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Meanwhile LAST DAYS OF LORCA, secret stars of the Her/Bones single are playing Club 333 in London’s rage inducing Hoxton next Wednesday 29th. A Bugbear night so it seems. We Organs are banned from the 333, but hey you can go, just past the Nail Gunner Arms, past the idiot scenester with the silly hair. Check out Last Days here

18th Aug 2007: More things to say, “like early Art Brut wrestling with a pub outing of psychiatrists" said Lamacq of HERZOGA, which they say they take as a compliment, certainly sounds like one to me, early Art Brut was really rather good don’t you think. Good to hear LOUIS LINGG AND THE BOMBS getting more radio play as well, you ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES subscribers can expect your Louis Lingg singles in the post next week. We’ll tell you about the September and October releases very soon, we’re biting out tongues and itching to tell you, the majestic swan is frantically kicking (and recording) under the surface. TO THE BONES are up to lots more recording right now, and we’re expecting OURLIVES tour dates both in the UK and Iceland, any moment now... 

...we’re expecting a lot of new things to happen any moment now. 
 

10th Aug 2007: FLIES ARE SPIES FROM HELL and LAST DAYS OF LORCA – both of whom feature as bonus bands of the Her/Bones single, are part of a free 5-day arts festival called I Am Joy that takes place in Chichester. Flies are playing on the first night (14th August) at about 9pm in the Boys Club (opposite La Havana in Little London). The other bands over the 5 days are : This Project, Last Days of Lorca, Our Own Devices, The Accidentals, Lewis Harding, Dirty Jaguar, Jon Walbrin, Kovak, This City, Joey Nightmare, Earth to Mars, Corobboree. Check out www.iamjoy.co.uk for more info.. Apparently there's loads of other stuff going on like film, dance, spoken word, open mic, art gallery, graffitti jams......

HERZOGA meanwhile play a Pulp night at BATH MOLES CLUB on August 16th, then LONDON Kentish Town Bull & Gate on Saturday August 18th (full bill: Nixa + Toupee + Looptron + Herzoga) and a show in Stoke at The Brown Jug on August 29th . 

HERZOGA also run their own Wrong Pop night in Stoke (yep, that’s where the term came from originally) at the Glebe. This month’s show is on August 11th and features Sabotage Left, Furniture Sound and Already The Ghosts. 
 

HERZOGA/TO THE BONES - THINGS TO SAY/TYCHO  - More genius from our single-licious buddies at Org, 17 amazing tracks all for two pounds - I’d say it’s worth buying even for a curious listen at such a price but that’d be doing it a great disservice. Featuring stunning new bands, styles and some genuine moments of sheer brilliance (including ace subba stars Vessels). Hell, I even cancelled my month’s payment to the Simon Cowell supported animal welfare appeal to buy it (I didn’t really, but still, you wish they let the starved dogs out at the end of screening and let tear him shred from shred). - subba-cultcha

Ah you see, those Subba people know what they’re talking about – want a copy of the single, 17 track 14 bands, two pounds – mailorder here

CARDIACS TOUR NOVEMBER 2007

MON 12 - BRIGHTON THE OLD MARKET 
TUE 13 - OXFORD ZODIAC 
WED 14 - BRISTOL THEKLA SOCIAL 
THU 15 - NOTTINGHAM RESCUE ROOMS 
FRI 16 - LONDON ASTORIA 
MON 19 - SHEFFIELD BOARDWALK 
TUE 20 - STOKE ON TRENT THE SUGARMILL 
WED 21 - MANCHESTER ACADEMY 3 
THU 22 - PORTSMOUTH WEDGEWOOD ROOMS 
FRI 23 - CARDIFF CLWB IFOR BACH 
 

Emma SMEAR just got home from Liverpool and would like to say - “Hi all! Well, a big thanks to Tom at Slacker Sounds for putting the gig on and to everyone who was so nice to us!  Home crowds scare me but you where so much fun, thank you so much!  Oh & the ASBO'S rule! We got back to Nottingham the next day in 2 hours, look out for us on Worlds Craziest Police Videos. Also can I just say, it's not all about being a 'girl band' it's about making music, what ever it is. Some of you girls bands, you make our job very very easy and very very hard all at the same time.. Anyway! take care. See y'all soon” E x

