A 2026 repress of the 6CD This Heat set, The Box.

 

Remastered by Charles Hayward and Charles Bullen, The Box contains all the material released while the legendary group were together: This Heat (Blue and Yellow), Deceit, Health and Efficiency, Repeat and Made Available. 

 

In addition, compiled specially for the box, is This Heat Live 80/81, assembled from various concerts in Europe.

 

The 48-page book includes interviews, articles, historic photographs, memorabilia and documents that trace the history of the group. 

 

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This Heat: Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward and Gareth Williams emerged as a band in early 1976 on the leading edge of what became the New Wave. But they were always apart, more scary and more subtle. Known as the most left-field, and at the same time most hard-edged, band in the country, their concerts attracted experimental, Punk and New Wave audiences alike. In short, This Heat was a landmark band. It tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. The music was without precedent; the musicians uncompromising; the recordings hammeringly intense and the sound deep, radical, and rich. This was music stripped back to the bone but never simplified. And it hasn't aged.