― Andrew L, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
They carved out a small but reverent audience who never challenged them where they needed to be challenged.
UK Ubu = UK Can = [LOL]. Even when Ubu were in their "Hullo, are you the audience? My art is to jab my thumb in your eye" phase, they towered above the Heat.
― mark s, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane zarakov, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― philT, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
OK, comparisons to Can and Pere Ubu were prob. stretching things a bit, but I was trying to indicate the sort of group they were for the benefit of people who hadn't heard 'em before(judging by the no. of responses here, that seems to be most ILMers!), rather than place them at the top of the 'experimental' group pantheon. I mean, This Heat certainly had things in common with both groups - an attempt to marry songs with improv/experimental moves, an interest in African drumming, the mixture of guitars and synths, etc. I know that a lot of people find Hayward's sub-R. Wyatt singing something of an 'acquired taste' and yes, the politicing can be a bit obv., but I remain a big fan, perhaps because This Heat were a 'gateway' group for me - played on Peel during punk, but (like Wire) also suggesting other approaches/ideas, a way out of the punk orthodoxy.
― Andrew L, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Charles Bullen played some role in Ut's first LP Conviction, and Ut forever rool....
― mark s, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Did see UT live once, however (can't remember where now - long-term memory loss ahem - think it might've been the now defunct Fulham Greyhound.) They were HEAVY...
― Andrew L, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The first I heard of This Heat was when Peel was broadcasting some classic 70s sessions during the summer of 1986. He broadcast the first session of theirs and I was gobsmacked. "Not waving but drowning" was like nothing I'd heard before, eerie and scary. I don't even think I heard the other session tracks, that was enough. Eventually I found the first two albums on CD in the early 90s and thought the first had moments of greatness but was a little too much art-wank ("Music like escaping gas"? Get lost!), but absolutely adored the second album, dated political messages and everything. I was listening to a lot of Moonshake at the time and it all seemed to make sense in a way. The way something like "Makeshift swahili" mixes in studio and live sounds was amazing for the time. Yes it's dated, yes it has very little influence but I still dig them out to play them frequently.
― Rob M, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― adam, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Friday, 22 November 2002 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax!, Friday, 22 November 2002 02:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
'Deceit' is a total utter classic, apart from the lyrics which are just war cliches strung together, but they don't really spoil it. The alien mood that This Heat creates is like nothing else I've heard.
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Friday, 22 November 2002 02:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ^Diego^ (dhadis), Friday, 22 November 2002 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
deceit in probably the one object i'd save from the Post Punk File if the house was burning down. (excepting metal box, of course, and possibly chairs missing or the early scritti singles.) there are ideas in songs on there that could (and have) supported entire bands careers. (i do agree with mark that ubu towers above t.h., but i get out by not considering p.u. post punk ho ho.) the earlier stuff has never really done it for me; "health and efficiency" is obv one of the 20 or 30 greatest singles ever made; "24 track loop" is prescient beyond its years, although thankfully it doesnt make a big deal out of it.
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 22 November 2002 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
However my musical tastes have changed (OK, broadened) quite a bit since and I do keep hovering over a copy of Deceipt - in fact I would almost certainly have picked it up a couple of weeks ago if it wasn't so piggin' expensive.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 22 November 2002 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 22 November 2002 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
Isn't it terrible having yr old threads revived? It's like being shown rotten old photos of yrself.
Still, I had to put on 'Health and Efficency' while online, so gd. I still prefer the 1st alb, tho' - 'Not Waving' never fails to get me all choked up (J. Savage gets it wrong in 'England's Dreaming', btw - the song only borrows a title from Stevie Smith, not the actual text of her poem.)
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 22 November 2002 20:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Sunday, 24 November 2002 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
(oh, and jess, did you write about them on rebellious jukebox or something? i'm sure it was something you'd written that made me get deceit, but it clearly wasn't here).
― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 24 November 2002 00:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob zemko (bob), Sunday, 24 November 2002 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob zemko (bob), Sunday, 24 November 2002 01:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
It took a while for me to warm up to Deceit though. I liked it enough, but thought the first record was a bit better. But I read a review a while back that made me dig Deceit out from the bin.Which is strange for two reasons: 1) It was a review at AMG, 2) I don't usually like something because of a review. But that review was so well written it ignited my curiosity for a record I already owned! Maybe it was a little too out there for me when I first heard it. Now I think Deceit is as good if not better then first record. I don't care much about the lyrics, so it doesn't detract for the totally wild sounds on Deceit.
Only recently heard the Peel Sessions. A lot of material form the first album. The version of "Horizontal Hold" is just awesome.
The comparisons to Can and Pere Ubu are not so far fetched, in my opinion. They all share a somewhat "unorthodox" approach, and the loopy & dizzying rhythms.
Hey Mark S, you crazy Brit! Your awesome. Pere Ubu are one of my favorite bands. But my obsession of Can surpasses my love for any other bands combined. Nice to hear someone else likes 'em.
In short, I say Classic! Get them all. The self-titled first record, Deceit, The Peel Sessions, and whatever else you can find. They made music that really sounds like nothing else.
Great band. I wished more bands were so daring and strange. I like those qualities. This is just a fan's perspective.
― Juan (Juan), Sunday, 24 November 2002 01:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
(toby, yeah i wrote something way way back in like the first month of the jukebox a year ago, a really hyper-personal thing...it was my version of church of me! [that is not a diss.])
― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 24 November 2002 03:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 24 November 2002 11:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 24 November 2002 18:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
One word of warning before you visit the site 'though - they're currently having a sale....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Sunday, 5 January 2003 02:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
this is such a wonderful record, still.
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:17 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:53 (twenty years ago) link
(You're just trying to get me to say "fuckin' hippies" again, aren't you Gaz?)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:58 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:05 (twenty years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 15 August 2003 11:27 (twenty years ago) link
― msp, Friday, 15 August 2003 13:15 (twenty years ago) link
It's still very bold music, BTW.
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:42 (twenty years ago) link
― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:20 (twenty years ago) link
― T. Weiss (Timmy), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
― radio morocco (radio morocco), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago) link
― prima_fassy (mwah), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:05 (twenty years ago) link
― radio morocco (radio morocco), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link
I don't know. Their records are pretty much out of print. The only CD pressings I have seen for sale are imports that cost $35 bucks and I won't pony up to find out.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:24 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
Deceit, Made Available, Repeat and the 7cm Health & Efficiency are all available from http://www.rermegacorp.com .
As regards the first one, according to http://www.theserecords.com , "a re-mastered and re-packaged CD version is being prepared for release"; however they also told me that this was "'almost' ready to go into production,and hopefully could be available soon" over a year ago; so I wouldn't hold your breath.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 09:57 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 15 April 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 15 April 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 16 April 2004 07:59 (twenty years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:07 (twenty years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
allow me to be the only one to disagree w/ the first response up there saying Pere Ubu (?, *snore* overrated critics fave) is better. other than the crap comparison made, Deceit is a great record and Camberwell Now were certainly not boring (esp. the Ghost Trade record).
― sherm, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Here's the info:
http://www.theserecords.com/files/flamingtunes.html
It took me a while, but I love the Tago Mago tape very much now.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
sounds pretty great
http://www.othermusic.com/perl-bin/OM/CD_Show_Info.cgi?ID=8733342.25849&catalog_id=41976
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
JaXoN,
does this work for you?
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― sherm, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
2. I love how tribal Deceit is. It reminded for a second of Animal Collective.
― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link
I've finally heard some of the Peel Sessions. Fuck, they're intense and loud and manic and visceral and bloody they're amazing!
― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 19 March 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve, away, Sunday, 19 March 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― o -- (eman), Sunday, 19 March 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 20 March 2006 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― o -- (eman), Monday, 20 March 2006 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 20 March 2006 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Dear friends and subscribers,
Here's an update.
Almost everything is ready now; we wait only the final selection and mastering of the live CD. Current projections, with fingers crossed, point at late April, so please don't worry if your box hasn't arrived before then. You will be the first to receive it when it's done, promise.
Sorry, as ever, for the delays.
