Shack
15 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages Audio, May 2006
John Head talks about the brothers' childhood; borrowing his dad's guitar, the family being musical, and their mother's death. Mick Head talks about becoming a musician and forming the Pale Fountains; signing to Virgin, John joining the band; moving to London and the end of the Pale Fountains. Mick talks about his heroin habit and being a songwriter. They talk about returning to Liverpool and starting Shack; the albums Zilch and Waterpistol; backing Love's Arthur Lee; kicking heroin and recording H.M.S. Fable; the new album ... the Corner of Miles and Gil; getting his teeth knocked out, and signing to Noel Gallagher's label.
File format: mp3; file size: 92.4mb, interview length: 1h 36' 13" sound quality: ** (background noise)
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Construction Time Again: The House That Shack Built
Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 26 March 1988
Liverpool's SHACK discuss the concrete and clay behind their latest album. ROY WILKINSON unearths the EastEnders and Derek Hatton influences. ...
Shack: The Duchess Of York, Leeds
Live Review by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 8 September 1990
SHACK APPROACH the popular song like a long-lost prodigal, giving it a big hug and a "great to have you back". Formed from the ashes ...
Interview by Ted Kessler, New Musical Express, 14 March 1998
Smack addiction, tragic death and a clueless music biz may have conspired against the fortunes of genius singer-songwriter MICK HEAD and his band SHACK, but ...
Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 15 May 1999
This is a story of highs and lows. Of drug addiction, of long lost albums, wasted opportunities and ultimately — perhaps — much deserved success. ...
Interview by Tom Doyle, The Face, June 1999
HEROIN. ARSON. DEATH. DESTROYED STUDIOS. BLOWN OPPORTUNITIES. THE BALLAD OF SHACK IS HARDLY EASY LISTENING. BUT NOW, WITH A GLORIOUS NEW ALBUM, BRITAIN'S GREAT LOST ...
Interview by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 14 June 1999
Tom Cox finds the Head brothers of Shack in Liverpool — but spiritually, they're in Los Angeles, circa 1967 ...
Shack: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London — Fine songs, poor show
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 6 November 1999
TO LOOK AT THE QUARTET of off-duty plumbers who comprise Liverpool's Shack — which you can't do on their current album, HMS Fable, as it ...
Head Masterful: Shack: L2, Liverpool
Live Review by Stevie Chick, New Musical Express, 13 November 1999
BACKSTAGE, the band's name is being wielded as a verb — to get "Shacked". As in to be drawn into Shack's chaotic, hedonistic tailwinds. To ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 29 July 2003
SHACK'S MICK HEAD has had a few plaudits hurled his way: in 1999 the NME put him on the front cover and billed him as ...
Shack: Here's Tom With The Weather
Review and Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2003
THEY'RE A LUCKLESS lot, Shack. They made Waterpistol, an album that might have been one of the defining recordings of 1991, had the studio not ...
Shack: Here's Tom With The Weather
Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 1 September 2003
IT'S FITTING that Shack's new album (their third? fourth? — the Head brothers have lost so many master tapes and had so many pseudonyms over ...
Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, June 2006
MARCH 2006, and in Liverpool feral rat-faced folk with the lean and hungry look seem to be everywhere. Junkies – on the street or selling ...
Sleeve notes by Kieron Tyler, unpublished, December 2017
WATERPISTOL WAS meant to be Shack's second album. Although work towards completing the follow-up to March 1988's Zilch had begun in 1990, nothing went to ...
Sleeve notes by Kieron Tyler, unpublished, December 2017
SHACK'S DEBUT album Zilch was originally issued by a label expressly set up to promote the talents of the band's leader Mick Head, the former ...
see also Pale Fountains, The
see also Michael Head
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