The second and third films from from the excellent musical beast called Helium Horse Fly, those of you who have been paying attention this week will know the band filmed liver versions of all the pieces from their impressive new album Hollowed and that they’re releasing one film a day, footage of them playing live…
Bikini Kill have confirmed their first London show in years and years, over 20 years so it says here. The show will take place at Brixton Academy on June 10, the band will play a one-off show in the UK following the recent announcement that they had reunited for a trio of live shows in…
Organ Thing of The Day: “While waiting for Hollowed to be released we had some time on our hands, so we went back to Blend Studio (where we recorded the album) with a few video cameras and filmed live versions of almost all songs that are on Hollowed. “We’ll release the videos during the next…
The intention always was, whatever the thought on the show after the hoopla of the opening night, the intention always was to go back without all the noise and the distraction, to go and quietly look again in the cold light of day, to this time watch the film and to actually sit and read…
“I’ve just put up a post at Sofasound about a live box set which is going to be released on the 29th of next month. Gallows humour, eh?” so announced Peter Hammill via his Twitter feed “And now, ladies and gentlemen, news of the release of a project on which I’ve been working for most…
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo – Oscar ‘Zeta’ Acosta (Tangerine Press) – “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.,,,”, that oft quoted (or misquoted) opening line from Hunter S Thomson’s classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas it turned Oscar ‘Zeta’ Acosta into some…
Organ Thing of the day; the rather leftfield beauty of Mothers and their recently released Render Another Ugly Method, an album alive with simple cleverness, with bright colours and beautiful discordance that never ever gets awkward, here it is via their Bandcamp, you really don’t need our words… . We choose to share this today…
Cover bands, tribute bands and the rest, they were cool for a couple of minutes back there way back before they started cluttering up every venue and well, no, we don’t need most of ’em, but we do need Black Sabbitch and those excellent videos they keep posting from old Louisiana train yards or new…
“We were encouraging each other to be who we believed ourselves to be all the time” – Grian Chatten, lead vocals, Fontaines D.C. Monday Monday, a hint of the Spring and sun in the air, the weekend was mostly about pomegranates, lemons and a lime, that and fresh air, here’s some Big Sir, this album…
This is Not This Heat, the band who have been recently taking the glorious sound and songs of This Heat one step forward with some of the best live performances by anyone in recent times (no hyperbole there then), that Barbican performance from 2017 is still playing in our heads, have announced one more final…
TRACEY EMIN, A Fortnight of Tears – White Cube, Bermondsey, London SE1, opening night, 5th Feb 2019 – There’s a buzz in the air walking down Bermondsey Street in the cold and the rain, there’s crowds of people all heading in the same direction, feels more like a medium sized rock concert rather than the…
Organ Thing of the Day, a rather quick one today, kind of been that kind of year so far, kind of. the now 70-year old Larry “Ratso” Sloman has announced a debut album ‘Stubborn Heart’ and shared new duet with Nick Cave on line, there it is right there. Always an “interesting” writer, here’s the…
