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Will Peck A Hole In My Plaster Cast |
 I
Am Jack’s frothing screaming raging bile duct and the first rule of it
is that you never talk to anyone about it - and who wants to be of the
people when the people like Arctic Monkeys and Fight Club distractions
and Scrap Clubs in deepest Peckham and James rhyming slang Blunt on our
early evening tea time television screens in a Motorhead t-shirt! Now he’s
a nauseating little shitehawk at the best of times and if there’s one thing
in the world worse that the little blunt singing, it surely is the sound
of the chinless little blunt talking - normally we’d let it pass, he’s
really nothing much to do with our world right? No! When the runt appears
on our TV screens in a Motorhead shirt then that is way way overstepping
the line and taking liberties in our world – don’t do it again James, stay
out of that shirt and out of our world or we’ll hunt you down with ripping
packs of rabid cruncher hounds and nothing will look beautiful to you ever
again. The sight of the iron boar being used like that did send Jack’s
bile duct in to hyper ventilating overdrive and tea flying all over Pavlov’s
screaming dogs. I am jack’s left foot and something is about to be kicked
and a mix of poison and chemicals in the air. What’s that coming over the
hill (again)? Every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
AIRBOURNE!
– these are the things that
have been in our ears this week, please explore and if it sounds interesting
then just 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 instant hit of the www. |
IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME? |
| O, That this too too solid
flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew. |
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THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
| WALL OF SOUND CHIEF ON REVEREND
MAKING IT FREE - Wall Of Sound chief Mark Jones has admitted that there
are tensions between him and Reverend And The Makers man Jon McClure after
the Rev told the NME that he planned to give away a follow up to his WoS
released debut 'The State of Things'; it's an acoustic album that he says
he is already giving away at gigs on CDR.
Jones says that why he doesn't
necessarily disagree with giving away acoustic tracks, that he wishes McClure
had discussed the idea with him first. In an interview that appears in
this week's NME, he says: "There's a validity in that [releasing the songs
acoustically, free, before doing a full album], but maybe he should have
discussed it first, have a plan! I've come so far with this that I feel
like it's been taken away from me. I'm passionate about his music. An artist
like Jon McClure needs the right platform to deliver what he needs
to do to the public and I think we did that really well. He's got to be
one of the most important artists in the country, but I feel hugely let
down. I had no idea he wanted to do this".
Asked more generally about
the new trend of artists giving away whole albums for free (Prince, Radiohead
etc), Jones said he thought the industry needed to think about the whole
thing quite a bit more, adding: "If all music is free, who will invest
in finding new music? It leaves a label like mine in no man's land. It's
my house on the line again. I want to talk to the fans and find out how
they genuinely feel".
And you know, he’s
right, who’s going to fund the releases of the new bands? We’re the ones
with the bills from the pressing plants and the mastering houses and...
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John on the phone... |
| John
Peel's legendary Festive 50 continues again this year on Dandelion Radio
- play your part in by voting for your three favourite tracks of 2007,
here.
MEANWHILE
WE'VE MOVED AGAIN, NOW WE'RE ON AIR AN HOUR EARLIER
THE OTHER
ROCKSHOW and THE ORGAN SHOW from SEAN ORGAN @ RESONANCE 104.4fm with
MARINA
ORGAN one week and SEAN O the next. 9.00pm every Sunday night...
RESONANCE
BROADCASTS ALL OVER LONDON ON 104.4FM OR WORLDWIDE VIA THE WEB
The Other
Rock Show is presented by Marina O, The Other Rock Show is about exploring
'other' time signatures within structures of rock and filtering out the
conventions of the 4/4 time easy option in favour of something a little
more challenging.
Meanwhile on
the ORGAN RADIO SHOW Sean Owill be bringing you an eclectic mix
of diverse left-field things from all points in between and beyond - the
best new releases and demos that are circulating around the underground
fanzine channels and landing here in the Organ office, along with news
of forthcoming events and general alternative music news and goings on
in and around London.
Expect an hour
of challenging alternative music each week, the kind you don’t often get
on ‘normal’ music radio shows and stations, expect special guests, expect
who knows what... expect to find links and details so you can explore all
that you hear on www.organart.com
after each show |
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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...
EFTERKLANG
- Mirador
DAN
DEACON - The Crystal Cat
ALL
SYSTEMS GO - Tell Vicki
LILY
GREEN - Patience
AMON
TOBIN - Verbal
MY
VITRIOL - This Time
KILLSWITCH
ENGAGE - Fixation On The Darkness
Next
Wednesday and Sunday we have...
