PAY TO PLAY, BATTLE OF THE BANDS - more of it! Just don’t do it!
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Woooooooooooo, this is a good one, can't ignore this one that just came in, win yourselves a paid gig!!

That;s right, just because we haven't mention Pay to Play or forced ticket buys or battle of the bands type crap in a few weeks, not since the My Space police deleted our No 2 Pay 2 Play page, doesn't meen we've given up raging against that one... ALL THE OLD BITS THAT MY SPACE TOOK DOWN ARE TO BE FOUND OVER AT http://organart.freeforums.org/index.php go join in over there

Look at this one from someone who just sent us a friends request, you can win an actual paid gig! Imagine that you bands! The prize is a gig you get paid to play!!!

"W** F***** will be held over 6 monthly heats resulting in a final later on next year (date to be confirmed). Heat winners will receive a gig guide in the ****Magazine & a spot on ***** Radio plus a DVD of the performance on the night. OVERALL TOP ACT WILL WIN: A paid gig at The Morton Arms!!  (THAT'S A PAID GIG YOU BANDS, HOPE YOU'RE ALL JUMPING FOR THAT ONE!!!), A full profile review in the **** magazine . This is a great opportunity for up and coming acts to showcase themsleves locally, do not underestimate what this exposure can do for you. Get yourself seen! To register yourself, your band, your act email **** @ ***** FIRST HEAT 8TH OCTOBER 2008 8PM to take part contact or call 0*** 6** ****"

and while we're here, you bands please don't post flyers for your Pay To Play/forced ticket buy gigs on our My Space page, by playing these gigs you become part of the problem - why the hell are you bands playing for scumbags like T****** S**** anyway? Sometimes I think some of you bands deserve what you get.

NEW BANDS, TAKE NOTE, GO READ THE ORGAN FORUMS ON THIS OVER AT http://organart.freeforums.org/index.php - YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO IT THIS WAY, NEVER EVER PAY TO PLAY, THE SHOWS ARE ALWAYS BADLY PROMOTED, THEY'RE ALWAYS CRAP AND YOU WON'T GET A THING OUT OF THEM, YOU JUST SOIL YOUR NAME BY BEING ON THEIR BILLS AND YOU END UP WASTING A LOAD OF TIME AND MONEY!

How that win a paid gig one going ot work then? it will be something like you bands all enter the heats and get paid nothing, They work out which one of you has the most mates wiling to pay to see you, who's friends drink the most at the bar, then they let you through to the next heat and the next one - and then when they've take nther piss as much as they can they finally look and  see who they can make the most monry out of they let them "win" and pay that winning band a little bit of the door/bar money whe nthier friends all turn up and pay to get in to see them at the triumphant winners gig - easy, and you do all the shouting and promoting and spaming and they do nothing besides count the cash...

Don't fall for any of it you bands, none of it ever gets you anywhere, just get your music out to people and let your music do the talking...

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THIS IS HOW TO DO IT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYwzW2QFnwo

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Free F**KED UP, "Hot new" ROLLINS word from somewhere & other daily news, oh & bands, wise up!
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3rd SEPT - F**KED UP, but only in name: "Hi folks, here's a second MP3 from "The Chemistry Of Common Life", F**ked Up's forthcoming album (due out October 13th). The track is called 'Twice Born' and you can get it here now... Feel free to share this one out... Don't forget the band will be back in the autumn for a more fleshed-out UK tour than before" - 07 Nov: 93 Feet East, London, 08 Nov: Freebutt, Brighton, 09 Nov: Barfly, Birmingham, 10 Nov: The Zodiac, Oxford, 11 Nov: Cavern, Exeter, 12 Nov: Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, 13 Nov: Sugarmill, Stoke, 14 Nov: Bodega, Nottingham, 15 Nov: Kasbah, Coventry, 16 Nov: King Tuts, Glasgow, 17 Nov: Corporation, Sheffield, 18 Nov: Cockpit, Leeds, 19 Nov: Roadhouse, Manchester...

2nd SEPT - ROLLINS REVEALS MANSON PENPAL (or what Henry told us here at Organ somewhere around 1993) – "We all had a weird pen pal when we were younger, but Henry Rollins can now be crowned the winner in that particular competition. He has revealed that he exchanged letters with Charles Manson, after he wrote the then Black Flag frontman a letter from prison. Rollins said: "He wrote me a letter out of the blue once and he said, 'I saw you on MTV and I thought you were pretty cool'. So we corresponded a few times in 1984; I'd just tell him about what we were doing with our new record and he'd send back semi-lucid responses. He made references to the Beach Boys stealing his ideas, which sounded like sour grapes, and told me to tell everybody else to take care of wildlife. That must have been the old hippy in him talking. At the time, I was very young and having him write me letters made me feel very intense and heavy. I'd always know I'd have a letter in my PO Box from him because the woman behind the counter at the post office would give you this awful look. His letters would always have swastikas on them so they were easy to spot". So report CMU today. Is this really such red hot new news? So when Henry told us this in an Organ interview back in the early 90's we had a red hop scoop did we? We better go read some old Organs, see what else we've got hidden in there...That was one of my favourite interviews from back then, happened early one afternoon under the Westway in Ladbrook Grove, Henry mainlining endless cups of strong black coffee and yelling at me about an inch from my nose for a non-stop half hour of this and that...

MY VITRIOL kind of almost announce album and tour: "My Vitriol aren't exactly what you'd call prolific. They released their only album to date, 'Finelines', in 2001. In 2002 they announced that they were going on hiatus, but returned in 2005 and 2006 to play two one-off shows to sold out crowds of 1000 and 1500 respectively. In March 2007, they tested new material with a single on ORG Records, under the name A Secret Society. Then they returned later that year with the phenomenally good 'A Pyrrhic Victory EP'. Then, well, very little. VBut the good news is they're back on the road, and after headlining the Offset Festival last weekend have confirmed three UK dates for later in the year. Well, they've confirmed dates and cities, not venues. But that's a start. And not only that, drummer Ravi Kesavaram has told Thrash Hits that the band are "planning on releasing a double-album later this year". Hurrah" So said CMU, we're not holding our breath around here though, and those A Secret Society singles were hardly the hot must have item, limited edition of a thousand and we've still got around 400 of 'em collecting dust over there on the shelf. Still, damn fine band when they do manage to get it together  Tour dates: 19 Nov: Glasgow, TBC, 20 Nov: Manchester, TBC, 22 Nov: London, TBC... 

