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Someone put this on the end of a burned cd i had many years ago. Cheered me up hearing it again, so here it is! (Sarah has a lovely...

I'm not a fan*, but it's lovely reading all the comments from folk who've only just discovered them. Good on Mr Hawkins i says!

*although i did enjoy this:
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Cardiacs were barely known in the UK, so it seems unlikely that Tim wanted to crack America. There were rumours of a Mr Bungle support in 1999/2000 that never happened. We can only imagine what might...

They may have already been mentioned, but i've finally got around to listening to Mark Cawthra's Redbus Noface album and not only is it highly impressive bendy psychedelic indie rock, but it turns...

I've posted about it elsewhere on here, but i really enjoyed it as well. Got a bit emotional reading the last couple of chapters mainly for Tim Smith-related reasons.

Still hoping for a volume 2...

Love the Monsoon's album, still listen to it a lot in fact. I'm definitely going to have to hunt for those early singles now, though i have found some of that stuff on YT.

One of my favourite of...

Glad to see these guys getting some love. I haven't had time to give this a proper listen yet, but from what i can tell it's more refined and eclectic than the first album while retaining the...

The Torabi/Davis book is terrific and really makes you want to listen to the music which probably accounts for why i'm currently rediscovering the magic of Voivod and am considering if i should do...

Stuff wot i have liked:

Arabrot - Norwegian Gothic
Jane Weaver - Flock
Pom Poko - Cheater
The Gasman - Depersonalisation
Universally Estranged - Reared Up In Spectral Predation
Cara Neir -...

Thanks man. I'd hope it was obvious i'm not on here to have an argument (as my post history will likely attest to), but it seems there's some who get upset when a contrary opinion is able to be...

Almost as if my opinions are my own... mad innit?

But if you decide you don't like it don't you dare go posting about it on here!

It's a Prog forum dude.

Agree.
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It's part of my British heritage i'm afraid.

Tell you what, i just started a new thread, you can go and take a dump on it if you want :)

Really highly impressed with these young lads. I'm getting Pere Ubu... Talking Heads... Mahavishnu... Crimson... fuck knows what else, but they're great. Mind bending modern prog with math rock...

I'll post where i like thanks


It was twice actually (and the third was a jokey reaction to your dottiness)

Erm... it wasn't. I was explaining what i didn't like about it and that i've spent...

Ok sorry. It's shit. Total shit.

Patton smells.

They all do.

To expand a little on my earlier post, i was a rabid Patton fanatic in my younger days and his work with Bungle (esp Disco Volante) and Fantomas, not to mention Ipecac records and his collabs and...

For balance, i thought this was fucking dreadful (and i love heavy music as it happens). Generic thrash as lame as anything Patton's been involved with the last 20 years*

I love the original three...

Just realised the above may constitute spoilers so no more from me until it's been read more widely. Read this book people.

I want to hear Aladdin now.

Just started reading it, highly enjoyable so far as expected.

Ah man, i loved Iron Maiden as a kid (got off the boat after Seventh Son) and the stuff about the Maiden audience being kinder than...

That's really nice. I remember seeing a photo of you with Tim (and i think Bill Drake) after the 2007 Astoria gig.

I was too busy drunkenly stumbling around in Soho and didn't dare approach Tim at...

Haha, it was a certain Mr Bob Leith who mentioned Danielson when i asked him what bands he liked other than Genesis and Mr Bungle.

Do you like Ween Kavus? I would have thought The Mollusk and The...

I've mentioned The Gasman on here before, but it bears repeating how essential his stuff is for Cardiacs fans. He released about eight full albums on his bandcamp in the last year or so, all of it...

It's called Bic's Bit. Apparently written by Tim, but giving Bic a chance to show off and fall into the crowd (Bic being a certain Christian Hayes from Levitation and Mikrokosmos fame)

I suppose...

If you search for the albums they're on there.

I'm more into bandcamp, but i suppose more folk use spotify, so if this brings more into the fold i'm all for it.

Nah, it was more the generally stuffy comments about battema's list and the incredulity at him choosing something as innocuous as Taylor Swift (something he seems to have taken well all things...

'Progressive' listeners in not exactly open minded shock.


Word. It's quite brilliant and if anything their last album was even better.

Then again one of my favourites last year was from...

Ooh, nice. Have bookmarked for later...

Have this, Surbiton 1985. Nice to finally see it in decent-ish quality.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYcQfaILqu4

Given much of the set is from...

I'm not a big fan, but Parklife and The Great Escape are both fun albums that wear their XTC and Kinks influences all sleevey. 13 is good too, but sounds like they got more into Tortoise and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE_tDiA-kW4
1:28 sounds like a direct homage.

Blimey, they get everywhere!

I've always found the Foos to be bland cack, but Dave's musical tastes (Butthole Surfers, Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Nomeansno) were always more interesting than his...

