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interference patterns, the final reel and.. and... and.... |
 Fiercely
meretricious? Oh no Fiercely something or other, more sound bites and links
and bridges and this week we’ve been – well never mind where we’ve been,
trying to catch that hare or something. It really is just like they tell
you in church, or the Italian deli on the corner and not everyone is comfortable
with the idea that music is a guilty addiction.... No time for introductions
this week, we’ve been busy and what with getting stuck on tube trains in
tunnels and....
Pull up your mercy seat,
grab a firm hold of your mouse and fight like apes for everything that
needs to be fought for... the interference patterns, the final reel and..
and... and....
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? |
 Well
now from what I can work out for down here, CRY PARROT are a Glasgow
based DIY music collective who seem to be in collaboration with the WINNING
SPERM PARTY people who first brought the excellent Plaaydoh to our
attention – Cry Parrot have an excellent 14 track compilation of what they
say are Scotland’s best independent, alternative left field indie alternative
bands - Cry Parrot Compilation 1 – can be download for free right now
from www.winningspermparty.com/cryparrot
- Bands include: Copy Haho, Eagleowl, the rather recommended Household,
Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Dirty Summer, Hyena, Plaaydoh and more...
SILVERY’s
new single Horrors was single of the week here last week, the single is
now not coming out until March 10th, you can catch the video on ORGAN
TV next week and the band have a release party single launch gig on
15th March over at Nambucca , Holloway Road, London. links: blowuprecords.com/artists/silvery
or myspace.com/silverytheband
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THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
 PRE
have been added to the bill for GOSSIP’s London show at the Shepherd’s
Empire on 21st March – probably the last chance to see them before
they head back for more gigs in American basements and garages. Who are
PRE you ask (unless the word of mouth has reached you already). PRE were
born in basement. They’re based in London. Their first outing as PRE, so
legend has it, saw the entire audience locked outside, watching through
barred windows from the street above. “To the assemblage up top, it was
clear that these five noise nu-wavers had already figured it out - sound
moves quicker in high pressure". A batch of split 7”ers led them to an
album that we can’t stop on our radio show – here’s the album review we
put on-line last year just in case it it slipped passed you...
PRE – Epic Fits (Skingraft) – London’s Pre coming at us via Skin (the best
label in the world) - love it! They found their perfect home. is a hissy
fit of high pitched screeching hardboiled pronkoid song noise, is awkwardly
difficult listening and pointy stabby twitches of new wave paint on pale
flesh. Screaming yelling yelping relentless girl voice and all errata and
have Karen O make the tea before they bring on a Cardiac - yes in capitals,
we were namedropping and going off and things! The bird catches the worm
and that’s the way we all go, more vile vile locust noise, love it! love
it! Epic fits indeed, meticulously slicing shriek shriek – clever tight
crafted razor sharp noise tantrums and is just so right – beautifully unawkward
and very easy to listen to. Pre do make the noise jump – Scratching Crawling
Scrawling Gibber and www.myspace.com/prepreprepre
or www.skingraftrecords.com
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John on the phone... |
| ORGAN
ON YOUR RADIO - WEEKLY on SUNDAYS AT 9.00pm via RESONANCE 104.4FM in London
and worldwide via www.resonancefm.com
more details here |
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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...
EFTERKLANG
- Mirador
IMPERIAL
LEISURE - In A Letter
HERZOGA
- Nice Car
TO
THE BONES - Tycho
SLIPKNOT
- The Heretic
TITS
OF DEATH - Iron Nipples
GALLHAMMER
- World To Be Ashes
Next
Wednesday and Sunday we have...
AMON
TOBIN - Verbal
BEE
STINGS - pressure (Running Away)
SILVERY
- Horrors
DRESDEN
DOLLS - Backstabber
HERZOGA
- Nice Car
SPIRITWO
- Sometimes
YIP
YIP - Candy Dinner
TANGAROA
- Vietnamese Killing Queens
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 |
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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 good then it really is goooooooood
DEMO
OF THE WEEK
This week's beautiful big
pile didn't reveal anything we felt inspired enough to shout about, I'm
sure there's something waiting there though, it is indeed a rare week when
we don't at least hear one....
