, they say the funeral will take place on July 17th at the Luminaire, Kilburn, London. Support comes  from Surgery Or The Bomb and They Don’t Sleep

65DAYSOFSTATIC are appearing at the Colinfest All Dayer, part of the "World's Smallest Festival" at Cargo, in London on the 8th July, alongside Emmy the Great, Komakino, The Silent League and Nic Dawson Kelly.
 
VESSELS have announced a full UK tour for July, with the icing on the cake being the confirmation of a slot on Huw Stephen's Lake Stage at the Latitude Festival. The dates can be found below, and if July is too far away, the band are playing at Nasty Fest VII at the Faversham in Leeds You can still pick up a copy of the band's debut 7", Yuki/Forever The Optimist, on the tour, and second single, Two Words & A Gesture/Clear & Calm is due out at the end of the summer. Writing for the debut album is already underway; recording will follow in the Autumn. You’ll also find Vessels lurking as one of the hidden bonus tracks from bonus bands on the forthcoming ORG split single from To The Bones and Herzoga

Sat 23 Jun - Nasty Fest VII @ Faversham, Leeds  (23:00)
Tues 10 Jul - The Packhorse, Leeds
Fri  13 Jul - Latitude Festival,  Southwold
Then the serious touring kicks in on Tuesday 17 July at the Bar Bloc in Glasgow,  takes in Catch in Shoreditch, London on Tuesday 24th July and the Notting Hill Arts Club, London – for one of those free afternoon shows before ending up in Manchester on the 30th/ Full details from MySpace/vesselsband or MySpace/cuckundoorecords
 

John on the phone... 
NO UXFEST IN '07 - A STATEMENT FROM THE UXFEST TEAM...

Uxfest won't be happening this year. A statement from the organisers reads as follows: “Uxfest has long been based on some solid and friendly ethics but since its move from Fountains Mill young people¹s centre it¹s impossible to still have all these ethics in practice. Uxfest was never a commercial festival, financed originally as a training programme for young people, it was never an issue whether it sold out or not, or filling the venue in order to break even ­ the important part of Uxfest was that the bands and the volunteers were happy and to look after an all ages audience in a safe environment. Tickets were cheap, bands played for free, and because it was a training programme, between 30 and 80 young people worked every year for six to ten weeks to achieve something rather special. CVs were updated, memories were made and money was raised for charity. Since Uxfest¹s move from Fountains Mill young people¹s centre to Islington Academy it has had to become, essentially, commercially viable. But Uxfest is not commercially viable. Bands are chosen for Uxfest for their sound, not the number of people they pull ­ but unfortunately, this doesn¹t work for a Central London festival with no financial backing. Especially when headliners are slow to come forward and the overheads are now so big. We realize that a lot of people will feel let down, especially on the eve of our tenth anniversary ­ but we cannot compromise what Uxfest should stand for in order to try and make it hold out with commercial ventures. We would have loved to reach ten years, but we cannot do it without a great line up which will sell tickets, or extra financial backing. If a headline band comes along willing to play for free, our plans may change, but until then Uxfest cannot happen. We apologise to all the Uxfest fans, and the bands who have sent demos in, believe us when we say that we close with a heavy heart”.
 

This just in from INNER TERESTRIALS....

Anti traveller anti punk uber capitalist festivals...... 

