FILTER REISSUES
Head start for happiness
The Liverpool bard’s first great band.
By Keith Cameron.
Ploughmen’s lunch: The Pale Fountains in 1983, (from left) Chris McCaffery, Andy Diagram, Thomas Whelan, Mick Head.
The Pale Fountains
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★★★★
Pacific Street
★★★★
…From Across The Kitchen Table
VIRGIN/UMC. LP
A GRAPHIC timeline of Mick Head’s fivedecade life in music would hardly plot the conventional route to success. Yet amid his various groups’ serially shifting line-ups, the aborted or unreleased recordings, the bursts of activity interspersed with disappearing acts, and only occasional Pyrrhic victories, the actual music has been reliably consistent. In 1982, Head’s first band The Pale Fountains recorded versions of both Love’s Maybe The People Would Be The Times and John Barry’s We Have All The Time In The World. Forty years later, Michael Head And The Red Elastic Band’s Dear Scott, MOJO’s Album of 2022, was still firmly rooted in those same gold-toned, cosmic pop paradigms.