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#293> FEB 5th '09 - new issue here every Thursday afternoon |
| “"Scroll
down, read this week's issue, couldn't be easier could it? |
 Oh
we’re a little late this week, that’s alright though, Ms Payne said so,
just as long as there was lemon in the tea and hey, we can’t be everywhere
at once, you had all the news pages and the radio show and things going
up here everyday and here’s more music and art and alternative and things
to do and see and hear and surf and check out and I need to get to that
John Squire show before they pack it all up, need more time and out of
control sentences that never end and.... Yesterday was spent in the
company of the delightfully positive Amanda Palmer so we couldn’t be here
putting this issue up if we were holed up in a book-filled flat in Camden
seeing what she had to say about writing songs and live and losing things
and, that will all be up on line in the next few days. Well that and the
opening of England People Very Nice over at the National Theatre, can’t
be working on that and finding time to review demos and write live reviews
and being on time and hey, do you know how long a second of animation takes
to make! So we’re in to Friday morning now and some of the animation needs
changing and we don’t sleep anyone and things are always under control
and just as long as you have the right colour underwear on then there’s
no problem is there...
Jump in then, no beekeeping
here... These are once again, the things that have been in our ears and
on our minds this week. Please do explore and if it sounds or looks interesting
then just hit the link and go make your own minds up, make contact, go
switch the other, go explore, go get involved we're just here to point
the way - don't let this thing blow over, we've done with undercover -
like we say every week, 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 way this web thing works when things fall right
and the doors flip open and the touch of a key.... |
 Is
this why you bookmarked us...? |
 More
at I AM JOY, we like what they’re doing at that old shop that the
I Am Joy team have turn in to a rather inspiring gallery down there in
Chichester. “Dear all, We have an exhibition on Monday 16th February which
will showcase new and old work by a young emerging artist BECKY ROSE. She
has recently finished a degree at University College Falmouth and is currently
living and working in Chichester. Her work is astonishing; striking colour
and detail that posses a mesmerising quality. We would be grateful if you
could forward this on to people who you think would be interested in seeing
great art, listening to good music and having a JOYFUL time at our gallery!”
They promise free drinks, canapes, live music and of course a helping of
joy... www.iamjoy.co.uk
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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
Who
got played this week?
1/intro:
TRANSISTOR SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta)
2:
POINT JUNCTURE, WA – Stray Bear (Mt. Fuji)
3:
YOUNG WIDOWS – The Guitar (Temporary Residence)
4:
AMANDA PALMER - Runs In The Family (Roadrunner)
5:
THIS IS NOT A DEAD TRANSMISSION – The Chameleon Strike In The Dark (demo)
6:
ONE TRUE DOG - The Head Is Cold (demo)
7:
OUTSIDE ROYALTY – Voice Beneath The Rubble (Bloody Awful Poetry)
8:
GIANT PAW – Alarm Clock (Feral Electronics)
9:
MEN OF UNITUS - He Thug The Gland (No Lite)
10:
KILLDOZER – Sweet Home Alabama (download)
11:
SERGEANT BUZFUZ – Names For Girls (Blang)
12:
HYATARI – They Will Surface (Caustic Eye)
13:
GERARD COUSINS – The Gift
14:
ROBERT JACOBS – Marie Langlois
15:
THE BUMBLEBEES – My Kaleidoscope (demo)
16:
MONO – Ashes (Temporary Residence)
THE
DETAILS, THE FACTS, THE LINKS....
More
details of the weekly alternating Organ hour and Organ Other Rockshow herex
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 LUX
INTERIOR.... Sad to say he passed away earlier this week. This came
in from Anarchistwood yesterday:
“Sad
news this morning via the Priscillas theirspace blog. Our ghoul grandaddy
of grizzly grunts has passed over... Lux Interior died on 4th feb from
a heart condition. I don't usually get that upset when rockers die,
as making it to old age when yr shoving shit loads of gear into yr body
is a feat in itself. i have a special place for The Cramps, though.
They were the first band i saw live. Birmingham 1986, Date Eith Elvis
tour. I bought a reissue of that LP on Saturday. Spooky. My supposed
'wild child' mate wasn't allowed to come with us cause his parents saw
their performance on the tube. arf! you had to be 14 to get into the venue
and I was shit scared...surely they'll spot that i'm a few months
off that. Funny. When they came on stage and everyone stood up, we
couldn't see, so we stood on our chairs. The security came over and told
us to get down. Being the barely teens we where, we explained our problem.
The security guy then proceeded to take us down to the front of the venue
where we got a most wonderful view of everything sleazy. That gig kinda
cemented a big dirty imprint on my brain. Our thoughts go out to his wife,
Poison Ivy. He picked her up hitch hiking in the mid-70s. rock n f**king
roll”.
