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Think
of it as nothing more than collateral damage and the boxing about of hares,
rabbits and irons in many many fires. The boss spoke, he said they were
getting it done, I told him to hurry up, the Dutch were yelling at us again,
he said mever mind us, the Imperials are better, get on with it we said!
Man on the street, how you feeling? Busy! More days in the week please.
The world is now divided in to two types of people – those who moan like
boring old blobs about Airbourne being nothing but a set of AC/DC copies
and those of us who jump fist in the air in to the pit and rejoice in the
beer soaked fact that there’s a new band out there who are full on in your
face Bon Scott good! Walls of Marshalls in the packed to bursting Borderline
- How good was that! They rocked, we want more! Interview and more around
these parts in a minute – if you can't get pumped-up excited at the front
of an Airbourne show then get out of here! And more Dr Slaggleberry and
a new Van Der Graaf Generator album and still clearing the Mouse out of
my hair and why are all these bands you put on your TV show so damn obscure
yelled the man on the phone as he demanded Hard Fi and Kaiser Chiefs...
Oh no, that’s not what we do... Girl on the street, how you feeling? Alright?
Alright, we’re heading for the weekend... .
These are the things that
have been in our ears this week, please explore and if it sounds interesting
then just hit the links and make your own minds up, our reviews and thoughts
are mere signposts designed to guide you to the things you might like to
feast on yourselves... don’t you just love the instant hit of the www. |
IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME? |
ANTI-RACISM
EVENT IN APRIL - Rock Against Racism are to hold a thirty year anniversary
celebration of the legendary Carnival Against The Nazis 1978. The event
is set to take place in London's Victoria Park on 27th April. Babyshambles
are expected to headline - 'expected' being a well chosen word, surely
he’ll be locked up by then? Other performers include Tom Robinson, whose
band headlined the event back in 1978. Derek Simpson, joint General Secretary
of Unite says: "Events like these that bring people together are vital
to helping suppress the threat we face from racist organisations. These
organisations are attempting to gain votes by playing off people's disenchantment
with politics and their insecurities".
CLUB
8 CLASSICS RE-ISSUED Labrador Records say they are rather
“proud to present the re-issues by one of Sweden’s most influential indie
pop bands. All four Club 8 albums released between 1998-2003 will be released
with bonus tracks, in original artwork. The band’s most recent beautiful
album was a recent album of the week around here back at the start of the
year... More from www.labrador.se
"If a lover's arms were as soft and sultry as the music on Club 8, returning
to them again and again would pose little conflict, and the same goes for
slipping into Club 8." Rolling Stone |
THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
IF
THIS WAS A TV WOULD YOU JUST PRESS MUTE?
Now look, we’ve blathered
on around here until we’re blue in the face for the last couple of years
about George Tabb and his appalling situation (and we ain’t about to stop
yelling yet). George Tabb is one of our own. George is an activist, an
old school underground zine guy, a contributor, a do’er, a punk rock writer,
an NY punk rock performer, part of the original Ramone gang, Roach Motel,
Furious George, the Maximum R’n R crew. It gets us that we don’t see the
entire zine/punk/DIY music family/community shouting about the situation
George finds himself in – some are shouting, not enough - where the hell
are you all?!!. This isn’t about the politics or the rights and wrong of
what happened and what or who caused it. For what this is all worth there
is no excuse or defense for what happened on that day that messed up George’s
life – however right or wrong US/Western foreign policy may be, what happened
was wrong – this is not about any of that though. This is about one
of our zine/underground/alternative music community who needs your/our/everyone’s
help and if we really are about a little more down here in the undergrowth
then let’s see it! I tell you if it had happen to me or you over here in
London or him or her over there where ever YOU are then people like George
would be kicking in and yelling and asking why no one in power was helping.
