Penny Rimbaud – Arthur Rimbaud In Verdun (One Little Independent Records) – The short review: Is the album worth investing time in? ‘coarse it is, ‘course it is, Penny Rimbaud, the legendary punk poet, writer, painter, multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of seminal anarchist outfit Crass, has released his new album ‘Arthur Rimbaud In Verdun, go search…
“As part of their ambitious ‘The Feeding of the Five Thousand Remix Project’, punk pioneers Crass are returning with another exclusive coloured 12” single featuring remixes by legendary producer Steve Aoki and Japanese outsider musician Mikado Koko”. Remixes and reworkings are the thing this week so i would seem, there is of course only course…
Organ Thing of the Day? How about Crass man Steve Ignorant in his shed? It can’t be resisted, the irresistible force! Another of our occasional series of pop stars in lockdown, oh how the badly photocopied anarcho punk zines of the glorious 80’s would have loved it, they’d be picking over it in forensic detail,…
Organ Thing of Day: God Unknown Records celebrate the fiftieth release on their rather fine, rather proper label with a four-track split seven-inch vinyl (and digital release) which includes a collaboration with Penny Rimbaud. A three-hundred copy limited vinyl edition, presented in a die-cut sleeve, has been released; along with a streaming and download version…
Organ Thing of The Day? Do they owe us a living? Something for free? If you don’t already know Crass then do yourself a big big favour, they didn’t get everything right, they still don’t, but they did and do get a hell of a lot more right than wrong (and they still sound vitally…
Bouncing hedgehogs? Gee Voucher on the front page f the Daily Mirror, random Americans apologising in the street, what would Hunter have said? “Nixon was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad” Hunter S Thompson. Went to…
What a weird morning, woke up in this strange alternative reality where some badly dressed Fox News puppet of a guy from a reality TV show with a bad bully wig on his messy foul-mouthed head had become president of the USA, what a dreadful nightmare, head still aching from it. Put my head back…
Last throws in something or other, there’s a bag of musical things cluttering up the flow along with the fallen leaves and the harassment of helicopters forever watching East London. A bag load of new music to catch up with, no time today though, and this is kind of important. Over in the land of…
Some quick musical things, first and foremost a new single (and video) from The Cravats (who’s that driving the bus?), available as a limited edition 7″ (and download) from Overground Records “Anyone who has had even a vague love of punk music over the last 35 years will know The Cravats or, at least,…
ORGAN THING OF THE DAY: How good is this, the wisdom and beauty of age, Vi Subversa (of Poison Girls) performing Old Tart’s Song at Brighton Green Door last weekend, 5th December 2015. She’s always been brilliant…. . The Poison Girls were an English anarcho-punk band. The female singer/guitarist, Vi Subversa, was a middle-aged mother…
