Camden is not only a place of originality in the fields of music, fashion and alternative culture but also a place of fascinating history. It's at the very heart of one of London's most culturally, politically and ethnically diverse areas. It attract people from all over the world, of all ages, all interests and all backgrounds. Nowhere has ever been quite like Camden market, and NOWHERE ELSE EVER WILL BE IF WE LOSE IT! We've lost the Kings Road, and Kensington high street as the last bastions of alternative culture to the corporate developers over the last fifteen years... Please, don't let Camden go the same way. We can't let the stables be torn down - They are such an integral part of Camden and London itself won't be the same without them. They are part of our culture

Please, please, please give us just 1 minute of your time and go to:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/camdenmarket/

It goes straight to the government and officially has to be responded to. This could be our last chance to make a difference.  Surprisingly few Londoners even know about the plans. Do anything you can think of to help! This isn’t just about London though, this is happening in cities all over the UK, it will be your alternative shops and venues, it will be the little people in your town or city pushed out by the Starbucks and Live Nations. Time to make a stand against gentrification and the corporate stranglehold, we do not need the alternative and culturally important parts of out cities turned in to identical soulless shopping malls. Spread the work, cut and paste this on to you Websites and my Space blogs. Even if Camden Market isn’t your particular thing, this still matters to you.
 

John on the phone...

Meanwhile we are told RESONANCE FM is almost ready to fly in a live sense again, expect Sunday night service to resume maybe on September 16th, maybe on September 23rd - maybe? Watch this spot Oh and Tim said the new recordings were almost ready - maybe on September 16th, maybe on September 23rd - maybe? Watch this spot

ORGAN TV?

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

This coming Sunday we have the following videos...

BLEEDING THROUGH - Kill To Believe 
SOHODOLLS - Right and Right Again
65DAYSOFSTATIC - Don't Go Down To Sorrow 
THE KEITH JOHN ADAMS - Other Side Of The Road 
BEE STRINGS -   Pressure (Running Away) 
AMON TOBIN - Verbal 
ANTI PRODUCT - Better Than This 

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

OURLIVES - Sandra
MY VITRIOL - This Time 
BEE STRINGS -   Pressure (Running Away) 
TO THE BONES - Tycho 
DAN DEACON - The Crystal Cat 
COLT - Never know 
THE KEITH JOHN ADAMS  - Other Side Of The Road 
BEECHER - Function! Function! 

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
OAKWOOD – What is an animal or is it a plane? Seems to be some genuine ambition and a need for bomb throwing musical creativity here, Essex screamers, who started off doing that melodic screaming one/melodic one thing again, not as obvious as some though, and far from obvious once things start to unfold – hang on, nothing obvious here!! What was I thinking? Scratch the start and start again! Scratch scratch, gone strangely scratchy and new wave weird-ass on us now... and now they’re in to some deranged thing called hardcore noisefest called Zero Heat and they’ve gone all Blood Brothers falling down an endless flight of stairs in a messy clinch with Converge, Botch, Camp Blackfoot, Gog Magog and ten shouting, bleeding, off the handle Norman Wisdoms. Whoooooooo, breaks on, stop the bus, this is good! Raw and messy right now and blistering with musical energy and positive possibilities. Eight tracks, eight messy road pizzas and all kinds of screaming musical insanity and light and shade and violence and kisses and lies and your legs can’t run.  What is an animal or is it a plane? This is a party so why aren’t you dancing? Frantic goings off and things when you can’t get back up the stairs you just fell down – oh yes, we got a live one here Earl, fetch the bucket and prepare to go in to the trenches once more, pass that plot to kill a king and a criteria for mice. Seems they’re in the studio and ready to record ‘properly’ soon – can’t wait. www.myspace.com/oakwoodrock

DEMO OF THE WEEK 2
EPSTEIN SUPERFLU – The War Inside Darktown  – They come from Italy, singer sounds English, they make slightly left field psychedelic rock (actually the further in you get the further left field they go). They have a restrained and rather intriguingly strange six minute track called Solara AKA Master Of Puppets which I guess is what Metallica on mellow haunting laid back acid sounds like  - I rather like it, haven’t worked out the spoken words that go over the top of the music (and talk of a great awakening) yet. The track has a rather fine spaghetti Western feel – oh and they repeat it as an instrumental at the end of the disc as well – almost ambient psychedelic guitar – excellent. Before the versions of Solara/Puppets they have two tracks of their own construction  - two mid paced grooved out slices of rather original sounding, fuzzed up, psychedelic stoner flavoured heavy hallucinogenic blues edged bass driven rock that really are rather good and rather unobvious – I like this band! www.myspace.com/epsteinsuperflu

