Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band

62 years of music, loves, losses, long summer days and longer, darker nights are vividly recalled

by ‘our greatest living songwriter’, Michael Head and The Red Elastic Band as he plays out

flickering scenes from his life on new album,

Loophole, set for release on Fri 3 May 2024 on Modern Sky. Alongside details of the new, 12-track album comes his latest single, “Toxteth ghoststory” and album opener, Shirl’s Ghost.

Fans of his four-decade back catalogue and readers ready for a ride through half a century of

popular culture, with Head as their guide, will delight in news that his long-awaited

autobiography, Ciao Ciao Bambino: A Magical Memoir, is also announced for publication

by Nine Eight Books on Thu 15 August 2024. Matching happiness with creativity and hitching his faith in love to a new era of productivity, Head will release his second solo album with The Red Elastic Band less than two years after 2022’s remarkable, universally-acclaimed