Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band is a British band, led by Michael Head (former singer and principal songwriter for cult 80s band The Pale Fountains) and featuring Andy Diagram.

Michael Head (born in Kensington, Liverpool; 28 November 1961) also known as Mick Head, is an English musician,most famous as the lead singer and songwriter for The Pale Fountains, Shack and The Strands. Although none of these bands achieved mainstream success, they all had a strong following. NME once described him as "a lost genius and among the most gifted British songwriters of his generation", and this sentiment is often expressed by fans and critics in the know.

On 20 October 2017 Michael Head released a new album, Adiós Señor Pussycat, using the moniker
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band. It had been 11 years since Michael Head released his last album (Shack’s 'On the Corner of Miles and Gil'). According to Metacritic this album was released to "universal acclaim". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.