Why aren’t the US government looking after people like George anyway? Why
are they saying people like George aren’t still paying the price? Why should
George not be able to get the right medical help - he can’t pay the bills,
so hey, let him die and pretend it didn’t happen right. God bless America,
fine example the self-appointed leaders of the free world show the rest
of the planet – don’t seen to care much about their own so what hope blah
blah . So why was George told the air was OK and that he didn’t need to
worry about what he was breathing in? All he did was stick around and try
and help people caught up in the mess and chaos. And why the hell isn’t
the entire punk/alternative/zine community right around the world yelling
and asking and questioning and supporting and publicising the plight of
one of the originals? One of the guys that helped created this whole movement
in the first place – hell, without people like George showing us then there
probably wouldn’t be things like Organ to tell people about your band or
your zine or your little label - if you’ve never heard of George
then do it for us, George is part of the Organ family – we never met the
guy, we never spoke to the guy, well not until all this happened (well
we may have sent him some cash for a book or a slab on vinyl and her may
have scribbled a thank you note back and said thank for an Organ). So George
needs help and he need it right now before things are too late and he can’t
be helped no more...publicity is his oxygen, publicity his lifeline – come
on you DIY promotes, bands, webzines, activists – go explore, find out
for yourselves - www.myspace.com/helpgeorgetabb
– and while you at it check out this...
VARIOUS - HELP GEORGE TABB
(Psychic Hamster) - So some people are yelling, not enough, some are though,
this compilation album just landed here – yeah yeah I know benefit compilations
and people with their hearts in the right place – they always suck though
don’t they? Second rate bands, something you buy then leave to collect
dust over there in the corner. Ah shit, all my shouting, I almost didn’t
want to put this CD one on. I know, I’ll just be polite and use the time
to shout about George a little more – Nope! Told you about George already
– put George a little to the side for a moment, forget the cause and the
reason just for a second – this rules! What you have here is eighteen punk
rock tracks – some of them covers of old George Tabb songs (hey I didn’t
realise he wrote that one!), some new stuff, some original stuff – most
of it sounds like raw 70’s NY hardcore punk rock nihilism and beat on whatever
you got with that baseball bat – oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah...This is just
a great punk rock album! Most of the bands are names I never
heard before (or in some cases not even heard of before). Look, never mind
the cause, go get yourself the album – a punk rock treat of a collection.
Then go investigate some more – go investigate the cause, the bands, Mr
Tabb, then start a zine, put together your own comp, mail some money to
George, read his books, bring me the head of Ben & Jerry and all that
Grateful Dead ice cream had and biting that guitar head – You can’t replace
Joey Ramone but he comes pretty damn close. Band and such on here are:
Whole Hog, Mike Blanx (Blanks 77), Something Fierce, American Business
Machines, Two Man Advantage, The Adz, Norman Bates and The Showerheads,
Monica Nelson, Full Boar, Paul Ryder, Drunko, Mattithias, Nightime Dealers,
Pro-Ject:Radiation, Suburban Lockdown, Last Rate Service, The Bullitts...
“Comes with a really cool full color 8.5x14 art sheet. Sounds so good you'll
want to buy one for all your friends. Let's help George Tabb!” – Get the
album from - www.psychichamster.com
John on the phone... |
| ORGAN
ON YOUR RADIO - WEEKLY on SUNDAYS AT 9.00pm via RESONANCE 104.4FM in London
and worldwide via www.resonancefm.com
more details here |
ORGAN TV? |
ORGAN
TV is on your screens in the
UK right now. Every Wednesday evening, NOW
AT THE NEW TIME OF 9.30pm on the OPEN
ACCESS 2 Channel on SKY160. And now due to the fine response, repeated
every Sunday on SKY883 at 9.30pm.
This
coming Sunday we have the following videos...
THE
LOW LOWS - Dear Flies Love Spiders
IMPERIAL
LEISURE - In A Letter
HERZOGA
- Nice Car
TO
THE BONES - Tycho
COLT
- Never Know
ASSDROIDS
- Daft Crunk
GALLHAMMER
- World To Be Ashes
BEECHER
- Function! Function!
Next
Wednesday and Sunday we have...
EFTERKLANG
- Mirador
IMPERIAL
LEISURE - In A Letter
HERZOGA
- Nice Car
TO
THE BONES - Tycho
SLIPKNOT
- The Heretic
TITS
OF DEATH - Iron Nipples
GALLHAMMER
- World To Be Ashes
What's
it all about? Simple, just good music, and the art of good video making...