1st SEPT - "Queers Support Ladyfest is a musical night featuring some of Manchester's finest queer artists. The last event raised a few hundred quid for the festival and was bloody marvellous. Confirmed for the next event is electro filth performance from the superb Saltylips, rapping delights from those lovely lesbians Hug Party and political sarcastic queer-punk-pop from Ste McCabe. It will kick off at 8pm at TV21 Bar on Thomas Street, Manchester (Northern Quarter) on Thursday 2nd October 2008, a measly £3 entry, and all proceeds go towards the Ladyfest Manchester pot. Ladyfest Manchester is a weekend festival to be held in November this year designed to promote females who sing, play, write, act, design, create and inspire. Come and support, you swines". - www.myspace.com/queerssupportladyfest

LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT have just announced a UK show as part of their European tour, the date is October 25 at London's Islington Academy, for more info head over to For all tour info go to: www.londonaftermidnight.com

TEENAGE JESUS AND THE JERKS have been added to the Patton/Melvins ATP Nightmare Before Christmas three-day event, held at Minehead Butlins on December 5-7. Who you say? Teenage Jesus And The jerks are Lydia Lunch, Jim Sclavunos (Bad Seeds, Grinderman) and Thurston (Sonic Youth) Moore - this is their first European show in 30 years, and is billed as a 're-animation' of the band. Meanwhile. BOSS HOG, the Jon Spencer-fronted rockers featuring Cristina Martinez of Pussy Galore, have also been added. The ATP show will be the band's first under the Boss Hog name in seven years.

Read the ORGAN news daily over at http://www.organart.com

oh and come on you bands!

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ORGAN @ RESONANCE 104.4FM, playlist, links, news, details of the bands...
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Organ show with Sean O on RESONANCE 104.4FM, Sunday August 31st 2008, 9.00pm – On your FM dial all over London and worldwide via www.resonancefm.com. Well 8.30 this week and a little unexpected extra...

Who got played this week? How do you find our more? Here come the details...

1/intro: TRANSISTOR SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta)
2: SPRATLEY'S JAPS – Cabinet (ORG)
3: RUDE MECHANICALS – Aliens (Rim)
4: LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS –  Moustache Man (download) 
5: FLYING LUTTENBACHERS –  The Critic Stomp (Skin Graft)
6: CARDIACS – Eden On The Air (ORG)
7: CHEER ACCIDENT –  Day I Never Met You (Download)
8/intro part two: TRANSISTOR SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta)
9: SLIPKNOT – Execute (Roadrunner) 
10: YOUNG WIDOWS – Old Skin (Temporary Residence)
11: LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS –  Grotesque Fleet Of Garbage (download)
12: FIGHT LIKE APES – Canhead (Fifo)
13: ROSE KEMP – Nanny's World (One Little Indian) 
14: GRAILS –  Reincarnation Blues (Temporary Residence)
15: MISS VIOLETTA BEAUREGARDE – The Unbearable Lightness Of Tractors (Temporary Residence)
16: SHEARWATER – On The Death Of The Waters (Matador)
17: THE LADIES – Empathy On A Stick (Temporary Residence)
18: JOY OF SEX – December, Month Of Plenty (demo)
19: F**K BUTTONS – Colours Move (ATP)
20: GNOMES OF ZURICH –Stone The Crows (demo)
21: WILD DOGS IN WINTER –  Good Ol' Burnt Eyes (demo)
22: ENABLERS –Tundra (Lancashire And Somerset)
23: RYE RYE – Shake It To The Ground (white label)
24: RUBY THROAT – Swan And The Menotaur (Sleep Like Wolves)
25: RUDE MECHANICALS – Strange Times (Rim)
26: FLYING LUTTENBACHERS – Demonic Velocities/20,000,000 Volts (Skin Graft)
27: AMANDA PALMER –  Runs In The Family (Roadrunner)
28: RE-RENAISSANCE OF THE CELTIC HARP – track two (High Quality Recordings) 

THE DETAILS, THE LINKS....

An unexpected last minute unprepared extra half hour this week, on air thirty minutes early at 8.30pm with about two minutes warning so you got bonus bites from the spare tracks we had with us...

1/intro: TRANSISTOR SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta) - our adopted theme tune so you know where you are. Transistor Six is Frances Castle, there's lots of her fine art and creativity to explore from Francis so please please do. You can now get the whole tune downloaded for yourselves and find links to her artwork, albums and lots more over at www.myspace.com/transistorsix
 

2: SPRATLEY'S JAPS – Cabinet (ORG) – An offshoot from one of the Cardiacs family of bands and one of Tim Smith's creations, you can find this track on the compilation Tim put together called Cardiacs And Affectionate Friends. Fine out more about Cardiacs and Spratley's Japs over at www.cardiacs.com, find details of this album over on the ORG Records pages at www.organart.com

3: RUDE MECHANICALS – Aliens (Rim) – One of the most rewardingly unique albums of the year, London's Rude Mechanicals really are Avantly different with their Glass Eye album and all kinds of stage bendy pointy jazz and spiky hard boiled experimental noise and toe sucking and golden showers and post punk art rock performance and body fluid meditation and creatively absurd goodness and dark decadent moistness. Led by the mysterious Miss Roberts, her band of 'symbiotic slaves' really are are different. Played again tonight because they playing a free Punkvert gig as part of the Portobello Film Festival at the Inn On The Green (under the Westway just up from Ladbrook Grove tube station) on September 10th Go admire them over at - www.myspace.com/flyingcaberet or www.rudemechanicals.org.uk or www.rimrecords.co.uk

4: LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS –  Moustache Man (download) – They started in August of 2001 as a one-off performance piece by artist/performer Gregory Jacobsen. The performance was an attempt to convert his sound and noise based absurdist performance group Ritualistic School Of Errors into a dissonant minimalist rock band of synths and drums that would leave a wide open space for his syllable-stuffed cut-and-paste prose and confrontational contortionist interpretive dancing. Since then the group has gone through many changes with Jacobsen providing the aesthetic thread that runs through all stages of the group's history. Using Jacobsen's grotesque paintings as a basis for ideas, Lovely Little Girls craft songs of ridiculous simplicity that morph into nose-fornicating forays of dissonance and odd stumble-down-the-stairs-timing. Performance and concept has always been a large part of the group- either by staging horrendous fanfares or writing musical parts that depend on a theatrical playing.  The current incarnation of Lovely Little Girls features Mike Kendrick (Rope), Monika Bukowksa (Brilliant Pebbles), Doug Abram (Black Bear Combo), Zack Weil and Alex Perkolup (Flying Luttenbachers, Cheer-Accident, Bobby Conn). The line-up culls many influences from No-Wave, Rock-In-Opposition, Zeuhl, 80s Thrash Metal, Childrens' Music, Punk, Kurt Weill, 20th Century Classical and the art-damaged theatrics of The Residents - www.myspace.com/lovelylittlegirls