“Just got to a computer after the Sunrise festival near Yeovil.... What a strange happening.... Inner Terrestrials played two gigs there, both on solar powered soundsystems. One on the excellent Triban stage from Cardiff (nice one rich!) on Friday night and one on 'Orrible Ian’s Most Havin’ It Rig in the horsedrawn camp on Saturday - one of my favourite gigs for as long as I can remember! (some of you may know Ian from Derby punx picnic, Okupational Hazard and various horsedrawn gatherings and festivals, big up Ian!). 
     From the start of the festival the 'green security' were power tripping over every thing they could, the whole vibe was totally anti traveller. It kicked off constantly over anything they could find. The police were asked to intervene and raid our camp by the strange and cultish organisers like the main man 'Sunbird' as early as the Thursday night, quite funny really as we found out later that the police had advised them to leave us alone! when 'Stewart Security' arrived they had an even bigger problem with anyone they saw as the 'wrong' element and proceeded to threaten people and photograph number plates. Throughout this crap we still had a wicked time, fending of their bullshit with humour and righteousness and partying harder than ever. On Monday night we left having spoken to everyone concerned and tried to find out what the problem had been, couldn’t get any straight answers, but sorted the vibe out with a few people and cured some bad blood. 
   There was a lot of positive stuff at Sunrise festival - solar and alternative energy , some good music, fantastic people, permaculture, circus, good stuff for kids. The down side is that its run by hippy capitalist con-men who don’t seem to love the freedom of expression they sell for £70 a ticket as much as they love their wallets. Ho hum... more illegal free festies anyone?”

www.myspace.com/innerterrestrials
 


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  we have the following videos...

THE SCHLA LA LAS  - 1,2,3,4 
NOVA ROBOTICS - Two Seven One 
READ YELLOW - The Association 
THE ICARUS LINE - Get Paid 
FLIPRON - Dogboy vs Monster 
SIKTH - How May I Help You 
AMON TOBIN Verbal 
WENDYKURK  - Freckles 
EPHEL DUATH - The Passage

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

1: 65DAYSOFSTATIC - Don't Go Down To Sorrow 
2: ICARUS LINE - Get Paid 
3: ASSDROIDS - Daft Crunk
3: MY VITRIOL - This Time
4: AARON STOUT - Space Station
5: THE SCHLA LA LAS - 1,2,3,4
6: THE LOW LOWS - Dear Flies Love Spiders 
7: SCARAMANGA SIX - We Rode The Storm

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 
 


Want to get your video on? Well all you need to do is make us aware of what you have, send us a link to your video on MySpace or You Tube or wherever, or a VHS or a DVD and if you have something that we want to broadcast then we'll chase you for a master broadcast format and wallop, sorted 
DEMO TIME
Like we already said - we shall no longer be reviewing a million demos, we're just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more time for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective, when we tell you it's goood then it really is goooooooood

DEMO OF THE WEEK
So now demo of the week this week, nothing excited us enough to deserve the honour. Nearest thing was...

ALSO CHECK OUT
KILL CARTEL  - No messing, back to basics mean lean angry low slung urgent fast indie-edged punk rock n’roll. Heard it all before in a good kind of way – would you like that bullet in your head now? Sounds like it’d be a blast to be in this band, kind of get ya rocks off attitude and primal screaming and low slung bass playing and you’ve maybe heard this a million times, but hey sounds like they’d be a blast live, sound like they’d be a blast to be in. Heavy enough to satisfy the stomping metalheads, four no messing tracks that have emerged out of the ashes of London punkers The Roolettes and powered by one time Deadbeat Radical six string slinger Ed  - www.myspace.com/killcartel

Last week's demo of the week - SASSY

Previous demo's of the week - ALEX TAYLOR AND THE EVIL EYE / MONTY CASINO / TO THE BONES / 4 OR 5 MAGICIANS / JACK SHIRT / 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

'NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK
This week we’ve been listening to... 

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
ORIGINAL SILENCE – The First Original Silence (Smalltown Supperjazz) – Now this is seriously hard boiled, a two track album, they ease you in with the fourteen minute opener called If Light Has No Age, Time Has No Shadow, a mere tease ahead of the forty-six minute follow up In The Name Of The Law. The Original Silence are a band put together by Mats Gustafsson, the band features Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth0, Terrie Ex (The Ex), Jim O’Rourke, Matt Gustafsson (The Thing), Paul Nilssen-Love (The Thing, Atomic), Massimo Pupillo (Zu). We’re talking serious noise infested hard-boiled free-jazz and bites of drone rock, Black Flag, early Sonic Youth, Boredoms, Skree. A godforsaken noise that’s strangely accessible and rather enjoyable (or is that me?) that descends in to 60’s high-art minimalism, drone rock, cranking riffs, jarring angular noise. 100% improvised and delightfully spontaneous, raw and harsh, indeed an out-rock masterpiece – now why does everyone keep asking me to turn it down?  Glorious! - www.smallsuperjazz.com

