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WIN A SIGNED DRESDEN DOLLS ALBUM... |
 THE
DRESDEN DOLLS – We have here a rather exclusive slice of treasure for you
Dolls fans, we just got back from waking up Amanda Palmer (well it was
two in the afternoon) after last night’s rather fine solo show at the Electric
Ballroom in Camden, we got her to sign this highly collectable advance
version of the No Virginia album that came out last year. Amanda
wanted to keep it when she saw it, apparently she doesn’t have one of these
ones in the black and white cover, rare rare rare so it seems. And now
the cover is signed by Amanda as well. And the CD can be yours, just answer
this question, send your answer to the simple question in and we’ll draw
the winner’s name out of our virtual green hat on closing day.
Just answer the simple question
and send in your name and address to us here.
This one is open to everyone everywhere, the postage isn't going to break
us on this one
The question: What is the
name of Amanda Palmer's band on the current tour?
Deadline Feb 28th 2009...
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WIN NASHVILLE PUSSY DVDs... |
 DVD:
NASHVILLE PUSSY – Live In Hollywood (SPV) – Recorded live and in blisteringly
raw form at Hollywood’s Key Club, not entirely sure when but it looks to
be a rather recent show. Nineteen songs and a no messing, good looking
gig - all the decadent Southern fried punky blues flavoured metalic hard
rock biker scuzz and righteous attitude you’d expect from Nashville Pussy.
Good looking footage, well shot, a well edited no frills video shoot, no
messing about with too many cuts, edit wankery or tedious cameras on swinging
booms, who ever edited this did it well. Simple stuff, never boring, gives
you time to get your eye focused in before the next well timed on-the-beat
cut. Band looking good, Blain Cartwright giving it all the f*** you you’d
rightly expect out front, Ruyter Suys once again showing what a great hard
rock guitarist she is, rhythm section of Karen Cuda and Jeremy Thompson
driving it all on powerful bass and drums – as strong a sounding/looking
line up as they’ve ever had And lots of good extras to be found here
besides the main gig action - bootleg quality footage, bits of interviews,
including Lemmy as interviewer at one point, you’ve got some of those “Pussy
Home Videos”, you’ve got a great version of Rock ‘n Roll Outlaw with a
rather naked looking Pete Wells from Rose Tattoo joining them on stage
– shot from the pit, classic bootleg material (hang on though Blain, what
ya singing there? I don’t need no longhaired lady... all I need is a rock
‘n roll band....? Isn’t that your longhaired lady-wife right there next
to you in your rock and roll band being far more rock ‘n roll than anyone
else?
These kind of DVD releases are never for anyone beside the already committed
fan, and even if you are a committed fan then they’re often really not
that good. This is a decent, no messing, no frills document that captures
exactly what Nashville Pussy are about in all their raw scuzzy in your
face larger that life Jack Daniels abusing trailer trash glory, a DVD with
all the attitude you expect from Nashville Pussy – good stuff (and all
packaged in such a tasteful way)
To
win a copy of the DVD, we have two copies here, just answer this question:
Nashville Pussy do a great version of Rock‘n Roll Outlaw on this here DVD,
who did the original? Just answer the simple question and send in
your name and address to us here.
Closing
date: December 1st 2008
See
a You Tube trailer here,
find out more from www.nashvillepussy.com
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DONE AND CLOSED, WE'VE BEEN AND GONE AND DONE WITH THIS ONE
the winners who read the
review, or maybe knew it was Rose Tattoo already - yeah, surely they knew,
we're Karren C from Newcastle Upon Tyne and Michael James from Acton, West
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BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP: A RETROSPECTIVE - win a two CD set... |
 MUTE
Records are to release a double CD set on NOVEMBER 3rd in celebration of
the 50th anniversary of the legendary BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP. The two
CD set features classics, rare and previously unreleased sounds and tracks.
Presented in chronological order, the 107 track two CD set includes works
from stalwarts such as JOHN BAKER, DELIA DERBYSHIRE, DAPHNE ORAM, ELIZABETH
PARKER, DESMOND BRISCOE, PADDY KINGSLAND, PETER HOWELL, MALCOLM CLARK and
more.... Bits of Quakermass, The Goon Show, Secret War, The Demon Headmaster,
and of course the original Dr Who theme. All kinds of primitive groundbreaking
electronic noise and tape cut up experimentation from the much loved workshop
with the Heath Robinson reputation. Probably the greatest influence on
UK (and probably world) electronic music, we all grew up with this stuff,
even those of us who weren’t Dr Who fans, we’ve all been stopped by that
Radio Blackburn jingle or that theme to Good Morning Wales haven’t we?
