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Heads on Sticks Chats
by Heads on Sticks
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 BilliamArtwork by Jame MendenhallSound collages and interferences by I Know I’m An Alien
Episodes
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Chat #23 KARL D'SILVA!
Last Chat of the year and it’s an absolute pleasure to feature Rotherham industrial mage Karl D'Silva! A stalwart of the avant-garde boasting collaborations with Vanishing and GNOD, debut album ‘Love Is A Flame In The Dark’ suffuses his penchant for abrasive, post-punk sonics with soulful,...
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Chat #22 XENO & OAKLANDER!
Chat #22 up, and delighted to feature minimal-synth stalwarts Xeno & Oaklander! Formed in the mid-2000s over a shared love of early coldwave electronic music, Sean McBride and Liz Wendelbo have been conjuring essential cuts of glacial and ethereal synthpop and forging a reputation for solely...
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Chat #21 MARTIN DUPONT!
Chat 21 featuring none other than Marseille synth pop legend Alain Séghir from Martin Dupont Formed in 1980, the trio cut a distinctly colourful and dramatic take on new wave, each of their original two albums and EP fauvist shocks of passion, romance, and mysterious intrigue, transcending genres...
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Chat #20 VR SEX!
Chat 20 incoming and the first of the year with dystopian acid punk ‘Noel Skumm’ from VR Sex! Unleashing massive hefts of enveloping power-pop soaked in Chrome-like radiation and electro-discolouration, Skumm’s lyrical anxieties surrounding tech’s suffusion with humanity and the queasy…
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Chat #19 ALISON STATTON!
Nineteenth Chat incoming with Young Marble Giants singer Alison Statton! Carving a distinctly serene and spectral voice fronting the band’s nocturnal minimalism, their classic album with Rough Trade Records, ‘Colossal Youth’ remains a gem from the U.K. post-punk wave. Collaborating on a string of...
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Chat #18 ZOLAR X!
Chat #18 has beamed down to Earth with none other than Ygarr Ygarrist from alien rockers Zolar X! Landing at the cusp of glam and fuelled by Ziggy, Star Trek, and a healthy disdain for double denimed hippie stagnation, Ygarr, their mime-robotic frontman Zory Zenith, and a revolving door of...
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Chat #17 PAUL BARKER!
Chat 17 up with none other than post-punk industrial legend Paul Barker! A longtime former member of Ministry during their 80s and 90s heyday, in addition to a plethora of monikers and collaborations with Wax Trax! Records and beyond, join us fresh off his new album ‘The Eternal Present’ for…
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Chat #16 CHRIS COWEY!
Chat #16 incoming with none other than U.K. music TV legend Chris Cowey! Attached to seminal music shows The Tube and The White Room, his tenure as Director and Executive Producer of Top of the Pops 97-03 heralded the iconic show’s ‘last hurrah’ and helped deliver a litany of classic performances...
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Chat #15 TOMMY COSSACK!
Fifteenth Chat up with Peckham weirdo punk Tommy Cossack! With a string of EPs behind him drenched in expert DIY garage and sarcastic explorations of cultural inertia, come get acquainted with the self-described "cheeseslice" in preparation for the upcoming Degenerators debut album and join us as...
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Chat #14 SYZYGY!
The Chats are back and I’m delighted to kick things off for the year chin wagging with one half of Aussie synthpop duo Syzygy's Rebecca Maher! Both stalwarts of the Melbourne punk scene, join us as we explore their journey from scrappy synthpunk to buoyant electro pop, check it out! Follow Syzygy...
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Chat #13 CONCENTRATION!
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)…
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Chat #12 KELAN!
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...
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Chat #11 WILDES!
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,...
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Chat #10 RECKLESS RANDY!
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...
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Chat #9 CABO BOING!
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…
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Chat #8 LULE MENTAL BUTTER!
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...
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Chat #7 ARCH FEMMESIS!
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,...
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Chat #6 NEW HAUNTS!
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...
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Chat #5 LÀSZLÒ ANTAL!
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…
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Chat #4 POSTERBOY 2000!
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…
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Chat #3 ANGRY BLACKMEN!
Third Chat features Chicago noise duo Angry Blackmen! Cutting a particularly abrasive mutation of hip hop replete with corrosive social commentary and biting humour that's thrust them firmly to the fore of vital, punk infused rap, we discuss everything from their method and inspirations to...
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Chat #2 KLYPI!
Klypi is a synthpuck enigma wrapped in a queer industrial mystery. One of the many aliases of UGA graduate AC Carter, they're also the brains behind Ad•verse Fest and a key name in the burgeoning Athens art community. Was a pleasure to spend an hour chatting about their method, inspirations,...
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Chat #1 BILLIAM!
It's an absolute honour to host the very first 'Heads on Sticks Chats' nattering with Melbourne synth-punker and all round lo-fi miscreant Billiam! With his tentacles attached to a slew of crackin' bands including Disco Junk, Tor, Aggressive Hugger, Collective Hardcore, Sylvie S, Weird! and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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 BilliamArtwork by Jame MendenhallSound collages and interferences by I Know I’m An Alien
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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...
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