Cardiacs: Classic or Dud?

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/

R.I.P. the great Tim Quy, who I had the pleasure of meeting at ABC 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUclU3nUOb4

Listening to Sing to God right now, my best attempt at a description is "What if Nomeansno tried to be early Genesis?"

wild band

i guess they are the UK cheer accident or cheer accident is the US cardiacs?

"what if poster imago's favourite album" haha, NOW YOU KNOW

C-A a decent analogue!

i think this is stressing my dog out

laaaaasssie's

on the tvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Interview with Jon Poole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbFfLpJUQYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKSap5N2tmw

lol i just knowingly listened to the cardiacs for the first time ever

didn't expect to be reminded of henry cow

Beyond the often quoted 'Salvation Army band playing carousel punk in a force ten gale' type of thing, there are a multitude of influences that suffused Tim's style - prog and ROI, new wave, traditional British and early music composers, twelve-tone music, and so on.

you love to hear it

welcome to the first day of the rest of your music listenerhood, or something

idk if that'll work for yez

https://www.facebook.com/684066443/videos/1201624097486618/

amazing! who's in the band??

Bic, Jim, Baba, Jon, Jo but not sure about the rest, they had additional perc, sax and keys. Also, Mark Cawthra sang occasionally and maybe Tiny from Ultrasound.

Hearing 'Anything I Can't Eat' really brought it all back to me, seeing those HB&EB songs played live, they always sounded so brilliant, loads better than the recorded counterparts (apart from March and Helen & Heaven)

I'm there tomorrow. The excitement's unreal

Hopefully it ends with a big announcement concerning you know what

Some of these videos are getting me all misty eyed

Oh! It was Craig Fortnam on percussion I didn't recognise him, Chloe Herington on sax and Adrien Rodes on keys

Adrien's record is great - https://melodicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-maple

There's already stuff up from the show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGDju6E85C0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVygQiy6TF0

Saturday was one of the best nights I have had

If there's Saturday crowd footage, I'm probably quite visible

Saturday was fantastic indeed

They're doing a small tour of North England in October.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/5yG1KKpY4Q618ZSq/?mibextid=oFDknk

(Scotland, too.)

And Brighton!

Ooh

!!!!

https://www-impattosonoro-it.translate.goog/2024/06/05/interviste/sing-to-tim-il-rinnovato-abbraccio-dei-cardiacs/?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&fbclid=IwY2xjawDOid9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQ6zloxo1UUFw2fvAgA8Yidlo3-CxU-_lM3BrYQKKUAfmvh2lJUlAZVHyA_aem_AaqfuhNDkwLAFiYEOMCO6pqv41DRoaz2xmXXoFL41br_W35B-UpV_Fjp2VG5vmSKml66g-QFa5tdARbG8IojMI3T

It seems to be a very active time for you. What are the plans for the future? Will "LSD", the lost Cardiacs album, ever be released? (started recording in 2008 and never finished due to Tim's illness)

Jim: LSD? We have completed all the recordings. Many think that it was an almost completely completed project but it wasn't. There was still a lot to work on and we brought it to a final form. It's ready for the mixing phase, we're working slowly but I think it will be ready next year. All the voices were still missing, we recorded them but I can't tell you who sang yet.

Jon: Jim won't say it, but he's been particularly active on this project from a studio work perspective. He was the key element

Jo: Now you know too much, we'll have to kill you (laughs)

The singing issue is a tough one, Jon probably the best suited. I'd like to hear Sharon, Craig, Bill, Richard L, Jon or maybe even Bic, but as glorious as the gigs were and it was amazing to see people like Cawthra, the singing was often not great. Kav co-wrote a fair chunk of the record so he might be on it.