Heads on Sticks Chats
Heads on Sticks’ The Head talks to the artists and heroes leading the new musical revolution, and the original pioneers who paved the way! Check out headsonsticks.co.uk for regular write-ups on the latest releases in alternative and underground music, and keep up to date with the latest ’Ead ’appenings on Facebook, Instagram, and Mixcloud! ’Heads on Sticks’ theme by Billiam Artwork by Jame Mendenhall Sound collages and interferences by I Know I’m An Alien
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Episodes
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Saturday Dec 03, 2022
Thirteenth and final chat for this year and I'm delighted to have a natter with industrial smut trio Concentration! Responsible for some the most visceral, knotted, and puerile excretions of gutter-jazz, electro-punk, splatter-pop (and a reputation for head spinningly wild live performances), join us fresh from their latest 2LP offering ‘Aren’t You Going To Introduce Me To Your Friend?’ and get acquainted with their warped world of psychosexual fetor!
Follow Concentration on Instagram and Facebook
Listen to new album Aren't You Going To Introduce Me To Your Friend?
Watch the video for 'Grün im Gesicht', directed by Max Kelan Pearce
Read the Heads on Sticks cover of I'm Not What I Was
Head to headsonsticks.co.uk for weekly write-ups on the latest releases in alternative and underground music, and keep up to date with the latest 'Ead 'appenings on Facebook, Instagram, and Mixcloud!
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Anyone with a scant awareness of Bristol’s thriving counter-culture will have seen Max Kelan Pearce's grubby fingerprints all over it, whether they realise it or not. Behind a myriad of aliases and projects across experimental video work, arcane alchemy, circuit-fried electronica, and now unleashing a bruising assault of EBM enclosed in a wire cage, sink your teeth into the twelfth episode of Heads on Sticks Chats as we pick the brains of the 'Avon-garde' stalwart and discuss the musical ensemble Avon Terror Corp, Catholic guilt, political scandal, and Smurfs Go Pop! Enjoy!
Follow Kelan on Instagram as well as his other projects Slack Alice, Salac, and Bad Tracking
Listen to Kelan's debut album Downtown
Watch the video for 'The Rag'
Watch the video for The Pop Group's 'Zipperface', directed by Kelan
Read the Heads on Sticks word on Downtown
Head to headsonsticks.co.uk for weekly write-ups on the latest releases in alternative and underground music, and keep up to date with the latest 'Ead 'appenings on Facebook, Instagram, and Mixcloud!
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Coming in from Munich we got punk-synth-disco duo Wildes for Chat #11! Crafting some of the most piquant and unique pop styles in years, with last year’s ‘Rawwr’ EP stuck on repeat at HEADHQ, join us as we explore their avant-pop world and talk rock gods, The Atomic Café, environmental disaster, and goldenes Eis!
Follow Wildes on Instagram and Facebook.
Listen to latest single 'Leger in Schwarz'
Read the Heads on Sticks write-up of debut EP Rawwr
Head to headsonsticks.co.uk for weekly write-ups on the latest releases in alternative and underground music, and keep up to date with the latest 'Ead 'appenings on Facebook, Instagram, and Mixcloud!
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
The Chats are back after a little June break and I'm delighted to natter with none other than New Jersey knucklepunk Reckless Randy! Lighting a fire underneath Ocean City’s puritanism with cloddish garage rock struts of boozin’, stealin’, and all manner of debaucherin’, crack open a cold one and discover the origins of the RR name, the brains behind the artwork, and a helluva lotta punk talk! Enjoy!
Listen to latest EP Neat Seeker
Follow Reckless Randy on Instagram
Head to headsonsticks.co.uk for weekly write-ups on the latest releases in alternative and underground music, and keep up to date with the latest 'ead 'appenings on Facebook, Instagram, and Mixcloud!
Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
Ninth chat up with experimental synth conjurer and Haord Records stalwart Brian Esser AKA Cabo Boing! Spending the best part of 20 years fomenting some of the strangest and unique slices of alien and gelatinous electronic music behind bizarre costumes, join us as we chew the fat on Fairlights, the merits of demystification, and a passionate reappraisal of Devo's Shout! Check it out!