Last
week's demo of the week - THE HAROLD WARTOOTH
/ COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
Previous
demo's of the week - EATEN BY TIGERS
/ MOLLOY / THE
ATROCITY EXHIBIT / 2
OUT OF 3 RULE / THE
JACKPOT GOLDEN BOYS / FANTAPLASTIC
/ YONATAN NIV /
INNER
RAGE / NAVEL
/ FILTHY HABITS
/ LITTLE TROPHY
/ THE ORIENTALISTS
DEMO
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK |
| This
week the best new things we’ve been listening to were...
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR
- Trisector (Virgin) – When Van Der Graaf made that comeback a couple of
years ago with those unexpected shows and the Present album people refused
to believe it was going to happen until they were actually stood there
in front of us singing of black days at the bottom of the blackest sea.The
euphoria, the disbelief and the celebration is behind us now, one of the
finest bands ever are properly back and the second album from this new
period of Van Der Graaf life is here. Stripped down to a trio of
original 1968 members now – Hugh Banton, Peter Hammill and Guy Evans -
the first thing to say about Trisector is that there is material on here
to stand up next the best from any period of the band’s many lives. Peter
Hammill is on top form with his extremely personal lyrics - inward looking,
unflinching as ever as age takes hold; the melancholy, that wonderfully
distinctive voice, that clock that’s always ticking and a lifetime spent
unlearning all that he knows. The twelve and a half minutes of Over The
Hill is classic Van Der Graaf Generator with all those breathtaking rollercoaster
rides and stabs of jarring drama that lead us to that euphoric grandness.
We Are Not Now is seriously progressively challenging rock – Van Der Graff
are not the kind of band who you expect to just rehash things, they don’t
here! There are moments on Trisector that are genuinely pushing at musical
edges – and if you want emotion that Peter Hammill is still the (emo? This
is the real stuff). The best moments more than make up for the risks that
don’t really pay off – the album opens with a rather uneventful four minute
instrumental that really did lower my expectations and had me fearing the
worst. Start your first listen with the opening moments of Interference
Patterns lose yourself in more ceremonial quicksand... Another very fine
album from probably the greatest English band ever.
Trisector
is out March 17th – you can catch them on tour in early April – taste some
classic VdGG downloads at www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk
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CHECK OUT
YOU SLUT! - Critical Meat
(Stressed Sumo) - Tight-as-you-like mathyness that's clear, big and well
on the rockout side of things, from a band with a name that is either ridiculous
or inspired, depending on how compulsively you stroke your chin.
Yep, You Slut don't mess about, doing agile heaviness with a deft, easy
touch. They're fat and chunky yet bright and breezy, plonked in some happy
intersection of the effing Champs and Don Caballero, leaning more to the
former. Quoting Oxes as an influence, they're more accessible because
they're more focused; if they sound like anyone, it's a fatter Rumah Sakit.