Last week's demo of the week - THE FURIOUS SLEEP / FUNERAL CRASHERS

Previous demo's of the week - THUMPERMONKEY LIVES! / HELLFIRE / 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
SCRAPS OF TAPE – This Is A Copy Is This A Copy (Tender Vision) - Fresh uplifting bright and dew-fresh post rock, gliding and happy lemon-bright twitching and powerfully gentle glitching from Sweden. “Think apocalypse” says the piece of paper that accompanies this fine album as it invites us to listen to opening track “Death As It Should Be” – if that’s how it ends then there’s really nothing much to worry about, sounds rather inviting and welcoming to me. Uplifting gentle breezy soft-focus post-rock glitch with the occasional harmless jagged rocky edge when they need it. Five instrumental tracks, four with vocals and one with a choir. When the vocals do finally arrive for track three, tittle track, This Is A Copy, they add to the refined restrained beauty of it all, by track three their clever beauty has hooked us. See, you can make post rock without conforming to the blueprint, this is not a copy, this is delightfully blissfully original. So much dynamic in their quiet. Strangely enough when they go for the noise and the instrumental guitar build up (as all post rock band seem obliged to) they lose so much of their dimension and power, feedback does got suit them as much as tip-toe folk vibrancy. Their flirtations with Balcan-orchestras on the other hand do suit them, as do their fine brushes with the style of Tom Waits and the upright bass that holds our hands – strength slipping through fingers. And then there’s the ten minute epic that closes everything, and the delicate couplets that ring in said epic – an epic that does go to all the dynamic place post rock is required to go (and a few of the places it isn’t). Just when we were starting to think Post Rock had fallen in to a rule obeying conformity zone along come Scraps of Tape. Recommended.    www.scrapesoftape.com or www.myspace.com/scrapsoftape or www.tendervision.com       
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ALSO CHECK OUT HEAVEN AND HELL – Live From Radio City Music Hall (SPV) – Ah, the Dio version of the mighty Sabbath and a 2007 double live album from the born again (again) band. Let us not fall in to any more Dio rules, Ozzy is a fool arguments, let us just say when the album Heaven And Hell came out back in 79 or 80 or whenever it was, that album was as fine as any of the fine fine Sabbath albums. By the end of the 70’s Ozzy was a washed up mess, Sabbath has been roasted by their support band on a UK tour - a new band with new ideas and a new sound, a new band of young upstarts called Van Halen – it wasn’t looking good for Iommi and company. Ozzy sacked and a drugged out mess, it looked like the end of the road. People really weren’t sure when Ronnie James was announced as new front man, what! That little American from Rainbow! He’ll never fit! Riots in the streets, people calling for the head of “Dieo”. Same people soon shut up when Heaven And Hell hit the streets though, Heaven And Hell was (and is) an absolute heavy rock classic (and the follow up album wasn’t bad either). So here we are in 2007 and really, as much as I loved them back then, I’m not sure if I want all these endless reincarnations and re-births and as much as I really want to tell you how wonderful this is, truth is it sounds a little laboured and are they playing everything just a little too slow? And those Dio lyrics, what is he on about? O no, no one can criticise the mystery of Ronnie James Dio lyrics, if he started making sense and stopped seeing rainbows everywhere then he wouldn’t Dio. Hey look, I’m being over critical, this is a good album and I guess celebrating the Dio version of Sabbath one more time is a little better than wheeling out Ozzy one more time. Every metalhead should have a copy of Heaven And Hell and yes, this is a fine live album to fit in there next to it as well (and thankfully you don’t get any Iron Man or Paranoid either – that never did work did it). www.heavenandhelllive.com or www.spv.de

WAR FROM A HARLOT’S MOUTH – Transmetropolitan (Lifeforce) - Hang about, cookie monster yelping screaming tantrum throwing grindcore rubber-band metallers feasting on the screaming still alive epileptic body of some zombiefied jazz fusion math rock band who in turn have feasted on the twists and turns (and screams) of Locusts and Trenchers and Sikth insects from the complex Dillinger end on the Escape Plan equation. This rules! Screaming extreme math metal from Berlin. Not all screaming though, oh no, they know about the power of quiet and the need for light and shade and violence can be ambient and fighting wars with keyboards - is that a gun or a typewriter? Intense screaming yelling extreme hardcore math metal, you know if you want it or not. The Germans aren’t bringing anything that new to the party, which is why it isn’t album of the week, damn good though - ah. Hell, this does rule! www.lifeforcerecords.com or www.myspace.com/warfromaharletsmouth

