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― stirmonster, Thursday, 19 November 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
Ellard has remixed the first four Music Server albums into binaural sound
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 16 January 2021 07:44 (three years ago) link
and 5 and 6 are on Bandcamp apparently in a format that works in 5.1 surround if you have that, or 360ยบ if you have the latest unwired Apple Airpods, and they don't fall out of your ears when you move your head to follow the sound
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 16 January 2021 07:50 (three years ago) link
Here's an hour of radio from a few days after Robert Racic died, playing tracks he edited or produced and talking to collaborators about his work. Pause-buttoned in 1996, and uploaded in 2021, by a guy who was in Sevs in between those dates.
(mp3 on dropbox)
― stilt in the wings (sic), Sunday, 21 February 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link
We're making a spreadsheet of every Severed Heads live show. 250+ shows - but with gaps & errors. e.g. Brighton 1985 where? Melbourne Music Expo in 1987? Wollongong in 2007?If you have any documentation all replies welcome. https://t.co/ugFXBGaXi0— Tom Ellard (@t0m3llArd) April 30, 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 1 May 2021 08:19 (three years ago) link
There's a vinyl reissue of Rotund for Success coming out this year on Medical Records, fwiw
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Sunday, 2 May 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
it might be an acquired taste but the ButchCrutch releases on nilamox* where ellard is just doing the vocals are pretty good
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Saturday, 12 June 2021 13:16 (three years ago) link
Tom:
After ~30 years in service, some SH albums on Bandcamp have minimal audience. I'm planning a compilation that will condense these 'zombie titles': Cuisine, Gigapus, Haul Ass, Under Gail Succubus.If you own any of these please download your files SOON.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
Cuisine With Piscatorial was the last Sev Heads album I bought during the height of my fandom and I still love it, I'd say nearly as good as Rotund for Success.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 June 2021 02:08 (three years ago) link
The compilation above now exists, and people who already owned Gigapus on Bandcamp now own "Focus (A mid-life crisis compilation)" instead. (Otherwise it's five bucks, and includes a 45-page pdf - healthy notes from Tom on the purchase page too.)
this means that Gigapus has existed as: a 14-track CD plus Metapus CD-Rom a European CD with thirteen of the fourteen tracks mastered by the co-founder of Yello instead of Ellard a 2xCD with the Dead Eyes Opened Remix 1994 EP included an American single CD with no bonuses or differences a CD plus Vidipus VHS a 17-track Gigaplus CD-R reissue with one track swapped out for a remix, plus three bonus tracks / mixes a 2xCD-R issue with the 14-track/one-track-swapped album remastered, and a bonus disc of demos, mixes and versions (also the Bandcamp version) and a U2/iphone style 'surprise, you have a different record now'
In more rationalising, all the tracks from the Twister / Retread club mix compilation are now bonus tracks on "Dead Eyes Opened 94 ++", which is 100 minutes long and free for a limited time.
The 2019 live-versions-at-home farewell CD is set to be reissued, and will come off bandcamp once it's a physical item again. And the 1982 Blubberknife live-plus-8-tracks album is back up in its 2002 expanded form, for $5.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 3 July 2021 10:39 (three years ago) link
Why is this guy always tinkering.
― KEEP HONKING -- I'M BOBOING (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 3 July 2021 15:25 (three years ago) link
a GB RIP thread from TE:
1960 - 2022— Tom Ellard (@t0m3llArd) January 8, 2022
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Saturday, 8 January 2022 09:06 (two years ago) link
oh no!
― stirmonster, Saturday, 8 January 2022 11:35 (two years ago) link
Always kicking myself for missing the show in Baltimore in Feb 2020, but I think he was not in the lineup? Came to this group too late love Petrol so much.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 8 January 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
don't think Bradbury has been in a lineup in a longtime. Was interesting discovering some of his solo stuff, gave a good sense of what his contribution might have been.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 8 January 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
(he was p much only involved in 1982-83 and 1985, but had solo and other-band releases on Terse Tapes beforehand and on Sevcom much later)
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Saturday, 8 January 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
saw GB play live solo maybe 10 years ago, was an extremely good show - and as suggested upthread he definitely possessed a good amount of whatever made Sevs weird and great when they were weird and great
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Saturday, 8 January 2022 22:07 (two years ago) link
Just heard this, how fucking sad
― raven, Sunday, 9 January 2022 03:55 (two years ago) link
Upcoming livestream on Bandcamp
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/merch/seance
We announce a Seance to be held with the departed spirits of Severed Heads for Halloween 2022. Based upon the freshly restored backing tapes and instruments used by the band in performances in the year 1982, before any hint of acclaim or recognition. You will enjoy an hour of sight and sound from beyond the grave (and probably a bit of in-studio malarkey if the OUIJA board is a bit dodgy. Please join us Saturday 8th October @ 7pm PDT. - The Severed Seance System
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 September 2022 14:36 (two years ago) link
Excellent!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
ooh
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
starting soon
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 9 October 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
Yesterday my shuffling iPod threw up "We Have Come to Bless the House" and I was transported with ecstacy
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 9 October 2022 03:17 (one year ago) link
*ecstasy
*pingers
how was it, with pingers, or not?
― stirmonster, Sunday, 9 October 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
Great show!
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 9 October 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
It's up for 48 hours replay, so latecomers might still be able to buy a ticket in that window? Worth it just to hear Tom doing a Beatles cover.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 9 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link