IMPORTANT NOTICE!
Cardiacs Tour.
Cardiacs will be performing NO LATER than 9pm on all of their upcoming dates EXCEPT London Astoria Theatre where Cardiacs will take to the stage NO LATER than 8.15pm!
These times are set in stone and are NON-NEGOTIABLE. Therefore may we respectfully suggest you attend at your earliest promptitude in order to avoid bitter disappointment.
Cardiacs’ special guests on all dates are "Johnny 4", a favourite group of Cardiacs and a group for whom THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN would advise you make the extra effort to watch.
Johnny 4 will be on stage one hour before Cardiacs at all venues.
YOUR LOYALTY DEMANDS
Perhaps, like many, you too have hopelessly craved an appearance in film, weaving your anterior into the dial of history, expressing your turmoil for some document of antiquity. If you have been keeping abreast of progress through the Cardiacs forum, then you will be stridently aware that THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN have set machinations in place to make very real your pedestrian yearnings.
As has been previously announced, THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN has commissioned the forthcoming Cardiacs London show at The Astoria Theatre on November the 11th to be filmed for release on the DVD format.
THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN takes this opportunity to suggest you be suitably attired and have generously seen fit to make available an EXCLUSIVE T-SHIRT representing, among the loyal, a united front. While these shirts will be available on the night at The Astoria Theatre, THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN feel that PREPERATION IS THE BEDFELLOW OF TOTALITY and have given YOU the opportunity to purchase your wardrobe in advance.
A limited number will be made available at the concerts preceding the Astoria.
Of course, it is a given that Cardiacs will open their show with HOME OF FADELESS SPLENDOUR, the celebrated hymn from the album ‘Heaven Born and Ever Bright’.
YOUR LOYALTY DEMANDS you add voice to the fanfare and spectacle.
THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN are aware that the words are already emblazoned in your hearts, however, THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN also know that there are those who would see fit to sully the reputation of THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN as the benevolent concern by replacing key, stirring lines with ill-mannered alternatives which of course is unacceptable.
It is with this in mind that THE ALPHABET BUSINESS CONCERN hereby
reproduce the words in full.
HOME OF FADELESS SPLENDOUR
Hail majestic corporate light
Heaven born and ever bright
How our spirit like the waves
At the breath of thine awakes
And now the night of weeping shall be the morn of song
Ah! We are those who’s thunder shakes the skies
The this spun life.
Home of fadeless splendour
Of flowers that bear no thorn
Here may the blind and hungry come and
Light and food receive
Here mighty springs of consolation rise
To cheer the fainting mind
And recreation find.
So overcome thy fear and burst into sudden blaze
Come the blind fury with th’ abhorred shears and
Slit the thin spun life
Ah! Sobbing with their human sort of wail
Thy justice fear.
Walk in shadow walk in dread
Loosefish walk as like one dead
One drop in a winter sea no more to rise forever
Anything down there about your soul will
Smash the sun alight
Ah! Yield week in weak out from morn till night
Feelers from across the sea
Come crawling over thee.
One drop in a winter sea no more to rise forever
One drop in a winter sea no more to rise forever
Come the blind fury with th’ abhorred shears
And slit the thin spun life
Ah! Sobbing with their human sort of wail
The thin spun life
We are those who’s thunder shakes the skies
Who’s eyes this atom globe surveys
Thy justice fear
Hooray!