The Whole World Window

Is everybody happy? A growing archive of Cardiacs: concerts, releases, timelines, photos, flyers, press cuttings and all the beautifully awkward details, rescued before the whole world turns away. Found something worth preserving? Send it through the window.

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    1. RevisedReading Festival — 24 Aug 1986

      Two photographs shared by Simon Knee have surfaced alongside the gloriously makeshift story of how this festival set escaped into the world as Cardiacs' first live album, Rude Bootleg.

    1. TicketAngel Centre, Tonbridge — 18 Nov 1988

      An original ticket from Cardiacs' November 1988 visit to Tonbridge has found its way into the archive, shared by David Stonard through the Cardiacs Facebook group.

    1. PosterForum, London — 22 Apr 1995

      The poster for Cardiacs' first gig of 1995 has landed in the archive, shared by Stephen Cranch through the Cardiacs Facebook group.

    1. RevisedOxford New-Age Fayre — 3 May 1986

      Two photographs shared by Comfylux Nick have found their way into the archive, catching Cardiacs onstage at the 1986 fayre.

    1. RevisedFive nights at the Town and Country Club

      A historic photograph of the venue now sits on all five Town and Country Club gig pages. The 25 March 1988 page also has an original ticket, abcglobus's complete 1 hour 57 minute film and fourteen timestamps that jump straight to the songs.

    1. New gigArcTanGent Festival, Compton Martin — 19 Aug 2026

      The full setlist, show times, audience memories and post-show context arrived in the archive.

    1. RevisedSix hundred and eighteen gigs, en español

      All 618 gigs now have their own Spanish translation, from 1978 right through to 2026.

    1. RevisedForty-three records, now in Spanish too

      All 43 releases received a complete Spanish translation, alongside the earliest years of the gig archive.

    1. RevisedGuns and Glastonbury, now in both languages

      Full bilingual routing, metadata and content sidecars arrived, beginning with Guns and Glastonbury Festival 1999.

    1. PosterSouthampton, Rotterdam and two splendid posters

      Original posters for the 1984 Guildhall and 1987 Jazzbunker gigs are now in, with their Pondie credits intact.

    1. PosterTwo old posters find their way in

      Original posters from Oxford and Kensington have both found their way into the archive.

    1. RevisedA windowful of photos, tickets and posters

      A sizeable pile of new photographs, posters and tickets joined ten gigs, all with proper Pondie credits.

    1. PosterKingston '79 and Surbiton '85 turn up

      Photographs from Coronation Hall 1979 and the Surbiton Assembly Rooms poster from 1985 have made it into the archive.

    1. New gigA great heap of gigs, stories and scraps

      Notes, recording details, photographs, posters and tickets were added to gigs from the late 1970s right through to the 2000s.

    1. TicketFour old tickets find their way home

      Four original tickets from Hampton Court, Bristol, Leeds and the Astoria are now safely tucked into the archive.

    1. RevisedWho's who in the Cardiacs family?

      Portraits of the band and its extended family now put faces to decades of changing line-ups.

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