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2
GIRL BAND – Girl Band  - Oh this is a lustfully fine album, straight out of Oakland looking like some muthafuggin role models, Girl Band are Shelley from Bimbo Toolshed/Hellfire Choir, Erica from MDC/Monster Island/Binky, Lynda from Fabulous Disaster/Sassy (and quite a few more) and Christa from Joy Of Six – classic girl punk bubblegum and Ramones and real grrrl power and Charlies Angels (the band!) and just excellent breezy sassy songs and cooler than you attitude. They like to drive fast, Sammy Hagar can kiss their ass, anything you want they do it better, gimme gimme gimmeeeee, slap me in the face – Girl Band rule! www.myspace.com/girlbandsf

ALSO CHECK OUT
AMP – All Of yesterday Tomorrow (Rroopp) – Now this is a treat, a three CD set, a round up of all the singles, b-sides and non-album tracks as well as some previously unreleased material from the beautifully soothing Amp. Comes with excellent sleeve notes, a detailed booklet, plush packaging and 38 lovingly complied tracks. A treat for those who already know Amp and an even bigger treat for those who have yet to discover their beauty.  Has there ever been a musical experience more soothing and calming than Amp? An aural massage, floatation for your ears and glowing musical colour that washes over in such a rewarding relaxing challenging way. The space where music and sound meet, instrumental, choral, minimal, uplifting positive drones and textures, always always uplifting, always bright, always welcoming, expressive melodies, hints of lyrics, sound in beautiful harnessed harmony, truly magical and rather gloriously unique. A highly recommended treasure box of Amp goodies - www.rroopp.com

ENTOMBED - Serpent Saints (Candlelight) – The Swedish kings of old school extreme metal are back with a ninth album, probably their finest since Wolverine Blues  - www.entombed.org

BRIMSTONE HOWL – Guts Of Steal (Alive) – Raw scuzzy blues drenched garage rock for those who dig very early Rolling Stones. Available in the UK via www.cargorecords.co.uk More info from www.aliveenergy.com

BEYOND THE DAWN – Deadlight (Cyclone Empire) - Technical epic progressive death metal conformity and pounding base drum action and moody gothy bits and Amorphis and Katatonia and Paradise Lost and all highly proficient and faultless and can I go now please? www.cyclone-empire.com

CONQUEST OF STEEL – Hammer & Fist (No Face) All battle metal and melodically aware old school NWOBHM Iron Maiden goodness and thunder breaking through the midnight sky and none more metal.  Proper British cut off denim heavy metal done just the right way. Conquest clearly take their craft seriously, and rightly so, metal is a serious matter, this album comes without the usual po-faced posing euro-metal nonsense – if you have a metal bone in your body and you know Bruce was better in Samson and Angel Witch rules and Trivium are a dreadful joke then you’ll love this fine fine album as much as your Sledgehammer singles and your Vardis albums – The True Wave Of British Heavy Metal - www.conquestofsteel.co.uk

NO USE FOR A NAME – All The Best Songs (Fat Wreck) – Well I guess they are a Fat Wreck flagship band and partly responsible for this punk pop sound (hell no, Snuff wrote the blueprint and Snuff have that soul and none of the others really get it). A Best Of then 24 tracks (two new ones to make sure the fans who already have all this stuff buy it), generic polite and if we’re honest, rather tediously same same same lame very melodic "punk" pop  thr album is out, we told you about it, our job is done here -. www.farwreck.de

THE FARM – Live: All Together Now With The Farm (Secret) – 2005 Live album from those (blue rather than red thankfully) Scouse chameleon-like Manc wannabes (started life as the Redskins, turned in to the Happy Mondays, always did it with a bit of suss and style). “Re-live the Ibiza 1990 dream, or get whammed trying”, don’t know about that, this is a more tan decent live album though, all their “hits” (seven top 40 singles) faithfully reproduced and performed well. A live album with some atmosphere and a sense of event from a band who always have felt good in their own way. www.secretrecordsltd.com
 
Last week's album of the week - MORVISCOUS

Previous album's of the week - TURBONEGRO / TOMAHAWK / CHARGER / SHADY BARD / LOUIS LINGG AND THE BOMBS / 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

LIVE 
Act Art 5ACT ART 5 – TILL DEATH US DO ART – 8th June 2007, The Arches, Southwark Street, London SE1. 

