This week's Organ is in celebration of the vision of Tony Wilson.... 

....On Wilson's importance in Joy Division's success, Morris concluded: "We definitely wouldn't have become what we did, definitely not. I can tell you that without a shadow of a doubt. So many other things wouldn't have become what they are. Manchester wouldn't have become what it is without him. Things would have been so different".
 

RADIOHEAD ART BOOK/CLASSICAL COMPOSITION - Not to be outdone by Dylan's arty moves in East Germany, Radiohead are set to have their artwork published in a new book, entitled 'Dead Children Playing'. The book will mainly feature the work of Stanley Donwood - who has been responsible for many Radiohead covers including 'Kid A' and 'OK Computer' - though there'll also be some stuff from Dr Tchock, the anonymous artist that is generally assumed to actually be Thom Yorke. Out in October in hard back the book is expected to include all of Radiohead's cover art from 1995 onwards, which should pacify all the die-hard fans until the arrival of the band's new album, expected later this year.

In other Radiohead news, guitarist Johnny Greewood is set to perform his debut classical composition for The Wordless Music Series in New York next January. The series follows the notion that wordless music can be as inspiring, and sometimes more so, than any lyrical witticisms, and is bringing together a selection of musicians, including post-rockers Do Make Say Think and ethereal instrumental band Mum. Greenwood's piece - titled 'Popcorn Superhet Receiver For String Orchestra' - was commissioned by the BBC in 2005 following that announcement that he would become their 'Composer-in-Residence'. That honour has basically meant that Greenwood has had unlimited access to every musical BBC resource, including their concert orchestra, to write and conduct a single piece of music.  Further details on the performance can be found at www.wordlessmusic.org.

Wrong Pop? Right pop – HERZOGA head to Bath today, 16th August, for a show at Moles, then they haul ass up to London (or down if they go back home after Bath) for a show on Saturday night at the Bull & Gate – on stage 8.00pm. Good to see they’ve been getting some much deserved Radio One attention from Steve Lamacq and Huw Stephens this week as well, good to see the best things do eventually boil up to the surface. Right then let me get on with boiling up more bombs and things that go off an things, filth abound in every corner yes, demos left on the floor... things are coming, things are coming. 

Stoner progheads WINTERS will be playing the Bull & gate on the 23rd of August “with a really good band from North Wales called 'Mother Of Six” (said a Winter) www.myspace.com/winterstheband
 

SCARLETT JOHANSSON ON THE TV ON THE RADIO - TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek is producing an album for Hollywood star Scarlet Johansson, according to Pitchfork. The 'Lost In Translation' actress is reportedly working with the celebrated New York guitarist as well as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on her first record, which is described as "avant garde" by studio owner Steve Nails, who also reckons it could win a Grammy. The album isn't Johansson's first foray into music, of course, as you might remember her widely reported appearance with The Jesus And Mary Chain at Coachella earlier this summer.

 

“Hey all! We are not normally prone to asking for handouts or getting involved in your personal politics (say the people at Ipecac), but our cousin, Henry Rollins, recently asked for our help to spread awareness about the new developments in the West Memphis 3 case. It is a case that involves the US legal system and the rights of the haves vs. the have nots”. Take a look, if Henry says it needs attention then who are we to question? Take a look here

John on the phone...

10th Aug 2007 (from a blog I posted somewhere)  - Just heard on the radio that Tony Wilson died tonight, only 57, that's sad. I always had time for Tony Wilson and his opinions, one of the few people in the music business that I always made a point of listening to. An arch Red as well, always out to put down the City myth and propaganda and tell it how it really is.  He was an important part of Manchester musical/cultural history, a vital cog - the founder of Factory records and one of the forces behind the ever evolving Manchester/Salford music scene (they are two separate cities you know). Without Tony Wilson's vision we just might not have got Joy Division, New Order, the Happy Mondays and quite a few more rather important landmark bands - I always had respect for Tony Wilson, didn't always agee with him, he was one of the people who seemed to be on the right side of things, someone who wanted to take risks and push the new. We met him a handful of times, he always remembered who we were - I remember him once grabbing a copy of Organ in the middle of a venue in Manchester that was full of industry types and yelling at some music press people and A&R men about how they'd do well to pay a lot more attention to what we were saying and something about us being the only people worth our salt in the venue - I was secretly rather pleased and proud when he did that (although I’d probably never admit it to anyone).  Yeah, never really knew him that well but I had a lot of respect for him. He always seemed to be trying to do things the right way and he had such an obvious love of music and  Manchester and Manchester's rich musical culture in particular. Manchester and music lost a good one tonight. RIP Tony Wilson, thanks for everything.  (Sean O) X