27th July 2007:  "Louis Lingg and the Bombs are goddamn punk-rock-garage-pop-anarcho saviours of the 2 and half minute pop song. They come from Paris where they regularly blow up little bars with explosions of snot and beer fuelled punk rock energy!" (musicnoyz)

Louis Lingg And The Bombs formed in the summer of 2006. The band are named after Louis Lingg, the renowned Chicago anarchist who committed suicide on death row in 1887 – go read your history books, fascinating story.  Some of their songs are ultra-political anarchist punk rock anthems and some of their songs are like children's nursery rhymes. ALL of their songs are full of pop hooks and melodies that are sung with energy and commitment to the cause of REVOLUTION! 

Seems Anna Schulte, she of SCHULTE/ERIKSSON is also now in THE SLITS, just got a mail to say they’re having fun in the US on tour and playing with Sonic Youth this weekend. 

VILE VILE CREATURES, the spiky Manchester band who feature as one of the bonus bands on the HER/BONES single are playing the Buffalo Bar in London on Aug 21st and The Enterprise in Camden on the 23rd, before that they play a home town gig at the Klondyke Club in Levensholme, Manchester on the 28th and then head to Berlin in Germany for a Ladyfest show on August 4th (good to hear Steve Lamacq has picked up on them as well now on his Radio One show). 

VESSELS who also feature on that HER/BONES single are in London for a free afternoon show at the Nottinghill Arts Centre on Saturday 28th (starts at 4.00pm), in fact Vessels are at the end a rather major tour right now – Cardiff on Friday, London Saturday, Brighton Sunday, Manchester Monday – check their MySpace for full details 
 

“There's normally always a nugget by someone I've never heard of before with ORG stuff, this time in was To The Bones” said Ian Camfield (XFM)

25th July 2007: THE SMEARS are playing another Slacker Zine night in Liverpool on the 27th July @ Django's Riff. The Smears are joined by Black Bettie (feat. Lula Blue of Dirblonde - sensual, experimental garage rock drawing on influences from The Slits to PJ Harvey), Asbos (Liverpool's favourite kitchen-sink surrealists, rummaging in greasy waters to fish up warped psychic oddities, often disguised as hummable guitar pop tunes like 'weird dream' and 'transistor radio') and Cannon King - Solo acoustic rock'n'blues from the Mersey Delta, who according to Slacker are like Elvis Presley and Jack White in one body! Entry is free, more details from www.myspace.com/slackersounds
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25th July 2007: GENE SERENE, it appears, will be appearing in London this very week, the last minute things you learn from reading blogs. Catch Ms Serene at GliTz @ Madame JoJos in deepest Soho on 26th July and then over in West London at the Inn On The Green in Ladbrook Grove on the 27th. Inn On The Green is underneath the Clash’s beloved West Way right over the road from Ladbrook Grove tube station (just cross the road and walk along underneath the West Way flyover...) and then there’s DaDa GoDs DiScO event @ Barbie Deinhoff - An Extravaganza on August 4th in Berlin. Gene Serene’s ORG five track single is still available from us here, she also has a 10” pink vinyl release on her own DaDa Discs label. 

Death Of London and To The Bones play The Varsity, Bolton on August 9th, The Criterion, Leicester 10th August, The Sunshine Lounge, Birmingham 11th August. TO THE BONES are already hard at work on the follow up release, expect it at the end of August on Bolton’s oWn Repeater Records (home of other fine Bolton bands like those scuzzy punks The Kiss Offs, and Bookstore – they play loud and fast you know!) Something is a brewing up there in Bolton. 

HERZOGA play a couple of gigs at the end of July – you can catch their unique bland of infectiously spiky wrong pop at Luton’s George 2nd on  July 27th and in Brighton (with Yuchi) on July 31st at The Greenhouse Effect. Meanwhile the Stoke on Trent band continue to promote their Wrong Pop nights at the Glebe in Stoke On Trent – August 11th will feature SABOTAGE LEFT, FURNITURE SESSION and ALREADY THE GHOSTS, the September show will feature CHARLOTTEFIELD...

