THIS HEAT- S/T LP FNU Ronnies especially if home is the

especially if home is the cool dive bar on the wrong side of town

A little bit mercurial

The idea was to be confrontational—to evoke (as Tomata described in an early interview) a state of anxiety

And that shit is hard to get off once it dries

THIS HEAT- S/T LP FNU Ronnies especially if home is theTheres an irony inherent in the term postpunk. Many of the groups that define the genre (think Pere Ubu or Cabaret Voltaire) existed for several years before punk. But these outfits had little hope of finding an audience until punk stirred up an appetite for the extreme, while also spawning a new breed of independent labels that could support challenging music. This Heat are a prime example. Formed in early 1976 by drummer Charles Hayward, guitarist