Listen to new album Real Gems For Little Jewels
Follow Cabo Boing on Facebook and Instagram
Head to headsonsticks.co.uk for weekly write-ups on the latest releases in alternative and underground music, and keep up to date with the latest 'ead 'appenings on Facebook, Instagram, and Mixcloud!
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Eighth chat served pipin' hot as we explore the universe of Lule Mental Butter! The brains behind I Know I'm An Alien (whose responsible for the freaky sound interruptions for the podcast!) and a litany of offbeat aliases and side-projects, join us as we explore the method and the madness behind his expert craft of cartoon synth-skronk and surreal examinations of late-stage capitalism! Check it out!
Listen to latest EP Manteiga Mental
Watch all of Lule's D.I.Y. music videos on YouTube
Follow Lule Mental Butter on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Follow I Know I'm An Alien on Facebook and Instagram
Head to headsonsticks.co.uk for weekly write-ups on the latest releases in alternative and underground music, and keep up to date with the latest 'ead 'appenings on Facebook, Instagram, and Mixcloud!
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Chat #7 and the first for 2022 takes us to the heart of Nottingham's queer club scene for a natter with electro-spunk duo Arch Femmesis! Captivating the Midlands with their intoxicating blend of psychosensual performances and seductive synths, join me as we dive in their world and talk religion, the joys of intimidating middle-aged men, and a lengthy gab on Divine! Enjoy!
Follow Arch Femmesis on Instagram and Facebook
Pre-order Violents EP and listen to latest track 'Madusa'
Head to headsonsticks.co.uk for weekly write-ups on the latest releases in alternative and underground music, and keep up to date with the latest HoS 'appenings on Facebook, Instagram, and Mixcloud!
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Friday Nov 05, 2021
Our sixth Chat takes us to the melancholy epicentre of Bristol's darkwave community with New Haunts! A gothic project that encompasses synthpop, ethereal coldwave and bouts of industrial clangour, join me as I natter to the brains behind the South West gloom conjurer Alice Sheridan about the spectral residue of old worlds, her new side project Strange Futures, and a lengthy discussion on Weston-super-Mare's ghost train! Hope you dig it!
Listen to New Haunt's latest album Still Dark Sky
Listen to Strange Future's new single 'Visitor'
Follow New Haunts on Facebook and Instagram
Follow Strange Futures on Facebook and Instagram
Head to headsonsticks.co.uk for weekly write-ups on the latest releases in alternative and underground music, and keep up to date with the latest HoS 'appenings on Facebook, Instagram, and Mixcloud!
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
Saturday Oct 02, 2021
Is there anything he can't do!? An artist in the truest sense of the word, Làszò Antal's restless creative energy not only sees him craft some of the finest and stirring synthpop in the last decade with acts Sixth June and Diesein, but is also a much celebrated artist and film-maker responsible for all his videos and artwork. Being a long time fan of his work, I'm delighted to bring you the fifth Chat with a towering figure of modern, alternative pop! Enjoy!
Follow Làszlò Antal's daily diary project
Listen to Sixth June's new album 1984
Listen to Diesein's new album Even the Best are the Worst
Follow Diesein on Facebook
Follow Sixth June on Instagram and Facebook
Listen to Cult Club's Play With Lies
'Lame Excuses' song used with permission
Head to headsonsticks.co.uk for weekly write-ups on the latest releases in alternative and underground music, and keep up to date with the latest HoS 'appenings on Facebook, Instagram, and Mixcloud!
Friday Jul 30, 2021
Friday Jul 30, 2021
Fourth episode of 'Heads on Sticks Chats' features Game Boy punk miscreant Posterboy 2000! Making a nuisance of himself in the streets of Brooklyn crafting a punchy, bit-crushed variant of hardcore genuinely using Nintendo gear, we chat about the New York punk scene, his YouTube animation ventures, and how he acquired his nickname 'Questions'! Check it out!
Follow Posterboy 2000 on Instagram and Twitter
Listen to debut album Posterboy 2000
Head to headsonsticks.co.uk for weekly write-ups on the latest releases in alternative and underground music, and keep up to date with the latest HoS 'appenings on Facebook, Instagram, and Mixcloud!