We know they’re unique, we know they’re special, that they’re fuel, but occasionally something will pass by and a voice will shout from over there, “who’s that? That sounds a bit like Cardiacs” and well with today being the birthday of the leader of The Starry Skies, here;s five bands, you might like. Not clones…
Organ Thing of The Day: We’re a long way on from those long lost days of innocence and Die Laughing now, lots and lots of music has flowed under way too many bridges, and well Kavus Torabi has his debut solo album on the way, he of many dalliances with bands such as Guapo, Cardiacs…
Organ Thing of The Day: “SlapPeR’s fromage to the great Tim Smith of Cardiacs. Your payment (and PLEASE feel free to donate more than £3!!!) will be transferred into Tim Smith’s healthcare account” so say SlapPeR as they release a version of that very early Cardiacs classic A Bus for a Bus on the Bus…
A piece from my own personal blog where I really do blow my own trumpet, we’ll reproduce it. here. People have been asking about ORG Records recently (we ran a record label for quite a few years back there), people have been asking if there was anything left? If there are any plans for re-issues…
Cellular Chaos have let loose a very Dirty Girl, a rather remarkable slice of music (that already was a rather remarkable piece of music), Dirty Girl is preceded by a pointy spiky now wave new wave fresh wave called Gaslight, a thing that in term thrashes, twists, jitters, twitches, points and goes off and things…
That rather beautiful Cardiacs film “Some Fairy Tales from the Rotten Shed” is to receive a great big cinema premier this September, all the details are on the flyer or via the link at the end, the beautiful film of the beautiful people and the most beautiful band in the world is to be part…
Cardiacs, for those of you who like to be downloading rather than to be holding these things in our hands, have finally got around to opening a Bandcamp page and making a whole load of their beautifully heaven born and ever bright back catalogue of albums officially available… Meanwhile, in a very (very) slightly related…
Organ Thing: “Tim Smith of Cardiacs once autographed a copy of Cardiacs’ Rude Bootleg (Live at Reading Festival, 1986) by writing 14 seconds of music in staff notation along with the message “Get someone to play this – A song especially for Jason. Love Timmy X” Martin Keary recorded Tim’s autograph on keyboards and piano in…
Kavus Torabi on Tim Smith of Cardiacs: “We really believe he can come back from this” Stuart Maconi talks to Cardiacs guitarist Kavus Torabi about Tim Smith’s health struggles, on his BBC radio show, listen to the conversation via this link Further reading here… ORGAN THING: Now besides leading what is without a doubt the…
Cardiacs continue to “repeat their history at the expense of the future” by releasing more of their much sought-after back catalogue, or in this case unreleased footage that they’ve been teasing us with tastes of for some time. That footage from the shed (and 2007), we’ve seen a track or two on YouTube but now…
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