10th July 2007: THE SMEARS play the Global Village Peace Gathering festival this weekend, it happens on July 13th/15th in Tattenshall Lincolnshire, details from www.gvpg.org  -  a rather fine three day alternative festival, The Smears are on Friday 13th at around 7.00pm 

7th July 2007: And talking of history and legendary ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES, THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE have some UK tour dates - Named in tribute to the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist and his influence in introducing Eastern culture into the world of Western rock and roll, The Brian Jonestown Massacre have made some of the most exciting underground music in America since the sixties. Formed in 1990 in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, The Brian Jonestown Massacre is very much an amalgamation of that city’s past and present musical forces. Some 40 different members have passed through the group's ranks since it’s inception (oh the stories we could tell here at Organ), but the heart of the BJM is the ragged determinism of Anton Newcombe - producer, songwriter, guitarist, singer and the group's primary creative force. Having now reached cult status due to their part in the classic ‘Dig’ film, the band who first emerged in the UK back in the last century via us here at ORG, during those documented Dandy Warhol “wars” and that now legendary 20 track single (as well as tracks of those Organ Radio compilations), are about to return to the UK for the following dates: 

08/07 - T in the Park, 09/07 - Newcastle Upon Tyne Academy 2, 11/07 – Birmingham Academy 2, 12/07 - Liverpool Academy 2, 13/07 - Northampton  Soundhaus, 14/07 - London Islington Academy, 15/07 - Cardiff Club Ifor Bach, 16/07 Stoke On Trent Sugarmill, 17/07 – Sheffield Leadmill, 18/07 – Leicester Charlotte, 20/07 – Carlisle The Brickyard,  21/07 – Oxford Truck Festival
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Part 33 of the singles series, the HERZOGA/TO THE BONES split is on the way out to you subscribers and those of you who have pre-ordered the single. Both Herzoga and To The Bones have started to pick up radio play. Watch out for Herzoga on the BBC’s Subculture radio show again on the 6th July and they play a hometown gig in Stoke with Cove and Iye. The gig is at The Globe, a Wrong Pop night.  To The Bones meanwhile are preparing to tour with Death of London, August dates any moment now. The single is a four track split EP, two tracks from each band, and just because we want to, a whole load of bonus tracks from bonus bands. A limited edition of 1000 (as all ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES are), full track listing further down this very page.

OURLIVES are also preparing to announce more dates in August. MY VITRIOL have now followed up Their “secret” single with an EP on XtraMile Recordings, I believe it has gone top 40 this week, not really sure, I don’t take much notices of things like charts. THE SMEARS play that Anti Fascist benefit on Friday in Nottingham, they go in to record a debut album in July. 
 

And there they are, there it goes in session, Cardiacs playing a sparkly new radio session on the BBC – is it going to be new? Will it be new? Is it? Is it? No! Oooooooohhhh they just teased us with a start, it does sound very familiar and very different and all new and squeeze box and pirate ship good and marvellous mechanical mouse organ and what is it going to be? Fast Robert. Tim has a dog called Ivy. There is no “The”, it doesn’t matter, yes it does, yes it does. Cardiacs are back in the room – The Duck And Roger The Horse, The Ever So Closely Guarded Line and lots of talk, you missed it now, I think you can hear I again though, they’ll have the show archived for a while, investigate the link there... 

28th June 2007: CARDIACS will play the songs YOU love live in session on MARC RILEY'S ROCKET SCIENCE RADIO SHOW on BBC 6 MUSIC from 7pm. Thursday 28th June 2007. YOU will stand by YOUR radio. YOU will press up YOUR vile ear to the tinny-sounding speaker. YOUR heart will erupt and YOUR guts will swirl. Like the angry sea, like all biblical storm. YOUR big eyes might POP OUT OF YOUR HEAD. THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN guarantees this.

28th June 2007: TO THE BONES play a beach party in Bolton tonight, what do you mean there's no beach in Bolton? There is if we say so, scroll down and see the flyer 

23rd June 2007: PART 34 of the ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES will be from French punk band LOUIS LINGG AND THE BOMBS... Who are they? More soon...

