View basket “Strachan & Griffiths” has been added to your basket. The Magical World of The Strands Michael Head and The Strands SKU: LPMEGA24 Barcode: 666017292014 24.00 £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: Megaphone Released Date: 29th July 2015 Buying Format: 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info ALL-TIME CLASSIC. SET TO BE ONE OF 2015’s MOST SOUGHT-AFTER REISSUES. New liner notes by Michael Head & 20pp booklet LP version comes in Gatefold, 180g vinyl with 20pp booklet About “The magical world of the strands” : “AS THE MAGICAL WORLD SO CONCLUSIVELY PROVES HE DESERVES THE WORLD” (9/10 NME 1997) “THE RAREST JEWEL OF THE 90S” (Q 2014) NME `LIKE NICK DRAKE STRUMMING ALONG WITH THE STONE ROSES.” – **** GUARDIAN “ONE OF THE FURTHEST REACHING ENGLISH GUITAR RECORDS THIS DECADE.” – **** Q “INCREDIBLY AFFECTING, A STAGGERING ALBUM. – **** UNCUT “Regarded by many as the equal of the STONE ROSES debut.” – **** THE TIMES 2015 is a busy year for Michael Head His second record as ‘Michael Head and the Red Elastic Band’ has just been released on his own label, Violette – ‘Velvets in the Dark’ 7 inch single. Shack’s 1990 single ‘I Know You Well’ opens ‘Perfect Motion’, Jon Savage’s 2LP compilation as “a musical return-trip to these fondly remembered years spanning 1988-93”. Plus, Megaphone is set to reissue ‘The Magical World of The Strands’ in its original form, with the addition of a 20- page booklet, including new liner notes by Michael Head himself and photographs testifying to the album’s sleeve workin- progress. Queen Matilda (demo) was recorded in early 1993 and produced by the band’s friend and live engineer Ian Eastwood on a 4-track Tascam cassette recorder. Alongside this reissue comes ‘The Olde World’, an exclusive new album of recordings from the same sessions. Last but not least, Michael plans his first gigs as ‘Michael Head & The Strands’ promising to play his classic album ‘The Magical World of The Strands’ in full. After 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-time 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 left 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 section for sessions in Sheffield, Stephane Bismuth founded a new label Megaphone and finally released ‘The Magical World of The Strands’, in autumn of 1997. This work-in-progress comprising sketches, rough mixes and fully orchestrated tracks, garnered great critical acclaim and is still rated by many as the “rarest jewel of the 90s”, Q Magazine Artist Michael Head and The Strands Genre Folk Label Megaphone Buying Options 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Format 1LP , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Queen Matilda 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. 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