What are we to make of Act Art, the event has been on people’s lips all week – “are you going to Act Art on Friday?” seemed to be the question wherever we went. Best go to Act Art then. “1 venue, 120 artists” boasted the flyer. We talking a busy venue and bag loads of live art, performance art, photography, painting, sculpture – packed with people, all kinds of gender defying creatures, pretty boys in red dresses and high heels, photographers in masks, giant video screens, people wanted to catch you in deep conversations about art, others just wanting to bite you - installations, big screens screening Holly Johnson, Lee Adams, Ron Athey, Kira O’Reilly – glimpses caught here and there on passing screens under different arches as shopping trolley pushing performance artists crash in to your shins and girls on skateboards drench you in beer and swear blind it was an accident and not a performance. Timberlina, Ryan Styles, Stav B and a whole host of performers, Miss Cunty is around here somewhere. There’s a self mocking naked man called Kevin up on a plinth, naked save for his glasses as Lady in Red blasts out of the PA, covering himself with ketchup and slowly dancing, what would Chris Dethingy and his fans think – he’s already been introduced as Kevin in Red, he wasn’t in red when he started. Art (and the possibilities of art) are coming at you from all sides and all angles, some of it stimulating, some of it maybe feeling a little like an art foundation course (no bad thing, I guess, where else can an excited art student interact with established names?). The venue is spread out through five cavernous railway arches (apparently a capacity of 1000 and feeling full, not overcrowded though, the organisers haven’t been greedy), there’s a full sit down cinema somewhere in here, Pete Burns is running around somewhere.  Mostly it seems to be about interacting, there’s a relaxed curious atmosphere, people happy to start talking, discovering, tasting, asking  – the task of checking everything out really is an impossible one. Putting names to works or working out who just did what or who’s on the video screen now in this rather positive semi party semi club atmosphere and pumping dance DJs and healthy confusion in the toilets is not what it seems to be about anyway, tonight is about the moment, the experience, the set of interactions. Act Art is great fun, Act Art is intriguing on many levels, Act Art is stimulating. All kinds of artwork on the walls demanding further investigation somewhere down the line, some future date – Veenus Vortex, Manuel Noguera, Julia Prezeworthy...

Hector de Gregorio’s work is eye catching, what we see here has us searching the web to explore his intriguing pieces of photographic manipulation - pieces alive with colour and character, with suggestion. Clever use of extremely fascinating models/subjects/people (some of whom are wandering about tonight themselves, some of whom you’ve probably bumped in to in stranger places). A left field flavour, elaborate stage props, powerful imagery that almost confronts the viewer – or at least at times look you direct in the eye and dare you to look back. Nothing is sacred, religious under/overtones, the hint of deliciously dark things beyond mere fetish – delicious modern portraiture. 

 Over in a dark corner beyond one of the bars a carefully scattered, seemingly random, quietly substantial, rather personal body of work from Chicago artist Erik Peterson. Sketchbooks on chairs and torn pages hung on washing line affairs, glitter and photography and multi-media manipulation  – encouraging us to pick it up, turn it over, read the pages (wash our hands) – it kind of feels like one great big self portrait that you’re not quite sure you want to probe too deeply, not quite hung strait images taped to walls with thick green tape, nothing here is that straight actually - lace curtains to pull back and spy past, and all rather innocent until the detail is explored and the seedy underbelly uncovered – detailed paintings, next to photographs and torn out pages of mass media, meaning all juxtaposed and seducing the viewer. 

 Act Art is an art party, as relaxed and inviting as the best alternative gig, as far away as you could be from the cold formality and stagnant politeness of a gallery. 

