ORGAN: Frieze week, Gina Birch at Whitechapel’s Gallery 46. There’s a feeling here that she’s experimenting, discovering, not so much finding her painterly voice but feeling she can start to visually shout…

Gina Birch, In My Fucking Room at Gallery 46 – It really isn’t important that Gina Birch has such an influential musical history, that her and her band are such an important cog in (post) punk’s colourful history. Her band, The Raincoats, were (and still are) one of the most significant of bands, obviously it…

ORGAN PREVIEW: Stories From The She Punks, a film made by Gina Birch and Helen Reddington, will enjoy a premiere as part of the Doc’n Roll Film Festival this Saturday…

“Stories from the She Punks – music with a different agenda is screening in the Doc n Roll Festival Saturday night at Genesis cinema. Doors 7pm, film 7.30pm, panel with Jane from the Mo-Dettes and the directors, plus some mystery live music! Come along!!” so said Gina Birch, she of The Raincoats, one of the…

ORGAN THING: Celebrating the subversive with the Neo Naturists…

  ‘Their performances and actions were never rehearsed; a schedule would often be discussed just hours beforehand, with props sourced and produced last-minute. This refusal to be slick was indicative of the group’s determination for their practice not to be neatly packaged: a deeply non-commercial position. As Grayson Perry remarked ‘…She wasn’t one to have…

ORGAN THING: Gina Birch, she of The Raincoats, painting and sound, this Saturday. Performance artists Sheree Rose and Amy Kingsmill at Resistance this Sunday…

Organ thing, couple more art-flavoured parish notices today, we’re in a rush, excuse the blatant robbery and the sharing of words, all about the signposts and this Gina Birch show does look good, shame we’re busy that night here. Art shows aren’t just about opening nights and elbows and crowds though, see you on Sunday.…

ORGAN THING: A Fete Worse Than Death, “I was at the original. I remember a guy from The Flying Medallions fell from a quite high stage on to…”

A cup of tea and a slice of life…..That’s Nice!… Here’s three gnarly old videos and things, faded old videos, a slice of life from 1994, and three great bands who played the original Fete Worse than Death thing that we were happily (triumphantly?) celebrating or marking or commemorating or whatever you want to call…