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| ORGAN
#224> OCT 4th 07 - new issue on line every Thursday afternoon |
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| GOD
SAVE THE QUEEN, BLOODSPORTS FOR ALL |
 Is
it still Thursday? Hey look, things are busy here - it is still Thursday
right? Ditzy – and we shall not cease from our exploring: Redoubtable \rih-DOW-tuh-buhl\,
adjective: 1. Arousing fear or alarm; formidable._2. Illustrious; eminent;
worthy of respect or honour. Dog whistling? Bring those issues home, whistle
them up. It just never fails to amaze us; the amount of brilliant, thrilling,
joyous exciting music that there is out there waiting to be discovered,
exciting music arriving on our doorstep almost daily (we’re almost welcoming
the Royal Mail strike and a couple of days without post!). The music is
better than ever if you just go look for it, the standards are higher than
ever - we are now at a point where were disappointed if a couple of days
go by without something exciting landing here - something that has
us itching to get to Resonance or flying at this filthy worn out keyboard
to get a review and a link up on line – yesterday it was new
material from Remy Zero (on their My Space page, they put up a new track
for you to download!), today a new single from Vessels and a threat of
new Flying Luttenbacher music. Of course we go through a hell of a lot
of bland, average, compromised, obvious, annoying pieces of junk to find
the treasures, our post bag is full of clutter as well as treasure - right
now Hundred Reasons have invaded our CD player and our ears, and we really
can’t find one single reason why - don’t even start on looking for the
other ninety-nine other reasons! And why the hell is there a shinny new
Cliff Richard album on our floor down there with the reptiles and the bug?!
Look at him grinning at us from down there. Here you go, this week’s on-line
version of Organ, hungry mouths to feed, it is still Thursday isn’t it?
.
– these are the things that
have been in our ears this week, please explore and if it sounds interesting
then hit the links and make your own minds up, our reviews and thoughts
are mere signposts designed to guide you to the things you might like to
feast on yourselves... don’t you just love the www. |
IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME? |
| Why wait a week for your
news when you can now have it daily over there? |
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THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
 CARDIACS:
NEW SINGLE and UK TOUR – Cardiacs new single DITZY SCENE hits the streets
and the shops on November 5th. The single is on our label ORG.
Three new tracks. Cardiacs tour in November...
CARDIACS TOUR NOVEMBER
2007
MON 12th - BRIGHTON: THE
OLD MARKET
TUE 13th - OXFORD: ZODIAC
WED 14th - BRISTOL: THEKLA
SOCIAL
THU 15th - NOTTINGHAM: RESCUE
ROOMS
FRI 16th - LONDON:
ASTORIA
MON 19th - SHEFFIELD: BOARDWALK
TUE 20th - STOKE ON TRENT:
THE SUGARMILL
WED 21st - MANCHESTER: ACADEMY
3
THU 22th - PORTSMOUTH:
WEDGEWOOD ROOMS
FRI 23rd - CARDIFF:
CLWB IFOR BACH
SAT 24th - LEEDS: WOODHOUSE
LIBERAL CLUB
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John on the phone... |
| KERRY
ON REGARDLESS (more sneering at American politics and throwing stones from
our glass houses over here) - A seminar with John Kerry at the University
of Florida went all Big Brother when a student asked one too many probing
questions. The Senator and ex-presidential hopeful was busy listening to
student Andrew Meyer's questions when two cops moved in and dragged him
away from the microphone after he asked if John Kerry was in the same secret
society as George Bush! More cops arrived and escalated the arrest into
a sloppy farce, eventually tazering the helpless Meyer as he lay pleading
on the ground. Two cops were later taken off street duty and are under
investigation. The official reason given was that Meyer had gone over his
one minute and was resisting arrest. Get your stopwatch ready and judge
for yourself here
Find
lots more of this kind of thing from the ever vital information organ that
is www.schnews.org.uk
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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...
ODD
SHAPED HEAD - Egomatic Annie
CARDIACS
- Day Is Gone
AARON
STOUT - Space Station
TIM
ARNOLD - Another World
CULT
OF LUNA - Back To Chapel Town
EMIGRATE
- My World -
DUREFORSOG
- Living In Vain
Next
Wednesday and Sunday we have...
