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ORGAN PREVIEW: Throbbing Gristle’s 50th Anniversary – TG50, an event at the ICA on the anniversary of that legendary Prostitution show has just been announced…

We bring you this preview from Organ bunket halfway between Martello Road and Beck Road here in Hackney where are constantly reminded of the history… TG50 will be a celebration of Throbbing Gristle, it will be taking place at the ICA on 18th October 2026, London 50 years after their incendiary live performance on 18th…

MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Taking the what? Today, the band known as Piss have just shared their first offering from their new album. She, Taylor Zantingh, has spent nearly all her life learning the right way to scream so people would listen…
ART

ORGAN: Countdown to the 2026 Art Car Boot Fair, 3 days to go – Sara Duncan, Samuel Ryde and what will Smithson bring this time?
MUSIC

Albums albums albums: The beauty of life, the beauty of The Male Pattern, the (mostly) instrumental metal of Coyote Man, Unstoppable Sweeties Show, S.C.R.A.M, 30,000 Monkies and…
ART

ORGAN THING: We can’t really let the news of the passing of the artist and the mystery that Helch was go by without a nod of respect…

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ART

ORGAN: Countdown to the 2026 Art Car Boot Fair, 5 days to go – This year Julia Maddison is bringing her wardrobe of love and despair to the fair…
ART

ORGAN: Countdown to the 2026 Art Car Boot Fair, 6 days to go – become a part of the D*Face production line, wear some Bob and Roberta Smith and we see the glorious chaos of Knickers collective will be happening again…
life, MUSIC

ORGAN THING: “It’s 19°c at the moment, and it’ll climb to maybe 23-24°c by mid-afternoon, which is respectable enuff for any englishman in summer…” Goodbye, Keith da Bass, RIP Missile…
ART

ORGAN: Countdown to the 2026 Art Car Boot Fair, 7 days to go – blowing my own trumpet and some flavours from last year’s event with just one week before we do it all again…
MUSIC

ORGAN PREVIEW: Duet Emmo, Daniel Miller (Mute, The Normal), Edvard Graham Lewis and B.C. Gilbert (Wire, Dome) announce a first ever live performance – In The Round at the ICA, London in October…
ART, Design, life

ORGAN: Exploring Margate’s One:One Collection with an Art Deco observation carriage, a Deltic, a Banksy, a Raymond Loewy Studebaker Avant, a lot of Gil Sans, some Mods, Rockers and…
ART, Today’s Slice of Art

ORGAN: Today’s Slice Of Art (Part 10) – Just a rather delicious Pete Monaghan still life…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Outbreak at All Points East, East London – Deftones, another Idles triumph, the positive power of Mannequin Pussy and were Concrete Vehicles the band of the day?
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: It was forty years ago today when people were trying to sleep in their tents at Reading and those Cardiacs rudely woke them all up, what a day it was…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: Canada’s always rather excellent Yoo Doo Right are back (already) with a first taste of their next album…
MUSIC

ORGAN THING: A deep dive into the new Peter Hammill album Tears In Time, into the (rewarding) heavy weather of it all and the time it needs…
MUSIC

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Small Pond, more Concrete Vehicles, Rascal Reporters, Formal Sppeedwear have some kind of 80’s Crimson thing going down, new Cult of Luna, Julia Holter, Beck and yeah, okay, more than five…
ART

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…
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…
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…

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