A random shuffle started with Cardiacs' Is This The Life, the re-recorded 'hit' version from 1988's A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window.
The song appeared in its full length form in my mix CD, You Never Really Saw..., last summer but here's the promo video, with cleaned up, synched and edited audio taken from the aforementioned album version. Cardiacs really were like nothing else, either on record or live on stage (I was lucky enough to see them once in 1996).
By way of compensation for the video edit hacking off the final two minutes, here's an incendiary live version from 1990 which more than compensates, the third and final encore of an 18-song set.
By all accounts, it was a horrendous gig for the band: Tim Smith's guitar fell apart, the keys fell off Sarah Smith's saxophone and it kept cutting out, the band couldn't hear each other; Tim Quy, a member since 1980, left the band shortly after. From an audience/viewer's perspective, the performance is spectacular.
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