― 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
― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:21 (nineteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― everything, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― everything, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy, Thursday, 6 April 2006 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― everything, Thursday, 6 April 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy, Friday, 7 April 2006 09:24 (eighteen 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
http://www.zatcb.co.uk/Links/Cardiacs.gif
http://www.studioxix.com/archive/SS_Cardiacs_design2.gif
― everything (everything), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything (everything), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
No album news but this is something at least:
"Cardiacs will play the songs YOU love live in session on MARC RILEY'S ROCKET SCIENCE RADIO SHOW on BBC 6 MUSIC from 7pm. Thursday 28th June 2007.
YOU will stand by YOUR radio. YOU will press up YOUR vile ear to the tinny-sounding speaker. YOUR heart will erupt and YOUR guts will swirl. Like the angry sea, like all biblical storm. YOUR big eyes might POP OUT OF YOUR HEAD.
THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN guarantees this."
― everything, Thursday, 7 June 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I heard the above session which consisted of three songs from "On Land And In The Sea", so nothing to get too excited about. But there's always this:
CARDIACS ON TOUR NOVEMBER 2007
MON 12 BRIGHTON THE OLD MARKET TUE 13 OXFORD ZODIAC WED 14 BRISTOL THEKLA SOCIAL THU 15 NOTTINGHAM RESCUE ROOMS FRI 16 LONDON ASTORIA MON 19 SHEFFIELD BOARDWALK TUE 20 STOKE ON TRENT THE SUGARMILL WED 21 MANCHESTER ACADEMY 3 THU 22 PORTSMOUTH WEDGEWOOD ROOMS
― everything, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I met Tim Smith at the first Authority gig! I could only blab about how STG and Guns were two of my favouritest albums. Didn't have the courage to ask about new recordings. This news, however, is excellent! I may have to catch them before it's too late.
I'm honestly astounded by the lack of Cardiacs awareness on ILX. People, this. Is. As. Good. As. It. Gets.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
I could only blab about how STG and Guns were two of my favouritest albums
Ha ha - Gotta wonder how many times he's had THAT conversation. If you've got a choice, try to see them in the biggest venue - they know how to rise to the occasion. The Astoria gig will be a sell-out for sure.
How are Authority?
― everything, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Authority were consistently blinding, with a couple of absolute stormers ('The Catalyst' and 'Southway' (I think that was the title). More straightforwardly 'rock' than TMB, their interplay (with two guitars, bass and drums) was mesmerising and at times near-unfathomable, but their riffs often deceptively simple and their grasp of dynamic build excellent. I await their debut album with great interest!
I also spoke with Kavus Torabi, and that conversation was far more profitable. We bonded over Battles' "Atlas" which happened to be playing over the PA (me: "This is my single of the year, brilliant, isn't it?" him: "Yeah, me too!") and discussed his band (and Cardiacs) for a brief while. (I lie when I say I only blabbed to TS, however; I also mentioned the bands we'd seen and agreed that they were superb.)
Shall I book an Astoria ticket soonish, then?
― scourage, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Whoops, wrong login!
― scourage, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
That's better.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
If two hours of intensity in the company of lots of portly weirdos sounds exciting then yes, get your ticket sooner than later. I haven't seen them in a long time but apparently it's become a tradition to have "friends and relations" popping up on stage to assist in the fabulous spectacle during these London gigs. Unfortunately I think the last time I saw them was in a wretched little pub in Edinburgh with only about 50 people in the audience. Not quite as stately as I would have liked.
― everything, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
INDESCRIBABLY MIGHTY NEW SINGLE
― Just got offed, Saturday, 29 September 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
wondrous...I actually tuned into 6music for the first time ever last week just to hear that song's first play. tis the business.
however, not all in cardiacs land is pleasing me. I've moaned tediously to everybody in earshot about this, so I might as well moan about it here too:
NO SCOTTISH DATE ON CARDIACS TOUR. ARSE.
― m the g, Sunday, 30 September 2007 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Oops, that'll teach me to refresh before starting a new thread. Oh well.
― Pheeel, Sunday, 30 September 2007 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link