Released by Dark Beloved Cloud in the USA. It is a collection of early Spaceheads vinyl (Pay me my money down 12″ vinyl) and cassette releases (on Manchesters Bop Cassettes label) from 1989-1990.
Tony Herrington (current publisher and editor in chief of Wire magazine) wrote in city Life Manchester at the time – “Witty and inventive, allusive and capricious, accessible but with a rough edge of experimentation, “Ho Fat Wallet” sounds like most of the things music should be but rarely ever is.”
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The music on “Ho Fat Wallet” might be described as an irreverent mix of conflicting sonic styles, idioms and genres. Or , alternatively, a jazzy, funky, rocky, earthy, spacey, wacky, dead-pan, out to lunch type of sound.
“Basically, its an attempt to tie in what we do as a duo, improvising on trumpet and drums, with what you can do to embellish that basic sound in a studio,” says Harrison of the music on “Ho Fat Wallet” Its something of a Jackson Pollock approach – throw the paint down and see what sticks”
“Diagram’s expertly splintered trumpet acts as jester narrator to a parade of songs as independent carnival floats, some are junkyard-ishly abstract, some of them simple groove – dirt pop, all of them odd, understated, original structures making their points and passing by.
Spaceheads are trying things out for themselves. And that puts them way above 99% of the glibly re-run muso-fed jazz that clogs up our lives. Spaceheads, shoaled in by squat-world austerity are part of the present because they defer to no ones rules but their own. That’s an attribute more valuable than polish, or even knowledge” – Mark Sinker (wire magazine 1991)
This video was eventually put together in 2011, for the first track “Pay me my money down”
