Oliver: Badgewearer - N'Alien Head (1 February 1992)

NOTE - The original video of N'Alien Head on this blog was taken down from YouTube a while ago.  To hear it in the new video, go to 1:21. (8/7/17).

A feature of Peel's shows in January and February '92 were tracks by bands on the Gruff Wit Records label, operating out of Glasgow.  We recently had a taste of a Gruff Wit signing on this blog.  The label appears to have been a home for acts who were:
a) Scottish
b) Punk influenced
c) Incredibly angry
d) Incredibly exciting to listen to.

Badgewearer show the label at its best.  Starting out with a guitar riff that sounds like a hornet attacking a glass with a drill, this track piles on like Rage Against the Machine if they had a sense of economy.  In fact, listening to this, I'm happily imagining a future where "He is another piece of cake" beats out "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" as a piece of 90s zeitgeist.  It could have been Badgewearer  soundtracking Bruno Brookes's most subversive act on Radio 1 or kicking Simon Cowell in the bollocks.  I wish it had been.

Video courtesy of Myrna Minkoff.