Name: Live 80 - 81
Brand: This Heat

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

mcr928

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Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Extended format: No

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-08-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

826853092814

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

MCR928B

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Extended format: Yes

2018-09-21

666017328515

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

This Heat

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Modern Classics

In 1976, Charles Hayward of Gong (and Phil Manzanera's Quiet Sun) joined with Charles Bullen and Gareth Williams to form This Heat. Though arising from art-rock and the British school of fusion jazz, This Heat quickly developed into an experimental band largely dependent on tape loops and production tricks.
This Heat dissolved in 1982-1983 following a European tour in which Trefor Goronwy replaced Gareth Williams who had recently departed the band. Charles Bullen went on to solo work and put together his own studio in the late 1980s; he has recently issued a CD under his own name.
Charles Hayward decided to keep up public performances and formed The Camberwell Now along with Trefor Goronwy and several others.

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First time ever on vinyl. In many ways, the nuanced sound worlds created in the studio by This Heat are tailor made for sedentary headphone listening. But pulling off such complicated, genre defying compositions live was surely something to witness. Until now, there was no real official document of the group’s live performances. Compiled by Charles Hayward and Charles Bullen from rough cassette tape recordings of European gigs in Tilburg, Nijmegen, Ärhus, Apeldoorn, Vienna and Rheims between April 1980 and June 1981, Live 80-81 is an essential document of This Heat’s powerful live performances. Following Modern Classics Recordings’ 2016 reissue campaign to mark the band’s 40th anniversary, these new releases Made Available, Repeat / Metal and Live 80 – 81 round out the story. Each release is sanctioned by surviving members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward and features newly remastered audio sourced from original tapes.

Live 80 - 81

Music GB