 2nd
FEB - HERZOGA
are to play Silver Rocket’s
LONG GOOD FRIDAY HALF-DAYER on Friday 21st March at The Buffalo Bar, London,
N1 “For verily, it shalt be Good. Bands so far: Lords,
Bilge Pump, Who Owns Death TV, An Emergency
and Herzoga,
more to come...” Herzoga's follow up to the ORG single is coming out on
Feb 18th on their home town label We Like Danger. There's an Organ review
here
IMPERIAL
LEISURE are at THE BORDERLINE, in London’s
Soho, headlining a CLUB FANDANGO show in association with BBC RADIO SIX
on Thursday 28 February. Tickets are £6.00 in advance, more details
from www.clubfandango.co.uk
PURE
REASON REVOLUTION are to play MONTO @ THE
WATER RATS, KINGS CROSS, LONDON on 12th April. Tickets are now on sale
– more from www.themonto.com.
28th
JAN - IMPERIAL LEISURE's
new single MAN ON THE STREET will be out on ORG on March 17th, the date
has changed because we wanted to chamge it. TO
THE BONES will new single SHARKIE'S BONE SYMPHONY
will be out on on March 24th , PURE REASON
REVOLUTION's new single VICTORIOUS CUPID will
be out on ORG at the end of March as well. Lots gonig on here right now,
going on here right now, give me a moment and we'll be back with all the
Herzoga, Cardiacs, Bones news and more, all our irons are in the fire today...
PURE REASON REVOLUTION will be at the Monto (that's the Water Rats) in
Kings Cross on 12th April, they're busy with their new album right now.Full
details of all these singles later when I get back from where I should
have been ten minutes ago...
22nd
JAN - Busy busy busy, some rather exciting festival dates are staring to
roll in for IMPERIAL LEISURE,
couple of really good ones came in this morning - we just got the finished
mixes of the next single, they’re also confirmed for a headline show at
the Borderline on Feb 28th – big thanks to everyone who came down and helped
pack out the Metro (again) last week, fine first shot of intent for 2008.
TO
THE BONES are busy piling up a long list of
shows, details of their new single here on ORG any moment now Catch them
in Warrington and Bolton with Jubilee this week. HERZOGA
meanwhile will follow their ORG Release with a single on We Like Danger,
the single is Nice Car (the video will be on ORGAN
TV in the next couple of weeks), More from
www.welikedanger.com
or www.myspace.com/herzogaband
17th
JAN - IMPERIAL LEISURE
play the Metro, Oxford Street, London, tonight - you know the score by
now, be early to get in, LITTLE TROPHY
on at 8.00pm, ROSSIE ODDIE
on in the middle, you know what to do, Imperial Leisure will own 2008,
come get an early taste and see why...
10th
JAN - TO THE BONES
next single will be a two track affair, Sharkies / Sonic Mammoth is on
the way. more news any moment now. The band also play a couple of North
West shows with LA band JUBILEE
at Bolton Kico Club on January 24th and Warrington WA1 on January 25th
IMPERIAL
LEISURE play Saturday 12th Jan at Battersea
Arts Centre for the aftershow party for Punchdrunk's critically-acclaimed
(and long sold-out) production of Edgar Allen Poe's Dance of the Red Death.
IL will be playing at around 11pm.Imperial Leisure headline the Oxford
Street Metro on Thursday 17th Jan. New dates are also confirmed for Plymouth
Uni on March 13th, Barnstaple supporting Asian
Dub Foundation on March 15th and Exeter Vibraphonc
Festival on March 16th - more news and more dates in a matter of minutes,
told you things would start getting busy.
