ORGAN THING: Lo-fi baroque queercore? This tastes good, who is Velodrome? Dream Nails? Sir Lancelot? Buddy Holly? Here’s the debut single…

His Physique is apparently a “progressive/psychedelic lo-fi rock song”, His Physique is also the debut single from “DIY Queer artist and multi-instrumentalist” Velodrome. Seems she has been exploring her fascination with “queering” the male figure, from Renaissance paintings through to pop culture icons. With her acrobatic vocals, Velodrome is a classically trained singer, she describes…

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ORGAN THING: Day two and a bit, the delightful excitement of Nicholas Crombac and Brian Paumier’s New Art Projects shows, giant fire-breathing spiders in Hackney Wick and…

Day two and a bit and on with the poking about in the art spaces of East London and some kind of notion of writing down the adventures of a whole week, well that was the idea, tales of giant hundred foot tall flame throwing spiders in Hackney Wick as another building comes down and…

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ORGAN THING: CXR are not a band, well they say they’re not, they’re our musical thing of the day today though, right up our fractured street…

Organ Thing of The Day? Where were we, Monday? Blacking out in a red room or something, that and thinking about London Bridge falling down. This e.mail communication message just landed from a band called XCR (they’re not a band though, they said they weren’t a band). They want a review, fair enough, but we…

ART / MUSIC

ORGAN PREVIEW: Violence can be enjoyed at London’s Cafe Oto tonight, Olin Caprison (AKA Palmtrees Caprisun) is a performance artist, composer, musician and…

Violence can be enjoyed at London’s Cafe Oto tonight, tonight being Friday May 11th, here’s a link to the Oto site and details of the event, there’s a video down there, I might see you later… “Olin Caprison (AKA Palmtrees Caprisun) is a performance artist, composer, musician and producer who first made a splash on…

ART

ORGAN THING: The Week, Day Two, Reformation, the work of Kashif Nadim Chaudry, Michael Forbes and Barbara Walker at Hackney’s Guest Projects – you kind of want to go around the corner and secretly punch the air and say yes! This is a great exhibition, this makes up for it all, this what we want…

Day two, on with the poking about in the art spaces of East London. Last night, First Thursday, well no, let’s not call it First Thursday, it was just the first Thursday of the month. last night, besides some of what was found on those beautiful walls of StolenSpace and some of what happened under…

ORGAN THING: The Week, Day One, First Thursday? Really? Are you sure? Exploring the East End, is it happening or are they bluffing over at Whitechapel?

The First Thursday of May then. First Thursday? Really? Are you sure? Shall we put down the paint brushes and go clutch at straws? Are we clutching at straws? According to various social media feeds and e.mail in-boxes First Thursday in the East End of London is still a happening thing. Really? Surely not? Almost…

ORGAN THING: Idles side-project The Plainviews have a new single for you to go and get, go and get a…

Organ Thing of The Day: Idles side-project The Plainviews have a new single on the way via Invisible Llama on May 11th, here’s the video, the details are underneath, go get you pen, go get your pen, go get a pen or a bun or something, go get something, this new track from the new…

ORGAN THING: Where roads, rail and rivers meet, the 2018 Art Car Boot date announced…

Where roads, rail and rivers meet…, this just in… always one of the highlights of the London art calender, the date and first details in terms of the 2018 Art Car Boot Fair have been announced… A new venue (again) and more evolution, we rather like evolution…. “Advance tickets will be going on sale on-line…

ORGAN PREVIEW: The Typograffic Circle, a show curated by Gary Stranger and Pref opens at Stolen Space this Thursday evening…

Shall we do that five recommended art things, London things (for that is where we are for now), five art events we rather think might be worth checking out, shall we do the five thing again? We could do, maybe tomorrow? For now, we’ll just mention that Fresh from showing that rather impressive piece of…

ORGAN THING: Where is the art? Where is the heart? Is Marisa Carnesky Menstruating Together In Theatres and Tents and Other Unlikely Locations the thing to excite…

Where is the art? Where is the heart? Are we slipping? Do we care? Almost a week since we last wrote about a painting or a performance or an exciting piece of art, a little longer since we last wrote about a actual show we had been to. We are still going and checking out shows,…

ORGAN THING: Five more musical slices with Ice Baths, Mock Identity, Bad Breeding, Witch Fever, One Hundred Year Old Man and…

Five? Five more musical slices, five exciting musical things that have drifted this way in the last week or so, five things that stood out from the hundreds of slices of music that drift this way every week, five musical things we think are worthy of more investigation from you. You have the music, you…

ORGAN THING: Weasel Walter’s new album, seven tracks of jarring, loud, obnoxious, shrill, angular noise rock. no wave, brutal prog insanity by the master of disaster…

“Seven tracks of jarring, loud, obnoxious, shrill, angular noise rock/no wave/brutal prog insanity by the master of disaster. People who like “Revenge of The Flying Luttenbachers” will most likely be into this. There’s no jazz on this one, folks”, the words of Weasel Walter, yer man from the glorious Flying Luttenbachers and quite a few…

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