This Heat - Pre-Classic or Post-Dud?

Holy shit, yes.

The band will play USA in 2018 https://t.co/R00r4mMAIa

— ThisIsNotThisHeat (@NotThisHeat) December 3, 2017

Oh man, will travel for this...

yep

STOKED

!

https://www.thechapelsf.com/event/1865011-this-is-not-this-heat-san-francisco/

Um, yes please. Needless to say I already have my ticket.

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.

Who is in the full line up?

just saw TINTH in LA last month, but we're going again - do not miss this!

conflict with Mekons tour :(

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.

Have they had any 'influence'?

Looks like it.

Listening to first This Heat album on Youtube. I guess I should buy em from Bandcamp (not streaming on Spotify)

all time classic IMO

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.

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

/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