If you want to talk purist math rock, this is as good an example as any:
lots of gratuitous time-changes and pointed unexpectedness, but overall
tempo and volume staying the same. You Slut! do complex - but not
too complex - chugging upbeat rock with neat imaginative flourishes and
a sly sense of fun – www.stressedsumorecords.co.uk
or www.myspace.com/youslut1
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 LAST
HARBOUR – Dead Flies & The Lonely Spark (Little Red Rabbit) – Rather
impressive third album from the Manchester band – think dark moody melancholic
piano and string-driven rich noir-voiced Nick Cave tenderness, think Tindersticks
drama, think Ennui, Willard Grant Conspiracy and drunkenly waltzing at
a stranger’s wedding. Lives torn, dark compelling confrontations laced
with gentle pedal steel guitar and rich restrained string arrangements
and the occasional dramatic eruption – www.lastharbour.co.uk
or www.littleredrabbit.co.uk
HATE ETERNAL – Fury And Flames
(Metal Blade) – in which the (very) extreme metal band grow and froth through
a preposterous insect plague of a hell storm and some kind of relentless
proclamation of the damned. Speed metal cod-classical guitar riffs,
jackhammer rhythms, pounding thrash-head drummer, more cookie monster vocals
and pissed off angry bees and wasps caught in the devil’s own screw top
jam jar. Subtle is not a word to use here... www.metalblade.de
JENNY HOYSTON - Isle Of (Southern)
- A solo album from Erase Errata's singer and writer Jenny Hoyston, Isle
Of is a collection of varied songs - some with drums from friends Colin
Dupuis and Christina Files, some just Jenny playing everything. The results
are somewhat straightforward compared with the angular and more avant Erase
Errata, ranging from electronic Residents-like sparseness, to relaxed Americana
folk. Hoyston has a rich, unforced and very accessible voice that
pulls the disparate sonic elements into a likeable whole. An acoustic
guitar-based song sits happily next to the quirky electronic percussion
of Everyone's Alone' and the Deerhoof guitar crunch of Novelist. An album
goes down very easily – www.southern.net
ALBUM
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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LIVE |
 DR
SLAGGLEBERRY - Cross Kings, London, 15th Feb - Cracking venue - once a
notorious Aussie riot ball of a boozer, now a relatively civilised, welcoming
ground floor pub with a decent sized stage and fear not if you walk in
and it looks like nothing is actually happening, don’t think you’ve turned
up on the wrong night - through the almost secret door you’ll find a great
big scuzzy pit of a cellar bar. And only an (increasingly gentrified) five
minute walk down the side of King's Cross station, it's one of the best
venues in town.
Down in the cellar, there are masked madmen lurking in the gloom. There's
a fuzzy huh? from the assembled other bands' friends, but we and a few
others kind of know what's coming. Anyone familiar with Fantomas, The Locust
or Mr Bungle is about to be made deliriously happy - if Dr Slaggleberry
are anywhere near as accomplished as their four track demo. Ah yes...
A proper drums/guitars/vocals four-piece, they're as ridiculously tight
playing live as they are on those rough-and-ready recordings. They're young;
the vocalist's cut-down mask somehow makes him look even younger, as he
hunches over some kind of Star Trek prop that makes his voice do unnatural
things. There may be about a million post rock bands in the UK at the moment,
but full-on weirdass avant-prog outfits are still pretty thin on the ground.
Dr Slaggleberry are at the very least Rolo Tomassi's equals when it comes
to demented math-metal. They don't mind the odd slab of straightforward
rocking out, though it remains a precursor to some precision insanity.
The unprepared elements of the crowd don't know what's hit them, and for
a few it's a revelatory moment. Dr Slaggleberry may have a daft name
- a relic of the band's less serious early line-up – it is a rather memorable
one though. By the end of the set they've acquired a reasonable chunk
of new Slaggleberry converts willing to follow them around the south of
England. Yes, something good evolving here – www.myspace.com/drslaggleberry
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 AIRBOURNE
- Borderline, London, 18th Feb - Think of it as nothing more
than damage and the obvious fact that whole world is now divided into two
distinct types of people. Debates were breaking out in pubs leading up
to gig, in offices, churches, on street corners, in dark Parliament recesses
- Al Fayed called one of them a crocodile or a smiling vampire or some
such thing, MI5 are reported to have come out strongly in terms of having
no opinion, they clearly do. Why? What’s to debate? No sane person should
have any reason not to love this band. There are those who stand about
moaning about Airbourne being nothing but a set of AC/DC wannabes - complaining
about how it has all been done already, and then there’s those of us who’ve
been waiting far long for the coming of a band like this to do it all properly
once more.