9th
JAN - FIRST ORGAN GIG OF 2008 will take place in London (well it is where
we live) at the Metro, Oxford Street, London on Thursday 17th Jan. ROSIE
ODDIE and THE ODD SQUAD will join headliners IMPERIAL
LEISURE and openers LITTLE
TROPHY. Tickets are £5 in advance,
first band on at 8,00pm. Imperial Leisure’s next single Man On The Street
will be out on here on ORG very soon, so witll the new TO
THE BONES single - lots of things coming up...
x |
 2nd
JAN - Morning people, time to hit the new year running, happy new things,
hares boxing about, more ditzy things. Back at work and ready to go – well
it isn’t really work and we’ve been here all the time, things don’t stop
here. The man they call Junk Scientist is busy today finishing off the
mix of the new IMPERIAL LEISURE
single. TO THE BONES
have just finished their new single, the new PURE
REASON REVOLUTION single is sitting here waiting
for the pressing plant to re-open – and we’re waiting for those hares to
stop boxing about so we can get on with the next CARDIACS
moves and the new single ahead of the new album and (many) things. And
it seems our old friends PORNORPHANS
are back and violating
Janet Jackson. Ditzy hares...
21st
DEC - EVERYTHING MUST GO
are joined by Shootin’ Lucy and Flexx Bronco at the Oakland Art Murmer
Frist Friday Art Walk thing. The Oakland Art Murmer is a huge block party
with lots of art galleries and events on Telegraph between 27 and W.Grand,
EMG are at the Stork club. The club is generally the wildest party on the
block! It’s good. It all happens on the 4th Jan 2008 (which of course is
the first Friday) - and that is Oakland California so everyone must go.
And
that was it for 2007, we are now launching in 2008. Thanks to everyone
who was with us this year, thanks to all the bands (even the ones who really
didn’t do much), to everyone who came to the gigs or bought the releases,
the radio and press people who still know it should be about music, to
the good fish in the pond, to those who put our bands on, those who sent
stuff in, those who yelled at us, those who stuck to their guns, those
who didn’t... thanks for being there in 2007, see you on the otherside
where things will get even more imperially ditzy, ditzier than a field
of boxing hares biting right down to the bones. Thanks to everyone who
took part in ORG's 2007, we enjoyed it all..
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 18th
DEC - Catch IMPERIAL LEISURE,
free at Xscape in Milton Keynes this Friday, at the Sub Zero festival in
Leicestershire this Saturday, oh and in the Daily Star this week.
IMPERIAL
LEISURE are spreading their festive juices and heading up to the midlands.
Catch them playing a free show in Milton Keynes at the Xscape Snow Bar,
602 Marlborough Gate on Friday December 21st (on stage in the bar at 9.00pm)
and then on Saturday you can catch them at the Sub Zero Festival. The festival
happens at Manor Farm, Ashley, Market Harborough, Leicestershire. The event
runs from 17.00 - 02.00. Imperial Leisure are on stage at 11.45pm. Tickets
are £12. There are 2 stages with 16 bands including Captain Phoenix
and The Jacks. It all happens in a massive barn in Ashby, somewhere near
Market Harborough. Imperial Leisure never stop.
The
Daily Star noticed Imperial Leisure this week - “A mash up of Madness,
Sex Pistols and Jurassic 5... purveyors of high-octane tunes... anthems
of triple shot proportions, ones to watch in 2008” (Sarah-Louise James
– Daily Star, Dec 17th 2007).
There’s
also a nice feature in TNT magazine this week entitled BELIEVE THE HYPE
– “A hyperactive mix of hip-hop beats, streetwise lyrics and a dash of
soul, if you thought UK rap had to be as clumsy as The Streets, if you
thought the British ska revival ended when the Ordinary Boys sold out then
go see Imperial Leisure....” (Alison Grinter.TNT).
|
 15th
DEC - Big thanks to everyone who came out in the cold for the IMPERIAL
LEISURE show at ULU, what a fine last London
show of 2007, jumping again and a lot of hangovers following that aftershow.
EVERYTHING
MUST GO are out at Bender's grand re-opening party with the House of
Burlesque in San Francisco tonight - they have a new album in the can,
Noah Webber on guitar now, new songs and everything indeed must now go
- I love this band!