Same musical policy as we've always had with Organ - the labels are just
handy signposts, as long as the music and video making has that X factor
- expect a healthy eye/earboiling mix of metal, punk, prog, beats, post
rock, post punk, post man pat, hardcore, indie, alternative, pronk, whatever.....
music and creativity for the open minded
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Want
to get your video on? Well all you need to do is make us aware of what
you have, send us a link to your video on MySpace or You Tube or wherever,
or a VHS or a DVD and if you have something that we want to broadcast then
we'll chase you for a master broadcast format and wallop, sorted |
DEMO TIME |
We're
just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more time
for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective, when
we tell you it's good then it really is goooooooood
DEMO
OF THE WEEK
THE HAROLD WARTOOTH – Now
I love it when I don’t have to lift a finger, no sooner had we said we
needed to go check out more on the back of tasting the Wartooth on that
mighty fine Catacomb Records comp the other day than a package arrives
from North America – must have cost a fortune in postage, this is seriously
heavy music (from Toronto Canada). Six track cd, six full on psychedelic
stoner rock monsters fuzzed up and fused with excessive amounts of wholesomely
good for yer wah peddle action. They have a modern edge to them, Soundgarden
or Queens Of The Stone Age (Before the Queens went way off the boil), this
is full on retro stoner rock though, heavy rock! Big stuff – the full on
real deal with a little edge of their own - oh yes - as good as their name
said they would be! www.myspace.com/theharoldwartooth
DEMO
OF THE WEEK 2
COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
- Dark twisted slightly sinister squelchy bleep and jerk electro pop from
South London. They sound like they’re just as to likely to wrap you up
with black gaffa tape and torture you as play their poppy synths at you.
Twisted words, analogue keys, minimal hypnotic penetration, pop sensibilities,
some of those horny Molloy flavours. Lola Olafisoye is the teasing voice,
Issac Tucker on drums, Gabi Matzeu the synth wizard and Christina Borgi
on pulsing bass. Song tittles like Gimp, Black Bag, Bus Stop add to their
slightly sinister mystery – drum n’ bass rhythms, glitching, twitching,
squelching... something good brewing up here... www.myspace.com/cosmicmicrowavebackground
ALSO
CHECK OUT
KIDNAPPER BELL – An Anglo
American band from Birmingham – we’re assuming from the stamps on the package
that’s the Midlands of England and not Alabama. They make intelligent colourful
ambitious and rather original left-field indie rock. The three of them
clearly have a little ambition and a little more desire than your average
indie rock band. Hints of My Vitriol in those breezy atmospheric textures,
My Bloody Valentine via some kind of alternative US feel – Fugazi, Husker
Du – delicate edginess, creamy interludes, finely detailed, clever, melodic,
easy... Neat packaging as well, came wrapped in a rather impressive hand-made
CD cover, made out of wallpaper, wax sealed – all very impressive and well
worth our time and yours – www.myspace.com/kidnapperbell
Last
week's demo of the week - EATEN BY TIGERS
Previous
demo's of the week - MOLLOY
/ THE ATROCITY EXHIBIT
/ 2 OUT OF 3 RULE
/ THE JACKPOT GOLDEN BOYS
/ FANTAPLASTIC
/ YONATAN NIV /
INNER
RAGE / NAVEL
/ FILTHY HABITS
/ LITTLE TROPHY
/ THE ORIENTALISTS
DEMO
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK |
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week the best new things we’ve been listening to were...
