This Is Not This Heat

This event has been rescheduled from 17 June 2016.

Seminal and experimental rock band This Heat played their first gig in 1976. Now, 40 years later, founding members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward are joined by special guests to perform new interpretations of their music at the Barbican as This Is Not This Heat.

The line-up of music luminaries – who have taken inspiration from This Heat’s legacy – will include Alexis Taylor, Chris Cutler, Oren Marshall, D.W Robertson, John Edwards, Serafina Steer, Daniel O’Sullivan, Jenny Moore, James Sedwards, Sarah Anderson, Frank Byng, Luisa Gerstein, Laura Groves, Alex Ward and Thurston Moore.

After a Peel session, two albums, an EP and a cassette tape collaboration, This Heat disbanded in 1982, leaving an undeniable legacy that has only continued to grow in stature and relevance. While December 2001 saw the three band members begin tentative rehearsals, any hope of the band reforming ended with the death of Gareth Williams in the same month.