Source: The List (Issue 652)
Date: 10 March 2010
Written by: Neil Cooper

Charles Hayward, plus Ultimate Thrush, Vars of Litchi and Culver, CCA, Glasgow, Thu Mar 25.

1: He’s a drummer
But, like jazz percussionist Han Bennink, Can’s Jaki Liebezeit and improvisational drummer Chris Corsano, he’s so much more, as this solo show should prove.

2: He was in This Heat
In 1976, Hayward, Charles Bullen and Gareth Williams applied tape loop experiments and free improv to an insistent melding of musique concrète, DIY dub and rhythm-led discordia. This Heat’s eponymous debut album, (‘The Blue and Yellow’) came in a blue and yellow sleeve that inspired an aphoristic ad campaign, with charming slogans like, ‘Blue and yellow like bruise and pus’, and that sort of thing.

3: He is the bridge between Roxy Music and Hot Chip
Hayward played in Quiet Sun with a pre-Roxy Phil Manzanara, followed by a brief stint in Gong. He later moved through the post-punk Rough Trade squat-rock scene via The Raincoats, Everything But The Girl and Lora Logic. He even gigged with anarchist punks Crass.

4: He keeps good company
Hayward has played with German polymath Heiner Goebbels, formed Massacre with experimental rockers Bill Laswell and Fred Frith, gigged with Ted Milton’s Blurt and released an album with Lol Coxhill, Hugh Hopper and Robert Wyatt.

5: What was that about Hot Chip?
Following a collaboration with Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and Spring Heel Jack’s John Coxon on the About album, Hayward guested on the band’s One Life Stand album, providing the Motown backbeat on ‘Hand Me Down Your Love.’

Source: The List

ABOUT at the ICA.

Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack), Pat Thomas & Charles Hayward

Unmixed recording from the ‘CALLING OUT OF CONTEXT’ event.
Filmed by Lewis Hayward

Charles Hayward / Tomas Challenger / Nick Doyne-Ditmas
Cafe OTO, LONDON UK

“Trio featuring the percussive explorations of Charles Hayward, the underworld of Tom Challenger’s saxophone and the ’stomach’ of Nick Doyne-Ditmas’s Acoustic Bass. Their first meeting in New Cross’ Amersham Arms quickly led to the first gigs in gardens and clubs. Since, Charles (known for his work with projects such as THIS HEAT, CAMBERWELL NOW, MASSACRE, ABOUT), Nick (Who co-leads experimental group CRACKLE) and Tom (Who’s other involvements include ‘MA.’, OUTHOUSE (+ RUHABI), REDSNAPPER and The Loop collective) have come together sporadically to play their unique brand of ultra-telepathic, shape bending acoustic improv. Past performances have veered from the serene, the rootsy, the abstract, to the genuinely euphoric highs that the trio discovered to be a basic part of their ever expanding, conversational improvisatory palette. This is a band that rarely surfaces – do not miss!”

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Charles Hayward of This Heat, Camberwell Now, About, ‘Jumpcuts + Crossfades’, Clear Frame, Albert Newton, Massacre, Quiet Sun, Keep the dog… Welcome to the official website. We’ll start 2010 with a new space and we’re currently working on it. Please visit the “old space” here for now: http://plateformes.free.fr/charleshaywarddotorg/index.html / The webmaster

Charles Hayward is known as the pioneering drummer with This Heat (“Out of cold storage” cd boxset recently released) and Camberwell Now, an ever growing list of solo concerts and cds [most recent release "Abracadabra Information" on Locus Solus label], special collaborative performances, and is in Massacre with Bill LASWELL and Fred FRITH. Committed to song ‘but the shapes have to change’, his current one-man show is an intoxicating mix of percussive attack, swirling electronics and lyrical fragment collage.

Booking Europe: pascal/julietippex-com