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
SON LUX – At War With Walls
& Mazes (Anticon) - There’s an otherworldy ethereal whispered quality
that eases you in to this expressively rewarding piece of work. At War
is a deceptively easy knowing work that’s actually in reality is very busy
and bursting with organic goodness. The artistic challenge you come to
expect from the consistently good Anticon people – a label that you know
are never going to settle for the same old thing. A forever evolving musical
outlook, clever textures, sublime beats, classical ambience and a work
that without really shifting that much and almost without you noticing,
evolves in to delicate songs as those seductively soulful vocals
come in - and then, just as unobtrusively give way to lush strings and
something far more avant post-rock oriented – born of hip-hop composition,
revolving around single piano notes. A drawn string here an echo there,
a plaintive female voice... They will wither, always.... “Classically trained
and rewired by his own hands”. Ryan Lott, for this is his project, is a
frequent collaborator, occasional curator and “consummate man behind the
curtain”, this is him emerging at the front of something rather challengingly
different – and more importantly, something rather beautifully easy to
lose yourself in, something to really connect with. Operatic, classical,
other-rock, very accessible high-art and the turning of ideas on to heads
and taking them all in a different way – and somehow for all the rewarding
challenging At War is a classical piece of other pop music - post-rock,
post hip-hop, post whatever. An alternative palate, aural hues, arranged
as much around rhythm as melody. Snippets of this, bites of that, filtering
through the radio waves, pulsing orchestration, transcendent beauty, always
the beauty shining through and pulling you up there with it. This really
is something different, something special, something inspiring, challenging
and most of all something to put on repeat and just simply enjoy again
and again. www.myspace.com/sonlux
available in the UK via www.southern.net
ALSO
CHECK OUT
TALK – Reset Start Again
(Fortune & Glory) - Meticulous, rich sound, fresh, rather different,
beautiful detailed. Sublime glitch and bleep - clean-cut, refreshing, tingling,
delicate sound, songs that lift, coherent warmth, a refined blend of analogue
and digital (and some clever use of found sound, creaky doors, gameboys,
broken organs, scraping of cardboard). This is a beautiful album, a cerebral
massage – beautiful voices, delicate sounds, embracing songs – compelling.
Hypnotic electronica, delicate indie rock, and none of it ever becomes
anywhere near disjointed – opposing realities delightful refreshingly harmonised.
Talk are clearly perfectionists - meticulously placed beats, clear attention
to detail - a fine album that embraces everything and pulls it all together
as one – organic soundscapes, traditional songs, refined digital glitch
– rather beautiful, rather recommended. www.myspace.com/commutermayhem
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FUNERAL
CRASHERS – La Fin Absolue Du Monde (self release) – The rather fine New
York post-punk dark wave proper edgy 80’s flavoured goth band have released
their debut album – and good it is! Former Demo Of The Week band around
these part and good to see them just getting on and putting out a top quality
full on album themselves. Think classic Cure/Joy Division/Bauhaus
flavoured high adventure from these positively dangerous days before Goth
became a parody of itself. Indeed they do have a New York edge, along with
a little bit of knowing swagger, they know they’re good. Dark glam and
Jesus And Mary Chain and songs that stick around a little longer - and
yes it is a seething pit of anti-despair and auto-erotic disconnection
and empty rooms and still nothing left at the murder scene and wired...
so so wired - and we are all under surveillance and sticky heat. Classic
forward looking goth flavoured New York post rock and rather recommended.
www.funeralcrashers.com
THE HIGH WIRE – Ahead Of
The Rain (Impatio Sound) – More dreamy creamy hazy pop and another chance
to use all the lazy words that delightful albums and fine new bands like
this require – breezy, dreamy, shoe gazing bliss and glorious soft-focus
delight, warm, lush, delicately orchestral, effortless (although I’m sure
it wasn’t), beautifully girl-voiced bitter sweet melancholia and just so
adorably good. They’re from London and this is their perfect debut album
Gorgeous – www.myspace.com/thehighwire
THE DIVINE BAZE ORCHESTRA
– Once We Were Born (Record Heaven) – Great big over the top self-indulgent