Here's a press release from last Monday  TONY WILSON - Legendary Manchester club and record label owner, and In The City founder, Tony Wilson died last week after suffering a heart attack. The former Factory Records chief had been battling kidney cancer prior to his death, though Wilson's doctor says that, in the end, that was not the direct cause of his death. Professor Robert Hawkins told reporters: "It's very sad. He died as a result of something unrelated to his cancer. His cancer was responding well to treatment but obviously did contribute to his poor health". Wilson was a key figure in the rise of the Manchester music scene in the late eighties, of course, bringing the world bands like Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays, through his unconventional indie label Factory Records. He was also a co-founder of the infamous Hacienda nightclub, as well as working across the music and media industries. Despite his successes in the music industry, he also maintained a career in TV journalism and, for those of us who lived in 'Granada-land' remained the bloke off the local news even as the Factory/Hacienda empire was at its peak. Despite his prolific career, his unconventional approach to business meant he did not profit hugely from his business ventures, meaning he recently had to appeal to friends and colleagues to fund private healthcare treatment for his cancer. Among those paying tribute to Wilson on Friday was former Happy Mondays manager Phil Saxe, who told the BBC: "He was a visionary in that he helped bands, who otherwise wouldn't have made it, who were a bit out of the ordinary. He helped them realise their dreams and through that probably realised himself to be Mr Manchester. Part of me, part of Manchester, part of modern British music has died tonight".   NEW ORDER DRUMMER'S ODE TO TONY WILSON - New Order and Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris has being paying tribute the late Tony Wilson, the Factory Records chief who, as previously reported, died last week. Speaking about the moment he heard of Wilson's untimely death, Morris said: "We were told that Tony had been given the last rites and I didn't think he was that bad. Then at tea time on Friday (Aug 10) I got a call from [Factory co-founder] Alan Erasmus, which was a shock anyway because I'd not heard from him in about 15 years. And he told me that Tony had just died. And I was shocked, double shocked". Wilson had, of course, been suffering from pancreatic cancer, though he had been responding to his treatment well and the cancer was not directly the cause of his death. Commenting on Wilson's recent ill health, Morris continued: "I saw him three weeks ago at a wedding, and I saw pictures of him at Coachella [where he introduced Happy Mondays onstage]. He was obviously ill and he had a very ill-advised beard, but Tony was still there. We were chatting about Neil Young at the Palace Theatre, and he seemed alright. Which is why I'm quite surprised that it's happened as quick as it has done really. I heard he was getting taken back to hospital, but that's one of the things about cancer, it's up and down a bit. The whole thing's been really quick because he was only diagnosed just before Christmas". On Wilson's importance in Joy Division's success, Morris concluded: "We definitely wouldn't have become what we did, definitely not. I can tell you that without a shadow of a doubt. So many other things wouldn't have become what they are. Manchester wouldn't have become what it is without him. Things would have been so different". Wilson's funeral has been confirmed as taking place this coming Monday, 20 Aug, at the Hidden Gem Church in Manchester. It will be small affair for family and close friends only - a larger memorial service is under discussion. Anyone wishing to make a tribute to Wilson has been asked to make a donation to the Christie Hospital NHS Trust - www.christies.org/makedonations.html.

ORGAN TV  is on your screens in the UK right now. Every Wednesday evening, 10.30pm  on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY160 (WE MOVED). And now due to the fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY883 at 11.15pm.

This coming Sunday we have the following videos...

