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This Heat

English post-punk band
Organization musical_group Q1789046
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This Heat

Summary

This Heat is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (549 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • This Heat's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • This Heat's genre is punk rock[4].
  • This Heat's record label is recorded as Rough Trade[5].
  • This Heat's Commons category is recorded as This Heat[6].
  • This Heat's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[7].
  • This Heat comprises Charles Bullen[8].
  • This Heat comprises Charles Hayward[9].
  • This Heat comprises Gareth Williams[10].
  • 1976 marks the founding of This Heat[11].
  • This Heat's location of formation is recorded as Brixton[12].
  • This Heat's official website is recorded as http://www.thisheat.org/[13].
  • This Heat's start of work period is recorded as 1976[14].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[15]

  • Country: GB[16]

  • Began / founded: 1975[17]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1982[18]

  • Genre(s): avant-folk, avant-garde, avant-prog, drone, experimental, experimental rock, industrial, musique concrète, noise, post-punk, post-rock, sound collage, tape music[19]

  • Community tags: avant-folk, avant-garde, avant-prog, drone, experimental, experimental rock, industrial, musique concrète, noise, post-everything, post-punk, post-rock, rough trade, sound collage, tape music, the lost generation[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 8e538a69-fc3b-43e1-9a6b-801ea56d6d48[21]

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Founding

1976 marks the founding of This Heat[11]. Its location of formation is recorded as Brixton[12].

Why It Matters

This Heat ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (549 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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