slices of full on preposterously good 70’s Hammond (over)driven Mellotron
fused hard-rocking old school prog action that occasionally veers off in
to weird jazz-fusion. For you disciples of Deep Purple, The Mahavishnu
Orchestra, the mighty Uriah Heep (or the even Mightier Boosh). They’re
from Sweden – listen to those ovulating organs! Those filthy Hammond
sounds, the smell of raw Lesley speaker and burning Taurus peddle – the
full on real deal, prog as f.... www.recordheaven.net
BIRDBATH – And Then (Ingue)
– Slightly itchy rather twitchy lo-fi indie post-rock. Seems the Bristol
band have been around (albeit rather stutteringly) since their teenage
days of 1994. Rather original sounding mathy adventure of a Cove, Charlottefield,
Truman’s Water, Rob Crow, Slint nature, maybe an easier far more fragile
(and English) Cheer Accident, and maybe a little psychedelic in a black
and white technicolour kind of way here and there when they have a mind
to be. Birdbath have a little edge of their own and just when you think
you have them worked out, they go and throw in a nice little alternative
rewarding curveball or two – well worth your time - www.myspace.com/birdbath
or www.myspace.com/inguerecords
GRAND ARCHIVES – The Grand
Archives (Sub Pop) – Dreamy Americana, floaty indie pop hope and folky
steel peddle guitar illumination. A brightly glowing gentle album – rather
delightful in an unassuming way - www.subpop.com
PITCHBLEND – The Lines Of
Unreason (Sugar Shack) - Their epic slabs of big intention have finally
materialised in album form. Extremely melodic, blissful, bold, big alternative
rock. Been a while in coming, quite some time (years?) since we said of
a demo “intelligent box-fresh forward looking metal-edged creativity
of the highest order”. Time has moved on and a lot has flowed under
the musical bridge and right now in 2008 the Pitchblend sound may not be
quite as “box-fresh” with their mix of emotional indieness and post-rock
epicness as they may have been back there. A couple of years of line up
problems and such and others who were feeding off the same inspirations
may have got there first. Still sounding fine though, very fine. The one
problem I have with this album is that every song heads in pretty much
the same blissfully-epic shuddering big-rock direction - same state of
anthemic emotion, same expansive textures, same moody intent, same accent
on that vocal delivery – same Sigur Ros meets My Vitriol/Muse flavours
– a fine sound but of for a slight change of texture and pace - a
small point though (hasn’t held back U2 has it – actually they have a bit
of U2 about them). And now they’ve got the difficult first album out of
the way they’re undoubtedly bursting to get on with more and make up for
lost time. Great big melodic emotional indie rock slabs of uplifting hope
that burns away. Nice one Pitchblend – www.pitchblend.com
ACHENAR – All Will Change
(Earthen) - A body of work that takes in large scale clanking industrial
soundscapes, machine driven darkness and twitching jerking machines that
now and again give way to passages of more post-rock flavoured clarity
– www.earthenrecords.com
FAMILY MACHINE – You Are
The (Alcopop) – Melodic acoustic based English indie pop – breezy, polite,
mellow, uplifting, relaxed, crafted, simple – simple in that clever uncluttered
way simple things very often are – the art of good songs and sometimes
that’s all you really need – www.myspace.com/thefamilymachine
TO-MERA – Delusions (Candlelight)
- Ambitiously bombastic female voiced great big classical euro-prog laced
with sky-high gothic intent. Powerfully good if you like you Evanescence
style taken a few progressive steps further in to the land of the riff-packed
over the top epic. Relentless is the word... www.to-mera.com
CITIZEN KEYNE – Ungreat Britain
(DRB) - Angry rage against what ever the hell you have punk rock from Milton
bleedin’ Keynes – rant against Great Britain (“it’s a pile of shit),
government, bosses, car boot sales, lager, people who don’t shut the door,
reality TV, the price of tomato sauce - ranting sneering Cockney mockney
voiced old school shout-a-long street punk. Pistols, Rejects, Sham. “Gordon
Brown, F**king clown, B*llox”, leave us along we’ll lead our own lives
– I think you get the picture, I think you know where the like of them
are at. Bring back national service and a good clip around the ear, people
were more respectful before that Sid Rotten, call the Daily Mail, I blame
the schools and television and.... You want it, then they got it;
ranting swearing angry snotty sneering riffed up punk rock. They do their
basic no messing chosen thing well enough – www.myspace.com/citizenkeyne.
