STRETCHHEADS

Music:

Member Since: 12/19/2005
Band Website: http://www.recordstore.co.uk/mutebank/
Band Members: Andy Macdonald (Dr. Technology) - Guitar, Steven MacDougall (Mofungo Diggs) - Bass, Richie Dempsey - Drums, Phil Eaglesham (Wilberforce / p6) - Vocals, Jason Boyce (Mr Jason)- Drums (1990-91).SUPPORTING CAST = Marcus/Maya - Trumpet (1991 Peel Session), Martyn - Bass (1991 Peel Session), Wilf Plum - Saxophone (1988 LP), Colin McLean - Vocals (1988 LP), John Vick - Production (1988 LP), Jamie Watson - Production (Single/Compilation Tracks 1989) Peter Rose - Production (1990 LP / 10").
Influences: Bogshed, Big Flame, A Witness, Membranes, World Domination Enterprises, Stump, The Shrubs, Swans, Bastro, Test Department, Inca Babies, Nitzer Ebb, Josef K, The Pop Group, Blurt, Throbbing Gristle, The Associates, Cocteau Twins, Captain Beefheart, Dog Faced Hermans, Finitribe, The Ramones, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Ex, Minor Threat, The Minutemen, Black Flag, The Germs, 23 Skidoo, Restricted Code, Fire Engines, Boots For Dancing, Tools You Can Trust, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Tubeway Army, Laibach, DAF, Section 25, Killing Joke, Helmet, The Dickies, Clock DVA/The Box, Hellcows.
Sounds Like: Bogshed speeded up - The Boredoms allegedly. - - - -Current Ebay Listing under 'Karaoke' and linked to 'Franz Ferdinand' ------- "Stretchheads - "Pish In Your Sleazebag" CDHEAVY DUTY MASTERPIECE They will not take famous like this more, neither would have! Possibly, hardly possibly, one of the CDs larger than all the time, is surprised that EBAY has no pre-filled listed for this unheralded the gem. That is one rare narcotic copy and brand new of masterpiece "Pish In Your Sleazebag" by the Stretchheads. Accompany this with one of the seam-folding machines that resistant I am selling and you are over to something special...Probably the Stretchheads, recording this disc, is amuses a world... the fact is that they amuse pure we. In that way to define this ephemeral Scottish group if not like one species of crossing between Big Black and Butthole Surfers: more elastic and mathematician and crowds first more us of the second ones, less squared of the first and little traditional of the second ones. Described therefore, you could think next to "Pish In Your Sleazebag" like to a enough compact and monolithic disc. Null more false and the fifteen songs are like as many rich small scales them of surprise, pleasant, unexpected and also amazing. The continuous ones stop and go - nearly to wanting itself to before scrolling of back the powder of the habit still that it has been put down, the anomaly of the structures - genuinely no-form, bugle that to times appears from null - ghost of the old dreams, the voices dissolute - manifestation of incipient madness, an epicenter attacks - understandings to perhaps reassure on their absolute seriousness, the hysterical passion that dominates every chime, every curve, every acceleration, every break, every note of this incredible adventure... and then one spastic zappiana metastasis like To Freakout, the presumed wild tribalismo of Trippy Deadzone (rendered still less credible from the bongos of Ognob)... and title them like Incontinent Of Sex, Housewife Up Yer F**kin A** Music, Machine In Deli (Gary Newman' s Round The World Trip), Mao Tse Tungs Meat Challenge ... Oddio, is from losing the lume the reason, and the way of house, to follow this mirage of so frank freedom to burn in the space of two LP and a single one - beyond to the inclusion of right in Pathological Compilation. Or draft of one born and died chimera in the vortices of Acid Sweeney. The thing is however that version connected of the air of topic of Rhoda is joined really well with all the species of the musical intervals comprised one. For how much I know Pish was their last release, the trace does not go enough cold however as Richie has been concluded on the game in one wrap called the fur yummy that all the fan of Franz Ferdinand would have to feel to speak like Paul and Alex used in order to play in they, even if not in the same moment in which Richie. And seeing like as Stretchheads and the adventure of the lion tooth (sees previous the starter shaft) used in order to make a lot making it a turn entirety seems like no surprise to discover that Ajay of the adventure of the tooth of lion and Stretchheads Stevie have concluded on the operation entirety.... With Pish in your Sleazebag (any those the means, it really gross sound), play transforms