Bicycle punctures, this charming man, death threats from yesterday’s news, the egg and I, vampires in the garden of agony and this week’s musical adventures, just another week. Proof reading? What makes you think we have time to proof read? Love of life? Too much apple pie? Mud flowing up in to Lump’s pyjamas and pumpkin soup and many stollen cakes going very cheap in the local supermarket. There is no such thing as paranoia so ignore those crazy shit-eating dogs and fire up those phosphorous grenades. Mrs Bill has won in New Hampshire and how much are we missing the good doctor Gonzo now to make sense of all that's going on? 

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. 

catch the video to the last Imperial Leisure single at www.myspace.com

DEMO OF THE WEEK LAST NOVEMBER 29th...
LITTLE TROPHY - This CD in it's little black cover doesn't add the visual treat of the band themselves, but rest assured the Brighton band look just as delightfully eccentric as their music sounds - a youthful collection of characters out of a Tim Burton movie, fronted by Russell Brand's (better looking) mini-me.  'Potty Stumble' does just that, for the first few bars - it's a whole family of distracted children, lurching first, then running away with a bright and breezy smile of a tune.  Beautifully crafted pop that unexpectedly grabs you and throws you into a metal moshpit, stopping and starting, out-progging and mathing Deerhoof but with some of that accessibility and brightness of touch. Little Trophy will sound mindblowingly unique to most people; others will realise that Cardiacs broke the ice some time ago; never mind, because Little Trophy have a personality of their own. (OK, it has to be said that the results are uncannily like English underground legends Ring - which is fine, people have been waiting decades for another band like that).  The three little songs on this demo pack a lot into each two-and-a-half minutes: 'Slow March And A Half Step' sandwiches nursery-school singsong between miniature thrash-outs. So many changes and contrasts it feels like munching through a box of posh chocolates without looking at the flavour guide.  All bite-sized intensity. There isn't a moment of hesitation or uncertainty - they go for it with their heads held high, the hyperactive ska of 'Mischief On The Firestep' slipping right into one of their gliding breezy pop breaks, then back into one of their stomping tantrums. Special mention must be made of the glorious keyboards that shine and soar through the arrangements - lovely analogue (sounding) leads with the guitar, a rare element indeed. www.myspace.com/littletrophy or www.littletrophy.com

PIMP MY SOCIAL CENTRE - After four years in London serving up a social club, film venue, art space and much more besides, RampArt lost their court case against eviction at the end of December. It was all doom and gloom as they looked set to close, but they haven't given up on 2008 yet. They have filed an appeal hoping to stay actual eviction for another month and have already lined up another building to open as the pithily named Ram Part II. As a result they are still continuing with publicised events and are still taking bookings for new ones. Much help is needed to knock the new place into shape and the wish list includes a free-standing gas heaters/cookers, wind turbines, solar panels, thick curtains and doors (erm, wasn't Christmas a fortnight ago?!) Any plumbers or electricians would also be as welcome as social collapse. To find out more, get down to their regular open meeting on Monday nights, 7pm at RampArt, or email rampart@mutualaid.org 

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCAST at RoTa THIS WEEKEND  - Free music this weekend in London! P.S.B take their turn this week over at RoTa in Notting hill – for those of you who don’t know, there’s a free afternoon gig ever Saturday (has been for a few yeares now – we Organ team have done several of them). Nice DIY feel, each week a zine or an underground alternative label take over the venue and put on a free gig. This coming Saturday the live music comes from London's wonderful, heartwarming breaking indie pop bands Pocketbooks, laptop wizkid and new addition to the STA family Alan MX, and - in a true showing of DIY grit and determination, Q Without U, who are coming all the way from Glasgow to play. As well as this, Jamie Summers - writer of the rather great mp3 blog The Runout Groove - will be spinning a few of his favourite tunes from the DJ booth. It all happens on Saturday 12th January at the Notting Hill Arts Club. Doors are at 4pm, music starts sometime around 5pm - and it's all over by 8pm, giving you the rest of Saturday night free. Nearest tube station is Notting Hill Gate. Although the club is largely unmarked, it's next to a hairdressers, just past Barclay’s bank and over the road from all the Record and Tape Exchange shops - pretty easy to spot. Get big wooden doors, crash barriers out on the pavement, security man standing by the unmarked doors... down to the basement you go, comfortable chairs, good music, freindly people  and obscure bottled beer awaits...  Find out about PSB @ www.smalltownamerica.co.uk
 

John on the phone...

