Thee Headcoats
Thee Headcoats was a band formed in Chatham, Kent, England in 1989, that was well known for its garage rock sound, explicitly sticking to this style on almost all of their albums. The band's signature sound as well as their prolific writing has been attributed to Billy Childish's love of simple, direct recording. The band has been on multiple labels including Billy's own Hangman Records, Damaged Goods and Sub Pop.
The band played their final concert on May 12, 2000 at the Dirty Water Club. Childish went on to play with other bands including The Buff Medways (1999 to 2006) and The Musicians of The British Empire (2007 to 2011).
Lineup
The band was composed of Billy Childish (guitar and vocals), Bruce Brand (drums and backing vocals), and Johnny Johnson (bass). The band is the most prolific of Childish's many musical projects so far, releasing fourteen full-length albums.
The group originally featured Allan Crockford (ex-The Prisoners) (credited as Krojack on the first LP, Headcoats Down), followed by John Agnew (ex-Thee Mighty Caesars) then Ollie Dolat (co-founder of The Squares and founder of Mr Zero) on bass before Johnson joined.
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ALBUMS
- The Kids Are All Square: This Is Hip! released: 2011
- Brother Is Dead... But Fly Is Gone! released: 2004
- The Messerschmitt Pilot's Severed Hand released: 2000
- Elementary Headcoats released: 2000
- Headcoatitude released: 2000
- W.O.A.H! Bo in Thee Garage released: 2000
- Beached Earls released: 2000
- The Good Times Are Killing Me released: 1999
- 17% Hendrix Was Not the Only Musician!! released: 1998
- In Tweed We Trust released: 1996
- Knights of the Baskervilles released: 1996
- The Sound of the Baskervilles released: 1995
- Conundrum released: 1994
- Heavens to Murgatroyd, Even! It's Thee Headcoats! (Already) released: 1994
- The Billy Childish Native American Sampler: A History 1983-1993 released: 1993
- The Kids are All Square / Girlsville released: 1993
- The Earls of Suavedom released: 1990
- Headcoats Down! released: 1988
- I Am the Object of Your Desire released:
The Messerschmitt Pilot's Severed Hand
Released 2000- The Messerschmitt Pilot's Severed Hand
- A Beauty of Love That Splits the Body in Two
- We Hate the Fucking N.M.E.
- Organic Footprints
- I Suppose I'm a Poseur
- Blood Piss and Sperm
- Where Are the Children That Hitler Kissed?
- I Wouldn't Want to Be You
- Good Morning Little Snob
- I've Been Fucking Your Daughters and Pissing on Your Lawn
- I Wanna Stop This World
- Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot
Elementary Headcoats
Released 2000- Troubled Times
- The Earl of Suave
- Headcoats On
- Be a Sect Maniac
- (I Don't Like) The Man I Am
- She's Got a Strange Attractor
- Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
- Neither Fish nor Fowl
- Girl From '62
- Someone Like Me
- Something Went Wrong Again
- My Dear Watson
- Hog's Jaw
- I Can Destroy All Your Love
- Fat Back
- Louie Riel
- Don't Try & Tell Me
- Paedophile
- Headcoat Lane
- Comanche
- Every Bit of Me
- Never to Love Again
- (We Hate the Fuckin') NME
- Help
- Thoughts of a Hangman
- Now Is Not the Best Time
Beached Earls
Released 2000- Youngblood
- You Broke My Very Mind
- The Strangler of Boston Town
- Beach Bums Must Die
- A Town Named Squaresville
- Slide
- That Special Kind of Clay
- Headcoat on Backwards
- Murder on the Moors
- All My Feelings Denied
- Pow Wow
- I Ain't Never Found
- No Such Animal
- In Your Hand
- The Case of the Thundering Dunderhead
- Give Me That Apple, Eve
- No Escape
- I'm a Headcoat, Baby
- Alone
- Our Little Rendezvous
- Everyday
- She's Got a Stange Attractor
- Branded
- Round Every Corner
- Poka Hontas
- My 7th Girl Eve
- The Killing Hold
- Jaguar and Thunderbird
- We Can Only Lose
- Going Outside My Head
The Billy Childish Native American Sampler: A History 1983-1993
Released 1993- Tushunka Witko (poem)
- Crazy Horse
- Comache
- Pocahontas Was Her Name
- Young Man Afraid of His Horses
- Thunderbird
- Dull Knife
- Raindeer Are Wild
- Wounded Knee
- Playing Pool with a Salish Indian Drug Dealer in the Dodson Bar Down-Town Vancouver (poem)
- Cowboys Are Square
- Man Taken from Guts
- Black Elk Speaks
- Pocahontas
- Louis Riel
- Ten Bears of the Comanches
- Lakota Woman
- We're Gone
The Kids are All Square / Girlsville
Released 1993- I'm a Gamekeeper
- Davey Crockett
- Monkey's Paw
- Ballad of Fogbound Pinhead
- All My Feelings Denied
- Cowboys are Square
- I Can Destroy All Your Love
- Poccahontas Was Her Name
- Nanook of the North
- A Town Named Squaresville
- Karasal
- Wild Man
- When the Night Comes
- Stolen Love
- Round Every Corner
- Run for Your Life
- Give it to Me
- Dirty Old Man
- Melvin
- The First Plane Home
- Meet Jacqueline
- Boysville
- Money
Died: 2000-05-12
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Shining through the window
Beating up and down
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Annie's got a gun
She knows how to use it
Points it at the sun
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California Sunset
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S.... another stranger
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