Well, not the kind of news you want on a cold December Friday morning, Upfest, one of the highest of highlights of any art year, is off, the good news is the organisers say they’ll be back in 2024 but that’s one big dent put in 2023, 2022 was a brilliant weekend. The full statement…
The now and again Five Pieces of Art thing feature again. Well why not (again)? All this art flowing past on various feeds or wrapped up in press releases or jumping off actual gallery walls or wrapping chips or passing on the side of those Whitechapel white vans. So we ask (again) why not five…
Jump past this bit, forget the snack, no time for that, the music starts down there with the cool suss of Slagheap, you don’t need the damn intro… And just like we asked last time, shall we do it again, five more slice of music? Really was all for finally knocking everything on the head…
It was just cheering, the whole thing, the whole weekend in the Bristol sunshine, the whole Bristol vibe, the people, the art, the music, the feeling around Bedminster for Upfest 2022. Now this isn’t going to be an attempt to critically review the whole festival or the art, for a start, as a participating artist,…
“We’re back… and bigger than ever! Upfest returns in 2022 with an earlier date and a whole new vibe” say the Upfest team. Upfest returns and they’re crowd funding to make the massive free festival happen again, surely got to be worth a tenner and you do get some goodies for your money, here’s the…
We could do it again, we could, glorious typing, warts and all, we should do it again, I do remember that time a band said thank you, so we should do it again, it was a Tuesday in 1997, besides when they’re coming back with the next release, then they’re all thank you and and…
The Upfest festival is to take a break in 2019, a statement on the Upfest website reads – “Following a spectacular 10th anniversary festival the organisers of Europe’s largest street art festival have announced it will take a fallow year in 2019. Upfest, one of the city’s landmark events, attracting a huge international audience is run by…
Organ Thing of The Day then, here we go, a quick one, cherry picking just for you while we recover from the fair – “To celebrate the release of the IDLES and Heavy Lungs split 7” single, Bristol’s Heavy Lungs have revealed a brand new video to accompany their track ‘Blood Brother’, a reference to…
ORGAN THING OF THE DAY: IDLES CONFIRM NEW LP – ‘JOY AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE.’ – OUT AUGUST 31 ON PARTISAN RECORDS >>>> FIRST EVER WORLD TOUR THIS AUTUMN. PRO-IMMIGRATION ANTHEM AND FIRST SINGLE PROPER “DANNY NEDELKO” OUT NOW. Cut the crap (and these shouty cut ‘n paste capital letters) WATCH the damn VIDEO, they always make…
Back in the days of Club Dog, before the daze of Mega Dog and electronic beats, back in the days when the Dog was at the Robey over in Finsbury Park (and before that the Wood Green Trade Union centre), back in the days of real anarchy and proper free festivals and FIN cells and…
THE ORGAN 