A new Stranglers song from a new Stranglers album, “who’s that?” she said, “that’s good””, and that is the thing here, if this was a new single from a new band everyone would surely be raving, those Stranglers are sounding rather good, and those keyboards, did any other keyboard player have a fingerprint like that?…
Organ Thing of The Day for that is essentially what we’re doing here. Lee Ranaldo has announced details of a vinyl and digital release, In Virus Times, out on Mute on 12 November 2021 “In Virus Times is an instrumental acoustic piece in four parts, written and performed by Lee Ranaldo, stretching over one side…
Where were who or what? Still still poking at things like we did here last week? Same stuff, different day (or week or year). We already said all this, we almost certainly do need to (or maybe don’t need to do?) do that five art things thing again don’t we? We probably should? The so…
There is something about a well considered well curated group show, group shows are important, some might say vital, and sometimes you really need to go back for a second look to really see it. This show over at Whitechapel’s Gallery 46 was packed for the opening night, almost impossible to really see and properly…
Hugh Mendes – 2021: A Retrospective: It was 20 years ago today… – presented by Charlie Smith London at The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, East London It really is hard not to appreciate Hugh Mendes, hard not to like his art, hard to not really (really) like his work – is ‘like’ the right word?…
Ahead of Yumi Hara’s much anticipated two day residency at North London’s Cafe OTO, Yumi has just sent us this bit of almost last minute information. “Chris Cutler has had to withdraw from the Yumi Hara Residency at Cafe Oto to self-isolate. We are glad to announce that we’ve been able to persuade Guy Evans…
“Percussion masters the Colin Currie Group are joined by Synergy Vocals for four decades of Reich, including the minimalist icon’s latest work, Traveler’s Prayer. Steve Reich’s philosophy of ‘music as a gradual process’ has attracted listeners from all traditions, ages and nationalities. This concert combines Reich’s mesmeric, vibrating musical canvasses with his emerging interest in…
The Five music thing again for whatever it might be worth? Five? 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? Was there ever? What do points make? What is the point? Again and again and again (and again).…
We only really realised twenty two hours ago that it had been ten years this week, I mean, we were vaguely aware, we had been thinking about it, if we should mark it? How we should mark it? Indeed was it worth marking? An awful lot has gone into those ten years, a lot of…
Now this new album from Blectum From Blechdom is either annoyingly brilliant or in insanely maddening, been meaning to say something about it for weeks, there’s always a distraction, an opium den or a cute fox or too much orange squash or something stupidass like that and then it happens again and the angels and…
