"Scotland's Stretchheads were formed in 1987 by Andy Maconald (guitar) and Phil Eaglesham (vocals), with Steven MacDougall and Richie Dempsey joining on bass and drums. The band wore asbestos firewear, gas masks, flashy shirts, and balaclavas on stage, and blossomed after support slots with Happy Mondays, The Wonderstuff and The Shamen. Their debut album 'Five Fingers, Four Thingers, a Thumb, a Facelift, and a New Identity' followed in 1988. Touring Europe with Holland's 'Revenge Of The Carrots' and old colleagues 'Dog Faced Hermans', the group split up in 1992, but not before recording a session for John Peel.""Musically they were influenced by U.S. bands Butthole Surfers and Killdozer, as well as British indie groups such as Big Flame and Bogshed. They have since been compared to the Japanese noise-rock of the Boredoms and Ruins. Phil's vocals have been described as 'inhuman, reminiscent of nothing so much as Sesame Street's Grover with electrodes affixed to his genitals', and their overall sound as 'the weirdest, fastest, and heaviest thing to ever come cartwheeling out of the British Isles'." [And not Napalm Death? --S]
