Push those cuckoos from the nest, wise up you bands, Face Space pages and expecting people to find you is not enough.... 

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. 

Meanwhile MayKay and Pockets levelled ten tents at Glastonbury at the weekend  after a spontaneous demonstration of cartwheeling for Irish TV.

This may be the kind of frivolous news and tabloid gossip that you don’t expect from us Organs, it is Fight Like Apes though and when it comes to Flight Like Apes then missing hotpants are important, they are the finest new band out there and in this case silver hotpants are everything - www.myspace.com/fightlikeapesmusic
 

Nerve - Liverpool's quality political magazine, has a new issue out - this issue on the theme of immigration - www.catalystmedia.org.uk

JULY 4th - I Spy A Spy - Independence from America demonstration, at the entrance to the US base at Menwith Hill, near Harrowgate, Nth Yorks. With talks, music, food. Come dressed as a spy, 5pm-10pm - www.caab.org.uk
 

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 meanwhile along the dial Magz Hall presents the You Are Hear Sonar Special 2008 with live highlights from Ove Naxx, Dj Scotch Egg, Pan Sonic, Skweee Showcase, ZX Spectrum Orchestra, Matmos, Pram, Coh and Bass Clef. Find out more and enjoy via www.youarehear.co.uk

ORGAN FORUM - CONTACT AND SWITCH THE OTHER

ORGAN FORUM  - we've gone back and added an old school back to basics Organ forum this week for general Organ talk, interaction and for you to post your news and generally get involved and make of it what you will, we'll trial it and see and if it proves to be a healthy forum then we'll expand it and see, we had enough of Social network Face Space sites own by big corporations removing our words and taking down our blogs and controlling what we say or what you say. A forum is only as good as you make it.- join here

DEMO OF THE WEEK
We promise a massive blitz on the demo pile this week, we do, we do...

Last week's demo of the week -  PERHAPS CONTRAPTION

Previous demo's of the week - BLACKLANDS / THE SANS PAREIL / THE HUNGRY I / DEAD LEAF ECHO / I-DEF-I / DANGER INVITES RESCUE / A CUP OF TEA / NARRATION / HOT DAMN / KOPEK / DIE DIE DENEUVE / BOMB FACTORY / KONTAKTE /ATLAS / THE HAROLD WARTOOTH

DEMO REVIEW ARCHIVES

ALBUM OF THE WEEK
VILE IMBECILES – Queenie Was A Blonde (Tea Vee Eye) - Now a lot of bands will try and tell you there are here to f*** shit up, Brighton’s Vile Imbeciles don’t need to tell you, they just get right on in there and do it. Vile Imbeciles will scramble your mind, they’ll scramble your eggs and all your notions and this new album is indeed magnificently immersed. Breathe vigorously, steal words, conviction swallowed, all repulsed and absorbed and yes yes yes. Now confusion is never far away and opinions are divided so let us say ours are not, not now they’ve nailed it with this fine new album. Madden and scratched and a grip on your fibrillating heart, for this is blues pulled apart and put back together in a different order – blues that clench you and point you and scratch you in such an awkwardly good and angular way. Disjointed in such a well-jointed way, so obvious that it should be done like this by a hundred thousand bands and sit on me with your happiness and visionary curveballs from the seaside. Seaside treats and going off and things, colossal and awkward and awkward and awkward and they have it all harnessed and on a leash ready to parade and humiliate. Simple fact is Vile Imbeciles are gloriously different, not a different language, just a different way a assembling the new wave artrock indie language we already have so that it makes no logical sense in a perfectly logical sensible way. And you, the half suffocated, you need this new breath of fresh awkward gulping troublesome air. A beautifully deranged perfectly arranged rather recommended second album and like we said only the other day, disassembling alternative pop and putting it back together so it fits a different way and works just as well as it ever did. An excellent album - www.myspace.com/vileimbeciles
 

