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The Head Like a Hole Story in About 200 Words by Nigel Regan
"When I was 15 I met Booga Beazley at school and as he was the only other person there that liked Heavy Metal we hit it off and decided that when we left school we were going to start a band and kick everyone's ass. The only problem was that Booga couldn't play an instrument.
Anyway school's over, Booga's at art school in Auckland and I'm in Wellington working and playing in various cheesy bands. So I meet this guy Mark Hamill and he plays the most kick ass drums I've ever heard in my life. Ironically Booga was present at the first jam I had with Mark being down from Auckland on holiday.
So about 6 months later Booga shifts back to Wellington and I suggest that we start this band we'd always talked about with Mark playing drums (the band Mark and I had been in had just fallen apart). And as he hadn't bothered to learn an instrument yet I said "Well you'll have to sing then." So Booga comes along and belts out a rendition of War Pigs so we could see if he could sing. He couldn't but he was a fast learner.
Then a couple of months later Andrew Dunro comes along as he'd met Mark at a party and was interested in playing bass for us. Andrew was a punk guy as opposed to our musical diet of metal but it made for a good combination. And he looked really cool when he turned up with hair down to his ass and his black leather jacket which he'd painted Sister's of Mercy on. Thus Head Like a Hole was born.
Later we were joined by Tom Watson and Mike Franklin-Browne took over on drums. Tom also performs with Poultice".
Band Members:
Tom Watson
Nigel Regan
Nigel Beazley
M. Franklin-Browne (drums)
Andrew Durno
Mark Hamill
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