GUILLOTINE BEAT, by Horrible Head

GUILLOTINE BEAT

by Horrible Head

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1.	Introduction by BIG BOF 00:42	info	buy track
2.	Got To Get Out 02:08	info	buy track
3.	Wet Weekend 02:32	info	buy track
4.	Bitter End 02:23	info	buy track
5.	Black Day 02:51	lyrics	buy track
Written by Phil Ford and Sean Hyde.
6.	This Is All You Get 02:17	info	buy track
7.	They Don't Need Me 03:02	info	buy track
8.	Pretend 02:34	info	buy track
9.	Sinking Slowly 02:33	info	buy track
10.	Another Fine Mess 02:30	info	buy track
11.	Here Comes Edward 02:12	info	buy track
12.	Walking On Sunshine 04:50	info	buy track
13.	Mary Jane 02:02	info	buy track
14.	Goodnight From Me 02:35	info	buy track
15.	This Is All You Get (Studio, 1985) 02:11	info	buy track
16.	I Don't Know (Studio, 1985) 02:18	info	buy track
17.	Bitter End (Studio, 1985) 02:15	info	buy track
18.	Young Conservatives (Studio, 1985) 01:52	info	buy track
19.	Guilty Conscience (Studio, 1985) 02:07	info	buy track
20.	Pretend (Studio, 1985) 02:04	info	buy track
21.	Not Your Property (Studio, 1985) 02:23	info	buy track
22.	She's Got Teeth (Studio, 1985) 01:43	info	buy track
23.	Black & White Lines (Live, No Monitors, March '86) 02:25	info	buy track
24.	Young Conservatives (Live, No Monitors, March '86) 02:19	info	buy track

about

Consult any rock’n’runes reader worth their weight in plectrums and you will be grasped by bony puny hands adorned with the faded glitter nail-polish of yesterbeer and a sulphate worse than death and wheezily informed that August 2020 is the 34th and one-sixth anniversary of Horrible Head’s booking at The Swan pub in the quiet-torn streets of Kingston-upon-Thames.

The cassette soundboard recording of that performance which altered everything and everyone everywhere forever has been digitised for your amazement here exclusively on Bandcamp. The recording is not a true reflection of what came roaring out of the amps and speakers, and witnesses are even now convalescing in the Carshalton Beeches Home For The Terminally Bewildered, too shocked to give an accurate account of What Went Down.

To supplement this ancient recording - where the Heads once and for all put the “ARGH!” into archive - we have added eight live-in-the-studio killer kutz laid down at the Crystal Rooms in Fratton (is it still there? Are we still here?) on the 28th of November 1985, plus two ramshackle renditions of songs performed at the Portsmouth Polytechnic All Day Jam on Wednesday 5th of March, 1986. Despite the shodmanship of the recording quality, one can still detect a group choking on the air of mass indifference and drowning in waves of hate. Paul Hamilton’s diary acclaimed it thusly: “OUR WORST GIG YET! […] We were fucked by shit PA + monitors + stoned soundman hippy tosser + duff drum kit. Bastards.” Poetry!

Clamber aboard the Oblivion Express and hurtle back to a time when live music wasn’t dictated by click-tracks, Autotune and all that anti-spontaneity pokery of jiggery.

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released August 19, 2020

Tracks 1-14. Recorded by John Hasket (gracias, amigo) at The Swan in Kingston, 22nd June 1986. Soundboard tape digitised by Jason Emberton, 2010.

Tracks 15-22. Recorded by Steve Hoff at Crystal Rooms, Fratton on 28th November 1985. Live, no overdubs. As if you couldn't tell.

Tracks 23-24. Recorded by Hippy Tosser at Portsmouth Polytechnic All Day Jam, 5th March 1986.

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Phil Ford - lead vocal
Dave Pope - guitar, vocal
Sean Hyde - bass, backing vocal
Paul Hamilton - drums

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