This Heat - Pre-Classic or Post-Dud?

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtmx6KztjHw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkzU33fiLPs

The preview frame for the YouTube makes Hayward look like Jeremy Clarkson.

took a first date to the charlie hayward project 'bass drum'

absolutely fucking divine, the guy's a genius & the woman on the korg (whose name I am trying to find - it's on none of the links when I google 'charles hayward' 'bass drum' ffs!) was brilliant too

But what did your date think?

extremely strong approval

the support act was some boring shit dalston indie but that's to be expected, bargained for almost

Light In The Attic are about to reissue the only three records south London trio This Heat produced during their lifetime. Originally released between 1979–81, the US label’s forthcoming campaign will mark 2016 as being the 40th Anniversary of This Heat’s beginnings. Formed in Brixton, south London, in 1976, the trio consisted of Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward and the late Gareth Williams. The reissue programme includes the group’s 1979 debut This Heat and its 1981 sequel Deceit, plus their Health And Efficiency 12" from 1980.

Set for vinyl release on 22 January 2016, the three records will be accompanied by a booklet with notes and archival photos.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/39488/light-in-the-attic-reissue-this-heat-records

i feel like it was just yesterday that the box set came out but evidently it was... nine years ago? i am old.

there's some other this heat news of great magnitude imminent.

aaaaaa that makes me very excited

at one point there was a killer run of live shows on Dimeadozen and I think I grabbed them all, I guess the Krefeld tape or the Diekuuroh sessions could still be reissued as well

wow, check out this live show filmed after Gareth Williams left in 1982, the band as a 4-piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVDErVzy-cw

there's some other this heat news of great magnitude imminent.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 19 November 2015 21:10

tell me

saw this on FB from them: "also working on an extended version of the stuff we did with Mario Diekuuroh for release 2017"

AHA

That's cool, but also saw on facebook that they're doing Lifetones. Don't know which one stir's excited about! Both I imagine.

I love those show links because Trefor Goronwy joins them on bass, and I always wish This Heat had employed a real bassist on most of their recordings. Such a great band, and Hayward is such a powerhouse on drums, pairing him with a good bassist makes them all that much better. haha love the stare of death gives the camera around 5:45

xp well that's big news too, excellent

Can't think of any other pop drummers whose credit on a record is so reliably a sign of goodness rly

it's something else i'm excited about. wish i could say. i'm happy lifetones is seeing a reissue even though it means i'll no longer be the only person i know who has a copy.

On the 13th February 1976 the seminal experimental rock band This Heat played their first gig. After a Peel session, two albums, an EP and a cassette tape collaboration they disbanded in 1982 leaving an undeniable legacy that has only continued to grow in stature and relevance.

While December 2001 saw the three band members begin tentative rehearsals, any hope of the band reforming ended with the death of Gareth Williams in the same month.

THIS IS NOT THIS HEAT, a two day residency at Cafe OTO, will mark exactly 40 years to the weekend of that first gig in 1976. This Heat founder members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward will come together for the first time since 1982 to publicly perform new interpretations of their influential music in collaboration with an impressive ensemble of music luminaries of the past 50 years.

More information on this rare two day residency will be released in due course.

https://cafeoto.co.uk/events/this-heat/

You got the same email I did then?

Yes indeed. Booked tickets for both nights. Really looking forward to it!

why go to that when u can go to this https://cafeoto.co.uk/events/momus/

Just come across this, Japanese band Downy covering Paper Hats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8tgrI5U_E

anybody go? reports?

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/14/this-is-not-this-heat-review-cafe-oto

any video?

i went last night. it was incredible; way, way beyond my wildest expectations and truly one of my all time favourite gigs. i had a lump in my throat in places and am still totally buzzing 24 hours later. they played pretty much the whole of the two albums and then finished on a hyper intense version of "health and efficiency". charles hayward was grinning from ear to ear while bullen remained cool as a cucumber and inscrutable throughout. guest musicians included david cunningham, chris cutler, thurston moore and alexis taylor; at some points there were 11 musicians playing. the whole gig was filmed so hopefully that will appear at some point and there are rumours of more performances. by all accounts they started rehearsing a year ago and it showed. it was flawless (in the best possible way).

this doesn't begin to do justice to how great it was, but here's two thirds of "24 track loop" recorded on my phone - https://www.yousendit.com/download/ZWJWR0lVdGpCSnJMYnRVag

amazing, thanks.

oh, and about half way through charles and charles who didn't speak at any other point had a conversation about gareth williams which was extremely touching and very amusing. then they launched into "paper hats".

oh my god

Barbican June 17th:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=19383

also confirmed for Stuart Lee's ATP, which I am sorely tempted by

https://vine.co/v/inpweqVVWeI

:D

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1496/24369393733_b0d04771db_c.jpg

i tried to bring them to glasgow but to make it work the ticket price would have to be ridiculously high or else i'd have to have the confidence that around 1000 glaswegians would want to see them.

anybody go? reports?

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/14/this-is-not-this-heat-review-cafe-oto🔗

went on the friday and it was really excellent. I don't think double bassist john edwards played on Saturday which is a shame as it added considerable weight and atmosphere to quieter sections.

sparse solo sets from hayward and bullen were both great and set the scene for the main play of denser forces v well.

wish i had a recording of it all in fact.

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...