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5 unusual facts about Severed Heads


Garry Bradbury

Garry Bradbury is an Australian electronic musician active in Sydney's experimental music scene since 1979 where he was an early member of the pioneering post punk / industrial band Severed Heads, from 1981 to 1985, appearing on the albums: Since the Accident, City Slab Horror, Blubberknife and Clifford Darling, Please Don't Live In The Past.

Jaimie Leonarder

In 1982, Leonarder was also a founding member of The Loop Quartet, a reel-to-reel tape machine band with fellow artists John Blades, Ron Brown and ex-Severed Heads member, Richard Fielding.

Richard Fielding

Richard Fielding was a founding member of the Australian electronic dance group Severed Heads in 1979 in Sydney.

Si Begg

Listening to John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in the late 1980s, Begg was introduced to early Chicago acid and bands like Warp's LFO, Cabaret Voltaire, Severed Heads and Negativland.

Tom Ellard

Thomas (Tom) Ellard (born 1962), is an Australian electronic musician best known as the founding member of the electronic and industrial music group Severed Heads.


Itch-E and Scratch-E

They were initially focused on a techno sound which drew on early bleep techno as well as being influenced by fellow Sydneysiders Severed Heads (Tom Ellard from Severed Heads helped produce an album by Paul Mac's other band The Lab, that was never released).

Post-punk

In Australia, other influential acts to emerge included: Primitive Calculators, Tactics, The Triffids, Laughing Clowns, The Moodists, Severed Heads, Whirlywirld, Great White Noise, Kill the King and Crime & the City Solution.


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2006 Idomeneo controversy

The Idomeneo production, directed by Hans Neuenfels, shows King Idomeneo staggering on stage carrying a bag of the severed heads of Neptune, Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad and placing each on chairs; a departure from the libretto, in which the action is set in the aftermath of the Trojan War.

Emmons Cemetery Site

A similar piece (including the crenelations) was found at the Etowah site in Georgia, but it is described as a "rattle" and it slightly more resembles the severed heads held by figures on the Rogan plates found at the site by John P. Rogan in the 1880s.

Flag of Sardinia

It was said that St. George miraculously appeared on the field of battle and that there were four severed heads of Saracen kings at the end; thus the red cross and white background of the St George's Cross and the heads of four Moors.

Mark Blumsky

During the shooting of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King he took an active role, and was persuaded to throw the severed heads over a set wall onto a group of Knights.

Super Express

The newspaper has come under criticism from the Bundestag, the German parliament, after publishing a photo-montage picturing Polish national football team coach Leo Beenhakker carrying the severed heads of German national football team head coach Joachim Löw and captain Michael Ballack in the build up of their UEFA Euro 2008 Group B opener against the Germans in Klagenfurt (Austria).