Cardiacs: Classic or Dud?

Lovely piece by Sean Organ.

https://organthing.com/2020/09/02/organ-thing-a-fragile-beautiful-previously-unreleased-cardiacs-song-a-present-by-way-of-gracious-thanks-has-been-officially-posted-as-a-download/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CIzJNQvlBDh/?igshid=w5g7cylz2mz3

Shane Embury and Jim are doing something. From the comments, Kavus may be in on it too.

Good lord!

They're showing the gigs that they did exactly 15 years ago at the Bull and Gate at 8:30p on the 21st and 22rd on their official YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcglobus), and they're dropping heavy-handed hints that Something Special Will Also Happen. Perhaps this will be part of it.

the fact that "Vermin Mangle" came out does make me somewhat optimistic that something is in the works

would love to see their catalogue repressed. there's definitely a lot of demand for it...

Simulate the Bull & Gate experience by fetching yourself a draught Guineas in a can and walking through your bathroom / toilet with it to the lounge. See you down the front.

Add in an irate Irishman telling you to eff off plus some bloke trying to sell you a recording of the gig for £700, don't really miss that place tbh

I always get the Bull & Gate mixed up with the Monarch, despite having played both venues several times

Both North London shitholes is the link

Can't believe we're getting the vile countdown.

Loved the countdown but now it's actually started it might be too sad for me to watch tbh

I am double screening and enjoying the racket, amazing to me that they had like cameras on the night but nobody bothered to plug a minidisc player into the sound desk, or if they did, check the levels :)

I'm sticking with it :)

they're on spotify etc. now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek39qUkc2Fc

So awesome. Thanks for sharing!

JIM SMILED

Shawn Knight's vocals are excellent on this.

Enjoyed this, the intonation on the guitar is a bit youth club, but otherwise kinda interesting -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6uQRMXsAYU

that was pretty neat, this style of music generally doesn't have chords like that

At first I thought it was gonna sound like Salem :)

Q&A about the making of the Maresnest film w/Bill Drake and Cathi Unsworth

https://vimeo.com/554208661

every time this thread gets revived I'm hoping it's news about reissues

Has anyone heard anything recently about the book Sean Kitching was working on?

Dr Tim Smith, 60 today.

;_;

Seeing a lotta pics of him on FB today, goddamn he was a good looking chap

He *was* a handsome feller, Cheshire cat grin and those big chops, he'd squeeze you hard and give you a big kiss on the cheek.

Or the lips if you were Jim

Or Kavus. Or a number of other lucky bastards.

Yes, *stunningly* handsome. All of my favorite pictures are only on FB, though.

Here's a private concert by some of the bands in the Cardiacsphere, done on his 40th birthday at his house. (I keep forgetting about how to embed YT links. I should post more.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaLn17xSZZM

Too jerky for me, but not in the alien supra-human way that Tatsuya Yoshida's ruins is.

dud

dud

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TBH not in the mood to hear negative opinions of Cardiacs right now, so kindly desist with these kind of sniping shitposts, thanks.

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I happened on this long podcast inerview with Jon Poole. There's some Tim and Cardiacs talk starting just after the hour mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Ah_9Il9_U

I used to see JP around now and then. I don't know him at all really, I think he recognised me from Cardiacs gigs somehow. But when he started with the mustache and bowl hat look I wouldn't recognise him. I think he came over and said alright in the pub on a couple of occasions and I was like... alright? A strange thing but this character had a good vibe, seemed like a wise friend or something. Didn't work out who it was for absolutely ages after. Sorry, Jon!

Yes, he's a lovely chap, when I moved in similar musical circles in the late 90s, I would bump into him now and again, always very funny. A little later, he got a job in Borders Book shop on Oxford St, which was kinda weird.

I know there is a surfeit of covers/interpretations on YT these days, which is great, but I love this arrangement of Bell Clinks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1hBu1F8ULk

Ooh yeah that's nice.

Saw someone wearing a Cardiacs shirt in the wild for the first time last night, at a black midi show. I feel like a putz for not going up and talking to him, but he didn't compliment me on my Max Tundra shirt either, so fuck him :)

I never had particularly strong feelings about Madness (Suggs being a tv personality who was in adverts didn't help though) but hearing songs like "My Girl" recently, the things Cardiacs got from them really let me enjoy them to an extent I haven't before.

It is not a strong influence outside of the early stuff imo but fun to try and spot. Eg. The claustrophobic camera angles and general decay here are reminiscent of the Rotten Shed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs5ao3jR7BU

61st anniversary of Tim Smith's birth today. Here's a nice new big article about inspirations and interpretations and stuff.
https://thequietus.com/articles/31719-tim-smith-cardiacs-strange-world

That's a nice read, Sean (and Marina) did a lot of good work helping keep interest in Cardiacs going when the rest of the universe cared not one tiny bit.

I think that's a different Sean (not Sean Organ) btw. I hope this means there's still at least one good book in the works.

Ahh is it? I just made the leap when he started speaking about their frendship

It seems that Tim Quy has actually left our world, very sad. RIP

That's really sad to hear, I'd heard he was in poor health. They were never as good once he left if you ask me.

all one glorious continuum, of which he was a very dear part, rip

This is the official announcement.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid028zaezbJ9SeiEx3oG5LTr4s1pQZ6JKVUVTjVqLCS4TipTxwRp2fdgrTfEzHPK9AU5l&id=100032042187218&mibextid=Nif5oz

What insanity is this

https://www.the-cep.org.uk/family-tree/