ALBUM OF THE WEEK 2 THE LAST PEOPLE ON EARTH - Electric Angel (TeaHouse) - Uncanny - a bona fide progout with a huge progging well capital P, and none of your revivals or neos or avants. Gloriously influenced by the psychedelic early days, by what's arguably the first ever concept album, the Pretty Things' SF Sorrow opus (the album the Beatles stole the idea for Sgt Pepper from) - and by The Who's Tommy (a lot) and Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (a bit) and The Nice rather than ELP.  Recorded in a 'decaying dockside warehouse in Hull', The Last People On Earth's first proper album flows and soars, bittersweet and bright, constantly flirting with darker territory in the poppiest, Kinkiest moments. Hmm, lots of people claiming to be into prog and psyche at the moment: engage Irony Detection Mode. Several listens with a deadly stare at the speakers only sinks the lovely songs into my brain and fills me with admiration. Everything, from the rolling drum Guy Evans/Keith Moon drum breaks to the absolute conviction of the storyline to the (frankly Cardiacsy) Television Organ riffs on John's Car (and cracking little moog solo) is from the heart, second nature to the songwriters. The little contemporary hints in the lyrics and music just make it even more genuine and unforced. It reminds me of the way the Mighty Boosh writers often exude their real love of proper prog through what they do - that fresh-sounding, natural use of the genre mixed up whatever they do.  No, The Last People On Earth don't water it down... neither do they make it all hard and angular, just that visionary freedom that everybody threw out with the bath water some time around '77 (well, almost everybody). Wow, there's some cracking tunes in this... Radiohead do the Wall, via the Whole World Window.  What a singer, too. Oh no, hyperbole... but this is a gem - www.myspace.com/thelastpeopleonearth www.myspace.com/teahouserecords

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BODIES OF WATER – A Certain Feeling (Secretly Canadian) – This is good, Bodies Of Water have these great songs and tunes that just flow along - great songs flowing along, feeling good, all is well...  And just when you’re not quite paying full attention, as you do when you have an album on and you’re getting on with your day, just when they sense you’re not paying full attention and your guard is down, just when they sense they can, they reach out and batter your ears with a slice of something straight out of your classic prog rock wet dream of 1974. Who are this band? I have no idea, just stuck the CD on and fired up the go button...  They’re playing this refined kind of North American alternative full-bodied folksy pop that comes laced with these secret slabs and outbursts of cool as f bits of full on 70’s Genesis/Yes and they keep catching our ears with it – what the hell was that? Are they subliminal prog heads? Is this some kind of semi-secret mind infiltration? And as quickly as they’re punched you with an outrageous bit of keyboard bite they withdraw again and deny it ever happened – what us? No, officer, we’re just a harmless little North American alternative indie psychedelic folksy type of band, we didn’t do it. This is a very fine album, all sweat harmonies and enticing alternative tunes and then whack. And the thing is, it all makes perfect sense and it all works so well. It all flows, nothing intrudes, nothing interrupts, it all works so so well - the constant flow of subtle details and adventure  - and in all honestly those wonderfully subtle prog bits really won’t bite you that much unless you have nursery crymed radar ears that are constantly scanning for these things – there’s a tiny bit of Who, a small bite of Cardiacs, a second or two of King Crimson and another bit of Yes in there and take that hand that’s reaching out from the frozen days of splendour and it will always be in the way it always was... They’ve got all these gospel-ish things going on and bits of tribal-kraut that threaten to get all anthemic but holds back from ever quite so obvious and doing so -  that and bits of Morricone that pull you along with it. This is wonderfully different actually, the voices are refined, peaceful – male/female voices, wondrous stories. An album that takes you all over the place (in such a reasoned way) without you really noticing – and they come out sounding like no one but themselves, they come out sounding rather wonderful. A band from California, a band full of spirit, of beauty and a band with their very own rather rewarding finger print, well worth checking out  – www.secretlycanadian.com / www.myspace.com/bodiesofwater

ALGHAZANTH – Wreath Of Thenetat (Woodcut) - Oh lord god help us, this band are fronted by some numb nut called Goat Tormentor, you know damn well that with a silly name like that that if he so much as pricked his little finger he’d be off running home to mummy like a creaming screaming pig for a Band-Aid and a kissy kissy better. Actually as bombastic gothic black metal goes this is rather good, silly King Diamond make up and logos no one can read may just have kind of been done once or twice already but this is good. “Alghazanth is an artistic entity channelling the twin stream of all-devouring Darkness and the profound Enlightenment that lies hidden therein” – yes indeed, as silly as they are, this is rather musically rewarding; a decent atmospheric black metal onslaught and melodic intensity that grows and gradually erodes the cynicism and yes indeed, best of the 37 extreme death/black metal albums with silly unreadable logos that landed here this week – www.alghazanth.com or www.woodcutrecords.com

TEASING LULU – Black Summer (Easy Action) – Girl voiced indie pop rock, two girls and a boy drummer. They’re from Brighton, they’re kind of feisty in a blustery indie (slightly punky) rock way, last time we saw them they got blown off stage by The Smears who in turn do this kind of thing with far more balls, attitude and committed bite - everything that Teasing Lulu don’t quite have with this rather polite debut album. If you want indie pop then they’re OK, kind of strange that the main sleeve photos only feature the girls? They’re certainly not the “two Gaye Adverts backed by The Clash’s drummer” like the press release claims, maybe next time? Not quite doing anything for us, if you want to investigate then here you go - www.easyaction.co.uk