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― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
"makeshift swahili" is so fucking good. henry cow turning into public image ltd. all in one song
― kamerad, Thursday, 31 December 2009 03:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw Hayward in Kyoto in the late 90s, having never heard of This Heat. Fantastic show. Just him drumming and singing and playing cassettes and flailing around with cassette players, really doing his own thing. Crowd was so into it he got kind of choked up by all the mad Japanese music geek love.
― m0stlyClean, Thursday, 31 December 2009 06:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I've always enjoyed This Heat, but its only in the last few years that they REALLY hit home for me. Their music has tremendous depth. So, even if you haven't dug it in the past, give em another shot. Highly recommended.
― ImprovSpirit, Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
found a real life copy of the lifetones "for a reason" in a bag of records someone left round my house last night. think i played "good side" about 50 times. such a jam.
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 7 April 2011 11:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtmx6KztjHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkzU33fiLPs
― am0n, Monday, 18 July 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
The preview frame for the YouTube makes Hayward look like Jeremy Clarkson.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
took a first date to the charlie hayward project 'bass drum'
absolutely fucking divine, the guy's a genius & the woman on the korg (whose name I am trying to find - it's on none of the links when I google 'charles hayward' 'bass drum' ffs!) was brilliant too
― imago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
But what did your date think?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 19 September 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link
extremely strong approval
the support act was some boring shit dalston indie but that's to be expected, bargained for almost
― imago, Friday, 19 September 2014 08:53 (nine years ago) link
Light In The Attic are about to reissue the only three records south London trio This Heat produced during their lifetime. Originally released between 1979–81, the US label’s forthcoming campaign will mark 2016 as being the 40th Anniversary of This Heat’s beginnings. Formed in Brixton, south London, in 1976, the trio consisted of Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward and the late Gareth Williams. The reissue programme includes the group’s 1979 debut This Heat and its 1981 sequel Deceit, plus their Health And Efficiency 12" from 1980.Set for vinyl release on 22 January 2016, the three records will be accompanied by a booklet with notes and archival photos.
Set for vinyl release on 22 January 2016, the three records will be accompanied by a booklet with notes and archival photos.
http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/39488/light-in-the-attic-reissue-this-heat-records
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
i feel like it was just yesterday that the box set came out but evidently it was... nine years ago? i am old.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
there's some other this heat news of great magnitude imminent.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:10 (eight years ago) link
aaaaaa that makes me very excited
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:13 (eight years ago) link
at one point there was a killer run of live shows on Dimeadozen and I think I grabbed them all, I guess the Krefeld tape or the Diekuuroh sessions could still be reissued as well
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
wow, check out this live show filmed after Gareth Williams left in 1982, the band as a 4-piece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVDErVzy-cw
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 November 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
there's some other this heat news of great magnitude imminent.― stirmonster, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:10
tell me
― am0n, Friday, 20 November 2015 18:55 (eight years ago) link
saw this on FB from them: "also working on an extended version of the stuff we did with Mario Diekuuroh for release 2017"
― city worker, Friday, 20 November 2015 19:04 (eight years ago) link
AHA
― sleeve, Friday, 20 November 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
That's cool, but also saw on facebook that they're doing Lifetones. Don't know which one stir's excited about! Both I imagine.
― dan selzer, Friday, 20 November 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
I love those show links because Trefor Goronwy joins them on bass, and I always wish This Heat had employed a real bassist on most of their recordings. Such a great band, and Hayward is such a powerhouse on drums, pairing him with a good bassist makes them all that much better. haha love the stare of death gives the camera around 5:45
― Dominique, Friday, 20 November 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
xp well that's big news too, excellent
― sleeve, Friday, 20 November 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
Can't think of any other pop drummers whose credit on a record is so reliably a sign of goodness rly
― albvivertine, Saturday, 21 November 2015 08:47 (eight years ago) link
it's something else i'm excited about. wish i could say. i'm happy lifetones is seeing a reissue even though it means i'll no longer be the only person i know who has a copy.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 21 November 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
On the 13th February 1976 the seminal experimental rock band This Heat played their first gig. After a Peel session, two albums, an EP and a cassette tape collaboration they disbanded in 1982 leaving an undeniable legacy that has only continued to grow in stature and relevance.While December 2001 saw the three band members begin tentative rehearsals, any hope of the band reforming ended with the death of Gareth Williams in the same month.THIS IS NOT THIS HEAT, a two day residency at Cafe OTO, will mark exactly 40 years to the weekend of that first gig in 1976. This Heat founder members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward will come together for the first time since 1982 to publicly perform new interpretations of their influential music in collaboration with an impressive ensemble of music luminaries of the past 50 years. More information on this rare two day residency will be released in due course.