Well the Greenwich Chorus must have stopped you?
Here's
Marina's thoughts that accompanied her radio show playlist last week when
she played a couple of tracks....
"Now,
whoops of joy accompanied the arrival of the lovely double cd album BBC
RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP retrospective. First piece was recorded for BBC
Wales, composed/arranged by John Baker, second was by Paddy Kingsland (who
also did the incidental music for Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galazy radio
plays) for a Horizon programme on Newton, 1976. Out on the 3rd November,
it contains over 100 pieces of music recorded between 1958 and 1997 that
will either make you gasp in wonder at the sheer raw audacity of the early
synth and tape constructions, or shiver in Proustian suppressed memory
reflex, or both. Makes much electronic music sound like a backward
step (and don't get me started on the current Dr Who soundtrack...ever).
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was a department within the Beeb soley for
the purpose of making soundtracks, incidental music and idents in the most
cutting edge way possible. I was lucky enough to visit the workshops themselves
just after their closure, and was given the choice of watching CARDIACS
(or at least an important chunk of them, in the guise of the Sea Nymphs)
recording their John Peel Session, or playing with lots of glowing-valve-scented
whirring things and mellotrons all day upstairs. The Sea Nymphs won
in the end... much of the BRW equipment ended up in the care of fellow
Cardiac enthusiast Mr. Ridley, who happened to be technical chap that day
- get in touch if you're reading.... where was I? Yes, hopefully this lovingly
compiled retrospective will give more deserved exposure to the BBC Radiophonic
Workshop composers"
We have three copies of the
two CD set to give away. Just answer this simple question and send in your
name and address to us here.
In which year did the first
recordings emerge? 1958, 1964 or 1973
Closing date November 4th
ALL
DONE AND CLOSED, YOU'RE TOO LATE
the winners who cleverly
worked out the answer was 1958 are:
Cranmore Lydd (Bristol),
The Doveman (Manchester), Ellen Williams (Bangor, North Wales)
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Anyone for a DEERHUNNTER poster? |
 OCT
2008: Want a free Deerhunter poster for your bathroom wall? We have some
DEERHUNTER
Microcastle posters here (courtesy of their UK label 4AD). The new album
is out this month to much critical acclaim from all kinds of people. "a
different path that the one you’d maybe expect Bradford Cox and his band
to take, but then you’d expect the unexpected with Deerhunter wouldn’t
you?" Read the whole Organ review with our October 16th issue over here.
Want to grab a poster for
free? Best get firing an e.mail
this way with your name, address and answer to this question. The band’s
self-confessed mantra “to achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of
elegance” is a Jean Genet quote, true or false?
CLOSING FATE OCTOBER 31st
2008. Winners names will be posted here.
interact with Derrhunter
via - www.4ad.com/deerhunter
or www.myspace.com/deerhunter
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DONE AND CLOSED, YOU'RE TOO LATE
True of course and the winners
are:
Saul Williams (Llanfair),
Sally (Walthamstow), Captain Deuside (London), Peter Parkes (Dudley), Mandy
Lloyd (Chester) |
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last chance to get an original Ditzy Scene |
 OCT
2008: Missed out on that limited edition CARDIACS Ditzy Scene CD
single we put out earlier this year? Seen it going for silly prices on
Ebay? Should have been quicker off the mark shouldn’t you, we did shout
lots. Hang on though, we just found a couple of spares down the back of
the ORG stock shelf. Want one? Best reason why we should send one of them
to you gets a one, e.mail in here
with your name, address, favourite five bands and reason and watch this
space. Closing date October 31st
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DONE AND CLOSED, YOU'RE TOO LATE
The winner is Elizbeth James
from Colchester who says "dogs in wonderful manner from heaven, that's
what Tim said, and her dog ate her copy and please please please please" |
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GRAB A FREE MONOPOLY OF BRILLIANCE compilation CD |
| FEB 2008: We have here a
bag load of MONOPOLY OF BRILLIANCE compilation CDs courtesy of the
good people at Southern Records. Southern is where you can interact with
fine labels like IPECAC, KRANKY, CONSTELLATION, ANTICON and more...