KNIGHT AREA – Under A New Sign (Lazer’s Edge) – That classic early 80’s meaty bouncy proggy sound of fine fine bands like IQ, Pallas and Quasar and jumping in unison down the Wardour Street Marquee. Preposterously long winded melodic keyboard passages and songs that are built up on euphoric foundations of many melodic uplifting parts – melting Marillion guitar breaks and Twelfth Night drama that feeds off 70’s Genesis and classic Yes. if you loved all that and you can’t stand most of the sanitized churn it out pap that passes for (neo) prog now then these fine Dutch men are very much for you. Proper prog rock, the last great musical taboo, this is right up there with the very best wave parting sky moving moments of early Pallas – cool as f.  www.knightarea.com / www.myspace.com/knghtarea  

CAREER SUICIDE – Attempt Suicide (Deranged) - Fast aggressive nihilistic steaming ram-raiding speeding rushing recipe for disaster old school hardcore punk rock – think Ramones, Motorhead, Discharge, GBH, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Fang and a whole bag full of fine healthy wholesome punk rock scumbag earfood – the type you know is good for you . A righteous mix of machine gun drumming, early hardcore and the fine art of fast shout-a-long street punk. Raw yet clean, clear crisp spot-on production. Tight no messing songs, good songwriting –anyone can have attitude, not everyone has songs to back it. They’re from Canada and yeah I know this album has been out for an age, we only just got it though, what do you want us to do? Ignore it ‘cause the man from Del Monte delivered it late? Relentlessly good, 13 tracks, no filler, all thriller... front line top quality streetwise punk ‘bleed rock mate. www.derangedrecords.com – I don’t know, maybe it isn’t out, the website says it isn’t other places say it is, take it up with your local MP

SEVENYEARSDEAD – To The Ruin Of All (Casket) – Modern sounding Pantera-ish early Breed 77 style metal from Manchester. They sound professional enough without really offering anything you haven’t heard before. Impressive powerhouse of a drummer, they’re lacking in any kind of real musical identity or dynamic personality at the moment though. Professional, workmanlike Pantera style debut,  let’s hope they build on it.  www.sevenyearsdead.com

LUNATIC – Real Nice (Orange Bud) - Deceptive album and band, not sure what to make of it. The London crew start off with a rather average and unremarkable song called Time To Live and then follow it with some kind of messing around with sound bites and slices of spoken word film samples that they mix in with their pub-rockish music and a song called Frank. The first two tracks sound like a little bit of an unimpressive directionless dog’s dinner and they’re a band with a rather aimless sound – and then suddenly, just as we’re heading for the eject button, they punch in with a pissed off angry slice of tasty attitude and a song called City Kids (no, not the Pink Faries/Motorhead thing) and proceed with some rather fine old-school 80’s sounding punky street metal - the punky side of NWOBHM. If they’d started off with City Kids they’d have had us from the start! Lunatic have a rather basic raw sound - street-wise, basic (well recorded) riffs and no messing lyrics – early 80’s sounding street metal. City Kids could have been one of those classic Neat Records 7”, could have been from the days of fine bands like Fist, Goldsmith, Stampede or Sledgehammer. They don’t quite hit those City Kids heights again, rest of the album works though – rest the album feels like good honest street rock delivered with a certain f-you attitude and some old school heavy rock energy. Soulbreaker is rather good, and they end with a track called Red Hot Mama that has a bit of a raw mid/late 70’s Thin Lizzy vibe to it. What a mixed up strange band, there’s a rather fine four track EP lurking on this CD, the rest of it really isn’t that good - www.myspace.com/lunaticrocks    

LINED UP VOL 1 (Line Out) - Seventeen slices of mellow brooding biting underground dark wave pop and leftfield electro goth-rock from the evolving Line Out label. Bands such as Trauma Pet, the rather impressive Katscan, Deathboy, History of Guns, Earth Loop Recall, Reincarnationfish... Colourful stuff and a rather good standard throughout - some of the bands or tracks stand out a little more than others, but hey, pretty much all of it is worth your ears and maybe a little more than just your ears. A collection of bands who are currently collaborating in some way with the relatively new English label. Had this album playing on repeat for most of the day now while I work away, bands keep grabbing my attention – who’s this? Who’s that? Good album, and a few bands to go investigate a little more. If you like your goth flavoured electro pop/rock then go investigate – www.lineoutrecords.com    

MONSTERS BUILD MEAN ROBOTS – Monsters Build Mean Robots (Nice Weather For Airstrikes) – A mostly instrumental duo making pleasant enough mild-paced uplifting background earfood that falls somewhere between what is now a traditional post-rock convention and uncomplicated delicate ambient electronica. All very nice and soothing and quiet and if you’re in a mellow mood then rather refreshing and comfortably unchallenging in a positive kind of way. www.niceweatherforairstrikes.co.uk    

