There's this too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBDRAqocYlc
― Maresn3st, Friday, 24 July 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
that interview is hit after hit of pathos now
― imago, Friday, 24 July 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
A slightly longer edit of the Surbiton video has surfaced - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezc3USYXjCg
― Maresn3st, Friday, 24 July 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
It is a regret of mine that I didn't go to see the Cardiacs play in Reading some time in the late 90s after my friend's boyfriend told me I might like them and he was going to see them - I think it was some punk bullshit about aversion to "prog rock" tbh - I didn't actually get around to listening to them for several years after that and I was instantly converted when I did listen to them. RIP Tim
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 25 July 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
What would be the best place to start?
(I must've been around at the time but don't remember seeing the LP's, or maybe just wasn't looking / listening in the right places. I do remember lots of t shirts at gigs...)
((Actually, I do have that one best-of...))
― koogs, Saturday, 25 July 2020 03:53 (three years ago) link
I've had some success in the last couple of days getting Sund4r off the ground with Guns - the songs tend to stay more or less in one (ish) place while containing all the melodic and sonic inventiveness you'd hope for
https://alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/album/guns
― imago, Saturday, 25 July 2020 08:54 (three years ago) link
If it helps, here's a mix I made for a friend that asked me where to begin with Cardiacs last month, tracklisting included.
https://we.tl/t-ztUXWzvg8F
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
I only know StG, and it took me quite a while to get into that. I still feel like I'm not in it completely, but I know I will and can. It just takes time. I will def listen to your mix Maresn3st, thanks so much! Sometimes all it takes - and that's been proven by nearly all here - is the right person/time to be introduced to music.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:25 (three years ago) link
I can't believe the 1video of Gloomy News, Hope Day and To Go Off And Things from the Garage rehearsals won't turn up. All great songs.
The arrangement of Hope Day that brings out that bass line under the long instrumental section is a highlight among highlights from those versions. You'll know the bit I mean.
― Stanley Halfbrick (Noel Emits), Sunday, 26 July 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link
XP - Hope you like it LBI, let us know how you get along.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 26 July 2020 12:45 (three years ago) link
I've just noticed that live recordings are beginning to surface on d1m3ad0z3n (which usually happens there when a musician passes on) including the really early ones that were apparently recorded by Ted Chippington.
If anyone is interested in such things, speak up and I can get download links happening at some point.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 26 July 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
it was A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window that won me over
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 26 July 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
― Maresn3st, Sunday, July 26, 2020 1:57 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yes, please do. Happy to share my stash of bootlegs and rarities that's accumulated over the years but I'm sure I've got lots of gaps.
https://mega.nz/folder/paATzQ4R#uKt4MkS0WbTGDX9thnegRg
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Sunday, 26 July 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
Steven Wilson on the latest ep of the Album Years podcast he's doing with Tim Bowness was talking about Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound On Sound album being an influence on Cardiacs.
It's not hard to see.
https://youtu.be/d3mfKe5KX04
― Stanley Halfbrick (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
Although really apart from a few cool bits that song sounds more like a parody of what people think Cardiacs sound like.
― Stanley Halfbrick (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
Sing To God was featured album on the freak zone on sunday night (3 tracks played and a few sentences about tim and the band around the first)
Dog Like SparkyDirty BoyNurses Whispering Verses
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000lgrb
― koogs, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 12:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLGEP2gl2UI
― Maresn3st, Friday, 7 August 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
Who are these people??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROBymAeY4MI
― Maresn3st, Friday, 7 August 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
following the basslines of Cardiacs songs is a very quick and easy way to redouble your appreciation of Tim AND Jim's genius tbh
― imago, Friday, 7 August 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
dear cardiacs friends just saw on the rob crow thread that he has a new acoustic covers album. nice track selection. first track is a version of "shaping the river" by the sea nymphs. also includes covers of tunes by rudimentary peni, ruins, and other artists who may be of interest to folks here.
https://robcrow.bandcamp.com/album/everybodys-got-damage
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 16 August 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
https://thequietus.com/articles/28854-cardiacs-vermin-mangle
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
I just came here to post this.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
This is the track that was played on *blanking on the name*'s Tim Smith memorial show a month ago. It sounds like Tom Waits deconstructing "Morning is Broken."
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
Blank name is Steve Davis.
https://www.phoenixfm.com/2020/07/30/tribute-tim-smith/
― grebo shot first (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
I forgot how to embed a link, but here it is: https://alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/track/vermin-mangle
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
Kavus encouragingly called it the 'first' new release since 2007
― imago, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 09:46 (three years ago) link
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/
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
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.
― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 09:22 (three years ago) link
Good lord!
― imago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 11:04 (three years ago) link
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.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
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...
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
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.
― for all the good it'll do ya (Noel Emits), Monday, 21 December 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
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
― that heat (Matt #2), Monday, 21 December 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
I always get the Bull & Gate mixed up with the Monarch, despite having played both venues several times
― Maresn3st, Monday, 21 December 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
Both North London shitholes is the link
― that heat (Matt #2), Monday, 21 December 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
Can't believe we're getting the vile countdown.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 21 December 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
Loved the countdown but now it's actually started it might be too sad for me to watch tbh
― imago, Monday, 21 December 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
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 :)
― Maresn3st, Monday, 21 December 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
I'm sticking with it :)
― imago, Monday, 21 December 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
they're on spotify etc. now
― orifex, Saturday, 23 January 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek39qUkc2Fc
― a mix between Daft Punk and Daft Punk with the swagger of Daft Punk (Maresn3st), Thursday, 25 February 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
So awesome. Thanks for sharing!
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 25 February 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
JIM SMILED
― imago, Thursday, 25 February 2021 22:55 (three years ago) link
Shawn Knight's vocals are excellent on this.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 26 February 2021 02:04 (three years ago) link
Enjoyed this, the intonation on the guitar is a bit youth club, but otherwise kinda interesting -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6uQRMXsAYU
― Maresn3st, Monday, 7 June 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
that was pretty neat, this style of music generally doesn't have chords like that
― frogbs, Monday, 7 June 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link
At first I thought it was gonna sound like Salem :)
― Maresn3st, Monday, 7 June 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
Q&A about the making of the Maresnest film w/Bill Drake and Cathi Unsworth
https://vimeo.com/554208661
― Maresn3st, Monday, 21 June 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
every time this thread gets revived I'm hoping it's news about reissues
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 21 June 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link
Has anyone heard anything recently about the book Sean Kitching was working on?
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 22 June 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link