ORGAN: Monday morning, way too many pianos, Crass people doing Lewis Carroll, Frieze London is on, a new Caravan album? Here and Now, 35 oranges from Whitechapel, Passengers and whatever the in-box offers today…

What a half-hearted morning, the morning after the summer before, “Hi, I just wanted to remind You that V/A “Brutality Garden. Vol.1” is out in two days! Have a nice week. Kind regards”, no name or anything like that, just part of some record label’s Monday morning marketing plan – thanks for the nice week…

ORGAN THING: Van Der Graaf Generator, The Charisma Years – I mean, catch hold of that BBC session version of Killer from 1970 and tell me it isn’t laced with punk rock danger…

Okay, I confess, the distractions were cleared as soon as the postman handed it over, straight to Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, and of course it sounds wonderful, how could it not? It could have been any number of tracks really but that was the one that originally pulled me in. It is slightly strange without…

ORGAN PREVIEW: She Curates x Art on a Postcard, a mini auction of thirty plus cards created by a handful of dynamic female identifying artists…

“She Curates x Art on a Postcard”, now that sounds rather good…. A Mini Postcard Auction “Art on a Postcard (AOAP) is delighted to have engaged the curating skills of Mollie E Barnes AKA She Curates to produce a mini auction as part of The Hepatitis C Trust’s 20 year celebrations. Mollie is an Independent Curator…

ORGAN THING: Sam Nicholson at Gallery 46, there’s a rather bold painter emerging here…

Painter Sam Nicholson has a rather powerful show called “Bring me my papers, bring me my cheese.” happening right now, a show at East London’s Gallery46 curated by Miles Tuddenham and Martin J Ticker, when you talk to the curators about it they rightly sound a little more excited than curators often do. The Gallery…

ORGAN: Five pieces of art – Peter Schumann, Sofia Martins Gray, Rabia Farooqui, Bert Gilbert and Izzer Ers, Sara Breinlinger…

The Five Pieces of Art thing (again)? Well why not (again)? All this art flowing past on various feeds or wrapped up in press releases or jumping off actual gallery walls or wrapping chips or passing on the side of those Whitechapel white vans. So we ask (again) why not five pieces of art every…

ORGAN THING: Peter Blake, collage, time travel, fun, pop, holidays on Cork Street, it really did save the day…

Yeah, I know I said back there that I wouldn’t but, well, why not? “Waddington Custot presents Peter Blake: Time Traveller, an exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking exploration of collage by iconic British artist Peter Blake.” – There it was, waiting for us in the middle of the born again thing that is Cork Street,…

ORGAN: Five Music Things – Lomond Campbell, Palberta’s Lily Konigsberg, Reb Fountain, Andy Bell’s GLOK, Harry Stafford and Marco Butcher, United Color Of Black Metal and…

Vanilla Soup? A double scoop? Porcupine Pie? What was all that about? The five music things thing again? Already? Five more? Again? Do we need a new editorial yet? Is there a point? is there any point? What do points make? What is the point? Again and again and again (and again). Five more, same…

ORGAN THING: Zachari Logan’s Wild Flower, Rachel Kneebone’s Raft at White Cube, a pint of Pride, Cork Street and…

Where were we? Probably somewhere around Piccadilly on the edge of the Central Line trying to avoid the maskless when the algorithms began to take hold. Heading for the Canadian Embassy to seek asylum or the great Canadian Dream, that or to check out Zachari Logan’s latest exhibition. The Embassy are currently hosting his latest…

ORGAN PREVIEW: Miss Bugs, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Charming Baker, David Shrigley, Chris Levine and a whole load more, Jealous Gallery, Right Here Right Now, catch it over at the Saatchi space…

Organ Preview: One of them parish noticeboard type preview things, this looks like it might be good in that slick kind of nicely framed way they do things at the maybe sometime just a little too slick gallery knows as jealous… “Saatchi Gallery and Jealous Print Studio & Gallery have partnered to present the exhibition…

ORGAN THING: Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog and just about all the Hope you need right now…

Organ Thing of The Day? Grab hold of this one now, Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog have an album that really lives up to the name they gave it, Hope. Now the thing to do here is to just skip our words and the so-called “review” and just hit the play button and soak it all…

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