EFTERKLANG
- Mirador
ODD
SHAPED HEAD - Egomatic Annie
DAN
DEACON - The Crystal Cat
TITS
OF DEATH - Iron Nipples
ASSDROIDS
- Daft Crunk
CULT
OF LUNA - Back To Chapel Town
TANGAROA
- Vietnamese Killing Queens
MUNICIPAL
WASTE - Headbanger Face Rip
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
FILTHY HABITS - Up Ya Borstal
– Rev it up and let it go old school angry shouty blistering crust-bitten
hardcore anarcho DIY speed-punk rock from South Wales. Yappy ranting vocals,
machine gun drumming, speed metal guitar discharge ripcording away like
were all on the run from any kind of civilised society. Raw, messy and
right there standing on your toes and combusting in your face. Love it!
Rancid ranting proper old school puss-bursting confrontational punk bleedin
rock – love it love it love it (besides the crappy joke song at the end
that annoys the hell out of me). www.myspace.com/filthyhabitspunkrock
Last
week's demo of the week - LITTLE TROPHY
Previous
demo's of the week - THE ORIENTALISTS
/ HOUSEHOLD
/ THE JELAS
/ COUNTRYSIDE
/ BASTARDS OF THE SKIES / MEHE
/ THE PRETTY YOUNG THINGS / HAPPY
PENGUIN HUNGRY BEAR / SOMEBODY’S MIND
/ INSTRUMENTS / DEATH
QUNT / OAKWOOD / EPSTEIN
SUPERFLU / THE FURIOUS SLEEP /
FUNERAL
CRASHERS
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
KINDER SCOUT – Cross Millbank
and Furrow Hill – Just a really pleasant uplifting quiet refined clever
crafted set of slightly epic instrumental pieces – eleven of them and a
pure delight that you really should make the effort to checkout. An album’s
worth of very fine pieces that don’t really fit anywhere that obvious (good!).
Slices of epic post rock melt in to almost folk flavoured English whimsical
bite and ambitiously classical avant orchestration – beautiful, never twee,
always with an edge, even when things are very very soothing and cleansing
there’s a little edge. Melodramatic moments lead us from dainty delight
to warm woodwind sound and birdsong to church organ in the dust of reflection
to reverb driving thunder - nothing too noisy though, subtle delicate fragile
menace rather than sonic violence. Most of all this is a work of soothing
beautiful delight - “the pieces on this recording are wordless mini
epics for a long a since past age of the British Isles” and yes the unwritten
narrative does roll across hillsides and down dales, it does chase us through
driving rain and cleansing sun. A Vaughn Williams meets Sigor Ros feel
– not quite a epic as that, epic in just the right refined understated
way. A beautiful home made album in minimal DIY packaging and everything
so right. www.myspace.com/kinderscout
 ALBUM
OF THE WEEK 2
4 BONJOUR’S PARTIES – Pigments
Drift Down To The Brook (Mush) – A seven piece ensemble from Tokyo and
it would be really lazy to say they sound rather like a slightly more restrained
version of the wonderful Efterklang via the innocence and creative genius
of a more dreamy sunny day Deerhoof – very very lazy way of pointing you
vaguely in the direction of this rich rewarding wonderful album. Mellow
orchestration, uplifting expansive structures, plenty of space to breath,
no clutter. Dreamy, airy, and yes, as someone else has already pointed
out; alternating between the sweet and the majestic. A combination of male
and female vocals and lyrics both in Japanese and English. Warm passages
of detailed mellow analogue prog rock sprinkled with delicate electronica
and a hint of Neu inspired repetition, wind instruments, glockenspiel,
accordion and “cavalcades of luxuriant sound”. Wonderful song titles like
Magpie
Will Peck A Hole In My Plaster Cast or Nostalgic Was Broken To Pieces.
