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ORGAN THING: Theo Gorst’s not quite ordinary life at Liminal Gallery, Margate – intriguing work that does feel like it might be just left of the right (or maybe wrong) side of…

Theo Gorst at Liminal Gallery, Margate, August 2026 – Well we happened to be in Margate, we’ve mentioned that already with the previous piece and the fact that the weekend just past took us to the seaside to see a man about a beautiful 1937 LNER railway Art Deco flavoured observation coach (we did already say…

ART

ORGAN: Countdown to the 2026 Art Car Boot Fair, 18 days to go – Catching up with Margot of Margate, AKA artist Margot McDaid and all her colour…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: This is a beautiful album, a compelling album, a deep dark rich inviting intriguing album, a beautifully shaped body of work. Anyx, aka Berlin-based artist, musician and vocalist Anna Lucia Nissen has released her debut solo album, almost certainly one of the albums of the year…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Kraanerg’s adventurous kind of maximalism, London-based multidisciplinary artist Lim Orion, more of Perennial’s modernism, Flowers Must Die, Natural Information Society, a group who represent a convergence of musicians and artists who create sonic harbour, meditative space and kinetic momentum music are at Cafe Oto this week and…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Down that prog rock rabbit hole again, this time with new albums from Pallas, Papangu, Stealing The Fire, Trippy Fawx and…

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ART, Today’s Slice of Art

ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 9) – Today a painting called Cornucopia and an artist by the name of Eleanor Johnson, a British painter whose works “explore the body as a site of transformation, instability and continual revision”…
ART

ORGAN THING: Subject Object at Terrace Gallery, East London – an intriguing group show if people would just get out of the damn way and anyway, who painted what? What is the point of a group show like this?
ART, Today’s Slice of Art

ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 8) – The countdown to the 2026 Art Car Boot Fair, 29 days to go, today a fresh slice of Nick Grindrod’s colour…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Canada’s Concrete Vehicles cut ties and head this way for East London’s All Points East Festival with Deftones and a whole load of UK and European dates besides…
ART

ORGAN: The countdown to the 2026 Art Car Boot Fair, 30 days to go – Today the full list of participating artists for the always exciting London event has been announced…
MUSIC

Albums albums albums: Sweeping Promises’ new wave post punk delivered in just the right way by people clearly doing it the right way, Queen Elephantine’s psychedelic sludge, Maya Ongaku, Cartilage, Mono’s Martin Virgo on a piano, Pylar’s genre pushing extreme metal…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: And so, at long long last, Panixphere release an (excellent) album and with it another chapter of that Ring/Cardiacs story that…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Shearwater’s New World, their new album; entrancing, alive with a natural beauty, a curiosity, they’ve always had that gentle power, they really don’t need to make a big noise about any of it…
ART

ORGAN: We’re saddened to read the news, shared by Flowers Gallery this morning, of the passing of wonderful Welsh painter Kevin Sinnott…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Five Music Things – The Black Wizards, Wormshot just landed here, Shearwater featuring Laurie Anderson, Marina Herlop, Joyeria and…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Today South London-based multidisciplinary artist Clara Mann announced a new album Wishbone, she also shared this rather beautiful lead single…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: The Yummy Fur have a new album, something that is fast forward condensed and good, something in the middle of something you’ll want to be in the middle of, this is still very much The Yummy Fur but but but is there (even) more to it and them this time?
MUSIC

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Detriot’s Protomartyr with an epic start to the next album, new Panixphere to ring in your ears, les Dynamite Shakers c’est une énergie rock mêlant électricité, The Barbarians of California, New York power pop outfit Joy Buzzer do a Beatles thing rather well and…
ART, Today’s Slice of Art

ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 7) – Back at the start of this century Tom Phillips created a series of oil collages from tiny fragments of used disposable paint palettes…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Sweeping Promises and another spiky piece of their short sharp proper pop music, Fathom Codex, Roxanne de Bastion and a shock to the system, is that new Tombouctou? That Dismiss tour opens tonight and…
ART, film, MUSIC

ORGAN THING: A rather wonderful almost eight hour film of a live performance of Hen Ogledd’s excellent Discomboduration…
ART, Today’s Slice of Art

ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 6) – David Dawson’s glorious light, his greens and greys that are never quite just green or grey, those greens and greys are just right…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: So, last night’s Prog Rock Prom at London’s Royal Albert Hall with Peter Hammill, Carl Palmer and bits of Van Der Graaf, Gentle Giant, Genesis, King Crimson and more then. Was it any good? Well…
ART

ORGAN THING: Seeking New Landscapes at Flowers, Cork Street, London with Ken Currie, David Dawson, David Hepher, Lucy Jones, Tom Phillips, Bianca Raffaella, Tai Shan Schierenberg and more…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Kirk Barley with a rather refreshing first taste of a new album, Bedmaker and some deliciously raw footage from a very recent show in Washington DC, more Chris Irregardless, Anyx is the solo project of Berlin-based composer and performance artist Anna Lucia Nissen, a short sharp couple of blasts of Modernism from Perennial…

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