RE: Alternative Weekend: Cardiacs
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Very quirky and after listening to more I can see it's going to take some effort to digest them. The 3 tracks above I already have, and there's a decent back catalogue to go through.
they played at Coventry Poly when I was a student there.
I thing you missed out, I have watched some live performances and they are great, taking the piss out of the audience and hitting each other, just mad!
Marillion was the other band the joined as a secondary act, and just like Blur.., they got booed off stage and had to pack it in after 3 performances.
I saw there around then included Lloyd Cole, Blow Monkeys, Hawkwind, Hanoi Rocks, Boomtown Rats, Gary Glitter(!), The Sweet and many more.
Great memories, I wish I could have been there too see all these, maybe not Mr Glitter.. 😅..
We didn't know how bad Glitter was, but he had been a feature of our childhoods. I'd go and see some bands whose music I didn't really know and some were good.
I would have gone to them all, the me of now that is!
Later I went to lots of gigs when I lived in Germany, mostly minor bands I didn't know. Most famous was probably Wilko Johnson. Such gigs and the Poly ones were cheap, so no big deal.