IMPERIAL
LEISURE will be playing the first ORGAN night
of 2008, at the London Metro, Oxford Street on Thursday January 17th, we'll
have Brighton's rather wonderful LITTLE TROPHY
opening and special guests to be announced soon. Tickets are on sale
now £5 advance, £5 on the door. |
 12th
DEC -TO THE BONES
cap an excellent year with a home town show in Bolton at New York, New
York on Thursday Dec 13th. The new single will be out on ORG in the new
year - we're lining up a lot for the new year
HERZOGA
will be playing tracks live in session from their upcoming single (now
to be released with the rather fine WE LIKE DANGER label) next Thursday
on subculture
(BBC RADIO STOKE 94.6 & 104.1FM) between 7-9pm. The new single Nice
Car, a follow up to their recent ORG release, will be released early in
the new year. More news here soon, meanwhile catch a taste on the video
to the new single here
11th
DEC - IMPERIAL LEISURE
play their last London show of the year this Thursday 13th. Catch the band
headlining at ULU, get there early there, we expect a busy night again.
Catch the video to IN A LETTER here
on My Space or here
onYouTube. Meanwhile, as warned, the CARDIACS
single is now totally sold out, we did give you plenty of warning - no
good e.mailing us and offering us bagloads of money to find a spare one
now.
8th
DEC - Yes that was IMPERIAL LEISURE
you saw on the London ITV evening news last night. ITV sent a reporter
and film crew out in the van with the band for an early evening guerrilla
raid of a gig on Oxford Street. If you missed it then here
it is, nine minutes in to the Friday 7th evening news – looks like it will
be up there on the ITV page for a week or so, you fine the feature nine
minutes in. A band just getting out there and doing it – what’s going
on? The debut single is now all sold out, the next single – Man
On The Street – will be out in the last week of February here on ORG
HERZOGA
play one of their own Wrong
Pop nights at the Glebe in Stoke On Trent, TONIGHT Saturday December
8th with CHARLOTTEFIELD, COVE
and INSIDE RIGHT.
Herzoga will follow up theIr ORG single with a single on their own Wrong
Pop label, more news on that very soon
C |
 5th
DEC - IMPERIAL LEISURE
will be heading to the dirty south and over the river to South London this
Saturday. Come and see them play at Blissfields In The City THIS WEEKEND
Saturday 8th December @ Dirty South,
Lewisham. They're also at London ULU on 13th Dec, details further down.
The
next IMPERIAL LEISURE single
will be Man On The Streets, the single will be out via us at ORG on Feb
25th
3rd
DEC - IMPERIAL LEISURE’s
debut single IN A LETTER, is released today, it has also sold out today
(well we did warn you). The next Imperial Leisure single will be out here
on ORG on the 25th Feb (not so limited this time though!)
That’s
right, advance mailorder means that we’ve sold out of Imperial Leisure
singles completely, and we’re told that those few that made it to shops
have gone as well - "hot cakes mate, bleedin' hot cakes" said the man in
the shop. We’re also told that tickets are selling fast for the London
ULU gig as well – 13th December – Support from The
Jacks and Jukebox Vandals
(£8 from Ticket
Web). The single has been causing quite a fuss (and picking up lots
of healthy radio play from Radio One, XFM, Virgin and such), as have the
band’s legendary guerrilla gigs – the band were made front page featured
artists on My Space last Friday - a summer guerrilla video from Camden
(resulting in over 10,000 hits and a ton of e.mails over the weekend),
the band were also followed down Oxford Street by an ITN news crew last
Thursday (I think there may well be a news story running next Friday).
2008 festivals are being sorted out now, Glastonbury is on, we can't wait
to get the next single out
x |
 1st
DEC - HERZOGA
and TO
THE BONES both have hometown end of year
shows coming up, they shared space on an ORG split CD single a couple of
months ago, both bands are ending the year in upbeat mood and with plans
for new releases and lots more activity in 2008. Herzoga play one of their
own Wrong Pop nights
at the Glebe in Stoke On Trent on Saturday December 8th with CHARLOTTEFIELD,
COVE and INSIDE
RIGHT (are those Wrong Pop/Herzoga boys good
at pulling bills together or what!). TO THE
BONES meanwhile cap an excellent year (and
follow that thrilling raid on the Metro last week) with a home town show
in Bolton at New York, New York on Thursday Dec13th. Expect new releases
and lots more from both bands in early 2008. That’s what we like to do
around here, put new exciting bands on the launch pad then watch them go...
