Severed Heads: CDSD

uh I haven't listened but presumably RA put the music bits into the interview, Ellard didn't play them off his phone between questions

he should have

as if he keeps Sevs tracks on his own devices

i can't even begin to imagine what he actually listens to for pleasure

I remember an interview circa 1989 in an alt-industrial magazine where Tom was asked what he likes to listen to. Tom excited said "Madonna, oh and lots of Middle Eastern and Indian soundtracks, pretty much." (paraphrasing)

I...am not complaining.

http://severedheads.bandcamp.com/

is something different?

No, it's just everything all in one spot. Again. Which rules.

I thought it was always there. It was at some point.

I thought he was hosting them directly on sevcom.com

Yeah I think the change is making it newly available this way. And why not?

I also hadn't realized how many things he'd added to some of these albums; there are tracks on Cuisine I've never even heard of before, for example, because I never looked at what he was offering there because I have the CD

these have been on bandcamp for quite a while, though they went up completely without fanfare

(i got stretcher and since the accident from there may '11)

Ellard's blog is worth a read. His recent "Five reasons why I’m not an ‘artist’" is great

And also from his blog, thanks to Dan Selzer for the tipoff:

http://tomellard.com/wp/2013/07/wednesday-night-is-garbage-night-autodidact-edition/

Essentially an overview of Ellard's musical education, what he listened to, how, etc.

Amazing to read what he was getting and who he was getting it from, concisely. So many favorites and things you wouldn't immediately think, and connections being drawn across all kinds of favorites.

SHINE HEADLIGHTS ON ME

really enjoying Barbara Channel 3, released last month (of course it's "not a SH album")

http://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/barbara-channel-3

couple SH reissues coming out on Dark Entries.

And said reissues would appear to be these:

http://thequietus.com/articles/15180-severed-heads-reissue

This news led to discussion on FB about them and a friend just posted this amazing story:

After they opened for Skinny Puppy at The Roxy in '86, I was sufficiently flabbergasted that I walked up to Tom post-show and stuttered something stupid like "Bu ... bu ... but ... how do you DO that?"

He fixed me with the patented Tom Ellard Thousand Yard Stare and replied,

"Well it's not DRUGS if that's what you mean!"

hawww

also that one track

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=24610

If I can be a bit of pedant that review kinda annoyed me:

"Dark Entries will press up an extended version of "Dead Eyes Opened" along with two other tracks, "Bullet" and "Mount.""

In other words...the Dead Eyes Opened single, which is that long, and featured those two songs.

new "solo" ellard

https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/rhine-2

sounding pretty good on initial listens

Come listen to Come Visit the Big Bigot with me

np: "Twenty Deadly Diseases"

i've been playing 'harold and cindy hospital' a lot lately - love the total switch-up from punishing slo-mo death-stomp to that really pretty synth melody

and its all kind of the same vibe

Sevs continue to be more active onstage since splitting up than for years before: US tour titled Better Dead Than Head

Sept 18 San Francisco at Elbo Room
Sept 19 Glendale, LA at Complex
Sept 20 Seattle at the Highline
Spet 23 Austin
Sept 24 NYC at Santos Party House
Sept 25 Tampa
Sept 26 Chicago at Cold Wave Fest

Last Thursday they debuted the first "new" Heads material since 2007, a 20-minute piece which was performed live as an entire radio session. Streamable here.

now downloadable

Link doesn't seem to work, could you try again?

it's an rss feed, will work in Firefox!

Eh, maybe he'll put it up on his Bandcamp.

http://fbiradio-storage.s3-website-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/podcasts/144/audio/1465091810270.mp3

?

video snippets up now

(wave hi to me at 0:24)

Been coming back to Rhine a lot recently.

Just two cents from a loooong time Clifford. I wouldn't have guessed it, all those years ago. But it seems to me nowadays that the real genius in Severed Heads is/was not Tom Ellard (though he's def. the best songwriter). No, the man responsible for making those songs/trax so strange and memorable and so memorably strange is/was Garry Bradbury! His solo works (and w/ the duo SIZE) over the last several years are the answered prayers for Clifford's who thought the post-BigBigot era Heads was not exactly the avant cat's PJs, that they were previously. And that's with all the humour and weirdness in full flower. I really can't recommend them all enough.

Listening now to some Garry Bradbury on bandcamp, and it's great stuff! Vyrna is on the money.

vyrna knowl is also wading through a ventilator.

Yeah that Panspermia Plus compilation is 33 tracks long, available free if you want, and extremely good.

thanks for the recommendation, my first exposure to Bradbury didn't click, but this is pure candy

New Sevcom sampler, four tracks, good listen

https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/a-sevcom-sampler-2018

And Mr. Ellard has a new album out under his own name:

https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/publicist

released simultaneously with a new Severed Heads album-length-project, it might be worth noting:

https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/merch/aversion-2-lab-rat-box

(Aversion 2 is the sequel to an as-yet-unreleased album called Aversion, which is covers of classic rock songs; Aversion 2 is built on samples of classic rock songs.)

It sounds like rock but only a memory of it, or an approximation made by an algorithm. I like some rock music, and there’s no criticism implied, just some curious misrepresentation which allows me to practice some heavy psychedelic production.

Started a farewell* tour last night, eight more US dates before the band goes back in the box. Tom announced several songs as not having been played in America before, and a few haven't been played live at all before.

A tour-exclusive CD features studio recordings of the new arrangements of most of the setlist:

https://i.imgur.com/pEldaal.jpg

* yes, they stopped without fanfare once, and played a final show ever twice after that. but Tom's saying that forty years into the band (and ten years of playing boring old songs to boring old farts as a nostalgia reunion act) he's definitely had enough of lugging flight cases around, and he & Stewart have lives & jobs. any future Sevs performances would be one-offs in unusual circs, like the JSPAC show or Beautiful Arabic Surface live-to-air.

oooh I could go see 'em in Houston this weekend!

I'll be seeing them in New York, though not the show with Pop Will Eat Itself, who may not even make it as they're having visa issues, and even if they did make it and I was going to that show, which I'm not, I'd probably be better off as I'm not sure how I feel about a PWEI without Clint Mansell and I'm pretty sure they're music has not aged as well as Severed Heads, but the nostalgia is STRONG.

ha ha, the Houston show was meant to be a co-headline with Pop Will Eat Itself, but got price-reduced to just Sevs playing live at a goth/alt DJ night bcz only 26 tickets sold. you'll have room to dance!

(last night was also meant to have PWEI, but the US embassy did not process their visas)