Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "This Heat" in English language version.
The band's name translates to "This Giant", a sly pun inspired by THIS HEAT and GENTLE GIANT, two band's [sic] the group draws inspiration from.
Other bands in our area: Mars, DNA, Television, Richard Hell, Pil, This Heat, Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds, Sonic Youth, Big Black, Einsturzende Neubaten, My Bloody Valentine-a band that is very Ut is Slint though we didn't hear them till after
At the same time we were discovering stuff like the Japanese new music scene, as well as the R.I.O movement & bands like This Heat, Soft Machine and Magma which started to inform our own songwriting approach and push us more as musicians.
Six Finger are veritable scholars of post-punk. Earlier, during the soundcheck for their gig at CBGB's, [bassist] James [Apt] namechecks This Heat's "Deceit" and ATV's "Vibing Up The Senile Man", the Stranglers, Suicide and PiL.
At the same time we were discovering stuff like the Japanese new music scene, as well as the R.I.O movement & bands like This Heat, Soft Machine and Magma which started to inform our own songwriting approach and push us more as musicians.
