INCOMING

Going to New York tomorrow.  Three dudes and a makeshift manager versus the mighty US of A.  That's assuming they let us in - both Betamax and Vaughn Stokes are currently sporting the wrong sort of beard, and Jordan is bound to cause offense one way or another.

But assuming we do make it to the 3000 heads unknowingly awaiting us at Show #1 in Buffalo, we'll be banging out a couple of new ones, one of which is pretty odd, and then we'll probably do something like this too:

Should you see us wondering the streets of Manhattan, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Covington, Brooklyn, Manchester Tennessee, New Hope Pennsylvania, Philadelphia again, or Toronto, do please come say hi.  We'll probably give you a lighter that says Hot Head Show on it.

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London Rumble

So the show tonight is at an underground wrestling event in Hackney Wick - 92 Whitepost Lane E9 5EN - look for handwritten signs guiding you in off the street.

It cost a tenner and the only rule is that if you come in, you have to fight. We'll be playing an extended set with a heavy jam feel in keeping with the action as it happens. Should be a banger.

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The Lemon EP

   

Here at last the Lemon EP is made fully available for listening, downloading, embedding, inbedding, inthekitchening, or wherever.  The first track is the whole EP as intended - one seventeen minute strip of ballsout bangbang.  But for those who'd rather have the tracks individually, the record can now be downloaded as such from this same player.  It's all free, but should land right there in iTunes next to the music you paid good money for.  The HARD COPY of this EP, costing about a tenner, will contain three extra tracks - Ritalin, Some Money, and Circumspangle #1, and probably a lovely sticker too.  It will also be housed in appropriately nifty packaging, which is being scored and die-cut as we speak:

couple more live ones

   HOTEL ROOM - Live in Berlin by HOT HEAD SHOW
   

    PAYLOAD - Live in Milan by HOT HEAD SHOW

Back

Now back in London with a cup of Normal Tea in an honest block of flats.  Europe was overwhelmingly good to us.  Those European people laughed at all our jokes and enthused mercilessly.  They gave us more beer than we could drink, more ham and cheese slices than we could fold into little baps, and they bought more CDs than we had to sell.  We had to get another 500 made in Berlin, pressed by a nice girl who apparently sounded hot on the phone.

The shows were occasionally shit but mostly hella.  Live EP and various bits & video pieces are now being masticated furiously, should be ready soon.  And then there's this next tour - Colonel Claypool has now formally requested that we open his shows in the US this summer.  Which begs the question - are the people of America ready for bang bang?  Whilst we scratch our chins over that, why don't you look at these:

Tour: Germany

Tour: Day 592

Its all in Italy. Init!

Hot Head Show! Capisce!

KOKO

Claypool Tour Day 1:

What Goes Round

Finished another tune today, soon to be on merch stands across Europe.  Thought I'd stick it up here first, just for those of you brave enough to have ventured beyond the myspace...

What Goes Round  by  HOT HEAD SHOW

In just over two weeks we'll be performing this song in this building in Koln, Deutschland:

Fuckin Hella.

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Readying for the Road

Much to do round here.  Fresh bouquet of new tunes to prune, all manner of emails to people big and small, and which of these lighters is better....?

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Tea Time

Autocare

The soiled remnants of a party above an auto shop, deep into a January night in Clapton.

That Betamax Sound

This week, my word - for the first time in the history of Hot Head Show, our drummer showed up at Headquarters proclaiming that a song had been written and that he himself had written it.  He tried to explain his concept for the tune, which made no sense at all.  But knowing the boy to be a better drummer than he is an explainer, the recording machine was wheeled into the room, and Betamax laid down first a guitar part, then the drums.
 
   Max's Rhythm  by  HOT HEAD SHOW

It needs a little work, but is going to be very banging indeed.  This is one of five new tunes now being whittled lovingly in a basement in Dalston, splurges of which are bound to end up on here over the next few weeks.  And I'm pretty sure I've got a new batch of live videos knocking around here somewhere.

It's Official

So yeah, we're going to open for Les Claypool across Europe in March.   The tour starts at Koko in Camden on the 8th March, from whence we'll proceed unto the Continent.  Ten cities in twelve days.

This all started a few weeks ago, when we managed to score Mr Claypool's email address, and took it upon ourselves to pitch him our shit.  As it happened he had a European tour coming up, and the need for a nifty little trio to warm up his crowds whilst they're checking their coats and getting a round in.  But between the Yes from Les and the final confirmation there has passed a tense two weeks of Probably Maybe, whilst the booking agent and promoters checked the myspace, weighed us up against their favorite local bands, and punched numbers into the calculators on their blackberries, all the while murmuring secretively.

But as of this afternoon, it's officially a thing.  Koko is already sold out, and the other dates are going fast - if you're an Italian Head or a German or Swiss Head, you best run straight down to the ticket shop.  For American and Canadian Heads, and our original UK Heads who bin there from day, there will inevitably be a steady stream of blog continuing to gush frantically at your face and dribble down your chin and onto your trendy little shoes.  There will also be MUSIC - our most pressing objective, before we start thinking about how we're going to feed ourselves on this tour, is to bang out some new SHOWTUNES.

Here's Jordan and Vaughn discussing concepts:
   

   

And Betamax is considering doing this in one of the new tunes:

So watch out for that.

      

It's Mungrul Music

THIS WEDNESDAY:

It's MUNGRUL MUSIC

It's MUNGRUL MUSIC.

