A graphic timeline of Mick Head’s five-decade life in music would hardly plot the conventional route to success. Yet amid his various groups’ serially shifting line-ups, the aborted or unreleased ...

Mick Head of Shack and The Pale Fountains catches up with LizMick Head of Shack and The Pale Fountains catches up with Liz ...

In a year that sees him finish his 'magical memoir', a new album with The Red Elastic Band and a career-spanning homecoming show in Liverpool, former Shack, Strands and Pale Fountains frontman Michael ...

It’s a curious set of statistics for a band which issued seven singles and two albums, mostly on the high-profile label Virgin. In terms of ubiquity in record shops, as opposed to on stage, the peak ...

The creator of one of Uncut’s best albums of 2022 on his magical Mersey adventures with The Pale Fountains, Shack, Arthur Lee and Lee Mavers, in the latest issue of Uncut magazine – in UK shops from ...

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In between, The Pale Fountains’ live schedule was erratic. Nothing was undertaken which constituted a full UK tour. Beyond one-offs or odd consecutive shows, there were a handful of December 1985 ...