-----Original Message----- From: Mr Joseph Kern  Sent: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 2:55 Subject: Re: Echo & The Bunnymen January 2008 I read about that somewhere... I thought it was funny if it was just Mac sans Bunnymen... does he have another solo LP coming out? You know out of all the post grey bunny records the only song i really like Is Nothing Lasts Forever... I mean there's stuffs that's ok..... but if someone at random showed up at my door and said: Hey, wanker, Give me all your fookin' Echo And The Bunnymen records... I might put up a fight over the first four but it I couldn’t be bothered getting into fisiticuffs about anything that came later. Besides. I could slip the bastard my old copies, keep the reissues with bonus tracks and then  I'd just buy nothing lasts forever off of itunes and call it a day. Not that you asked or anything :-p COP STROP - Another year, another major demonstration march planned in central London. Up to 15,000 disgruntled workers are wanting to descend on Downing St on 23rd January and, predictably enough in crackdown Britain, the Met have already outlawed the event, are sharpening their riot shields and threatening their usual heavy handed response.  So what's the twist? Well, the latest group of work-shy wasters to fall foul of the government's tough anti-protest line are... the Police Federation! The coppers announced plans to march past Parliament in the biggest police demo since 1919. On 23rd January a thick blue parade of bobbies from all over the country want to head to Downing St to whinge about pay.  Last October we reported how Neo Labour was dusting off the 1839 Sessional Orders legislation to ban a Troops Out march from going anywhere near the mother of all Parliaments (see SchNEWS 605). Now the 19th century rulebook is out again and the Met has threatened to re-route the march.  Oblivious to the irony, Alan Gordon, Federation spokesman said 'There appears to be some behind-the-scenes government interference – there is pressure being brought on the Metropolitan Police to either postpone the march altogether or to reroute it in such a way that it will disappear into side streets where it will be out of the public gaze.' You can hear this twinge of disbelief in his voice despite this being standard Police tactics he surely should be aware of?! SchNEWS reckons we're watching the genesis of another anarchist. In any case police vs riot police has got to make for some cracking telly.  To make things even more interesting SchNEWS wants to put a general call-out out for thousands of anarcho-types to turn up on the day complete with banners defending the poor Met's coppers right to join the protests for higher pay. With a bit of luck they'll be forced to call the army in and we'll be on our way to all out civil war...

ORGAN TV?

ORGAN TV  is on your screens in the UK right now. Every Wednesday evening, NOW AT THE NEW TIME OF 9.30pm on the OPEN ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY160. And now due to the fine response, repeated every Sunday on SKY883 at 9.30pm.

This coming Sunday we have the following videos...

CHAUFFER DRIVEN AVIATOR - Leather Jacket 
EFTERKLANG - Mirador 
THE KEITH JOHN ADAMS - The Other Side Of The Road 
EL-P - Smithereens 
BEE STINGS - Pressure (Running Away) 
GALLHAMMER - World To Be Ashes 
EMIGRATE - My World 
MUNICIPAL WASTE - Headbanger Face Rip 

Next Wednesday and Sunday we have...