Lux was 62, he died in hospital in California from a previously existing
heart condition. We at Organ add our thoughts and raise a glass. |
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NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK |
 ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
RABID RABBIT – Rabid Rabbit
(Interloper) - Suffocating left-field stoner sludge and noise. Filthy
feedback drenched raw ambiance from deepest Chicago. Most of this delightful
noise is instrumental although Andrea Jablonski does add some colour with
her low in the mix vocals now and again. They’re a two bass, one unrelenting
drummer and a really edgy guitarist kind of band, they go to places that
bands like Isis, Harvey Milk or Earth go to, but but but, far more loose
colour thrown around here, they paint with far more freedom and imagination...
and those itsy bitsy spider vocals running around give them so much character,
Not afraid to take on an avant edge, touch on dark psychedelic freekouts
with their cerebral bottom end soothing. They weave around doom and stoner
sludge, they take it in to prog-jazz, they do it all with a subtle touch,
a clever twist and turn, you can either sink right in to it, or just float
on their surface and bang your head, both options are good, this is good,
all is good. Good. – www.myspace.com/rabidrabbitlives
or www.interloperrecords.net
xxx
 ALSO
CHECK OUT
THE DRONES – Hvilah (ATP/R)
– Yes they are full of contradictions and they don’t really drone do they?
Well not here this time around anyway - more the edgy feedback and dark
texture much loved by Sir Neil Young, songs that are delivered with a rough
bite, that tightrope walking to the end of the song and will they fall
off their slightly rusty strings? Forth album and a darker more forceful
album this time, that edge of alt.country and all very much with an Australian
feel and fingerprint. Yes some of it is dirge-like, meandering, all in
a positive way though, bold, romantic, out there, an Australian desert
Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Birthday Party feel - sticky footprints
and skies falling in, thunderheads closing in, but it does sound positive
as that melancholy wrestles with the poetry and the barbed angles of it
all. The bulls eye or the launch pad, whichever it is, righting wrongs
where he can. The Drones made a fine new album, a supercargo you might
say, a mind-scratching album that kind of grows around you with the romantic
danger, and it was almost like it was never there, not until you let it
in and it may take a handful of listens, worth hanging around until it
gets you though, careful as you go, cold and sober, taking things and calling
them something else, and everyone’s got their price. A powerful album,
violent melancholic beauty, contradictions, angry grace and give it a bit
time and you will come to adore it all, needs time though, needs you to
devote the time it so deserves. www.thedrones.com.au
or www.atpfestival.com
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 SUIDAKRA
– Crogacht (Wacken) – German Celtic metal, all pipes and hard rock riffs
and reeling folk music and a torrent of galloping harmonies that kind of
touches on bits of early Thin Lizzy, Sabbat, Skyclad, Jethro Tull, Iron
Maiden, Celtic Frost, charging thrash metal and you know what, this is
rather good... Their ninth album apparently and it really should not be
as good as it is. Spot on production, ambitious pieces, decent sounding
pipes, whistles and such and while the whole idea sounds like it should
be rather preposterous, the three of them (and the guest pipe, fiddle and
whistle players) do it all so damn well. They have the blend right and
they’re so convincing and committed to it, that it actually works. Clearly
very serious about their art, their folk, their black roses and touches
of Cuchulainn and those epic journeys to Skye, they have the vibe, the
feel, the energy. OK those German accents, now and again as they sing about
Celtic battles, very (very) occasionally let them down just a tiny little
bit, this is an unexpectedly good album though, getting better with every
play, rather recommended actually – www.myspace.com/suidakra
/ www.wackenrecords.com
COMPULSIVE SHOPPING DISORDER
– In The Cube (Rage In Eden) – Dark brooding electro flavours, minimal
electronic darkwave, whispered goth and the clean slice of the lash, the
attraction of pain, the refined warmth of confinement. Compulsive Shopping
Disorder are a dark synth driven electronic three piece from Poland. All
sinister Depeche Mode industrial restraint, lush darkness and all done
with a rather inviting moth-to-the-light experimental spirit. Harsh yet
welcoming, sinister whispers, so inviting, “best played at minimal volume”
says the message on the subtle artwork. Dark dreams, repetitive forms,
black clothes, blacker hair, android lust, the machine in the garden, those
considered dark tones, that less is more feel... They do it all with style
and original thought, they do it all extremely well, dark Specimen, days
of half breath, the cold touch of whispered electro goth warmth, clever
synth rock otherness – www.myspace.com/compulsiveshoppingdisorder
THE BLACKOUT ARGUMENT – Remedies
(Lifeforce) – Hard hitting melodic intelligent hardcore five piece from
Munich, Germany. A decent enough Comeback Kid, Boy Sets Fire kind of band
– www.myspace.com/theblackoutargument
