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14th OCT - What’s going on here, Irons are hovering in fires and such. Time for a quick update on some things that have passed through in recent times while we cook up new things. I see TO THE BONES are now being raved about as the hot new thing just about everywhere, people like the NME, The Fly, Zane Lowe and Steve Lamacq on Radio One and such, caused a stir at that in The City thing in Manchester the other day so it seems, hot new tip in the Guardian this week and what have you. Seems you can catch the band we first brought you sometime last year at the Barfly’s best of In The City gig here in London on October 27th where the on the case music industry will no doubt all be congratulating each other for finding another exciting new band only a year late, nice ot see they do sometimes catch up, they're right this time. TO THE BONES are also at the Metro, Oxford Street, London this Thursday 16th, then the Freebutt, Brighton on 17th, Duchess Of York in York on the 18th and onward in some kind of transit van haze to wherever they’re going. The debut Bones album has just come out on Medici Records to pretty much rave reviews from everyone, and good it is, but then you’ve know for ages if you’ve been paying attention right...
OURLIVES have pretty much finished recording their debut album, they kick back in to action with a homeland gig as part of Icelandic Airwaves alongside BIFFY CLYRO on 15th Oct. Meanwhile IMPERIAL LEISURE have their debut album out on their own label any second now, they play an album launch party show at London’s Scala on Oct 23rd, the album is called The Art Of Saying Nothing, they head off on a lengthy UK tour with LESS THAN JAKE in November. San Francisco’s EVERYTHING MUST GO have finally released a new album as well, THE SMEARS are threatening a new single, PURE REASON REVOLUTION have now finished their new album and a currently on tour in mainland Europe with PORCUPINE TREE. Our frustrating old friends MY VITRIOL have a handful of gigs coming up, and are threatening a new album sometime soon, they play Glasgow Stereo 19th Nov, Manchester Ruby lounge 20th Nov, Bristol Fleece 21st Nov, London ULU 22nd Nov. HERZOGA are working on new material and more of their rather right wrong pop.
And thing you most want to know about is how is Tim Smith doing and what’s happening with CARDIACS. Well there isn’t that much to add to previous statements, Tim is slowly recovering and we’re all just giving him the time space and privacy he and his family still need. They (and we) thank everyone who’s been asking, leaving messages on the various forums, on My Space pages and such, as soon as there’s any fresh news we’ll let you all know here but don’t be expecting anything for a while yet, situation is still a long way from good. The Cardiacs singles that were due out here on ORG are still on hold, I read somewhere that we had sent some promos of a new single out to radio, we haven’t, when and if there is news, we’ll put it up here and on the Organ forum. If we’re honest then the things that have happened to Tim and Cardiacs have kind of knocked the wind out of our sails here in terms of releasing new things by anyone or anything, our minds haven’t really been focused on releasing new bands and records and such. It was a pleasure to play that magical SEA NYMPHS session on our radio show at Resonance FM last weekend though, first time I’ve been able to just sit and listen to a Cardiacs thing and just enjoy the treasure for ages, we really should see about releasing that session....