Graham Reid | | 1 min read
When the Auckland band Headless Chickens won the cash-carrying Rheineck Rock Award in 1988, the knives came out from conservative radio programmers, critics and those people standing next to you in a bar when you mentioned the band's name.
On the one side was a small number of fans who'd actually seen the band and fellow travellers in the Indi.rock world, and on the other side was . . . well everybody else.
But there they were, picking up $30,000 to record an album and ready to take their sound on a tour.
Elsewhere has mentioned the controversy when it erupted but here is the interview with them when that album Stunt Clown -- which we have hailed here -- was just about to be released.
Like Split Enz' debut, Stunt Clown wasn't an easy proposition . . . but it has stood the test time as an impressive first statement.
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