The Peel Session which Headcleaner recorded for Radio 1 on 14 June 1992 ended up falling between the cracks as far as this blog was concerned. I make selections from shows which John Peel hosted while I was rehearsing or performing in plays and shows. I don’t select from programmes that went out while I was taking any extended break from drama. I spent July to September 1992 not in rehearsals for anything, which is why nothing comes from any of Peel’s programmes in that period. As a result, I missed both the original broadcast of Headcleaner’s session on 4 July 1992 and its repeat on 18 September 1992. For anyone who had missed it, Strange Fruit put the session out before the end of the year.
It may have been from this record that Peel played their version of Motorhead’s signature song, Ace of Spades at the request of a listener to his BFBS show who thought it would be funny to hear it again. Headcleaner’s version rocks as hard as the original, but is undercut by the vocalist singing it in the style of Fozzie Bear. Singing in this style made their version stand out at least, though their own material from the session, such as Attitude, is a bit more of a coin-flip in terms of acceptance.
Video courtesy of VibraCobra23 Redux.
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