ORGAN – art, music, underculture… London. 

The mailing list details are further down the page, so are the contact details…

The Organ review policy: Right back to day one back in the last century the policy has only been to cover the things we feel positive about, we still pretty much stick to that way of thinking. We’re not the mainstream press, it isn’t our job to be cluttering up our pages with negative critical analysis, that is the job of the mainstream music/art press, we’ve never said it wasn’t. We’re about the signposts to the things that are exciting us, the things we think might interest you. We simply don’t have time for the not very interesting art exhibitions we go to or for the hundreds of pieces of music that flood in on a weekly basis that don’t inspire us…

“I love Sean Worrall’s writings, his tireless writings in his ‘Organ Thing’ journal/blog. Here is a fine text about the exhibition at Angus-Hughes Gallery. At some point in the not too distant… one has the inkling (more than an inkling, I foresee it) his wonderfully written texts/reviews, will be an absolutely go to historical resource, and I look forward to some intelligent/clever publisher throwing him a book contract to put the best together under one cover, again one hopes, in the not too distant ...” (Paul Sakoilsky, Artist, October 2018)

“Thanks a lot !! We love it. As fond of your writing as ever. Maxim has had a great timing reading the lot. The critical savagery is damn refreshing”. (BWG Gallery)

READERSHIP: These days here in 2025, the stats tell us the Organ website is visited by around 10,000 people a week, something like 50% of those viewers are from the UK, the rest from all over the globe, about 20% of those being from North America. Gone are the days of a 20,000 a month print run or glossy paper, that’s all history, Organ is still very widely read though (there’s more to it than Instabloodygram followers, we really can’t be bothered with all that social media stuff although we do post daily daily links on Facebook and Bluesky).

CONTACT>>>  if you want to get in touch then the ONLY e.mail address is organzine at aol dot com – that is where you find Organ, there is no other address, please RESPECT THIS AND don’t try to bypass things by seaking out personal addresses or addresses associated with other things we do and don’t use social media, just send a polite frleindly e.mail.  

And there is no street address, if you wish to send something for review via the physical post then please contact us first (with all due respect we really don’t want thousands of CDs we didn’t ask for, we already can’t move in here for them), feel free to send links to your Bandcamp pages and such, if we like what we hear, we’ll be on the case.

We can’t always reply, we do get lots (and lots) of submissions but we do REALLY listen to everything and we do get back when we can.  Please be reasonable before you contact us though, have a look at what we cover, ask yourself is it really the kind of thing they cover or play on the radio show? If you think it is then fire it our way and if it is we’ll get back to you. Do please remember though, support is a two way thing…

And please note, the Organ is run by me, Sean, if you’ve sent something to the Other Rock Show then that doesn’t mean it gets to me, if fact it won’t! It goes into the Other Rock Show black hole over there and won’t ever reach me (although lots of things sent in here are often passed on to Marina at the Other Rock Show). if you want coverage on these pages or at least attention then the only place and ONLY e.mail address is organzine at aol dot com

In terms of visual art, if you’re running a show, if you have something to say or share we welcome it all, we do read everything, we do check out the links, we do especially want to know about shows in smaller artist-led spaces, yes there is a slight (East) London bias but that is where we’re based right now. Art is probably the priority these days, more than enough has been given to music and before all else I am a painter, a working artist, a curator here in East London still with a passion for music, paint is the priority though. Do please respect this and don’t be sending Organ business via any address you might find on my art website, the Organ e.mail address is up there, it is the one to use for art shows and everything else. E.mails sent about anything you want covering via the Organ pages or things you want featured on the radio that are sent via my art personal artist pages or anywhere else will, with polite respect, be ignored. If on the other hand you want to talk to me about my art then please go to my art website, about Cultivate then the Cultivate website is the place, Other Rock Show stuff to the Organ address. Press releases and links about music, your art, your exhbitions, your gallery to the Organ only please – organzine at aol dot com. 

GET ON THE MAILING LIST…

You can keep up with daily news updates in terms of what we’re posting here on these Organ pages by following the Organ Facebook page or the Bluesky feed or better still get yourself on the mailing list and get a mailout around once every two weeks or so with updates on what we’re covering.

MAILING LIST>>>  SIGN UP HERE >>>> Would you like an update on everything featured on the Organ pages?  A once every couple of weeks or so update newsletter e.mail reminder to keep you in touch with who and/or what we’ve featured and what you might have missed?

REVIEW POLICY – We do really look at or listen to everything that comes in via e.mail and such, we really check out all your press releases and such, we honestly do, you don’t need to send us those (very) annoying “ICYMI” e.mails again and again, we didn’t miss it! You really don’t need to keep on sending us the same press release with the same link to the same piece of music or art show again and again.  We do listen to everything, we do go to lots (and lots) of art shows, we read the many many press releases and if we have something positive to say we say it.  If you’re in a band or you’re an artist and we don’t get back to you then that only means it didn’t really interest us or we’re waiting until we have a moment to come check it out, we’ve given up actually replying now when something doesn’t” do it” for us, the reason for this is because it tends to result in an abusive response from you and we really don’t have the time to be dealing with it. If we have something positive to say we say it, or we come along and check it out, we write about it. if you want to invite us to something then feel free to do so, if you want to ask us if we’re interested in recieving something feel free… 

So please, enough with those damn annoying “in case you missed it” e.mails, we get hundreds of them…. Oh and when we do cover something then please support us, share it, tell people, post the link on your social media feed and such, support is a two way thing, a litlte more than a “like” on Twitter please, if you can’t support us back then do’t expect us to just support you again and again, we are not here as part of your PR campaign or your marketing plan, don’t be like that lot at that other record labelor that art gallery up the road, don’t take it all for granted and then come back and demand more.

HISTORY>>> Organ has taken many forms since the early hand screen-printed handmade photocopied zine days of the mid/late 80’s (those days when zines were things full of information and actually sold by hand at gigs and such) These days Organ comes in this slightly stripped-down back-to-basics website form, a selected Thing Of The Day”,  an art event, a band, a book, a zine, a painting, a new album, a thing covered each day, whatever it might be

These pages are about digging around in the underculture, the creative underground, about sharing some of the music, art and more that excites us.  Create has always been the main word with Organ, “create” was often screenprinted across the handmade covers of early paper Organs.  Sharing links, posting up the signposts that point you in direction of exciting artists, new bands, galleries, exhibitions, events, animation, a new painting, a new video from an old band, an art show opening, a new wall painted.

There’s a load more Organ History here

Right now Organ is brought to you, by Sean, with the occasional contribution from Marina (who can mostly be found over there playing around in 5/8 with radio waves and her Other Rock Show).

ORGAN – Music, art, underculture, and kissing big ugly sharks since 1986.

S.W

A very small slice of the Organ archives, click on a nimage to enlarge or to run the fractured slide show, there’s lots lots more here on the Organ Facebook page ….