VWF - Family Man 
MY VITRIOL - This Time
SIKTH - How May I Help You 
TO THE BONES - Tycho 
CARDIACS - Day Is Gone 
IMPERIAL LEASURE - In A Letter 
OURLIVES - Sandra 

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
THE JACKPOT GOLDEN BOYS – Sweets And Creeps - Now this band are going to take a little more investigation before we come down off this big white fence. They have some great live videos up on line and when they’re not being a little cheesy and dangerously wacky then they have a bit of Mr Bungle, Faith No More, Sack Trick edge to them. Nine tracks, plenty of twists, turns and poppy fairground rides. They’re from Preston and when they kick in with the heavier all-going-oh-so-very-wrong-at-the-circus Dog Fashion Disco push the beach Boys off their surfboards bits they’re great – Halloween is a stand out track. Sneaking around and looking through back windows, pushing people down trapdoors, this is good, nice harmonies – they production is a little flat (and that cover art isn’t the best we’ve ever seen), but hey this is a demo. Chocolate E’Klare sounds a little Madness flavoured, Madness-lite, that’s no bad thing. Yes, we like this and we look forward to more... www.myspace.com/thejackpotgoldenboys

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STEALING GREEN – Big-riffed 70’s retro blues based hard rock thing. Burning bridges ‘till they bring her home again – the lyrics may not stand up to that much close examination, but then when did hard rock lyrics ever mean anything much? Stream of consciousness hard rock wordage, great big powerful impressive voice. They’re a little too obvious to really be compared with Led Zeppelin, they’re kind of in the Soundgarden ball park – if you want to investigate then here’s the link  - www.stealinggreen.com

STONERWITCH – Six track demo and if you think that name is a clue to what they sound like then you’d be right. Melodic tuneful alternative grungy stoner rock that has a tendency to thrash out and splatter gun anyone in the way when it needs to. Screwhead evolves in to a scream fest of noise. They’re running on raw energy, attitude and a clear love of Sabbath riffs right now, a more than healthy early shot or two, nothing that really grabs quite yet in terms of songs or identity, the signs are positive though. No idea where they’re from, somewhere in the UK. www.myspace.com/stonerwitch99

THE 4/5’s – White Russians – professional enough package and sound from an Ocean Colour Scene/Oasis style 90’s bluesy brit pop band with a hint of Ian Brown and who seem pretty pleased with the fact that they opened for a Stone Roses tribute band sometime last year. Do what you will with that information, you know if the idea interests you or not – www.myspace.com/thefourfives

Last week's demo of the week - FANTAPLASTIC

Previous demo's of the week - YONATAN NIV / INNER RAGE / NAVEL / FILTHY HABITS / LITTLE TROPHY / 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

DEMO REVIEW ARCHIVES

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
HOLLER, WILD ROSE! – Our Little Hymnal (Backlight) – A full sound, a sound ripe and ready to burst. They’re from Bunker Hill, New Jersey and there’s a whole load of hints that have gone in to making something rather different and just possibly unique. Atmospheres that taste of The Verve, of Thom Yorke, of Jeff Buckley, a hint of an alt.country band heading in to Sigur Ros-scapes and setting off enjoyably small explosions in the sky. And all in such pleasingly tactile packaging as well, it simply isn’t possible not to reach out and caress the cover. They sound is an unassuming wall of refined noise, a refined wall of unimposing guitars, and all laced with such fine detail – detail that illuminates the lyrics and demands you pay full attention. Captive Train is a subtle masterpiece, a refined smouldering epic, the eleven quiet, almost whispered, minutes of Poor In Spirit take us ever further before we go in to all kinds of delicate rewarding light and shade. The whole album is packed with restrained joy, polite hope, crafted spirit and fine fine detail that guarantees we’ll be returning long long after most albums that pass through here have been forgotten. Highly recommended - www.myspace.com/hollerwildrose or www.backlightrecords.com
 