AARON
MCMULLEN - Blue From Black
ODD
SHAPED HEAD - Egomatic Annie
EMIGRATE
- My World
ASSDROIDS
- Daft Crunk
LILY
GREEN - Patience
TIM
ARNOLD - Another World
SOHODOLLS
- Right and Right Again
TO
THE BONES - Tycho
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
HAPPY
PENGUIN HUNGRY BEAR - Two longish tracks from a rather interesting new
band. HPHB play very original post rock that has as much in common
with strange, melodic and obscure English prog as it does the current crop
of identikit instrumental bands. It's possible that they have no idea that
they're reminiscent of Hatfield And The North, National Health, Van Der
Graaf Generator, early IQ, Counterbalance and Tamarisk... although they
surely must like a bit of Gong. Happy Penguin Hungry Bear have captured
something rather special with these recordings - there's exceptional delicacy
and impressive sensitivity in the playing and production. That delicate
expressiveness is quite contemporary, coming from the post-rock/instrumental
thing that's going on at the moment. Memorable tunes and great playing
that hopefully hints at something special to come – fug me! Proper prog!
www.myspace.com/happypenguinhungrybear
ALSO
CHECK OUT
JOHN
3:16 – John 3.16 – Seven piece instrumental work; experimental, dark electronic
ambience and buzzing drone – warm, ritualistic, crafted, intelligent, the
art of sound, resonance. Stands out a little from crowd (we do get a lot
of electronic soundscape composition), rather refined and relaxing, not
mere background music, builds up with quite a sense of foreboding brooding
tension and there is a price to redemption – worth checking out – www.john316john.com
Last
week's demo of the week - SOMEBODY’S MIND
Previous
demo's of the week - INSTRUMENTS / DEATH
QUNT / OAKWOOD / EPSTEIN
SUPERFLU / THE FURIOUS SLEEP /
FUNERAL
CRASHERS / THUMPERMONKEY LIVES! / HELLFIRE
/ MR PHORMULA and LEWS TEWNS / THE
APPLES / ONSEGEN ENSEMBLE / SASSY
DEMO
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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| 'NEW
ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK |
| This
week we’ve been listening to...
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
EFTERKLANG – Parades (The
Leaf Label) – Efterklang are wonderful, they’re probably unique, they’re
a band crammed and bursting with musical treasure – trinkets, details,bits
of silver, shinny bits, bits that catch the sunlight, bits that make you
glow, make you swell with warm delight – and yes this does sound like great
colourful parades – great big happy engaging breathtaking panoramic parades,
magnificent. They’re from Denmark and they sound like they have marvelous
mechanical mouse organs and wooden toy solders marching and colourful sweet
wrappers and a whole secret parallel universe to get lost in. Grand romantic
flourishes and orchestral sweeps and affectionate friends and sea nymphs
and sculpted melodies and yes, heaven born and ever bright, and celebration
after celebration – oh look, Efterklang are just wonderful, they’re Mew
and Sigur Ros and Cardiacs good – they’re just wonderful and unique – www.efterklang.net
or www.myspace.com/efterklang
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OF THE WEEK 2
TAINT – Secrets And Lies
(Rise Above) – Taint have been quietly getting on with their thing for
quite a few years now, not really getting the recognition they perhaps
deserve – beavering away down there in the dark South Wales swamps, popping
up for air from time to time with a new release or to roast some unsuspecting
big name headline band. They’ve been around since ’94 (played on a few
Organ bills along the way we’re pleased to say). They originally emerged
out of the healthy punk/hardcore/metal crossover scene of the last century,
they’ve always been there doing their thing and doing it well – maybe some
of us are guilty of taking them a little bit for granted? Maybe some of
us should have been shouting about them a lot more than we have? Time to
put things right then, time to shout about things just a little. Taint
have never been an easy band to pigeonhole – good, we like bands who don’t
fit in in too much of an obvious way – part Helmet flavoured post hardcore,
part Clutch style stoner doom – nowhere near as easy or obvious to pin
down as that bit of lazy namedropping made things sound though. They talk
(quite rightly) of punk-informed rock - there’s more than a hint of classic
hard prog rock and bits of Budgie or Man in there – all delivered with
a positive aggressive energy though – this is not some retro thing! There’s
positive movement here, raw energy and clever use of power – to put it
crassly; Taint rock! And just when you think you’ve got them and their
fine new album worked out they’ve got a curveball or two to throw right
at you – in their with the tight aggressive tension and the driving gut-tearing
raw hardcore riffs you’ll fine some genuinely progressive adventure – and
some rather epic left field creativity – oh and an unexpected Jethro Tull
go all epic and doomy/rock-out post-hardcore classic called What The Crow
Saw that you just have to check out. Spot on production from the ever good