THIS IS RADIO FREEDOM – This Is Radio Freedom (Sidewalk 7) – Now I imagine this band are all over day time XFM and I imagine that publications like the NME are busy tell us how good they are and if that’s the case then I’d say well rightly so – and I’d also point out that’s why I never bother raading those kind of publications any more. Thing is, I can respect what This Is Radio Freedom are doing, they do it well, they have some bite, a little bit of a menacing edge, good luck to them, they deserve to have their picture on the cover and yes, if you like blustery edgy indie rock with a hint of Primal Scream a touch inner city grit, a bit of a menacing undercurrent and you like that band who were being hyped like hell everywhere you went a couple of years ago and who’s name I can’t even remember now, you know the one, songs about cash machines, on XFM every ten minutes and the NME calling them the new Clash and oh, what the hell were they called... Anyway, that’s what This Radio Freedom are like...  www.thisisradiofreedom.org or www.myspace.com/thisisradiofreedom

BLAZE BAYLEY – The Man Who Would Not Die (BB) - The one time Iron Maiden and (far more importantly) Wolfsbane frontman with a blusteringly busy bombastic megathon of a rather heavy heavy metal album which should impress fans of bands like Dragonforce – www.planetblaze.com

EMPYROS – The Spectre Of Ballantre (S.F.E) – Speed/power metal from Estonia, a mix of thrashy aggression and melody that might be of interest to the same people who would like that Blaze Bayley album or maybe bands like Megadeth or Testament – www.empyros.net

PLASTIC HEROES – Escape The Lower Vibe (Bongo Beat) - Breezy sunny new wave indie pop from, oh they could be from anywhere really, bit of an NY vibe, bit of a Manic Street Preachers undercurrent, bit of a Cars vibe and www.plasticheroes.com
 

Last week's album of the week - CAPILLARY ACTION / THE PSYKE PROJECT / PEDRO Previous album's of the week - LAYMAR / WIRE / HEAR, O ISRAEL / GRAND MAGUS / RUDE MECHANICALS / OPETH / TORCHE / HAIL OF BULLETS / THE NOTWIST / EXPERIMENTAL DENTAL SCHOOL / JO GABRIEL / PROJECT SERENDIPITY / QUEEN ELEPHANTINE / C.R AVERY / THE INDELICATES / KAREN DALTON x

ALBUM REVIEW ARCHIVES

LIVE REVIEW ARCHIVES

SINGLE OF THE WEEK
THE BRUTE CHORUS – Grow Fins (Bumpman) - A stripped down Camden indie blues thing for people who like the Amy Winehouse Pete Doherty way of things, not that The Brutal Chorus are jumping on any bandwagons or aping others, they just have that zeitgeist, that London ‘now’ feel. The A-side is good, it won’t explain why this is single of the week though, the other tracks are where their hand and their wolf in a red hooded top edge is revealed from behind the wall of their chateau (or their north London boozer)  A house of many windows, and story telling with an edge and cuckoos in the nest and words that are worth pointing an ear at and a thing of beauty to take for that shine and when they paint your town they’ll likely paint it red. North London folk and blues and a hint of Nick Cave and sparse instrumentation and personality and raw passionate energy and rock ‘n roll goodness and pleasure and fire and worth every bit of the word of mouth buzz that’s spreading right now – www.myspace.com/thebrutechorus

SINGLE OF THE WEEK 2
PORT O’BRIEN – I Woke Up Today (City Slang) – An ubercool San Francisco alt.folk outfit and a bright shinny happy set of heart warming songs and lo-fi hand claps and breezy stomps and refreshingly different  And they’ll make you feel about waking up and all in such a simple wholesome pleasing positive feel good way, and Tree Bones over on the b-side is just as good  – www.portobrien.com

Last week's single of the week -  VESSELS

Previously - VILE IMBECILES / GIANT PAW / DARK CAPTAIN LIGHT CAPTAIN / AIRBOURNE / THE MASS / GRANTURA / BLACK MOUNTAIN / CARIBOU / KILL THE CAPTAINS / THE KINGSIZE FIVE / THE OUTSIDE ROYALTY

SINGLE REVIEW ARCHIVES

PREVIOUSLY - SIGOR ROS / VASECTOMY EGGS NAILER / FAT WRECK, ME FIRST... / THE DANDY WARHOLS  / SKIN GRAFT RECORDS / WIRE / BUTTHOLE SURFERS  / CARDIACS / STUMP, KEV HOPPER / PUSSYCAT TRASH