23rd June 2007: Two new bands on ORG then, and a single with a whole load of bonus tracks, HERZOGA and TO THE BONES. The two English bands will share time and space in the form of a split single. Part 33 of the ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES. Herzoga are from Stoke, self confessed makers of “wrong pop”, To The Bones are an urgent alternative guitar band from Bolton. Both bands have had Demo Of The Week reviews on the Organ pages in recent weeks. The single will  feature two tracks from each band and a whole loads of bonus extras just because we can, The single is released on July 9th, as with all the single series releases, cost is a mere £2.00 (inc P&P in the UK for those who wish to mailorder rather than buy it in a shop or at a gig...). That's about an hour's worth of exciting cutting edge genre defying music for just two quid

ORG-AN-ISED SINGLE NUMBER 33 - TRACK LISTING 

HERZOGA – Things To Say
TO THE BONES – Tycho
HERGOZA – Bumper To Bumper
TO THE BONES – Rex 

Bonus tracks
DEATH OF LONDON – New York 
FLIES ARE SPIES FROM HELL - Blood Runs Down My Satisfied Face As I Scream With Delight
ZAG AND THE COLOURED BEADS - Truckhouse
SCHULTE ERIKSSON – For The Sake Of Clarity
VILE VILE CREATURES – City Lights
MAP – Old Rhino Boots 
LOWER FORTY-EIGHT – Unrequested Fission Surplus 
CERBERUS SHOAL – Pie For The President
LAST DAYS OF LORCA -  I Am A Rat
VESSELS  - Happy Accident 
RAL PARTHA VOGELBACHER - Birthday in Beijing
COVE: - I Killed A Guy With A Trident
 

19th June 2007: TO THE BONES – demo of the Month in Rocksound - “We're not going to issue any over zealous 'gonna be huge' plaudits here, but if they can hold it together, Bolton five-piece To The Bones are sure to become a significant name in independent UK rock. Their latest demo blasts the lugholes with a marvellous urgency and intelligence - all layered fuzzy guitars, a pounding rhythm section, impassioned vocals, and the unlikeliest hooks. Dirty ol' rockin' out doesn't have to be dumb after all. – (Tim Newbound, Rocksound 8/10) – we tell you this because we have the debut TO THE BONES single coming up, a split single with HERZOGA, but you knew that already didn’t you? 
 

HERZOGA will headline a single launch party gig/Wrong Pop night in Stoke On Trent on July 7th with guests COVE and IYE. Wrong Pop nights are put monthly by Herzoga - bands doing it themselves, that's what we like, walking it rather than just talking it. 

12th June 2007: TO THE BONES play London’s Borderline this coming Saturday night – The Bolton band hit London on June 16th – on stage 9.00pm. The Borderline is in Soho, just around the corner from the Astoria and off Manette Street, W1. Also on the bill are THE RESISTORS (9.45) and openers LIKELY LADS (on at 8.15). Doors are a 8.00pm. TO THE BONES have their new split single out here on ORG any moment now
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26th May 2007: HERZOGA will be live in session with their wrong pop this coming Thursday evening on Subculture, a rather good looking radio show that’s broadcast on BBC Stafordshire and based in Stoke, here’s the link to find out more
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25th May 2007: Two new bands on ORG, let us introduce HERZOGA and TO THE BONES. The two English bands will share time and space in the form of a split single. The June release and part 33 of the ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES. Herzoga are from Stoke, self confessed makers of “wrong pop”, TO THE BONES are an urgent alternative guitar band from Bolton. Both bands have had Demo Of The Week reviews on the Organ pages in recent weeks. The single will be out on June 25th, two tracks from each band and a whole loads of bonus extras and watch this space. Here’s those reviews... 

DEMO OF THE WEEK (ORGAN 207)
TO THE BONES – Anytime you’re ready? To the bone machine, we’re on a roll now, I love it when we get on a demo roll and there’s more falling up stairways and going off and things. Scuzzy filthy alternative indie rock to make it all better and just when they’re easing you in with their Pixies bass line rumble they go and explode in a ball of urgent energy and collisions and noise that blasts you to the other side. To The Bones are from Bolton, we got three tracks here and hey, they got us hooked and on the case straight away. All kinds of garage fuzz and pounding urgent explosive passion and just when you think you’ve got them pinned they throw out a brilliant curveball with the second track Tycho (dare I say Tim Smith guitar? Nah? Alright we’ll ban all future mentions of the boss and his band in reviews). Tycho is and an excellent slice of slightly quirky indie punk god-knows-what-pop that’s kind of contradicts itself and that so deliciously English anthemic buzz-rock and throaty vocals with a clever American alt.style undercurrent  – ah look, I had enough of trying to write about bands with mere words, let’s get on the bleedin’ dog and bone and put this out as a single – it may be as raw and scuzzy as hell but hey, they got something buzzing here and you’re gonna want a slice – right, let me go get a plan together – you can go explore www.tothebones.co.uk or www.myspace.com/tothebones while we see if they want to put this out as a single...

