Seeing how God Is My Co-Pilot's returned to playing live, I got nostalgic for one of my other fave skronk units of that era: Scotland's demented, brilliant Stretchheads issued a handful of LPs and an EP in the late 80s/early 90s, and along with Terminal Cheesecake are definite contenders for overlooked UK gutter-dwellers in need of a good retrospective. The 'heads may not have spread out stylistically over time as cohorts like GodCo, Dog Faced Hermans, Big Flame etc. but they sure hammered the point home gleefully/violently.
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i love the Stretchheads too! They were a big influence on an old band of mine. Apparently the singer went off and joined a monastery. There music will never sound as good now.
Posted by: dr. peanut | May 03, 2008 at 01:47 AM
thanks brian, stretchheads are a huge influence on my group, child abuse. great to see some rare footage!
Posted by: luke | May 03, 2008 at 04:04 PM
not only a great great band...
what a fucking great video
Posted by: damn | May 03, 2008 at 08:40 PM
BADGEWEARER! fer fucks sake!!!
Posted by: Brendan | May 05, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Brothers and Sisters
It's lovely to see such retrochat,as it was 20 years ago. I became a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence after the Stretchheads in the combat of homophobia and AIDS, hence the monastery quip I guess.
If you're interested in late 80's core, I am investigating re-mastering the Stretchheads discography and a book due out in September by John Robb of the Membranes called 'Death To Trad Rock' with a possible CD will document a lot of those left-field rock types. It wasn't all acid house, baggy and skatepunk you know.
p6
www.myspace.com/stretchheads
Posted by: p6 | July 02, 2009 at 03:48 PM