Shock Headed Peters - I, Bloodbrother Be (£4,000 Love Letter)

[CHANNELJUDGE]

Cheers

[thongrrr]

does anybody have the whole lyric of the song? thanks for posting

[Wichitadrugbust]

Bloody fucking brilliant!

[OscillateWildly]

Morrissey is using this great song for his pre-gig music

[kingofcannes]

PURE GENIUS...

[brianartillery]

A fantastically perverse and wonderful song. One of the very few that the late and very great John Peel refused to play more than once. File under 'Corrupting influence music' Honestly, how fucking great is this?

[simonf99]

Thanks for posting TLEB. I saw them in Brighton in late 85 or early 86 at the Zap. It was the loudest gig I've ever been to: they just kept adding guitarists to the line up throughout the gig (well, that's how I remember it anyway). It was fantastic. Thanks!

[ThatLovelyEnglishBob]

@simonf99 I don't believe they got up to all these wonderful things yet barely anyone seems to know who they are.

[marisilence]

i've been searched this song in ten years or more.

i heard it on tv using b.g.m. for Helmut Lung's show.

and a few months before i got it finally!

anyway this tune is amazing.

thank u for posting.

from japan.

[ThatLovelyEnglishBob]

It's a pleasure.

[felunt]

Reminds me of the island of Krk (Croatia)when I was driving with my *girlfriend* to the beach.... 1985?

[oldgrumpypostpunk]

it's troubling how something so powerful has been heard by so few. loved this for 25 years. the guitar work is perfect. live footage would be superb!

[ThatLovelyEnglishBob]

When a stray NME found its way onto my lap a few years ago I found it was making waves in some club somewhere. Other than that, RE live videos I'll try and find myself a prototype time machine whenever I can. :(

[TakkieAdam]

Very nice! I had this taped and it was messed up by the elements.

See also 'Lemon Kittens' and 'The Underneath' and Karl Blake solo ofcourse

[studdingsails]

Yes indeed - A powerfully bizarre song as easy to swallow then as now. Many thanks ThatlovelyEnglishBob. So good to hear it again after all these years. When they look so like a girl it's easy to swallow is surely one of the most illuminating lines ever written and worthy of Shakespeare himself don't you think?. A wonderful composition sung with such clarity, style, authority and originality with shades of Coward, Genet and Burroughs to the lyrics. Great album cover too....Cheers!

[Macrinus6]

Thanks for posting this. I've been looking for this track!

[geertmenten]

Can anyone post their version of Heartbreak Hotel ? It's a great song but I don't have it anymore. Thanks.

When I was about 22y old I went to their gig in Belgium and found it so amazing that the following night I rode to a little town in the Netherlands, Goes, just to see them again. Both concerts were truly amazing !

Whatever happened to them afterwards ? Does anyone know ?

[ThatLovelyEnglishBob]

It sounds like they were an incredible act by what I've heard. Though I don't have any information on what they got up to during and after being the Shock Headed Peters, I can upload "Heartbreak Hotel" onto here, which I will do right now. They do have a myspace with haphazard helpings of info on it—not sure if it's official or not.

Heartbreak Hotel is on the way.

[RamusTongProductions]

>>When I was about 22y old I went to their gig in Belgium and found it so amazing that the following night I rode to a little town in the Netherlands, Goes, just to see them again. Both concerts were truly amazing !

If that was 1985 - we played Bruge I think (filmed for French tv) and then Pandora's Music Box in Rotterdam. We covered a Sabbath number but couldn't get it started - just couldn't get it together until Karl shouts "1!,2!,3!,4!". How can one not start a Sabbath riff????

[entraildivider]

Hi, I was a guitarist in the band when it reformed in 1992. We played Belgium and Holland in 1993 - are they the gigs you're referring to?

[geertmenten]

@entraildivider yep, I remember the gig in Antwerp, Belgium and I also went to the gig in Goes, Netherelands the next day.Great gigs, both of them. I probably still have pictures of thse gigs somewhere but as I move a couple of times since then, I'm sure I still have those but there're probably in a box on the attic somewhere. Loved the band, still have the original vinyl records. All the best !

[Dontevensoundsame]

Great post...There version of Heartbreak Hotel is good value too

[sisterdiggins]

Wow , old memories.

Would love to see a performance here.

[ThatLovelyEnglishBob]

As would I. They're before my time, but I imagine some pretty outstanding cabaret performance.