Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Edinburgh Summerhall (Dissection Room)
‘My baby loves Happy Mondays,
My baby drinks leftovers in the morning.’
Piccadilly Records, Manchester, second half of 1995. There’s - as usual - something good playing as I go through Parlophone’s releases for the week with the buyer(s) and three tracks in I’m forced to break off, ‘What’s this playing?’
‘Waterpistol, Shack. They did it a while ago, but it sort of… got lost.’
27 years later the same record store made ‘Dear Scott’ their album of the year for 2022. It topped Mojo magazine’s chart too. At Summerhall’s Dissection Room tonight we’ve a chance to catch up with the latest episode of Michael Head’s career. Long story but: The Pale Fountains, Shack, The Magical World of The Strands, and now The Red Elastic Band. A Postie reference, I believe. Having had ‘Kismet’ off ...