If you had an uneasy feeling that 2025 would somehow be the year of Thee Headcoatees, then give yourself a hearty handshake – for surprisingly, ’tis true!
We can indirectly blame the passing of our dear departed Great Ribbon, Mr Don Craine, for instigating a regurgitation of Thee Headcoats back in 2022. Ostensibly booked to record a tribute EP as Thee Headcoats Sect – featuring Don’s fellow Downliner-in-Chief Keith Grant Evans – the chaps found they had a few extra hours to fill in the studio, so they figured they may as well record a new Headcoats album, too. And why not? This materialised, with minimum fuss, as Irregularis (The Great Hiatus) on Damaged Goods in 2023.
Come late 2024 and before you could…
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Thee Headcoatees split up in 1999, each of the four members going their separate ways in music and life and seemingly shutting the door on a career full of A+ rock & roll. Fast forward to 2024 and the band’s distaff partners, the recently reformed Thee Headcoats were recording an album and thought it would be fun to round up the members of Thee Headcoatees and get them on wax too. After some behind the scenes work soon Ludella Black, Kyra LaRubia, Bongo Debbie, and Holly Golightly were in the studio, backed by Thee Headcoats on a selection of songs written by Billy Childish, along with a few choice covers. Unlike many of their happy-go-lucky records made in their early prime, Man-Trap is an angry affair filled with songs about abuse, frustration, the ills of a society…