EMMY THE GREAT – First Love
(Close Harbour) – Singer songwriter Emma Lee-Moss with some sweet voiced
clever English folky simplicity and some rather personal, rather honest,
rather inviting, sometimes uncomfortable songs views tales, tunes and a
whole lot of crafted goodness. Songs as parachutes or songs as knifes that
cut those parachute strings, wholehearted songs, songs that sometimes feel
as good as first loves did – www.myspace.com/emmythegreat
RED BURNS BLACK – Set This
Night Alight (Casket) - Raw gritty dirty energetic blues based Brit metal
that mixes large chunks of early Guns and Roses with old school metal bands
like Heavy Pettin’ or Goldsmith, Budgie riff here, very early Def Leppard,
a lot of those British bands that followed in just after the nwobhm and
before thrash hit... I guess they’d like us to mention Kings Of Leon, we’re
not going to though, more a raw energetic Darkness thing really. They’re
from Berkshire, Southern middle England, they sound like they’d be a rocking
experience live, go make your own mind up, they’re not band if you want
some old school heavy rock – www.redburnsblack.co.uk
/ www.myspace.com/redburnsblackrock
OUT OF ENEMIES – Into The
Darkness (Rising) – Not the most original title for a metal album ever
is it? Kind of sums the Exeter band up really – they’re decent enough in
a Lamb Of Killswitch In Flames thrash ‘n growl modern aggressive (sometimes
melodic) kind of way. Thing is, once this review is written and the eject
button is punched, there really is little reason to revisit this debut
Out Of Enemies album again. It isn’t that this is a bad album, just, well....
Just how many times have we heard all this already? What is the point of
yet another same as all the others metal album? Why don’t these metal bands
want to do anything more than just conform and make reasonably competent,
reasonable professional sounding faceless albums? What is the point here?
Where’s the personality, the x factor? Answers on a postcard to www.myspace.com/outofenemies
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ALBUM
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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LIVE |
 Now
we do have lots to tell you about here, that Amarchistwood, Rude Mechanicals
gig last Saturday for a start, loads of new Rude Mechanicals songs and
lots of good bands on that bill, Amanda Plamer's triumph at the Electric
ballroom last Wednesday, but hey, like we told you last week, we've been
fighting deadlines here all month, no sleep, no snowfights, plays at the
National Theatre that needed animated backdrops and such, these are the
things we do behind the scenes here at Organart. We'll have reviews of
both those gigs here with next week's issue.
ANARCHISTWOOD
and
THEY
CAME FROM THE STARS free this Friday.... The free gig details
are at the foot of this bit. First, here’s what the Anarchistwood/Punkvert
team said about last weekend’s event, “What a Saturday - it was superb
in terms of music and attendees - a tribe of lovely people with a huge
range of ages, backgrounds and musical tastes were scooped into the Ex
Gratia melting pot and entertained with music from The Usual Suspects (aka
Darth Vader's Chocolate Starfish), Rude Mechanicals, The Electric Brains,
Anarchistwood and Handsum Pete. Further speciality du maison included the
luscious Bella Blue, nimble fingered Max Quirk and PRNWhore and the lightening
tingles of KodeK VJ as well as a bunch of clowining about orchestrated
by the devious Dirty Honky.
People sashayed out after being exposed to several new ballgrounds and
after all that balls, cross fertilisation and excitement we are gagging
to do another party... We were so happy with the event we are planning
to put another one on in the same venue in late spring - our hosts - Dave
and Tina at Inn on the Green are extremely good eggs so cheers to them
and their staff. Whoop Whoop!
It is rumoured that one of our guests will be Ten City Nation and
we are hoping to ask another local London act that we have been hugely
impressed with recently - keep em peeled for details!
Other happy news is that our download 'Don’t BullShit the Artists' has
now been re-instated on the archive after it fell off (due to Candi poking
at it!) so you can get it here again (for those of you who just got a pretty
cover - sorry) www.punkvert.tv/anarchistwood
And more happy news is that Anarchistwood get a surprise last minute
gig at 93ft East, Brick Lane, London this Friday for Ben Osborne's Slipped
Disco/Wobble night - starts 7pm and is absolutely free - come and have
some fun with us and Severino, Horsemeat Disco, Noise Of Art, They Came
From the Stars I Saw Them and check out their new guitarist. Hopefully
he's be as nicely broke in as our new drumming swamp creature Rockin Gerry
- what a boon! - www.punkvert.tv -
Happy snowdays to all you UK-ers!
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| Live
previously - THE THREE AGES OF ELVIS / ORPHANS
/ ZACH HILL / THE
PRESENT / TRENCHER / EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING / THE PRODIGY / FIGHT
LIKE APES / SOUTH CENTRAL
/ ROSE KEMP / HANDS
ON HEADS / PLUG
/ MOTORHEAD / THE
JESSIE ROSE TRIP / PURE
REASON REVOLUTION / F*CKED
UP / ROLO TOMASSI
/ TO THE BONES / SHEARWATER
LIVE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
|
THINGS TO GO CHECK OUT? |
 LAURA
OLDFIELD FORD : LONDON 2013, DRIFTING THROUGH THE RUINS.
