"Who cares!!!" Well, to find out, read on...

"Moist closed out Saturday's main stage lineup with their usual adrenalin-filled performance...The highlight Saturday, however, was the underrated Headstones. The band worked the crowd well and played an incredibly tight set of aggressive, firebrand rock'n'roll."
John Lyons - Winnipeg Free Press

"Saturday at Sunfest was nothing if not a showpiece for guitar-fuelled rock - Canadian style. And there are few better guitarists in the Great White North than Headstones' Trent Carr, a little guy who carries a big axe as anchor of the Toronto-based band�s hopped-up rock sound. While the menace and fury of Hugh Dillon's lyrics bring the spice to the band's sound, Carr's machine-gun fret-diving is really the meat of the quartet. And he proved it time after time during last night's set, riffling mightily through tunes like Unsound and Absolutely ..."
John Kendle - The Winnipeg Sun

If I was in a rock'n'roll band, I'd want to be in the Headstones. They can rock, there's tunemanship in the songs. Then there's the energy, the sound of Hugh's voice. He's a great performer on stage."
Bruce McDonald, Canada's premier rock'n'roll moviemaker

"Lead vocalist and budding thespian, Hugh Dillon, is one of the darkest forces in Canadian rock, and his lyrics are complemented by ferocious playing."
The Record

"A streetwise masterpiece that shows off a wickedly tight band and plenty of badass personality."
Ottawa Citizen

"Teeth & Tissue is an energetic and moving album. It's a fast-moving, rhythm-fueled romp.****"
John Lyons - Winnipeg Free Press

"If all you have left is Teeth & Tissue, as the songs says, it's still more than enough to prove Headstones are not just another flash in the pan!!"
The Edmonton Sun

"From the great white north comes possibly the coolest record of the year. Personally, I've never heard of the band so I wasn't sure what to expect. The Canadian quartet are a brashy, punky GNR type band, but so much more relaxed. Every song on here just rocks. Lead cut "Hindsight" might be the best of the bunch. This CD just kept finding it's way into my player over and over again....From a cool point of view, this album smokes. A-"
SFK E-zine

"Tales of death and debauchery aren't quite so devastating when they're coming from the mouth of a sweet delinquent like singer Hugh Dillon"
Karen Bliss

"Listening to Teeth & Tissue is like watching a bruise blossom - colourful and eye-catching in a painful sort of way. Dillon is a walking, jangling, larger than life black-leather clad bundle of nerves. The word intense doesn't do him justice."
Neil Davidson - Canadian Press

"Frontman Hugh Dillon writes as hard as he sings, from first light to bar fight to "Hindsight", the latter the name of one of the album's many excellent flat-out rockers."
Peter Howell - Toronto Star

"As a band the Headstones have a rough, rock'n'roll reputation - and they like to make sure their fans experience it firsthand."
Ruth Atherly - Macleans Magazine

"When played at full speed, Headstones rock is the rock of eye-popping, adrenalized desperation. When slowed down, it's world weary and reflective. In both cases the feral delivery of singer Hugh Dillon backed by Headstones is compelling. ****"
Winnipeg Sun

"...the rock riffs come across like perma-press leather, then they kick loose while Dillon wanders lyrically through the urban maul like some strung-out poet emcee. Not as on the edge as Iggy or Art Bergmann, but weaned on the same milk & blood."
James Muretich - Calgary Herald

"This album is tough, a streetwise masterpiece that shows off a wickedly tight band and plenty of badass personality, thanks to the inimitable front man Hugh Dillon. It's hard and heavy, fast and furious, but it ROCKS. Buy it. Crank it."
Ottawa Citizen

"....Teeth & Tissue is nothing short of tremendous."
M.E.A.T. Magazine

"Teeth & Tissue roars and sweats like a weary beast. If I had to vote right now, Teeth & Tissue would be my album of the year. Grade A++"
John K. - Kamloops This Week

"With Teeth & Tissue, Toronto's Headstones continue to engrave their standing as one of Canada's most meaningful purveyors of hard rock. Solid, non-pretentious, street wise, punk-infected songs delivered in Dillon's swampy but tuneful growl. Instrumental performances that detonate the right explosion of power-chord noise and memorable riffs."
Roch Parisien

"The Headstones are further evidence that the heart of rock music is beating stronger in Canada than perhaps anywhere else in the world right now. Headstones aren't out to change the rock landscape - they just want to add some beauty to it, and with Teeth & Tissue they've contributed some lovely brushstrokes."
James Keast - Exclaim