5: FLYING LUTTENBACHERS –  The Critic Stomp (Skin Graft) – The ultimate no-wave free-jazz hard-boiled band and a real challenge to your musical endurance, this is our idea of radio friendly. A track from one of their many classic albums, you really should check them out and indeed check out everything leader Weasel Walter is involved in with his other bands, projects and label, he's always worth your time and effort. Find more at www.skingraftrecords.com or www.myspace.com/weaselwalter

6: CARDIACS – Eden On The Air (ORG) – Another track from the compilation Cardiacs leader Tim put together called Cardiacs And Affectionate Friends – the mellow relaxing side of Cardiacs and family. Fine out more about Cardiacs over at www.cardiacs.com, find details of this album over on the ORG Records pages at www.organart.com

7: CHEER ACCIDENT – Day I Never Met You (Download) - Cheer Accident are a hard-to-pin-down very underground art-rock/post something or other prog band legend from Chicago; find samples at www.skingraftrecords.com or www.myspace.com/cheeraccident

8/intro part two: TRANSISTOR SIX – Back Yard Rocketship (Blackbean & Placenta) – Our familiar theme tune for those tuning in at 9.00pm and expecting to hear it in the right place and the right time. This is where the Organ hour really started...

9: SLIPKNOT – Execute (Roadrunner) – Yes, Slipknot, and why not? The opening track from the new album All Hope Is Gone (out this week). Slipknot on Resonance? One minute of boiling experimental noise, tension and one of the finest openings to an album for a long long time, rest of the album is rather more conventional of course.... – www.slipknot1.com

10: YOUNG WIDOWS – Old Skin (Temporary Residence) - Young Widows are from Louisville Kentucky and their second album Old Wounds is out on September 9th (well in the US anyway, not sure about the rest of the planet). Front line creative alternative US new wave post rock challenge and you can find out more via www.myspace.com/youngwidows

11: LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS –  Grotesque Fleet Of Garbage (download) – See track four...

12: FIGHT LIKE APES – Canhead (Fifo)  - We have another excuse to play the best pop band of 2008! This time the excuse is a London appearance on Friday 5th September at Last Days Of Decadence (Shoreditch High Street). This is from the punky synthy Dublin band's David Carradine Is A Bounty Hunter Who's Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch EP, not long until the debut album now - www.myspace.com/fightlikeapesmusic

13: ROSE KEMP – Nanny's World (One Little Indian) - Rose is actually the daughter of Steeleye Span's Maddy Prior and Rick Kemp, you can hear it right there in her DNA and in the warmth of this rather fine new album of hers. Unholy Majesty is an accomplished impressive body of work, songs that take in her British folk heritage and blend that legacy effortlessly with a more than healthy and gloriously ambitious 70's hard/prog rock outlook. The new album Unholy Majesty is out this week, she's off on a UK tour this coming week including dates in London at the Dublin Castle on Sept 13th and The Water Rats Sept 15th - – www.myspace.com/rosekemp or www.indian.co.uk/rosekemp

14: GRAILS – Reincarnation Blues (Temporary Residence) – A first taste of the forthcoming album from the US band, Doomsdayer's Holiday is the Portland band's seventh album – "Acclaimed psych-metal group bore deeper into the darkness to ride the razor-thin line between morbidly terrifying and transcendently beautiful"  - only just got our hands on it, sound rather special on first listen, out on October 7th, expect more from us – www.myspace.com/grailsongs

15: MISS VIOLETTA BEAUREGARDE – The Unbearable Lightness Of Tractors (Temporary Residence) – Whooooooo, instant must play this rush! A track from a rather good compilation album we got out hands on this week called Destroy Independent Music – Temporary Residence Ltd 06/07. She's from... well nothing is that clear really, frothing gabber flavoured bouncy noise from... well maybe Italy, we need more! www.myspace.com/missviolettabeauregarde

16: SHEARWATER – On The Death Of The Waters (Matador) – Another visit to Shearwater's beautiful album Rook. You know how it works, word slowly seeps around but there's too many bands and you can't possibly hear them all and the language of birds so often floats on by - lost on the wind and in the tree tops and yes, this album has been out for getting on for two months now and we're late. You stash the name somewhere there in the file you keep in your head marked bands I must make a point of checking out when I get a moment - put this album at the front of the file and mark it urgent. Played this week in anticipation of the band's UK tour that includes a show at London's Bush Hall on Sept 17th and a free instore appearance at Rough Trade East on Sept 18th - www.matadorrecords.com/shearwater.

17: THE LADIES – Empathy On A Stick (Temporary Residence) – Another track from a rather good compilation album we got out hands on this week called Destroy Independent Music – Temporary Residence Ltd 06/07, and yet another band that features Rob Crow and Zach Hill (he of Hella and such). This dates from 2006, hey, 2006, 2008 what's a couple of years – find out more from www.myspace.com/robandzach or www.temporaryresidence.com

18: JOY OF SEX – December, Month Of Plenty (demo) - Is it something in the air, is scratchy wrong pop time? More things to say? "We agree on several things" they say, "short songs, rhythm, repetition, noise, form meeting function..." and yes they have all that nailed down and in place along with their scrape and bang and their joy of sex. A threesome, two boy one girl action and a fresh perspective, don't got expecting any kind of mere novelty – "equality, newness..." and tunes of plenty buried underneath the furs, put of the lights tonight is it December already? I guess we should talk of Art Brut and The Fall and Wire and jagged smiles and thought we had all worked out... everything is good, nothing ruined, a fine fine demo. Catch them live at the Good Ship in Kilburn on September 11th - www.myspace.com/joyofsex

19: F**K BUTTONS – Colours Move (ATP) – The rather challengingly experimental English electronic band have a new single out in October. Andrew Weatherall tells it rather well when he says they're "like listening to Fripp and Eno in 1973 through a pair of massive speakers that have been slashed with a carving knife". This new single is out on October 6th and you can catch them playing at the Rough Trade East shop this Monday night (Sept 1st) at 6.30pm with Mr Weatherall, before they head off to the USA to tour with Mogwai, back here touring the UK with the very same Mogwai in october – www.myspace.com/fuckbuttons or www.myspace.com/atprecordings