While December 2001 saw the three band members begin tentative rehearsals, any hope of the band reforming ended with the death of Gareth Williams in the same month.
THIS IS NOT THIS HEAT, a two day residency at Cafe OTO, will mark exactly 40 years to the weekend of that first gig in 1976. This Heat founder members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward will come together for the first time since 1982 to publicly perform new interpretations of their influential music in collaboration with an impressive ensemble of music luminaries of the past 50 years.
More information on this rare two day residency will be released in due course.
https://cafeoto.co.uk/events/this-heat/
― Barnaby, Hardly, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
You got the same email I did then?
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 12:16 (eight years ago) link
Yes indeed. Booked tickets for both nights. Really looking forward to it!
― Barnaby, Hardly, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link
why go to that when u can go to this https://cafeoto.co.uk/events/momus/
― am0n, Wednesday, 16 December 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
Just come across this, Japanese band Downy covering Paper Hats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8tgrI5U_E
― MaresNest, Saturday, 9 January 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
anybody go? reports?
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/14/this-is-not-this-heat-review-cafe-oto
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Sunday, 14 February 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
any video?
― dan selzer, Sunday, 14 February 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
i went last night. it was incredible; way, way beyond my wildest expectations and truly one of my all time favourite gigs. i had a lump in my throat in places and am still totally buzzing 24 hours later. they played pretty much the whole of the two albums and then finished on a hyper intense version of "health and efficiency". charles hayward was grinning from ear to ear while bullen remained cool as a cucumber and inscrutable throughout. guest musicians included david cunningham, chris cutler, thurston moore and alexis taylor; at some points there were 11 musicians playing. the whole gig was filmed so hopefully that will appear at some point and there are rumours of more performances. by all accounts they started rehearsing a year ago and it showed. it was flawless (in the best possible way).
this doesn't begin to do justice to how great it was, but here's two thirds of "24 track loop" recorded on my phone - https://www.yousendit.com/download/ZWJWR0lVdGpCSnJMYnRVag
― stirmonster, Sunday, 14 February 2016 22:41 (eight years ago) link
amazing, thanks.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 14 February 2016 22:50 (eight years ago) link
oh, and about half way through charles and charles who didn't speak at any other point had a conversation about gareth williams which was extremely touching and very amusing. then they launched into "paper hats".
― stirmonster, Sunday, 14 February 2016 22:57 (eight years ago) link
oh my god
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Monday, 15 February 2016 06:27 (eight years ago) link
Barbican June 17th:http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=19383
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
also confirmed for Stuart Lee's ATP, which I am sorely tempted by
― Gaz upon my works ye mighty, and despair (Neil S), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/inpweqVVWeI
:D
― am0n, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1496/24369393733_b0d04771db_c.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
i tried to bring them to glasgow but to make it work the ticket price would have to be ridiculously high or else i'd have to have the confidence that around 1000 glaswegians would want to see them.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:12 (eight years ago) link
anybody go? reports?http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/14/this-is-not-this-heat-review-cafe-oto🔗
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/14/this-is-not-this-heat-review-cafe-oto🔗
went on the friday and it was really excellent. I don't think double bassist john edwards played on Saturday which is a shame as it added considerable weight and atmosphere to quieter sections.
sparse solo sets from hayward and bullen were both great and set the scene for the main play of denser forces v well.
wish i had a recording of it all in fact.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:19 (eight years ago) link
Holy shit, yes.
The band will play USA in 2018 https://t.co/R00r4mMAIa— ThisIsNotThisHeat (@NotThisHeat) December 3, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 December 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
Oh man, will travel for this...