Exhibition
dates: 30 January – 14 March 2009
Hales
Gallery is pleased to present the first solo show of gallery newcomer Laura
Oldfield Ford.
Oldfield
Ford, originally from Halifax, West Yorkshire, completed a fine art Painting
MA at The Royal College of Art in 2007 and has since become well known
for her politically active and poetic engagement with London as a site
of social antagonism.
The
main focus of the show is more than one hundred ink drawings that Oldfield
Ford has recently produced as part of an ongoing project chronicling the
impact of regeneration on London called 2013, Drifting through the ruins.
The
drawings form a broken narrative, focusing on part of east London currently
being cleared for the 2012 Olympic site and documents the city as palimpsest,
a site of perpetual writing and over-writing. Oldfield Ford has made many
walks (or ‘Drifts’) through these abandoned areas and imagines them populated
by the semiotic ghosts of failed utopias in the year 2013. ‘The London
I conjure up in these drawings is imbued with a sense of mourning. These
are the liminal zones where the free party rave scene once illuminated
the bleak swathes of marshland and industrial estates’.
Her
work has developed from the cheaply produced Zine, entitled Savage Messiah
and it’s sister website www.savagemessiahzine.com
which has become a regular vehicle for her psychogeographic explorations
of the metropolis. Each episode explores a different region of London,
focusing particularly on those areas that are earmarked for significant
structural change. The resulting text and pages of intricate drawings become
a document to Oldfield Ford’s experience. The completed issues one to ten
will be available for viewing during the show, which form a subjective
mapping of the city from Heathrow to Hackney Wick.
Something
that would appear quite ordinary for most, provides Oldfield Ford with
poetic contemplation and possibilities from which her drawings can develop.
It is this balance between the politics of the ‘kitchen sink’, prevalent
in so much of the best British Post War art and the physiological vibrations
from the past and future city that Oldfield Ford skillfully taps into,
that make this work so relevant right now.
Alongside
the show of drawings and Zines, Oldfield Ford has planned a night of films
exploring psychogeographic themes and the launch of her new Zine accompanied
by a live broadcast from Resonance FM and a daytime walking tour around
Stratford and the perimeter site of the Olympics, with members of the London
Psychogeographical Association and We Are Bad collective.
Event
dates: Saturday 21 February, Drift Walk
Thursday
5 March, Film Night
Saturday
14 March, Zine launch
More
details - www.halesgallery.com
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 MILK
AND HONEY BAND new album and RING and ZAG and things
of great interest to us and you... “How are you doing? Probably not of
great interest to you but there's a new album by the Milk And Honey Band
coming out later this month... Still on Andy Partridge's APE label.. I'll
stick my neck out and say I think you'll like Maryfaith Autumn.
Meanwhile there have been rumblings afoot for a while of re-masterings
of various old faves which have been locked in a cupboard to which I have
the key.... namely the two official ring albums - O De Dun Dun and
Nervous
Recreation.. plus Sawtooth Gripmaster by Zag And The Coloured
Beads... These will, at last, see the light of day this year... Lots of
love, Bob x”
Bob is Bob from Milk And Honey Band, Levitation, Ring and such, and he
is right, we do like Maryfaith Autumn lots, he was wrong about it
not being of great interest though - www.myspace.com/themilkandhoneyband
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| Former
Stone Roses guitarist JOHN SQUIRE launched a new exhibition of his
art in London last night (January 28). The show takes place at the Front
Room Galler* at the St Martins Hotel in Covent Garden, and is entitled
Heavy Metal Semantics. Speaking to the NME, Squire explained the show is
made up from his very latest work. "There's a few from this year and the
rest were done the tail end of last year," he said. "I've been working
with lead, which is a heavy metal, and words which are open to interpretation
as to their meaning. I'm still a big kid at heart, I like playing with
things. I was playing with cardboard boxes, and I was fascinated by the
shape of them when they're opened up and turned back into card. I like
working with different materials, and I had access to steel and lead."
