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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…

Less than a week to go now, the 2026 Art Car Boot Fair countdown is getting serious and for one day only, on the day, next Saturday September 5th (midday until 6pm) Julia Maddison will invite you to explore her wardrobe of love and despair. A regular on these pages and at our own (Cultivate) events…

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…

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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…
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…

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