A gloriously dreamy treasure and a rather unique band. www.myspace.com/4bonjoursparties
or www.mushrecords.com or find
it in the UK via www.cargorecords.co.uk
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ALSO
CHECK OUT
THE HAIL MARYS – Faith, Forgiveness,
Sweet Revenge (Self released) - No messing straight down the line blue
collar street punk rock ‘n roll from Saint Louis, Missouri. This is good
– this is good for you, the Hail Marys oozzz good honest energy and straight
down to the bone attitude. They’re fronted by the fine throaty voice of
Katie – a slightly sweater Wendy O’Williams voice that you never the less
clearly don’t mess with. We’re talking a righteous driving heads down Social
Distortion, Motorhead, Supersuckers thing - fist pumping raw edged punk-pop
whisky-throated sing-a-longs that will leave their mark. I like this. www.myspace.com/thehailmarys
SOUL DESTROYER – Faceless
(Casket) - Some kind of metalled-up loops, bleeps, beats ‘n big fat guitar
riffs fuelling some slick enough industrial bleep pop metal hybrid. Macho
lyrics, forceful stomps, The Prodigy for metalheads. Three masked men and
an electronic non-human drummer. Some kind Happy Mondays go electronic
thing in the middle of before we get back to The Cult meets Prodigy and
tales of crack and limousines and Saxon/ZZ Top riffs and hey they’re harming
no one and they're probablykindto old ladies and little puppies and if
the idea of some semi-infectious macho hard-edged slick industrial pop
metal gets your blood running then here’s the link, go find out for yourselves
and make your own mind up - www.myspace.com/souldestroyerband
THE HIGH TENSION WIRES –
Midnight Cashier (Dirtnap) – Texas based band featuring members of The
Reds, Riverboat Gamblers, Marked Men and such. A punchy garage-punk ’77
Ramones-ish Clash-ish sound that isn’t doing that much for us, nothing
that bad, nothing that exciting either – www.dirtnaprecs.com
or www.cargorecords.co.uk
ALBUM
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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LIVE |
 THE
BRIAN JACKET LETDOWN @ DEATH DISCO, Notting Hill Arts Centre, London, 5th
Dec - More people standing outside smoking in the cold and the winter
rain than there is bothering with the opening band. Is the smoking ban
hitting opening bands again or have they already been in and decided slow
nicotine death in the cold wet rain is the better option? There’s a trashy
four piece who can’t quite back up the singer’s attempted swagger - a half-cooked
band who aren’t quiet trashy enough to be anywhere near trashy in a good
way (yet?). They’re mauling an AC/DC song in some kind of Oasis/Primal
Scream way, two songs later and they’re finishing their set with another
slice - this time a straight forward awkwardly bad youth club stab at Highway
To Hell. Oh dear lord, is this Death Disco or has Chums McGee gone all
nihilistically ironic on us again and the place really is his twisted death
disco revenge on a world that’s clearly let him down? Angus and co come
crashing to an accidental end and embarrassingly try selling us “merch
for hard cash maaan, so we can buy even harder drugs” - the seventeen half
interested people still watching the youth club car crash are now rather
embarrassingly glancing at their shoes or the wall or anywhere that doesn’t
involve eye contact with anyone - no one cheers, DJ kills the awkward silence
with a not very loud Rolling Stones record. Back to the bar - Hite?
Where do they get the bottled beer from in this damn place anyway? Always
a different obscure brand of not very good larger that they probably got
off that bloke in the white van. All that’s missing from tonight’s bottle
is the S at the start of the name, maybe opening band have it? They have
a name, we won’t bother you with it tonight, they’re clearly not ready
yet, we expect a little more at Death Disco.
Actually, this is
a rather good venue to experience a band, the place has an intimate atmosphere
- the projections bring the grey concrete basement walls to life (and drench
the bands in pop art), the sound can be a little lo-fi, the intimate garage
atmosphere carries it all through, things are good down here, dimensions
change and a good band can illuminate what really is just a dank old bank
basement. The Brian Jacket Letdown are really evolving now, you never
quite know what you’re going to get with them (or who’ll be in the band
for that matter) - you know they’re always worth your effort though, they’ve
always been full of promise, alive with their possibilities, now they’re
really blossoming. That sound that you can’t really just nail as some kind
of quiet English psychedelic folk rock what with all the other things they
have in there – far too eclectic to pin down, alive with little tastes
of this and that - a space rock texture here, a Latin rhythm there - a
phrase, a line, a structure that doesn’t quite sound like anyone else’s.
The flourishing way they whisper an opening with singer Will on a Ukulele
and the way they quietly ‘rock’ with it. You can talk of Beta Band and
Flaming Lips and (the) Pink Floyd and some kind of restrained Super Furry
XTC (and their love of the mighty Stackridge) and the unassuming way the
guitars build without you really noticing the spiral until it has happened
and they’ve taken you there – the audience has filled the room, eye contact
is resumed, warm cheers and their rather unique, rather clever (not too
clever) psychedelic prog rock quietness has space for you to land - only
it isn’t really psychedelic prog rock in any obvious way anyway and there’s
no one quite like the delightful Brian Jacket Letdown and the intriguing
things that come from their mouths. Their possibilities have come to life
now, go swim in their quiet unassuming uniqueness - www.myspace.com/brianjacketletdown |
 Live
previously - CARDIACS / BEE
STINGS /HAPPY PENGUIN HUNGRY BEAR
/ 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 |
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time...
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
HAZEL
MILLS – Butterfly (Xpress) – Pop music that boldy claims to be more Battles
than Britney. Hazel Mills and her debut five track EP, five rewarding slices
of confident Kate Bush flavoured intelligent progressive pop and yes we
can hear the post-rock undercurrent and that clever hint of glitch and
Battles and 65Daysofchallenge and Porcupine Tree drama.. Mostly we can
hear richly detailed intelligent beautifully-voiced dark moody pop songs
- torch songs, fine songs and warm classical piano and clever textures.