Alex Newport as well, the one time Fudge Tunnel man is the perfect foil
for Taint. This is an excellent album, without losing any of their previous
edge or their hardcore aggression, Taint have taken some giant leaps forward
and a very impressive album that comes highly recommended – time to shout
about Taint. www.riseaboverecords.com
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ALSO
CHECK OUT
TELEPHONE JIM JESUS – Anywhere
Out Of The Everything (Anticon) – The usual Anticon standards and more
adventures out way left field on the edges of glitch and ambient hip-hop
and cut up clever art and dictaphone eves dropping and found sound that
flows so well. Telephone Jim Jesus (aka George Chadwick) is all about the
flow - soothing, warm and pulling you in to all kinds of worlds of spoken
words and bottles of what ever hides behind the timeless refrigerator hum
where the leftovers and the sour milk will keep long after... Delicate
sounds, brittle sounds, layers to peel back and get lost in for hours of
repeated play. Refined sound art – highly recommended, for fans of Doseobe,
Why?, Sole, Odd Nosdam – www.anticon.com
SIXX:AM – The Heroin Diaries
Soundtrack (Eleven Seven) – Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue with a solo album
- no, come back, give it a chance. People around here are pricking up ears
at some of this, same people who usually bombard me when I down tools for
a Ratt fix or my weekly blast of the mighty Journey. This is the soundtrack
that goes with the book that it said to be one of the most unique memoirs
of addiction ever published. The stories of Crue excess during their heights
are well documented, by right they really should not be alive – the bits
of the Heroin Diaries that I have read appear brutally honest, utterly
riveting, car crash watching material. And if you haven’t read the Motley
Crue biography The Dirt then you’re missing out on some essential, addictive
and sometimes very dark reading - whatever you think of the band, The Dirt
really is recommended reading, takes you through all kinds of emotions
– you laugh as them, with them, you pity them, you’re... hang on,
getting distracted here, this is an album review is it not? Don’t really
know what to make of this album, I always kind of thought addiction would
sound more like a strung out bleak Velvet Underground or a nihilistic Robert
Johnson or f**ked up Jaz Coleman, or the paranoia of Robert Calvert or...
well anything but this mix of big chord and infectious chorus laden airbrushed
windswept big production AOR and grandiose Meat Loaf flavoured pomp rock.
Still, if you like big bold AOR flavoured melodic hard rock concept albums
that drift in to Misplaced Childhood/Bat out Of Hell territory and you
think big big ballads aren’t a crime and its OK we all fall off the wagon
sometimes then this is for you. As a soundtrack to heroin addiction and
near death it sounds rather ridiculously throwaway and upbeat and fluffy
and glossy comic book - like he was addicted to nothing more dangerous
than candy floss and Poison records - and the girl with golden eyes he
trusted without knowing and let in was indeed no more than a girl with
golden eyes. But hey, as a piece of over the top glossy American AOR hair-rock
the album is a masterpiece – great big rock ballads joined together with
Elfman style soundtrack bits, spoken word over slices of cod-classical
pomp and you really don’t noticed he missed his vein because they collapsed
and his heart failed again. Strange album, but hey I’ve got a weekness
for this stuff, got to have my AOR fix and I do keep REO Speedwagon – The
Ballads handy in my stash box here by the CD player – and I guess everything
worked out OK in the end and he is still alive right? He made it
through – I guess you could call it a guilty pleasure – I like this album
- my name is Sean and I like preposterous American big hair rock music
- first step of the twelve is to admit your addiction or something like
that right? Confront them? yeah, OK I’m being a little throwaway and glib,
but then so is Mr Sixx here – and as strange and messed up as it is, I
like this album.
More from www.myspace.com/sixxam
HOOKER-BENTLEY – Miles Underground
(Heli) – Grunge pop and indie guitar rock and something for fans of bands
like Foo Fighters, Feeder and such. The English band do it well, there’s
a certain depth and infectious quality, well worth your time should hook-laden
poppy indie guitar rock be your thing – they deserve your time. www.myspace.com/hookerbentleymusic
VERIFY – Till There’s Nothing
Left Inside (Dead Vibrations industry) - They’re from Sweden, or
at least the stamps on the package were Swedish, no actual communication
or press release or anything besides a rather blisteringly good CD. Yep,
blistering, and no, I’m wrong, seems they’re from Belgium – doesn’t really
matter, they could be from anywhere – New Jersey, Corby, Manchester, Sweden,
Belgium, Australia. The Verify sound is a universal sound with no real
roots in any place. Clever polished tight brutal hardcore metal - relentlessly
good, intense, refined, extremely well recorded, played (and indeed packaged).