― Soundslike, Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
yep
― sleeve, Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
STOKED
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 3 December 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
!
https://www.thechapelsf.com/event/1865011-this-is-not-this-heat-san-francisco/
Um, yes please. Needless to say I already have my ticket.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 May 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
There's also an LA date and what appears to be a final show ever in NYC, having played their last UK show the other night.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 May 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
Who is in the full line up?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 30 May 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
just saw TINTH in LA last month, but we're going again - do not miss this!
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 31 May 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
conflict with Mekons tour :(
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Friday, 31 May 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
Well last night was something. Never thought I'd get a chance to see any incarnation so seeing this was both very welcome and really wonderful.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
Have they had any 'influence'?
Looks like it.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 July 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
Listening to first This Heat album on Youtube. I guess I should buy em from Bandcamp (not streaming on Spotify)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 3 August 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
all time classic IMO
― sleeve, Saturday, 3 August 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
ReR Megacorp still has their £5 CD sale going on (you need to buy a minimum of 4) - free shipping to Europe and the Americas! The pound-to-dollar exchange rate is currently at its most favorable (toward the dollar) as it's been in at least 15 years, so that's just 6 dollars a CD.
https://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=RM&Screen=SPECIALOFFERS
The sale includes: "This Heat," "Health and Efficiency," "Repeat," "Live 80/81," "Made Available," "All's Well" by Camberwell Now, two Charles Hayward albums, and "The Recommended Sampler" (2xCD) with the This Heat track "Pool" (a variation of "24 Track Loop"/"Repeat") that isn't on the This Heat boxed set.
― ernestp, Saturday, 3 August 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
they've been strict about mostly not doing encores, the set is basically every song from both albums & then ending with 'Health and Efficiency', with an extended extra-intense focus on the one-chord coda. then everyone at the SF show stomped for five minutes straight -- the whole time I was wondering what they'd even play if they came out, they'd played everything, and when they came out... they launch right back into an addition 15 minutes of the one-chord coda and I can't even tell you
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 3 August 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
/additional
so I went home and played the 12"
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 3 August 2019 02:15 (four years ago) link
I am so mad I missed this. I had a ticket, then I had .... a problem.
― sarahell, Saturday, 3 August 2019 02:22 (four years ago) link
super jealous you got the additional 15 minutes.
i tried so hard to bring this show to glasgow, where i feel we'd also have got those additional 15 minutes, but the finances of it sadly defeated me.
still happy i got to see it one time though.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 3 August 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link
so is it true that they are playing some of Gareth Williams' actual old vocal/instrumental tracks onstage? I saw something on a Dimeadozen torrent listing that really confused me
― sleeve, Saturday, 3 August 2019 05:42 (four years ago) link
ooooh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io5p0HzC89k
― StanM, Saturday, 3 August 2019 05:49 (four years ago) link
Awesome, thanks for this info.
― How to Book Michael Fish (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 August 2019 09:48 (four years ago) link
Just noticed that the SF show is up on D!me
― MaresNest, Saturday, 3 August 2019 10:35 (four years ago) link
^^ yes, that's what confused me, it lists Williams in the lineup
― sleeve, Saturday, 3 August 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
I saw two of the brooklyn shows and there was maybe 1 song where Bullen did some live sampling/processing where I'd say there's a tiny chance something was pre-recorded (though I doubt it), otherwise not. I'd imagine it's just a mistake.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 3 August 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
thanks! I regret missing these shows but I just couldn't make it work
― sleeve, Saturday, 3 August 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
fyi“..the entire extent of prerecorded stuff we've used is the "Testcard" sound from the beginning/end of the first album, a little loop at the end of "Paper Hats", and a bit of the "Graphic/Varispeed" drone during an instrument changeover section. Everything else is played live by the people on stage.”
― Fizzles, Sunday, 4 August 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
New Charles Hayward collaboration here and it's pretty great:
https://godunknownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hayward-versus-harmergeddon
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
every time i give This Heat (the album, and band) a good listen, i'm so impressed.
is the song "Horizontal Hold", particularly the first minute or two, the foundation of "post-hardcore", whether you hear that in some fugazi, drive like jehu, whatever?
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 6 May 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
― Juan (Juan), Saturday, November 23, 2002 7:46 PM (eighteen years ago)
hell yeah
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 6 May 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link