“Act Art celebrates difference, supports cross-discipline ways of working and offers a safe environment to exhibit work in all disciplines, including live art, performance, video, installation, painting, sculpture, drawing and photography, with a particular emphasis on works that are experimental, radical, confrontational and non-mainstream.  Act Art programmes work by a wide spectrum of artists who are united by an interest in the body and ranges from undergraduate students to established performance artists.  We believe in bringing emerging artists together alongside more established practitioners in an attempt to create a dialogue between artists and their work, as well as staging an event that is open to everyone and alienates nobody”. 

Act Art was curated by Oliver Frost and Marc Massive, Act Art was great fun... 

www.actart.co.uk
www.myspace.com/actart
www.myspace.com/hectordegregorio
Erik Peterson
 

TO THE BONESTO THE BONES – Borderline, London 16th June – Three relatively unknown and rather new bands in deepest over-priced central London on a busy Saturday evening, strange booking policy at The Borderline these days, they’re not going to sell too much beer here tonight (actually, might help if they had beer worth drinking!). The venue is feeling a little like last century’s news - there’s lists of the great gigs that happened here in the 90’s (some of them put on by us before the venue hire prices made it an impossible risk to put on a decent gig without losing a fortune). We get there just as the first band’s set is coming to an enthusiastic end (lots of places to be tonight, sorry first band). We’re here for a last minute hastily arranged London ram raid from Bolton’s To The Bones.  Our first live encounter with a band who’s demo got us buzzing enough to want to release a couple of tracks without ever seeing them live  – yeap, we broke out own rules again, never agree to release something by a band before we’ve seen them live and worked out if they’re actually capable of tying their own shoelaces and stringing a guitar let along getting to and actually playing a gig. 

Ram raid is the word, To The Bones have a lot a positively charged adrenaline and a whole wall of edgy guitar noise to throw. Kind of chaotic and knotted in attitude and nothing that obvious, To The Bones are not an easy band to pin down – good, we like bands we can’t pin down. What we have here is a three guitar wall of fractured noise, a controlled chaotic wall of sound that comes over like an intense Pixies/Stooges/Fugazi set of dive bombs, there’s a early Motorhead vibe in there as well along with the brought-up-on-Nirvana style Kinesis flavours (smartass mention of another Bolton band there) and the raw hints of explosive X factor. There’s five of them, a slight odd looking bunch – A rather manic youth called Red Reppion hogging centre stage and making sure everyone knows the area belongs to him - all mouth full of choking hair and looking like he’s ready to roll in broken glass as he fights for air and to get the muddy words out. I have absolutely no idea what he was saying between songs – there’s two more guitars to his left and a solid bass to his right and a rather manic looking drummer called T-Bone holding it all together in a raw filthy animal kind of way at the back. Things are raw and chaotic and muddy and jagged and it call all end in a broken mid-song mess at any moment – this band are either going places or there’s going to gloriously crash and burn trying. The five of them are like some car crash that you can’t stop watching right now, they’ve got an audience who knew very very little about them twenty-five minutes ago grinning great big shit eating grins at each other - this kind of thing just does not happen in a half empty venue in go-on-then-impress-me London. Raw, chaotic, slightly strange – Tycho is the stand out song from a very busy set, edged with alt-rock creativity and hinting at things to come when To The Bones become a little more crafted and focused and maybe a little (just a little) less frantic (as it surely must, there’s something rather different about this band, early days but they’re hinting at something a little extra... we shall see) Tonight is about chaos and drive and taking everything by storm, they end their positive set in a ball of positive ripped-out guitar strings and a mass of mangled riffs, smashed up bodies and raw primal that-showed-you energy with songs breaking through, wouldn’t be anything if they didn’t have songs. 
 No time to hang around for the last band, the beer drives us out, that and another place we need to be for another band...

To The Bones with have a split single out on ORG at the start of July. 
 

Live previously - RON ATHEY / PURESSENCE / VEENUS
SINGLES
Single time...

