― 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
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― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
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― 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
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― sleeve, away, Sunday, 19 March 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
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― 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
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
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.
― 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 (three years ago) link
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
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 6 May 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link