Squire added that the show marks the beginning of a busy year as an artist,
with several more shows planned for 2009. "I've got a big show in Oldham
and one in Austria and one at the end of the year in Tokyo," he said. "The
Oldham show is in a major public gallery, so it's a lot of work. It's the
biggest show I've done." Heavy Metal runs until February 18. - www.johnsquire.com |
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SINGLES |
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
SONNY
– Frost Fair (Minimal Escent) Haunting ethereal beauty, warm echoes,
a one track single (he has a couple of albums out). We’re in classic twilight
4AD Cocteau Twins, Scott Walker territory with the shimmering and the melancholic
vibrancy, the understated whispered delicate restrained and the glowing
colour. Something rather different, uplifting sadness, cinematic, all kinds
of clicked words used in reviews like this, words that point you vaguely
in a direction without really doing this beautifully fragile single any
kind of justice, but these are the days of the internet, instant gratification
and there’s the link and you don’t need our words when your curiosity can
take you right there right now – www.myspace.com/sonnyminimal
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| ALSO
CHECK OUT
ASOBI
SEKSU – Familiar Light (One Little Indian) – Blissful pop from Brooklyn,
New York, classic indie pop and walls of sweet-voiced sound, a fine taste
of their forthcoming Hush album – www.myspace.com/asobiseksu
CHINA
SHOP BULL – Sandblaster (Crack House) – A bag load of energy from Leeds.
Skanking punk and driving ska, seven piece band and yes, a bull in a china
shop. Street punk, toasting, trombones, trumpets and slices of Dub War
franticness, Asian Dub Foundation street suss. Prodigy dance and bounce
in there with the spongy dub and all the hyper council-estate-exploding
confrontation. Intense and enjoyable, full of energy and all the jump jump
jumping, doing something a little different with their aggressive street
ska and their horns and all their infectious blending of styles – www.myspace.com/chinashopbulluk
Last
week's single of the week - JENIFEREVER
Previously
- LIME HEADED DOG
/ FIGHT LIKE APES
/ OH, ATOMS / DENNIS
HOPPER CHOPPERS / CUDDLY SHARK / RED
PAINTED RED / RALPH BAND /
RAW
POO / RUDE MECHANICALS / THE
BRUTE CHORUS / TIM AND SAM’S TIM AND SAM
BAND... / THE DEIRDRES / THE
MINIONS / LOYAL TROOPER / ALISON
O’DONNELL
SINGLE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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DEMO TIME |
| DEMO
OF THE WEEK
Oh
dear, way out of time, we can't be at gigs and doing interviews and falling
in the snow and animating backdrops for grerat big plays and putting on
radio shows and fighting through er demo pile, well we can, but nothing
quite took a bite out of us and demanded words his week. This one from
LUCY DAY is good, we'll tell you about that next week, and paly her on
the radio. Everything that comes in does get listend to, which of
course leaves us no time what so ever for checking out those clueless
bands who think all they need to do is put up a My Space page, send in
a friends request to our My Space page, and then send dumbshit message
like "hey dude thanks for the add and support and for being our fans, we
loe all our fans, hope you dig our music, please leave a comment" There
are two types of new bands now, proper proactive bands who get out there
in to the real world and get their msuic out there and the dumbsucks who
just exist on My Space send add me requests and then counting how many
"friends" they have. This is good, who's this we have on now, COMMANDER
KEEN, excellent actually, we'll tell you about this one next week, we'll
play it on the radio, we'll...
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| Last
week's demo of the week - ONE TRUE DOG
Previous
demo's of the week - WHOLE SCHEBANG / THE
BUMBLEBEES / KIJU / AWESOME
WELLS / THE MAXIMUM DANGER PROJECT /
CHARLIE
BARNES / THE CURSORS / THE
WINTER LEAGUE /
JARMEAN? / RIOTGOD
/ CUTTHROAT CONVENTION / INERTIA
BLOOMS / SID SINGS / GIRO
JUNKIE
DEMO
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
| 'THIS
WEEK’S FREE DOWNLOAD... |
| oh,
well, all out of time this week, if we gave to a link to a free and legal
download everyweek you'd take it all for granted, you never ever say thanks
for all this time and effort we put in here to bring you all this exciting
underground alternative music. We'll be back with a free download of something
exciting next week, how about you? How about you tell us about something
for once, who should be next week's free download recomendation? Go tell
us via the FORUM
PREVIOUSLY
- IMAGINATION SCHOOL / REAL
McKENZIES / FAT WRECK / DOMINIQUE
LEONE / JAGJAGUWAR / VESSELS
/ COLT / LIARS
/ SLARAFFENKLANG / 4AD
/ PHANTOM LIMBS / THE
PRODIGY / KAYO DOT / BLACK
ELK / MADE IN MEXICO / THE
BUG / TEMPORARY RESIDENCE / WOODBOX
GANG / ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES |
| 'RE-ISSUE/best
of OF THE WEEK |
| oh, let's see, how abou....t
GRENOUER – Presence With
War (Casket) – Some kind of polyrhythmic growling groove-edged thrash out
from Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the better metal albums we’ve encountered
this week, that’s not saying much though, lot of unremarkable metal being
released right now. Grenouer have a little bit of an edge to their relentless
onslaught, seems this is a re-issue of their 2003 album, available for
the first time outside Russia – www.myspace.com/grenouer
Previously:
BLATZ
/ FILTH /
EYEHATEGOD
/
THE BOXER REBELLION
/
THE NERVES / THE
THING / THE ERGS / DAMON
& NAOMI /
MR.