ALSO CHECK OUT FOXY SHAZAM – Introducing (New Weathermen) – The self proclaimed “Evil Knievel of Rock ‘n Roll” and some piano propelled chaos and screaming stunt-rock. Fractured garage soul and Turbonegro explosions and all face to face with a grizzly bear and Meat Loaf and various bats out of hell and give me friction baby – I like it! They’re a quartet from Cincinnati and there’s a bag load of screaming and piano abuse and jumping about and yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees it is a messy job and someone’s got to do it. Tubes and Jerry Lee and big slices of soul and funk and cool looking artwork and yeeeeeeeesssssss again - www.myspace.com/foxyshazam

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RASPUTINA – Oh Perilous World (Filthy Bonnet Co.) – The sixth album from the rather fine (and slightly strange) chamber-rock trio lead by cellist/singer Melora Creager (one time member of New York’s Ultra Vivid Scene, and cellist on Nirvana’s In Utero tour). Seems she set up Rasputina with a written manifesto, her intention to set up an electric cello choir – two rules; no boys and no guitars. Apparently the stage show is something to see – costumes, corsets, Indian princesses, fallen medieval queens, Hawaiian handmaidens.  I guess chamber rock is the easiest/quickest/laziest way of describing what they do - clever electric cello, stratified interplay via a thousand cello driven effects peddles, classically-bent prog-pop songs. Warm lush songs that tell all kinds of tales – a treasure chest of Mary Shelly and Fletcher Christian, of Osama Bin-Laden, Benjamin Franklin, of Mary Todd Lincoln as Queen of Florida and the sale of yellowcake uranium to Saddam’s Iraq. Cello based infectious page turning adventures, easy on the ear multi layered rather rewarding classical pop-rock songs, cleverly shifting chamber pop with just a hint of Victoriana and lace that, on closer examination, might just be splattered with blood. Songs that will get in to your head, gentle howling ever-changing songs - baroque pop rock drama and yesterday’s headlines. Heavy metal cello crescendos and incredibly creative and original song writing laced with grand ambition and all fit for the finest regency drawing rooms. All slighty weird and rather different.  The album is out in the UK on January 21st – catch Rasputina opening for Robyn Hitchcock at Queen Elizabeth Hall on January 29th.   More from - www.rasputina.com or www.myspace.com/rasputina

STONE RIDER – Three Legs Of Trouble (Trustkill) – An early Aerosmith, Buckcherry, Wolfmother, Hendrix style grooved out bar-room retro hard rock album that sounds like a million hard rock things you already heard. They do it well enough without really adding anything  or taking it anywhere you haven’t been already – they ain’t no Young Heart Attack, they ain’t no Airborne, they’re not bad, they come from Atlanta Georgia, they sound like they’d be a blast in a bar after a beer or two  – if you want to know more then www.stonerider.net

THE WEDDING PRESENT – Shepherd’s Bush Welcomes The Wedding Present (Secret) – A twenty-one track live album recorded in London back in 2005. Now there’s no doubting the consistent quality of The Wedding Present, of David Gedge’s distinctive instinctive ability to craft a song and a story. The only band to be anywhere near The Smiths in terms of mid/late 80’s English indie pop - an important band, a fine band, a still relevant band (and not just some ageing once great outfit cashing in on their name and taking advantage of those ridiculous ticket prices fat old bands get away with these days). The Wedding present are an important relevant NOW band, and when your mind is in tune with Gedge’s moods and his ‘textured’ Northern voice then they’re a very fine indeed. 
Live albums though? Who really cares about live albums? Sure, there were some classic hard rock double live albums in the 70’s, those monster live albums in those gloriously big (thick-spined) gatefold sleeves – you know the ones, classic live albums from bands like Thin Lizzy, UFO, Led Zeppelin - great big loud things that blew away their studio recordings, classic live albums that could really turn you on to a band. All died a death the punks grew up and those indie bands were never going to ooze the leather trousered attitude of Phil Lynott and Live And Dangerous – and all the hopes of a live album renaissance surely ended completely with the ritual-less CD. Yes indeed, the serious life changing live album died a long time ago – and still they come and come again. We still expect them, isn’t it time for another live album? Contractual obligation? It’s not you, its me, I just don’t have much of a passion for live albums. I do like The Wedding Present though, and live albums these days, with very few exceptions, are only for the already obsessed fans (who let one crazy night turn in to six weeks and...)  So to get to the point (al last), the only people who will want this are the people who are already fans (and who stared at that red bikini and...). And what you Weddo fans want to know is, is the album any bloody good or is it one of those dubious live albums dodgy labels put out to make a quick buck? Take a look at this note, don’t throw it away, its something I wrote not to ruin your day – this is a good album, a well put together well recorded album. Good sound, good cover artwork, Gedge’s dry no messing northern voice, good set list, good sense of atmosphere and occasion – pretty much all in order and as it should be. A good live album for those who already know, probably not a good album for those who have yet to catch up with The Wedding Present, but for the already fans (who haven’t time to swim the Zambezi or buy a red Chevrolet today) this is a recommended album. One of the better live albums of recent times from one of the finer bands of now – still giving every last bit of him, nobody needs to twist your arm here, review nearly over, one last chance to have an argument. The Wedding Present are a fine fine band, this is a fine live album - you can never lose your love of life, too much apple pie and more from David Gedge – www.secretrecordslimited.com  or www.scopitones.co.uk

