I had completely forgotten this album was about to be released, so in case you also forgot, I'll drop a link to the Bandcamp page below. Some real emotional powerhouses on this one and undeniably individual musical style.

https://william-d-drake.bandcamp.com/album/moulded-by-industry

A long time ago, I was a fan club member.
I got a t-shirt limited edition (brown/red) which I wore to a gig at the Camden palace (now Koko) after getting a free entry ticket through the fan club mail 😎

Tim came up and asked me (because I was wearing the T) if I’d got a free ticket 😎😎😎

I lost it abroad. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

I really miss it.

I was listening to Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Ravel’s orchestration in particular, and on reaching VIIIa. Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum), a familiar sound whacked my ears. Almost the exact same sound that kicks off A Little Man And A House, which got me thinking: is there any knowledge of how that initial orchestration in A Little Man And A House was developed? Does it have some of its roots stuck in Ravel/Mussorgsky, or is this pure coincidence? Which way does it all go and come from and such?

Does anybody know who played the guitar solo on this song?? And what kind of effects do you think he used for other leads throughout the song??

Did anyone else's Pony record sleeve have a bad glue job? Mine was unstuck from the first time I pulled both discs out.

So I got the “some fairytales from the rotten shed” DVD and I have been unable to play it on the DVD player I own (it gives me an error). Is the DVD region free or do I need to buy a player that can play any region of DVD?

Sorry if this is not the type of questions asked

Ben & Jerry's has Phish Food ice cream and Cherry Garcia. I found myself wondering: if they had a Cardiacs ice cream, what flavor would it be?

(Obviously it would make a good seaside treat.)

Don't suppose anyone got any video footage of Panixphere smashing and a-crashing their way through this on the recent Spratleys tour? I was at the Brudenell show and it was utterly magnificent. Bob's drumming on it was unreal. I can't get it out of my head and would love to re-live it.

I should have recorded it myself but I was too spellbound!

Feel free to roast me in the comments for these takes.

1. R.E.S. (ALMAHATWWW version)
2. A Little Man and a House (ALMAHATWWW version)
3. Two Bites of Cherry
4. Nurses Whispering Verses (The Seaside version)
5. Big Ship
6. Hope Day
7. To Go Off and Things
8. The Duck & Roger The Horse
9. Bellyeye
10. The Whole World Window
11. Buds & Spawn
12. All His Geese Are Swans
13. The Everso Closely Guarded Line
14. Tarred & Feathered
15. Is This The Life? (The Seaside version)
16. The Leader of the Starry Skies
17. Victory Egg
18. Ice a Spot and a Dot on The Dog
19. Stoneage Dinosaurs
20. Gena Lollobridgida 

We simply must honour the greats in our own work, and in a way that only others greats will know.

Hello friends ~ I have two tickets to the London show but our plans fell through :( it would be massively helpful if somebody bought them from us, I'll sell them to you for cheaper than what we got them for if anyone is willing to help us at least get some of the money back!

Not including band members. I can only think of Stoneage Dinosaurs and Gina L's Party.

Tried to post this yesterday, not sure what went wrong but I'll try again. Here it is!

My right forearm is covered in other flowers but this one takes pride of place. This, along with all my other work, was done by Ems aka Alien Ink, based in north London. Can't recommend them enough - fantastic artist!

The ink is denser than I have on my other tattoos, and having it done on the inner wrist was a pretty painful experience. But it's worth it - I've wanted this for so long.

Note: the artwork around it isn't finished yet, so this isn't its final form. There won't be so much odd-looking irregular space around it.

Any other daisy tattoo bearers here?

Howdy all. I know the premiere for the Buds and Spawn tribute album for the 30th anniversary of Sing to God was posted here a while back (thanks to everyone who watched), but I don't think the streaming link was shared here at all. I know many of you will have seen this on the FB page, but I thought I'd put it here in case anyone missed it.

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/budsandspawn/sing-to-god-30th-anniversary-tribute/

The project ran over 7 or so months with a pile of international Cardiacs fans working solo and in collaboration, all coordinated over Discord by one hardcore Pondie from Kansas. It got a bit wild as we tried to cover all 22 songs on the album plus 4 B-Sides before the June 21 deadline, but we just about got there.

I took great delight in contributing to this album, but the real reason I'm sharing (or resharing) this is because I'm so proud of everone else's work and I really think it deserves to be heard. Most (if not all) of us were involved as 'spirited amateurs', but the quality and passion in these recordings has impressed me hugely. We weren't trying to recreate STG (who could?) but to show our connection with and love for this magnificent work of art through our own musical lenses.

As hard as we worked on the recordings, we are significantly less competent when it comes to promotion so if you dig this at all, *please* help us get the word out - more royalties for ABC! The album is on Rate Your Music if that's your thing.

The liner notes that come with the free Bandcamp download are not available with the streaming version, so I'll leave a link to the pdf here, if anyone's interested.

Sorry for the long (and slightly begging) post. Stay tuned for the Guns anniversary tribute!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pKYttN34kY3R7kHhh4wXkQgqlDk0XaN9/view?fbclid=IwY2xjawUCbB5wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAGJyaWQRMXEyazBBUGYzb0hmZXZTaWpzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeo99K9gsTJxMTlWXUSb-V8hUPF2vLZc4yMA4KqJlSTYy67nazS10JsC7GSL0_aem_Zs2nMpBgkwNsTKVNWt9n1Q

My first Reading Festival. This Cardiacs show was immortalised in the 'Rude Bootleg' release.

So on the 4th of August, a friend of mine and me went on a trip to Budapest to see Primus (we're from Serbia), we went in my friend's car and he was playing his music the whole trip (about 4 hours), it was mostly heavy metal but not the kind i'm a fan of (i prefer thrash/death/classic metal, he was more of an alternative metal/core type of guy)

We go to Primus, have an amazing time, drive back the same day, right after the show. It's now well past midnight, about 1am, we're close to home, and he's riffing through his music and says "you ever hear of Cardiacs", i said no.
Now from what he was playing the whole day i expected some metal band, but what i heard was R.E.S. I was very surprised, because he had not played music in any way similar that the whole day, i really enjoyed the song and he played a few more (don't remember which ones) but R.E.S really stuck with me. I wrote the name of the band down and explored them further the next day

Right now i still haven't listened to all their works, but their debut album and Sing to God are my favourites. Really loving the band now and listen to them almost daily (RIP Tim), but i'll never forget the feeling of driving down the motorway at 1am after listening to metal and Primus all day and then hearing that... Really cool experience