― marinecreature, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― david sheridon, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith phillips, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marina organ, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
xini
― xini, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
BTW if you get the chance go see Bill Drake, he has an album forthcoming, and there's a CD-single out produced by Tim Smith (Cardiacs).
A fan!
― Wilco Boumans, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Result!
― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Sunday, 12 January 2003 16:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Allen, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 09:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
DL... If you've just heard 'Guns', wait till you hear 'A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window'... give us an email if you have difficulty getting stuff.
― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 21:54 (twenty years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:06 (twenty years ago) link
― paul ashby, Saturday, 13 March 2004 12:19 (twenty years ago) link
― David Sheridon, Monday, 31 May 2004 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― mzui, Monday, 31 May 2004 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― MR SHERIDON, Saturday, 17 July 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
08/12/04: London - Astoria09/12/04: Manchester - MDH (Uni)10/12/04: Glasgow - Garage11/12/04: Sheffield - Leadmill13/12/04: Cambridge - Junction14/12/04: Bristol - Anson Rooms15/12/04: Wolverhampton - Wulfrun Hall
Did anyone see them at the Astoria on 12th Nov? What happened?
― everything, Monday, 22 November 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Say WHAT? What a fuckin' double-bill!!!!!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― udu wudu (udu wudu), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
I expect indifference followed by swift irritation followed speedily by violence.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― everything, Monday, 22 November 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― zeus, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― everything, Monday, 31 October 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 31 October 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
For you lucky bastards that live in London, Cardiacs will be playing TWO SPECIAL SECRET CONCERTS at The Bull and Gate in Kentish Town, London on the 21st and 22nd of December.
― everything, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Take some time to appreciate the lyrical genius of the man... A song about an insect landing on a TV screen and falling in love with Lassie (who was a he-dog). A song about when you used to play with your food on the plate because it was too scary. All with random letters inserted into words ("indside") and resurrection of beautiful archaic terms like "phiz" and "foundling". And utterly no respect for the rules of metre. You could write a doctoral thesis on it.
― Mark Harvey, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 03:42 (eighteen years ago) link
It shouldn't be about whether you boo or hurrah Cardiacs, by the way. Just take it as a fact that Cardiacs are a truly independent musical/lyrical universe in itself. For that is undeniable fact.
Let's fly hawks around your house :-)
― Peter Sijbenga, Saturday, 31 December 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Greyhound, Friday, 6 January 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
The Astoria gig last December was, I think, my 20th and I’m looking forward to the next 20. A new album would be nice though – Guns was SEVEN years ago! And I wonder when these promised DVDs will come out…?
One more thing - my girlfriend’s sister is one of the uninitiated and wants to hear what Cardiacs sound like – is there one song I could play her which will get them across? I was thinking ‘Fiery Gun Hand’.
― Andrew Bates, Friday, 13 January 2006 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Greyhound, Monday, 16 January 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― everything, Monday, 16 January 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Bates, Friday, 20 January 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Sunday, 26 March 2006 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Tim Smith is on tour supporting Ginger And The Sonic Circus at the moment. I was dead keen to go to the london date, except tickets are something like £15 plus booking fee and considering I have no interest in seeing the headline act, it would be a bit of a waste of money. Sigh.
Seven years is just silly. I wonder how many times they've recorded/scrapped the new album now? I imagine it's like Lee Mavers and The La's - they just keep redoing it over and over again and are never satisfied with the result.
― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Monday, 27 March 2006 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― allyson marie deering, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 09:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andy, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andy, Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything, Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andy, Friday, 7 April 2006 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
http://download.yousendit.com/DE7C8DC44EE79F97
http://download.yousendit.com/FCD2053C3B705000
If you're not up for that, one of those two songs features in this peerless live recording (aka religious experience): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpEe0ztq2ck
― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
except for two things:
1) their albums are impossible to find at a reasonable price.
2) they are one of the greatest live bands of all time, but they never play outside of london. that was fine when I lived there, but nowadays it's a fucking disgrace.
but another point in their favour is that they gave the ridiculously talented kavus torabi a home once the monsoon bassoon prematurely ceased to be.
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything (everything), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUclU3nUOb4
― MaresNest, Thursday, 23 March 2023 13:34 (one year ago) link
Listening to Sing to God right now, my best attempt at a description is "What if Nomeansno tried to be early Genesis?"
wild band
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 April 2023 16:33 (eleven months ago) link
i guess they are the UK cheer accident or cheer accident is the US cardiacs?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 April 2023 16:39 (eleven months ago) link
"what if poster imago's favourite album" haha, NOW YOU KNOW
― imago, Monday, 17 April 2023 17:08 (eleven months ago) link
C-A a decent analogue!
i think this is stressing my dog out
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 April 2023 17:29 (eleven months ago) link
laaaaasssie's
on the tvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
― imago, Monday, 17 April 2023 17:47 (eleven months ago) link
Interview with Jon Poolehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbFfLpJUQYMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKSap5N2tmw
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 2 December 2023 21:48 (three months ago) link
lol i just knowingly listened to the cardiacs for the first time ever
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 14:42 (two months ago) link
didn't expect to be reminded of henry cow
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 14:43 (two months ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:20 (two months ago) link
you love to hear it
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:26 (two months ago) link
welcome to the first day of the rest of your music listenerhood, or something
― imago, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:36 (two months ago) link