And
you CARDIACS
fans who think things are going to go all quiet now the tour is over and
the single all done and dusted, just keep on watching this space
X |
 29th
NOV - IMPERIAL LEISURE
– Little word in your ear, if you want your own personal copy of Imperial
Leisure’s new (and soon to be rather collectable we suspect!) single
In A Letter then official government advise is that you put in your
mailorder
right now. The CD single is part of the ORG-AN-ISED
SINGLES SERIES and as you know by now all
releases in the series are strictly limited to a pressing of 1000 copies.
The single is officially released on Monday, demand in already heavy and
it looks like very few of these are going to be left by Monday lunch time.
The tracks will be on the debut album in 2008 (and how good is that sounding,
caught some work in progress with
Junk Scientist
at the controls earlier this week) so you don’t need to be worrying about
not having the tracks, if you want this version though then act now. We
expect the single to be sold out on Monday. Lots of gigs and festivals
already being booked for 2008 and the next single will be out at the end
of February.
x |
 27th
NOV - “Love it – The Specials and The Beat meet Hard-Fi!!” Tunatheday.com
– Hard-fi? Radio play? Playlists for debut singles? Hadouken? TV news crews?
What’s going on? Imperial Leisure – that’s what’s going on. The Leisure
are just finishing up the debut album, they have it nailed already! We
can’t wait for the 2008 festival season! What else we got lined up? Turbonegra
(that was not a typo, that is an A at the end), Pure
Reason Revolution single in March up front
of the next stage of their lives and their next album, it won't be long
until the next Imperial Leisure single and more for you in the Pond as
well
x |
 24th
NOV - The CARDIACS
tour comes to an end in Leeds tonight, at the Woodhouse Liberal Club. Meanwhile
the limited edition Ditzy Scene is all but sold out, we have 40 of the
1000 left, so if you want one then act now - mailorder
- “The lead track, 'ditzy scene', is elegantly huge and pleasing, but track
2...oh my. What an amazing bit of weirdo not-really-rockabilly guitar prog
in the middle there. Consider me floored”. (Gua-no-man).
That IMPERIAL LEISURE
single is sell fast as well, not in the shops and officially released until
December 3rd - limited to just 1000 - as all ORG-AN-ISED SINGLE SERIES
releases are - buy your Imperial Leisure CD single here
or subscribe to the series and don't miss out here.
And just because that Cardiacs tour is overand the single is allbum sold
out, doesn't mean there isn't anything else going on, watch these pages,
lots more Cardiacs very soon
x |
 23rd
NOV - IMPERIAL LEISURE
- IN A LETTER – (ORG) - Fusing the hyperactive rapping of Hadouken and
the skanking party-routines R X Bandits, in one single Imperial Leisure
have saved Ska from the damage by The Ordinary Boys over two albums” -
subba-cultcha
Single of the month.
Friday
- Cardiacs head for Cardiff tonight
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 22nd
NOV - Three days left on that CARDIACS
tour, Portsmouth tonight, Cardiff on Friday then Leedson Saturday, then...