1: THE SCHLA LA LAS - 1,2,3,4
2: 65DAYSOFSTATIC - Don't Go Down To Sorrow 
3: AARON STOUT - Space Station 
4: DAN DEACON - The Crystal Cat
5: MY VITRIOL - This Time 
6: CARDIACS - Day is Gone 
7: AKERCOCKE - Axiom 
8: MUNICIPAL WASTE - Unleash The Bastards 

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

TRUCKERS OF HUSK - Salad Ballad
YIP YIP - Candy Dinner
THE ICARUS LINE - Gets Paid
TO THE BONES - Tycho
THE BLACK KEYS - Your Touch
MC LARS - Ahab
THE PRISCILLAS - All My Friends Are Zombies 
LIARS - It Fit When I Was A Kid 
 
 
 

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
THUMPERMONKEY LIVES! – Prog bleedin’ rock mate! The self indulgent cool as F real fugging thing – all long winded and taking an age to unfold and they’ve got no horns and they’ve got tails and they don’t even know of our existence. Not one of your indie-smindy post hardcore bands claiming to be progressive because they borrowed one of the easier At The Drive-In riffs, or yet another noodling post-rock copy of the Explosions in Your Emperor thing. No! This is the full on weird wired bombastic Rael in his Lighthouse in the court of crimson u-boat real big Gentle Giant, Isis deal. Cram five songs in to one and takes us through all kinds of melodic light, shade and moody atmosphere (and strange lyrics that I haven’t quite deciphered yet, Scientology in the woodshed and you know the drill). Actually they sound like an easier to digest Sleepy People (without the hardboiled Pere Ubu vocal style and the slightly twee bits) and with more than a healthy hint of the mighty Sensational Alex Harvey Band – and they have this deliciously dirty edge and filthy sludgy guitar sounds (and they’re cool enough to name drop Ian Gillan in Jesus Christ Superstar – now that is cool!). You see, you progheads out there who like it polite and sanitized and cleancut (and boring) like Porcupine (yawn) Tree are these days, or all you fans of those dull conservative prog by numbers Spocks Beard outfits - if that’s what you like then you’re going to run a mile from this, you’ll run off like fat squealing neo-prog piggies back to your safe little inside out world of Pendragon offshoot bands and Marillion without Fish blandness, run piggy run piggy run run run, back to your office, back to your grave, the feeder is.... – but those of you who loved Poisoned Electrick Head and Sleepy People and Cheese Cake Truck and Camp Blackfoot and now love Fantomas and Tool and Isis and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and the punky edge of those Cardiacs and yes Gillan and 70’s Genesis and Alex Harvey and the great god Hammill and Houses of The Holy  – yes indeed imagine Gillan but cool enough in terms of energy and attitude to be on Discord Records with an Albini edge and hard boiled heavyweight maths and yes! Nothing too hard boiled though, this is not ‘difficult’ or ‘awkward’, beautifully melodic and dramatically paced actually, nothing thrashy or punky – well at least not in the noisy sense. There’s three of them, dirty guitars, delicate guitars, quiet guitars and battling counterbalanced riffs that revolve around each other rather than the usual staple of progrock keyboards – fugging ‘ell this is brilliant!  It was good from the off but now I’ve been chewing on it for a bit, this is brilliant!. Five songs, five epics, not in terms of length (although they all feel longer than they actually are!), epic in terms of content, in terms of musical drama, light and shade. There’s a massive ten minute track that feels like twenty minutes at the end). Ah look, real deal must-have ear food, excellent, word had been seeping out over the river from South London about this band, word was right, and we should have mentioned The Melvins as well. www.thumpermonkey.com

ALSO CHECK OUT
ARTY KARATE – One Of those urgent, bursting with energy, packed with riffs and swagger and healthy attitude type indie rock bands. They’re from Brighton, they name drop bands like Death From Above and Reuben, they throw stencils and spray paint around along with their bags of youthful attitude and poppy garage punky indie rock riffs. Further investigation via www.myspace.com/artykarate

