News archive: 2005

December 14, 2005: New free MP3 online

Over the coming weeks, we're going to be putting online a four-track Githead radio session for your listening pleasure. The first track, My LCA is online now—get it from the downloads page.

December 13, 2005: New video online

Check out the downloads page for a little taste of Githead's live show—a video of the band playing Option Paralysis at The Garage.

Nov 07, 2005: Major site update

The gigs and gallery sections of the site have had a major overhaul, the latter now being split into a number of date-specific pages, each with a number of photos. If you find any broken links, please let us know. Also, as an added bonus, the My LCA video has been added to the downloads page, so check it out!

Oct 28, 2005: Rome off

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control we have had to pull the the Rome date. Sorry to all Italian friends who were waiting for that one. Meanwhile there will be a lot of updates to the site in the coming days.

Oct 05, 2005: GIT- shirt -- Your chance to become a Git!

Githead is making available through PostEverything, for the first time ever and in perilously limited quantities, the official Githead t-shirt. Not only is this fashionably black shirt tastefully emblazoned with the band's trademark 'GIT -' logo, in CMYK yellow and RGB red, BUT it's also the band's official stage wear, as elegantly modelled on their recent European outing. Get it HERE

Oct 3, 2005: Website downtime

As you may have noticed, the Githead website was doing strange things over the past few days. This is because we were moving hosts. This transition is now complete, which also means that over the next couple of weeks we'll be adding new desktops and MP3s to the site... Stay tuned!

Sept 5, 2005: More Date Changes/Tour News

The club which Githead were to play in Cork has been sold. The new owner has sacked the booker and is not honouring any dates. The band's sympathies go out to anyone who was looking forward to this show which we obviously cannot play now. On the positive side a last minute special date has been added on the 22nd September at Grasland studio in Haarlem, Netherlands. This will be a unique chance to see Githead play in an environment closer to a recording studio than a club.

Israeli news media have already broken the story that the surprise guest in the Tel Aviv gig will be Berry Sakharov who will need no introduction to Israeli audiences. Maybe he can be persuaded to wear one of the 'git' shirts to be unveiled during the tour?

Aug 26, 2005: Date Change

Githead's Asian debut at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv has been moved back one day to Saturday, 17th September. Githead will also be welcoming a surprise guest. Watch this space for more news.

July 28, 2005: Radio Session

Githead have recorded another radio session, this one being a co-host for Totally Radio/ Juice FM with Claire Kember recorded in the in the exotic location of studio git (otherwise known as swim studio). The hour long show features live in the studio versions of My LCA & Craft is Dead as well as copious chat & banter from the band, egged on by Claire, and a selection of personal choices (including at least one exclusive) from the band member's own catalogue. The show will be available on Totally Radio on Fri 29th July, Sat 30th July and Sunday 31st July and broadcast on Juice FM at 107.2 in Brighton, UK on Sunday 31st July. A further two songs Option Paralysis and Profile were also recorded which will appear in a later show. Claire will give details on her show which is, in any case, always worth checking out.

July 25, 2005: Mailing List Archive

Githead's occasional and perfectlty formed newsletter is now archived on this site, giving everyone who hasn't signed up the chance to see what they are missing!

July 18, 2005: We are now a .com

As of this week the official Githead website now resides at www.githead.com. Links to githead.co.uk and any of it's pages still find us but you might like to update your bookmarks.

July 1, 2005: XFM session now online

The XFM session mentioned below is now available for streaming on the XFM website.

June 23, 2005: Githead for "One Night Stand" on XFM

On June 21 Githead recorded a special summer-solstice four-song live session (Fake Corpses, Alpha, My LCA, Antiphon) at XFM's Leicester Square studios for John Kennedy's X-Posure XFM show. The show will be aired on June 29 between 11pm and 1am (UK time). XFM is available on analogue (104.9 FM in London as well as 87.7 FM in Cardiff until July 2), digital on DAB, Sky (channel 864), NTL (channel 891) and Telewest (channel 965) throughout the UK and worldwide over the internet at www.xfm.co.uk. Find out more.

May 5, 2005: Subscription requests

It appears our subscription forms weren't working correctly when the site launched today, but they've now been fixed (10pm UK time). If you subscribed earlier than this, please re-subscribe to ensure you're on the list. Thanks!

April 27, 2005: Live dates

Githead will be part of a celebration of the career of legendary French rock star Alain Bashung, taking place at La Cite De la Musique in Paris on June 29. Colin worked on Bashung's Novice album in the 1990s. Tickets are €22.

March 01, 2005: Live dates

Two live Githead dates for your diaries in March:

• March 12: Seats and Beats Festival Hof Ter Lo, Antwerpen, Belgium (alongside The Go Find and Zool); prices: €12 - €9 - €8.
• March 14: Ether Festival at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK (alongside former Neu! members Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius, and They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them); prices: £12.50 - £10.00.

February 01, 2005

Posteverything is offering Githead's Headgit for a very reasonable £8, for which you also get an entirely free copy of Malka's classic second solo album My Pet Fish, one of Colin's selections on this very site!