The EP Collection

[[Release Detail]] [[Release Description]] Camberwell Now features This Heat’s vocalist/drummer Charles Hayward, who assembled an unusual lineup comprising Stephen Rickard, a former BBC sound engineer, on field recordings and tape manipulation and Trefor Goronwy on bass, vocals and ukulele. “We had a very specific set of skills,” says Hayward, in new liner notes compiled for this long overdue reissue, “and it wasn’t immediately clear to us how best to bring them together so that we could play live.” Taking inspiration from seafaring and imperialism, and the fact that the music was created within close proximity to the meridian line in Greenwich, the Meridian EP was originally intended to be a project for This Heat. The group’s departing member, Charles Bullen, plays on the opening track, “Cutty Sark,” named for the famed British clipper ship. The second EP, 1987’s Greenfingers, was their final recorded work, and, according to Hayward, “it’s possible to hear the group atomising and prep