This Heat

This Heat Are No Picnic

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, August 1977

WHO IS this, anyway?" Giovanni Dadomo demanded. "The Caligari Brothers?" Funny you should say that, my pasta-eating pal. ...

The Pop Group/This Heat: Collegiate Theatre, London

Live Review by Ian Penman, NME, July 1978

TWO SEEMINGLY unconventional, superficially 'bleak', jagged modern-music outfits. Both engineer music suggesting radical departure, still somehow quaint. ...

This Heat: This Heat (Piano Records)

Review by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, September 1979

THIS Heat takes you to ten movies in the space of a one-year-old album. ...

This Heat: This Heat (Piano)

Review by Andy Gill, NME, September 1979

FOR MUCH of This Heat's album, it's difficult and at times impossible to decipher which instrument is playing what. This is some indication of their ...

This Heat: King's College, London

Live Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, June 1982

TRAGICALLY snubbed by both press and public in this country, This Heat may have played their final gig. ...

Post-Punk: Lubricate Your Living Room

Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001

FORGET ABOUT THE NOSTALGIA-MONGERING AND KITSCH REVIVALISM – THE POST-PUNK PERIOD OF 1979-81 WAS AN ASTONISHINGLY FERTILE TIME FOR BRITISH MUSIC, WHEN INDIE LABELS FLOURISHED ...

This Heat and Cold Storage: Once upon a time in Brixton

Retrospective by Mike Barnes, Wire, The, August 2005

"A former meat storage room that became This Heat's rehearsal room then an 8-track studio then a 16-track studio then a 24-track studio then a ...