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This product is a Pre Order and is scheduled to be released 24th January 2025

This product is available on preorder with a limited discounted price.

Michael Head and The Strands - The Magical World of The Strands

€30,95

This product is available on pre order with a limited discounted price.

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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.

Edition Info

• Available on limited (1000 copies) Cream/White colour vinyl.
• First ever colour pressing.
• New Gold Foil embossed artwork

Tracklisting

1. Queen Matilda
2. Something Like You
3. And Luna
4. X HitsThe 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

Scheduled: 24 January 2025

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When is this released?

Michael Head and The Strands - The Magical World of The Strands is available for Pre Order now and has a scheduled release date of 24th January 2025.

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