THE JULIE RUIN – Electric Ballroom, Camden, London, May 26th 2015 – Oh I don’t know, oh come on, It probably wasn’t quite the right time and not quite the right place for The Julie Ruin last night, some of us had been waiting for this for ages, tickets for this gig actually went on…
Gryphon are on tour, this is a very very good thing, Gryphon are gloriously beautiful, they’re like Bagpuss or strawberry jam on toast, they’re like every good thing from back there when all was good, pipe organs and tank engines and crumhorn-wielding and jousting and as cool as f. And tomorrow is the final night…
Organ Thing Of The Day; William D Drake has a new video “William D.Drake proudly presents ‘Distant Buzzing’ – the official video, directed and produced by Ashley Jones. ‘Distant Buzzing’ is the opening track on ‘Revere Reach’, the new William D.Drake album, a hearty, joyous tune with lyrics penned by Mr Drake’s great friend Mr…
Where were we? Falling off the edge? Close to the edge? Over the edge? Sitting in a hedge? The Slits? One of the finest bands ever and for more than one reason.They were one of those bands that just stopped you the first time you heard them (probably via John Peel). “Here to be Heard:…
ORGAN: THING OF DAY Ten years on from the Battle of Broadway Market and a film by Hackney-based film maker Emily James. Bit of cross pollination today, and a bit on the #365ArtDrops thing (see the whole piece as it stands so far via the #365ArtDropsTumblr feed) This piece, part 90, was deliberately left hanging…
The Artists line up for the 2015 Annual Brick Lane Art Car Boot Fair has been announced. Now in an eleventh year, one of the highlights of the London art year happens in that car park just off Brick Lane, this year on Sunday 15th June. A day when art lets its hair down for…
ORGAN THING OF THE DAY? A bag load of things for Monday, ‘ere, have a slice of the rather impressive new video made to accompany another fine moment from Upsilon Acrux – Smells Kline is a prog as flip track from the L.A band’s excellent new album, Upsilon Acrux are a band who are more…
ORGAN THING OF THE DAY.. One week on, let’s not mention the damn election, off to the Dentist instead, that or some defiantly D.I.Y old school hardcore beer-spilling punk rock noise, that or some William D. Drake sunshine. Bill has some more live dates to go with that fine new album (reviewed here a couple…
Some days all it needs is a decent no-messing bang-on-the-nail riffed-to-the-gills old school jump in the red shark and ride through the desert Stoner Rock band. Cavalli are a London based trio who’ve been around since the end of 2014, a classic guitar, drums, bass three piece and a glorious sound we’ve all heard before.…
R.I.P Chris Burden, L.A.-based conceptual artist Chris Burden, 69, has died. “Chris Burden was extremely funny” (Gregory Jacobsen) .‘He was every inch an artist, as tough and uncompromising as any I have ever met,’ (art dealer Larry Gagosian) . . . “James Kalm picked up a copy of ARTFORUM Magazine and was transfixed. It was…
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