PREVIOUSLY - DAVID BOWIE / STUPIDS / AMEBIX / BLONDIE / THOR / STUMP / KOENJIHYAKKEI / SEBADOH / THE FLYING LUTTENBACHERS  / SUN EATS HOURS / LEGION OF PARASITES / ALABAMA 3 / AHLEUCHATISTAS / WIZARDS OF TWIDDLY / DEEP PURPLE / CANDLEMASS / MORVISCOUS / CURRENT 93

PREVIOUSLY - BITTER PIE / SF ZINE FAIR / GIANT PAW – ART CARD SERIES / L. GABRIELLE PENABAZ @ FIERCE / ZINE: LIGHTS GO OUT #1 / LESS THAN JAKE / THE WEDDING PRESENT / 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

A group in San Francisco has come up with a fitting way to mark Dubya's disappearance down the U-bend of history. Past presidents have been associated with such public monuments as the JFK airport and the Woodrow Wilson bridge - but the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco have come up with something a little more appropriate for the current incumbent - The George W. Bush Sewage Plant. They are applying to rename the local sewerage works, and claim to have enough signatures to force it through. The plan is for the name change to happen on January 20th, the day the new president is inaugurated, coinciding with a mass "synchronized flush". They're not the only ones who can't wait to pull the Cheney on the Bush presidency. (SchNews)

MAC ATTACK - Over a decade after the famous Mclibel trial victory (See SchNEWS 124), and despite endless 'greening' exercises, takeovers of slightly-less-hated brands, falling profits and the closure of stores as the empire recedes, the multi-billion dollar corporation is still peddling its resource/worker/health exploiting junk food up and down every High St.
To mark this year's anniversary, on June 21st, campaigners entered a McDonald's branch in Cambridge to distribute some new leaflets outlining the company's many sins, and to encourage brain-challenged consumers to boycott the chain.
The police were swiftly in attendance, keen as mustard-flavoured sauce to defend the rights of McCrap sellers as ever. One of those removed from the premises was then arrested under section 5 of the Public Order Act for refusing to give his date of birth, despite no legal requirement for him to actually do so. History of the monumental libel case at www.mcspotlight.org (SchNews)

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Meanwhile to download (free) and watch a selection of SchMOVIES short films click
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Schhhhhneeeeews? What's that? - go see - www.schnews.org.uk
 

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ORGAN 263 - FIGHT LIKE APES, LE GALAXIE, CAPILLARY ACTION, PEDRO, THE PSYKE PROJECT, SERPENTONE, MOTORPSYCHO, SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB, ALLA, HARVEY MILK, ZENITHAL, L.A. GUNS, VESSELS, LESS THAN JAKE, DAVID BOWIE, STUPIDS, NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS, THE 1990'S, HONKEYFINGER, SOUNDSHOK, TV SMITH, RICHARD LLOYD, THE DODOS, JAPANCAKES, SOULFLY, GLORIA CYCLES, VASECTOMY EGGS NAILER, SIGOR ROS...

ORGAN 262 - LAYMAR, WIRE. THE ROTTED, COLDPLAY, VERJNUARMU, THE COKE DARES, STONE GODS, URN, VILE IMBECILES, ROYAL TREATMENT PLANT, JESSE MALIN, AMEBIX, BLONDIE, PERHAPS CONTRAPTION, DOUBLE HANDSOME DRAGONS, KANEDA, WAVES UNDER WATER, SOSUMI, IRVINE WELSH PRESENTS THE BOOK SLAM, BITTER PIE and the SF ZINE FAIR

ORGAN 261 - MARIE VESCO, RESONANCE FM IS TEN, BLACKLANDS, STRAY DOG CAFE, HIGHTOWN CROWS, WE THE FACELESS, HEAR O ISRAEL – A PRAYER CEREMONY IN JAZZ, GRAND MAGUS, Q WITHOUT U, FREE KITTEN, MAMBO MANTIS, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, GUNSLINGER, BLACK LIGHT BURNS, CALABRESE, SIX REASONS TO KILL, GIANT PAW, DARK CAPTAIN LIGHT CAPTAIN, THOR, CROCUS, HADDONFIELD, ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES, FAT WRECK..... 

ORGAN 260 - RUDE MECHANICALS, OPETH, BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES, THE SANS PAREIL, RABBIT SEASON, LITHURGY, TASHA FIGHTS TIGERS, RING, MOSS, ZERO HOUR, TREES, MOCKINGBIRD, AKPHAEZYA, THE MORE I SEE, HISTORY OF GUNS, AMBERIAN DAWN, NUESTROS DERECHOS, ZAG AND THE COLOURED BEADS,  WIZARDS OF TWIDDLY, STUMP, THE DANDY WARHOLS, THE HYENAS, AIRBOURNE, NO 2 PAY 2 PLAY.... 

