#bringbackairhead campaign latest
Sam posted a comment on the site to update us with the latest:
Hi everyone.
Thanks again for all your kind words on this site, it really means a lot to us.
Thought I’d give a brief update on proceedings so far, however limited:
After the Twitter campaign was set-up and Ben was interviewed on Iain Lee’s show it seemed someone would need to get in touch with the record label to discuss the digital release, that someone was me. After several failed attempts to contact the right person I finally spoke to someone in the ‘digital’ team (obvious really), he told me there was nothing on the ‘system’, to suggest that Boing was going to be released from the archive anytime soon.
After a few weeks my contact got back to me and said he couldn’t find a copy of Boing anywhere in the building??? Could I send him a copy – back in the day I used to have boxes of the things, but I’m down to my last precious copy, so I sent him the mp3 files and scans of the covers. It seemed I’d achieved the impossible….why wasn’t this done sooner?
All that was left to do was check the legal issues concerning a re-release….oops.
As you all know it was nearly 20 years ago since we made the album, in those days CD’s were relatively new, Boing even appeared in cassette format, mp3′s, digital files, and itunes weren’t even ideas in 1991.
Only a few years after its release the album was deleted and no longer available to buy?
The result is a lot of head scratching about what to do next, it will happen, but when isn’t clear right now.
Mike and I met up a few weeks ago to discuss the practicalities of playing live again, it was easy enough at my wedding as we only performed 2 songs, recreating most of the album would need a lot of work to do it any justice.
Sorry there’s not a great deal to report, fingers crossed I’ll have some more definite news soon
Sam
Simon Magill started the #bringbackairhead campaign on Twitter and it was picked up by Absolute radio’s Iain Lee.
What’s new
- US-based Airhead fan Doug Veith is selling two large Airhead posters (Funny how and Counting sheep) on eBay (20/6/10)
- Iggy has sent through some new cuttings and Spike photos, including an advert from NME as late as 1997. Plus, it looks like some sort of reunion is probably going to happen (2/4/10)
- As the #bringbackairhead campaign gains momentum, you can download three tracks from the Spike Peel session from 1994, courtesy of Wayne. Mike and Sam were in Spike following the split of Airhead (27/3/10)
- It seems that Absolute radio’s Iain Lee is supporting the #bringbackairhead campaign on Twitter. Will post more information when I hear more (12/3/10)
- Alex has uploaded the video for Scrap happy to Vimeo. This follows the videos for Funny how and Counting sheep (25/8/09)
- I notice that Airhead has an entry on owngig.com, the website where fans bid to set up private gigs for their favourite band. The idea is that enough fans place a bid then owngig.com will approach then band and see if they will play. This could be another way to hear the band live once again? There are also a couple of new photos on the site.
- More new photos have been sent my way, this time courtesy of Jenson Bloomer. Plus someone has uploaded the audio of the great Right now 12″ mix to YouTube (18/10/08)
- The band reunited at Sam’s wedding over the summer and a version of Funny how is now on YouTube and also on the Discography page. One not to be missed! (8/10/08)
- The promo for Counting sheep, from the Chart Show in December 1991 is now on YouTube and also on the Discography page. Thanks to Razdan for uploading this (2/5/08). Unfortunately, the Funny how promo has now disappeared, has anyone got a copy they can upload?
- On 14 February 2008, Marc Riley played three long-lost tracks by Spike on his BBC 6 Music Brain Surgery show. Spike were formed from the remnants of Airhead, with Michael on vocals and Sam on drums, and although the band didn’t release any records, they did record a session for John Peel in November 1994. Riley played three of the four tracks on his show, Obsession, Play away and Like you do (23/2/08)
- Joel McIver has written a short piece in the November 2007 issue of Record Collector. Read it on the Cuttings page. Thank you Joel for this, hopefully it will increase the chances of a Boing!! reissue (28/9/07)
- The promo for Right now is now on YouTube and also on the Discography page. Thanks to Lee for uploading this (29/7/07)
- An interview with Dawn Adamson, Airhead manager 1990-93 (18/7/07)
- New photos, courtesy of Dawn (17/7/07)
- New cuttings (17/7/07)
Don’t forget to also sign the all-important petition for the re-release of Boing!!.
About
I’d been looking for Airhead on the internet for some time but not come across much so in the summer of 2006 I thought I’d put together a few pages to ensure the band has small corner of the internet to itself. They didn’t achieve much chart success, I’m not sure if they were even ever cool to like, but I think they deserve some sort of online acknowledgment.
Boing!! was the first CD album I ever bought; as a result it became the soundtrack to my formative teenage years along with other great early-90s indie.
Most of the content on this site is made up from things that people have emailed me, the scraps of information found in the 12″ fanzine singles or bits I’ve stolen from the internet. If you have anything else of interest then please get in touch.
There is also an Airhead Myspace page at www.myspace.com/airheaduk (not to be confused with Finnish death metal band Airhead).
