Sofa Head

 

Sofa Head was Punk band from Darlington, United Kingdom (1988 – 1994). Sofa Head were formed in Darlington, United Kingdom, from a previous band called DAN with Claire Sykes on vocals, Ian Wallis on guitar and vocals, founder Ian Armstrong on bass guitar and Andrew Laing on drums and vocals. Tracks from the band’s first first demo, world and Ugly appeared on the Meantime Records compilation Spleurk! in 1988. Early performances featured a drum machine until the band managed to lure drummer Laing from the audience. Sofa Head cut four albums. Pre Marital Yodelling (1127 Walnut Ave.), the title of which is an oblique reference to both Jehovah’s Witnesses and Laurel & Hardy. Recorded in July 1989 it was released on Meantime in the UK, on the Double A label in Germany and on the Profane Existence label in the USA. This was followed by a single release invitation to dinner on the Rugger Bugger Discs label and a John Peel session re-recorded at Maida Vale 3 December 1989. This single featured on the 2nd album What A Predicament. The band released Twat!, a 12” featuring two studio tracks and live tracks on the flipside. Laing left the band and joined Leatherface/artist], replaced by a drummer called Graham (surname unknown) for the 3rd album Acres Of Geeses. However, Graham disappeared on the eve of the support tour and Laing filled in, finally being replaced by Matthew Woodward from the Cleveland band Kito. This line-up did two European tours and a live US 4th album More Is Not A Word In Our Vocabulary in 1992.

Pre Marital Yodelling (1127 Walnut Ave.) (1989)

01 - Greenhouse Days
02 - Boys Will Be Boys
03 - Our Hero
04 - Painted Smile
05 - Have A Nice Day
06 - A World Fit For Nothing
07 - Valium Housewife
08 - Barbie And Ken (Go To The Seaside)
09 - Outside Looking In
10 - Respect
11 - Falling On Deaf Ears
12 - Infanticide
13 - My Life As A Corpse
14 - A Friendship Lost
15 - Grown Ups And No Time

Invitation To Dinner 7'' (1990)

01 - Invitation To Dinner
02 - It Doesn't Work
03 - Fill
04 - Grown Up's Pt 2

What A Predicament (1990)

01 - Make It Worse
02 - It Does Not Work
03 - One For The Road
04 - Fine Figure Of A Man
05 - Invitation To Dinner
06 - I Can See You
07 - Come To Daddy
08 - One Foot On The Ladder (The Other In The Grave)
09 - This Town
10 - Tired
11 - Dustbin
12 - No More
13 - Fill
14 - Break
15 - Valium Hamster

Acres Of Geeses (1992)

01 - Silence Of The Lambs
02 - Brainfry
03 - Out There
04 - Mommy Hurt My Head
05 - Sunny Side Of The Street
06 - Stalemate
07 - Barbie & Ken Revisited
08 - Shil Bottle (Slight Return)
09 - Shil Bottle
10 - Blind Date
11 - Twisted
12 - Don't Play Games
13 - Fond Farewell
14 - Fighting Chance
15 - Father's Day
16 - 17 Screaming Heads

More Is Not A Word In Our Vocabulary (Live) (1993)

01 - Make It Worse
02 - Fine Figure Of A Man
03 - Feel A Whole Lot Better
04 - Out There
05 - Respect
06 - Our Hero
07 - Barbie & Ken
08 - Everytime
09 - Mommy Hurt My Head
10 - Don't Play Games
11 - Sunny Side Of The Street
12 - I Can See You/Brain Fry
13 - Friendship Lost
14 - Blind Date

Pre Marital Predicament (2005)

01 - Make It Worse
02 - It Doesn't Work
03 - One For The Road
04 - Fine Figure Of A Man
05 - Invitation To Dinner
06 - I Can See You
07 - Come To Daddy
08 - One Foot On The Ladder (The Other In The Grave)
09 - This Town
10 - Tired
11 - Dustbin
12 - No More
13 - Fill
14 - Break
15 - Valium Hamster
16 - Greenhouse Days
17 - Boys Will Be Boys
18 - Our Hero
19 - Painted Smile
20 - Have A Nice Day!
21 - A World Fit For Nothing
22 - Valium Housewife
23 - Barbie & Ken (Go To The Seaside)
24 - Outside Looking In
25 - Respect
26 - Falling On Deaf Ears
27 - Infanticide
28 - My Life As A Corpse
29 - A Frendship Lost
30 - Grown Ups

Acres Of Geeses+ (2009)

01 - Silence Of The Lambs
02 - Brain Fry
03 - Out There
04 - Mommy Hurt My Head
05 - Sunny Side Of The Street
06 - Stalemate
07 - Barbie And Ken Revisited
08 - Shilbottle (Slight Return)
09 - Shilbottle
10 - Blind Date
11 - Twisted
12 - Don't Play Games
13 - Fond Farewell
14 - Fighting Chance
15 - Fathers Day
16 - 17 Screaming Heads
17 - Greenhouse Days
18 - Boys Will Be Boys
19 - Our Hero
20 - Have A Nice Day
21 - A World Fit For Nothing
22 - Cursed
23 - Barbie And Ken (Go To The Seaside)
24 - Outside Looking In
25 - Respect
26 - Sceptic
27 - Infanticide
28 - No Time
29 - Ugly
30 - Born To Cry
31 - Vym

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