IMPERIAL
LEISURE's debut single continues to enjoy
healthy radio attention in the lead up to release date - next shows are
at Blissfields In TheCity @
Dirty South in Lewisham (South London) with SixNationState, Pistola, Blisskrieg
and more on December 8th and then the Christmas show at London's ULU on
December 13th where the boys are supported by The Jacks and the Jukebox
VILE
VILE CREATURES in a Christmas Bloodbath –
“The nights are drawing in, so on the 15th December about 8pm ish, come
and celebrate with us at our Christmas Bloodbath at the Castle Hotel, Oldham
Street Manchester. £3. Starring: EMILY
BREEZE [Bristol]"Emily Breeze comes on like
Elvis, Nick cave and Patti Smith playing a baptist preacher rolled in to
one..." Artrocker Magazine SAD
SHIELDS [London/Portsmouth] - Surfgrrrlmetal from the Pop UNDERGROUND
heroes... and us - VILE VILE CREATURES [Manchester] "brittle strings,
electric fingers and angry voices..." Plus kooler than f Danse Macabre
D.Js to play psychobilly/riot grrrl/rockabilly.... Needless to say, we
are VERY excited, it's going to be bloody, sleazy and very boozy, the perfect
antidote to the Christmas festivities. Xxx” Jenny. VILE
VILE CREATURES also play the Buffalo Bar (London)
alongside SHRAG on December 11th
21st
NOV -Taking things to new ears: CARDIACS
- DITZY SCENE (ORG) - Sounding like the nightmares in Frank Black’s mind,
Cardiacs make song writing exciting (subba-cultcha).
“If you could imagine a band aspiring to Arcade Fire, Flaming Lips and
Tool twenty years before any of said acts were around, then you’ll
get a feel for the almighty power of Ditzy Scene” (Manchester
Music – single of the week 5/5)
x |
| 20th
NOV - Hey now, massive thanks to everybody who braved the awful London
Monday night weather and those rainstorms that hit just before gig going
time. Thanks everyone, can’t be many new and genuinely independent bands
(who haven’t even got a release out until next month) who can pack out
avenue like that! The Metro was jumping right to back for IMPERIAL
LEISURE. The debut single is out on December
3rd – this is getting seriously exciting now. And how good were TO
THE BONES! They suddenly notched it up to
a completely new level, Bradford Cox from Deerhunter said they were like
Flipper after their show with Deerhunter last week - so they told me before
last night’s performance, “um, well that high praise, going a little far
though” I though - I mean Flipper! That’s before the Bones hit the stage!
What the hell happened? Before they were a raw young band with a demo that
made us want to put something out, they were raw and messy, there was obviously
something there, we weren’t expecting them to get that good that quickly
though! Hell! Yer man from Deerhunter was right! And BEE
STINGS kicked up some more of their serious
leftfield funk flavoured electro-edged dirty alt.rock/dance thing – that’s
twice they’ve played for us in the last two weeks and twice they’ve made
lots of new friends and impressed everyone. That was one hell of rainy
wet Monday night in London! Have we got the best new bands right here or
what!! Thanks everyone! These are really exciting times at ORG Records
You
can order your copy of the debut IMPERIAL
LEISURE CD single here
now, we're expecting this one to sellout very fast
CARDIACS
TOUR hits Stoke tonight, Manchester this Wednesday, Portsmouth on Thursday...
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| 15th
NOV - FREE GIGS, BUSY DAYS, things are stupidly busy, CARDIACS
head for Nottingham tonight, London tomorrow, Ditzy is flowing now, it
did in Bristol last night.Meanwhile IMPERIAL
LEISURE word is spreading now, first ever
national radio play last night on Radio One
and a very enthusiastic Colin Murray
- "A
tune of epic proportions....you'll be singing it for the rest of your life..."
You
can catch IMPERIAL LEISURE
at RoTa playing a free show on late Saturday afternoon - 17th Nov with
LITTLE
TROPHY or you can catch IMPERIAL
LEISURE next Monday 19th November at Metro
in Oxford Street (London) with support from
TO
THE BONES and special guests BEE
STINGS - we have a cheap guest list for that
one, want to get in for three quid? Just e.mail
your name to us.
14th
NOV - "I see that HERZOGA
have been listening to The Fall! Good... good.... this may be the best
band I've heard ...all day. Not a second is wasted on this crucial, inventive
unit. Think Art
Brutish
vox over Awful Sparksish quirkiness. So good infact, I might invite them
to join me to
CONQUER!
