Pillowhead

#*?! (also known as the as title Pillowhead[2][1]) is an extended play by Australian rock band Regurgitator and released in August 2005.[3] The EP was supported by a Regurgitator Lives! tour.[4][1]

Pillowhead (#*?!)
EP by
Regurgitator
ReleasedAugust 2005 (2005-08)
Recorded31 August - 21 September 2004
Venuein a bubble at Federation Square, Melbourne
LabelValve Records
ProducerMagoo
Regurgitator chronology
Mish Mash!
(2004)		 Pillowhead (#*?!)
(2005)		 Love and Paranoia
(2007)
Singles from Pillowhead (#*?!)
  1. "Pretty Girls Swear"
    Released: August 2005[1]

Background and release

In August 2004, Regurgitator relocated to Federation Square, Melbourne, as part of Foxtel 's Australian music channel, Channel V's Band in a Bubble program, in which the band entered a small glass recording studio while the public could watch the band work, or tune into a 24-hour digital cable television channel.[5] This recording session resulted in the band's fifth studio album Mish Mash!, which was released in November 2004 and peaked at number 52 on the ARIA charts.[6]

The session were productive, with the group recording far more material than was required, and it was decided to release the excess material on an EP titled #*?! in August 2005.[7] Band member Peter Kostic explained "#*?! is the stuff that didn't go on the album, because we didn't have room and didn't want to do a double album. We decided to hold onto it and release it later."

Amongst the usual fusion of pop, rock, hip-hop and electronica is a 34-minute ambient piece, "Pillowhead Orchestra"; Kostic said "We did that really late one night in the bubble... It was a Friday or Saturday night and there were a lot of people just hanging around outside. Part of it was to just put on a weird show for them.[8]

Track listing
  1. "Pretty Girls Swear" - 2:20
  2. "Sent By God 2 Get U Off" – 4:19
  3. "The Rock" - 2:30
  4. "Pillowhead Orchestra" – 33:46
  5. "Sent By God" (Dub) – 4:30

Release history
Region Date Format(s) Label Catalogue
Australia August 2005[2]
Valve Records V68

References
  1. "Aus Music Scrapbook July 2005". Aus Music Scrapbook. July 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-05-11. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  2. "Australian Released August 2005". ARIA. August 2005. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  3. "REGURGITATOR DISTRACTIONS EP". waterfront records. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  4. "Regurgitator - Life on the point of an embroidary needle". The Dwarf. 3 August 2005. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  5. "Think outside the square". The Age. 24 September 2004. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  6. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 232.
  7. "Regurgitator announce national tour". The Dwarf. 5 July 2005. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  8. "CULTURE MUSIC Fully sick". Sydney Morning Herald. 26 August 2005. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
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