BROWN /
SUBHUMANS
/ RUBELLA BALLET /
BBC
RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP / MARILLION
/
KUNG FU SUPER SOUNDS
/ VOORHEES /
EXODUS
/ DEATHROW |
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MEDIA, VIDEO, PRINT, ART AND.... |
 AMANDA
PALMER VIDEO BANNED FOR HAVING A POINT... Several UK TV channels have
refused to air the video for Dresden Dolls front-woman Amanda Palmer's
new solo single, 'Oasis', on the grounds that it "makes light of rape,
religion and abortion". NME TV, Scuzz, Kerrang!, MTV, Q, The Box and a
numb er of other stations reportedly placed a ban on the song, completely
missing the point Palmer is trying to make with it. Seems radio stations
are taking the same stance.
Palmer wrote on her blog: "It isn't a simple issue, obviously. But the
fundamentals seem clear to me. I sat down one day in or around 2002 and
wrote a tongue-in-cheek, ironic up-tempo pop song. A song about a girl
who got drunk, was date raped, and had an abortion. She sings about these
things lightly and joyfully and says that she doesn't care that these things
have happened to her because Oasis, (her favourite band) has sent her an
autographed photo in the mail. And to make things even better (!!), her
bitchy friend Melissa, who told the whole school about the abortion, is
really jealous. If you cannot sense the irony in this song, you're about
two intelligence points above a kumquat".
She goes on to suggest that perhaps the song would be better received if
she played it in a minor key and cried while performing it, adding:
"The song isn't even so much about those topics, it's about denial, it's
about a girl who can't find it in herself to take her situation seriously.
That girl exists, everywhere. You probably know her. You've probably met
her. You might be her". She did try the minor key version at the Electric
Ballroom last Wednesday.
We here at Organ, well just me (Sean O) actually, had the pleasure of waking
up Amanda yesterday (it was the afternoon, she was expecting me), it had
just been a long night, and spending the afternoon in the book-filled flat
in Camden that she was staying in. We’ll have the interview up on line
here at organart.com this weekend... There's the rather rare CD we got
her to sign, go win it here
See
the video here
PREVIOUSLY
- JOHN SQUIRE / BERNADETTE
LOUISE & NATALIE SWAIN / I
AM JOY / PROG ROCK BRITANNIA / INDYMEDIA
/ FRESHWHIP / ANDY
WARHOL'S SCREEN TESTS DVD / DVD: NASHVILLE
PUSSY / BOOK: TATTOO SOUP /
TAURID
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ORGAN
292 - BISHOP ALLEN, BLANKPAGES, THE COAST, DAVID BERMAN, SILVER JEWS,
DOWNDIME, EYELASH, FIRST AID KIT, GAIL OLDING, GUAPO, HARPOON, HAWKLORDS,
IMAGINATION SCHOOL, JENIFEREVER, JOHN MARTYN, JOHN SQUIRE, LAMB OF GOD,
MICHAEL J SHEEHY, ONE TRUE DOG, POINT JUNCTURE WA, SCRAP CLUB, SERGEANT
BUZFUZ, WELFARE MOTHERS...
ORGAN
291 - LARS HORNTVETH, WINTERSLEEP, ANARCHISTWOOD, VAKA, THE BUMBLEBEES,
WET PAINT, SAM KILLS TWO, GRAVANZIA, STUART TURNER, MAEVEN, WHOLE SCHEBANG,
PAUL GOODWIN, THE RAIN EMPEROR, LIME HEADED DOG, SERGEANT BUZZFUZ, OUTRAZE,
REMEDY, FLUTATIOUS, BLATZ, FILTH...
ORGAN
290 - ENABLERS, IMAGINATION SCHOOL, BLOOD MOON, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE,
HYATARI, SILENTIUM, AWESOME WELLS, HOLMES, THE WHORE MOANS, GATHIENS, DIPLO,
SEANCE, FIGHT LIKE APES, THEO, FRANKLIN, SHIRLEY LEE, KIJU, CRYOGENICA,
CASTALIA, THE HARD LUCK SAINTS, DOMINIQUE LEONE, EYEHATEGOD, I AM JOY,
BERNADETTE LOUISE & NATALIE SWAIN, SONIC YOUTH, TO ARMS ETC.
ORGAN
289 - WOMEN, MAEGASHIRA, DANKO JONES, JACK SHIRT, FEN, LOW BUDGET ORCHESTRA,
MEN OF UNITUS, GRAHAM REYNOLDS AND THE GOLDEN ARM TRIO, OH ATOMS, DENNIS
HOPPER CHOPPERS, THE WOE BETIDES, DEVOTCHKA, THE SOCIAL, AWESOME WELLS,
LITHURGY, SUNDAY SCHOOL, RON ASHETON, JAGJAGUWAR....
