Cardiacs: Garage Concerts

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From their webpage: In the summer of 2003 Cardiacs were charged with the unenviable task of casting a wincey eye back.

Way back to before Sarah hung up her little saxophone, before Tim Quy broke the nausea rule, before THE CONSULTANT and Miss Swift held the reins. Way, way back.

For that coming Octobers Special Garage Concerts, Cardiacs were expected to wipe the grime of the dusty archive from thirty-two tunes everyone had long since forgotten about. Cardiacs dutifully frittered away the waning days behind locked doors, exhuming songs from clanking, obsolete machinery and reams of faded manuscript. Music from the bands conception in 1976 to their coming of age in 1983 was given the dressing down THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN had always wisely insisted it deserved.

With the arrival of autumn the songs had somehow taken on a raw, definitive bent. Haphazard approximations you may have previously heard performed by wide-eyed, puny youths were given deftness, muscle and swagger by the four grizzled and worldly-wise men proudly standing their ground under the Cardiacs banner today.

This nostalgic arsenal was duly recorded over three consecutive nights at Londons sizeically challenged The Garage concert venue. Privileged witnesses described the spectacle as "one-fifth loving recreation, two-fifths exercise in futility and four-fifths sheer brute force."

Cunningly encrypted on to two Compact Discs, as never they were meant to be, Volumes One and Two are a unique testament to pure bloody mindedness and musical irrelevance.

Both volumes contain music that has never previously been recorded and re-workings of other tunes that many of the faithful claim to have insider knowledge of.

They dont have a clue.