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Landing cover art

Githead's third and best album, Landing. Featuring 10 new tracks which extend and broaden the band's vocabulary Landing also features a cover image by Malka Spigel (AKA Maya Newman). The album is available to order from Swim Mail Order, in physical & digital formats. You can also read the press release and hear a preview track here.

Jan 28, 2010: European Dates

We are today announcing a series of dates in Switzerland & Italy (a debut for Githead in each country). The dates are as follows

Mar 10th: Usine (Kab), Geneva, Switzerland
Mar 11th: Spazio 211, Turin, Italy
Mar 12th: Init, Rome, Italy
Mar 13th: Centro Stabile di Cultura, San Vito di Leguzzano, Italy

Dec 13, 2009: Landing Video

LANDINGVID

We have just uploaded a new video , filmed and directed by Renate Zeigermann for the title track from Githead's new album Landing


Dec 02, 2009: Gits at the Beeb

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Githead will be making it's BBC live debut the 16th December on Marc Riley's 6 Music show. The band is scheduled to play 4 songs on the show which is broadcast between 19:00 & 21:00


Photo from Le Botanique, Brussels. Thanks to Martin Hullebroeck.

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Upcoming gigs

  • 10th March : Usine (Kab) – Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 11th March : Spazio 211 – Turin (Italy)
  • 12th March : Init – Rome (Italy)
  • 13th March : Centro Stabile di Cultura - San Vito di Leguzzano (Italy)
  • Find out about recent live shows by clicking on gigs
Githead portrait

Githead are: Malka Spigel, Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), Colin Newman and Max Franken. The band has since 2004 managed to craft a style which is both original yet accessible, combining rhythmic toughness with interweaving guitars, and insistently funky basslines with deadpan vocals. Find out more about the band.

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