This 15 track CD album features
cutting edge left field post-punk, prog, alt.rock, avant hip-hop and things
beyond – 15 tracks from the following fine artistes (many of whom have
featured in recent weeks/months here at Organ) : CHROME HOOF, NORTHERN
STATE, VIC CHESNUTT, TO KILL A PETTY BOURGEOISIE, ODD NOSDAM, JENNY HOYSTON,
QUI, EPSILONS, A WHISPER IN THE NOISE, DEAD RAVEN CHOIR, SANDRO PERRI,
TELEPHONE JIM JESUS, KARATE, WEEDEATER and PANTALIEMON...
Want one? Well all you need
to is answer this easy question: Who is the main man (alongside Greg Werckman)
behind Ipecac Records?
E.mail
your in answer along with your street address and we’ll stick one of these
CDs in the post. This offer is only open to people within the UK. First
come, first serve, grab them while they’re hot. Don’t you just love your
ever-sharing ever-caring big throbbing Organ.
Find out more about Southern
Records via www.southern.net
MONDAY 11th FEB:
STOP PRESS: TOO LATE, ALL GONE...
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WIN*** SODOM Final Sign Of Evil CD albums |
 SODOM
have reworked their legendary 1984 Sign Of Evil EP and extended that small
piece of thrash/death metal history in to a new full twelve track album.
The album, recorded by the original line up of the band - Tom Angelripper,
Grave Violator and Chris Witchhunter - is called The Final Sign Of Evil.
The album is released on October 1st on German metal label SPV and the
Organ review is below.
We have three CDs waiting
here to be won by you. Just answer this simple question:
Orginal drummer CHRIS WITCHUNTER’s
real name is
A: Dave Witchunter
B: Chris Dudek
C: Chris Cruncher
D: Rip Dudek
or E: Jerzy Dudek
Win your copy of the album
by answering the simple question here
Competition is open to UK
readers only, don't forget to include your address. Closing date is album
release day Monday 1st October 2007
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– The Final Sign Of Evil (SPV) – A whole load of old 1984 songs re-recorded
(or recorded properly for the first time) by the original line up of Tom
Angelripper, Grave Violator and Chris Witchhunter right here in 2007. You
see, the way we try to do it around these parts is to throw on the music
that comes in without really looking at who it is or reading the press
release and the hype that generally comes in here with a new release. We
try to avoid the the pre-conceived ideas and let the music do the talking
– so we threw this on and thought, hey this sounds a little dates and raw,
sounds like the early days of thrash and death and Hellhammer and Venom,
sounds like 1984 – I kind of like the sound (felt kind of pleased with
myself when I got around to checking the facts). I guess this is mostly
for those who are already fans (and those who don’t snigger too much at
those names – well they don’t really use them themselves now, I guess they’re
kind of laughing at themselves as well). Sounds raw and dated and kind
of nostalgic is a rather positive sense. Thankfully they’re recorded the
songs properly, i.e. raw and blistering and authentically ’84 rather that
all polished up and over produced. The album features the tracks from their
original In The Sign Of Evil EP along with a whole load of other tracks
that date from the time and should have been recorded back then – apparently
this twelve track album is what The Sign Of Evil should have sounded like.
The German threesome have got it just right when they could quite easily
have made a right dogs dinner of things – despite their silly names, they
generally do get things right. Sodom fans and old school death metal thrashheads
should be more that happy with this rather fine slice of authentic thrashing
old school black/death metal – www.sodomized.info
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WIN*** HEAVEN & HELL LIVE ALBUMS (competition closed) |
 Make
with the high horns from beyond the sign of the Southern Cross and the
darkest rainbow in the night and win yourself one of three copies of the
new live HEAVEN & HELL album “RADIO CITY HALL LIVE” that
we found here waiting just for you one misty morning before the edge of
time gave way to the rising sun for the final time. Heaven And Hell are
really the Ronnie James Dio version Black Sabbath, they probably just can’t
say that for legal reasons when the truth is Heaven And Hell was one of
the finest, if not the finest of all Sabbath albums. This is a live album
recorded by the refomed outfit – RONNIE JAMES DIO, TONY IOMMI, GEEZER
BUTLER and VINNY APPICE – recorded in 2007. The album is out
now on SPV and the band head out on a UK tour in November with support
from Iced Earth and Lamb of God, kicking off on Newcastle on November 4th
To win yourself one of these
15 track double CD live albums just answer this easy easy question: Just
what do they say won't fall in that place just south of Witch’s Valley
(where you can't trust your shadow in the dark)? OK, if that's one
toooooo tough just tell us who Heaven And Hell really are
Win your copy of this fine
live album by answering the simple question here
How easy is that! Come on,
life around here is just a carrousel, spinning fast you’ve got to ride
it well. Just sendin your answer along with your name and address and we'll
pick the winner out of our black wizzards hat. (I once won all the beer
I could drink for knowing there was no sun in the shadow of the wizzzzard
I'll have you know - disasterous night!)
