Githead

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Take Off 05:20 Tools
Drop 04:41 Tools
On Your Own 03:48 Tools
Drive By 03:42 Tools
These Days 03:58 Tools
To Have And To Hold 03:53 Tools
Lifeloops 03:17 Tools
Faster 04:30 Tools
All Set Up 04:30 Tools
Landing 03:54 Tools
Space Life 05:31 Tools
Jet Ear Game 04:10 Tools
Rotterdam 03:34 Tools
Before Tomorrow 04:10 Tools
Darkest Star 05:05 Tools
Live In Your Head 07:42 Tools
Ride 04:03 Tools
Over The Limit 03:26 Tools
From My Perspective 03:18 Tools
Lightswimmer 05:34 Tools
Craft is Dead 03:40 Tools
My LCA (Little Box of Magic) 03:50 Tools
Option Paralysis 05:26 Tools
Displacement & Time 04:09 Tools
Fake Corpses 03:38 Tools
Alpha 05:55 Tools
They Are 03:39 Tools
Transmission Tower 07:47 Tools
Reset 04:00 Tools
Cosmology for Beginners 04:25 Tools
Profile 03:38 Tools
Antiphon 04:46 Tools
Pylons 03:27 Tools
Wallpaper 05:40 Tools
12 Buildings 02:31 Tools
Not Coming Down 07:14 Tools
Raining Down 07:14 Tools
Bringing The Sea To The City 07:14 Tools
To Somewhere 07:14 Tools
For The Place We're In 07:14 Tools
Air Dancing 07:14 Tools
Slow Creatures 07:14 Tools
Today 07:14 Tools
Waiting For a Sign 05:18 Tools
What If? 05:18 Tools
To Have & To Hold - live @ QEH 03:58 Tools
This Is A Cause (These Are Effects) - B*ST*RD Mix 05:18 Tools
Antiphon - Live @ QEH 05:24 Tools
My LCA 04:04 Tools
This Is A Cause (These Are Effects) B*St*Rd Mix 04:04 Tools
To Have & To Hold (Live At Queen Elizabeth Hall 14/03/05) 04:04 Tools
Antiphon (Live At Queen Elizabeth Hall 14/03/05) 04:04 Tools
My LC-A (Little Box of Magic) 03:53 Tools
Option Paralysis (MP3) 03:53 Tools
Githead - Drop 03:53 Tools
3. To Have & to Hold (MP3) 03:53 Tools
Profile - 22.04.04 03:38 Tools
Bringing The Sea To The City (Radio Edit) 03:38 Tools
To Have & To hold - 25.02.04 03:38 Tools
Githead - My LCA 03:38 Tools
Over The Limit (6 Music Session, 16th Dec 2009) 03:38 Tools
Lightswimmer (6 Music Session, 16th Dec 2009) 03:38 Tools
Take Off (6 Music Session, 16th Dec 2009) 03:38 Tools
Pylons (2005) 00:00 Tools
Over The Limit [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
Antiphon - Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall 00:00 Tools
To Have And To Hold - Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall 00:00 Tools
To Have & To Hold (live) 03:38 Tools
This Is A Cause (These Are Effects) B*ST*RD remix 03:38 Tools
To Have And To Hold - Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall - 14.03.05 00:00 Tools
Fake Corpses (MP3) 00:00 Tools
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The appearance of Githead and the release of their debut EP Headgit in 2004 surprised many, not only because of the unlikely 'front line' of Wire's Colin Newman (guitar/vocals), Minimal Compact's Malka Spigel (bass, vocals) and Scanner's Robin Rimbaud (guitar), but also due to the band's cyclic, hypnotic funkiness, not to mention their avant-pop sensibility. The band's genesis was in the proverbial 'one off' as part of the celebrations of Newman's record label Swim's 10th anniversary, but it quickly became apparent that the band was more than a mere collection of individuals and that it was able to generate its own style with an ease that escapes many better-starred collaborations. Initially 'drummerless', the band wrote and rehearsed in Swim's otherwise over-cramped studio from the outset, thus guaranteeing that all outbreaks of creative genius could be instantly recorded. This meant that as well as building up a repertoire, the band was also recording towards an end of released material, and subsequently able to fairly rapidly develop enough finished material to enable selections to be made for release. Thus the debut EP Headgit was released before the band had played its third gig, and material towards the debut album, 2005's Profile was already in the works before the band had even played two gigs! The first three shows were performed without a live drummer, but it had always been the band's intention to be able play with live drums. Various applicants were considered, but in the end it was perhaps inevitable that Max Franken from Malka's band Minimal Compact would be the man to fill the drum stool. The 4 piece released their sophomore effort, Art POP in 2007. INFORMATION FROM THE GITHEAD WEBSITE Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.