Picture by Nicky Peacock
Pellethead formed when 4 fools with an overwhelming urge to play live music decided to form a band and then spent a year learning how to actually play their instruments. They knew they liked bands that followed no trends, who put on a proper-good show and who had a good sense of humour. So that is what they aimed for. Because they learned as they went the sound evolved into a certain kind of madness with the 3 songwriters in the band swapping lead vocal duties, tick. Being blessed with extraordinary good looks and a natural affinity to show off they put on better and better live performances, tick. Finally the whole band ethos was based around biting sarcasm, tick. Job done. Pellethead was born.
They play their own brand of rock’n’shamble, often described by others as punk, post-punk or new-wave. They have been likened to many cracking bands such as The White Stripes, Pavement, The Cramps and The Pixies, but in reality they only really sound like Pellethead, which is just how they like it.
They have managed to drag themselves around the length and breadth of the UK including 5 festival appearances, and even managed to blag themselves a US tour including a very chilly but rather fantastic stop-off in New York City. And along the way they have played with some spiffingly good bands such as Kenickie, Milky Wimpshake, The Yummy Fur, The Palace Brothers, Donkey, Goober Patrol and The Dirty Faces.
They have been played on radio around the world in countries as far flung as the US, Holland, Turkey and even national radio in Macedonia. But their proudest was an appearance on the late, great John Peel show.
Pellethead have stayed pretty much buried in the underground for close-on 15 years now. You never know, Don’t Tell Clare might mean they have to come up for air soon!
www.pellethead.co.uk
info[at]pellethead.co.uk