FAVEZ – Bigger mountains
Higher Flags (Gentlemen) – A bold kind of alt.rock Springsteen, Tom Petty,
Hot Water Music kind of thing - www.favez.com
OPEN THE SKIES – Conspiracies
(Rising) “Surrey-based Open The Skies describe themselves as melodic
post-hardcore screamo” and I guess that’s just about right. I don’t know,
why do bands want to be this obvious about everything? If you like their
description then go investigate and make your own mind up, we’re out of
here before something gets broken or I find that emo/scream shotgun I keep
handy for occasions like this, they’re as obvious as their own description
– www.opentheskies.com
DON AIREY – A Light In The
Sky (Mascot) – One of the classic hard rock keyboard players, best know
for his time in Colosseum II and Rainbow as well as following Jon Lord
in to both Whitesnake and current band Deep Purple. This is a mix of 70’s
based instrumental Hammond led ELP style classical prog and Free/Whitesnake
style hard rock songs. Nothing that ground-breaking or different, decent
enough 70’s hard rock, people from Thunder and such helping out...www.mascotrecords.com
STATE RADIO – Year Of The
Crow (Ruff Shod) - Great artwork, crows sharing Anarchic political literature
with other garden birds, them crows know the score, ask the Twisted Crowman
– we’re always up for a little crow anarchy. Now I have to say the music
didn’t grab at first (and if I’m honest it still isn’t really) and I hadn’t
really looked closely at that good looking artwork but then sometimes things
aren’t that instant – and those lyrics started seeping through and all
the questions and arguments and hang on a minute – we need a band like
this. Musically we’re talking REM, the polite side of Joe Strummer, a hint
or two of reggae and Bob Marley and something that people probably would
have called Mid West alternative American college rock back in the last
century. They sound like they would have been all over MTV somewhere around
1993. Just good to hear a politically charged American band who sound like
they could get themselves right there in the middle of the mainstream and
throw out a healthy question or provoke a thought or two... www.stateradio.com
MAGNUM – Wings Of Heaven
Live (SPV) – A live set that takes in the entire Wings og Heaven
album along with some classics and songs from the recent to form that was
the Princess Alice album – that classic English AOR pomp rock bounce that
you couldn’t possibly mistake for anyone else. They’re an acquired taste,
some may say a guilty pleasure - if you’re one of the guilty then
this is a decent enough double live set, decent versions of all your favourites
– How Far, All England’s Eye, Kingdom Of Madness... www.magnumonline.co.uk
STIGMA – When Midnight Strikes
(Pivotal) Frothing boiling puss-spurting extreme deathcore metal from Italy
and a packed-to-busting throw-everything-in-there debut album laced with
musical brutality. Out on Florida’s Pivotal label, I guess if they’re
good enough for the Florida death-heads then they’re good enough for you
and me. OK so originality is high on their list of priorities here and
the bombastic relentlessness of it does get a little tedious after a while
– but hey, when your head is in gear then you’ve got some primed modern
full on deathcore – www.stigmahc.com
ANDRE MATOS – Time To Be
Free (SPV) – Debut solo album from the ex Angre/Shaman/Viper frontman.
The Brazilian is acknowledged by those in the know as one of the finest
voices in metal. Apparently he nearly got the job of replacing Bruce in
Maiden back in 1993, on the shortlist of three before they opted for the
far less obvious option of Blaze Bayley so it seems... This
is bombastic classically edged melodic pomp metal and if you like your
Maiden buttered on the Europe/Angre side of life then I guess this is good
– it wouldn’t really be first thing we’d on the CD player around these
parts, but hey, it came in, we listened, we told you about it, our job
is done here – www.andrematos.net
ALBUM
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
LIVE |
SPIT
LIKE THIS / MOUSE – Diablesse @ Lark In The Park, London, 10th Feb – Oh
now where the hell to start? Where to start indeed! With a mop? The London
Fetish Fair happens once a month, every second Sunday, over at Shillibeer’s
- Diablesse is the after-fair come-down party thing up the road at the
Lark – music, bands, dungeons, red drapes, boys in high heels, girls in
big boots, militant punk rock trannies in St Pauli shirts... Spit
Like This are a defiantly healthy shock rock throw back. Four of them,
looking good and sounding even better. Classic punked-up no messing shock-rocking
glam metal stomp – think Madam X, early Crue, Wolfsbane, Misfits, Alice
Cooper, early days of Poison, Twisted Sister (before things got all MTV
slick), think all that and stick in a great big blender with some London
X factor, shake it all up, stir it just a little and throw it all right
back up along with all the fake stage blood and the soiled tampon damage.
