11. This HeatDeceit
This Heat records are untouchable for me, and then there’s the Camberwell Now stuff which is incredible too. I love it all, but Deceit is my favourite. I still listen to it now and think ‘how? why?’
The amount of of imagination that’s gone into it – the structures; the creativity; the bizarre melodies; the musicianship – the really amazing musicianship – and also Charles Heywood is one of my favourite people of all time. I actually got to work with Charles. He did a project called Anonymous Bash at Islington Mill and I got to hang out with him a lot. He was somebody I learnt a lot from, just doing music with hm and seeing how he communicated with musicians and communicated with me and his approach: he’s an amazingly magic guy. I think the first or second time I saw Charles live I was off my head and went up to him and said ‘Charles, I want you to adopt me. I want you to be my father’ and he just said ‘fuck off’. I also remember a Gnod gig at Islington Mill and we were having a smoke and listening to D Double E – a Rinse FM mixtape – and he comes in and just says ‘oh, brilliant. D Double E’ straight off the bat. He really knows his stuff.
This Heat were quite mystical; I’m so pleased that they came back and did This Is Not This Heat. I was at the second OTO show that they did. I can remember looking around and there was a whole bunch of us in tears and I remember just thinking ‘yes! This is exactly what I want from a gig. Being blown away to that degree’. Very important band; very important album.