Ah right, got it now - they’re a band from Belgium on a Swedish label.
Check them out, without really doing anything massively different, Verify
are oozing brutally heavy intensely colourful quality, there’s a depth
to their modern hardcore metal sound, this is rather recommended – www.myspace.com/verifyhardcore
ALBUM
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
|
LIVE |
HAPPY
PENGUIN HUNGRY BEAR - Fiddler's Elbow, Camden - Ever come across something
so unexpected that your brain doesn't quite compute it? Who are this band
and what the hell are they doing here? Is this happening? Happy Penguin
Hungry Bear are not what we expected to accidentally find on this dark
Camdeny night, not in a small venue (the rather enjoyable and very friendly
Fidder's Elbow) on a bill with three other bands who share very little
with them. None of those other bands, or indeed any other bands playing
any other venue in Camden that night, sounded like Happy Penguin Hungry
Bear did – bands like this don’t actually exist anymore do they? No, this
isn’t happening (if you must know we were here racing through the city
lights for some punky vile vile creature riot grrl type confrontation –
we documented that elsewhere already, that was great, this is e unbelievable
bonus).
Happy Penguin Hungry Bear are a five piece instrumental band, they play
actual proper real progressive rock that's kind of heavy on the fusion
side of things. This is not a thing you expect to encounter here in the
UK right now – well with the exception of the rather fine Morviscous that
is. Actually Happy Penguin sound uncannily like a number of rather obscure
bands from the glorious (and very underground) DIY British prog scene of
the eighties, (Counterbalance anyone?) so much so that for about a minute
I thought I'd fallen through some time hole and that this was actually
the Richmond in Brighton and IQ were due on next once they'd dragged their
mellotron up the stairs. (Perhaps the beer in the Fiddler's Elbow isn't
watered down as much as other Camden venues?). Actually, IQ did make an
appearance somewhere in the Happy Penguin sound - the cool dark IQ of the
Tales From The Lush Attic era – along with a healthy bit of Van Der Graaf
Generator and a barely-tampered-with chunk of Mahavishnu Orchestra.
I guess that none of the band have heard a drop of IQ in their lives, and
that their collective record collection probably involves things like Mogwai,
Explosions In The Sky and lots of contemporary classical things - the drummer's
wearing a Tool shirt, we’ll take that as a clue. Happy Penguin play with
a great deal of heart, that’s something much more important than their
obvious skill. There are lapses into alarming cheesy funk fusion
throughout the set that are at odds with the bits that are edging towards
cool melodic avant post rock, as if they're not too sure of their identity
quite yet. This band are exceptionally tight though, they know how to play
- great keyboards and brilliant drummer - the composing adventurous, and
they more than held the attention and appreciation of a somewhat punky
audience – they’re not the coolest looking band you’ll ever encounter,
their stage craft is a little awkward right now - they tell us afterwards
that they've not been together long – we rather suspected that – this is
all rather unexpected and no we didn’t just accidentally bump in to a really
good, proper, real prog rock band did we? Nah, couldn’t have happened -
www.myspace.com/happypenguinhungrybear |
| Live
previously - OURLIVES / DRUGDEALER
CHEERLEADER / EMILY
BREEZE / IMPERIAL
LEISURE / HERZOGA
/ JOHN ADAMS / BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
/ VILE VILE CREATURES
/ TIME.SPACE.REPEAT / SISTER
/ JOHN & JHEN / BEARSUIT
/ TANGAROA / GUTWORM
/ MALEFICE / ACT
ART 5 – TILL DEATH US DO ART / TO THE BONES
/ RON ATHEY / PURESSENCE
/ VEENUS
LIVE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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SINGLES |
| Single
time...
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
BLUE
STATES – Down The Days (Memphis Industries) – Breezy creamy St.Etiene flavoured
pop with just the right amount of soul and warmth (and hints of classic
Motown and label mates Go Team). Spot on production - yes, Joe Meek-like.
