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Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band

Adios Senor Pussycat (2024 Reissue)

180g black lp - £22.99 | Buy
Beautiful and evocative and recorded in his home-town of Liverpool between March 2016 and June 2017, the album is the culmination of four years of hard work.
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band

Loophole

limited pink lp - £24.99 | Buy
black lp - £25.99 | Buy

cd - £13.99 | Buy

limited light blue lp - £25.99 | Buy
From Shack and The Strands to The Pale Fountains and the Red Elastic Band, Michael Head has bewitched, enchanted, bewildered, and entranced us with his subtle i...
Ciao Ciao Bambino

Michael Head

Ciao Ciao Bambino

Nine Eight Books
  • Limited Signed Hardback book (pre-order)

    Expected Release: 14th Aug 2025

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  • Hardback book (pre-order)

    Expected Release: 14th Aug 2025

    £22.00
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The life story of Michael Head, a man who the NME once described as 'our greatest songwriter'.

For over forty years, Michael Head has been creating inspirational music that is rooted in the streets of Liverpool. He formed Pale Fountains w ith his friend Chris McCaffrey in the early 1980s, and then after McCaffrey tragically died from a brain tumour, he went on to create Shack with his brother John. But during a career that has been beset with tragedy, addiction, loss and bad luck, Head has continued to create exceptional music - and in 2022 he had his biggest commercial success with Red Elastic Band's Dear Scott. This is Head's story. It is a story of growing up in Liverpool, of thwarted dreams, self-sabotage, chronic substance abuse, homelessness and brushes with death. It is also a story of an under-appreciated genius, of transcendental songs and the healing pow er of art and music and family and love. This is the life-affirming story of Michael Head, told in his own poetic voice, a man who walked barefoot over broken glass for forty years before the world caught up with what the faithful already knew : this man is Britain's greatest songwriter.