The first in a series highlighting acts that really should have made it!
First up HEAD. They produced three classic albums which are now rarer than rocking horse poo. Come on Virgin get your fingers out!
Below is an article by Push
Melody Maker -- 14 August 1993
HEADSHOT
During the late 1980s, Bristol rockers Head delighted in a lack of respect for everything and everybody. Including themselves. Check out “Crackers For Your Knackers”, a real gripping song, and the irreverent version of Billy Paul’s “Me And Mrs Jones” on their “A Snog On The Rocks” debut album (Demon Records). Or the ribald “Get Fishy” on the follow-up, “Tales Of Ordinary Madness” (Virgin Records).
Having spent the first three months of 1989 in America recording their third album, “Intoxicator”, with Aztec Camera producer Michael Johnson, Head were none too impressed with what they saw as Virgin’s half-hearted promotion of the record. Angry and frustrated, they decided to not only leave the label, but go their separate ways.
“There were other factors involved too,” explains guitarist Gareth Sager, who came to Head via The Pop Group, Float Up CP and Rip, Rig And Panic, the last two acts also featuring Neneh Cherry. “Head were a hard-living band and if we hadn’t split up there would probably have been some funerals. Towards the end of the group, one or two of us were very, er, ill.”
Sager is now in an outfit called Juicy Rivers, who have a publishing contract with Warners, while Head frontman Richard Beale is currently in the bluesy Apache Dropout. The latter are looking for a record deal as you read. The other leading member of Head, second guitarist Nick Sheppard, who joined the band from the “Cut The Crap” line-up of The Clash, is now with IRS signings Shot. Sheppard also hosts The Poontang Club at The Swan in Fulham Broadway.
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