ORGAN: Five musical things – Will Oldham messing with AC/DC, Barmy FiveSeveN’s gorgeous Wireless, Brooklyn’s Horse Torso, More Than Shadows, The admirable Admiral Grey, Joey Frevola and friends take a Dive…

Where is the ketchup? Where are the beans? Where have we been? None of your damn business, we never ask you where you might have been, you just come here wanting five more slices of this or that without a word of helloness or anythingelseness. Ketchup? Fox Alpha something or other and oh look, heartbeats,…

ORGAN: The Other Rock Show’s celebration of the work of Cardiacs leader Tim Smith, hear it in full here…

The Other Rock show is back this weekend on London’s rather unique arts radio station Resonance 104.4fm. Back after a summer break, back in the usual spot of 9pm on a Sunday night, Marina Organ presents an hour of music that uses unconventional structures and ‘other’ time signatures – gathered from the worldwide undergrounds of…

ORGAN THING: A fragile, beautiful, previously unreleased Cardiacs song, “a present by way of gracious thanks” has been officially posted as a download…

Songs are powerful things. You have to be careful with them. Very powerful songs come with powerful magic attached, whether you like it or not. Take this one song, known for years as ‘Dream Dress’ but unveiled at last, at long, long last, as a spell called ‘Vermin Mangle’. It’s a simple song, just a…

ORGAN THING: “Only then will we say oh what a treat, thank you sir”. Thank you Tim Smith, thank you Cardiacs, we really did grin like alligators…

There are just so many stories, so many adventures, our delight that time at the Riverside or his that time when he played a rare solo show upstairs at the Garage for us and all the rats, seemingly hundreds of them – the rats were running around in the roof above the stage during sound…

ORGAN: Five (quiet) Musical Things – Bendrix Littleton, Noemie Nours, Thomas Azier, Jon Hassell, Sarah Davachi and…

Five more musical things that have come our way in recent days, quieter things for that is how it needed to be this week, five recommended piece of music that we feel we wish to share with you – here they are, with the links and the things you need to go find out more,…

ORGAN: “Don’t be silly” said Tim in a tone of disbelief, the tale of a glorious day spent behind “enemy” lines…

We can’t just put up a little news story and leave it there like we did yesterday can we? It so so very sad, raw, but we will have to celebrate him soon, celebrate him more than ever, celebrate him again and again with dirty great smile. There are so many stories, we sat here…

ORGAN: R.I.P Tim Smith, he of Cardiacs, the leader of the starry skies…

Sad sad news this morning, it appears that Tim Smith, the leader of the starry skies has left this world. What sad news, what a beautiful man he was, is and always will be. Besides the fact that he was leader of one of the finest bands ever, that his music touched so many people…

ORGAN THING: In celebration of Mr Smith’s birthday, five bands who sound just a little bit like Cardiacs…

We know they’re unique, we know they’re special, that they’re fuel, but occasionally something will pass by and a voice will shout from over there, “who’s that? That sounds a bit like Cardiacs” and well with today being the birthday of the leader of The Starry Skies, here;s five bands, you might like. Not clones…

ORGAN THING: Kavus Torabi has his debut solo album on the way, he of many dalliances with bands such as Guapo, Cardiacs and Gong and well, here’s a taster…

Organ Thing of The Day: We’re a long way on from those long lost days of innocence and Die Laughing now, lots and lots of music has flowed under way too many bridges, and well Kavus Torabi has his debut solo album on the way, he of many dalliances with bands such as Guapo, Cardiacs…

ORGAN THING: Godcaster? Who? They sound like they might be Going Off And Things, now this really does sound like the hand of the twisted Crowman could be involved…

Now this really does sound like the hand of the twisted Crowman and his clown tribe could be involved, they sound like they might be Going Off And Things, but rather than the southern suburbs of the edges of London where Cardiacs once ran around Ring and squalor was so so alive, “we are an…

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