MULLER AND PATTON – PRESENT JONATHAN & BAILEY (Vexin) – A concept album presented by Jaye Muller and Ben Patton – an album of a Ben Folds, Beach Boys, Beatles, ELO, They Might Be Giants, Billy Joel nature, very Ben Folds indeed.  The lyrics are a little twee, well the whole thing might just be a a little twee and cheesy, but hey, if you like the bands we just name-dropped and if you like things that come from the Ben Folds school of construction, if the idea of ELO flavoured concept albums excite you then - www.myspace.com/mullerandpatton – the single we reviewed last week was enough, the whole album? We’ll politely leave it with you, I hear some people out there actually like the Electric Light Orchestra and those Beatles.. 

MEMPHIS MAY FIRE – Memphis May Fire (Trustkill) – Some kind of hyper hybrid rock ‘n roll hard rock screamo emo metal roadkill of a post-hardcore we love Sammy Hagar and Southern rock and Every Time I Die intensity of an album. Hated it first time, didn’t mind it third time - fifth time around the skin pealing blend of old school hard rock melody, modern/extreme screamo hurl-lation is hitting just the right spot.. . They damn well rock. www.memphismayfire.com

ABSENT KID – Misadventure (self release) – Slick catchy radio friendly infectious enough indie guitar pop rock from Essex, nothing wrong with it, nothing that excites us that much, they do their chosen thing well. If you like infectious slick indie guitar pop rock then go check out what they’re up to – www.myspace.com/absentkid

SOUVARIS – A Hat (Gringo) – Now this actually came out last June, old hat now really then - but hey, we can only cover things when we actually get our grubby hands on them, you know how it is.... This fine album would have got a lot of radio/written attention from us back in the Summer when it was new hat (just as the Nottingham band’s previous album did). Beautifully intelligent progressive post/math rock that never ever takes the obvious (and already far too well trodden) path. Clever, easy, soothing, complex, warm. Souvaris are clever enough to make it all sound so simple – think a more soothing, flowing, relaxed Battles with the velvet touch of Tortoise and a hint of refined Kraut rock restraint and you’ll get the idea. Rewarding instrumental post/math rock, shame we didn’t get hold of it at the time then.... www.souvaris.com
 

Last week's album of the week - BLACK MOUNTAIN / YESAN DAMEN / CLUB 8 / OUR OWN DEVICES Previous album's of the week - DIMENSION X / THAO With THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN / AHLEUCHATISTAS / AIRBOURNE / KINDER SCOUT / 4 BONJOUR’S PARTIES / VERNON ELLIOTT AND THE VERNON ELLIOTT ENSEMBLE / JOHANN JOHANNSSON / LAZARUS / FRIGHTENED RABBIT / DEERHUNTER x

