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“Sleep Token are big fans of what we did, and they’re the biggest rock band in the world right now. That means a lot”: From Oceansize to Biffy Clyro and now Cardiacs, Mike Vennart is one of the UK’s greatest under-the-radar guitar talents

With a style somewhere between shred, Slayer and Pavement, Mike Vennart has headlined some of the world’s biggest festivals, played with Dave Lombardo, and now he’s fronting his all-time favorite band. He attempts to make sense of the many twists and turns in his career

Guitar World

Cardiacs announce that their final album, LSD, will be released in September

The late Cardiacs frontman Tim Smith's final album has been completed by his brother Jim, Kavus Torabi, Mike Vennart and more...

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“All the time he was ill, he had it in his head that he was going to finish it when he got home. He never made it home. I guess we owed it to him”: Tim Smith’s Cardiacs story will end with final album LSD

Members of the band who influenced Steven WIlson, Radiohead, Opeth, Andy Partridge and more explain what they did and why it mattered

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Jethro Tull grace the cover of the new issue of Prog Magazine, which is on sale now!

Plus Kevin Godley, Ghost Of The Machine, Mike Ratledge, Can, Cardiacs, Amplifier, Karmakanic, Envy Of None and more...

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“As pictorial histories go, it’s as smart and surprising as Cardiacs themselves”: A Big Book And A Band And A Whole World Window by Aaron Tanner

The idiosyncratic English art-rockers’ history is detailed in a pleasingly DIY limited-edition chunky read.

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“Captain Beefheart possessed an unrestrained imagination and a totally eccentric form of creativity… I’d have lasted five minutes in The Magic Band”: Colin Edwin’s prog world includes Magma, Cardiacs, Gong and more

Former Porcupine Tree and current O.R.k. member on seeing Daevid Allen live, falling under Tim Smith’s spell, messing about with plastic cameras and, well, Lonnie Donegan

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Fully authorised visual history of Cardiacs to be published

New Cardiacs biography, A Big Book And A Band And Whole World Window, will be published in January

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“Surely it’s the greatest psychedelic rock song ever recorded… It makes the whole God thing seem plausible!” Kavus Torabi’s Guide To Cardiacs

Gong and Knifeworld guitarist recalls his time in Tim Smith’s band via five of their songs chosen by Prog

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“Everything from Between The Buried And Me to Duran Duran. There doesn’t seem to be a distinct barrier in terms of what we believe we can funnel into Kyros." The sound of UK prog rockers Kyros and new album Mannequin

Pop-friendly, shape-shifting prog quartet Kyros discuss their fourth album Mannquein

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“Daevid Allen was always throwing a grenade into situations… Tim Smith was quite benign, although very driven. They both had the same sort of presence:” Kavus Torabi compares his late Gong and Cardiacs bandmates

Briefed to keep Gong going after Allen’s death, the new leader pursues the same aim with a different vision. How have the fans reacted?

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“I knew how to play the whole of Misplaced Childhood when I was 12. I can’t bear to listen to it now – it reminds me of being a miserable 12-year-old”: How former Oceansize member Mike Vennart grew up and moved on

The band that made his name was a “troublesome, difficult” experience, but becoming a dad helped him put it all behind him

Louder

‘I organised coach trips to see them’: readers on the forgotten musicians of their home towns

Following our feature speaking to musicians about the local acts they think should be better known, we asked you for your own recommendations

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Cardiacs first full-length album gets four disc reissue

Cardiacs A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window will be reissued in September

Louder

Abstract Divinities: Charlie Cawood's solo adventure

The Knifeworld, Mediaeval Baebes and Anathema musician Charlie Cawood discusses his first solo album The Divine Abstract

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