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
SOULSAVERS – Kingdoms of Rain (V2) – Does Mark Lanegan ever make a wrong move? He’s handling the vocals here on the very mellow very dark and soothing Soulsaver single – sublime acoustic guitars and gentle electronic detail, wonderful vocals and Lanegan playing the part of Johnny Cash or Nick Cave – as damn near perfect as it can be, what more needs to be said?  – www.myspace.com/soulsavers

ALSO CHECK OUT
HELGRIND – Fallen Prophet (Casket) - Well things were going really well and they had our ear until they got in to a bland guitar solo three quarters of the way through the first song, kind of thing than needs to be legally shot on the spot – “it was a mercy killing m’lud”, ”of course it was, all charges are dropped, you have served the world well”. There they go again on the second track – all muscled up relentless brutal hardcore trash metal chug until they get to the wank-off solo. What’s up, does the guitarist own the ball and he’s gonna go home with it and not let anyone else play unless he gets to show off. Hey look, damn good pounding brutal thrash band with an old school Slayer vibe to their death-edged metal aggression – this is good, I can just about live with the guitar solos, at least they haven’t gone all poodle widdle permhead pink guitar Joe Sattrihalen on us – torture rather than merciful slaughter would be in order if they were to go all poodle solos, thankfully they keep it brutal. www.helgrind.co.uk

Last week's single of the week - THE NOVA SAINTS

Previously - VILE VILE CREATURES / CHRONICLES OF ADAM WEST / OIB SPLIT VOL 1: 7” GAY AGAINST YOU / LONELY GHOSTS / MUNCH MUNCH / THE TUMBLEDOWN ESTATE / WE START FIRES / 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

'RE-ISSUE OF THE WEEK

Ah look, we're still recovering from Revisions of Excess.

PREVIOUSLY - OMD

MEDIA, VIDEO, PRINT AND.... A
SPIRITWO videoeyeswe really are still recovering from Revisions of Excess, whole load of DVDs and zines and books and things to tell you about..

PREVIOUSLY - DVD - NAZARETH – FROM THE BEGINNING

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What's On? Check out our Party and Protest guide at www.schnews.org.uk/pap/guide.htm - it's updated every week, has sections on regular events, local events, protest camps and more...

As always, thanks to SchNEWS for their alternative news bulletins - www.schnews.org.uk

Open message to you bands, labels and anyone else with a blog or a My Space page or a webzine or who are generally out there getting involved in a positive way and spreading the word about fine music and creativity and underground/alternative art that go bump in the night. This is how it works around here; we’re perfectly happy for you to cut and paste our reviews and put them on your band/label pages or where ever you want, please please do go spread the word, that’s what this is about – the spreading of information. We encourage you to do it (unless you’re involved in something that’s a little unsavoury like one bunch of nasty little right wing scumbags we had a run in with a few weeks ago), There’s no ego here, we’re not going to come chasing you about copyright and all that crap. All we ask you to do is credit the material and add links to our pages with anything you want to use. Please feel free to use our words to spread the word, it’s how it works – word word word it’s basic netiquette, it’s weblove and only a massive ego-inflated no-mark would think any other way. Use our words, we take it as a massive compliment – please do add the link though, please tell people where you got it from and cut 'n paste away (like many others have already done), the more people who read about these bands and things the better don’t yer think? It’s the underground way. 

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ORGAN 207 - TOMAHAWK, CHARGER, NEUROSIS. PSYCHIC TV, WEATHERBOX, MAD CADDIES, IRON SAVIOR, RENTOKILL, ABANDONED, MONTY CASINO, TO THE BONES, 4 OR 5 MAGICIANS, OIB SPLIT VOL 1: 7”, THE TRUDY, THEIR HEARTS WERE FULL OF SPRING, STEVEN LINDSAY, GALLOWS, ART OF DYING, BRENDA, BILL PISARRI, GONG, NAZARETH, CHRONICLES OF ADAM WEST, CRITICAL MASS...

