Michael Head and The Strands - The Magical World of The Strands: Ltd Cream Vinyl

Michael Head and The Strands - The Magical World of The Strands: Ltd Cream Vinyl, with Gold Foil Embossed Artwork

THIS S A PRE ORDER: RELEASE DATE: 24th January 2025

AZer a couple of demos for the French promoter who paired him with his childhood
hero Love’s Arthur Lee in 1992, Pale Fountains and Shack legend Michael Head
entered a Liverpool recording studio the following year, with a new project in mind,
‘The Strands’. Michael teamed up with his brother and lifelong companion, John, his
long-Mme drummer Iain Templeton and two new recruits, Michelle Brown on bass
and Les Roberts on flute. The recording sessions would last two years and were only
halted because Michael was offered a new major label deal. A deal, not for his
current work, but for him to record as Shack again.

So it came to be that Stephane Bismuth, the French promoter, was leZ with 100 or so
minutes of a thwarted project, only a third of which had made it to the mixing studio
in Sheffield in the summer of ‘95.
Patch-working and weaving rough mixes and sketches – by engineer Steve Powell,
made in Liverpool – with completed mixes by producer Mark Coyle who had hired an
arranger and string secMon for sessions in Sheffield, Stephane Bismuth founded a
new label Megaphone and finally released ‘The Magical World of The Strands’, in
autumn of 1997.

“ONE OF THE 1990'S GREAT LOST ALBUMS..MORE REDOLENT OF SUMMER-OF-LOVE
SAN FRANCISCO THAN BRITPOP MERSEYSIDE...A CLASSIC...” - SUNDAY TIMES 'MUST-
HAVE REISSUE'.

Label: Megaphone

Cat. No. LPMEGA24X

TRACKLIST

1. Queen MaMlda
2. Something Like You
3. And Luna
4. X Hits The Spot
5. The Prize
6. Undecided (Reprise)
7. Glynys and Jaqui
8. It's Harvest Time
9. Loaded Man
10. Hocken's Hay
11. Fontilan