Art is ephemeral. The text changes out from under you. Particularly when the text is a Severed Heads album.
Read More
Tag: Severed Heads
2019 in music: your comprehensive and reliable global guide.
The punishment of luxury is in the air for all to see. And it’s ugly now, and it’s getting worse every day. Hey! Hey! Hey!
Read More
Severed Heads: If I’ve Told You Once I’ve Told You A 1,000 Times (1987).
From the cellulose nitrate days of music video.
Read More
Links: Spotify metadata, VU meters, songwriting camps, Disney defends fair use, the history of Smash Hits.
Twenty deadly diseases.
Read More
Snog and Severed Heads — Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 5 November 2017
Severed Heads, Snog, frogs and Ikea rats.
Read More
Links: Frank Zappa ad jingles, runout grooves, AACS keys leaked, old Severed Heads.
And headphones up your nose.
Read More
Links: Sgt. Pepper, Raincoats, Severed Heads on DAWs, Tommy Keene RIP.
These are places that are gone.
Read More
Severed Heads: Donut (2017). A single you can play as a CD or on a turntable.
Why? Tom Ellard, pretty much.
Read More
Severed Heads, Boxcar, Single Gun Theory and the Volition Records package tour.
I’ve seen Severed Heads three times. First time was Perth in late ‘91 on the Volition Records “An Intro To Techno” package tour. At this point “techno” still specifically referred to original Detroit techno; the pounding four-on-the-floor stuff the KLF were topping the charts with was various hyphenations of “-house”. Volition almost certainly meant something a bit more like “industrial”, but for some reason people then seemed reluctant to say that word with a straight face.
Read More
Fans just want to wear your skin.
Oldies but goodies from Tom Ellard of Severed Heads, on the trouble with fan spaces (I was on the email list version for a
Read More
Gary Numan and Severed Heads, Forum, Melbourne, May 14, 2011
The Forum is one of Melbourne’s many stylish venues. Built in the 1920s it has a baroque level of art nouveau features with a
Read More
Review: Severed Heads – Dendy Cinema, Sydney, Wed 19th June 2002
I’ve seen a lot of the stuff before over the years but It’s All Good, and Tom Ellard (and I presume Stephen Jones) did a sterling effort transcribing it all to VCD for the big cinema screen. I think the coarse resolution of the old stuff just makes it look more organic and gritty, and suits the nature of the thing. Others disagreed, but some geeks just won’t be told.
Read More