20: GNOMES OF ZURICH – Stone The Crows (demo) – Well they sent in a demo and they're clearly not from Zurich and they're probably not gnomes. They sound like a full on electric band, apparently they're actually two (sometimes angry) men with a minimal drum kit and a acoustic guitar they put through a whole pile of fractured peddles. Two guys holed up on a warehouse in south London where by day they pack and move fine art and by night they make scratchy shouty feisty angry music – well they say angry, they certainly have frantic energy and there's lots of shouting and clanking and banging going on and it clearly is cathartic – it clearly isn't just cathartic noise and a blustery anger though - there's restrain and craft and considered space here as well. GOZ have something rather different and something rather good. They get in to moody wired restrained shoegazing space now and again – in a delicately fragile lo-fi kind of way - especially with a fine reflective piece of beauty called Again. Five tracks, five challenging rewarding tracks, five different tracks and something well worth checking out – www.myspace.com/thegnomesofzurich

21: WILD DOGS IN WINTER –  Good Ol' Burnt Eyes (demo) - This looked good from the off, I do like a demo wrapped in good artwork – satisfying hand made cover with a stencil silhouette of a a wild dog, worth having just for the art of the tactile cover and the stitched together card that makes that cover. You kind of know when something like this turns up with so much simple crafted care that the music inside is going to be equally as good, equally as considered and cared about. And it is. Three simple, clever, complex, quiet tracks. Three whispered pieces of fine art, three pieces of sleepy languid thoughtful beauty. Wild Dogs In Winter are from Maidstone, Southern England, their letter came with a line drawing of a stag. The opening track on this demo was played tonight, it hums in a delicate post-rock way, very much a song though, a beautifully textured whispered structured unassumingly delicately beautiful song called Good 'ol Burnt Eyes...  Can't quite get that title but everything else makes perfectly beautiful sense. Every sound considered, every brush stroke, every pen mark, every delicate glitch and string plucked... everything. Simple art, simple music, beautifully clever - www.myspace.com/wilddogsinwinter

22: ENABLERS – Tundra (Lancashire And Somerset) – New single from the exceptional band from San Francisco. Think poetic license and almost spoken word from post-rock fans and Slint lovers and they're'so so much more than that. One of the vital bands of now. And they land here for a UK tour this week that includes a date in London at Sazerac (formally Clockwork), Pentoville St, on September 6th – www.myspace.com/enablers

23: RYE RYE – Shake It To The Ground (white label) - She's got this bonkers electro dance hip-hop bratty brat sugar-sweet thing going down, no messing with her, fly as a pie or something near. Electro jam US hip-hop (from Baltimore), seems she's just seventeen and the toast of the damn interweb and faceTube and you've got to keep it moving – and why not, this is damn good! She has her own style, her on take on it all, bit of a M.I.A. vibe in there, this is innovation and as zinging as stewed blackberries with no sugar – www.myspace.com/tharealryerye

24: RUBY THROAT – Swan And The Menotaur (Sleep Like Wolves) – A track from the new album called The Ventriloquist  – Ruby Throat is Katie Jane Garside and Chris Whittingham. Seems they met on a dark and rainy night on the London underground, Katie Jane bewitched by the sound of Chris's Lapsteel slide guitar, they decided to share worlds and forged Ruby Throat. The Ventriloquist is twelve very fragile almost whispered songs, twelve pieces of minimal warmth and hushed words, a whole set of colliding realities and naked whimsical dreamstates. Twelve pieces of quiet gothic folk and little things that matter so much. Quietly snarling black cats, swans, rain, tension – delicate fragile tension, beautifully whispered words and delicately fragile jagged edges, brushed guitar strings that do indeed bewitch, easy to see why Katie stopped in that underground tunnel. They make a beautiful sound together – beguiling, melancholic and that cooing dove of a voice that could only be Katie Jane. Delicate pin-drops and one careful foot in front of the other under dark skies past quiet streams and secret worlds - hushed blues, other-folk. The Ventriloquist has been out for a little while now as an underground mailorder word of mouth thing, September 1st sees the official worldwide go-buy-it-in-a-record-shop style release. They play a rather intimate show down in Denmark Street this Wednesday Sept 3rd at London's 12-Bar club - www.katiejanegarside.com 

25: RUDE MECHANICALS – Strange Times (Rim) – See track three....

26: FLYING LUTTENBACHERS – Demonic Velocities/20,000,000 Volts (Skin Graft) – See track five...

27: AMANDA PALMER –  Runs In The Family (Roadrunner) – She of the wonderful Dresden Dolls has a solo album out on September 15th, the album is as diverse and rewarding as you'd rightly expect. She sets out on a UK tour at the end of September – www.whokilledamandapalmer.com or www.myspace.com/whokilledamandapalmer 

28: RE-RENAISSANCE OF THE CELTIC HARP – track two (High Quality Recordings) - – here's what the label say, they tell us in a rather succinct way:  "Alan Stivell's 'Renaissance De La Harpe Celtique', released in 1971, was responsible for a phenomenal worldwide surge of interest in the Celtic harp, a small to medium-sized instrument usually designed for traditional music and prominent in Welsh, Bretton, Irish, Scottish and other Celtic cultures. Some of the artists on 'Rerenaissance Of The Celtic Harp' share a love of Stivell's original album, having either grown up listening to it or picked it up while digging charity shop crates for sample material. Others had never heard of it until a dusty CDR was thrust in their direction one day. The result is fourteen weird and wonderful tracks stretching and reshaping elements of Stivell's masterpiece. This album is meant to be experienced as a coherent whole - this is not a 'compilation'. Individual tracks have purposely not been attributed to specific artists, and none of the tracks have titles. The artists involved in the project are: The Foul Papers, High Quality Recordings, Listen With Sarah, Mank, Operator, Orcop, Pappy and Recall" 
                          Well we certainly discovered Alan Stivell via charity shops and word of mouth, and yes Renaissance is a masterpiece. Re-Renaissance meanwhile is a fine interpretation via the mediums of electronic warmth and sampled texture. Refined delicate samples and mellow electronic loops, clever additions that blend rather than blur the original – and yes it does work as one beautifully coherent whole   .  Download it all for free from www.highqualityrecordings.co.uk

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ANOTHER BAND SCREWED BY THE SYSTEM? OR BY APATHY?
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This just in from the Capital of....