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ORGAN 201 - FIELDS, I-DEF, KTP, PROFESSOR FATE, BLACK SABBATH, RIVETHEAD, ANNIHILATOR, SILICON VULTURES, THE SMEARS, THE SCARE, THE TIGERPICKS, THE SWORD, BOMB THE SUN, KUTOSIS, TEN TO NEVER, CRYSTAL ENTITY, GUNNING FOR GOLIATH, THEE MORE SHALLOWS,THE DONNAS, TOMAHAWK, BLOODSTOCK, THE SMEARS,  MICHAEL J SHEEHY, SUNS OF THE TUNDRA, OXYGEN THIEF, SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM

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ORGAN 198 - SHINING, LEFTOVER CRACK, CITIZEN FISH, THE SCARLET LETTER UNION, ALMOS, TORQUE ARMADA, PORNOHEFT, ANDENSUM, DAATH, THE PONY COLLABORATION, THE MIGHTY ROARS, BLACK STONE CHERRY, THE DISAPPOINTMENTS, PORCUPINE TREE, LOST PROPHETS, THE CONWAY STORY, TRADEMARK, A SECRET SOCIETY, MY VITRIOL, AKERCOCKE, THE SMEARS, LADYFEST – LEEDS, LADYFEST – LONDON, WILL HAVEN, ME FIRST & THE GIMMIE GIMMES, EVERYTHING MUST GO, MICHAEL J SHEEHY, LESS THAN JAKE, MIXING IT on RESONANCE FM, ORGAN TV..

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ORGAN 196 - EATEN BY TIGERS, DEATH LIST FIVE, BITCH SLAP BARBIE, FRANK TURNER, CAR BOMB, THRONE OF KATARSIS, PHINIUS GAGE, APARTMENT, MARYSLIM, DAPHNE LOVES DERBY, THE LOW LOWS, SONIC YOUTH, TERROR... 

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ORGAN 194 - BILLY NO MATES, ONSLAUGHT, SMOKE OR FIRE, VANILLA, ERRANDER, XisLOADED, DROP DEAD GORGEOUS, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, LOVEHATEHERO, TOBIAS FROBERG, THE ADVENTURES OF LOKI, RAY, CSS, THE BLACK VELVETS, LEAVE THE CAPITAL, FARRAH, WILLIAM D.DRAKE, NORTH SEA RADIO ORCHESTRA, DINOSAUR JR, ROLO TOMASSI, THE LOCUST, WILL HAVEN, INDYMEDIA, ClearerChannel, SchNEWS

ORGAN 193 - APSE, BLOC  PARTY, NIGHTRAGE, THE PAYBACKS, THE FLESH HAPPENING oh and loads more, go look...

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ORGAN 189 - SHORT SHARP SHOCK, DEATHSKULLS, THE RUBY SUNS, THE VELCROS, FUTURE OF THE LEFT, TRIPPED & FALLING, OZRIC TENTACLES, FROM THE SKY, RADIO MOSCOW, THE BLOODY HOLLIES, BELOW THE SEA, MONTANA, GALLOWS, THE RESIDENTS...

ORGAN 188 - MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI, FUCKED UP, THE SCHA LA LAS, THE PRISCILLAS, LEISUR HIVE, ENNIO MORRICONE, ANTHRAX, KUTOSIS, FADE TO SEPIA, IRVING, COAXIAL, BRUTAL TRUTH, WINTERS

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ORGAN 186 - MICROWAVES, RONDELLUS, DUSTIN’S BAR MITZVAH, SUPERSUCKERS, THEY DIED TOO YOUNG, LITTLE TROPHY, FANTAPLASTIC, HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE, SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM, PICASTRO, RED COTTON, THE BAZOOKAS, SOLEY MOURNING, PETER HAMMILL, VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, RADIOHEAD, BIS, UNTITLED MUSICAL PROJECT, TIGER FORCE, NOTORIOUS HI-FI KILLERS

ORGAN 185 - DUSTIN'S BAR MITZVAH  CRIME IN CHOIR, GIANT PAW, GOBSAUSAGE, GENE SERENE, EARTH, IQ, FLIPPER, THEATER DES VAMPIRES, THE KNIVES OF NEPTUNE, PETER HAMMILL, SWAD, MIKROKOSMOS, THE FLESH HAPPENING, THE OXFAM GLAMOUR MODELS...