ORGAN 259 - TORCHE, THE HUNGRY I, 86 MENTALITY, KOENJIHYAKKEI, SEBADOH, ARNDALES, THE MASS, AWESOME COLOR, THE GRESHAM FLYERS, ROBIN SAVILLE, BO-PEEP, BULBUL, CRYSTALLION, SPIRITUALIZED, SKIN GRAFT RECORDS, the SAY NO 2 PAY 2 PLAY campaign and more

ORGAN 258 - HAIL OF BULLETS, THE NOTWIST, HAYMAN WATKINS TROUT & LEE, 36CRAZYFISTS, YAK, VENOM, FAUX PRIDE, GRANTURA... 

ORGAN 257 - EXPERIMENTAL DENTAL SCHOOL, BLACK MOUNTAIN, CARIBOU
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ORGAN 256 - JO GABRIEL, TIME HAS COME, THE IKE REILLY ASSASSINATION, ART ATTACK, THEY CAME FROM THE STARS I SAW THEM , SPARKS, WEDNESDAY 13, I-DEF-I, DANGER INVITES RESCUE, GONE TIL WINTER, MAYBESHEWILL, P.PAUL FENECH, BLUES AND SNAKE, DRESDEN DOLLS, TO BLACKEN THE PAGES, CARDIACS, BLACKWINDS, KILL THE CAPTAINS, A SILENT FILM, SCHITZO FUN ADDICT... 

ORGAN 255 - THE KINGSIZE FIVE, THE OUTSIDE ROYALTY, PROJECT SERENDIPITY, MARY HALVORSON and WEASEL WALTER, ZOMBIE ZOMBIE, LANGHORNE SLIM, THEATRES DES VAMPIRES, NOZZLE, GRAVE, VILE VILE CREATURES, SENSER, TRISTRAM CARY, A CUP OF TEA, O, THE SUN PAULO, EARTHLING SOCIETY, WHITESNAKE, NO QUARTER GIVEN, THE HOTTNESS, DESTINITY, SATHANAS, DRESDEN DOLLS, SPARKS, BLACK ARC, AFD SHIFT, OPETH, STUMP, KEV HOPPER, SUN EATS HOURS..... 

ORGAN 254 - NARRATION, HOT DAMN, QUEEN ELEPHANTINE, ANSUR, LEGION OF PARASITES, TRICLOPS!, DIVINE CHAOS, BIRDEATSBABY, DEAD OR AMERICAN, PUSSYCAT TRASH, ART ATTACK, MAYDAY, CRASH ROMEO...

ORGAN 253 - C.R AVERY, THE INDELICATES, KAREN DALTON, JO GABRIEL, FLOGGING MOLLY, KOE, ELVIRA MADIGAN, THE HELLACOPTERS, EVERON, ALABAMA 3, VAN DER GRAAF, PULLOVER, GLASSGLUE, THE DOMINO STATE, SKANKT, PUSHBIKE ARMY, SPIRIDION... 

ORGAN 252 - PAS CHIC CHIC, TRIBUTE TO NOTHING, PSYCHOCHARGER, SIDEBLAST, NAVEL, KOPEK, RIOT NOISE, ANDI SEX GANG, BURNING SKIES, HERRSCHAFT, BARELY BREATHING, MELEEH, HAYMAN, WATKINS, TROUT & LEE, ROYAL TREATMENT PLANT, NATIONAL RECORD SHOP DAY, L.Gabrielle Penabaz...

ORGAN 251 - FOUNDLINGS, MATTHEW RYAN, HEADQUARTERS, FRIGHTENED RABBIT, AHLEUCHATISTAS, MAN MAN, 4ft FINGERS, LIQUID SKY, PG.LOST, AKAHUM, JENX, EFTERKLANG, GRAMMATICS, RORY McVICAR, THE AUTHOR, COMPUTER CLUB, PURE REASON REVOLUTION, RECORD SHOPS, SHADOW ARMY... 

ORGAN 250 - THE ENABLERS, LADYHAWK, DIE DIE DENEUVE, JUNKYARD CHOIR, YOUNG HEART ATTACK, IMPERIAL LEISURE, UNCLE PEDRO, EPIDEME, FLU.ID, AYIN ALEPH, LEFT LANE CRUISER, BEATUNDERCONTROL, VOODOO SIX, NAVVY, SILVER ROCKET, LIGHTS GO OUT ZINE...