A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The alt-rock supergroup Githead consists of four veteran scenesters: Colin Newman of legendary art-pop act Wire, Malka Spiegel and Max Franken from Israeli rock-exotica band Minimal Compact, plus electronica pioneer Robin Rimbaud (a.k.a. Scanner ). The band came together almost as a lark in 2004, performing a few shows and recording some fairly experimental songs, but over the past three years, Githead...
The STA Official Label Blog Of Thoughts And Stuff® (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Courtesy Group Tradesman Entrance Ma Doocey CD "Visceral debut from Brummagem grinesters beloved of Messrs Cooper Clarke & Peel, ("Strong spikey stuff I'd say!"). Githead Landing Swim Githead is a group whose members are Colin Newman (Wire), Malka Spigel and Max Franken (Minimal Compact) and Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner). ‘Landing’ is their third album of sparkling, sophisticated...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Colin Newman, the vocalist and songwriter of Wire, has returned to his side project Githead after last year's Object 47 , the 47th release by Wire (Newman sure loves his smarmy names). Githead, also featuring Max Franken of Israeli punk band Minimal Compact and Scanner's Robin Rimbaud, was formed in 2004 and released an EP and two full albums in the next few years. The band has just announced Landing...
RCRD LBL (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
(Photo: Frank Lievaart) “Landing,” the title track from Githead ’s November album , cruises along at a steady clip, a muscular, smooth, droning, mesmerizing rock tune. In other words, it kind of doesn’t make sense. When you discover that the London band is made up of Colin Newman (frontman of art-punk legends Wire ), Robin Rimbaud (the veteran sound artist known as Scanner...
Baggage Reclaim (Free subscription) | 25/07/2009
I really enjoyed this post on Steve Dinsdale's blog. Steve is another old friend of mine from the North East, and in this post he somehow manages to encapsulate leaving school, discovering music, first playing in a band, and the mightiest of all years for music - 1979. Includes great pictures and some of the music he and his chums (including Mark Spybey and my cousin brotherturold ) made. A splendid...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 25/06/2009
Sled Island extends to this Sunday, with 200 bands on the roster, including the Breeders, Anvil and Holy F—-, the Toronto outfit who drew controversy last week because a poster for the festival spelled out their name. Newman called Holy F—- a brilliant band and is also looking forward to a performance by Calgary band Women and L.A. band Health. He himself will be playing in a project called...
The Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
An interview with Colin Newman and The Drill . Fab.
The Gowanus Lounge (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Check out Colin Newman, Bruce Gilbert, Graham Lewis and Robert Gotobed, aka Wire–one of the most important bands in rock history–performing one of our favorite Wire songs on TV in 1979. Oh, yes.
Staring at the Apocalypse (Free subscription) | 26/12/2008
Duet Emmo - Or So It Seems (Mute, 1983) "Duet Emmo was a one off collaboration between Daniel Miller, Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert spawning an album and single, both titled ‘Or So it Seems’ in 1983. Lewis and Gilbert were both members of Wire until 1979 when the band split up. All three had been friends for a long time. They had all been using the same studio, Blackwing, and the...
donewaiting.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Having done one of these top tens every year for some time now, looking back it's hard to recall a year as pervasively boring in terms of music as 2007. There were few new ideas from new places, while veteran acts (Arcade Fire, Spoon, Radiohead, Wilco, etc.) seemed content to merely meet expectations rather than [...]
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