I KILLED PHAROAH - One those bigass slickass big hard-edged hard rock slap-bass slap-happy alternative pop big riff band things that kind of sound like the early 90’s and the days just before Nirvana broke big and all was slick and Faith No Three Jane’s Colours Addiction Red More and alternative hard rock was the thing and bands like My Sisters Machine and The Beyond threatened to be big for five minutes (that was a long sentence). You know the bands, you occasionally catch them on late night re-runs of Bevis And Butthead and a brief flicker of recollection ignites a faded memory cell. I Killed Pharoah fit right in there and I guess if you missed it back then, then this English band will sound rather fresh and different and a little off centre and Queens Of The Big Rock thing  - www.myspace.com/ikp

SUPERJIMENEZ – Four Piece indie guitar pop rock band, infectious breezy harmless mid-paced mild radio friendly (professional, slick – band with their shit together here) songs, nothing that wouldn’t sound out of place in heavy rotation on daytime XFM or Radio One or any of those other places that cause us to froth and rage and throw radios out of windows and break the heads of passing pins. Yep, they’d fit in well alongside all the Kaiser-Fi everything is very average stuff and if this is what you want then Superjimenez do it as well as all the other safe polite same old same old sanitized marketable options tat seem to keep most more that satisfied and pacified... What we’re politely saying here is that this is for those of you who like this radio friendly indie shiteola, they’re really very good at it, and if I was of a mind then I’d jump on this and release a single and congratulate myself about how good I am at spotting talent and being a very important egotosser of an A&R man and B&Q and S&M and hang on, that’s the door bell, got to go –  you indie kids who find satisfaction in daytime indie radio will appreciate them, here’s the link - www.superjimenez.com  (wasn’t that nice of us to give you the link there? See, we can be nice, we don’t always bark and bite and there’s probably a lurking A&R type clicking his squeaky mouse and fame and fortune is a link away and it will all be our fault and omni-compromise and this epiphany will have to be cleaned up right now and thank the spiders for those Vile Vile Creatures) 

Last week's demo of the week - HELLFIRE

Previous demo's of the week - MR PHORMULA and LEWS TEWNS / THE APPLES / ONSEGEN ENSEMBLE / SASSY / ALEX TAYLOR AND THE EVIL EYE / MONTY CASINO / TO THE BONES / 4 OR 5 MAGICIANS / JACK SHIRT / HERZOGA

