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John & Mick Head play the Summer Pops

Mick & John Head play the summer pops

John Head plays the Liverpool Summer Pops Festival Live and Un-Plugged @ The Bluecoat on the 9th July, support from Danny Jonnes.

Mick Head plays the Liverpool Summer Pops Festival Live and Un-Plugged @ The Bluecoat on the 31st July, support from Eva Petersen.

Tickets for the Liverpool Summer Pops Festival 2009 Are available from The Blue Coat call: 0151 702 7770 and Ticketline call: 0151 256 5555

Michael Head on tour

  • 6th Dec - Glasgow- The Twisted Wheel - Michael Head Solo Show
  • 18th Dec - Liverpool - Carling Academy - Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
  • 20th Dec - Leeds - Rio's the Venue - Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band

THE PALE FOUNTAINS

Exclusive session and interview with Mick, John and Andy recorded for Dave Monk's show on BBC radio Merseyside. Listen in on Sunday 27th Jan between 8 & 10pm.

Tonights show (Liverpool, The Musical) will be broadcast live from the Echo Arena on Radio Merseyside from 8pm. SHACK will be performing Pull Together with an 80 piece strong Philharmonic Orchestra.

SHACK confirmed for two Liverpool Arena shows in January

12th January - as part of the 'Liverpool, The Musical' extravaganza, which begins on the 11th outside St. George's plateau with a 'bringing the culture award home ceremony', SHACK have been asked to perform PULL TOGETHER as part of the arena show.They will perform with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The show promises to be something to remember: a spectacle the likes of which Liverpool has never seen, and we are proud to be a part of it.

19th January - as part of the 'No. 1 Project Live' SHACK have been asked to perform their contribution to the album, an amazing version of The beatles classic 'DAY TRIPPER' alongsideone of their own (as yet unchosen) songs.You can hear DAY TRIPPER tonight exclusively on The Pool With Dave Monks, on Radio Merseyside 95.8 FM, 1485 AM & DAB

SHACK to support The Coral

Shack have been confirmed as special guests to The Coral on 14th Dec at Liverpool Carling Academy

THE PALE FOUNTAINS REFORM

To mark more than 25 years since the formation of The Pale Fountains, Mick has decided to schedule two 'once in a lifetime' performances to commemorate the anniversary.

The gigs will be at the Liverpool Carling Academy (2nd Feb) and London Shepherd's Bush Empire (3rd Feb).

Tickets go on sale this Friday (9th Nov) and are £17.50.

Shack on the Radio

Shack will be on Janice Long's show at 12 - 3am Friday November 9th on Radio 2.

Gig News

We regret to announce that the gig in Norwich on Sunday 4th November has been cancelled, refunds will be given to all ticket holders.

Instore Changes

There have been a few changes to the instore times and dates the list below has been updated to reflect this.

Shack special Session

SHACK are recording a special session for Billy Sloan Sun 30th Sept for Clyde FM - 8pm

Shack - Time Machine Out Today

Shack on Dave Monks tonight

Just a reminder to everyone - The Shack session for the Dave Monks Show on Radio Merseyside will be aired tonight at 9pm.

Videos now online

we have some new videos for you. The new video for Wanda is below and you can see some others here at the Video Archive

In-store signings and performances

To coincide with the release of Time Machine Shack will be appearing at the following stores for performances and signings throught October. To avoid disappointment Please order your album direct with the store before the in-store performance.

  • Mon 15th Leeds HMV @ 5pm 1 Victoria walk, Headrow Centre Email Store
  • Tue 16th Oxford HMV @ 5pm 43/46 Cornmarket Street Email Store
  • Thu 18th London Sister Ray @ 6pm 94 Berwick Street Email Store
  • Fri 19th Nottingham Fopp @ 5.30pm The Frontage, Queen Street Email Store
  • Sun 21st Brighton Resident @ 5.30pm 28 North Kensington Gardens Email Store
  • Wed 24th Birmingham HMV @ 5pm 138 High Street Email Store
  • Fri 26th Liverpool HMV @ 5pm 24-26 Bold Street Email Store
  • Mon 29th Glasgow Fopp @ 5pm Union Street Email Store
  • Tue 30th Newcastle RPM Music @ 5.30pm 25 Highbridge Email Store
  • Wed 31st Manchester Piccadilly @ 5pm 53 Oldham Street Email Store

Shack Online Anouncement

Shack to Play an acoustic Set @ Q The Music Club Live At The Hospital, Endell Street, Covent Garden, London on 18th October 2007. Doors Open & 7.30pm band on Stage 8.00pm. The Band will be open to a Question and Answer session after the performance. Tickets for the show are free and will be issued on a strictly first come, first served basis for those who register for a pair. Go to Q4music.com to register for tickets.

The Forum is Back

The forum is finaly back up and running. Hope you all find your way back and thanks for being so understanding.

Shack Jukebox Live

Selections from the forthcoming “Best of...“ album are featured in our new Shack Jukebox at the link above

Radio Merseyside Giveaway

The winners of the Radio Merseyside giveaway have been informed so please check
your email. The giveaway is now closed. Thanks to everyone who entered.

