Eamonn - im having a bad week - but looking forward to saturday's party !
― Geordie Racer, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Its true, Cardiacs are the least pompous band on the planet. They may be the most emotional... try listening to them more than once, you may notice that part of it. They are just plain unique, so don't come with a blueprint for listening - everyone gets something diffent out of them, hence such a wide range of gig goers
There's an album just out of quieter moments called 'Cardiacs And Affectionate Friends', with various solo stuff from Bic (Levitation), William D Drake and the Sea Nymphs... Of course Cardiacs are classic, someone described them recently as 'the finest band to walk the face of the earth' (which was nice)
― Marina, Sunday, 28 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― A.Fish, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
He doesn't care that they sound like a riot in a fairground.
― chris, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Rebecca, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Marina organ, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Norman Phay, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
They supported Blur at their big Mile End Indiefest, as I recall. Damian Allbran always sites them as a major influence, although you never know with Blurboy whether it's just something he says to prove his uniqueness. The only other band to really take Cardiac-worship into the mainstream were Ultrasound, and for all their freaky- outsider posturing they were never quite as interesting (Whatever happened to Tiny?)
Popular rumour has it that one editor banned them from the NME. I'd love that to be true, although I've seen the printed review of "Heaven Born" so it seems unlikely.
― Phil A, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Anyway, you do know about 'Cardiacs Greatest Hits' just out? - lots of nicely remastered tracks and a soaring new one.
― Marina the organgrinder, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Norman Phay, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― marinecreature, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
they change my life constantly. no one today can touch them.
to be muttered in the same breath as the smiths, dexys, detroit techno, etc etc
― del a robbo, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dagasque, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― The Limey Tank, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Classic, Classic, CLASSIC
― derek welch, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― david sheridon, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― angeline campbell, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― marinecreature, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― david sheridon, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Labrat, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DAVID SHERIDON, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
There's a Rock Sounds mention this week (thanks to Sean Organ), and a couple or articles in The Organ 'zine - www.organart.com
Always check out WWW.CARDIACS.COM for info!
― marinecreature, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I've had the Greatest Hits on constant play since I got it. What an album! I've only had Guns, Sing to God and the Sampler up till now, so most of the old stuff is new to me. Affectionate Friends ain't bad either.
― Phil A, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― AIDA HORSE, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― marinecreature, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― david sheridon, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― keith phillips, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Marina organ, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
xini
― xini, Saturday, 20 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two 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-two years ago) link
Result!
― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Saturday, 28 September 2002 23:14 (twenty-two 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-one 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 (twenty years ago) link
― mzui, Monday, 31 May 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link
― MR SHERIDON, Saturday, 17 July 2004 16:14 (twenty 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― zeus, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
you love to hear it
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:26 (eight months ago) link
welcome to the first day of the rest of your music listenerhood, or something
― imago, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:36 (eight months ago) link
idk if that'll work for yez
https://www.facebook.com/684066443/videos/1201624097486618/
― Maresn3st, Friday, 3 May 2024 21:28 (four months ago) link
amazing! who's in the band??
― frogbs, Friday, 3 May 2024 21:59 (four months ago) link
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.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 3 May 2024 22:08 (four months ago) link
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)
― Maresn3st, Friday, 3 May 2024 22:11 (four months ago) link
I'm there tomorrow. The excitement's unreal
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 3 May 2024 22:15 (four months ago) link
Hopefully it ends with a big announcement concerning you know what
― frogbs, Friday, 3 May 2024 22:31 (four months ago) link
Some of these videos are getting me all misty eyed
― frogbs, Friday, 3 May 2024 22:36 (four months ago) link
Oh! It was Craig Fortnam on percussion I didn't recognise him, Chloe Herington on sax and Adrien Rodes on keys
― Maresn3st, Friday, 3 May 2024 22:50 (four months ago) link
Adrien's record is great - https://melodicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-maple
― Maresn3st, Friday, 3 May 2024 22:51 (four months ago) link
There's already stuff up from the showhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGDju6E85C0
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 3 May 2024 23:32 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVygQiy6TF0
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 12:08 (four months ago) link
Saturday was one of the best nights I have had
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 12:13 (four months ago) link
If there's Saturday crowd footage, I'm probably quite visible
― imago, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 12:14 (four months ago) link
Saturday was fantastic indeed
― a3poify, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 16:32 (four months ago) link
They're doing a small tour of North England in October.https://www.facebook.com/share/p/5yG1KKpY4Q618ZSq/?mibextid=oFDknk
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 17:19 (four months ago) link
(Scotland, too.)
