HUMAN HEADS

Human Heads brush a demure fringe to one side and look you straight in the face…worship me like you worship the distant buttery sunlight of youth, it seems to say!' Joe Murray, Radio Free Midwich 'Equally funny and unsettling... The combination of cheap analogue keyboards played at invasive pitches, primitive percussion presets and cut-up vocals blurting private anxieties allies Human Heads to Industrial revolutionaries like Whitehouse and Throbbing Gristle. Alex Nielson, The Wire, October 2013.

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A selection of songs from our last gig at Cafe Oto up on their archive. Thanks to Rob Lye for organising the show & Abby Thomas at Oto for mixing the music. Enjoy!

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Our next gig is at Cafe Oto tomorrow (16/01) with Benedict Drew, Tom White & Marc Matter and Rob Lye. Should be a good’un.

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Some shiny copper topped shots of Human Heads from Uncanny Valley. Is it Trip Metal? Probably not, but we gave it a go.

Had an amazing time in Ghent and really enjoyed seeing Calhau! who were pretty amazing.

Thanks to Tom White and ‘Herrhanz’ for the photos.

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Best description ever. Had a great time with the Cops and Robbers gang in Leeds!

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LEEDS

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Excited to be playing this here festival in Ghent organised by those KRAAK lads and dedicated to the LA Free Music Society. We play on the 10th June with John Olsen & Nate Young of Wolf Eyes fame plus Airway. Going to be a cracker.

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“It’s the partnership that’s opening doors all over the world!”.

Human Heads playing the live music in Newcastle on the 5th December.

We used a silver lamé sheet to cover up a looming guitar (as is our way).

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Human Heads in Gateshead, Friday 4 December

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Our new tape - ‘Triggers’ - on Tanzprocesz has finally dropped and to top it all off it’s in a batch with our comrades Akke Phallus Duo. Pick one up from us or direct from Mr Tanzprocesz himself. HOLLO!

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Festival at Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung

Come for the Nina Power workshop on Feminism, Technology, Noise, stay for the Human Heads. 

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LONDON / THURSDAY 30 JULY

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MANCHESTER / FRIDAY

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We have a new tape coming up on the tanzprocesz label - sounds from the tape can be found on our sound clod. Hit it up! It’ll be coming out at the same time as a release from our pals Akke Phallus, which is exciting. Really pleased to be releasing this on such an ace label.

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We're playing this gig inside the ivory towers of Newcastle University with some v-v-v-ace people.

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goodnightpress

In 2010 we spent a month in Munich on a residency with Sarah Forrest and Guiseppe Mistretta which resulted in the book and exhibition 'Unsmoothmaking'. This is a collection of collaboratively authored stories that are supposed to be read and sung. The four of us performed this on the residency at Lothringer_Laden in Munich and at the 'Unsmoothmaking' exhibition in Glasgow, and then the book was closed. That is until Posset remixed it at a recent performance at the Caesura night in Edinburgh. I'm told that there might even be more renditions of in the future.

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Exciting free event coming up at Leeds Library on 7th March - Will Holder & Alex Waterman will be reading duets from the operas of Robert Ashley as part of the launch of a new book they have edited called 'Yes, But Is It Edible'. Here's what they have to say about it:

"Some years ago we proposed to Robert Ashley that musicians and non-musicians might produce new versions of his operas, by way of typographical scores. The bulk of this book is a result of that proposal: scores for Dust (1998) and Celestial Excursions (2003). These operas’ characters have, until now, been solely produced by and are the stories exchanged between Ashley and his “band” (singers Sam Ashley, Joan La Barbara, Thomas Buckner, and Jacqueline Humbert); in landscapes (technological, imaginary, acoustic, organisational, sonic, ocular) produced by “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Tom Hamilton, David Moodey, Cas Boumans, and Mimi Johnson—the result of a thirty-year relationship. Any “scores,” as such, weren’t written for this intimate readership. It hadn’t been considered that any one outside this “band” might produce this work.

The scores for Dust and Celestial Excursions are preceded by a selection of Ashley’s work, from 1963 to 2008, drawing attention to the varying relations between instruction and score, and the tones of instructional address. Working with these scores gave us a better sense of how each one produces a specific mode of decision-making, telling us what to put on the pages of the scores, for any reader who follows".

 And if that's not enough, I think the Crater Lake Festival will be offering up some choice out sounds that evening at the Wharf Chambers. Lucky Leeds.  

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Yeah You & Yours - 'Gimme The Nite'

Yeah You (but not Yours) played in our practice space in Hotspur House recently. Here they are jammin' through the Newcastle night life with only tapes players and their Geordie Jumpers to keep them warm

'Dark's flurry is intensely localized in heaving shifts of decimated subjectivity obliteratedly fragmented into a fluid congenial, yawning its joy down the tube,…'