Those beautiful Flying Luttenbachers kick off a European tour in London tonight, tonight being Friday April 5th and the place being the Moth Club here in Hackney, this is exciting, I wrote something about a compilation The Flying Luttenbachers are on a couple of weeks ago, they quoted the review so I guess someone thinks…
This is Not This Heat, the band who have been recently taking the glorious sound and songs of This Heat one step forward with some of the best live performances by anyone in recent times (no hyperbole there then), that Barbican performance from 2017 is still playing in our heads, have announced one more final…
Organ Thing of The Day? Where were we, Monday? Blacking out in a red room or something, that and thinking about London Bridge falling down. This e.mail communication message just landed from a band called XCR (they’re not a band though, they said they weren’t a band). They want a review, fair enough, but we…
DANNY POCKETS – “Houses of The Holy”, Royal Albert Hall, London, March 2018 – Of course it was emotional, of course it was, Danny Pockets, a much respected contemporary painter, a much appreciated person who was always a pleasure to work with and share space with, a well known and extremely respected character and significant…
Animation has a terrible burden to bear. What other art form is expected by so many to be juvenile, to be cheery, to be so damn normal and much of the time so damn American? Imagine if the same was expected of a painter, a writer, anyone who gathers images with a camera to tell…
Organ Thing of The Day: the damn song is stuck in our heads alreadyYou have to love an infectious good slice of “spiky, cynical, wordy new-wave synthpop” like this one. The real art of pop, blueprints for modernisation and a lot more than just minor hits and cult success, cynical smiles indeed, smiles as…
Five more musical things and I guess you want some editorial up front of them all? All very simple, five bands or musical people or pieces of music or earfood of some kind that has passed our way in the last few days, this that have flown into the inbox or passed by in some…
New Thinking Plague song posted, this is good a good thing as well, a first taste of the new album, posted up along with with a statement on Cuneform’s Bandcamp page late last night. Here’s the statement, the track is further down… “Clouds scud across a storm-wracked sky, but while briefly exposing rare shards of…
“Way-out Berlin collective, featuring members of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Einstürzende Neubauten, Gemma Ray, Kid Congo Powers and others” CANDY BOMBER VOLUME 1 – (Bronzerat) – What we have here is a free-spirited body of work, an album of which it is important to say right at the start of the review (given the…
Money isn’t something we like to comment on, art really doesn’t need to be polluted by a price tag, this one did make us smile though. We ran a piece the other day about the early piece of Stik goodness being auctioned ORGAN THING: Stik Helps Rehouse Bristol Social Centre… London-based artist Stik is a…
