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Whiskey Headshot

Kaleidoscopic Merseysounds

About Me

Whiskey Headshot have become over the space of just over a year and a half one of the most unique and talked about acts in Liverpool in recent times. The exquisite musical quality of their compositions capture and contain the listener, and have rightly earned them a place as an integral part of Liverpool’s music scene. Always looking forward and never wanting to take the easy way to success, singer-songwriter Mike Murphy has wrote almost 200 songs for the band since their formation, and has gathered recognition for his distinctive and original vocal style.Far from being a one-man show, Whiskey Headshot comprises four highly creative individuals, who collectively, can weave elaborate soundscapes of hypnotic, and often delirious beauty, boasting a spine-tingling dual-guitar attack, and arguably the finest rhythm section in town. The band take much of their inspiration from 1960’s psychedelia, merseybeat, and progressive rock, and are obsessive in capturing the spirit and sound of this era, and have recently been recording a collection of songs in their very own ‘Goldfish Bowl’ Studio in Liverpool City Centre, using authentic and often unorthodox recording methods.With an inexhaustable amount of catchy songs, and in a world they have themselves created, Whiskey Headshot are, and always will be, a band focused on the creation of new music through captivating fresh sounds. The band have it within them to be a heavily-working successful band, with everything in their favour; yet at this early stage the band are at their happiest writing, recording, performing, and getting up to nonsense around town...providing unlimited devotion in everything they do.Whether it be on record, or in a live performance, for first time listeners, Whiskey Headshot’s collection of concise, scouse-sounding, psychedelia-tinged pop songs will not disappoint, and will not be easy to forget…

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Member Since: 1/25/2006
Band Website: whiskeyheadshot.co.uk
Band Members:INTRODUCING.... MIKE MURPHY - Voice and guitar ANDREW SMITH - Guitar, supporting voice PAUL NELSON- Bass, Organ, supporting voice ASH MORGAN - Skins
Influences:Rolling Stones, Kak, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Shocking Blue, Captain Beefheart, LOVE, Led Zepplin, Electric Prunes, Shack, Bob Dylan, JULY,The Smiths, Beach Boys, The La's, The Kinks, Neil Young, The Action, Country Joe & the Fish, The Creation, The Flat Earth Society, Buffalo Springfield, Iron Butterfly, THE MONKEES, Jacques Dutronc, Black Widow, The Zombies, Travis Barker, Daniel Fearon, Dantalian's Chariot, PUSSY, the Attack, Ringo Star, Moby Grape, Tomorrow, QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE, Pretty Things (1964-1970), John Lennon, Terrain, The Happenin', Claude Sword, The Madams (U.K. AND U.S.!), Elvis, BB King, James Brown, Silver Apples, Stone Roses, Cream, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, SPIRIT,Crosby, Stills and Nash, FAMILY, The Left Banke, The Byrds, The Who, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Louis Armstrong, 50 Foot Hose, United States of America, The Seeds, Sex Pistols, Soundtrack of Our Lives, The Clash, T-Rex, Mark Bolan, Blue Cheer, Le Fleur De Lys, The Attack, Vampyros Lesbos, Electric Banana, Mad River, Syd Barrett, The Beatles, John Lee Miller, Velvet Underground, Skin Alley, The Turtles, and The Coral.
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My Blog

Mike Blog : Whiskey Headshot break a leg

Hi all, I have been away in my lil cotton mill flat due to breaking my foot a fortnight ago! What luck egh? as were are due to start recording and appear at Soundcity. So rumours of Whiskey ...
Posted by Whiskey Headshot on Tue, 20 May 2008 12:33:00 PST

Ash Blog : Recording & Liverpool Soundcity

Yeah so, not spoken to anyone for a while, so i thought i'd give you all an update. We're going into Parr Street studio on Saturday, for 3 days and recording a few new tunes. Really looking forward to...
Posted by Whiskey Headshot on Mon, 19 May 2008 10:15:00 PST

Whiskey Headshot w/Tiny Dancers live@Sheffield Forum and Live Radio session, Monday 21st April

On Monday 21st April Whiskey Headshot will be performing alongside Tiny Dancers at Sheffield Forum, its going to be a great night. In addition to this, Whiskey Headshot have confirmed to appear on ...
Posted by Whiskey Headshot on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:18:00 PST

Paul Blog 08/4 -New Track : The Shouting Box in The Sky!!!!!!

Hello dear friends, Greetings to all, and many thanks for the warm response to our recent recording, "The Devil May Care", we appreciate your continued support very much!  Now we thought we ...
Posted by Whiskey Headshot on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:07:00 PST

Ash Blog 2/4/08

Holler, To begin, were pretty excitied about putting Shouting Box in The Sky up, and it should be ready within the next 24 hours. We hope you like it, we’ve recorded it ourselves in the goldfis...
Posted by Whiskey Headshot on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:05:00 PST

Andy Blog 30/3 : Another new track coming April!

Hi all, We have been recording loads of tracks in Goldfish Bowl, so we decided tp put up another one next week following the amazing feedback for ’the Devil May Care’ o...
Posted by Whiskey Headshot on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:40:00 PST

Mike Blog 26/03 - The Story behind the devil/next week

Hi all,    First off, I would like to say thank you for all your fantastic feedback for ’The Devil May Care’. Many of you have said it is your favourite Whiskey Headshot s...
Posted by Whiskey Headshot on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:07:00 PST