ORGAN 184 - THE RUBY SUNS, CHROME HOOF, FRANK TURNER, CLUB LE SHARK, ENABLERS, THE DODGEMS, GRINDERMAN, RONNIE DAY, THE DISTANCE, YOUR CREATION, LIPID, MOTORHEAD, WEASEL WALTER...

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ORGAN 182 - Oh, that one was live on the radio, all 11 sleepless hours of it.

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ORGAN 180 - OPHELIA TORAH, OCTOBER FILE, MOISTBOYZ, BAUER, WINTERKIDS, GREENWICH RESIDENT, WE ARE TREES, VOICST, ME FIRST AND AND THE GIMME GIMMES, ALEUCHATISTAS, BEATNIK FILMSTARS, FUME, OUT FOR BLOOD, CRADLE OF FILTH, NEBRASKA, RATTLESNAKE REMEDY, THE DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE, THE STOLEN BABIES, ZAG AND THE COLOURED BEADS, PEEPING TOM, TERROR, SPACE WEATHER, THE ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR

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ORGAN 177 - CATS AND CATS AND CATS, I LOVE POLAND, AGE OF CHAOS, SANCTORUM, LOVEMAT, WOVEN HAND, LEAVE THE CAPITAL, THE APPARATUS, JESUS LICKS, RED SPARROWES, MASTODON... 

ORGAN 176 - ELLIOT SMITH, JENNIFER TERRAN, CRADLE OF FILTH, HEAVEN 17, LOVE, SUGARCUBES CHET, GRAVANZIA, VANCOUVER DELUXE, HOLY SMOKES, GALLOWS, YO LA TANGO, SKID ROW, UFO, ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, EINSTELLUNG, THE LATE GREATS, ROYAL TREATMENT PLANT, WHEN GRAVITY FAILS, DARTZ, THE TRUDY 

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ORGAN 173 - In print, on paper, got go grab get it.

ORGAN 172 - FTSE100, EMPYREAL DESTROYER, SMILEX, SQUAREPUSHER, HATEBREED, ARDENCY, TOURETTES SYNDROME, GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT, THE VITAMINS, THE RESIDENTS, WEDNESDAY 13, JOHN PEEL DAY PLANNED, RIOT COPS GATECRASH FREE PARTY, The INTREPID FOX

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ORGAN 170 - STEAL GANDHI, ALL DARK MORNINGS, THE AUTHENTICS, OPTIMIST CLUB, ESTRADASPHERE, WOLFGANG BANG, ELECTRONIC, CURSIVE, AGAINST ME, TRANSIT KINGS, TRANSMISSION, DUN 2 DEF, THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS, PHOENIX BODIES, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, THE ANSWER, THOM YORKE....

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ORGAN 165 - THE FLESH HAPPENING, MOTORHEAD, RUSSIAN CIRCLES ,TERROR, THE HUCKSTERS, TANGAROA, SHARP END FIRST, TOUCHSTONE, And just who is MOIST PAULA?

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ORGAN 159 - INNER RAGE, THE GHOSTS, ALPHA DISTRICT, INTEROGATE. ABOUT. DODDODO, DEADSTAR ASSEMBLY, AD AAD AT, ROBIN GUTHRIE, BANG! BANG!, FEU THERESE, CERBERUS SHOAL, HERESY, SERENA-MANEESH, PUNISH THE ATOM, The RampArt Community, GO SPIDERMUM - A gang of anarchist Robin Hood-style thieves, ORGAN TV will be back for more, ORGAN on your radio 

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ORGAN 151 - Out in print now, 40 pages 

ORGAN 150 - NEXT LIFE, CRETIN, HAWNAY TROOF, SYMMETRY, GREENSPACE, DRUGDEALER CHEERLEADER, LAST PARTY, ALEX WARD, BURNT, INTENTION, TRACTOR SEX FATALITY, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, PROUDFLESH, THE GHOSTS, SPEED THEORY,EL TOPO, THE CULT WITH NO NAME, THE PROCESS VOID.

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