ALBUM REVIEW ARCHIVES

RUDE AWAKENINGS - NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST IMMIGRATION POLICE STATE 

6am. A cold autumn morning. A young woman and her two young children are woken by loud banging at the door. They know who it is; this is what they have been dreading for months. Eight to ten large, burly, aggressive men are outside. As soon as the door is opened they arrest the woman - who has committed no crime - and order her to pack her things. If she hadn't opened the door they would have just smashed it down. She is terrified, her children are terrified. They are bundled into the back of a van and driven to a nearby compund where they are locked up. Then they are bundled back into the van and driven to a prison several hours away. Bogota ? Bagdhad? - No, Bristol... it's the routine morning removal of an asylum-seeking family to a detention centre. 

Answering the call-out from the No Borders camp (see SchNEWS 604), and marking UN International Migrant's Day on 18th December, activists round the country simultaneously blockaded Immigration Reporting Centres - the bases used for snatch squad seizures of asylum seekers. Arriving at the centres in the early hours of the morning, the activists aimed to prevent Immigration Enfarcement Officers from staging dawn raids, in which families are often rounded up in preparation for removal to countries from which they have been forced to flee. 

In Bristol, activists arrived in time to lock onto vehicles, and a police officer was over heard confirming that a dawn raid had been planned. In Portsmouth, activists were locked on to the swing barrier and gates by 4.30am another dawn raid from that site was thwarted. 

Glasgow activists were in place by 5.30am when the Immigration Goon Squad arrived, who were unable to leave the car park in their vehicles due to a tripod, whilst other people d-locked to the gates. Newcastle activists dressed in Santa outfits, locked on to the gates and used arm tubes to prevent vehicles from leaving the car parks. Two of the Glasgow activists were cut free from their d-locks and arrested, whilst a tripod continued to ensure that vehicles could not leave the car park. Activists at the other sites were able to leave without any arrests taking place. 

In Manchester the local Immigration Reporting Centre, Dallas Court, had its gates locked with a motorcycle chain and a banner reading "Caution snatch squads - we are watching you" was hung. Later, at 10am, the Home Office in Marsham Street SW1, London was disrupted after activists blocked the entrance and unfurled a large banner declaring "No Child is Illegal: Child Detention is a Crime". 

Meanwhile, Nottingham activists were campaigning to stop the deportation of Jane Mary Mutetsi a Rwandan national who fled to Britain via Uganda after her husband was murdered following which she was subjected to a gang rape and severe beating by Rwandan soldiers in which she lost the sight in one eye, her left ovary and several teeth. Jane Mary faces deportation to Uganda, where it is rumoured that there is a warrant for her arrest.  One activist on the Portsmouth blockade told SchNEWS, "It was crucial to directly intervene in this inhumane and secretive process. Dawn raid seizures are like a form of extraordinary rendition, targeted at individuals and whole families - and are taking place in British cities with barely any public awareness. These raids are carried out with maximum secrecy and the government relies on public ignorance of, or indifference to, their brutality. Where is the coverage of the two-and-a-half thousand people currently imprisoned without having committed any crime?. Where is the coverage of the dozens of children, some not even a year old, in prison? Where is the coverage of the real situation of asylum seekers who came here for peace and safety and are instead humiliated, abused, locked up, attacked and treated like dirt at every turn?" 

These bases are all around the country. There are no statistics on the number and regularity of the raids carried out because the government will not release the figures. But the fleets of vehicles blockaded on just one day this morning and the harrowing personal accounts of families show a large sale operation. 

Dawn raids are used to gain custody of whole families in order to imprison them before anyone has gone out to school or work. Every day, doors are kicked in and families are snatched from their beds and taken to detention centres, where they are punished for seeking refuge in this country. They are taken away from their houses, jobs, schools and communities - their lives. The timing ensures no witnesses are present. So far - except when detainees riot in the conditions at detention centres, there has been little mainstream coverage of this aspect of the UK's inhumane immigration policies. 

