ORGAN THING: Do not beg, do not bow, do not tighten your belt, get over it, Benefits annouce a debut album, here’s a taste…

Organ Thing of The Day, another quick one today for we have places to be and paint to throw…  “Today, critically acclaimed Teesside agitators Benefits return with the announcement of their much-anticipated debut album ‘Nails’. The return is accompanied by the news of the band’s signing to Invada Records (BEAK>, Billy Nomates, and more), as…

ORGAN THING: George Henry Longly’s Microgravities at Nicoletti, a new body of work down East London’s Vyner Street, that explores life in space if that pushes your buttons…

George Henry Longly, Microgravities at Nicoletti – Caught this one last weekend, been meaning to say something, something to do with an increasingly misguided loyalty to an increasingly fractured East London Art Scene and the feeling that it surely is still worth the time and effort taken to cover it?  “Microgravities is a solo exhibition…

ORGAN THING: Hang on, is that a Le Grand Sbam teaser? We can never have too much Le Grand Sbam! A teaser capté au Théâtre de la Renaissance à Oullins so they say…

Don’t ask us what this is, new footage, a teaser of some sort, whateever it is it is rather good, they are always good. “Chthululuuuu here it is yes, it is the teaser of JaNuS, the zoo-punko-music-cosmic opera of Grand Sbam!! Put on your Janulettes, plug in your hypnopumps, open your earphones and come taste…

ORGAN THING: Sasha Stiles, Binary Odes at Annka Kultys Gallery. A brave new story, or is a beautifully poetic take on an old one? Whatever the point (missed), a rather recommended art exhibition once more…

Sasha Stiles – Binary Odes at Annka Kultys Gallery –  Where were we? Back along the increasingly unfriendly Hackney Road, avoiding the new gatekeepers and heading for the industrial park around the back where the Annka Kultys Gallery now hides. Annka Kultys Gallery is one of the more reliable galleries on this side of town,…

ORGAN THING: Laibach to perform in Kyiv, Ukraine in March. The first foreign band to perform a full show in the capital since Feb 2022, of course they are! The Eurovision programme has just been confirmed…

“War – huh yeah – what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!” (Edwin Starr, War), “The horror… the horror…” (Colonel Kurtz, Apocalypse Now), “Love is the only engine of survival.” (Leonard Cohen, The Future) – three quotes that just came in at the top of a L;aibach press release andyes, of course they’re the first…

ORGAN: Five music things – New Lana Del Rabies, Art Terry & The Black Bohemians, more Hack-Poets Guild, don’t ask us who the rather delightful Storm Bugs are, do ask us who Spirit of Hamlet are, Mike Watt of Minutemen, Firehose, The Stooges, Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple and…

Never mind the editorial bit at the top, same thing, different week. Another five slices of music things and however you slice it and of course it was fishy and here comes the introduction that heralds the latest Five Music Things feature thing. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Do we…