THE! UNIVERSE! FOR THE! REST! OF! TIME!!!" - Artrocker
So
2.00am and the ORG on road spy team have juat got back from Oxford, the
second night of the CARDIACS
tour was apparently even better than opening night in Brighton. The set
was different, they're in the zone now. Bristol tonight, Nottingham on
Thursday...
x |
 13th
NOV - Well Brighton was a stylish start - Made All Up and Gen and RES and
Silvery and... Tonight CARDIACS
are in Oxford, tomorrow is Bristol and Thursday is Nottingham, Friday in
London (then you can take the day off on Saturday and come to the free
late afternoon LITTLE TROPHY
(and special guests) gig at Notting Hill Arts Centre...
HERZOGA
are playing the Sugarmill in Stoke with HOT
HOT HEAT this coming Saturday 17th November,
that's the day after they play London with DONE
LYING DOWN - hear their latest recording over
on their MySpace page,
a demo track that's already been grabbing Radio One play. Meanwhile the
next Wrong Pop night
will happen in Herzoga's homelands of Stoke on December 9th, where they'll
be joined by CHARLOTTEFIELD, CODA and
INSIDE RIGHT
 Here's
a review from Losing Today magazine...
Cardiacs
‘Ditzy Scene’ (Org). - Let me just say that the minute this arrived in
our gaff it was immediately banged on the hi-fi with the volume cranked
up to overload much to amusement of the neighbours who for six minutes
had their tranquil no work today Saturday morning regime corrupted by the
impish delights of new ear gear from the Cardiacs. Unless of course you’ve
be blighted with being in a coma or else have been just listening to the
wrong types of records and music then the Cardiacs will need no introductions.
They are one of those bands for whom the word ‘genius’ is not lost whilst
arguably responsible for unwittingly forcing upon the nation Supergrass
who it appears have forged a profitable career in ripping them off
(only kidding lads) and the Pixies (just check out ‘Surfer Rosa’
kids - if you play it backwards you can hear the undeniable ‘we love
the cardiacs’ mantra festering between the groves). Without doubt the most
criminally overlooked band of the last 30 years what with all this nostalgic
fondness for rooting out lost causes from the past and elevating them to
the heady heights of mover and shaker - ville - the Cardiacs are routinely
denied the kudos they so richly deserve, instead they have become a
cult phenomenon that, for want of a better description, has spread with
cancerous glee. Limited to just 1,000 copies and sure to sell faster than
your ‘fuck me what was that’ disbelief upon hearing it ‘Ditzy Scene’
is the bollocks. A crooked carnival of lysergic sound, a surreally
fried musical opera whose roots are snared in the kaleidoscopic states
of the Pretty Things psyched out ‘S F Sorrow’. Within you’ll encounter
a bewildering smorgasbord of reference points and styles shoehorned for
your discerning delight - art pop, prog, pie eyed psychedelics and just
good time wilfully obscured wig flipping annoyance all converge to
coalesce into a mind melting maelstrom of fractured intent that manages
to submerge and weave into a kaleidoscopic dreamcoat elements of Barrett
era Floyd, the Move, King Crimson, Quickspace and Psychic TV while simultaneously
providing a one stop shop as though all the best elements found on
those Nuggets box sets had somehow been purified, melted down and pureed
into a seismic slice of tripped out oblivion. As though it could
be anything else - single of the missive (and perhaps the year I’m willing
to bet). LOSING TODAY MAGAZINE |
12th
NOV - That CARDIACS
tour starts tonight in Brighton, meanwhile if you haven't got the Ditzy
Scene single then time is running out, I'd mailorder
it right now if I were you. Are the these three new and previously unreleased
Cardiacs tracks on this single going to be on the new album? We honestly
don't know, there's a lot of new material on the way, if you want the tracks
and you don't want to pay silly ebay prices then act now...
10th
NOV - VILE VILE CREATURES
play Wrong Pop tonight (with BILGE PUMP
and SHERMER),
Wrong
Pop is the night run by Herzoga in Stoke-On-Trent – HERZOGA
meanwhile head to Vile Vile Creature’s homelands of Manchester for a gig
at the Cafe Saki in Rusholme tomorrow (Sunday11th Nov) and then head to
London for that Silver Rocket gig next Friday.
