This Heat

This Heat: Chelsea College Of Art, London

Live Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 16 July 1977

THERE ARE weird gigs, and there are weird gigs, but this one stands as the weirdest I've attended since the memorable time Faust caused a ...

This Heat Are No Picnic

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 20 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, New Musical Express, 17 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, 1 September 1979

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

This Heat: This Heat (Piano Records This 1)****

Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 8 September 1979

Metallic, but not nocturnal. Knoworrimean? Probably not ...

This Heat: This Heat (Piano)

Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 8 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, Sector 27: Ritzy Cinema, Brixton, London

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 12 January 1980

I DONT KNOW what This Heat's vision of an ideal setting for their singular brand of music would be but I'd guess the Brixton Ritzy ...

This Heat: King's College, London

Live Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 19 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, The Wire, 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 ...

This Heat: Head Birth In The Year Zero

Retrospective and Interview by Byron Coley, Rock's Backpages, December 2015

"IN MY MIND, the linearity is that we did Dolphin Logic. Then Gareth joined Dolphin Logic and we became This Heat. That's my version," says ...

This Is Not This Heat: Cafe Oto, London

Live Review by Luke Turner, The Guardian, 14 February 2016

Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore joined the experimental lineup for a night of fresh and focussed sounds ...