Michael Head by John Johnson
Michael Head has confirmed the details of his new Red Elastic Band album Loophole.
The autobiographical nature of the record is apparent on first single Shirl’s Ghost, and will act as the perfect accompaniment to …
…Largely (though not entirely) gone are the eerie, seemingly discordant synths and piano, in come the strings. While lesser acts often add strings to try and corner the listener into Feeling Some Emotions, Turner et al are cleverer and classier than that. Rather than
Michael Head will embark on a tour of the UK and Ireland with the Red Elastic Band at the end of this year.
Dates start in November at Belfast’s Black Box and Dublin’s Whelans venue before mainland UK shows in Edinburgh, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, …
“Arkhon is about things which carry weight, an attempt to address through music states of heart and mind that are sometimes material to more than just a single life.”
“For Nika Danilova to get there meant taking Zola Jesus to a place formerly uncharted, one …
Michael Head is at number one on the UK Record Store Chart with his new Red Elastic Band album Dear Scott.
Angel Olsen’s wonderful Big Time LP is another high new entry at #3, while Liam Gallagher …
Mick Head’s backstory is such a gift for critics that it almost encourages the setting out of reams of context.
Going back decades, it involves creative triumph and commercial tragedy (where the latter has often had the upper …
Michael Head will release a new album with The Red Elastic Band on May 27th.
Dear Scott was produced by Bill Ryder-Jones, and Head has been discussing how he got back into the swing of writing and recording last …
Formerly of The Pale Fountains and then Shack, the fate which has somehow gathered him is that of a generation’s lost muse, one who can still walk down any UK street like a ghost – a …
Michael Head has unveiled Rumer from his forthcoming new album Adiós Señor Pussycat.
He’s been described as a ‘genius’ by Noel Gallagher, while Richard Hawley has labelled his 1997 LP The Magical World Of The Strands as ‘one of the most accomplished albums of British songwriting of all time’, and now Michael Head has announced a brand new record entitled Adiós Señor Pussycat.…
Late discovery can often lead to a feeling of loss; people hearing those half buried treasures years later can sometimes experience a sense of being strangely unfulfilled, hostages to the fortune of an obscure record from which they’re no longer able to glean context or comparison.
Many listeners to the …