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(Self Released)
HEAD LIKE A HOLE (NZL) - Blood Will Out LP BLOOD RED VINYL (2018 Reissue) [SEALED]
LP, Self Released, Blood Red vinyl, Ltd Ed of 385, Sealed, 2011 / 2018 Reissue
NZ Hard Rock
'This is Head Like a Hole's first album since 1999's 'Are ya gonna Kiss it or Shoot it: IV'. After a hiatus of 7 years the band was asked to reform for a one off gig, This lead to a new passion and the decision to record Blood Will Out. Recorded at York Street and Mixed by Andrew Buckton at 203 with production by Andrew Buckton and HLAH. A different departure from previous albums with the addition of Andrew Ashton (The Larry Normans) on guitar replacing Tom Watson (Cassette) and the continuation of Mike Franklin-Browne (Pluto) on the drum stool.A lot of the songs had been written by Nigel Regan after the band had split up who would send them to Booga not really thinking anything would come of it. One of those songs went on to become the now classic 'Glory Glory (Hallelujah).
The songs were constructed over a year as band members live in different cities with the actual recording and mixing taking about two weeks. ' - headlikeahole.bandcamp.com
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'From playing on a building rooftop for thousands of screaming fans to living in a woolshed in Whanganui, the past two decades have been wild for Nigel Regan.
Regan is the guitarist for Head Like A Hole, a Wellington rock band which rose to fame in the 1990s with songs such as Fish Across Face, Wet Rubber and their cover of Bruce Springsteen's I'm on Fire.
After breaking up in 2000, the band reformed in 2009 with new drummer Mike Franklin-Browne, and has released its first studio album since 1998, Blood Will Out.
"When we first got together it was purely for our enjoyment. If someone would have said we'd tour overseas and make seven albums, I'd have laughed at them." At the band's peak, its members were known for onstage antics, such as playing shows naked or covered in mud and paint.
"We were young and keen and any ideas put out there that were good were acted on," Regan says.
"We wanted to be the band we would like to see play."
After HLAH disbanded, Regan swapped the Auckland rock scene for a Whanganui woolshed where he lived for five years, paying $30 rent a week. Some of the songs written in that period feature on the band's new album.
"I was just trying to escape the madness of the drugs and what we'd fallen into in Auckland.
"I don't think we realised what we had and how good it was."
However, after reuniting for a show at Homegrown festival in 2009, the band decided to get back together and return to the studio.
"The stars were just aligned right, everyone wanted to get back together." Regan says the new album is "better than anything we've done in the past", and listeners will recognise the "groove swagger" of the band. "As soon as you hear it it's unmistakably Head Like A Hole."
He says the band has matured in its absence from the music scene, and is now focused more on the music than the gimmicks
Still, the band is approaching the upcoming album tour with the same attitude it used to, letting things fall into place on the night.
Though the Wellington music scene today has shifted to the dub and reggae movement, Regan says the new album is "swinging things back in the direction of rock".'
