This Heat - Pre-Classic or Post-Dud?

It's still very bold music, BTW.

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.

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.

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).

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.

sounds pretty great

http://www.othermusic.com/perl-bin/OM/CD_Show_Info.cgi?ID=8733342.25849&catalog_id=41976

JaXoN,

does this work for you?

2. I love how tribal Deceit is. It reminded for a second of Animal Collective.

I've finally heard some of the Peel Sessions. Fuck, they're intense and loud and manic and visceral and bloody they're amazing!

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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"makeshift swahili" is so fucking good. henry cow turning into public image ltd. all in one song

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.

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.

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.

/additional

so I went home and played the 12"

I am so mad I missed this. I had a ticket, then I had .... a problem.

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.

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

ooooh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io5p0HzC89k

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.

Awesome, thanks for this info.

Just noticed that the SF show is up on D!me

^^ yes, that's what confused me, it lists Williams in the lineup

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.

thanks! I regret missing these shows but I just couldn't make it work

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.”

New Charles Hayward collaboration here and it's pretty great:

https://godunknownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hayward-versus-harmergeddon

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?

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), Saturday, November 23, 2002 7:46 PM (eighteen years ago)

hell yeah