FIGHTSTAR – One Day Son, This Will Be Yours (Institute) - Well I’m trying to be objective, I don’t know – is it cleverly produced or just over slick to the point of sugar sweet sickening? Is it best to just treat those lyrics as throwaway surface noise that serve as a pleasant way to stop this becoming just an instrumental album? They really are rather embarrassingly bad. Nice bird song bit there though – oh lord help us, here comes the screamo meano beano bit that goes back into the super slick emo bit and the bringing out of the death card. I really did try to be objective, I made it all the way to track five and you’re only making this worse. What a sanitized soulless exercise in gutless mindsucking cynical product pushing bullshit, and one day son this could all be yours, at least Busted were honest about what they were doing  – go get me the food mincer and put on your rubber gloves, I feel the need for mindless destruction.  
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Last week's album of the week - EVERY TIME I DIE / SOHODOLLS Previous album's of the week -  / LIARS / UPSILON ACRUX / MIKROKOSMOS / ODD NOSDAM / MENENDEZ /  GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN  / CHROME HOOF / TWELVE / WEEDEATER / LASSE MARHAUG / MOTORHEAD / TWO BANDS AND A LEGEND / ANEKDOTEN / ORIGINAL SILENCE / GIRL BAND / MORVISCOUS x

ALBUM REVIEW ARCHIVES

www.myspace.com/herzogaband
 

LIVE REVIEW ARCHIVES

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
FIGHT LIKE APES – Jake Summers (Cool For Cats) – like Kentucky Fried Chicken with all the taste and none of the guilt and driving Miss Daisy everywhere with a parking violation and a maggot on your nose. This is brilliant, both sides of it – they’re from Dublin and they sound like junk television and Bis and Beck in a food fight all at the same time, this has to be a very very very good thing. She sounds sugar sweet and she buys presents and they feed the geese (and stupefy them) and butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth and then she screams about your stupid face! And hey you! Gets some grace!! You’re an f*ing disappointment to the human race!!! And where’s the diaphragm and she’s sorry for breaking his ding a ling a ling – and that’s just the a-side and the b-side is even better! Some kind of punky indie new wave hyper active sweetness and sugar and spice and puppy dog tales and kung fu stars and broken plate flying at your head and hints of cool alternative Americana and Yo Lo Tango and brilliant! - www.myspace.com/fightlikeapesmusic

ALSO CHECK OUT
THE DOMINO STATE – Iron Mask (Club AC30) – Blissfully mellow dreamy easy on the ear anthemic indie warmth from the impressively refined London five piece. Produced deliciously well by The God Machine’s Robin-Proper Sheppard. Dreamy smoldering slowly uncoiling indie rock of a My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive nature, well worth your time – www.myspace.com/thedominostate or www.clubac30.com 

Last week's single of the week - THE SOUND MOVEMENT

Previously - / THE CULT / LIARS / 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

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PREVIOUSLY - DEEP PURPLE / NUB / ANTHRAX / OMD

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

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ORGAN 218 - JOHN ADAMS / BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, VILE VILE CREATURES, EVERY TIME I DIE, SOHODOLLS, WHITE HILLS, MUNICIPAL WASTE, HOPE IS NOISE, THE BLACKOUT ARGUMENT, TIMO RAISANEN, PATRICK WATSON, THE CONDORS, THE FURIOUS SLEEP, FUNERAL CRASHERS, FIRESUITE, CODA, KUBICHEK, THE SOUND MOVEMENT, WEASEL WALTER, RADIOHEAD, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, HENRY ROLLINS, DOWN, DEEP PURPLE, THE LANGUAGE OF THE BLUES – Debra De Salvo 

ORGAN 217 - LIARS, UPSILON ACRUX, TED MAUL, GUTWORM, BLACK BONZO, ALLFLAWS, NUB, THE CULT, ODD SHAPED HEAD, THUMPERMONKEY LIVES!, ARTY KARATE, I KILLED PHAROAH, SUPERJIMENEZ , TONY WILSON, VILE VILE CREATURES, RADIOHEAD, WINTERS, HERZOGA, SCARLETT JOHANSSON, TV ON THE RADIO, CRITICAL MASS... 

ORGAN 216 - MIKROKOSMOS, ODD NOSDAM, MENENDEZ, ANTHRAX(uk). AKERCOCKE, MOHA!, THE BDI’s, HANOI ROCKS, SPIKE, LIARS, HELLFIRE, TIME.SPACE.REPEAT, SISTER, JOHN & JEHN, BEARSUIT, BERNARD SUMNER biography, The LONDON FETISH FAIR, DIABLESSE SCREAMING EAGLE, HIGH ON FIRE, TO THE BONES, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, OTTO VON SHIRACH, CHROME HOOF and more....