WHAT A GAS
Headless Chickens Update
“Asaband we've never really operated above fifty percentof our talent. The amount of talent in this band is quite outstanding but it hasn’t really surfaced yet.”
So says Grant Fell, Headless Chickens bassist and video maker. We're sitting at a table in his K'Road warehouse flat wondering where the Headless Chickens fitinto the scheme of things in a world which sees the Chills starring in LA and the Straitjacket Fits touring New York andthe Verlaines going down a stormin Chicago. Why have the Headless Chickens — longtime lynchpins of the Auckland alternative scene with a quality debut album under their belt and now a hit single
(‘Gaskrankenstation’) in the alternative and commercial charts — failed to make atleast a dent overseas? “Because we haven'thad any records released over there,” replies Grant, talking about oversights in the band's overseas distribution with an air of resignation. Seems there was a hitch in the form of someone in London who was prone to tossing Headless Chickens samplesinthe bin, ratherthan passing them on to the relevant people, because they
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Rip It Up, Issue 156, 1 July 1990, Page 12
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