"Trent Carr's powerful guitar playing fuels the burners that zap Headstones through their Teeth & Tissue CD."
Kelowna Capital News

"This is no ordinary group. The album, filled with seething fast paced rock melodies also contains its share of morbid corrupted lyrics. Dillon himself has been the focus of much media attention, leading him to be branded the "bad boy of Canadian rock"."
Steve Logan - Freewheelin' Magazine

THE SUDBURY STAR, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1995
KENNEDY GORDON - STAR STAFF

A really good 'chicken' band
The Headstones are hot and play Sudbury's Towne House Tuesday Hugh Dillon uses the f-word a lot. Not every once in a while, a LOT.
And we can't print the f-word. Not too often, anyway. So Hugh, we're making a couple of changes. We're going to replace "F" and "F-in" with "chick" and "chicken".
Here's an example: Dillon and his band, the Headstones, are just getting started on a tour that sees them play every single night between April 28 and July 2. Every night. Their only nights off - there are about three - are for travelling.
They'll go from Vancouver to Kingston (their hometown), with stops everywhere from Thunder Bay to Toledo, Ohio. It's a pretty gruelling schedule. And Dillon says: "Its chicken nuts! We haven't even started chicken getting into it yet, and it's chicken insane!"
See? It works. Call it barnyard cussing.
That intense tour schedule is nothing new for the Headstones, one of Canada's better new bands. With a flaming new major-label album, Teeth and Tissue, and a reputation as a band of decadent misfits, Dillon and bandmates Trent Carr, Dale Harrison, and Tim White are blasting away at the Can-rock scene.
This will be the Headstones' third Sudbury appearance in as many years. The band plays the Towne House Tuesday night, the site of a 1992 pre-record-deal show that almost made the club explode. Then, when the Headstones returned last year, it was under slightly different circumstances.
"We opened for Cheap Trick at that theatre (the Grand)," Dillon says.
Cheap Trick? Cheap chicken Trick?
"It chicken sucked, man! Cheap Trick was great, but nobody chicken showed up!"
Things have changed. The Headstones are more popular than ever, and a lot of that�s due to the band�s look, style, and sound.
Punk energy, rock sensibilities and plenty of black clothing make for a pretty cool mix. But Dillon, who beat hard drugs years ago, isn't one of these rockers determined to live up to every dark-and-disturbed legends.
"I'm gonna chicken die anyway, right? I know all the dangers and risks of hard drugs, which is why I don't do "em anymore," he says.
"But when you're on the road there's always gonna be chicken drugs and chicken booze. That stuff's always around, and to try to avoid it, it's a chicken waste of time. You just have to learn to behave."
Not that he's an angel, though.
"Well, the chicken cigarettes are chicken killing me, man!"
Drugs, smokes, and booze aside, the Headstones are notorious barroom brawlers. Well, they used to be.
"There's always some chicken guy who wants to prove himself by taking us on," says Dillon.
"But we're just too chicken together to put up with that. Chick, it's just nice to know you could take the guy."
The image starting to emerge from this exchange is a surprising one. Could it be? Could these black leather-clad, heavy jewelery-bedecked rockers be just another bunch of average guys?
"Certain pictures get painted of us," says Dillon.
"But we�re basically just a bunch of nice chicken guys."
A lot of the band's reputation comes from Dillon's lyrics, which have often been interpreted as emanating from the darker side of his psyche. Death, sex, despair, anger...it all gets the Dillon treatment.
But the Headstones aren't much like depresso-rockers Nine Inch Nails. The band's music is fast, upbeat, guitar-happy hard rock; there are no dirges here. Dillon admits he writes lyrics that slant toward the negative, but says anyone who fixates on that isn't hearing correctly.
"This is just the way the songs come up," he says.
"It's the way I write. The lyrics just chicken come to me, and I write 'em. And if they're negative, chick it.
"It's like, chick, Gordon Lightfoot wrote negative songs, Bob chicken Dylan wrote negative songs. Everyone's songs have negativity in them. People just seem to notice ours more."
Other things might factor into this, too. The liner notes to the band's latest disc, Teeth and Tissue, feature the cute slogan "if you're happy and you know it, shut your face!"
But Dillon himself doesn't sound depressed. He seems more like a regular guy who just happens to wear a lot of black.
"Ah, chick," he says, "I'm a chicken happy guy!"

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