Painted leather, big black hair, even bigger attitude - smoke machines,
riffs, fluorescence colour, Ant-beats, lurid skulls, theatrics and everything
as over the top as it could possible be – no one does it quite like Spit
Like This! Horror glam punk rock is what they call it and on stage is where
it all comes to larger than life reality. This is not twee indie music
for the faint hearted! Lord Zion up front demanding attention, Vikki Spit
driving things with her meaty bass lines, Cyndi Rott with the punk-metal
riffs and Vile Gilez banging the beat. – the four of them are just one
big brash shock-metal riot-ball rolling right on at you and assaulting
all your senses at once... They roar through their short set (this is a
club more than a regular full-on gig), that slice through an outrageous
helping of Sweet Transvestite Rocky Horror Picture Show - riffs fly, hair
flies, audience participation is demanded , strobes erupt, rock is shocked
and once again Spit Like This more than live up to their growing word-of-mouth
live reputation... See ‘em if you dare.
Now last time we encountered
the delights of performance artist Mouse, we were at the Ron
Athey/Lee Adams
curated Revisions Of Excess festival (in Birmingham), tonight she does
her naughty little poodle performance again. Emerging from wherever she
emerged from on all fours in pink poodle underwear - her underwear didn’t
last long and the naughty little doggie proceeded to push a plastic bib
from – well where could a naked doggie-girl possible keep her folded up
plastic bib hidden? Oh look, I really don’t want to tell you, to know is
to be warned, to be warned is to miss out on... there was a giant can of
dog food that she... sparklers stuck in... soapy water squirting out of...
funnels.... spraying all over the audience... those of us in the know knew
to retreat just a little, those who didn’t got rather wet... she can certainly
squirt that water a long way!
And with the entertainment over, and the mess mopped up, Diablesse kicked
in again....
www.spitlikethis.com,
www.londonfetishfair.co.uk |
Live
previously - GRANTURA
/ TO THE BONES /DäLEK
/ DESTRUCTO STORMBOTS / GUAPO
/ MOLLOY / CREEDLE
/ GOBSAUSAGE / THE
BRIAN JACKET LETDOWN / CARDIACS
/ BEE STINGS /HAPPY
PENGUIN HUNGRY BEAR
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SINGLE
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SILVERY
– Horrors (Blow Up) – Much anticipated new single from the London band
and more of their very English fairground infectiousness – think Sparks,
think spinning on the waltzers at the fair in the lights of night, think
XTC, candy floss and toffee apples, brightly painted hobby horses, think
Ziggy Stardust, Parklife/Poplife style Blur goodness. They’ve been one
of London’s best kept secrets for a little while now, packed out gigs in
Camden and such, building a genuine following and a really worth of mouth
flow. Silvery make timeless English pop music, a slighty quirky edge, nothing
that ever stops that pop flow though. They have a slightly eccentric charm,
a bright palette, those not quite pristine bandsman uniforms and those
chiming keyboards. The debut album is not far away now, this should more
than wet your appetite – www.blowuprecords.com
or www.myspace.com/silverytheband
ALSO
CHECK OUT
DENNIS
HOPPER CHOPPERS – Listening To MC5 (D Wink) – Second single from Ben Nicholls’
debut album Chop – Ben Nicholls is Dennis Hopper Choppers, a modern day
one man band, this is more of his psychedelic sub-terrainian garage blues
and quirky keyboards and Easy Rider reverberation and every cult late 60’s
/ early 70’s sun-flared Woodstock generation movie ever... Road movies,
Two Lane Black Top, Lee Hazelwood, Jack Nicholson on the back of that bike
in the American football helmet, swinging London... www.dennishopperchoppers.com
LES
SAVY FAV – Patty Lee/The Sweat Descends (Wichita) – In which they get tied
to the headboard of Patty Lee’s bed and get further in to the indie pop
party. Is it me or do they sound like Big Audio Dynamite this time around?
