Thing of the Day
Sturdy Wind-Up Birds
December 4th 2010
Today is our birthday... Organ
is twenty four today, twenty four years ago this very day the first
ever issue of Organ fanzine was spray painted and went on sale… A one
off ‘zine just for the creative hell of it or so we thought. We won’t
dwell on the day today, perhaps next year? Today we shall just get on
with the kissing of big ugly sharks, the spreading of filth, the
contacting and the switching of the other (while the sound of Webcore
drives forward from the Organ bunker) and in the spirit of the ever
evolving Organ, for courage and for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be good
as well, here are some thing(s) of the day…Next year we’ll have a
party…maybe?
SINGLE: THE WIND-UP BIRDS
– Courage, For Tomorrow Will Be Worse (Sturdy) – A new four track EP
from the ever spiky, ever feisty, gloriously cantankerous Wind-Up
Birds. Last time we wrote about how “these are vacuous times and
scathing satirical bite is what we need to transcend the mundane flow
of the match via the barstool and a pint of chemical froth and notions
of meathead Engerland and think Our Friends In The North, think the
bite of Mark E Smith and Morrissey and the contradiction that that
thinking throws up… brilliant” – I suspect they liked our words about
their words, they put that quote at the top of their press release
(along with some equally positive quotes from our friends at places
like Subba-cultcha, Unpeeled and such)… Seems their last single caused
a bit of a fuss… and here they are again, equally as spiky and sounding
as good second time around as they lay into town planning, into Tesco
megastores killing town centres and 
independent record shops with the
supermarket selection of blandest lowest common denominator... I guess
the public get what the public want and our towns are dying and the
call centres are hell and targets and slogans and despite deceptive
appearances we weren’t fooled by your slum clearances.. Or were we?
Northern accents, Half Man Half Biscuit, Wedding Present, The Fall, it
was a dodgy transformer. 21st century consumerism, northern town life,
and the forgotten souls who get left behind, A very northern Carter USM
and once again things to say. Now if only there was a good town centre
record shop left to go buy this from…
Courage is out on Sturdy Records on December 6th – www.sturdy-records.co.uk or www.thewindupbirds.co.uk or /www.myspace.com/thewindupbirds
Also out now on Sturdy Records now, is a rather refined slice of energy in the shape of a two tracker from The Sequins
SINGLE: THE SEQUINS
– Man Alive/On The Streets Of Japan - a classic double a-side single
that you could quite happily stick on repeat like you once did with
those classic seven inchers. The Sequins have a rich indie pop feel, a
touch of Roxy Music, a hint of a more innocent, less
“look-at-us-aren’t-we-cool” Ultrasound. The pop feel of early Pulp, a
touch of Sparks or Family’s Roger Chapman in those ‘stop-motion’ vocals
that work so well with that busy guitar to create a near-religious
fervour. They have some fine kind of harmonised energy going on, they
have lots of good things going. Galloping indie pop, silky smooth, full
bodied, easy on the ear and such is life they said, man alive, not
dead, a slightly glammy wistfulness, the flow of Magazine, Orange
Juice, maybe even a touch of Queen (or Scaramanga Six?) Good good, all
good, all sturdy – www.thesequins.co.uk…