HOT HEAD SHOW | MySpace Music Videos
HOT HEAD SHOW | MySpace Music Videos

House

Newsflash

It's looking increasingly likely that Hot Head Show will be touring Europe with Les Claypool in a few weeks' time.  Hoorah.  More soon.
 

Leeds

Played MOOSEWRENCH up in LEEDS.  Looked a lot like this:

[click them and they get bigger]

Brixton

Snow

The LEMON EP

That old link to the old EP now having reached its download quota, here's a new link to the old EP, with the new EP set to be released within the next couple of weeks. Listen right here, or download and open in iTunes or whatever.

The Lemon EP  by  HOT HEAD SHOW

One Opinion

Moose Factory Top 10 Live Acts of 2009 [Click Here]


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wha wha wha whaaa

   Donkey BVs  by  HOT HEAD SHOW

Transit

Big Bear Mountain

Los Angeles

Some Photos

Drugs are not the only solution

Kitchen Show

A few minutes of footage have surfaced, recounting this peculiar outing in glorious low-definition.  It was a few weeks ago now - after a pretty deep Super Best Friends Club show in Dalston, we darted across town to this basement kitchen to plant some bangers and mash right there on the lino.

The Daddy

This is being put up here partly to counter Vaughn's grizzly little video selection a few days ago, and partly because it might actually be the best music film ever.  Spiritually, Hot Head Show is little more than a Raymond Scott covers band - we're willing to own up to at least a third of this video's 82,000 views, and would advise you to google that shit.

2 Shows and another 86 hours in the studio

In summary:
The new guy is so right on you wouldn't believe.
Betamax's girlfriend's band is also actually pretty good.
Jordan is nearly ready to stop arsing around with the new tracks, but not quite.
Drummer and bass player now live in small flat above a Costcutter with only mild
rodent infestation, though unless bass player finds a job pronto he'll be back on
guitarist's sofa, where rodent issues are more severe, before the end of the month.
Here's what it all looks like:

The Lemon EP

Our first batch of recordings are now being offered to you here, on the condition that you pay us absolutely NOTHING, but that you also resolve to attend a real live HOT HEAD SHOW before you find that you are old and think the kids on X-Factor are actually not bad.


Click the thing up top there, whack it on your iPod and incorporate these five odd little songs into your civilian activities as best you can.


The plan is to make an expanded version with extra tracks and **!EXCLUSIVE VIDEO CONTENT!** available as a physical CD release some time soon.  And then there's these new tracks we've been recording:

Those ones are being mixed every day after school, and should be ready for you to play to all your friends within the next couple of weeks.
Love,
Jordan

Week One

So the kid arrived.  And we like him.  He came pre-loaded with all our material as played on the record, so in theory all we have to do is cover the directions things are likely to go once we get to Showtime.  This shouldn't pose too much of a problem - it seems that against all odds, and in addition to his ninja skills, Vaughn Stokes is a bit of a badboy on the bass.

At some point we're going to have to turn our attention to his need for a job and somewhere to live, but for now he seems happy to potter around Hotheadquarters humming Jaco Pastorius licks (a habit I'll soon beat out of him) and scoring gigs - the kid must have emailed 50 promoters in his first two days.  Hard as I try to break him down with dirt and disillusionment, he continues to splurge smiles and enthusiasm all over every challenge in his path - at 18 years of age, he is an unstoppable torrent of Yes.

What ever happened to Hot Head Show?

Things have been relatively quiet in the HHS corner for a couple of months now.  The more astute among you may be wondering what happened to that groovy little band to which you once so heartily headscratched.

The bald truth is that there have been some personnel changes here at HotHeadquarters.  Bass Player Number One, Mr Stan Dudley, was discovered to be making unnervingly gratuitous films about fruit juice that were so off-brand, so genuinely disturbingly sticky, that we had to let him go.  His replacement, the Most Deeply Progrooverant Jonah Brody, ended up getting sponsored by the Balinese government to relocate to the Indonesian School of Gamelan and Shadow-Puppetry, where he now lives in a mango grove reading Anna Karenina and nursing chronic diarrhea.

There is however a glimmer on the horizon, a glimmer which we might suppose by the nature of its approach to be of not inconsiderably monstrous significance.  A young Canadian player by the name of Vaughn Stokes, having caught wind of the low-end deficit crippling his favorite band, has taken it upon himself to leave his home town of Victoria BC, to travel the 4769 miles to East London, leaving behind his hot girlfriend and his steady job scrubbing woks in a noodle franchise, in the hope that Hot Head Show will accept him into its ranks.  Hot Head Show has vigorously discouraged all such folly, but Vaughn Stokes has made up his mind.

We, the two surviving Showmen, have thus far never met Mr Stokes.  Since his first email correspondence with us just a few weeks ago, we have been assured that he knows the parts inside and out.  The data from Youtube's analytical tools, which show hundreds of plays of our various live videos to have originated from an IP address in British Columbia, would seem to at least reinforce the possibility.

But can the kid really play?  What are the chances of his not being a ignant little shit?  Might he to any extent be homicidal?  The fate of this band has taken such strange turns of late that it seems sensible to begin some record of this here henceforth.  As I type, Vaughn Stokes hurtles high above the Atlantic - in a few hours he'll arrive in London with nothing but a duffel bag, a black fretless Fender Jazz bass, and this band.  Surely he won't last long.