^ the Garage cd's were recorded in 2003 and came out shortly before these *secret* concerts where they played them all in sequence with a *bonus* encore of a song from much later (not babies).

I...

Loved it. Hope Timmy chugged a load of cough syrup after though...

Kinda hoping they make this a regular thing actually, i think most of us would still watch it live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYT1oo4tICE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2H-6k5-BikkwI2wKKy5hDJnc_K7U2vyqYcS63asJ1cCjdeWtDKQun-Ttk
Spratleys and friends having it large. Vennart there doing a fine...

Look! Stuffs happening!!

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Excited about this, i had no idea these were filmed :beer

I hope the 8:30 to 9 slot is footage of...

'twas a fine tribute indeed. Listening live, i just about managed to hold it together until Vermin Mangle at the end crashed me though the floor again.

There's also this show from superfan Adrian...

You're doing better than me. Won't be able to listen to any of this stuff for a good while i think. Been listening to Stereolab and The Gasman very loudly instead, with Ennio Morricone for afters:up

This is the day i've been dreading for a long, long time, devastated doesn't cover it. Big love to Tim and extended family and Cardiacs fans across the board. Hope Kavus is ok.

What a fucking body...

Another big cheer for Broadcast, they've become one of my favourite bands over the last few years. The album they did with The Focus Group is a wonderful glimpse of where they might have gone. It was...

Really interesting stuff Kavus! Almost like a Garage rehearsals commentary track.

Who were Johnny4 by the way? I know they were played with Cardiacs in 05, but i can't find any info on them...

He's no doubt been brought up on here before, but i've been playing the arse out of The Gasman of late. Tim called him a genius and he specially recorded music for the last Cardiacs tour (were these...

I've finished it now and it's highly interesting and informative indeed (and they were all shagging each other, yes). The only disappointing thing was there was no insight into the last couple of Art...

I know, i thought it would be all crack smoking and whore squeezing, but no such excitement, apart from when Dagmar throws The Communist Manifesto through a hotel window.

Anyone been reading the new Cow book 'The world is a problem'? I've been finding it a bit overly academic, so i've set it aside for the time being. I was probably a dunce for expecting more of a...

Listening now and it's quite good, certainly very different from the other stuff i've heard. Interesting to read it was recorded after the death of his father and recorded in the shadow of Tibet's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM_zvF87bO8&feature=youtu.be

Ah ok i was just wondering if IA was scuppered by some higher up who didn't appreciate you playing 30+ minute Swans tracks ;)

I didn't know that!, but given the incestous nature of the whole Coil,...

I liked Underdog too even though a lot of it's just a list of his sexual fantasies (i nearly put 'exploits', but much of it is clearly invented). I haven't read it in years, but from what i can...

That Tibet fella.

This is more of a 'where to start' really. I thought here might be a good place to ask as i've seen them mentioned a few times over the years.

Their last album has a kind of...

It's bloody brilliant indeed and i'll be endeavoring to see them at the Deaf Institute in Dec.

On the radio show front: I know that The Fire Shuffle is still a monthly proposition, but what...

Oh fucking hell, i hope it's not going to be one of those years again.

Scott 1-4 are beautiful and comforting while at the same time being brooding and black as tar in places. Tilt is one of the...

Yeah, that's fab. Somehow missed that one on the radio.

With great new stuff from Spratleys, Lost Crowns, NSRO and (hopefully.... i'd say he's due a new one) Bill Drake, not to mention the ABC...

I have nothing clever to say, but bloody excellent this is indeed, though hardly suprising given the persons involved. I'll have to grab a physical copy, along with this 'new' NSRO rarities thing...

You beat me to it, here's a link (you may have to sign up to listen). Group sounding muscular and tight. Can't wait for the new stuff. Mr Riley (heh) has certainly done his duty plugging Tim's music...

Yes, but only just. I must be totally out of the loop not being on fb as i didn't even know they had new stuff.

It's wonderful. The first couple of listens in kinda floated by, but once the...

Excuse me, i seem to have something in my eye...

Wonderful to know there's an official book in the making. The author has done some really great articles on thequietus if you look them up.

Tim speaks!

Thanks, i've never listened to Sleepy People.

Bic Hayes Mikrokosmos project is something else you need to wrap your ears round if you haven't already. I think it's all mostly Bic with occasional...

^as a fellow Cardiacs nut i'd recommend you get the 'Infinity' record quick-fuckin-sticks.


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I remember reading that MES was into GG and also Jethro Tull in his yout'.

Don't forget, they did a Henry Cow cover (of sorts) too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioo2z7z1uw

Going through some of the classic albums again since the sad news... 'This Nations Saving Grace', 'Wonderful and Frightening World of...' and 'Hex Enduction Hour' are pretty much flawless works....