They're OK... I wish they were a bit more medieval sounding, however.

Peripatetic wrote:A)Was there an earlier version of Made Available (prior to the one that came out in like 97 with the white cover, band photo and orange and gray letters) that had that black and red cover and then Shellac found the inspiration for 1000 Hurts there

As far as I know, there is only one older version (the one with them behind control room glass, orange & grey-ish colour scheme, etc.)

And I would probably guess Shellac were inspired by more direct influences for 1000 Hurts.

Christopher_Dragon wrote: the little 3 centimeter disc that's hand numbered with my name on it is a nice touch.

What's this about? I didn't get one with mine

The album 'This Heat' is available for downloading on http://www.emusic.com/artist/11674/11674208.html

if anyone wants to check them out.

amazing interview with charles hayward of said band.

http://www.furious.com/perfect/charleshayward.html

One of our songs started off as a rip-off of Paper Hats. It doesn't even remotely sound like that anymore. Obviously I gotta give it a NOT CRAP.

Mama Clortho wrote:

Christopher_Dragon wrote: the little 3 centimeter disc that's hand numbered with my name on it is a nice touch.

What's this about? I didn't get one with mine

If you preordered the box set, you got a numbered edition with a little 3 inch bonus disc that has your name on sleeve thingy.

Just found a bootleg from 1982 with a song called "Greenfingers" on it. This isn't on the boxset. Good stuff.

Anyone have a decent recording of it?

Thanks for bringing these guys up, never heard of them, now I have a new band to collect!

I third the Scritti Politti comments, early stuff is great. I heard the latest thing is good, have not heard it though.

connor wrote:Just found a bootleg from 1982 with a song called "Greenfingers" on it. This isn't on the boxset. Good stuff.

Anyone have a decent recording of it?

"Greenfingers" was a song on the EP of the same name by Camberwell Now, a great band who also featured Charles Hayward.

But looking here I see that This Heat played "Greenfingers" in 1982 on that bootleg, so perhaps it was a This Heat song first.

http://www.squidco.com/rer/Hayward.Charles.html

Goddamn it I love both of those bands.