Organ Thing of The Day, well there is new IQ, a band we’ve been covering from the very start of our thing as well as their thing, a first taste of the new album and a more than fine Organ Thing of The day and fate awaiting and the choice to never give up more that we night lose…
No Dominion is the (almost) title track from Dominion, the brand new studio album from the now 44 year old IQ. An album to be released on 28th March and yes they might be sounding a little more polite and restrained these days, it is still there though, all that gardening over things and nobody knows and cramming seven into eight….
A little more of the album, a teaser…
Peter Nicholls: “Hot on the heels of Resistance six years ago! Yes, it’s been a long time coming (we couldn’t be accused of rushing these things!) but we’re confident this album is really strong and has been worth the wait. To be releasing a new IQ album in our 44th year feels genuinely exciting.”
Mike Holmes: “We did actually write a lot more material for Dominion, but this choice of songs (and the running order) feels like a cohesive album to me. Even in this age of streaming individual songs I still approach a new IQ release with a ‘side one’ and ‘side two’ thing in my head – the selection and placement of songs for Dominion just feels like a classic album should (I know, I’m using ‘old people’ speak!). The original intention was to have a second disc of other material but that would have taken a lot longer to put together and we figured six years was quite enough. It does mean that there’s already quite a bit of stuff ready for the next one.”
Dominion will be available in a six panel digi-sleeve CD with 16-page booklet and a one-disc coloured vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve. Release date: 28 March.
Ten (or so) more IQ moments….
To some of us around here IQ will always be that edgy post-punk new wave flavoured defiantly progressive prog rock band from the early 80s when all around cats put on leg warmers, those early albums (and tapes), as raw as they were, still sound special to ears around here as well as eyes. Those old Marquee gigs (and Wiggle) still bounce around our heads, The Wake is still as good now as it was then and we can still…
From 1982
From 1983…
From 1985….
from 1987 and Paul Menel days which is probably the last time we interviewed IQ at the studio where they were finishing up the then new album Nomzamo…
Live in 1990…
And from 1998 but really from those early early days…
And from 2003…
A live performance from 13 years ago…
Ten years ago…
And well, there was always a bit of Bowie in there back at the start…
And we did cover Pete Nicholls and his other band quite a bit back there in the early days of Organ…
We could be here all day…
And this, an absolute classic…
THE ORGAN 
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[…] 5: IQ – The tine is now, t osend it out, and talking of bands not that bothered about what we have to say about them these days, here’s more from the new IQ album, a band we featured in bucket loads way back there in the last century when we flogged copies of Organ down the Marquee. The is a rather epic twenty minute piece of beauty from their new album, Dominion, an album that’s out today on their own label GEP. IQ are a slightly more polite beast these days, dare we say a little “Neo”, but hey, fair weather wings and all that, they still sound rather good to us, this is brilliant actually, rather emotionally so, IQ were a big part of Organ history back there, one of the reasons we started it all in the first place… Here’s a piece we wrote earlier, you’ll find the link to need there – ORGAN THING: A new IQ piece released today, a rather refined first taste of the long-stranding prog … […]
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