Sadly there never was a video for Big Ship although we did storyboard an idea which involved Tim's head being on a floating TV screen which got more and more manic as it attacked the rest of the band! I think I filmed an animatic for this (basically an animated cardboard cutout version) but the idea got no further and I don't have the animatic anymore I'm afraid. There was also a great idea of building a Cardiacs room in the back of a removals lorry with a fixed camera which would film the band as the truck drove over rough ground (basically an army tank training area near where I lived at the time). The idea was that from the camera's point of view it would look as though an earthquake was happening! Drums everywhere, Cardiacs impaled on saxophones! Dangerous I know, but it would have looked great!!!
Paddywack0 that idea for big ship sounds incredible! that's recently become one of my favorites and im jealous that you had the pleasure of knowing the band back then!
Actually this one is a VHS copy (the only one I have)and was shot in 1986 on Super8 and lo-band U-Matic video on a v-low budget and has since been through my Avid to try and glean some image quality out of it. This is about as good as it gets without finding the original tapes. It is probably the reason it was never released! Thats the thing about archive stuff. Your lucky to get anything at all! but if someone would like to pay me to take another look at it then I will gladly take the money!
Saw these guys performing this song in The Camden Palace along with many other of their latest songs. Tim is just mesmerisin and, he is renowned for throwing beer over himself and the audience.
I concur with the amazement over this production and the wish to see the "Big Ship" video, if indeed a complete or semi-complete edit exists. Thank you so much for sharing these treasures!!
Crikey! We really did look up to you as a band. It was the only one who had the courage to speak to you Tim. Wish I had and I would've had about 1 million questions for you! Rest, poor soldier
this is AMAZING!! I knew there was something missing in between Seaside Treats and Is This The Life! is there any chance of the Big Ship video being uploaded?
Kanye West doesn't have any fans, because he thinks he's so uber-cool, fans would be superfluous. Although "superfluous" is not a word that he has ever heard or read before. How he actually put it, was "I'm made from cool, y'all unworthy motherfuckers should be on yo knees, kissin my ass"! He said it in the presence of his very last fan, Ace, the Chubby Arab, who died minutes later, from shame.
![This Band Changed My Life! [Cardiacs]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZF0n1gI-d9w/mqdefault.jpg)
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Genius beyond genius.
Sadly there never was a video for Big Ship although we did storyboard an idea which involved Tim's head being on a floating TV screen which got more and more manic as it attacked the rest of the band! I think I filmed an animatic for this (basically an animated cardboard cutout version) but the idea got no further and I don't have the animatic anymore I'm afraid. There was also a great idea of building a Cardiacs room in the back of a removals lorry with a fixed camera which would film the band as the truck drove over rough ground (basically an army tank training area near where I lived at the time). The idea was that from the camera's point of view it would look as though an earthquake was happening! Drums everywhere, Cardiacs impaled on saxophones! Dangerous I know, but it would have looked great!!!
Paddywack0 that idea for big ship sounds incredible! that's recently become one of my favorites and im jealous that you had the pleasure of knowing the band back then!
can't we just... cg.... nah that'd be mad
wouldn't it?
Actually this one is a VHS copy (the only one I have)and was shot in 1986 on Super8 and lo-band U-Matic video on a v-low budget and has since been through my Avid to try and glean some image quality out of it.
This is about as good as it gets without finding the original tapes. It is probably the reason it was never released!
Thats the thing about archive stuff. Your lucky to get anything at all! but if someone would like to pay me to take another look at it then I will gladly take the money!
most creative and uniquely brilliant band of the last 30 years!
Or ever
Saw these guys performing this song in The Camden Palace along with many other of their latest songs. Tim is just mesmerisin and, he is renowned for throwing beer over himself and the audience.
my favorite
Brilliant. What a group.
Well damn. that should have been a single. Perfect vid.
ahem
;) @@selfempower3960
poor old Jim, always gets a belt
I concur with the amazement over this production and the wish to see the "Big Ship" video, if indeed a complete or semi-complete edit exists. Thank you so much for sharing these treasures!!
It's my favourite Cardiacs promo, especially meerkat Tim Quy and the Jim-triple-bopping.
R.I.P Tim❤️
Crikey! We really did look up to you as a band. It was the only one who had the courage to speak to you Tim. Wish I had and I would've had about 1 million questions for you! Rest, poor soldier
Thank you for the insight! The only man Tim - or band that ever came close to replacing Zappa as my favorite.
Exactly the same haha
Yup
ye man hehe
Same. Except, as much as I still love Zappa with all of my heart, I have to give the ultimate award to Tim Smith, all things told.
Lovely ❤️
This video was uploaded before I was *alive*
Thanks for uploading this gem. :)
Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing the Big Ship video too
***** woah, sorry but I forget what I meant when I made this comment, sorry haha
great!
Brilliant video, really enjoyed it.
Not seen this one before. Lovely!
❤️❤️❤️
WHO IS HIM? WHO IS HIM?
Absolutely =))
Him is Jim!
@dortyhoor yes indeed
That blimmin' Consultant...he very bad man!!
Are you kidding me? Can we start a fund to clean these up digitally?
Thank you- I'm in Heaven.
3 times!
this is AMAZING!! I knew there was something missing in between Seaside Treats and Is This The Life!
is there any chance of the Big Ship video being uploaded?
great - thanks - quite disturbing
really?
If I were a bad dog you'd all be dead.
A fan of Kanye West put a thumb down.
+Reggie Postlethwaite A fan of Kanye West needs to get off this page. :)
Kanye West doesn't have any fans, because he thinks he's so uber-cool, fans would be superfluous. Although "superfluous" is not a word that he has ever heard or read before. How he actually put it, was
"I'm made from cool, y'all unworthy motherfuckers should be on yo knees, kissin my ass"! He said it in the presence of his very last fan, Ace, the Chubby Arab, who died minutes later, from shame.
Fuck Kanye. Can't stand his music much less the person behind it