The Extended Heads get to talking

From Sweden´s second city Göteborg, or Gothenburg, if like me you are not native to the land, comes the garage-punk-electro and generally fire hazardous sound of The Extended Heads. They are Gustaf Malmros (Guitar/Vocals/Percussion), Mikael Gustafsson (Bass/Percussion) and Pontus Torstensson (Percussion).

So we at bespoke sent some questions and scenarios to the band (in a fill-in-the-gaps style) and sat back to see if we knew them better after. We did, but have a look for yourself.

Interview: Ade Bankole

Image: The Extended Heads


1. The Extended Heads are best described as... pure joy.

2. The side-project the Extended Head is... in an experimental solo-project, Gustaf Malmros is collecting sounds, creating rhythms, cutting and pasting.

3. The best and worst thing about being in the Extended Heads is... (best) Pontus' (drummer) leather vest, (worst) he's landlord of the rehearsal space.

4. At our live shows/performances expect... a dancing zebra.

5. If any dead musician could cover one of our tracks it would be... Jimi Hendrix doing a version of our track... 'Paranoid Pothead' in a... Captain Beefheart-style.

6. Songs that we secretly like but hesitate to admit to are... None.

7. Being from Sweden (Gothenburg) affects our image and sound because... of the weather. Too much time to think, too little to do.

8. The worst way to categorize the Extended Heads sound is... No opinion

9. If we had to choose between a wedding or a bar mitzvah to play a live show it would be... ''a Wedding'' because we love romance blessed by God.

10. A year from now, the Extended Heads will be... extended.


www.theextendedhead.com

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''Quote.Unquote''

"When men who have nothing discover that they have one another, they
combine into units that are incalculably formidable"

- Quote from Attica prison massacre investigation (1971)


“A slowly acting poison
Will be given to the favourite one
The dark horse will bring glory
To the jailer and his men
It's always much more sporting
When there's families in the pit
And the madness of the crowd
Is an epileptic fit.”


© Tom Waits


“You can make it thru these waves
Acid, booze, and ass
Needles, guns, and grass
Lots of laughs, lots of laughs
Everybody's saying that hell's the hippest way to go
Well I don't think so
But I'm gonna take a look around it though
Blue, I love you”


© Joni Mitchell


"I'm like the farmer, planting words, people are seeds,
My truth is the soil, helps you grow like trees,
May the children come in all colours, and change like leaves,
Behold before you, one of those prophetic MCs."

© Nasir Jones (pictured)


“Just how blind will America be? (Ain't no tellin')
The world is on the edge of its seat
Defeat on the horizon. very surprisin'
That we all could see the plot
And claimed that we could not. (Alright)…

America!
The international Jekyll and Hyde
The land of a thousand disguises
Sneaks up on you but rarely surprises (Yeah!)
Plundering the Asian countryside
in the name of Fu Man Thieu.”

© Gil-Scott Heron

Edit: Mason