A Quick Interview with Headless Kross

Headless Kross will be returning to action for the first time in a couple of years this weekend as part of an Our Future shakedown. Here's a few words from the lads about what they've been up to and what they have instore for us tomorrow!

2nd Feb will be your first live outing for quite sometime – what have you got in store for us?

Aye, it’s been a while since we were gigging due to various circumstances including Tommy’s touring commitments with The Cosmic Dead last year but we have a new album, Projections 2 finished and ready to go for mastering and we’re excited to get back in action in 2019. We’ll be playing material from the new LP as well as Projections I at the gig in Sleazy’s. Expect it to be very loud, psychedelic and heavy, of course


The second volume of your Projections project is nearly complete, what is the philosophy behind these albums, what should we expect from volume II and have you given any thought to volume III?

We had the idea to do 3 albums, and the way they would be linked seemed to evolve from that. The songs for 1 and 2 were recorded together and we put all the titles in a hat and drew them out to decide the tracklist for both albums (it might have been an upturned bongo rather than a hat). The lyrics have a common theme relating to things Derek was reading and thinking about at the time. Things like The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, or Genesis P. Orridge's Thee Splinter Test essay. We have 2 monolithic songs ready for vol 3, along with a possible cover version/interpretation. We're particularly excited about the new songs. In terms if the words, it will probably be more of the same- Pretentious ideas and bits stolen from other people's writing. Business as usual.

Will 2019 see you back on the road? Any plans to head out on the highway?

Yes, we’ll definitely be gigging more this year with Kozfest in Devon already confirmed for the end of July with our good friends Skeleton Gong, Acid Cannibals and Wild Rocket also making the trip south. There’s another festival just confirmed but we can’t say anything about it until they announce it but we’re pretty excited do be doing it.


The gig in Feb is at Sleazys, a staple of the Glasgow gig scene which seems to be back in fashion of late – what does Sleazys mean to you? Any gigs that really stand out in your mind?

Nice’n’Sleazy’s is a brilliant venue to play. The sound engineers know their stuff and the PA is excellent. Members of Headless Kross have been playing gigs there since as early as 1993 in various guises. The Pigsx7 gig there a few weeks back was the busiest we’ve ever seen it in all the years of going there and it was an amazing atmosphere. You literally couldn’t get in the door if you showed up late. Hopefully it’s a sign that the Glasgow scene is alive and well.