The pop side of idiosyncratic? Wake me up when we get to heaven signs the
voice in classic Pixies style - www.lessavyfav.com
MENOMENA
– Rotten Hell (City Slang) – Doesn’t feel like any kind of rotten hell
to these ears - if this hell where's my ticket please. Delicate life-light
alternative brightness and classic whispered multi-voiced harmonised American
indieness from Portland Oregon. A song that quietly builds and builds...
www.myspace.com/menomena
Last
week's single of the week - PICTURES / STE
McCABE
Previously
- THE DEATH SET / KUNK
/ DR SLAGGLEBERRY / HERZOGA
/ THE DROPKICK MURPHYS / ONE
MORE GRAIN / PLAAYDOH / HELLO
WEMBLEY / UNDERWORLD
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CANDLEMASS
– Ancient Dreams / Tales of Creation (Peaceville) – Two classic rock/metal
albums from the 80’s re-issued with bonus discs, videos, demo tracks and
all the whistles and bells you expect with these re-issue things. Epic
doom, mighty and highly influential and still sounding as good today as
they did back there (most metal doesn’t really date that well does it,
only the real classic can sound really this fresh). And how good were they
back there! Those doom dancing lessons from the larger than life Messiah
Marcolin down Wardour Street – Candlemass at the Marquee was one of the
very best gigs from back then. Their third and fourth albums then, epic
atmospheres and highly influential and still rather unique – no one else
has quite got near that mix of epic doom and classic atmospheric prog filled
hard rock... www.peaceville.com
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- MORVISCOUS / CURRENT
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/ STRIBORG / THE
WEIRDOS / THE MOB / ARSONISTS
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MEDIA, VIDEO, PRINT AND.... |
PREVIOUSLY
- PELICAN /
GIANT
PAW /
AURAL
INNOVATIONS / PARALLEL
WORLDS, PARALLEL LIVES TV documentary / NEVER
MIND THE SEX PISTOLS: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY – DVD / THE
ZINE DIRECTORY / BATH
BOMB / NEMESIS
TO GO #4 / DVD:
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ORGAN
243 - SURROUNDED, BALTIC FLEET, PICTURES, LIGHT PUPIL DILATE, RAFTER,
RICHARD SWIFT, EFTERKLANG, STE McCABE, EATEN BY TIGERS, AUTOCOIL, SEEDS
OF DOUBT, STAGECOACH, ALEC K REDFEARN, CHANGING MODES, JUNKBOY, THE ALPS,
FLESH EATING FOUNDATION, EBONY ARK, PORCUPINE TREE, SUICIDAL WINDS, THE
CROW CLUB, GRANTURA, THE DeRELLAS, ALICE AND THE MAJESTY, MORVISCOUS...
ORGAN
242 - CHRIS SCHLARB, DANAVA, BAUHAUS, THE DEAL WAS FOR THE DIAMOND,
FIGHTING WITH WIRE, THE DICKIES, TUSK. PELICAN, ORCHARD TRIP, COBWEB, THE
LOVED ONES, AVERSE SEFIRA, ATLANTIS, THE HUGUENOTS, FACEBREAKER, ASCENSION
OF THE WATCHERS, THE DEATH SET. KUNK, THE BLAKES, YOUNG HOLLYWOOD, CURRENT
93...
ORGAN
241 - Out in print right now, FEB 2008 edition
ORGAN
240 - NADA SURF, HARLOTS, THIS IS HELL, DYNAMITE 8, TO THE BONES, HERZOGA,
LOS, DR SLAGGLEBERRY, THE $HIT, MOLLOY, CHALOU SAINT JUDE, FABONACCI, AGES
OF STONES, THE SOUND OF THE CATACOMBS, TYPE O NEGATIVE...
ORGAN
239 - TIME OF ORCHIDS, ATLAS SOUND, PLASTIC TOYS, EVANGELICALS, DRIVE
BY TRUCKERS, ROTTEN SOUND, LOS SALVADORES, THE ATROCITY EXHIBIT, THE HYENAS,
ENDORPHINS, BEYOND THE VOID, DäLEK, DESTRUCTO STORMBOTS, GUAPO, THE
DROPKICK MURPHYS, INTERVURT....
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