Liam Byrne - Minister for Immigration has admitted that these raids take place without warning in the early hours is because otherwise families due to be removed might attract public sympathy. 

Other activists have continually targeted the weakest link in the removal process - the airlines. Up until recently asylum seekers were forcibly removed on ordinary passenger aircraft. While some detainees have been able to frustrate the process by forcibly resisting, many  others have been jettisoned out to a uncertain and dangerous future sat next to cheerful holidaymakers off on their latest cut-price bargain citybreak. Following unwanted attention from campaigners, and an action at it's Crawley premises during the climate camp, one airline – XL airlines - has now pulled out of a £1.5 million contract with the Home Office. Staff and pilots were leafleted and informed that they were 'flying people to their deaths'. 

Airline spokesmen expressed their "sympathy for all dispossessed persons in the world" but claimed they "did not understand the political dimensions involved" in such charter flights! Well they obviously need the education activists can provide then. Meanwhile one Bradford campaigner was arrested and is on trial this week at Horsham magistrates for 'aggravated trespass'. 

Hoping to step into the gap however are Asylum Airways, a pint-sized Austrian outfit, linked to British security firms, who want to use planes with padded rooms and specially designed seats enabling guards to strap down and restrain detainees. They've made their bid to the government who will surely lap up their 'blue skies' thinking, so watch this space... 

Activists don't intend December's actions to be a one-off, merely the start of a new wave of regular resistance to the racist immigration regime in general and the dawn raids in particular. 

* The main campaigning organisations: 
National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns - www.ncadc.org.uk
Refugee Council - www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) - www.jcwi.org.uk
No One is Illegal - www.noii.org.uk
Barbed Wire Britain - www.barbedwirebritain.org.uk
No Borders - www.noborders.org.uk
 

LIVE REVIEW ARCHIVES

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
PLAAYDOH  - The Plaaydoh EP (Winning Sperm Party) – Loved it from the moment the first note hit us. No, loved it as soon as we opened the envelope and got our hands on the home-made package. “Plaaydoh are a lo-fi pop band from Glasgow” says the scribbled piece of paper – and yes, the piece of paper is correct. Plaaydoh are a brilliantky spiky shouty poppy lo-fi diy band from Glasgow with five songs - three of which are instant bites of creative punk rock attitude and abrasive pointy adrenaline (the other two aren’t that far behind either). Comes is an excellent hand made sleeve – tactile, inviting, demand your instant attention. Limited to 100 (ours is orange and number 11). Purple sounds like The Fall meet a very edgy Go Team via a shouty Vile Vile Creatures (or Bis), Boyscout sounds like lo-fi Bananarama for pop loving Liars fans, Oh Jay is just a brilliant delight. Plaaydoh are charming, messy, Plaaydoh are full of bite, most of all they have these great songs that are laced with delicious energy and dangerous character, Plaaydoh are brilliantly different. We love this EP, we want more... and these Winning Sperm Party people look like they’re up to good things tooooooo – go investigate – this is why we do this Organ thing! - www.winningspermparty.com  or www.myspace.com/plaaydoh

Last week's single of the week - HELLO WEMBLEY

Previously - UNDERWORLD / WAX AUDIO vs GEORGE BUSH / HAZEL MILLS / DEERHOOF / F*CK BUTTONS / IMPERIAL LEISURE / CLUB 8 / TURBO NEGRO / CANDY PANDY ATTACK / SUNS OF THUNDER / DEPARTMENT S / TERRY EDWARDS & THE SCAPEGOATS / THAT F*CKING TANK / ODD SHAPED HEAD

SINGLE REVIEW ARCHIVES

PREVIOUSLY - N.W.A  / STRIBORG / THE WEIRDOS / 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 / 

PREVIOUSLY - AURAL INNOVATIONS  / 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

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