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 18:16 (four months ago) link
And Brighton!
― a3poify, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 20:14 (four months ago) link
Ooh
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 20:51 (four months ago) link
!!!!
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 elementJo: Now you know too much, we'll have to kill you (laughs)
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)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 14:43 (three months ago) link
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.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 14:49 (three months ago) link
Never listened to Cardiacs til this past week. Not what I would have guessed somehow, it’s sorta like giant on-stage choral musical theater feeling. My 20yr old heard a little HBEB w me and said “it’s a lot of things but it’s a bit like oingo boingo.” i’m sure i looked confused, but after considering it— yeah.
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Monday, 17 June 2024 16:56 (three months ago) link
Adjacent, but still worth posting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx1H9w4nUqY
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 09:26 (three months ago) link
aaaaaaahhhhhh so so good. YOUR MOVE CRAIG
― imago, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 09:39 (three months ago) link
literally the two faces of 'how to make breakup music' - craig going full 'the sea shall claim the land' mope-out, and then this, lol
― imago, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 09:52 (three months ago) link
both of these songs are great. is this the "solo album" spoken about here is that something different (always kind of hard to acertain the extent of james larcombe's role in the tonne of bands he's involved in - seems more as a player and arranger or other people's material?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJgpWF_Bh8
i'm a bit parasocially sad if i'm understanding the context correctly though :(
― linee, Thursday, 27 June 2024 08:02 (three months ago) link
You managed to not pick that up from Ark, the album with the most just-divorced energy maybe ever, lol
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2024 08:16 (three months ago) link
i've love his music but i must admit it's not really something where i pay any attention to the words as anything more than a mood... i just assume he's always extolling the virtues of some kind of antediluvian Angleterre landscape or that it's a setting of a romantic poet doing the same thing :)
*looks at the song titles and listens to the first 20 seconds and Ark* oh...
― linee, Thursday, 27 June 2024 08:26 (three months ago) link
You can sort of understand the whole thing from comparing that album to this new song, as I say. Or at least, you can damn well tell who required it be the case
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2024 08:33 (three months ago) link
Anyway, this is a really lovely interview, thanks!
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2024 08:53 (three months ago) link
I was asking James about the record yesterday and it was apparently made quite a while back, so much so that he had completely forgotten that he sung on the b-side.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 27 June 2024 09:39 (three months ago) link
Apparently there's an NSRO coming soon too. Hopefully Craig's got a bit of his pep back (mind you, I A Moon was quite a downbeat album and that worked out pretty well)
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2024 10:09 (three months ago) link
I think he's pretty consistent, the guitar instrumentals record and all the little things EPs and whatnot, that he was making and releasing post-lockdown have been great, still listen to Ark all the time.
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 27 June 2024 11:35 (three months ago) link
Oh, quite a lot of his moon stuff was amazing yeah
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2024 12:00 (three months ago) link
I just mean I hope he's a bit happier!
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2024 12:05 (three months ago) link
I was completely unaware of The Cardiacs, despite having worked in a record shop and being involved in college radio (US) in the late 80s and early 90s. Yesterday I was idly following this thread, and then noticed that the friend of my 20 year old son was wearing a Cardiacs t-shirt. He (age 20 also) described them as “sort of prog punk”.
― christopher.ivan, Thursday, 27 June 2024 12:09 (three months ago) link
this Kugelshrieber album is even better than i thought it would be. just non-stop hits; had to play all over again after my first listen.
https://kugelschreiber.bandcamp.com/album/cheerleaders
closest comparision would be Shrubbies obviously, but it also reminds me a little of some of what Rob Crow does with some of the kind of terse, clipped riffs and the staggered harmonies? but yeah super poppy and fun but still slightly twisty and crooked. love how it was clearly written as bass/voice first and foremost.
― linee, Wednesday, 18 September 2024 10:10 (one week ago) link
oh fuck I've forgotten to listen to this! here goes. take the stage sharron...
― imago, Wednesday, 18 September 2024 10:13 (one week ago) link
oh my, this closing track!
― imago, Wednesday, 18 September 2024 10:53 (one week ago) link