Spot on production, spot on everything – www.hazelmills.com
or www.myspace.com/hazelmills
or www.xpressrecords.com
ALSO
CHECK OUT
WILLIAM
D.DRAKE - Earthy Shrine (SheBear/Onomatopoeia) – Four track EP focusing
on the two rather wonderfully eclectic sides of Mr Drake and a taste of
his two recent simultaneously released albums. Lead track is an infectiously
eccentric English pop song with a rich Whitetown undercurrent, accessible
and friendly – brilliant pop. Elsewhere William D gets all twinkly piano
born and ever bright. It may take you a little time to feel comfortable
with the voice and the eccentric richness of Mr Drake’s pieces, give them
a little time and you’ll come to love them like your best secret garden
chair. www.williamddrake.com
TROUBLE
22 – World Shut Your Mouth (Red Rhythm) – Arrghhhhhhhh, a low rent Spice
Girls meets some kind of tacky Sunday Sport bubble gum disco low-budget
pop version of the Julian Cope classic, if we hadn’t just encountered the
extremely dodgy video we might have thought it a brilliant piece of pure
pop genius.
THE
GRIT – Surrender (People LikeYou) – Ah, The Grit have been picked up by
our friends and allies over at People Like You, that figures. Now we’ve
told you about their demos and gigs before. No messing London based Geordie
psychobilly flavoured punks. Seem relatively restrained here, relatively
is the key word though – still that rough no messing sound, that gruff-voiced
streetwise Joe Strummer spirit. www.myspace.com/thegrit
Last
week's single of the week - DEERHOOF / F*CK
BUTTONS / IMPERIAL LEISURE
Previously
- CLUB 8 / TURBO
NEGRO / CANDY PANDY ATTACK / SUNS
OF THUNDER / DEPARTMENT S / TERRY
EDWARDS & THE SCAPEGOATS / THAT F*CKING
TANK / ODD SHAPED HEAD / VESSELS
/
4 OR 5 MAGICIANS / TIME.SPACE.REPEAT
/
WE START FIRES / LOVE
AND A .45 / BLUE STATES / EFTERKLANG
/
NATO
SINGLE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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of OF THE WEEK |
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THE WEIRDOS – Destroy All Music (Bomp) – 30th anniversary collection and
a bringing together of some legendary singles, demos and such. Re-mastered
and thrown together with fine sleeve notes, photos and artwork. From their
raw and wired nihilistic Stooges/Dolls garage fuzz beginnings, to them
being the big bang that ignited that whole other punk scene in LA, to their
proclaiming that “we’re not punks, we’re weirdos from Hollyweird” – a stance
that wasn’t just mere sloganeering and more designed to set them apart
from the burgeoning punk scenes in New York and London – right through
to their anthemic new wave punk classics that obviously influenced such
fine fine bands as Devo and The Tubes. You have some great demo versions
here as well as some never before released live tracks and things gathered
together from long lost compilations and such. An excellent collection
from one of the seminal US punk bands, if you don’t know ’em then grab
yourself a treat of a history lesson, if you do then grab yourself a treat
of a compilation from one of the greatest US punk bands ever. www.bomp.com
or find it in the UK via www.cargorecords.co.uk
PREVIOUSLY
- THE MOB / ARSONISTS
GET ALL THE GIRLS / THE VERVE / KHAYA
/ GREASY TRUCKERS PARTY / HERE
AND NOW /
WALLS OF JERICHO / CARTER
USM / THE HOUSE OF LOVE / MONO
/ DEEP PURPLE / NUB
/ ANTHRAX / OMD |
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MEDIA, VIDEO, PRINT AND.... |
 every
man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
PREVIOUSLY
- PARALLEL WORLDS, PARALLEL LIVES TV documentary
/ NEVER MIND THE SEX PISTOLS: AN ALTERNATIVE
HISTORY – DVD / THE ZINE DIRECTORY
/ BATH BOMB
/ 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 |
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SchNEWS
The
long running battle to block the proposed A303 STONEHENGE tunnel/road was
finally victorious as the scheme was officially scrapped this week (6th).
The Save Stonehenge campaign are obviously as delighted as everybody else
who played their part in the resistance, including the Stonehenge Alliance,
other environmental groups and individuals. Read more at www.savestonehenge.org.uk
SchNEWS
events
11th
Dec - Save Titnore Woods! Protest outside South Downs National Park pre-inquiry
meeting, Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove. 1pm. www.protectourwoodland.co.uk
13th
Dec - RampArts film night, including a screening of The Humble Magnificent
- 'The bike is a humble yet magnificent form of transport plus a chance
to chat about setting up a radical bike group and workshop space in London'.
8pm at London RampArt social centre, 15 -17 RampartStreet, London E1 2LA.
Free/donation. info@bicycology.org.uk web: www.bicycology.org.uk/events/events.htm
...and
finally... this
bit of unchristian teddybear naming just in from Rip Cruncher
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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