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From: Liverpool Bands Friends-(Post Your Band News Here)
Date: 31 Aug 2008, 13:33


The Majority Have Called It A Day -A Star Of The Capital Of Culture Has Just Gone Out


Today The Majority -a band currently on the player - decided that they could no longer continue as a unit having done everything they could to make an impact. Their blog at www. myspace. com/majorityone expands further on their reasons.

The history of the Liverpool music scene is littered with the names of many hundreds of bands so it will be easy to dismiss this as just one of those things. But its not - its an indictment of a music scene that can't support its artists - where Pay To Play is rife and bands can earn more playing covers than be creative.

The Majority have done the support slots for visiting bands and headlined their own shows and have just released their own self financed EP. The latter was an attempt at one last throw of the dice - a showcase for their talents. As a product it achieves everything they set out to do - wonderful songs, great production and great package plus free video but still no interest from the movers and shakers in the media. Its something those that have heard it will cherish but its still not enough.

Clearly the band have done all the right things but maybe not in the right order or at the right time - that piece of luck of meeting the right person or being in the right place has eluded them. Their last gig is at The Barfly on 12th September but if fate prevails then things could turn around but fate is fickle and its finger hasn't pointed their way before so its unlikely now.

In the meantime they are in the running to be featured on the digital juke box at the Liverpool Music exhibition so if you want to show some support buy the EP and vote at www.myspace.com/thebeatgoesonliverpool so they can join the role call of bands that could have been the next big thing ....

Tony

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From: ORGAN
Date: 31 Aug 2008, 13:37


well they never bothered sending anything here or from what I can see, they never bothered sending anything anywhere, no sign of their EP or communicating in anyway - if bands don't get their stuff out then little we can do, up to you bands, labels and such. There's loads of places to get your music out ot these days, people like us can do more shouting than ever these days, we have the instance hit of the web, e.mail, our own radio shows, TV shows you have loads of places to get your music out to - if you don't like what we say or what we cover then there's places like Artrocker, Fandango, Stool Pigeon and a thousand others.... it takes a little more than sitting in front of a PC ON SOME CORPORATE SOCIAL ONETWORKING SITE asking us to vote for in some stupid virtual capital of culture dukebox rubbish!. 

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Liverpool Bands Friends-(Post Your Band News Here)
Date: 31 Aug 2008, 13:48


The missive is one I sent out to those people in Liverpool who ignore these and many of the other bands - who are not in a certain clique.
I posted it along to you as you kindly gave much advice and support over the topic of Pay To Play which i passed onto this and other bands. I should have prefaced the message with a note about how the system has screwed another band. If they could guarantee a review of the EP they would send it but the coffers are bear to just send out on spec.
Tony

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ORGAN
Date: 31 Aug 2008, 13:52

WELL I'D SAY NO, THE SYSTEM HAS NOT "SCREWED ANOTHER BAND", I'd say another band couldn't be bothered to get their shit together and get their music out to people, too many bands just sitting back waiting for people to come knocking or voting or whatever. You say you sent the message to me because I had given you good advise, shame you took no notice of that advise - the advice we keep on and on repeating is this - IF YOUR MUSIC IS GOOD THEN JUST GET IT OUT THERE TO PEOPLE LIKE US, TO THE ZINES, THE WEBZINES, THE ALTERNATIVE RADIOS SHOWS, THE ALTERNATIVE PRINT PRESS, TO PEOPLE LIKE STEVE LAMACQ, JOHN KENNEDY on XFM  - and still ALL you do is post asking us to vote for some shit here and there. Won't you ever learn, why do we bother with saying these things?  It's simple, if your music is exciting enough then we'll bite and shout and share - THAT IS WHAT WE DO HERE!

I've been going through all the latest stuff that has been sent in here while I put tonight's radio show together, almost every package so far has been from North America, while my in e.mail box is full of moaning e.mails from English bands who sit on their arses waiting for someone to click on their My Space page or vote for them or while they blame the system - the system is a good one but YOU have to make the effort! - if bands want coerage, attention, support then they need to get out there and get their music out to people who will tell other people

"If they could guarantee a review of the EP they would send it but the coffers are bear to just send out on spec" - well if their music was that good then they'd get play and a review wouldn't they!! If they can't be bothered to risk a CDr and a stamp, if the music is good enough then people will be more than happy to shout about it... WE CAN'T TELL YOU IF ITS ANY GOOD UNTIL WE HEAR IT PROPERLY!!! A couple of mimutes via my Space does not do it (and hundreds of other band already asked us to check something on My Space today - no time, been playing new CDs since about 9.00am this morning, playing a Sybarite CD now, never heard of them before, this is getting played on our radio show tonight, now who knows if that makes a difference or not, certainly can't harm though),

Apathy and My Space laziness is killing new music, the system is better tha never if YOU can be bothered to use it... these e.mails pissed me off...

I can't be bothered with going to read apathy band's blog, too busy with the bands who worth all our time and effort... And as for the Capital Of Culture... don't even start me on that one

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So what do YOU want on the radio tonight, what do you want from Organ anyway?
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So what do YOU want on the radio tonight, what do you want from Organ anyway?

Sunday bloody Sunday, raining again, that's five Sundays in a row, getting soaked to bring YOU the new exciting music the other radio stations never allow anyone to play. This week I get my turn again and so you get a round up of the latest demos, releases - slices of radio unfriendly goodness, post this that and the other, punk, prog, altenative math punk, alternative indie rock, punk-prog, metal, new wave metal, punk-metal, things that can't be stuck in pigeonholes, who the hell knows what - every Sunday on air, on your radio, your airwaves, FM in London via 104.4fm, worldwide via http://www.resonancefm.com. We're on at 9.00pm UK time  (Sean O)

What do you want from us anyway? Do you want reviews, do you want links, art, gigs?

