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#210 > JUNE 21st 2007 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon |
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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
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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
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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
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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”.
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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
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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
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Want to get your video on?
Well all you need to do is make us aware of what you have, send us a link
to your video on MySpace or You Tube or wherever, or a VHS or a DVD and
if you have something that we want to broadcast then we'll chase you for
a master broadcast format and wallop, sorted |
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DEMO TIME |
Like
we already said - we shall no longer be reviewing a million demos,
we're just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more
time for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective,
when we tell you it's goood then it really is goooooooood
DEMO
OF THE WEEK
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 |
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'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
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LIVE |
ACT
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
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TO
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.
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| 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 |
we
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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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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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
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THE TIGERPICKS, THE SWORD, BOMB THE SUN, KUTOSIS, TEN TO NEVER, CRYSTAL
ENTITY, GUNNING FOR GOLIATH, THEE MORE SHALLOWS,THE DONNAS, TOMAHAWK, BLOODSTOCK,
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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
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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,
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OZRIC TENTACLES, FROM THE SKY, RADIO MOSCOW, THE BLOODY HOLLIES, BELOW
THE SEA, MONTANA, GALLOWS, THE RESIDENTS...
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LA LAS, THE PRISCILLAS, LEISUR HIVE, ENNIO MORRICONE, ANTHRAX, KUTOSIS,
FADE TO SEPIA, IRVING, COAXIAL, BRUTAL TRUTH, WINTERS
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SOLEY MOURNING, PETER HAMMILL, VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, RADIOHEAD, BIS,
UNTITLED MUSICAL PROJECT, TIGER FORCE, NOTORIOUS HI-FI KILLERS
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CLUB LE SHARK, ENABLERS, THE DODGEMS, GRINDERMAN, RONNIE DAY, THE DISTANCE,
YOUR CREATION, LIPID, MOTORHEAD, WEASEL WALTER...
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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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AGE OF CHAOS, SANCTORUM, LOVEMAT, WOVEN HAND, LEAVE THE CAPITAL, THE APPARATUS,
JESUS LICKS, RED SPARROWES, MASTODON...
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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
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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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ESTRADASPHERE, WOLFGANG BANG, ELECTRONIC, CURSIVE, AGAINST ME, TRANSIT
KINGS, TRANSMISSION, DUN 2 DEF, THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS, PHOENIX BODIES,
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PAULA?
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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
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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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