8th
NOV - We are now mere days away from that
CARDIACS tour, we are also just a week and
a bit away from the ORGAN LONG WEEKEND
- where Cardiacs, Little Trophy, Imperial
Leisure, To The Bones, and more will get up
to good things here in London - you can catch Little Trophy plus special
guests doing a free show over at RoTa, NottingHill arts club, doors at
4.00pm on Saturday 17th November. Imperial Leisure, To The Bones and special
guests are playing Oxford Street Metro on Monday 19th - we have a cheap
guest list for that one, want to get in for three quid? Just e.mail
your name to us. Full details tomorrow. Oh and PURE
REASON REVOLUTION droppppped the masters for
their new single in this morning, more news on that soon.
x |
|
7th NOV - TO THE BONES
hit Cafe Saki in Manchester tonight opening for the experience that is
DEERHUNTER
-
also on the bill are THE OSCILLATION
and THIS AIN'T VEGAS,
the Bones will also be in London on November 19th at Oxford Street's Metro
- more about that later. They have a new track up on their MySpace
page. To The Bones are also in Hull on November 16th |
 6th
NOV - HERZOGA
and DONE LYING DOWN
get in the Silver Rocket – That’s right, Silver
Rocket have another one of their nights over The Buffalo Bar, Highbury
London N1 (right outside the Highbury tube over by where they celebrate
a home draw like they’ve won the world cup). The event (and it is an event)
on Friday Nov 16th. Silver Rocket bills are always worth checking, good
music between bands as well - Rachel Discrimination plays leftfield
indie, rock, post-punk and new-wave, “think songs by the Pixies that aren't
Debaser, think outside the usual dull indie club playlist”. It all happens
from 8pm-4am. Bands until 12am. This month they have a killer bill (and
leave you with the do you go to the Astoria for Cardiacs or head to the
Buffalo Bar dilemma – damn those beautiful Silver Rocket people!). Two
ORG associated bands and two others we really like on the bill: DONE
LYING DOWN (who had a 7” out on ORG and played
lots of Organ gigs back there in the last century), the rather fine 4
OR 5 MAGICIANS (who’ve had both Organ demo
and single of the week reviews in recent times), those Wrong Popists HERZOGA
(who’s debut release is out now on ORG) and the rather tasty rotten apple
at thebottom of the barrel that is SLUDGEEAST....
DONE
LYING DOWN - formed In the autumn of 1992,
after singer Jack Plug (aka Jeremy Parker) relocated to the UK from his
hometown of Boston, Massachussetts, and met up with guitarist Frank Art,
bassist AliMac and drummer James "The Mez" Sherry. Between 1993 and
1996 they released 2 albums, 7 singles, recorded 3 sessions for John Peel
(scoring entries in the legendary Festive Fifty), played hundreds of shows
and gained much recognition by the music press (back when this really counted
for something). Now they live in different continents DLD generally only
get together on the internet to collaborate on various musical projects,
they are reuniting in London for this very rare show for Silver Rocket
(who are massive long term fans, I should say!)
