Fish Across Face

We didn't want to be just another boring band...

– Head Like a Hole guitarist Nigel Regan on his fondness for performing nude, Stuff, 31 July 2017

We’d only recorded our cassette Shitnoise and, you know, basically started HLAH without even the thought of recording music or playing to heaps of people, it was just an experiment to see if we could actually play music.

– Nigel 'Booga' Beazley on the beginnings of Head Like a Hole, Sun Live website, 22 April 2017

When I listen to 13 I do realise I couldn’t sing that well and I needed a bit more time to hone my expertise before we went into the studio. But back then we were young, we just wanted to get it done and I suppose it is the energy of the album that comes through more than anything...

– Nigel 'Booga' Beazley on recording 13, the album from which this song was taken, Sun Live website, 22 April 2017

If they caused a small stir in New Zealand, HLAH’s first trip to Australia in April 1992 proved to be tabloid fodder. Glossy gutter press weekly People were naturally drawn to the spectacle, titling their expose "Dirty pluckers hit rock bottom", complete with a photo of the band covered in mud.

– Music writer Gavin Bertram on Head Like a Hole's first Australian tour in 1992, Audioculture, 20 December 2013