DEMO OF THE WEEK (ORGAN 205)

HERZOGA – Things To Say/Bumper To Bumper – There’s something here that’s so positively difficult to put a finger on, something different, something almost proper new wave in a 1982 sense, really really not that obvious and easy to pin down though – infectious, slightly hard boiled and almost like a fluid. Sober, together, un-cantankerous Fall, there’s something very familiar yet they sound really satisfyingly different. Like listening to something brilliant on John Peel’s show back in the day. Herzoga call it “wrong pop” but even that is quite right, they’re from Stoke by the way (we like to throw in a fact or two) – “Wire fighting with Pavement” someone said (might even have been us), kind of fitting in with bands like Cove, Charlottefield – couple of plays and the infectious song things will lodge themselves in to your brain. Yeap, second impressive demo from Herzoga – www.myspace.com/herzogaband

P.S - And very good to see Herzoga are up and active and putting on their own D.I.Y “Wrong Pop” nights in Stoke – www.myspace.com/wrongpoppresent
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24th May 2007: OURLIVES have posted yet another new song on their My Space page, their debut single is out on ORG next Monday. Mailorder it here

24th May 2007: MY VITRIOL announce another new single, more festivals, surprise playback and fan meet up. For those of you who will be in London this Fri 25th there will be a surprise low-key fan meet up and exclusive playback of all four tracks of A Pyrrhic Victory EP in an intimate bar, not too far from the Astoria.  Approx time 8pm Check back to the band's Myspace blog by Fri morning for announcement of full Details. NEW RELEASES (to follow up that oh so very very secret A SECRET SOCIETY single on ORG. 'War of the Worlds' available for Download from June 11th. The hugely popular new track finally sees an official release via all usual download outlets. Pre-ORDER via SMS by texting MYVIT to 82822 [£1.50 & cost of SMS only]  The track will be taken from...: 'A Pyrrhic Victory' EP released on Xtra Mile Recordings. The EP will be available as both a limited edition physical CD and digital bundles." and out on June 25th. if you haven't got that "secret" single that came out in March then get it here

MY VITRIOL at FESTIVALS
June 9th: DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL will be MV's first festival appearance 5 years 
June 10th:  Xuberance Festival. MV first return to Wales in years to headline the Main Stage of the Xuberance Weekend, Llangollen. Tickets in ADVANCE only 
July 13th: Guilfest. Headlining the Rocksound srage of the 25,000 capacity festival. Fri 13th. 
The previously announced London Astoria show will now happen on Sept 29th once all the festivals are out of the way and are My Vitriol finally getting their shit together? We hope so.... 

22nd May 2007: The ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES goes on, this month’s single is from Iceland’s OURLIVES, out in your shops next Monday, the band who just completed a full UK tour  and who are in the studio back home right now, will be back for summer dates and some European festival performance – watch this space. Meanwhile the June single with be a split single, two fine new English bands and a whole load of bonus tracks and a exciting hidden treats, we talking seventy or so minutes and loads of things... There’s only one ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES, beware of imitations. We’ll tell you about the June single by the end of the week. We’re up to rather a lot right now 

16th May 2007: SPIRITWO is back in London at the Glitz on Thursday May 24th for a headline show at Madam JoJo’s, a place most suitable for her of course. Support comes from AXEGIRL and ROYAL TREATMENT PLANT plus DJ FRANKIE D. £6 Door or adv www.flagpromotions.com OR 5 with a flyer. Madame Jo Jo's (020 7734 3040) is at 8-10 Brewer St. Soho. W1. The event runs from 8pm - 3am, Spiritwo on stage in her highest heels at 10pm.

15th May 2007: MY VITRIOL, or A SECRET SOCIETY as they were briefly known around here for that “secret” single back in March (mailorder it here), have been added to the Guilfest bill in Guildford in July, My Vitriol headline the Rocksound stage on Friday 13th July, more info from www.guilfest.co.uk