SOME BITS FROM THE ORGAN DAILY NEWS PAGES (read it everyday over at http://www.organart.com)

RUBY THROAT is Katie Jane Garside's other band and she just said  "dear all, just a quickie to let you know RUBY THROAT are playing the 12 BAR CLUB on wed Sept 3rd, Denmark St, London, WC2, www.12barclub.com and of course we would love to see you there, you can call 0207 2402622 to book tickets (i do recommend this as its a very small club and will probably sell out), this show is to mark the official worldwide release of our debut album 'the ventriloquist' repackaged with new artwork and a couple of extra tracks, 'House Of Thieves' is being released as a digital single in the next couple of weeks along with a new song recorded for the b side, we might even finish the video to go with it too...we'll update you with more info as we get it about this with love "  Katie

MAGAZINE, one of Britain's most influential bands, are to reform for just two concerts in February 2009. Original members Howard Devoto, Dave Formula, Barry Adamson and John Doyle are to be joined by an as yet unnamed guest guitarist, to walk in the not inconsiderable footsteps of the departed, and sadly missed, John McGeoch. It is the first time Magazine have played live together since 1980. They are to play The Forum, London on February 13th & The Academy 1, Manchester on February 14th. Tickets are on sale from September 15th. - www.myspace.com/magazineofficial 

ENABLERS are on their way over with their rather unique sound, dates are - 3rd Sept - The Prince Albert, Brighton, 4th Sept - The Maze, Nottingham, 5th Sept – Korova, Liverpool, 6th Sept – Clockwork, London - www.myspace.com/enablers

GENESIS, or to give them their full proper name, Early Genesis, will release a new box set, 'The Beginning – 1970-1975', on November 10. The set will include five of the band's albums mixed in 5.1 surround sound – 'Trespass', 'Nursery Cryme', 'Foxtrot', 'Selling England By The Pound' and 'The Lamb Dies Down On Broadway' – plus rarities. The rarities will be contained on the CD 'Extra Tracks 1970-1975'. Included on this disc will be the band's work for a BBC art film on the work of painter Michael Jackson, which was aborted before completion, as well as demos and B-sides. 

THE REVELLIONS are the newest signing to London's Dirty Water Records, The Revellions are a rather raw and 60's sounding Dublin garage band, if that sounds interesting then you can go get a FREE download as a taster from their forthcoming album by going to this link here

F*CK BUTTONS will play an in-store show at London's Rough Trade East at 6.30pm on 1 Sep, to celebrate the release of their new single, 'Colours Move', on 8 Sep. Also playing will be Andrew Weatherall, who provides a remix of 'Sweet Love For Planet Earth' as the single's B-side. As usual with Rough Trade in-stores, wristbands for the event will be given away on a first-come-first-served basis an hour before the show. If you miss this one, you'll be able to catch them supporting Mogwai on their upcoming tour.

OF MONTREAL have announced details of a new single next month and one-off UK show in October. 'Id Engager' will be released on 8 Sep and is the first single to be lifted from new album 'Skeletal Lamping', out later this year on Polyvinyl Records. You can also download 'Id Engager' for free for a limited time from the band's MySpace page at www.myspace.com/ofmontreal. The band will also play Koko in Camden on 16 Oct as part of a European tour.

GIRLSCHOOL play London's 100 Club on Thursday 4th September (with support from Tokyo Dragons and Dirty Love), the band have a new album out on October 27th 

dEUS have confirmed three new dates for October .The dates are: October 13th Dublin - Tripod, 14th Manchester - Academy 3, 15th London – Koko

ZAG AND THE COLOURED BEADS play a rather good looking rather folky medieval castle kind of gig at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire on 7th September, details are vague but it seems the show runs from 12 noon to 7pm and takes place in the castle grounds. The bill also features the American pastoral folk of PAMELA WYN SHANNON, the folk-drone metal of HIGH ON FLAMES and CIRCULUS 

Right, off to dive in to the mountains of CDs and work out what to play for you tonight

Had we had the time and hey, this week we did.... 

Now there a lot of time wasting spam on My Space, dumb bands clogging up the day with "hey dude vote for us and thanks for your support and for being a fan" when you have no clue who the hell they are, that and stupid "models" wanting attention and depressing the hell out of you as they suck the will to surf away. Once in a while though someone says hello and you click on their page and hey, this is good! 

AARON KRATEN is a painter, I guess you'd call it pop art – well pop art in that post-computer, back to the tactile media, just get out there on the street and do it kind of way. He's from Costa Mesa, California, he paints on wood, he paints with mixed media on wood, he paints on skateboards, on old unwanted Volkswagen doors - comic book imagery, graffiti, the enjoyment of paint and the exploration of marks - a distinctive style and hey, you don't need our words, there's one of his pieces right there, here's the links, go explore, he's good...  www.myspace.com/aaronkraten or www.aaronkratenart.com

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This week’s Organ and Three hardy shipmates of a Sea Shepherd anti-whaling ship ....
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The weekly on-line edition of Organ is up as always over at http://www.organart.com - you'll find the usual bag of music reviews, albums, singles, live reviews.... 

If you want to know what our album of the week is then go have a look, if you want to know who AARON KRATEN is or who LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS are what we think of the new LUSTMORD album, the RUBY THROAT album, SLIPKNOT, or what we have to say about new things from Killing Joke, Little Jackie, Pictures Paint Words, The Mirimar Disaster, Toy Gun Cowboy, Agrypnie, City 13, Lords Of Bastard, The Donkeys, Goldblade, Brendan Canning, Bland Bladen, Eureka Machines, Brian Wilson, Narration, Kissing Kalina then go have a look.... get involved over on the Forum, do a little more than spam a vote for us message...

Meanwhile here's a little bit from this week's Organ for you....

WHALE'S TALE - This just in from SchNews: 

Three hardy shipmates of a Sea Shepherd anti-whaling ship have found themselves placed on an international wanted list by Japan. Why these minor crew members have been singled out is a mystery, but Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson sees it as desperation after recent successes in obstructing illegal Japanese mammal-murdering activities. The last whaling season saw 550 minke whales killed out of a planned 850 (see SchNEWS 636).

The outlaws include one Briton, believed to be Daniel Bebawi, from Nottingham, and two Americans, all sought for their involvement in actions against the Kaiko Maru whaling ship in 2007.

Despite forensic proof, no admission is being made that the Kaiko Maru repeatedly rammed the activists' vessel, but police have at least dropped claims (widely and sensationally reported at the time of course) that Sea Shepherd crew tossed "acid" onto the deck. What was tossed was rotten butter - chemically defined as butyric acid in the same way orange juice is defined as citric acid. It is non-toxic, non harmful but very slippery and it stinks to high heaven. Although taking no legal action, the Japanese don't like a smelly boat – in 2008 they retaliated to these tactics with live bullets and concussion grenades. Captain Watson was struck in the chest with a bullet and was saved only by his Kevlar vest.

