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August 27, 2025

ORGAN THING: The closing day of All Points East 2025, the positives of where a very different Black Country, New Road are now, that four wheel drive of the Midnight Dipper and Warmduscher’s low slung disco-fried funk in the dust of it all…
August 19, 2025

ORGAN THING: So ArcTanGent happened and how good was it! The extremes of the bands, the people, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Kayo Dot, the freedom of it all. Now that was how to do a music festival…
July 3, 2025

ORGAN THING: Back to the delight of the Canal Boat Contemporary, last week that box on the side of the boat featured the paintings of Lucile Haefflinger, this week we find Lindsay Mapes and her excellent Pick’n Mix installation…
June 19, 2025

ORGAN THING: Hackney Art Week? Nah mate, we’re off up a tower in Newham and the real East London engagement of Tower Gallery’s rather rewarding Summer Show…
June 2, 2025

ORGAN THING: Frankie And The Witch Fingers heat things up in East London, that locked-on new wave bite of theirs, that urgent fizz that follows the anticipation…
June 1, 2025

ORGAN THING: A big shout of furious, preposterous joy in the face of a world that wants to crush such things. It could be exhausting, but Koenjihyakkei have gotten into their stride and…
May 30, 2025

ORGAN THING: Back to the boat; Scott McCracken is a very painterly painter, catch some of his work at Canal Boat Contemporary, currently by the toepath by Victoria Park, East London…
May 13, 2025

ORGAN THING: Jai Chuhan at East London’s The Approach, vivid paintings so vitally alive and then in the Annexe new works by Peter Davies and Mary Ramsden…
May 8, 2025

ORGAN THING: The architecture of the new Koenjihyakkei live album danced around, they do go off and things…
May 3, 2025

ORGAN THING: Fulguromatic’s is a thrilling ride, both musically and in terms of the many rhythms of it all, a very French avant feel, a creative blend of Canterbury flavours, jazz-rock, a touch of colourful Zeuhl and some properly inventive properly progressive prog…
May 2, 2025

ORGAN THING: Pili Coït and Yowie, a split album on Dur et Doux and SkinGraft Records – “Split? There’s nothing divisive about it”. Two highly recommended bands challenging both themselves and you and me with what surely will be one of the albums of the year when it comes to list these things…
April 29, 2025

ORGAN THING: Back to Peckham, back to those Safehouses, Blink, Snag, two more artist-led group shows but are the events themselves enough?
April 25, 2025

ORGAN THING: Hetty Douglas and Katie Eraser’s Flesh and Time at Bomb Factory’s Shoreditch space, these are paintings alive with raw personality. Oh and a bit of Contour Fatigue at Emalin’s Clerk House space…
April 16, 2025

ORGAN THING: More of the constant search for whatever is next? Isabella Dyson at Grey Gallery, the just opened Ken Kiff exhibition, at Hales Gallery, Rosie West’s rabbits at Studio 1.1 and the ongoing persuit of art and…
April 12, 2025

ORGAN THING: And still the around about way to Break The Glass, this time via Pierre Knop’s opening of Fireflies Under Fever Sky at Pilar Corrias Gallery just around the corner (on a corner) and a little bit up the road…
April 12, 2025

ORGAN THING: And the around about way to Break The Glass went on via Cork Street and Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s exhibition, space comma space comma space at Tiwani Contemporary as well as Clive van den Berg’s African landscapes at Goodman Gallery and…

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