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Hi. I'm Cath and I do all sorts of things. Aside from working in an electronic component factory because I have to eat and pay the bills, and annoying the management by being a union rep because somebody has to, I co-manage, edit and write for www.manchestermusic.co.uk which is a limited-budget music webzine soon to celebrate its 10th birthday, although I've only been there for six of those years, reviewing gigs and demos and records and stuff from Manchester and further afield.

A bit of a live music addict I also run a weekly(ish) blog at http://www.myspace.com/upthedownescalator which covers (loosely) all the stuff there's no space for on the proper website interspersed with various tangential wanderings. I also manage an excellent band called Air Cav who live at http://www.myspace.com/aircavmusic , do a bit of gig promotion, press releases for other local unsigned bands, and odd bits of writing for http://www.incendiarymag.com/ . Very occasionally I sleep but I'm trying to get round that.

I have only seen The Cardiacs five times but I do like them, honest

I'm Brian Droid and I've known the Organ for a long time, and glad to see it go from strength to strength. I despair of the weak-kneed subservient approach that seems to be de rigeur these days, thank god for Sean & Marina & Co., and anyone who has the balls to say "scuse me, but has everyone lost the fucking plot ?"

Well hello there The fine folks at Organ know me, but for those who don't, my name is Mandi Apple, and I used to do a little music fansite with pages for Cardiacs and Levitation and stuff, but I concentrate nowadays on reviewing Asian horror and cult cinema ^_^

Nice to know that Myspace does not apparently support free speech and that their overlords can edit and censor at will, even if something posted there is perfectly legal and within our rights

Teresa wrote:Hello and Good Morning!
I'd follow Rip Cruncher anywhere

I'm willing to bet my furry codpiece that you wouldn't y'know Teresa...

hi sean and organ donors,
John the Baker here. fk shit space.
hope everyone is well and enjoying returning to the forums. hope to keep in touch here. peace,
JTB666

hello JTB and hello everyone else, yes indeed, back to the oldschool forums and enough of My Space, it bothers me when things get too big and people start to think they can dictate and control everything. Been hearing quite a few disturbing things within music indsutry circles, Murdock boasting about he'll have control of poular music and such

Hi, I'm Lawrie, migrating over here in case the Organ Myspace pages disappear.

I'm not involved in a band, just a massive Pure Reason Revolution fanboy: when they released their single Victorious Cupid on ORG, I was well impressed with Sean also sending me a copy of the earlier Ourlives single that was part of the Single Series, so I've subscribed to the next 10 ORG singles and just generally enjoy hearing some of the non-mainstream bands that ORG promotes.

Hugs and smooches all round.

Rip Cruncher wrote:

Teresa wrote:Hello and Good Morning!
I'd follow Rip Cruncher anywhere

I'm willing to bet my furry codpiece that you wouldn't y'know Teresa...

And you'd be right.

alright lads and ladies - I'm Barry, from good old Bristol town

aside from some 9-5 stuff I have to do to get beer/rent tokens, I spend the majority of my time hitting acoustic guitars and singing over the resultant noise under the moniker Oxygen Thief...hence the screen name.

Had the honour of being a demo of the week last year, and you could have a listen over at http://www.myspace.com/oxygenthief

Other than that I've been an on-off Organ lurker for a good few years - and a fan of such luminaries as My Vitriol, Carrie (né Pura Vida) amongst others

That's about it for me......

hi all - my names Ady from witney, oxon......might know some of you from another Cardiacs forum.

i'm mid 30's, work in a bookshop and listento shed loads of music when i can.

favorite band Cardiacs and love all other related projects,like allsorts of music- bit of a folk music freak- currently listening to some old school grunge like Pavement and listening to Ozrics.

Hi I'm Chun I'm a pussy holic, and I currently reside in Bristol UK. Traveled here from the space, and can't believe Tom wants to delete the Organ space face?(so wrong, just for shouting the truth). Hi RC, dropped round your space pit the other week you hairy animal you, Don't know if you are aware of this little tip but when you can, get those forged balls of steel galvanized, really brings up the shine, especially after having rusty, grindy, graty nads for so long. Big riffs and hair to you RC.


Two things to remember : never pay to play.
: you are what you eat, and I'm a C**t.

Big love to Organ for being persistent in getting the truth across, and for putting in the time to make a difference. None selfish act, RARE.

Why thankyou Chun...your comments have been duly noted in the Cruncher book of long shadows. Not ALL rusty nuts however are an altogether bad thing to encounter on a dark night...ask my Uncle Splosh.

See you on the Crunchy side of the moon ~ RC

that reminds me I oughta start taking vitamins

By the way beloved Al Keel why don't you comment on those things I posted in the other topics forum because I know that you'd have insight into these things (different perspectives should I say maybe?)

I cannot get a hold of you in any way right now on Myspace at the moment even though it turns out you didn't dump me for your beloved RAMS and well you do know how fond I've become of you

Ahhhh I see.
I thought something was amiss. What a coincidence it is (not) that all of the regular myspace contributors to the Cruncher site http://www.myspace.com/thelegendaryripcruncher have all mysteriously gone as quiet as the proverbial church mouse with a gun to its head....even dear ol' Glenn who wouldn't hurt a church mouse even if he knew how to.
But Al Keel ought to be used to being whacked by now. Censorious little piglet Hitlers over the last 25 odd years who've self empowered themselves to delete, suppress and supervise various stuff of mine in the name of...erm...what exactly ?, has ANYBODY even bothered to explain ?. {Sean O can tell you about 1 or 2 human rubber hammers from wayyy back...} A few years ago I had a couple of paintings pulled from a joint exhibition in Utrecht, Holland because they were deemed to be 'a fire hazard' so the neatly typed memo from up high said.
Yep, I guess I can see the gallery's point. I mean, all that oleo-resin turpentine, mixed with oil paint and combustable canvas on a wooden stretcher was BOUND to cause concern wasn't it ? could've gone up in a ball of flames at ANY time. Apparantly it had nothing to do with the subject matter ~
Nazi-ism at the heart of the PvDA (Dutch Labour Party)
Nah, couldn't have been. The other two artists on show must've just been using a different type of canvas, paint & wood to me that's all...the non INFLAMMABLE politically correct type. Wouldn't want anything goin' up in a raging artistic fuckin' inferno now would we!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, of course I'll contribute to your blogs Mon ~ I like to think we're kind of 'entwined' these days afterall. Ironically though I'm kind of tied up right now creating another work that some little jumped up prig'll want to censor in the near future. It'll be as 'me, myself and I' though i.e ~ Monsieur Keel. This loathsome, noisy, raw meat eating, pain-in-the-jockstrap CRUNCHER deserves a holiday in his airtight box every now and then...

eXXXes as ever ~ Rip {C/O AL KEEL}