(And that doesn't even count leader Mick Head's former band, the Pale Fountains.) The title may name-check Gil Evans and Miles Davis, whose collaborations were the pinnacle of 1950s cool jazz, but On the Corner of Miles and Gil is no more jazz-influenced than any of Head's previous albums. The follow-up album, Here's Tom with the Weather, arrived in 2003, and the Head brothers, along with drummer Iain Templeton and bassist Pete Wilkinson, appeared on Shack's 2006 album, On the Corner of Miles and Gil, released by Noel Gallagher's Sour Mash label.Three years after the enervated Here's Tom with the Weather, Shack return with only their fifth album in an 18-year career.
in the spring of 1999 to critical raves, and a U.S. Though it was delayed several times by Michael's stays in detox, the album was released in the U.K.
Michael's heroin addiction continued and his creative output slowed until the late '90s, when Shack began work on their third album, H.M.S. Though it was a critical success when finally released in 1997, it didn't catch on with the masses. The Head brothers kept working on new music together however and with the support of French promoter Stephane Bismuth, they recorded an album in 1993 under the name Michael Head & the Strands titled The Magical World of the Strands. Waterpistol received strong reviews, but the band had disintegrated by then and the Head brothers went on to back one of their musical heroes, ex-Love singer Arthur Lee, while bass player Pete Wilkinson joined Cast. The tape was found a year later by the car rental agency the producer had used, and the album was released soon after by the German label Marina. However, a fire destroyed the studio and all of the group's tapes, save one copy that the producer had kept this copy was lost on a road trip in America. Though the album's sales were poor, Shack persevered, recording a new album, Waterpistol, in 1989. The brothers later changed the band's name to Shack and released the debut album Zilch in 1988, with friend and roommate Ian Broudie as their producer. Despite his drug problems, he formed a new group with his brother John, the L-Shaped Room. Chris McCaffrey, the Fountains' bassist and Head's best friend, died from a brain tumor in 1986 and Head began experimenting with drugs, including heroin, which was especially prevalent in his neighborhood. Shack was formed from the ashes of the Pale Fountains, cult favorites led by Liverpudlian singer/songwriter Michael Head.
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