Career
The band suffered from critical and commercial apathy, and the band split. Shortly afterwards, McCaffrey died of a brain tumour. In 2008, Head reformed to play a couple of gigs to celebrate 25 years since their inception.
In 1986, Head formed with John on lead guitar, Peter Wilkinson on bass and Mick Hurst on drums.
The group debuted in 1988 with Zilch, falling victim to the commercial indifference which earlier plagued " career. The follow-up, Waterpistol, was recorded in 1991 at London"s Star Street Studio, but shortly after the finished disc was mixed the studio burned to the ground, and the completed master was lost.
Producer Chris Allison had the only surviving copy of the album, but unaware of a fire that demolished the studio, carelessly left his copy of the tape in a rental car while in the United States. Upon returning to the United Kingdom and learning of the studio"s fate he managed to contact the rental car company and rescue the DAT, but the record company had collapsed and there was no one to distribute lieutenant Waterpistol was not released until 1995, by which point had split up.
The siblings reformed soon after with bassist Ren Parry and drummer lain Templeton, returning in 1999 with His Majesty’s Ship Fable and Here"s Tom With the Weather (2003).
They signed to Noel Gallagher"s Sour Mash label and released..The Corner Of Miles And Gil in 2006. A Best Of album, Time Machine was released in 2007.
After touring for a while with childhood heroes Love, Head went on to form Michael Head & The Strands, again with brother John on guitar. In 1997, they released the critically acclaimed album The Magical World of the Strands.
2008 was a relatively quiet one for Head, starting with being part of Liverpool, The Musical, which was part of the European City of Culture celebrations and ending with another new venture, In September 2013, released their debut record, an European Parliament entitled Artorius Revisited, on their own Violette label.
In March 2015, released a limited edition double A-side 7" single "Velvets In The Dark / Koala Bears".