DEMO REVIEW ARCHIVES

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
UPSILON ACRUX - Galapagos Momentum (Cuneiform) - Extravagant, dazzling Upsilon Acrux are talent billionaires, and generous with it. A typical Upsilon Acrux composition gifts you the equivalent of a dozen other bands' lifetime creative output, showers you with tunes and riffs and cool bits. Then they pluck a whole load more out of the air for the next one, delivering all with hardcore energy and punk rock freedom.
 Galapagos Momentum is this richness of detail carried over ten glorious tracks. It's a smorgasbord of references; birthday and Christmas come at once for the prog-hungry. Opening track Who's Running Shit (Son of Destiny's Child) contains about two dozen texture, tune and time changes, played with musicianship that goes beyond mere skill into the realms of ninja. This fifth album is a distillation of their previous achievements, slightly lighter and brighter on the ear, still intensely detailed and endlessly intriguing. 
  Hours could be spent dissecting influences out of this album: the short bursts of aggressive avant noise, the African/world music (by way of Neu!) sections, the plunderphonic-like cutting up of diverse seventies avant, the guiding lights of Ruins and Magma behind it all, not too obvious. The opening track starts very Don Caballero (and Volta Do Mar) before dragging those shimmering guitar ripples off somewhere rather more complex, heavy and adventurous. It leans more towards the warm and uplifting than their earlier work.  Compared with Upsilon Acrux's previous albums Gala pagos Momentum seems more instantly accessible - more repetition, a lot more upfront with the progressive influences.  That has a curious effect: having played with an entire record collection of classic prog, there are moments throughout where they reference - Upsilon Acrux!  So, here's my (reluctant) beef with Galapagos Momentum: it's a brilliant, deeply pleasurable listen, but it doesn't add a new experience to human existence the way much of Last Train Out did.  Previous Upsilon Acrux compositions were quite simply unique. It Takes A Nation Of Unicorns To Hold Us Back and Zerpents have a pioneering edge that is hard to define: not necessarily harder on the ear, just... new. A bit darker-sounding too. They were referencing glitching CDs and freight trains and cut-up found sound in their riffs as much as progressive classics, and the seamlessly fused results were and are breathtaking. Galapagos Momentum contains a lot more of the latter: loads of half-familiar, fleeting mini-tributes that remind you of nothing so much as legendary Japanese avant duo Ruins' equally legendary Prog Rock Medley.  Smoothly shifting into something that sounds like Gentle Giant's Cogs In Cogs but isn't quite, then a King Crimson thing that isn't quite, within a framework of something not quite Don Caballero is... well, it's my idea of a good time, actually. I guess that's what drives this band and makes this very ambitious approach hold together: they, like me and a lot of other people, absolutely love multi-layered, rich, complex music and most of all love those peak moments it takes you to.  Those who don't understand it think it's all about musical prowess and technicality - bollocks, its about emotional highs. It's about tunes. That's what makes Upsilon Acrux stratospherically soar above your Orthrelms and your Champs and your math noodlers - they're emotion junkies, addicted to those highs, to that buzz that kicks in when you've listened to a piece a few times and you're getting used to the changes and you feel that lift when that certain bit comes along... Boy, do they know about structure - Hiking Up Feel Good Mountain a case in point and the incredible driving takeoff in So Thereby... are cases in point. Galapagos Momentum is exceptionally tuneful - strong, multi-layered melodies, often with the two guitars and bass in joyous three-way counterpoint.  Touched By God (Inappropriately) manages at various points to feel like (proper) Genesis and (proper) Yes at the same time, in a raw contemporary way, before going into pure Upsilon mode - all telepathically tight and incredibly fresh.  And despite all these seventies name-drops, the overall sound is contemporary - that natural, live-in the-studio sound perfected by American underground and hardcore producers, that balance between rawness and clarity.  Oh, and it rocks, too. With every track an astonishing mini-masterpiece, Upsilon Acrux have delivered an album that will have jaws hitting floors for many years to come. Quite possibly the coolest band in the world – www.cuneiformrecords.com or www.myspace.com/upsilonacrux
(Marina) 
 

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2  LIARS – Liars (Mute) - You see really, this shouldn’t be an album – not yet anyway. If they had followed it through properly then this album should only be coming out retrospectively when all these great songs have entered our psyche and anchored themselves as classic seven inch pieces of musical treasure (with equally as good b-sides for when we’re ready to flip over). See you never think of Blue Monday or Fade To Grey or This Is Not A Love Song as great tracks you discovered on an album - they existed first in splendid isolation as songs in their own right - as classic singles (that stayed in the indie charts for months and months and got you curious and asking at your local record shop or tuning in to John Peel in hope). This is a collection of classic singles, songs in isolation. Liars have stripped everything back, they’ve done away with the strange artwork and the videos and the concepts and the characters and all the things they now think distracted us from their previous songs (or distracted them from making songs). Even the tittles were distracting they told us the other day when we interviewed them. Got to say for stripped down song tittles they make for an impressive pre-listen read – Plaster Casts of Everything, Leather Prowler, The Dumb in The Rain, Sailing to Byzantium, Pure Unevil – is that their idea of striped down to a non-distracting minimal? Hey look, we’re fans, around here we consider Liars to be one of the most important bands currently out there creating – we were anticipating something special, we’ve been waiting for this one to drop. We are not disappointed.   So Liars the album sounds like no one but Liars the band. They have such an unmistakably distinctive sound – those intense rhythms and dark textures. From the opening drive of Plaster Casts they’ll have you hooked - no, more hypnotized, locked-on and rushing with them rather than just hooked, Plaster Casters Of Everything in a massive locked-on rush of an opening song (and probably the most obvious single).  Houseclouds follows in an almost mystical minimal Psychic TV/Jane’s Addiction acid house way and from there on in we’re off to all kinds of places – all visited in Liars’ own unique foreboding brooding menacing way. And they clearly have been feeding off those classic singles that probably got them seriously in to music in the first place – definite healthy tastes of early Jesus And Mary Chain, Joy Division, P.I.L, The Smiths, The Fall (and early Huge Baby – though I doubt they ever heard or indeed heard of early Huge Baby!). The hints and flavours are all in there with that now familiar Liars shape-shifting mystery and those rhythms that are all of their own. Some of it is seriously out there, even by Liars standards - Leather Prowler is just plain strange in this very minimal way – oh look, to try and describe this is to really to try and dance about architecture.  Thing to do here is buy the album, then record each track on to a disc and ration yourself to no more than one a week, discover each one and only when you have done then should you listen to the whole album. It isn’t really until the ninth track, Clear Island, that they hit us with anything that could have been off the last album. I think it may be the best Liars album yet, certainly their best collection of songs, we’re happy – want to come and listen to it? We can go out to this shack, out in the woods, bring a big sack, yes of course we’ll come back – this could only be Liars. www.liarsliarsliars.com