A circular piano line and an infectious as hell play it again riff – like
when you threw the arm over so the seven inch would keep on playing time
after time. Motown meets 4AD – perfect pop, clever pop, everything just
right, play it again... www.memphis-industries.com
ALSO
CHECK OUT
THE
ADVENTURES OF LOKI – Dance Like A Maniac (16 Tons) – Another urgent buzzsaw
of a single from the Northern side of things – buzzing boy/girl twin
vocal and more wired up spiky screaming urgency and Pixies suss and plenty
of snarl (and that’s just how it starts).A knife to your back and like
we said last time around a band you really need to check out. www.myspace.com/theadventuresofloki
THIS
DYING HOUR – Longest Memory From The Shortest Life (Casket) - Middle/Southern
England screamo cookie monster emo bemo yelling man/sensitive melodic man
twin vocal metal that touches most bases and ticks all the right boxes
that you need to tick to pass the metal test and be part of a current-metal
multi-trend cover-all-the-angles kind of modern metal band. They can clearly
play, they’re professional and tight and oh gawd ‘elp us, I’m just catching
some of the dreadfully cliched lyrics, I do wish I hadn’t just let my ears
focus and just left the words as noise – more surface noise that just serves
as means to avoiding being a boring instrumental band. You see, thing is,
there clearly is a very good band trying to burst out here somewhere, they
clearly are a good band - the problem right now is that they appear to
involved in some kind of successful attempt to break the world record for
cramming as many modern metal cliches on to one four track EP as they can
– hopefully they’ll find a bit of identity next time around and stop obey
some many rules becasue they could really be a decent band if they wanted
to be - www.myspace.com/thisdyinghouruk
THE
INCONSOLABLES – I Want To Go To Bornia (Jealous Tony) – An infectiously
springy spunky squonky speedy speedy new wave pop sextet from London
- people on the run from who knows what back in their native Finland, Canada
and New York City. Swirling fizzing keyboards and urgent B-52 trips to
the end of the pier – lots of fizz and fuzz and la la la la la-la la-la
here come the piranhas – blood in the water, tiny teeth. Boy girl vocals
and very B-52s/Talking Heads – without the annoyance factor though, there’s
an infectious natural innocence here. Clever bouncy squonky pop and they
sound like they’d be great fun live – www.theinconsolables.com
MISS
PAIN – Carrion Call (Nylon! Friction!) – More exploding synth bombs and
flittering glitter fizz punk indie electro pop and shouting chants and
Bis buzz and Chicks On Speed and when he starts singing they go all electro
goth – things is, they should be really exploding and unleashing and unloading
and ejaculating when actually they’re going off with a little bit of a
polite whimper and it all sounds a little flat and slow and a little like
yesterday’s can of Coke. Plenty of good intent, just need to wake up from
the slumber and ignite the whole thing – www.misspain.co.uk
Last
week's single of the week - EFTERKLANG /
NATO
Previously
- TINY MASTERS OF TODAY / AND
THEIR EYES WERE BLOODSHOT / BRENDA /
CHAUFFEUR
DRIVEN AVIATOR / FIGHT LIKE APES / THE
SOUND MOVEMENT / THE CULT / LIARS
/ DAN DEACON / TWIN
THOUSANDS / ZAN PAN / THE
GENTLE GOOD / TRUCKDRIVER JNR
SINGLE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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| 'RE-ISSUE
OF THE WEEK |
CARTER
USM –You Fat Bastard: An Anthology (EMI) – Double album best of set (put
together with the full co-operation of the band) and you’ll want to see
the sights and hear the songs (in a uniform supplied by the glam rock cops)
– a best of album that ties in with a load of more than welcome re-issued
digital albums, singles, videos and some already sold out gigs. One of
the finest bands of the 90’s, they landed somewhere in 1988 (on a Starship
Enterprise allowance scheme, pushing punk rock and New Cross dreams) with
their distinctive unique (anthemic) sound and their clever cutting London-centric
lyrics and the seedy social comment that you just had to sing along to.
Those raw edgy ferocious guitars scratching at those drum machines, loops
and samples. Their gigs were always entertaining events – from the Bull&Gate
to the megadomes, they really were a phenomenon, if you were there then
you know – everyone loved Carter, if, like the police you’re too young
- and all you want is some tender love and care (and there’s snakes in
your house) and you missed out back then, then lucky you, you have the
delight of discovering (do it after the watershed and get some early learning
the hard way) - go explore, go enjoy, Carter were and are a national treasure,
stand up and be counted, god save the Queen, USM for all – Anytime, Anyplace,
Anywhere, we love Carter USM.
www.carterusm.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY
- THE HOUSE OF LOVE / MONO
/ DEEP PURPLE / NUB
/ ANTHRAX / OMD |
|
MEDIA, VIDEO, PRINT AND.... |
| No time again - it is still
Thursday isn't?
