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Crazyhead
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Album discography
1989 : Desert Orchid
1990 : Some Kind of Fever
1995 : Grind
Singles discography
1989 : (What Gives You The Idea That) You're So Amazing, Baby?
1989 : Baby Turpentine
1989 : Time Has Taken Its Toll On You
1990 : Have Love Will Travel EP
The Grebo diplomats
Lank-haired dirtbags Crazyhead swept to the top of the indie charts just months after forming.
Vom, Pork Beast, Fast Green Dick, Anderson and, erm Kevin, conquered alt-Britain with supercharged singles What Gives You The Idea That You're So Amazing Baby? and Baby Turpentine.
Singer Anderson was even voted sexiest man of the year by readers of Sounds. It went bust soon afterwards.
But just when everything was looking fine, Food were gobbled up by EMI and suddenly label bosses wanted Crazyhead to be, well, MildlyOddHead.
"They decided they didn't want us but another band," says guitarist Kev Reverb, "and they mucked around with the fundamentals of how we worked."
The too-polished first album Desert Orchid was a let down, but as their career nosedived in Britain the band stumbled into an unexpected new role as grebo diplomats.
Their agent got a call from the British Council, who were looking for cultural envoys to play a showcase Moscow gig.
"They asked for Tracy Chapman or somebody," says drummer Rob Vom, "and in the space of a few seconds she persuaded them they'd be better off with Crazyhead.
"I don't think they phoned asking for five blokes from Leicester."
After Russia, Crazyhead were invited to Namibia to play the landmark independence celebrations.
Then Anderson and his partners-in-grime became the first Western band to unsettle Romania in the days after the revolution.
By this time Crazyhead had been dumped by Food and switched to FM Revolver, the label famed for being splattered with paint by the disgruntled Stone Roses.
"We soon fancied getting some paint ourselves," says Rob.
Crazyhead finally called it quits after a disastrous final tour of Europe, reforming intermittently to provide an unofficial highlight for the Abbey Park Festival.
Since then Rob claims to have had a brief, briefless career as a life model and is now teaching drums. He also toured with Zodiac Mindwarp.
Kev runs a studio called Memphis which is plastered with pictures of Elvis and Leicester City.
Anderson studied art at university and guitarist Dick was last seen driving comedian Sean Hughes.
And no-one seems to know what became of the Pork Beast.
Jeremy Clay, February 1998
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