ALSO CHECK OUT
GUTWORM – Disfigurednardissus (Anticulture) - They’re a strange band, the English four piece have their brief moments of restrained colourful clarity and subtle artistic inviting atmosphere (mostly found as brief introductions) and just when your ears are pricking up in anticipation they’ll take another bloody great big jack hammer to your head and pummel you again. Ten rounds of relentless brutal violent screaming bloody boiling extreme metal violence and a constant pot of feuding puss-bursting bile and hate. And then while their blows and kicks are raining in something else hits you, those subtle bits are still there under the surface, hidden in the fine detail and adding so much to sound and style, adding the colour and the dimension – right there under the skin so you almost don’t notice. There is subtly and art and colour in there quietly winning through under the skin of the boiling hate and the relentlessly brutal screaming growling extreme metal violence - and that is why Gutworm are heads above most the extreme hardcore metal crowd and why this album hold our attention when so many other of the genre just don’t.  www.gutworm.com

BLACK BONZO – Sound Of The Apocalypse (Laser’s Edge) - Glorious full on none-more-prog 70’s parping driving end of the world keyboards and oooozing Mellotron laced (conceptual) progressive rock. Bite down on those Hammonds and the all encompassing the over the top uber-cool glory that’s tastes of Lone Star or Uriah Heep garnished with an abundance of bouncy pompy classic Genesis and Jethro Tull as the tidal wave swamps.... ooooo hang on they’ve suddenly gone all Van Der Graaf and off-edged as the disaster swamps the world! Brilliant! Completely and utterly over the top and none more prog rock! They’re from Sweden and they (look and) sound massively cool. Pyramids lost in the sand and sticks and stones and that bit is very (very) Musical Box and here comes the After The Flood sky touching euphoric bit and an extra layer of mellotron warmth. Best bit of proper real meaty 70’s sounding (neo-free) over the top real deal prog rock we’ve heard in ages – excellent! Progposterous!  – www.blackbonzo.com or www.lasersedgegroup.com

TED MAUL – White Label (Raise The Game) – Hang on one blistering rancid screaming gore-filled explosive bloody hellstorm moment, maybe metal really is coming home? Not that it went anywhere you understand, and who cares where a band is from and blah blah blah - hey, seems the best extreme metal, the more imaginative challenging genre pushing end of extreme metal, is boiling up right there under our English noses right now. Hang on again, just when you think you have Ted Maul pegged, they suddenly switch from their impressive extreme death metal Slayer speed brutal onslaught of colour to twitchy moody dark electro Merzbow (with strange girl voice) drum ‘n bass – no, hang on just a little more, we’re back to puss-boiling extreme crunch and blister once more, hostilities are well and truly resumed after the major mid album diversion. Extreme stomping arcing metal violence! No, hang on again - some kind of atmospheric spoken word speaking in tongues Latin incense swinging moody sound-scape thing going down now. No, hang on again metal guitar crunch and low-end grind over sinister news broadcasts and religious extremities now... Most of the time the London outfit stick to playing colourful imaginative un-obvious grinding extreme death metal (laces with all kinds of atmospheric temperature shirts), they keep on throwing in these rewarding curveballs though, keep you on your toes and keep everything more than interesting. Oh yes, rewarding hard-boiled challenging demanding extreme metal from an impressive band who want a little more out of musical life than to just conform and sound like all the others. Recommended – www.myspace.com/tedmaul666