SHACK tour dates announced

    OCTOBER

  • MON 15 - LEEDS FAVERSHAM - 0113 245 5570
  • TUE 16 - OXFORD ACADEMY - 0870 771 2000
  • WED 17 - LONDON BUSH HALL - 020 8222 6933 sold out
  • FRI 19 - NOTTINGHAM RESCUE ROOM - 0871 310 0000
  • SUN 21 - BRIGHTON CONCORDE 2 - 01273 673 311
  • WED 24 - BIRMINGHAM BARFLY - 0870 907 0999
  • FRI 26 - LIVERPOOL ACADEMY - 0870 771 2000
  • SUN 28 - SHEFFIELD LEADMILL - 0870 010 4555
  • MON 29 - GLASGOW Classic Grand - 0870 169 0100
  • TUE 30 - NEWCASTLE ACADEMY 2 - 0870 771 2000
  • WED 31 - MANCHESTER CLUB ACADEMY - 0161 832 1111

    • NOVEMBER

  • FRI 02 - STOKE SUGARMILL - 01782 206 000
  • SUN 04 - NORWICH WATERFRONT - 01603 508 050

SHACK are doing a special session for Dave Monks on Radio merseyside.

Broadcast details are yet to be finalised, but we have 10 pairs of tickets to give away for the pre-record. It is to be held in the live area of Radio Merseyside's new building and promises to be one of this years highlights. Tickets will be allocated to the first 10 names to email info@shacktheband.com with 'Radio Merseyside' in the subject heading.

Please note that this is a radio session and not a gig...there is no bar. Selections from 'Time Machine' will feature heavily in the hour long set.

SHACK: 'TIME MACHINE' - The best of.

September 24th (Sour Mash/Big Brother Recordings) On 24th September 2007 Shack release 'Time Machine': a collection of their greatest songs. The album contains songs from their five acclaimed releases, as well as two brand new tracks. Track listing:

  • I Know You Well
  • Comedy
  • Cup Of Tea
  • Al's Vacation
  • Pull Together
  • Meant To Be
  • Butterfly
  • Sgt. Major
  • On the Terrace
  • Undecided
  • Cornish Town
  • Miles Apart
  • Streets of Kenny
  • Shelley Brown
  • Neighbours

* plus brand new tracks 'Holiday Abroad' and 'Wanda'.

A live tour will accompany the release of 'Time Machine' with dates to be announced.

packshot of time machine album

'Time Machine' is an appropriate name for a 'best of' Shack: for a band whose music is time-less, grounded in nothing but a purity of spirit and melody. Since Shack formed in 1988 they have charmed bleary-eyed romantics, inspired critical praise at every turn and enthused a generation of contemporary heroes - Oasis, The Coral and The Zutons amongst them. Noel Gallagher loved them so much he now releases their records. Shack have always captured the sound of "truth and beauty".

Shack's tenure as auteurs of 'truth and beauty' has literally careered - often from one seeming disaster to fortuitous event and all points in between. Formed out of the remnants of 80s should-have-beens The Pale Fountains, the Scouse brothers Mick and John Head set out on a saga of near-biblical proportions infused with the spirit of melody and mysticism captured by fellow star sailors Love, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, Sly & The Family Stone, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Harry Nilsson and The Beatles. Shack albums are equal parts psychedelia, honesty, storytelling, love lost, love found and light and shade. So it was that the master tapes for their embarrassingly staggering 'Waterpistol' album were lost, the record label went bust and the studio burnt down; but the world evidently needed this record and eventually this masterpiece of understatement came out in 1994. Waterpistol lends 'Neighbours', 'Sgt Major' and 'Undecided' to 'Time Machine'.

A leisurely seven years later (during which time the band became the backing band for the late Arthur Lee's Love for a while - true hero worship and kindred spirits joining forces) Shack re-emerged as The Strands. and introduced a small but feverish group of Head-heads to 'their The Magical World.' A veritable blink of an eye in Shack-time passed before 'HMS Fable' docked - an almost-mainstream vision of life from the narcotic fringes of what Mick calls "states of consciousness". 'Pull Together', 'Comedy', 'Streets Of Kenny' and 'Cornish Town' are taken from 'HMS Fable'

Two more memorable albums have followed: 'Here's Tom With the Weather' (2003) and '.The Corner of Miles and Gil' (2006). These additions to Shack's peerless collection are full of funny and forlorn tales of love, friendship and the spectrum of human experience; Mick a life-long storytelling natural who grew up, as did John, on the hard-knock housing estate of Kensington ('Kenny') in Liverpool, with his head both lost in the clouds and buried among the pages of Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Wordsworth.

All the while, Shack have been making some of the most beautiful music ever created by soul men gifted in melody. Almost 20 years since their immaculate conception, Shack are still here, still intact and still in love with truth and beauty.

"The journey we've had together has been beautifully turbulent," laughed John in 2003. "But there's times when we glide and we're gliding forward now." His brother, typically understated, summed up the Shack experience. "The story is what it is. But so are the songs and so are the records. Because?we're good."

Better than good: With Shack's 'Time Machine' you can discover for yourself.

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