A Head Full of Wishes

This is an attempt to collect together all the groups and communities related to to A Head Full of Wishes, please leave a comment (or email me) if I’ve missed anything out. You can find me as “grange85″ in most of these…
Mailing Lists etc.:

The Galaxie 500 Mailing List (417 members)

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Don’t Let Our Youth Go To [...]

Last call to vote in the A Head Full of Wishes 2007 Survey
Results will be announced by the end of the week so if you haven’t already please go and pick your fave albums and tracks by Galaxie 500, Luna, Damon & Naomi and Dean & Britta…

In February 1989 Galaxie 500 went into Noise NY and recorded eight songs in three days – the recordings where demos for Slash records although four of the recordings eventually turned up on On Fire. During the sessions they recorded the Joy Division track Ceremony for the first time. They would re-record the track in [...]

Galaxie 500 albums have recently popped up in a couple of meaningless lists.
The Guardian Unlimited has a list of 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die that features an appearance from On Fire and the December issue of Blender Magazine has the “100 Greatest Indie-Rock albums Ever” that has Today slotting in at No.75

I just came across this very sweet version of Tugboat by Spanish Boy/Girl pop band Espanto – I know nothing more than the precious little English that their label’s page has to offer…

Independent UK based music magazine Bearded has a one page feature on Galaxie 500 in it’s second edition. You can download the magazine for free from their website, although you need to register and answer some mildly intrusive questions along the lines of “how much do you spend on clothes?”
The best covers always add something [...]

Galaxie 500’s 1990 show at The Glasgow College of Printing & Design is available to download via bittorrent on Dimeadozen – you’ll need to register. The same show is also available to download from Tea With Tufty (via Megaupload)

I just came across this review on derives.net of the “Decomposing” fan tribute album – nice to see it’s getting out there…
Once this has been said, “Decomposing” features a lot of successful exercises in style. A few contributors have tried to add beats, keyboards or organ but most of them are completely faithful to the [...]

Last weekend Patti Smith played the last ever show at the legendary New York venue CBGBs – so here’s my little tribute…
First up here’s Galaxie 500 performing Hearing Voices from a show at CBGBs in October 1990.Galaxie 500 – Hearing Voices CBGBs (192kb/s mp3 – 5.0MB)
…and here’s Luna performing Rock Your Baby from their 2000 [...]

Ok, it’s been a (very) long time coming but it’s time to resurrect the Track of The Month and I guess it should start with a rarity.This is another of the “extra” tracks that were included on a few of the original Galaxie 500 demo cassettes that the band hawked round in 1987. Some of [...]