ALLFLAWS – These Walls Are Lies (Derelict State) – Bit of a slightly lo-fi take on a mellow Prodigy thing – very laid back Prodigy, flavoured with hints of darker Massive Attack and more than a hint of Rage Against The Machine in those dark lyrics and hip-hop tipped lines. All a little one dimensional and crying out for a change of gear, a shift in pace and an altering of musical texture, all one mood, all one pace – which is all okay for a while, kind of get a little distracted and wondering what’s for tea by track six though. Not sure if those poetic lyrics would stand up to too much of an examination either.  Sounds like a promising demo and a project to keep an ear out for rather than something that’s ready to save the world just yet, worth watching to see if they develop the obvious promise.  www.myspace.com/allflaws
 

Last week's album of the week - MIKROKOSMOS / ODD NOSDAM / MENENDEZ Previous album's of the week - GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN  / CHROME HOOF / TWELVE / WEEDEATER / LASSE MARHAUG / MOTORHEAD / TWO BANDS AND A LEGEND / ANEKDOTEN / ORIGINAL SILENCE / GIRL BAND / MORVISCOUS

ALBUM REVIEW ARCHIVES

LIVE REVIEW ARCHIVES

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
THE CULT – Dirty Little Rockstar (Roadrunner) – Does just exactly what any sane person demands The Cult do. And what does any same person demand? We demand gratuitous over the top rocking out, we demand big guitars, big attitude, big everything – we demand everything and Newton throwing apples at the head of William Tell. You can smell the leather trousers and the healthy strut of rockstar arrogance from here and why bother writing a riff when there’s plenty just waiting to be “borrowed”. Yep, there goes the Cult trademark blatantly ‘borrowed’ riff (so you can sing some alternative AC/DC lyrics to the tune like you’re in Primal Scream or something). This time Duffy, Fat Ian and whoever else is in The Cult these days, have “borrowed” in a rather blatantly heavily fashion from the Stones and namely Undercover Of The Night. Ah yes, just what you want from these Cults - big everything, big primal screams, big ‘borrowed’ monster rock riffs and everything bigger and badder than the biggest bad thing in rockdom. This is big bad monster rock beast Cult doing The Cult properly and sounding as good as ever - sounding better than ever, good for your sanity, ciao little devil give us sanctuary... Yes – this rules! Out on September 17th and no doubt about to be everywhere – good! 

ALSO CHECK OUT
ODD SHAPED HEAD – Egomatic Annie (Construction) - Odd shaped band, everything we’ve heard up until now has been dangerously wacky and look at us and aren’t we weird and just trying too hard. Nothing worse than one of those look-at-us-aren’t-we-wacky bands, we get a lot of them around here.  So Odd Shaped Head finally cut the crap and got in to the real world, and in doing so they made a rather infectiously clever catchy slice of impressive bouncy energetic jerky (not quirky) new wave English pop. Not liked them up until now, rather like this – www.oddshapedhead.co.uk

Last week's single of the week - LIARS

Previously - DAN DEACON / TWIN THOUSANDS / ZAN PAN / THE GENTLE GOOD / TRUCKDRIVER JNR / FRAN RODGERS / SOULSAVERS / THE NOVA SAINTS / 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

PREVIOUSLY - ANTHRAX / OMD

PREVIOUSLY - BOOK: BERNARD SUMNER – CONFUSION / ZINE: NOISY No5 / DVD: SAMMY AND THE WABOS – LIVING IT UP IN ST.LOUIS / DVD - NAZARETH – FROM THE BEGINNING

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

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ORGAN 211 - ONSEGEN ENSEMBLE, TWO BANDS AND A LEGEND, ANEKDOTEN, DEKAPITATOR,  SEA ON FIRE, FRAN RODGERS, DJ MAYONNAISE, BEATNIK FILMSTARS, SAMMY AND THE WABOS, CARDIACS, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, PIG DESTROYER, DDD, HARRY SMITH ANTHOLOGY REMIXED, MONSTERWORKS, MIDNIGHT CONFIGURATION