Meanwhile, preparations continue for this year's campaign, Sea Shepherd's fifth in Antarctic waters. The goal is to send two fast ships to the Southern Ocean with the purpose of continuously keeping the Japanese whaling fleet on the run.

"We intend to sink the Japanese fleet economically," said Captain Watson. "Our strategy is to prevent whales from being killed, to force Japan to spend money on fuel without killing whales. My crew and I will not watch whales die; we will not bear witness to the cruel slaughter of a single whale without risking our lives to prevent its unlawful and cruel murder..."

Battle on the high seas looks set to recommence from November - whether or not Interpol are on their tail. See www.seashepherd.org and www.whalewatch.org

 go see - www.schnews.org.uk

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This week’s Other Rock Show was an IMMERSION COMPOSITION SOCIETY special!
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Organ OTHER ROCK SHOW with Marina, Resonance 104.4FM, 9.00PM Sunday August 24th 2008

Intro: PHANTOMSMASHER - Bishop Hopping (Ipecac)
1:  (ICS, ORIGIN LODGE) MATT LEBOFSKY - Another Soundcheck (download) 
2:  CHEER-ACCIDENT - Dismantling The Berlin Waltz (Skin Graft)
3:  TERA MELOS  - When Worms Learn To Fly (Temporary Residence)
4:  ENABLERS  - Tundra (Lancashire and Somerset)
5:  (ICS, INCREDULODGE) AMBROSE NORTNESS - Session4, Trk 1 (download)
6:  (ICS, WIG LODGE) STEVE LEW - Why I Didn't Go To Public School (download)
7:  (ICS, ORIGIN LODGE) MATT LEBOFSKY - Monkey Puzzle (download)
8:  (ICS, ORIGIN LODGE) DARLING FREAKHEAD - Not That Hard (download)
9:  MIASMA AND THE CAROUSEL OF HEADLESS HORSES - Manticore (Southern)
10: DARLING FREAKHEAD - Not Forgotten (download)
11: LOWER ANIMALS - Newt Trowelling (download)
12: LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS - Grotesque Fleet Of Garbage (download)
13: UPSILON ACRUX - Boa Vs Crab (Cuneiform)
14: YOU SLUT! - 1s, 2ns (The Original Door) (Stressed Sumo)
15:  LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS - A Faint Pungency (download)
16:  (ICS, ORIGIN LODGE) DAN RATHBURN - The Apothecary (download)
17: OUTRO:  CHEER ACCIDENT - Learning How To Fly (download)

This week's Other Rock Show was an IMMERSION COMPOSITION SOCIETY special!

It started like this: two rather good, but easily distracted musicians got fed up with hearing each other bellyaching about writers block or promising to finish the magnum opus next week, and challenged each other to a duel. They challenged each other to write twenty songs in one day. The results were so invigorating, and curiously productive that they decided to do it again, and then to bring a friend or two into the process.  Their (also rather good) musical friends were so taken by the idea that they started doing it too. The two original composers, Nicholas Dobson and Michael Mellender, gave the group a name: The Immersion Composition Society, and suddenly lots of other talented music makers (and this was in Oakland, California, home to a preposterous amount of talent) wanted to do it.  When groups started to bud off the main one, the ICS broke into Lodges.  Soon there was Origin Lodge, New Lodge, the very productive Wig Lodge. A web site was made, explaining the idea, and putting up mp3s of the best compositions - now www.ics-hub.org . Others tried it and were fired up: Bullet Lodge in Minnisota, the Black Lodge in Texas.  Yes, it's Fight Club for composers!
 
The (basic) idea is that you get up in the morning, start composing new stuff (recording or writing down, but not random improvisation: it has to be a constructed piece as much as possible) and try to make twenty songs before you meet up with all the other people in your Lodge that have been doing the same thing on the same day.  You get together in one of the members house, bring snacks (double snacks if you don't come up with anything) and listen to each other's music.  You can wear Lodge colours and Hats if you want.   The whole point is that the combination of friendly peer pressure and need for speed stops you faffing around and making excuses or being scared to create - somehow fires up the synapses... Lodges play other games too, including 48hr marathon sessions (those attempting this report hallucinations and sleep-composing)...

There are now around twenty ICS lodges across the USA and a handful recently formed in Europe - Incredulodge in Seattle, Sauna Lodge in Finland, Cremorne 13 Lodge in France,  a new on in Holland, and three in the UK, the busiest being Limey Lodge in South London.  Founder Nicholas Dobson has co-written a book called 'The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook" based on his ICS experiences.  Each Lodge has its own collective personality according to the make-up of its members, who can range from professional soundtrack composers to bedroom guitarists. There is no central organisation running this, and the rules are there to be bent (but work best for you as they are!)... a very very organic, living thing.  They are fun and they do things to your brain.  

And yes, the ICS tracks played were all composed and recorded from scratch within hours during day sessions - even MATT LEBOFSKY's six minute prog epic (he's become rather good at this - loads more good stuff on his web site). And DARLING FREAKHEAD was what led me to the original ICS site back in 2002 - I found him on mp3.com (when mp3.com was still good), thought he was great and the only other reference to him was on this, where he was one of the first Origin Lodge members.  This was from his current site  darlingfreakhead.com

This thursday - 28th August 08 - there is a the first ICS concert in the UK, at the Green Dragon pub in Croydon www.myspace.com/greendragonpub organised by Limey Lodge and attended by founders Nicholas Dobson and Michael Mellender who are flying over for the event! FREE entry - pub is near East Croydon station.

This CHEER ACCIDENT track was happily downloaded from www.progday.com - which has a bunch of other band samples on their site.  Cheer Accident are a hard-to-pin-down very underground legend from Chicago; more samples at www.skingraftrecords.com ...TERA MELOS are from Sacramento (hometown of Hella) and this was from a split album with By The End Of Tonight which came out last year - not heard much more from them, but what high standards...

A new ENABLERS album is on the way - soon to be released on small UK indie label Lancashire And Somerset: www.lancashireandsomerset.co.uk  - and there's a UK tour at the start of September WOOOO! Dates over at www.myspace.com/enablers or on our news pages 

MIASMA AND THE CAROUSEL OF HEADLESS HORSES have people from Guapo and Chrome Hoof and this was from the 2006 limited edition Latitudes imprint EP 'Manfauna'.  www.southern.net .. 

LOWER ANIMALS is Mr Mellender's band - www.myspace.com/theloweranimals - and he's also in Sleepytime Gorilla Museum   

This UPSILON ACRUX number was from their 2007 album 'Galapagos Momentum' out on Cuneiform Records www.cuneiformrecords.com

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS are an avant theatrical band from Chicago - we just found them a day ago on www.myspace.com/lovelylittlegirls ...if you like SGM...

