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• FOCUS ON: Thee Headcoats

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• Label: Damaged Goods >>
• Genre: Garage Rock

Thee Headcoats were mainly Billy Childish (Git/Vox) Bruce Brand (Drums) and Johnny Johnson (bass), they formed in 1989 after Billys previous band Thee Mighty Caesers gave up the ghost.

By 1992 they had already released something like 6 albums and 15 singles one of which was Damgood 1, a split single with Thee Headcoatees. During the 90s I must have seen them 60 times, I (Ian Damaged) even went over to Japan with them in 1993. There was something really natural about them, no bullshit.

We did the We hate The Fuckin NME single after a sad old journo (Johnny Cigarettes) walked out of their gig in Archway after insisting that he should get in for free as he was from the NME and then reviewing Thee Headcoatees by saying their was no girls in the band (he left before they came onstage!!). Lots more releases followed including the great In Tweed We Trust album. Thee Headcoats carried on touring and releasing records in every corner of the world until mid 2000 when they called it a day. Billy immediately formed a new band The Buff Medways and promptly became a press darling... its a funny old game. Ian