Competition is open to UK
readers only, closing date is Saturday 15th September 2007
Find out more about the album
and tour here at the band's current label SPV
COMPETITION
CLOSED - the three winners are: Ian Wyn Jones (Cardiff), Melissa
B (Leicester), Garth Ashford (Leytonstone)
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BERNARD SUMNER BIOGRAPHY (competition closed) |
 BOOK:
“BERNARD SUMNER – CONFUSION: JOY DIVISION, ELECTRONIC AND NEW ORDER VERSUS
THE WORLD” (David Nolan/IMP Books) - Confusion is story of Bernard Sumner’s
life and times - from the streets of Salford and journeys over the River
Irwell to international fame and the critical acclaim of Joy Division,
Electronic and New Order. For somebody who’s spent so much time in the
public eye, Bernard Sumner remains a mysteriously private figure, even
his real name had been a bit of a mystery up until now. Jolted in to action
by the opening shots of the English punk explosion of 1976, Sumner is the
man who stepped into shoes of Ian Curtis after his suicide in 1980 and
steered New Order through to even greater success. He played a big
part in the creation of Acid House, the second Summer of Love and The Hacienda
nightclub in Manchester. Then there’s his collaborations with The Smiths’
Johnny Marr in Electronic, how can anyone not be curious about the mysterious
character and his part in and beyond one of the world’s finest bands.
The thing about music
biographies, be it official or unofficial, is that they can be very hit
and miss affairs – as soon as a band starts to get somewhere someone commissions
a book and some uninspired music journo churns it out and pays the rent
– hit and miss. David Nolan knows his subject, he clearly has a passion,
he’s done the meticulous legwork and the research and amazingly, even though
this is an unofficial biography, he managed to get the ever reluctant very
private Bernard Sumner’s own input and revelations. Well written and yes,
a rather good incite, fascinating actually, this is one of the finer music
biographies – recommended. - www.impbooks.com
Win your own copy of this
rather recommended book by answering this simple question here
- Dance Dance Dance to what?
Rules: Competition is open
to people from the UK only. Closing date is August 31st 2007
SEPT 1st: And the winner
is Kay Smillie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
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FASTWAY TICKETS (competition closed) |
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a tasty slice of hot of the press Motorhistory for yer. FASTWAY,
the band originally put together by Fast Eddie Clark along with
Topper Heddon of The Clash and UFO’s Pete Way not long after the fast one
left Motorhead back in the Iron Fisted days of the 80’s – you know
the history, the man is a legend, legend enough to stand right up there
looking seven foot tall, shoulder to shoulder with his partner in crime
Sir Lemmy of Kilminster, legend enough to come out with Overkill, Bomber,
Ace and more – Fastway have reformed, first gig in something like 20 years,
no Dave King now, Toby Jepson (he of Little Angels is fronting things),
John McManus on bass – does that mean Crazy Daisy’s House Of Dreams then?
Yeap him from cult 80’s Irish metal band Mamas Boys. Steve Strange in on
drums – don’t ask us which one, we know of three... We’ll tell you after
tomorrow night’s gig. That’s right, last minute “secret” London warm
up show before they play a couple of weekend festivals has just been announced.
Fast Eddie will play London’s Islington Academy tomorrow night – that’s
Wednesday
6th June. Door price is £6, the band are playing a 45 minute
set – no idea who else is playing on the bill (in indeed if anyone else
is). This exclusive 45 minute set will see them off to Sweden Rocks on
Saturday and Download Festival on Sunday.
Anyway – Say what you will,
want to dance in the heat until a quarter to three? Want some trouble with
a capital T? We’ve got two pairs of tickets to give away, aren’t we good
to you? Want in? Just answer the question by 1.00pm UK time on Wednesday
6th June and two tickets will be waiting on the door for two sets of lucky
people... winners will be contacted at 1.00pm via e.mail (or phone if you
feel like leaving us your number) – See.Organkill, only way to feel the
noise is when...
The question – oh
I hate damn stupid competition questions! here you go: Which band was Fast
Eddie in prior to Fastway, clue: the words motor and head could well be
involved in the answer... e.mail here
www.fasteddieclarke.com
www.myspace.com/fasteddieclarke
www.islington-academy.co.uk
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