Foreheads In A Fishtank were an English alternative experimental band from Rayleigh, Essex, who started out as the Two Ex-Famous People group before evolving into their name in 1988. They released several singles, the first in 1989 and the last in 1991, as well as three albums; Buttocks (1992), Yeah Baby Wow (1992) and Stripper (1994). The group disbanded sometime in the mid-90's with singer, Jeff Leahy going into film production[1] and joining Bad Dream Fancy Dress, and drummer Adrian Leaman, choosing a career in woodmanship [2].
Links to Peel[]
Peel seemed to have discovered the group in the summer of 1990 when he first played their track, She Loves You Yeah. A year later, despite suspected Festive Fifty vote rigging, he got them to do their debut session, where they performed four tracks. Another two years later, in 1993, a second session was recorded, but by the time they released their final album, Stripper, in 1994, Peel seemed to have lost interest in them and he never played any material from that.
Festive Fifty Entries[]
- 1991 Festive Fifty: Happy Shopper #21
Sessions[]
Foreheads In A Fishtank - Peel Session 1991
1. Recorded: 1991-07-07. First Broadcast: 24 August 1991. Repeated: 02 November 1991
- British Telecom / Happy Shopper / Sex And Drugs And / Sylvester's Mother
2. Recorded: 1993-01-16. First Broadcast: 27 March 1993. Repeated: 16 July 1993
- Rum / Onions / Bond / Pussy
Other Shows Played[]
- 1990
- 30 August 1990: She Loves You Yeah (7") Stuff
- 14 September 1990 (BFBS): She Loves You Yeah (7") Stuff
- 29 September 1990: She Loves You Yeah (7") Stuff
- 13 October 1990: She Loves You Yeah (7") Stuff
- 30 March 1991: Happy Shopper (7") Stuf
- 12 April 1991 (BFBS): Happy Shopper (7 inch) Stuff Records
- 13 April 1991: Happy Shopper (7") Stuf (JP: "On the reverse of Happy Shopper you get, well, it's their single from last year, She Loves You, Yeah, which sort of made, would have made, the Festive 50 but the trouble was, that somebody, I don't doubt associated with the band, better be careful here, actionable things, but sent in like an absurd number of votes, there was no attempt at all to disguise that they were being sent in from the same location, because they were all on the exact same kind of postcard, which was a Foreheads In A Fishtank postcard which had got a penis on it, which is rather worrying of course, because it's one of those things you think, can I be arrested for being on the receiving end, as it were, of what would be classed as obscene mail, but it was a flaccid penis, so I think that's probably in the clear. ... There were so many votes, it would have been number 1 by a mile if I'd counted them, they used to come in in sheaves of 40 to 50 at a time.")
- 08 June 1991: I Want To Masturbate At Castle Donnington (single)
- 23 June 1991: I Want To Masturbate At Castle Donnington (7") Stuf
- Peel 004 (Radio Bremen): I Want To Masturbate At Castle Donnington (7") Stuf
- 11 July 1991 (Radio Mafia): I Want To Masturbate At Castle Donnington
- 13 October 1991: British Telecom Suck (album - Buttocks) Stuff
- Peel 001 (Radio Bremen): British Telecom Suck (LP - Buttocks) Stuff
- 26 October 1991: 'Sex & Drugs And (LP-Buttocks)' (Stuff) (JP: They sound like a chemically adjusted Slade on that.')
- 1992
- 04 July 1992: 'Haircut Remix (12")' (Some Bizarre)
- 30 October 1992: Handbag (LP – Yeah Baby Wow) Some Bizzare
- 31 October 1992: Surf (album - Yeah Baby Wow) Some Bizarre
- 01 November 1992 (BFBS): Handbag (LP - Yeah Baby Wow) Some Bizzare
- 01 November 1992 (Ö3): 'Chart Material (12")' (white label)
- 11 December 1992: Sea Cow (album - Yeah Baby Wow) Some Bizarre
- 1993
- 01 January 1993: 'Mr. Whippy (LP-Yeah Baby Wow)' (Some Bizarre)
- 09 January 1993: Chart Material (12" EP) Some Bizarre
- 10 January 1993 (BFBS): Untitled (EP - Chart Material) not on label
- 17 January 1993 (BFBS): Mr Whippy (album - Yeah Baby Wow) Some Bizarre
- 23 April 1993: Happy Shopper (7 inch) Stuf Records 1991 FF#21