Cardiacs

[Beagle 2]

Aw man, he should have asked for this a long time ago.

[gloria]

Give, give, give! https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/timsmith

[Neville Chamberlain]

£40,000 reached - what an outpouring of love and generosity! Keep going, I guess...

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Adam Buxton retweeted the i article about Tim which made me immeasurably happy :)

[Phil_A]

It made the 10.00 news bulletin on Radio 2!

[Brundle-Fly]

Paid up!

I owe it to himTim in so many ways.

[Enzo]

starting a new job in the next couple of weeks and part of that first paycheck will be going straight to the fundraiser.

[Shaky]

Pretty amazing that they were aiming to raise £100,000 in a year and they're already 3/4 of the way there! Obviously Timmy's health is the main concern here but dare we dream that he might become mobile enough to use a computer again and polish off a few new Cardiacs tracks?

[Fabian Thomsett]

Stuart hears new information about the long-term illness of Cardiacs singer Tim Smith from his bandmate Kavus Torabi. Tim has battled with a rare brain disorder since suffering a cardiac arrest 10 years ago, the full details of his condition and how it has affected him have not been made public until now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09q06f8

[Dirty Boy]

Smashed it! 100 grand reached!!!

Now get cracking on with LSD you lazy prick.

[itsfredtitmus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzZasxcLeb8

[Dirty Boy]

Yes i've listened to that. Sad to hear he liked Oasis :-(

[Paaaaul]

There's a cracking new version of the Tarred and Feathered video on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1-flFzPaQQ
Extended at either end.

[itsfredtitmus]

Yes i've listened to that. Sad to hear he liked Oasis :-(

theyre fine really

[Dirty Boy]

Now on Bandcamp (finally!)

[Neville Chamberlain]

Great, isn't it? I can finally get my hands on Cardiacs Live and Songs for Ships and Irons, which, to my shame, I do not own.

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Yup, great news, from what I can tell they're many leagues better than the spotifies and the ituneses of the world in terms of paying artists properly so this is good news for Tim :)

Had a big old listen last night, which has confirmed to me that I really need to lay some cash down for that Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake thing. It's brills

[Dirty Boy]

Yeah, Dergo from the mr&mrs&mr cd is a haunting brute. The whole thing is great.

I think Rude Bootleg is the only thing i don't have, other than some of the singles...

How does one scrobble from Bandcamp anyway? I'm too thick to figure it out.

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Got a little chrome plugin that does it from a bunch of websites, bandcamp included. I can't look up the name now cause i'm on the bus but it's a fairly popular one I think

EDIT: scroblr apparently

[shh]

Just came across these oddballs, aPAtT, first thought was ooh that's a bit cardiacs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HPvl40e8bQ

[itsfredtitmus]

I used to listen to this on repeat but it kinda pisses me off now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYjIt1kerZ8

[boki]

Mike Vennart's new 'un totally channels Tim.  Looking forward to the new album as his solo debut was a corker.

[Dirty Boy]

This is something extraordinary - The entire STG album covered acapella. Took 'em four years to complete.

[garbed_attic]

This is something extraordinary - The entire STG album covered acapella. Took 'em four years to complete.

ooooooh it's done! Have been enjoying some of the individual tracks over the years! Really joyous and just plain impressive!

[garbed_attic]

P.S. Unhappy fact - out of all my albums on CD, Cardiacs ones are the ones that have most reliably gone missing.

[Brundle-Fly]

Tim gets a doctorate! Get your tissues out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rma0DJpRHfg

[boki]

Who's going to the Spratley's Japs/Knifeworld/ZOFFF gig on Friday, then?

[Neville Chamberlain]

I'm going!

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

i'm going! (posted this on the toilet so both interpretations are corect)

Hope I manage to bump into some more friendly CaBbers at this one, managed to miss both Neville and Dirty Boy at the Salisbury happening by way of not knowing they were actually there :/

[Dirty Boy]

More tissues needed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr9SZVHjFT0