“Amidst
even the most severe Done Lying Down song, you'll find cruel dashes of
intentional and very dark humour. Wild at heart and wired on top, they're
the best punk rock group on the entire planet" – NME - www.donelyingdown.com
/ www.myspace.com/donelyingdown
4 OR
5 MAGICIANS – “This band wrote to us about
50 times telling us they were great (say ther Silver Rocket team) . We
largely ignored them due to reasons of extreme busy-ness, like we do with
most requests from bands. Finally we had a listen. It turns out they were
right. If you ever liked Pavement, Superchunk, Sebadoh, Archers of Loaf
(basically any great American indie-rock) then you won’t go wrong with
4 or 5 magicians. - www.myspace.com/4or5magicians
HERZOGA
- Stoke three-piece making wrongpop, The Fall meets Girls Vs Boys meets
Wire. We’ve gone on about them at length already here, you should have
their debut split CD single by now - “Like early Art Brut wrestling
with a pub outing of psychiatrists” - Steve Lamacq “A blistering
set of twisted pop - think Sonic Youth meets Pavement and you're on the
way there” - BBC Radio Stoke - www.myspace.com/herzogaband
SLUDGEFEAST
- Deranged, intense (as in intensive-care), and compelling fuzzed-up filthy
stoner garage rock (like middle period Mudhoney with added mud). They sound
like an unholy combination of Mudhoney, Melvins, Ramones, Motorhead and
Kyuss. Very rarely seen sober, or indeed upright, Sludgefeast are pure
entertainment live. Their website describes this 3 piece as "f*cked up
rock feedback action direct from hell" - www.myspace.com/sludgefeast
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| 3rd
NOV - The new CARDIACS
single hits the shops on Monday, full track listing is: 1.Ditzy Scene,
2.Gen, 3.Made All Up. That's right, three new tracks, all previously unreleased
and as with all ORG-AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES
releases, limited to 1000 - a good numbe rhave already been pre-ordered
(so you are advised to mailorder - or better
still subscribe to the series and be continually
surprised with what drops through your letterbox - have you seen how much
those Brian Jonestown Massacre 20 trackers go for on E-Bay now?).
For
those of you who have been asking, we honestly don't know if these new
single tracks will be on the next album - there is a lot of new material
on the way right now. We know the new album will be along soon and there
could well be another single sooner than you might expect. Things are happening,
we're on the cusp. Meanwhile we are promised quite a variety of material,
old and new, on tour, we had a message from our spy in the Alphabet camp:
"hey guys... thought you might like to see these abominations! (don't tell
no one I sent em to ya!)". Here just for you then are three pieces of evidence
- one, two,
three...
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
SAT
24 - LEEDS WOODHOUSE LIBERAL CLUB
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| 1st
Nov - Start of the month, this is going to be a busy one! Twelve days until
that CARDIACS
tour, and a new single on the streets next Monday, your hungry mouths are
being fed!
IMPERIAL
LEISURE have just left London, off to South
Wales for a show in Newport at TJ’s tonight - onstage 10.30pm, Newport
you are about to be roasted - watch out streets of Newport, there’s no
way they’ll be able to resist playing somewhere before the actual show!
Good to hear The Beast on XFM this week!
And
good to hear the new HERZOGA
recordings getting a spin on Radio One last night (Huw Stephens) – release/label
details soon for that (lot of irons in fires over in Wrong pop land right
now) Herzoga just got confirmed for a show with old ORG friends (and indeed
ORG recording stars for a one off vinyl single back in the last century)
DONE
LYING DOWN - Silver Rocket show over
in Highbury (London) at the Buffalo Bar – arrghhhhhhhh, same night as Cardiacs
at the Astoria! 16th November – can someone remind me how to do that splitting
in two thing again please! 16th November is the start of the ORGAN 21st
birthday long weekend thing – watch this space – LITTLE
TROPHY at Rota (NottingHill Art Centre) on
Saturday 17th with very special guests will be a good one. More tomorrow,
we’re busy right now, this is the start of a chaotic November! Busy busy....
You can never have too many irons in the fire. Oh and don't forget
VILE VILE CREATURES doing one of Herzoga's
Wrong
Pop nights on the 10th November alongside BILGE
PUMP at the Glebe in Stoke on Trent.
30th
OCT 2007: Thanks to everyone who helped pack out the Borderline (again)
for the IMPERIAL LEISURE gig
last Friday - jumping again or what, is there anything better tha nthe
front of an Imperial Leisure gig right now! IMPERIAL LEISURE are off to
Wales for a gig at TJ's in Newport on Thursday 1st November. Meanwhile
all CARDIACS
pre-orders have been mailed out now, as have all ORG-AN-ISED
SINGLES SERIES subscribers packages
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