Comments on: HEAT FANZINE 1977-79: ISSUE FIVE, TEN AND ELEVEN

By: Conor McCabe

Conor McCabe — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:45:20 +0000

Thanks for the offer, cyberjc. I’d love to take a copy of the triple issue. I’d host it here. Cheers.

By: cyberjc

cyberjc — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:13:47 +0000

Great stuff. Thanks for the pdfs and pointing out the Declan Lynch
article. I remember going to the Defenders benefit gig in the National Ballroom. I have the triple issue No.7,8,9 myself if you are interested in taking a copy. Given that most copies had the offending page removed it seems a bit harsh of McGuinness to sue Heat.

By: Donagh

Donagh — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:06:43 +0000

No but he does do a version of the song from the Kit Kat ad where the ‘record producer’ says to a band looking to be signed: “you can’t sing, you can’t play and you look awful (breaks a piece of kit kat in two and eat one half) you’ll go a long way”. I always thought that snippet described the history of the Fall very well.

Some other band did a version of that song they were demoing….but I can’t think who it was.

By: Seán Báite

Seán Báite — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:59:14 +0000

Dunno Donagh - should we take our rock aesthetic from a fella who, by the looks of him (& the looks of his guitar) has been a ‘Muso Guitar Player’ subsciber since he was 6½ ???
Wouldn’t want to go by looks or anything - but I will anyway… Definite ‘play the Lucozade ad riff twenty times over and drive the staff of the guitar shop suicidal every Saturday’ material, I reckon

Shudder at the thought, but does he get around to the Fall later in the same routine ?

By: Donagh

Donagh — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:10:35 +0000

Heat looks excellent. Never knew it existed. Another example of good mags that are put together by people who are sick of the mainstream stuff. Slate was another more recent example, although it was really just an extension of a Trinity mag. How could you mention taking the piss out of U2 without making reference to Bill Bailey. Years ago I saw Bono on Irish telly saying something like 'three chords and the truth'. More like one chord and an effects pedel.

By: Conor McCabe

Conor McCabe — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:02:04 +0000

good parody vid! It’s probably best Sean if you download the files onto your PC and then view them, rather than try to view them online as they are quite big (about 30MB each).

By: Seán Báite

Seán Báite — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:42:34 +0000

Priceless stuff Conor - hope it doesn’t crash my PC trying to look over it…
Your mention of Dublin’s most tax compliant band and their manager’s penchant for going to the law reminded me of this article by Owen Adam of the Guardian on the anniversary of the SST label :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/03/label-love-sst
Allegedly, U2 indirectly caused SST’s going to the wall (well, in a 2-pronged attack allied with the godawful Casey Kasem).
It was all caused by this hilarious but none too respectful cover of ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’ by Negativland (at the time on SST) :

Was a bit reluctant to put up the vid as the same nutter that put it up has f@@@ing Cocksparrer on his channel too - but it’s just too good to bypass