Cardiacs 'As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea' (Reaction) Smitty's Rock Radar
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This is from their rehearsal shed, so the coughs are real enough. And the bassist wearing just his underpants is singer/main composer Tim Smith's brother Jim.
(RIP Tim ❤.)
For some context, "Some Fairytales from the Rotten Shed" is a DVD of rehearsals for "The Special Garage Concerts" live album. The idea for Shed/Garage was to revisit all of the songs that Cardiacs wrote and played as teenagers/young adults, in the late 70s/early 80s. The guy singing and playing guitar is Tim Smith, and he's also the band's main composer. Just about all the ideas came out of his head. The bassist in his underwear is Jim Smith, Tim's brother. The band had a lot of on-stage banter and occasional slapstick routines that Jim as the butt of the joke, and putting him in his underwear for the Rotten Shed DVD is an extension of that.
Absolute musical splendour. The caviar of the music world. For your notation: Tim scored and notated each and every composition he wrote, dilligently and precisely. His grasp of theory is ridiculous. So people werent throwing random ideas in, Tim's wonderful brain was a world of beauty and creativity. Pondies.
When I spoke to him at Wolverhampton Civic Hall (they were supporting Chumbawamba) he said that the secret at the time was that he would "whistle" the tunes and Jon Pool would transcribe them. Still, he was a genius any way you might cut it.
Met Timmy a couple times before he passed. Lovely Lovely Lovely Man. Scary at first. Fucking GENIUS. My favorite band ever. PERIOD. So happy you did this. Kavus will hug you in half. Another super duper human being. Babba is also a luvery man to hang out with. Jim will stare you down for a moment and exit. HAHA. He can fix your washing machine.
What made Tim “scary at first”?
Love this band to the moon and back. RIP Timmy.
Kavus is a very busy guy. Not only does he record his own music and is a third of a semi-ambient psychedelic electronica band called Utopia Strong (which also features ex-snooker world champion, Steve Davis on modular synthesiser), he's also frontman for the current incarnation of the legendary prog rock band, Gong.
one of Cardiacs finest ... I can watch this all day long
Not only does this provide one of the most incredible musical experiences, but the sense of theatre provided by the film is unreal. The dark, seedy claustrophobic shed with the camera looming in to show Jim playing in his pants, Kavus falling over (sorry, it is funny) and Tim being, well Tim. A majestic combination that has become one of my favourite Cardiacs pieces. Pure genius.
The coffee in the drawer!
Strange way of telling it, though. The song itself is actually so old only the two brothers remain. One of my early favorites too, along with A Game for Bertie’s Party.
Good for you mate 👍
I think the coughing would be part film making and part just making use of stuff that happened around the time of shooting to add to the story told. As the others have pointed out, this is part of the "Tales From the Rotten Shed" DVD, with real rehearsal footage of the band, but also the band members playing characters they've made up for the "movie", to make things somewhere in between insulting to the kind of industrial video factory that polishes up public images of manufactured "stars", and just plain entertainingly "out of whack". Things keep falling over, there's constant conflict between band members, and probably on this day, Tim Smith brought a chest cold to the rehearsal. (He's giving directions. That's what the various f#ck offs, etc would be - as well as all the shouting at Jim. The ongoing gag is that Tim bullies and persecutes Jim.)
You'd find the opening scene of the video visually less entertaining, than, say, a Sports Illustrated tropical isle swimwear modeling shoot, because, all it has is a small, ugly shed, being rained on (because it's England, so there has to be lots of rain - and you can hear it pattering down in the roof in the background of this song, too), when along comes Jim in just his underpants, to rehearsal. And of course nobody says a thing about it. Perfectly normal.
(After that, there's a long scene of Jim plugging in his bass. If you search TH-cam, you'll find a fan video that has stretched it to ridiculous lengths. Even in the original, he has quite a lot of difficulty getting his bass plugged in. Story telling/ movie making, as I said.)
Tim would've probably got someone/ some people who could take pro-level video to film it all, but would've kept creative control.
If you watch more of this series, you might encounter the saying, "Where's that fcking dog??!!" in it. More stories. TALES from the rotten shed.
Anyway, nice to see you found something to enjoy in their repertoire. They're not everyone's cup of tea, but when they do "hit", it's normally good. I took quite a long time getting myself indoctrinated into liking them, for one. :D
once you have dipped your toe in with Cardiacs you need to fully immerse yourself
Dirty Boy is their greatest song
Dirty Boy is THE greatest song.
Could you tell those time signatures?😂 There was 5/8 6/8 15/8… 4/4 6/4 7/4 10/4 😂
Hahahaha nope, missed that!
Yep, I caught em all, see my drum cover!
@@Bobbins376 Post was addressed at the reaction guy. Hey that’s great! I’ll make sure to see that!
@@Bobbins376 Couldn’t find it. Was that clickbait?
@@Quinceps hi, no. It's on my other channel th-cam.com/video/B4feOYuk3N8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=AM-xKpqpcgXIusrg