This Heat were an experimental British rock band widely considered a link b… Read Full Bio ↴This Heat were an experimental British rock band widely considered a link between avant-prog and such later experimental genres as post-punk, post-rock, and noise-rock. They were formed in late-1975 in Brixton, London, United Kingdom by multi-instrumentalists Charles Bullen (guitar, clarinet, viola, vocals, tapes), Charles Hayward (percussion, keyboards, vocals, tapes) and Gareth Williams (keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals, tapes). Their music touched on numerous different styles and genres, and was frequently confrontational and politically charged.
Their first radio airplay came from legendary DJ John Peel, to whom they sent a demo tape (recorded in a disused meat factory known as Cold Storage) in early 1977. During this time, they also recorded a session with Ghanaian musician Mario Boyer Diekuuroh, parts of which later appeared on a 1982 split cassette with Albert Marcoeur, released by the French experimental rock magazine Tago Mago.
Their self-titled debut album was recorded between February 1976 and September 1978, and surfaced in August 1979. It was characterized by heavy use of tape manipulation and looping, combined with more traditional instrumental performance, to create dense, eerie, electronic soundscapes and dub-inflected experimental rock. Also released in this period was an EP, Health & Efficiency, which foreshadowed the more rock-oriented sound of Deceit (1981), the band's second and final album. Produced with help from reggae mixer Martin Frederick, Deceit found the band incorporating more influence from punk rock, and consolidating the world music influences in their work. Although, like all of This Heat's releases, it sold poorly, Deceit is now seen as a classic of the post-punk era, on par with Joy Division's Closer or Public Image Ltd.'s Metal Box.
This Heat split up in 1982 after a final tour with new members Trefor Goronwy and Ian Hill following Williams' departure. Hayward went on to form Camberwell Now with Goronwy and former This Heat soundman, Stephen Rickard, and remains active musically with groups including Fred Frith's Massacre. In 1993 a new album of previously unreleased This Heat recording was unearthed. Repeat featured three long tracks, including the title track - a 20 minute remix of "24 Track Loop." Out of Cold Storage - a box set of all the band's official recordings - was released in June 2006 on This is!, a Recommended Records sub-label set up by Charles Hayward and Charles Bullen to re-release This Heat's back catalogue. It comprises This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficiency, Made Available - a compilation of the band's Peel Sessions - and Repeat, plus Live 80/81, a CD of concert recordings.
Gareth Williams later formed Flaming Tunes with Mary Currie and released a cassette of new material in a much softer style than that of This Heat. He died in late 2001.
Official website: http://www.thisheat.org
Their first radio airplay came from legendary DJ John Peel, to whom they sent a demo tape (recorded in a disused meat factory known as Cold Storage) in early 1977. During this time, they also recorded a session with Ghanaian musician Mario Boyer Diekuuroh, parts of which later appeared on a 1982 split cassette with Albert Marcoeur, released by the French experimental rock magazine Tago Mago.
Their self-titled debut album was recorded between February 1976 and September 1978, and surfaced in August 1979. It was characterized by heavy use of tape manipulation and looping, combined with more traditional instrumental performance, to create dense, eerie, electronic soundscapes and dub-inflected experimental rock. Also released in this period was an EP, Health & Efficiency, which foreshadowed the more rock-oriented sound of Deceit (1981), the band's second and final album. Produced with help from reggae mixer Martin Frederick, Deceit found the band incorporating more influence from punk rock, and consolidating the world music influences in their work. Although, like all of This Heat's releases, it sold poorly, Deceit is now seen as a classic of the post-punk era, on par with Joy Division's Closer or Public Image Ltd.'s Metal Box.
This Heat split up in 1982 after a final tour with new members Trefor Goronwy and Ian Hill following Williams' departure. Hayward went on to form Camberwell Now with Goronwy and former This Heat soundman, Stephen Rickard, and remains active musically with groups including Fred Frith's Massacre. In 1993 a new album of previously unreleased This Heat recording was unearthed. Repeat featured three long tracks, including the title track - a 20 minute remix of "24 Track Loop." Out of Cold Storage - a box set of all the band's official recordings - was released in June 2006 on This is!, a Recommended Records sub-label set up by Charles Hayward and Charles Bullen to re-release This Heat's back catalogue. It comprises This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficiency, Made Available - a compilation of the band's Peel Sessions - and Repeat, plus Live 80/81, a CD of concert recordings.
Gareth Williams later formed Flaming Tunes with Mary Currie and released a cassette of new material in a much softer style than that of This Heat. He died in late 2001.
Official website: http://www.thisheat.org
24 Track Loop
This Heat Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by This Heat:
10 A New Kind of Water Eat, drink and be merry For tomorrow we did eat electricity …
A New Kind of Water Eat, drink and be merry For tomorrow we did eat electricity …
Cenotaph History, history repeats itself History repeats itself R…
Health and Efficiency Here's a song about the sunshine Dedicated to the sunshine …
Independence "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men…
Makeshift Swahili Makeshift, she sings, in her native German You try to under…
Not Waving Yes I will go up there Up there where I know…
Paper Hats well, what do we expect paper hats? or maybe even roses? the…
S.P.Q.R Amo, amas, amat Amamus, amatis, amant We are all Romans, u…
Shrink Wrap shrinkwrap, you lie, you lie, you lie wolf in sheep's cloth…
Sleep Sleep,sleep,sleep,go to sleep Sleep go to sleep You are now…
The Fall of Saigon We ate Soda, the embassy cat, poor Soda's coda, no more…
Triumph through dirty net curtains you look at me why is it…
Twilight Furniture Surveilling the twilight furniture Telescope pressed to pat…
Water Eat, drink and be merry For tomorrow we did eat electricity …
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EF86
Speed this up and it becomes a jungle tune.
Gus Cairns
Still sounds more modern than most stuff made since. I love the way it gets LOUDER about 3 mins in...
Doron Tsur
This is amazing!!! The drum loop + effects sounds like Prodigy!
One Guy
This blows my fucking mind i can't stop replaying over and over.
Janzen Rollo
We're out of emma
James Woodrow
Absolutely! They were AMAZING live and really down to earth friendly people. True innovators and almost completely ignored then and since....
Jake Fettes
Seeing them play this live last year was unreal! It was supposedly the first time it was ever played live too!
L P
Amazing where abouts was that?
Connor Chapman
The weird reverb/delay/whatever effect in this reminds me of an echo heard in a multistorey car park
Das Cozzen
It´s a flanger