A Weird Inevitability
Understanding The Impossibly Far-Reaching Influence Of This Heat | NPR, August 21, 2020
In 1975, as the U.S. fled Saigon and Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party began its slow ascent, two multi-instrumental veterans of the London rock underground, Charles Hayward and Charles Bullen, recruited self-proclaimed “non-musician” Gareth Williams to start a defiant rock trio. Taking the name This Heat, the three decamped, ironically, to a once-refrigerated food locker in an abandoned meat pie factory, overrun by a confederation of zealous artists. This Heat called their home Cold Storage.
