This Is Not This Heat (UK) - Two Day Residency at ALICE at Alice cph

This Is Not This Heat play a two night residency at Alice for CPH:DOX, performing two rare intimate shows.

- On the first night the critically acclaimed band perform the music of This Heat, led by it’s founders Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward.

- On the second night, in a rare audio-visual collaboration, the band soundtrack a selection of early works by renowned British artist filmmaker John Smith.

⊛This Is Not This Heat⊛
Although widely considered to be Post-Punk’s finest, This Heat actually began performing their music in the early days of London’s punk era. Within their two albums and an EP they perfected a strange and volatile new strain of avant-garde rock that time has proved to be massively influential, a blueprint for much that would follow: post-rock, math rock, homemade musique concrète, experimental electronica etc....

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This Is Not This Heat play a two night residency at Alice for CPH:DOX, performing two rare intimate shows.

- On the first night the critically acclaimed band perform the music of This Heat, led by it’s founders Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward.

- On the second night, in a rare audio-visual collaboration, the band soundtrack a selection of early works by renowned British artist filmmaker John Smith.

⊛This Is Not This Heat⊛
Although widely considered to be Post-Punk’s finest, This Heat actually began performing their music in the early days of London’s punk era. Within their two albums and an EP they perfected a strange and volatile new strain of avant-garde rock that time has proved to be massively influential, a blueprint for much that would follow: post-rock, math rock, homemade musique concrète, experimental electronica etc.

Exactly 40 years to the day of their first gig in 1976 the two surviving members (Hayward and Bullen) of the original three came together with a large group of collaborators to perform expanded versions of the recordings under the project title of THIS IS NOT THIS HEAT. Ahead of their time, This Heat’s music sounds as startlingly original and relevant, live and on record, as the day it was created.

⊛John Smith⊛
John Smith met This Heat in the 1970s and projected a number of his films at their gigs at venues such as the Scala cinema. In 2017 Smith’s The Black Tower, “one of the most accomplished films to come from the British avant-garde” (Independent Media 1987), was screened at the Barbican prior to This Is Not This Heat’s performance.

The concerts are curated by I-D.A Projects

Døre kl. 19 / Koncerter kl. 20

De evigt nyskabende avantrock-legender i This Is Not This Heat indtager ALICE over et to dages residency. Denne aften kan gruppen opleves i et sjældent audiovisuelt samarbejde, hvor de vil soundtracke en række særligt udvalgte tidlige værker af den britiske art instruktør John Smith. Præsenteret i samarbejde med CPH:DOX. Det er muligt at købe partoutbillet til begge dage eller billetter til de enkelte shows.

DAY 1 (5/3/2019): THE MUSIC OF THIS HEAT - 240 kr inkl. gebyr
DAY 2 (6/3/2019): A SOUNDTRACK TO THE ART FILMS OF JOHN SMITH (unumm. siddepladser) - 240 kr inkl. gebyr
PARTOUT-BILLET (5+6/3/2019) - 400 kr inkl gebyr.

ALICE og CPH:DOX præsenterer over et to dages residency to sjældne koncerter med den britiske eksperimenterende rockgruppe This Is Not This Heat.

- Tirsdag d 5 marts vil den legendariske gruppe opføre originale værker af This Heat, anført af de to grundlæggere Charles Bullen og Charles Hayward.

- Onsdag d 6 marts kan gruppen opleves i et sjældent audiovisuelt samarbejde, hvor de vil soundtracke en række særligt udvalgte tidlige værker af den britiske art instruktør John Smith.

⊛ This Is Not This Heat ⊛
This Heat blev dannet i London i 1976 af multiinstrumentalisterne Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward og Gareth Williams, som med deres nysgerrige udforskning af møder mellem industrial, post-punk og noise satte standarden for den eksperimenterende musikscene i Storbritannien fra 1976-82. Med deres distinkte avant-rock har This Heat siden haft massiv indflydelse på senere genrer som post-rock, math rock, hjemmelavet musique concrète og eksperimenterende electronica, og anses i dag blandt de mest betydningsfulde bidragsydere til den britiske eksperimenterende rockscene.

Efter 40 år er gruppen genopstået under navnet This Is Not This Heat med de to tilbageværende originalmedlemmer Charles Bullen og Charles Hayward i spidsen. Gendannelseskoncerten på Café Oto i London, som The Guardian efterfølgende beskrev som ”A rousing reunion from an unstoppable force”, havde bidrag fra musikere som Thurston Moore, Daniel O’ Sullivan (Ulver, Sunn O)))) og Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), hvilket også giver et godt fingerpeg om det felt af musikere, som This Heat har inspireret gennem tiderne.

Efter gendannelsen har Bullen og Hayward med varierende musikerbidrag givet ganske få koncerter, især uden for Storbritannien. Vi er derfor stolte af kunne præsentere det evigt nyskabende band i sjældent intime rammer, når de over to aftener opfører et specielt sammensat program på ALICE.

⊛ John Smith ⊛
Den britiske filminstruktør John Smith fremviste et udvalg af sine film under This Heats koncerter i 1970’erne, men genoptog i 2017 samarbejdet med This Is Not This Heat, da han screenede den anmelderroste “The Black Tower” (1987) forud for gruppens koncert på The Barbican. På ALICE har du chancen for at opleve et sjældent audiovisuelt samarbejde, når This Is Not This Heat leverer et live lydspor til et udvalg af Smiths helt tidlige værker.

Koncerterne er kurateret af I-D.A Projects.


⊛ Sagt om This Is Not This Heat: ⊛

“... It does feel like we’ve been witness to something special. A fine body of work has been brought to life with energy and vitality that seems improbable nearly 40 years after the fact.” - The Wire

“This doesn’t feel like nostalgia but a new beginning” –The Guardian

“Bowie and I hit it off insanely and talked about Mishima and This Heat and all sorts of stuff”

– Arcade Fire’s Owen Pallett on meeting David Bowie

“I get asked to play more music like This Heat, but to my knowledge, there is no other music like This Heat” - John Peel

Sagt om John Smith:

“Smith’s The Black Tower is one of the most accomplished films to come from the British avant-garde” - Independent Media 1987

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