ORGAN
288 - FIGHT LIKE APES, ANATHALLO, SHRAG, THE THREE AGES OF ELVIS, ORPHANS,
CUDDLY SHARKS, MOLLOY, IRON FIRE, RED EYED LEGENDS, THE HIGH WIRE, SHOCK
ELEVATOR FAMILY, LADYDOLL, IVAN CAMPO, VESSELS, COLT, THE NERVES...
ORGAN
287 - THE JELAS, ZACH HILL, THE PRESENT, TRENCHER, EVERYTHING EVERYTHING,
FIGHT LIKE APES, THE PRODIFY, INDYMEDIA, RED PAINTED RED, THIS IS YOUR
CAPTAIN SPEAKING, HOWL GRIFF, WHITE SHOES BLACK HEART, LOST ROBOTS, COCONUT,
GRAVE DIGGER, PERFECT AS CATS: A TRIBUTE TO THE CURE, THE RETAIL SECTORS,
THE CAPITOL YEARS, LITTLE WOMEN, ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF
DEAD, THE MAXIMUM DANGER PROJECT, MISS COSMOS, FIRESUITE, FAIRYTALE, THE
YALLA YALLAS, SLARAFFENKLANG, LIARS...
ORGAN
286 - HUNTSVILLE, SOUTH CENTRAL, THE THING, ROSE KEMP, HANDS ON HEADS,
PLUG, SPECIALISATION IS FOR INSECTS, BEFORE THE DAWN, ELECTRIC MUD GENERATOR,
THE TRUTH ABOUT FRANK, CHARLIE BARNES, THE PINE HILL HAINTS, SONIC RONDEZVOUS
BAND, AGATHOCLES, THE TROUBADORS, THE WICKED SOUNDTRACK by AL JOURGENSEN,
WEDNESDAY 13, LOSS LEADER, CARRY ON LOVIN’, A VERY CHERRY CHRISTMAS VOL
4, RALFE BAND, RAW POO, SILVERY, LOS, KONG, THE FM FLASH, SEELAND,
I AM IMMUNE, BROKEN ARM, MORIARTY, DUMB INSTRUMENT, LOUIS BARABBAS AND
THE BLACK VELVET BAND, BLACK CHANNELS, ANTHEMS, SPOOKBOY, LONG HAT PINS,
LOS CONIOS, BOY OUTSIDE, LOCI, THE DO OR DIES, The FRESHWHIP art collective,
that 696 form and more...
ORGAN
285 - GALLON DRUNK, SONVAR, MATT ELLIOTT, PSYCHIC TV, SUSPYRE, PAPIER
TIGRE, RUDE MECHANICALS THE CURSORS, more on AMANDA PALMER'S beautiful
belly, THURSTON MOORE's new cassette only fetish flavoured release... oh
lots of stuff, DAMON & NAOMI, THE ERGS, ANARCHISTWOOD, ABE VIGODA and
more, go read and see...
ORGAN
284 - Do we need to go type out a list? Just go have a look...
ORGAN
283 - THE WELCOME WAGON, TIM AND SAM'S TIM AND SAM BAND WITH TIM AND
SAM, JARMEAN? NASHVILLE PUSSY, RUBELLA BALLET, VOLCANO!, THE LAKE SITUATION,
SUBHUMANS, GLOBO, KAYO DOT, I LIKE TRAINS, PREGO, THE VERVE, THE PAINS
OF BEING PURE AT HEART, CRISIS NEVER ENDS, SIX FEET UNDER, USELESS ID,
BITCHES SIN, SLICK'S KITCHEN, JE SUIS ANIMAL, SEVERAL UNION, GUILLOTINE,
DEAD OR AMERICAN, THE JOHN HENRYS, BURNING PILOT and more...
ORGAN
282 - Oh loads of stuff, go see....
ORGAN
281 - F**KED UP, ROLO TOMASSI, MoHa!, SEMAPHORE, THE MINIONS, CHICKENHAWK
TROST, MAGNOLIA, LEFT TO VANISH, FREDRICK STANLEY STAR, HEADLESS HEROES,
TORTUGA, THE BOAT PEOPLE, BARR, SAMMY HAGAR, BORN FROM, ROB HIMSELF, THE
DeRELLAS, THE RACE, CONOR OBERST, DEPARTMENT S, MARILLION, 11:59, GHOSTFIRE,
HANDMADE & BOUND...