The whole thing is right there waiting, juiced up and the clearest statement
of musical intent ever. “All right people/Welcome the show/Are you ready
to rock?/Are you to go?/Now we’ve got what you want/And we’ve got what
you need/So get your ass down here/And let your ears bleed. Nothing to
stroke chins about here, just jump fist in the air right into pit and rejoice
in the beer soaked fact that there’s a new band in town – there on stage
giving absolutely everydamnthing - a band who are full on Bon Scott good!
Walls of Marshalls in the packed-to-bursting this is what we want! How
good was that! Yeeeees!! Dirty deeds done right - they came, and the four
of them rocked (like we knew they would, worn out three copies of the album
already). They rocked and we want more! If you can’t get pumped-up excited
at the front of an Airbourne show then get hell out of here and go play
bingo or something! The place was rammed - hair and riffs flying everywhere
– no time to mess about – Stand up, for Rock ‘n Roll! OK, so they sound
pretty much exactly like primetime raw early AC/DC (with just a hint of
Angry Anderson attitude). So damn what!!? What hell do you want? Blood!?
You got it. AC/DC haven’t got out of their accountant’s office make a decent
record in years. Music this good is for blistering live nights this, music
like this is for the street, for packed back room bars, music like is this
is meant to be raw, loud and right there in your face, not for over-produced
albums and school uniform wearing old men in giant stadiums. The place
is sweating - everyone down the front is beer soaked and smiling great
big shit-eating grins at each other - fists punching, lyrics chanted –
Too Much Too Young Too Fast... Fat City... Girls In Black - The four
of them up there, full on real deal open road Aussie bar-room rock via
the teachings of The Easybeats, Rose Tattoo, The Angels and the whole damn
lot. Relentless frontman O’Keeffe must have spent years dreaming of this
night: he’s beaming as he “all the way from Warrnambool to London” as they
hit the encore (that’s where they’re from you see, Warrnambool – they told
us before the gig what a big deal it had been making it to the big city
of Melbourne for a gig). Hey look, it ain’t noodle doodle chin stroking
indie-schmindie rocket science - they came, we saw, they rocked,
it was loud, it was we want more!
Airbourne’s debut album Running Wild has just come out on Roadrunner, the
band are expected back in the UK for summer – www.airbournerock.com |
 Live
previously - SPIT LIKE THIS / MOUSE
/ GRANTURA /
TO
THE BONES /DäLEK / DESTRUCTO
STORMBOTS / GUAPO
/ MOLLOY / CREEDLE
/ GOBSAUSAGE / THE
BRIAN JACKET LETDOWN
LIVE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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SINGLES |
| Single
time...
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
CAVALERA
CONSPIRACY – Sanctuary (Roadrunner) - The return of the flying Cavalera
brothers and some full on hostile, heavy as heavy can be, pounding, bomb-throwing,
explosive thrash metal brutality. Max and Igor from Sepultura back together
and combusting like you knew they would do if they were ever to do this
again! No time for boundary pushing or anything like that, just the Slayer
speed brutal thrash metalcore that’s rightly demanded on such an momentous
metal occasion as the return of the Cavaleras - www.cavaleraconspiracy.com
Last
week's single of the week - SILVERY
Previously
- PICTURES / STE
McCABE / THE DEATH SET / KUNK
/ DR SLAGGLEBERRY / HERZOGA
/ THE DROPKICK MURPHYS / ONE
MORE GRAIN / PLAAYDOH / HELLO
WEMBLEY / UNDERWORLD
SINGLE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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| 'RE-ISSUE/best
of OF THE WEEK |
| Can
you give us a moment here?
PREVIOUSLY
- CANDLEMASS / MORVISCOUS / CURRENT
93 / TYPE O NEGATIVE / N.W.A
/ STRIBORG / THE
WEIRDOS / THE MOB / ARSONISTS
GET ALL THE GIRLS / THE VERVE / KHAYA
/ GREASY TRUCKERS PARTY / HERE
AND NOW |
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MEDIA, VIDEO, PRINT AND.... |
 Can
you give us another moment here? comeback later today
PREVIOUSLY
- PELICAN /
GIANT
PAW /
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 |
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