ORGAN: American conceptual artist Dan Graham on why he hates conceptual art… Debs for Mayor of London… And another bag load of feisty punky shouty riot grrl flavoured queercore goodness and such..

Well just a whole load of things that are worth sharing in some way, things that have crossed our path, things like American conceptual artist Dan Graham on why he hates conceptual art For fifty years, Dan Graham has traced the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants. With a practice that encompasses curating, writing,…

ORGAN PREVIEW: Kitty Finer presents Artists Behind Bars; a group show at London’s Horse Hospital…

Some days you may find an in-depth review or feature and far too many opinionated words and photos, some days it may news and opinion that dances around the architecture of music or art or like today a cut ‘n paste signpost that takes you to something interesting like Kitty Finer’s bar…. Now this looks…

ORGAN THING: Punk London confirms 2016 programme so far

I don’t give a damn, I don’t flippin care… Well the idea of over-price passed their sell by date aging bands cluttering up the 100Club backed by the mayor and the lottery fund does not look that inviting, hopefully a little more of the original anarchic DIY spirit is going to shine through, all looking…

ORGAN THING: New Black Sabbath songs predictably leak on to the net….

Could have been predicted really, people have started posting the four previously unreleased songs from Black Sabbath‘s new tour-only CD The End onto YouTube. kind of expect them to be removed at any moment, but hey, Sharon doesn’t need the money, you can listen to “Season of the Dead”, “Cry All Night,” “Take Me Home”…

ORGAN: William D Drake joins Martin Creed on Tuesday for Independent Venue Week

Organ Thing: William D Drake is to join Martin Creed for a show at the Brixton Windmill this coming Tuesday January 26th, a show that is part of Independent Venue Week. Independent Venue Week is a seven-day celebration of small music venues around the UK with over 120 venues taking part. As part of the…

ORGAN THING: Adaadat’s Trade and Distribution Almanac, St Agnes’s day, the convention of the cutthroat and…

Really must take extra care to avoid all this dreadful looking forty years of punk nonsense that seems to have started infesting London, how tediously dull it all looks to be. As does that cattle market London Art Fair thing, resisted the opening day and everything that appears on-line makes the prospect of actually attending…

ORGAN PREVIEW: Russell Young, Superstar at London’s Halcyon Gallery

Haven’t really decided what to think about these works from Russell Young, really not going to decide what to think until we get to stand in front of them and see the pieces in the flesh rather than as small on-line flat screen digital images. Art really needs to be seen in the flesh, on-line…

ORGAN THING: Shepard Fairey releases a rather powerful new print today…

ORGAN THING: Shepard Fairey releases a rather powerful new print today, today being Tuesday January 19th. Said it before on these pages, there’s something really rich running through Shepard’s work right now, striking colour range and of course the sentiment…. . End corruption, get money out of politics, return to democracy – these are calls…

ORGAN THING: London paste-up artist Donk moves on up to Higher Ground….

Donk then, his sepia paste-ups have been all over London for a few years now. Can’t say I’m the biggest fan of some of these mass-produced photoshop artwork paste-up artists and their repeating of their thing again and again (and again) as they cover cover up actual paint and such with their damn glue and bits…

ORGAN: Mott The Hoople drummer Dale Griffin dies…

More sad news reaching us, enough! This time we’re sorry to say drummer with Mott The Hoople (one of the finest bands of the early/mid pre-punk 70’s) as well as John Peel recording engineer and session producer Dale Griffin has passed away…Another big part of growing up back there and linked in such a vital…

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