ORGAN THING: Joy As An Act Of Resistance, Idles in an old East London garage, not just another art show, an art show and a band who feel right in so so many ways…

Joy As An Act Of Resistance – An Art show at HM Electric Gallery, Hoxton, East London, August 2018   –  Not sure what you’d make of this art exhibition if you’d just happened to stumbled upon it and took it to be just another art show in just another slightly edgy venue that isn’t quite…

ORGAN THING: What did happen to all those hundreds (and thousands, probably tens of thousands) of demos and promos and things that have been sent in here over the years?

What did happen to all those hundreds (and thousands, probably tens of thousands) of demos and promos and things that have been sent in here over the years? Well here’s where 43 of them can be found now.  The Second 43 Paintings piece is now all done and painted and ready for this year’s Art…

ORGAN THING: Exploring East London’s art, is there actually anything to this #WickWednesday thing? Is there anything left for us in Hackney Wick?

We’ve all seen the social media hype, the glossy boards by the fancy new Hackney Wick overground station, the promo videos on Facebook and such, but what is Wick Wednesday? What’s all that about? Whoops, forgot the hashtag there, mustn’t forget the hashtag, whole marketing teams will have been in meetings for days deciding on…

ORGAN THING: Letting down a pokey-fingered beer-drinking man while those excellent Cravats get ready to join The Membranes and a twenty voice choir along with Steve Ignorant and The Wolfhounds for a good looking gig in London…

If you want the Membranes bit then cut to the chaise down there beneath the Cravats video, before that, let me tell you about pokey man and his pointy finger.  Got poked at by a pokey man the other day, he was rather annoyed with us so it seems. It works like this around here…