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March 22, 2026

ORGAN: Five Music Things – The space rock of Les Big Byrd, Visible Cloaks, Brazilian prog mavericks Papangu, Bigmoth’s Meggah Konstrukt, Beasts cover Gojira and a bit of Fangus, yes that’s six again…
December 27, 2025

ORGAN: Before the year ends a look back at Kayo Dot’s epic masterpiece Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason…
January 3, 2025

ORGAN THING: A first listen to the new album from The Residents, Doctor Dark has landed and it certainly is classic Residents. She just shouted from the other room “this sounds amazing”, she is right, it is rather amazing, amazingly theatrical, it is rather epic…
December 31, 2024

ORGAN THING: Ottone Pesante’s epic seven battle brassmetal driven Scrolls of War…
December 13, 2024

ORGAN: Albums, more albums – Oranssi Pazuzu’s shapeshifting, Buñuel’s Eugene S. Robinson fuelled extreme but articulate metal, a taste of Beasts and that time at The Marquee with the orange baked beans and…
December 6, 2024

ORGAN THING: Live Totality was born from an idea brought to the band Axioma to play a live set during last April’s total solar eclipse…
October 21, 2024

ORGAN: Sad to hear of the passing of Paul Di’Anno today. You had to like his no messing East London streetwise punky ways in those early Iron Maiden days…
October 20, 2024

ORGAN: Albums – seminal Skate Punks Stäläg 13, Los Angeles-based extreme progressive metal outfit Qaalm, Greek black metal chewers Septuagint, a fund-raising live album from Converge and…
September 28, 2024

ORGAN: Five music things – A duo built around an experimental baritone guitar called Able Noise, the atmospheres of Leila Abdul-Rauf, Frankie and the Witch Fingers are back, the awkwardly good slightly frantic Chat Pile, a little bit of Thurston Moore and just how good was Robert Calvert…
May 21, 2024

ORGAN PREVIEW: Hemiptera are a rather hopeful band from Brighton blending dark moody cello with some doom and and a touch of thrashing punky crust, they play Helgi’s Bar here in East London this coming Sunday May 26th…
October 29, 2023

ORGAN THING: Solstice rise again, the epic metal band reveal their new line up in the East London heat of Helgi’s…
July 1, 2023

ORGAN THING: Craven Idol in the black hole that is Helgi’s back room. Things are of course as intense as you’d expect them to be from the off, that stew of old school extreme metal and…
April 23, 2019

ORGAN THING: What are Black Sabbitch doing today? Snowblind, treat yourself to another piece of Sabbath treasure…
April 16, 2018

ORGAN THING: One week until Record Store Day, Grow Hackney’s DIY Art and Vinyl market, Vinyl Pimp and meanwhile down the Hackney Road, Knight Terror, black metal and the Crypt of The Wizard…
February 27, 2018

ORGAN THING: Rosamaria Montalbano’s beautiful use of a Wows track in her new film is today’s thing…
June 9, 2017

ORGAN THING: Barrabus, an intense metal racket, the delight is in the detail…

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