Severed Heads: CDSD

OMG wait, its all on emusic now! Rotund, Clifford,. everything. When the shit did that happen? Gah.

Just listened to "Power Circles" and the tape loops remind me of "Come Out" by Reich, but with music.

Just discovered that Retread, Cuisine/Piscatorial and Gashing the old Mae West are all available for free download at sevcom.com right now - anyone who is wondering about any of these should go check em out!

An ancient curse sweeps over the land!

Severed Heads once more drag themselves out in a shameless display ... four nights in May in four capital cities. Details follow.

Then a serious concert by Tom Ellard in October.

And watch out in December!

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"four capital cities"

er ... Washington DC? Or maybe he means Sacramento? or Albany? what?

my guess is melb/syd/brisbane/adelaide but you never know

i figured but i thought some whining was in order

considering how pissweakly Simstacular the vids were at the first reunion, the fact that he's talking about nothing except new videos, no mention of musical arrangement or performance, doesn't instil too much excitement tbh ;_;

i just closed my eyes iirc

he spent months detailing all the new videos he was making then too

presumably the rest of the performance is just him pressing play on quicktime and then singing over the top, I don't think he rly played anything himself. there was the bloke over on the right hand side though.

was worth it for him telling everyone to hang their heads in shame tho

so it turns out this is a support slot for Gary Numan performing The Pleasure Principle in full

Yeah I just spotted that on facebook and almost fell off my chair. Holy sheet!

Retiring in 2010, SEVERED HEADS will nonetheless come together once again to play at the Sydney show for electro-pioneer Gary Numan, and, prior to that, will give their final live to air performance TONIGHT on NEW WEIRD AUSTRALIA. Over 50 minutes in length, this exclusive SEVERED HEADS set will not be broadcast or performed anywhere else. A little slice of Australian music history tonight on FBi, be sure not to miss it!

streaming on http://www.fbiradio.com/ from 9pm AEST

podcast of ^: http://newweirdaustralia.com/2011/06/nwa-radio-severed-heads-live-to-air-set/

awesome--thanks for this!

blasting this at top volume to drown out the loud roar of hockey fans (and riot cops) outside my door

Should be interesting: http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=132

!!

inevitable but also sort of depressing to start the podcast with Dead Eyes Opened (which I love unreservedly, btw)

In an alternate universe "Hot With Fleas" is a chart-topping song

inevitable but also sort of depressing to start the podcast with Dead Eyes Opened (which I love unreservedly, btw)

RA may have required it (they often meddle with dj podcasts, sending them back to the artist and asking for edits, additions, etc)

Sounds like the sort of bullshit they’d pull.

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