in trickery to high intensity of the study. Some tracks have wipeouts of dub-style and there are lotteries of the intervals heavy handles you of between-song - to perhaps compensate for the sparsity of value of the album of the songs. There are like new braces of the large ones, especially "Sweeney acid." There is moreover rerecording of Incontinent of the eyeball "of the sex." Like of customary, the song titles them are priceless. The version of the CD connects the guaime of Origami of the eyeball, 12-inch a 1990 with a longer version of the album that plodding, and the excellent-heavy housewife music burned with Yer F**kin of the elements from the album that leads in chipping of the topic from Rhoda; perhaps moreover completely it has disorderd - in on indexing (the habit of you wrap to attack million false conclusions in every song has confused a technician). " TROUSER PRESS LISTING - STRETCHHEADS (Buy CDs by this artist) Five Fingers Four Thingers a Thumb a Facelift and a New Identity (UK Moksha) 1988 Eyeball Origami Aftermath Wit Vegetarian Leg EP7 (UK Blast First) 1990 Barbed Anal Exciter EP (UK Blast First) 1991 Pish in Your Sleazebag (UK Blast First) 1991The voice is inhuman, reminiscent of nothing so much as Sesame Street's Grover with electrodes affixed to his genitals; over a mindbogglingly fast skittering racket, it's yelling "In my life/I was disappointed," then letting loose with something that sounds like a Tourette's sufferer speaking in tongues: BLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLDZUUUUUHHHH! The band is Glasgow, Scotland's Stretchheads, the weirdest, fastest and heaviest thing ever to come cartwheeling out of the British Isles. Bassist Mac (no last names were ever given), guitarist Andy, drummer Richie (later replaced by Jason) and the aforementioned vocalizer, who went by the handle P6, had a rather limited aesthetic, but they squeezed it until the tube begged for mercy.The Stretchheads' first album, Five Fingers Four Thingers, introduces a band that's instantly diagnosable as hyperactive, hungry and completely strange. Not to mention Scottish: the country has produced an entire school of high-speed, percussion-heavy, jabbering bands, including Archbishop Kebab, Dawson, Badgewearer and the early Dog Faced Hermans (note the song title "Long Faced German"). Kylie Minogue's pop hit "I Should Be So Lucky" gets Stretchheadized so thoroughly that it's impossible to tell from the rest of the songs unless you're listening very closely; the originals sound of a piece at first, but eventually their scratchy, screechy rhythms resolve themselves into bizarre but smashing hooks (the best belongs to "Shape and Cleanse").The band's greatest record is Eyeball Origami Aftermath Wit Vegetarian Leg: four speed-crazed songs (all but one of which they subsequently rerecorded), each one faster and crazier than the next. P6 makes some truly unbelievable vocal noises, the drums are faster than human hands can generally move; gratuitous but totally enjoyable sound-collaging and inner-groove madness add to the fun.With Pish in Your Sleazebag (whatever that means, it sounds really gross), the tape-play becomes high-intensity studio trickery. A few tracks have dub-style wipeouts, and there are lots of heavily manipulated between-song interludes maybe to make up for the shortage of an album's worth of songs. There are a couple of great new ones, though, particularly "Acid Sweeney." There's also a rerecording of Eyeball's "Incontinent of Sex." As usual, the song titles are priceless: "3 Pottery Owls (With Inuendo)," "Mao Tse Tung's Meat Challenge," "HMS Average Nostril." The CD version appends Eyeball Origami Aftermath, a 1990 12-inch with a longer version of the album's plodding, super-heavy "Housewife Up Yer Fuckin Arse Music" and a remix of elements from the album that leads into a cut-up of the theme from Rhoda; it also has completely messed-up indexing (maybe the band's habit of sticking a million fake endings in every song confused a technician).Stretchheads' final recorded bow was the six-song Barbed Anal Exciter EP. Compared to their earlier records, it's more barbed, just as anal and not quite as exciting. The sound is thick and friction-filled, but the band seems to have slowed down a little, and the inferior remake of Eyeball's "New New Thing in Egypt" is unnecessary. If it were the only Stretchheads record it'd be priceless, but if you've heard another one you've heard a better one. [Douglas Wolk]
Record Label: Blast First / Mute / EMI
Type of Label: Indie