ORGAN
280 - AIDS WOLF, THE PROCESS, RIOTGOD, SLITVEIN, TO THE BONES, LOYAL
TROOPER, ALISON O’DONNELL, THREATMANTICS, DARK CAPTAIN LIGHT CAPTAIN, EARTHLESS,
CROWPATH, THE COMPUTERS, MIA VIGAR, BRIMSTONE HOWL, SATYRICON, THE ESTRANGED,
MERCURY REV, AS EDEN BURNS, SUPERSUCKERS, CARNAL DECAY, PSAPP, DANKO JONES,
JOHNNY COLA & THE A-GRADES, UNFOLD PRESENTS: TRU THOUGHTS HIP HOP,
KUNG FU SUPER SOUNDS, MADE IN MEXICO, KOSMISCHE, DESERT MUSIC SCHOOL BENEFIT....
ORGAN
279 - DEERHOOF, MARTIN ORFORD, CUTTHROAT CONVENTION, SPEECH DEBELLE,
OVER THE WALL, SOUTH CENTRAL, MAYORS OF MIYAZAKI, DIAGONAL, CONSOLATION
PRIZEFIGHTER, DAN BAIRD & HOMEMADE SIN, THE RAMPTON RELEASE DATE, NANAS
REVENGE, DISTANCE TO FAULT, MARSHALL LAW, SPEED THEORY, JUD, SOLITARY,
FAILSAFE, EASTER, THE ACORN, FROM MONUMENT TO MASSES, STONE GODS, VOO,
EDO BRIGHTON PROTESTS...
ORGAN
278 - ORIGINAL SILENCE, INERTIA BLOOMS, TRANSMISSION, REPORT SUSPICIOUS
ACTIVITIES, THE RAYOGRAPHS, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, THE BEDROOM PROJECT, MISPELT
(TWOPOINTZERO), MONKEY FIGHTERS, EXODUS, BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, PAUL J.ABBOTT,
DEERHUNTER, KILL THE CLIENT, RAY, HELGRIND, MARTUTA, ROBIN TAYLOR, INCASSUM,
FLOWING TEARS, DANIEL LAND & THE MODERN PAINTERS, THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE,
I HATE KATE, AIRBOURNE, EXIT CALM, THE PADDINGTONS, SILVERY, MAYBESHEWILL,
HER NAME IS CALLA, WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON’T, HAYMAN WATKINS TROUT &
LEE, MAXWELL DAVIES...
ORGAN
277 - yeah yeah, a non stop operation....
ORGAN
276 - Oh go have a look, do we have to list it everyweek, we had loads
of great stuff last week, classic week for new music...
ORGAN
275 - GRAILS, BEATGLIDER, THE ATROCITY EXHIBIT, TO THE BONES, SEA SICK,
F**K BUTTONS, STE McCABE, THE BARDO, GENTLE GIANT, THE ALL NEW ADVENTURES
OF US, HANSON BOTHERS, RUMORS OF GEHENNA, ACID MOTHER TEMPLE & THE
COSMIC INFERNO, JMC, P.G.LOST, UGLY STICK, A TEXTBOOK TRAGEDY, NO RETURN,
TRIVIUM, AMANDA PALMER, THE DeBRETTS, TEMPORARY RESIDENCE...
ORGAN
274 - UNIVERS ZERO, HAUSCHKA, COUNTRYSIDE, MANIQUI LAZER, MAB, MILK
ROAR, HYDRA, MAGICIAN, KIMYA DAWSON, STRIBORG, ROSE KEMP, VOLBEAT, THE
BOBBY McGEES, THE MAY FIRE, MOOSE FACTORY, PRO-PAIN, TRIP LAVA, A
POETIC YESTERDAY, LORD BELIEL, FRIGHTENED RABBIT, FROM PLAN TO PROGRESS,
BOWERBIRDS, BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES, DAMIEN HURST, CLIFF'S SINGLE, ALTERNATIVE
TENTACLES...
ORGAN
273 - CONSTANTINES, WOODBOX GANG, RA RA RIOT, MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN,
PERHAPS CONTRAPTION, AMANDA PALMER, BYE BYE CANDY, OF THE I, RUDE MECHANICALS,
ANARCHISTWOOD, GIRLSCHOOL, ICED EARTH, ICED EARTH, BLOOD CEREMONY, TONAL
OAK, SOULS, FALLEN, PURE INC, BULLET, THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART,
DARK CAPTAIN LIGHT CAPTAIN, THE TAMBORINES, EX-GIRL, DESTINATION:OBLIVION,
JOE MEEK....
ORGAN
272 - YOUNG WIDOWS, AMANDA PALMER, EHNAHRE, GRASSCUT, PRINTS, THE FRENCH
QUARTER, POPE JOAN, THE VERVE, BUFFALO KILLERS, MISERATION, DRAGONFORCE,
THE MONO EFFECT, BONKERSFEST ‘08, NOUGHT, GERTUDE, TO THE BONES, ROLLINS,
BOBBY BARKER, ONE TRUE DOG, BLUEZZ INTOXICATED, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE,
F*CKED UP, IMPROV EVERYWHERE, CLIFF...
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