Cellular Chaos have let loose a very Dirty Girl, a rather remarkable slice of music (that already was a rather remarkable piece of music), Dirty Girl is preceded by a pointy spiky now wave new wave fresh wave called Gaslight, a thing that in term thrashes, twists, jitters, twitches, points and goes off and things…
Organ Thing: “Tim Smith of Cardiacs once autographed a copy of Cardiacs’ Rude Bootleg (Live at Reading Festival, 1986) by writing 14 seconds of music in staff notation along with the message “Get someone to play this – A song especially for Jason. Love Timmy X” Martin Keary recorded Tim’s autograph on keyboards and piano in…
Now besides leading what is without a doubt the finest band ever, besides leading a band that has given, and continues to give, so many of us so so many pleasures, besides all that, Tim Smith is just one of the nicest guys ever. Some of those gigs will be etched into my head forever,…
Cardiacs continue to “repeat their history at the expense of the future” by releasing more of their much sought-after back catalogue, or in this case unreleased footage that they’ve been teasing us with tastes of for some time. That footage from the shed (and 2007), we’ve seen a track or two on YouTube but now…
Organ Thing of this very very busy day? “Some Sea Nymphs and Cardiacs for you” said a just now. Here, go here, your Thing of The Day is some freshly released creativity from the Barnslou Trio. Always a pleasure to hear what the Trio have been doing and here’s what they have to say…. “We’re…
Back in the summer, some people gathered for a day of going off and things, a celebration in honour the leader of the starry skies and a fundraising benefit concert for Tim Smith, he of Cardiacs stuck down with illness but fighting back… This is indeed a rather beautiful Whole World Window I think you’ll…
Take extra care with all the precious stuff we try to handle with our special care…. Really must get some words down today, it landed earlier, and of course it is a glorious thing of beauty, of course it is, you knew that already. You knew a new Sea Nymphs album could be nothing less…
Have we told this tale before? The ready waters have been stirred again, we’ll tell it once more. Organ has been around, in one form or another, for very very (very) nearly thirty years now, (the very first issue actually came out back on December 4th 1986 if you really must know, a messy hand-made…
A new Cardiacs video (of a very old track) has just been officially posted, part of rehearsal footage filmed something like ten years ago now …. a raw early track, probably just about as straightforward as Cardiacs ever got…. Cardiacs rehearsing early material in preparation for the secret Bull & Gate shows In London. This…
ORGAN THING OF THE DAY: Napalm Death’s recent excellent cover of a classic Cardiacs song, To Go Off And Things, is now been made available as a download with all proceeds going to benefit leader of the Cardiac starry skies Tim Smith…. Now here at Organ we’ve written a million words about Cardiacs over…
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