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.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 1 August 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
SHINE HEADLIGHTS ON ME
― etc, Thursday, 23 January 2014 08:00 (ten years ago) link
really enjoying Barbara Channel 3, released last month (of course it's "not a SH album")
http://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/barbara-channel-3
― ugh (lukas), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
couple SH reissues coming out on Dark Entries.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:16 (ten years ago) link
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!"
He fixed me with the patented Tom Ellard Thousand Yard Stare and replied,
"Well it's not DRUGS if that's what you mean!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
hawww
― denial plan (electricsound), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
also that one track
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=24610
― ugh (lukas), Thursday, 8 May 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 May 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
new "solo" ellard
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/rhine-2
sounding pretty good on initial listens
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Sunday, 1 February 2015 06:42 (nine years ago) link
Come listen to Come Visit the Big Bigot with me
np: "Twenty Deadly Diseases"
― DJP, Friday, 27 February 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
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
― donna rouge, Friday, 27 February 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
and its all kind of the same vibe
― cherry blossom, Friday, 27 February 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
Sevs continue to be more active onstage since splitting up than for years before: US tour titled Better Dead Than Head
Sept 18 San Francisco at Elbo RoomSept 19 Glendale, LA at ComplexSept 20 Seattle at the HighlineSpet 23 AustinSept 24 NYC at Santos Party HouseSept 25 TampaSept 26 Chicago at Cold Wave Fest
― ( who ALSO my boss and his sister!) (sic), Friday, 8 May 2015 04:30 (eight years ago) link
Last Thursday they debuted the first "new" Heads material since 2007, a 20-minute piece which was performed live as an entire radio session. Streamable here.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 08:19 (seven years ago) link
now downloadable
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 9 June 2016 03:06 (seven years ago) link
Link doesn't seem to work, could you try again?
― albvivertine, Thursday, 9 June 2016 05:20 (seven years ago) link
it's an rss feed, will work in Firefox!
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 9 June 2016 08:20 (seven years ago) link
Eh, maybe he'll put it up on his Bandcamp.
― albvivertine, Thursday, 9 June 2016 08:34 (seven years ago) link
http://fbiradio-storage.s3-website-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/podcasts/144/audio/1465091810270.mp3
― just sayin, Thursday, 9 June 2016 08:57 (seven years ago) link
?
video snippets up now
(wave hi to me at 0:24)
― glandular lansbury (sic), Friday, 1 July 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link
Been coming back to Rhine a lot recently.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 28 April 2017 04:21 (seven years ago) link
Just two cents from a loooong time Clifford. I wouldn't have guessed it, all those years ago. But it seems to me nowadays that the real genius in Severed Heads is/was not Tom Ellard (though he's def. the best songwriter). No, the man responsible for making those songs/trax so strange and memorable and so memorably strange is/was Garry Bradbury! His solo works (and w/ the duo SIZE) over the last several years are the answered prayers for Clifford's who thought the post-BigBigot era Heads was not exactly the avant cat's PJs, that they were previously. And that's with all the humour and weirdness in full flower. I really can't recommend them all enough.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 15 May 2017 05:24 (six years ago) link
Listening now to some Garry Bradbury on bandcamp, and it's great stuff! Vyrna is on the money.
― christopher.ivan, Friday, 30 June 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
vyrna knowl is also wading through a ventilator.
― dan selzer, Friday, 30 June 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
Yeah that Panspermia Plus compilation is 33 tracks long, available free if you want, and extremely good.
― albvivertine, Saturday, 1 July 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
thanks for the recommendation, my first exposure to Bradbury didn't click, but this is pure candy
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 4 August 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
New Sevcom sampler, four tracks, good listen
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/a-sevcom-sampler-2018
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 January 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
And Mr. Ellard has a new album out under his own name:
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/publicist
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 April 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
released simultaneously with a new Severed Heads album-length-project, it might be worth noting:
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/merch/aversion-2-lab-rat-box
(Aversion 2 is the sequel to an as-yet-unreleased album called Aversion, which is covers of classic rock songs; Aversion 2 is built on samples of classic rock songs.)
It sounds like rock but only a memory of it, or an approximation made by an algorithm. I like some rock music, and there’s no criticism implied, just some curious misrepresentation which allows me to practice some heavy psychedelic production.
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Monday, 2 April 2018 08:01 (six years ago) link
Started a farewell* tour last night, eight more US dates before the band goes back in the box. Tom announced several songs as not having been played in America before, and a few haven't been played live at all before.
A tour-exclusive CD features studio recordings of the new arrangements of most of the setlist:
https://i.imgur.com/pEldaal.jpg
* yes, they stopped without fanfare once, and played a final show ever twice after that. but Tom's saying that forty years into the band (and ten years of playing boring old songs to boring old farts as a nostalgia reunion act) he's definitely had enough of lugging flight cases around, and he & Stewart have lives & jobs. any future Sevs performances would be one-offs in unusual circs, like the JSPAC show or Beautiful Arabic Surface live-to-air.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, 12 September 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
oooh I could go see 'em in Houston this weekend!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
I'll be seeing them in New York, though not the show with Pop Will Eat Itself, who may not even make it as they're having visa issues, and even if they did make it and I was going to that show, which I'm not, I'd probably be better off as I'm not sure how I feel about a PWEI without Clint Mansell and I'm pretty sure they're music has not aged as well as Severed Heads, but the nostalgia is STRONG.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
ha ha, the Houston show was meant to be a co-headline with Pop Will Eat Itself, but got price-reduced to just Sevs playing live at a goth/alt DJ night bcz only 26 tickets sold. you'll have room to dance!
(last night was also meant to have PWEI, but the US embassy did not process their visas)
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
go! the show is a lot of fun.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
xpost
PWEI toured a This Is The Day... 30th anniversary show in the UK this year with four out of five classic-lineup members, but the US tour was/maybe is going to be more Graham's industrial metal nu-PWEI
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
hahaha, don't worry, I've spent plenty of evenings dancing at Numbers when it's 3/4ths empty
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
dammit why is the NYC show next week
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 12 September 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
This was fun in SF. Wish I'd known about the CD.
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Monday, 16 September 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
American tour CD now available on Bandcamp:
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/living-museum
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 November 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
Oh a reissue of Clean with extra tracks, my twisted arm, etc.
https://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/clean
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:14 (four years ago) link
Also Tom sez "If you have to have cancer, then the thyroid is a good place to have it, so I’m not worried, but I’m bloody cranky about it let me tell you."interesting bits here http://tomellard.com/wp/2019/12/plans-for-2020/
― lukas, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 03:13 (four years ago) link
Ellard's latest rebrand as an unsevered solo artist is up:
https://nilamox.bandcamp.com/
At launch there's a CoKlaComa best of, an unreleased 2002 CoKlaComa album, and a $2 mini-album of interpretations of Pachelbel's Canon, under a new alias. He's said that Nilamox is intended to become the home for his future activities.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link
A new C21st best-of-rarities mix streamable now, conceived for vinyl and out on December 8th in that format.
(Commissioned by Medical Records,) Heads mastermind Tom Ellard compiled this collection of work from the ‘00s from a variety of sources, from limited, hand-cut discs to video game soundtracks, and then wove snippets from those pieces into a stream of electronic consciousness. Four sides, four songs, all Severed Heads.
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Thursday, 19 November 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
ooh
― DJP, Thursday, 19 November 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
!!!!
― 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 360º 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