2007 June 15 (SP) BARCELONA Sònar festival [ Complex ]
FREQ: 'It was an amazing outpouring of energy; it’s contagious.
CH: 'That’s the idea of it.'
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CLEAR FRAME
NEW RELEASE 2008 :
CLEAR FRAME is Lol COXHILL, Charles HAYWARD, Hugh HOPPER, Orphy ROBINSON
with special-guest-cornet ROBERT WYATT
→ More about CLEAR FRAME (press release)
→ More about CONTINUITY... label
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ALBERT NEWTON
Charles Hayward (drums), Harry Beckett (trumpet),
Pat Thomas (keyboards) and John Edwards (double bass)
Albert Newton, Bar Sonic, Deptford 08.03.08 from nearer dark on Vimeo .
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MASSACRE !
2008, JUN. 22 ATERFORUM FEST. Ferrara IT
2008, FEB. 22 SONS D'HIVER FEST. Creteil FR / Maison des Arts de C.
(please see details in the live box)
[ Fred Frith, Charles Hayward, Bill Lawsell ]
photos © Didier Adam
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Charles Hayward: A cynical careerist narrative
[ Charles Hayward live, 2006 ] photo © Mark Pilkington
Charles Hayward
is known as the pioneering drummer with This Heat
[‘OUT OF COLD STORAGE box’ cd recently released]
and Camberwell Now ,
an ever growing list of solo concerts and cds
[most recent release ‘Abracadabra Information’ on Locus Solus label],
special collaborative performances,
and is in Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith .
Committed to song ‘but the shapes have to change’,
his current one-man show is an intoxicating mix of
percussive attack, swirling electronics and lyrical fragment collage.
[Jean-Herve Peron/Faust]
'He sweats, there is saliva coming out of his mouth,
and he looks ugly and beautiful at the same time and he is there.’
[Sound Projector]
‘Telepathic magic……. Hayward is
one of the most life-affirming people who stalks this dark globe.’
[Freq.co.uk]
‘Awesome.’
Biography
Charles Hayward live, 2006, ICA
Charles Hayward (born 1951)
is an English drummer and was a
founder member of the experimental rock group THIS HEAT .
He also played with Mal Dean's Amazing Band , Radar Favourites Dolphin Logic , and gigged and recorded with Phil Manzanera in the group Quiet Sun project as well as a short stint with Gong
In 1976, Hayward and fellow Radar Favourites and Dolphin Logic member, Charles BULLEN began practising with bassist Gareth WILLIAMS under the name This Heat . They began to experiment with tape loops, found sounds and keyboards on several sessions (recorded from 1976 to 1978, but not released until 1979). Finally, in 1979, This Heat released their self-titled debut album. 1981's Deceit marked the final new album from This Heat, Williams leaving just after its release. While Bullen began working as a studio engineer, Hayward did sessions for Lora Logic , the Raincoats and Everything But the Girl before forming CAMBERWELL NOW with bassist Trefor Goronwy and tape manipulator Stephen Rickard. The trio released several albums through the Swiss Recommended label. When Camberwell Now disbanded in 1987 Hayward embarked on a solo career which has continued to the present day. He debuted with Survive the Gesture (1987), Skew-whiff (1989) Switch on War (1991) and My Secret Alphabet (with Nick Doyne-Ditmas) in 1993. In 1998, he joined Massacre with Fred Frith and Bill Laswell.
Charles Hayward at the Old Blue Last, UK - 7/11/06
Throughout the 90's up to the present he has initiated a bewildering array of events and performances , including the widely acclaimed series Accidents + Emergencies at the Albany Theatre, Out of Body Orchestra (too much sound, not enough space, not enough time), music made from the sound of the new LABAN dance centre being built which was choreographed for the official opening, music for a circus (part of the National Theatre's 'Art of Regeneration' initiative), the full-on installation/performance Anti-Clockwise (with Ashleigh Marsh and David Aylward) for multiple strobes, maze structure of diverse textures, 2 drummers, synthesizers and your nervous system. Recent developements include the Continuity evenings as part of Camberwell Arts.
As well as his solo performance , Charles is currently involved in 3 other central projects:
***** SHAPE MORETON *****
with Charles HAYWARD, Ashleigh MARSH, Nick DOYNE-DITMAS, Rob MILLS, Chris CORNETTO. "the first fully-fledged group project that This Heat and Camberwell Now drummer/lynchpin Charles Hayward has put together for nearly twenty years..."
***** ALBERT NEWTON *****
with Harry Beckett, John Edwards and Pat Thomas has been playing since its first performance at Accidents and Emergencies in the mid-90's, essential players in the improv scene play a revolutionary extended quantum-funk that is a celebration of creative telepathy.
***** CLEAR FRAME *****
with Lol Coxhill, Hugh Hopper and Orphy Robinson is soon to release its first CD (with special guest Robert Wyatt on cornet) on the new imprint CONTINUITY ....
Charles HAYWARD
"Abracadabra Information"
(album, Locus Solus 2004 / LSR005)
Links
CONTINUITY / Camberwell Arts
Discography
http://www.squidco.com/rer/Hayward.Charles.html
Interviews
EN http://www.freq.org.uk/hayward.html
IT http://www.altremusiche.it/sx/testi/interv/hayward.htm
EN http://www.furious.com/perfect/charleshayward.html
More
(This Heat, Camberwell Now, Massacre, Quiet Sun...)
EN http://www.furious.com/perfect/thisheat.html
EN http://www.fantompowa.net/Three Key Sound/ty_this_heat.htm
EN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_(Fred_Frith_band)
EN http://www.manzanera.com/QuietSun1.htm
Labels
CONTINUITY
THIS IS!
Recommended Records
Locus Solus
Sub Rosa
THIS HEAT 'Out of Cold Storage'
(box set, 2006 - This is / ReR)
***** THE COMPLETE OFFICIAL *****
***** LIFETIME RELEASED OF THIS HEAT *****
This Heat | Deceit | Health and Efficiency
Made Available | Repeat | Live 80/81*
re-mastered and re-packaged,
with a substantial (48pp) book of
interviews, recollections, information,
documents and photographs in a sturdy box,
PLUS * a new CD of concert recordings...
[ Released by ThisIs! / RèR ]
Charles Hayward
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