Great UK easy-on-the-ears mathtastic YOU SLUT! play more from  a show at 229, Great Portland Street, London on September 2nd  - more info from www.stressedsumorecords.co.uk or www.myspace.com/youslut1 

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This week’s ORGAN MAGAZINE demo of the week is kind of wrong pop shaped...
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This week's ORGAN MAGAZINE demo of the week is kind of wrong pop shaped...

DEMO OF THE WEEK

COP ON THE EDGE - They're from New Cross, South London, they have their very own pointy bouncy wrong pop angles and infectious old school new wave that we instantly liked and so will you children of the bio-metric age.  Falling around in that controlled way that makes Herzoga so good, four instantly infections songs and point staccato new wave analogue anachronisms and Devo shapes, if Devo were to be very English. This is the part of the game that we love, imagine... imagine and snappy scratchy things to say. Just my instinct but still... And oh look, band with their thing together, putting on their own gigs in South London – they should talk to those Wrong Pop people in Stoke and trade some shows with their musical cousins Herzoga. Never been late and I'm eager to please, fine home made new wave pop full of uplifting character and infectious synth lines...  www.myspace.com/copontheedgemusic

ALSO CHECK OUT 
GNOMES OF ZURICH are clearly not from Zurich and they're probably not gnomes. They sound like a full on electric band, apparently they're actually two (sometimes angry) men with a minimal drum kit and a acoustic guitar they put through a whole pile of fractured peddles. Two guys holed up on a warehouse in south London where by day they pack and move fine art and by night they make scratchy shouty feisty angry music – well they say angry, they certainly have frantic energy and there's lots of shouting and clanking and banging going on and it clearly is cathartic – it clearly isn't just cathartic noise and a blustery anger though - there's restrain and craft and considered space here as well. GOZ have something rather different and something rather good. They get in to moody wired restrained shoegazing space now and again – in a delicately fragile lo-fi kind of way - especially with a fine reflective piece of beauty called Again. Five tracks, five challenging rewarding tracks, five different tracks and something well worth checking out – www.myspace.com/thegnomesofzurich

JOY OF SEX – Is it something in the air, is scratchy wrong pop week? More things to say? "We agree on several things" they say, "short songs, rhythm, repetition, noise, form meeting function..." and yes they have all that nailed down and in place along with their scrape and bang and their joy of sex. A threesome, two boy one girl action and a fresh perspective, don't got expecting any kind of mere novelty – "equality, newness..." and tunes of plenty buried underneath the furs, put of the lights tonight is it December already? I guess we should talk of Art Brut and The Fall and Wire and jagged smiles and thought we had all worked out... everything is good, nothing ruined, a fine fine demo. www.myspace.com/joyofsex

Last week's demo of the week - WILD DOGS IN WINTER

Previous demo's of the week - THE LAZY DARLINGS / DEBUTANT / ARCS OF RED / LE GALAXIE / PERHAPS CONTRAPTION / BLACKLANDS / THE SANS PAREIL / THE HUNGRY I / DEAD LEAF ECHO / I-DEF-I / DANGER INVITES RESCUE / A CUP OF TEA / NARRATION / HOT DAMN / KOPEK / 

Read ORGAN daily and weekly over at http://www.organart.com

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BATTLE OF THE BANDS, VOTE FOR THIS and SPAM and WISE UP YOU BANDS!!!
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BATTLE OF THE BANDS, VOTE FOR THIS and SPAM SPAM SPAM - WISE UP YOU BANDS!!!

You damn bands really need to go read our previous blogs and the comments left by others about all this voting crap and battle of the bands and forced ticket buys and bands who do nothing but spam people about annoying clueless crap like this -

Tell me, why would any of us want to go vote for some band we've never ever heard of? Why do you bands ask to be added to people's friends list and then assume we're fans, you asked to be added... what makes you think we've even listened, there's a million bands on here, we get hundreds of requests every week, impossible to listen to you, we'd be here all day every damn day... work it out!!

I mean why do you bands think its OK to ask to be added to our friends list and just do nothing but spam this dumb crap at us day after day? Everyday, half an hour clearing out the in box! Why the hell do any of you ask to be added? Why don't you actually bother to read pages and maybe communicate with a little nit more than cut n' paste spam at us all.

EVERY TIME YOU DO IT WE'RE GOING TO HIT THE SPAM BUTTON, REPORT YOU, THEN BLOCK YOU...

When are you going to work out that all these hundreds of Battle of the bands events mean nothing, all it is is promoters working out which bands bring numbers through the door and who family and friends drink the most - IT DOESN'T IMPRESS ANY OF US WHEN YOU TELL US YOU WON THROUGH TO THE SEMI FINAL OF A BATTLE OF THE BANDS THING IN SOME PUB SOMEWHERE - WE JUST THINK, THERE GOES ANOTHER SET OF DUMB SUCKERS!

wHEN ARE YOU GONIG OT WORK OUT THAT ALL YOU ARE DOING WITH THIS GO TO THIS SITE AND VOTE FOR US IS GENERATING TRAFFIC FOR THEM SO THEY CAN SEL LAD SPACE, THEY DON'T GIVE A TOSS ABOUT YOU OR YOUR MUSIC OR THEY'D JUST COVER YOU, PLAY YOU (like we actually do here)

Why the hell do you bands think we care about some battle of the bands thing or some vote for us ot get played on the radio in dumbf**k Arizona?

Why the hell don't you look at our pages and actually work out how make use of what people like us do?

We are getting rather seriously annoyed with the stupidity of some of you bands (most of you bands) on My Space, all this dumb e.mail that cloggs up our day, I'm starting to think you bands deserve all you get, you deserve to be suckered in to these things!

Do you ever bother reading the pages when you ask ot be added? Do you ever stop to think and work things out? Wise up you dumbass idiots! Today we got spammed four or five times by some band from America that we've never heard of, seems they asked to be added to our friends list  a year ago and thus that made us fans of him/them/whoever... not said a word or anything since thay asked to be added, until today when they spammed our inbox with the usual vote for us crap, we asked them to stop, they didn't and and now they're sending out spam moaning about us - you bands really are dumb

My Space is a great tool of communication, use it properly and wise up...

It takes a little bit more than just putting up a My Space page and then expecting the world to come to you...