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Shack (2006)

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 ...

Shack: Shed Heaven

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 ...

Shack: Talking Heads

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. ...

Shack: Mersey Blues

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 ...

Shack: All You Need is Love

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 ...

Shack: Manchester University

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 ...

Heads Down: Shack

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 ...

Shack: Waterpistol

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 ...

Shack: Zilch

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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