PREVIOUSLY
- NEMESIS TO GO #4
/ DVD: MIGHTY ROBOT: SLEEP WHEN YOU ARE
DEAD / DVD:
GLASTONBURY - THE MOVIE / 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 |
|
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF WEASEL WALTERX |
 Weasel
Walter News
Current
mood: determined
Gearing
up for 4 killer new releases from ugEXPLODE, coming this November - the
new Luttenbachers EPIC, a totally over the top free jazz cd featuring myself
with Marshall Allen and other heavies, a varied jazz cd with Gianni
Gebbia and Damon Smith, plus Nondor Nevai's insane player piano album.
It's going to slay. Just got a nice two-page spread in Signal To Noise
magazine with a full page mugshot! This winter I would like to record the
debut release by Cellular Chaos and start putting together a brand new
lineup for the Luttenbachers. Next year will bring some new releases including
a killer duet with me and guitarist Mary Halvorson, a limited edition WW
Quartet Live CD-R and an improvised music release with myself, Henry
Kaiser, Peter Evans, Greg Kelley, Forbes Graham, Fred Lonberg-Holm and
others. If anybody who reads this wants to release any of my improvised
music, contact me and make me an offer . . . The latest XBXRX release "Sounds"
is out soon (an improvised/ultraweird release by us on Important Records)
as well as the Ayler songs record with Kaiser, Mike Keneally, Vinny
Golia, Joe Morris and others. XBXRX will hit Europe in January 2008 and
then I'll do some free jazz stuff in Europe for a few weeks. I have tentative
plans to play in a stripped-down version of To Live and Shave in L.A. (yes,
the "real one") in March 2008.
Currently
listening: Healing Force: Songs of Albert Ayler
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|
THE END BIT... |
| ...and
finally... Ultra patriotic Yankees in Oregon, no doubt trying to
take their minds off the Iraq quagmire, have complained about the abuse
of the Stars and Stripes. But it's not those goddamn flag-burning, draft
dodging, long-hairs this time though - it's terrorist dogs. City officials
in Hillsboro have painted a fire hydrant red white and blue with "Old Glory"
in testament to the bravery of a four-footed member of the City Police
Department - Hondo the police dog - who died in the line of duty. Unfortunately
the rest of Hillsboro's canine population were less patriotic and started
to use the hydrant as a territorial marker. With each cocked leg cocking
a snook at the honour of the Home of the Brave it was time for god fearin'
folks to take action.
"That
gallant dog must be turning in his grave at the thought of the flag being
desecrated every time a dog pees on that hydrant!" wrote Louanne Douris,
a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer. Parks officials swiftly placed
the hydrant on an 18-inch-high base and surrounded it with prickly bushes.
Another
hydrant (painted perhaps with the Iranian flag?) was placed at ground level
for the dogs' convenience. Parks officials, monitoring the situation said
there had been no reports of dogs urinating on the flag hydrant although
reports of people taking the piss have increased since the hydrant was
installed.
What's
On? Check out the Party and Protest guide at SchNEWS, an excellent place
for alternative news bulletins and a different slice on things - www.schnews.org.uk |
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220 - PRE, LOU REED/ZEITKRATZER, DEATH QUNT, BRENDA, CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN
AVIATOR, VENICE IS SINKING, THE FLATLINERS, MONO, GLASTONBURY - THE MOVIE,
CHRISTOPHER REES, KNIGHT AREA, THRUSHES, VOODOOSHOCK, SENDELICA,
W.A.K.O, BEEHOOVER, MINUS THE BEAR, EMIGRATE, EVILE, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA,
ZEBEDY RAYS, THE BROKEN HEARTS, BLACK LIGHT THEATRE, BLESSTHEFALL, THE
HOPE AVENUE, CAMDEN STABLES MARKET
ORGAN
219 - SCRAPS OF TAPE, WAR FROM A HARLOT’S MOUTH, HEAVEN AND HELL, CAREER
SUICIDE, LINED UP VOL 1, MONSTERS BUILD MEAN ROBOTS, SEVENYEARSDEAD, FIGHTSTAR,
LUNATIC, FIGHT LIKE APES, THE DOMINO STATE, EPSTEIN SUPERFLU, OAKWOOD,
HERZOGA
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....
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