The Magical World of The Strands

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Label: Megaphone
Release Date: 24th January

An essential part of the Michael Head/Shack universe finally back on vinyl. One for the Head Heads. 

NOW COMES WITH NEW GOLD FOIL EMBOSSED ARTWORK. (BOTH VINYL VARIANTS)

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.

Tracklist: 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. Fontilan