Gustaf Heden

Gustaf Heden (born 10 May 1985) is a Swedish musician, writer and actor. He is most known for the album Spectorbullets, the play Just a Few Hundred More and the screenplay Flaket.

In 2005 Heden founded the London band The Michelles with Tim Lalonde. After recognition from BBC and XFM radio DJ Rob Da Bank, the band was picked up by German record label Kitty-Yo. Heden's song "Springtime" was released as a 7" single in 2006, and was also used in the Julie Delpy film Two Days in Paris".

In 2007 Heden left London and The Michelles for the U.S. After a show at Alan McGee's Death Disco LA, booked by actress Joanna Pickering. Heden was introduced to producer Nik Leman and started work in Los angeles on solo material, which resulted in the three track single "Fucking Hippies".

Heden then moved to New York, and with Pickering on board as his promoter Heden toured solo shows in London, Paris, Berlin and New York as "Gustaf Heden & Distracting Noises". Pickering set up introductions for Heden to meet Innes Reekie, former label manager at Re-Action Records, which in turn led to the acquaintance of Russell Burn, formerly of The Fire Engines and WIN. Heden and Burn quickly bonded, and soon started working on an album together.

Burn's production of Heden's songs evolved into the band Spectorbullets, [1] and in 2010 they released their eponymous debut album on Innes Reekie and Burn's new label Mayakovsky Produkts. For most part the work of a duo, with Burn on drums and Heden on remaining instruments and vocals, the album also featured poet and writer Paul Reekie (1962–2010) performing the vocal on opener "He Needs It", lyrics for the track "Drop" by Pickering, as well as contributions from Malcolm Ross and Davy Henderson.

Heden used Pickering for the Spectorbullets album cover as well as using her photography for the inner sleeve notes. Pickering is credited in sleeve notes as the inspiration to material which spanned from 2007 to 2014.

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