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Hello folks,

Just a quick email to let you know of a few releases we have coming up, all ready to pre-order from the DG shop. Without further ado and all that...

Nat Johnson & The Figureheads - Wasted (7"/download)

A limited edition 7” and Digital single taken from their debut album ‘Roman Radio’ which is already receiving strong radio support from BBC 6 Music and Radio 2.

The b-side is an exclusive track called ‘Padre Volante’
It’s about a Brazilian priest who tried to break the flying record by tying balloons to a chair and floating off, it didn’t end well!

The single comes out on March 8th. Here's where you can see the band live in the coming weeks -

5 March - Live on Tom Robinson’s show BBC 6music
6 March - Bodega, Social Nottingham
7 March - The Cluny, Newcastle
21 March - Captain’s Rest, Glasgow
22 March - Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh
28 March - Communion at the Adelphi, Leeds
8 April - Leadmill, Sheffield

If you want to preorder the single click on the cover art below:-

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The Vermin Poets - Poets Of England (LP/CD/download)

The Vermin Poets are Neil Palmer on Guitar/Lyre/vox Billy Childish on Bass/Backing Vox JuJu Claudius on drums/Backing Vox and Wolf Howard on Drums but don’t think this is just another Billy Childish band ‘cos it’s not.

The sound is very pop psychedelic, think of 80’s Television Personalities and chuck in The Who and you’ve got it.

A small tour is planned for the spring as well as a launch gig at the ICA in London

It's a fantastic album, highly recommended. Due out on March 15th. Click on the artwork to preorder on CD or LP.

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Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs - Medicine County (LP/CD/download)

Holly and Lawyer Dave are back with their third album together as Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs.

‘Medicine County’ was written and recorded on a farmhouse just outside Athens in Georgia and as Holly says it’s “peppier” than the last album, in fact there’s only one slow song on the whole album which is probably down to the fact that this time they had a lot longer to work on the songs and recording, their last album was recorded in the middle of a very long European tour over a week or two in Spain.

So what does it sound like? Choc-full of ghostly blues, gut-bucket slide guitar, with a smattering of ol’ time country. This is just the disc for conjuring up the spirit of weird old America.

Anyone with an interest or liking for the music of The Band, Son House, or Hank Williams, sung by Nancy and Lee, should certainly check it out!

Holly’s mum painted the cover, which adds to the warm home-spun appeal.

12 brand new songs including a cover of Wreckless Eric’s ‘Murder In My Mind’ and a guest appearance by Tom Heinl on ‘Blood On The Saddle’ (Tom wrote Holly’s Christmas track ‘Christmas Tree On Fire’)

Release date for this one is March 29th, you can pre-order a copy by clicking on the cover art below.

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Billy Childish Exhibition at the ICA, London.

Yes Billy has a big proper exhibition at the ICA...It started on Wednesday and runs until April 18th. Here's what the ICA have to say:-

Artist, musician and writer Billy Childish is a cult figure, and one who has gained an international following, but this is the first time a public institution has brought together a major solo exhibition to encompass his extraordinary career. His prodigious range of activities can best be understood as a total work of art - one which centres on his own persona. Unknowable but Certain presents the vitality of his recent work as a culmination of over three decades’ engagement across different media.

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The lower gallery features a group of Childish’s recent paintings, which have an unusual command and power. It includes self-portraits, often shown hill-walking; images of boats on the Medway, the estuary where he lives; still lifes with flowers, featuring pots made by the artist’s mother; and paintings depicting the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser, including works based on police photographs showing the author dead in the snow. Childish’s paintings are highly expressionistic, conveying a sense of the visionary significance that he discovers in objects, places and people. They also demonstrate the deliberate rejection of the contemporary world that is a feature of all his work.

Our upper galleries present Childish’s output as a musician and writer, covering a career which began in 1977 and providing a context within which the recent paintings can be understood. One room concentrates on his music, which has involved a huge range of collaborators and bands and which maintains a stubbornly independent ethos originating in the punk era. The second room features books and pamphlets containing Childish’s writings, often designed and published by him and illustrated by his own woodcuts. The display includes polemical and campaigning literature, but also his more personal poetry and prose, much of which is profoundly autobiographical in nature.

The exhibition has been curated by Richard Birkett and Matthew Higgs, and is staged concurrently with an exhibition of the artist’s paintings at White Columns in New York (March 5—April 17).

It's free entry so if you're in London over the next few weeks go take a look, well worth a visit. More info on the ICA website here.


Have a great weekend,

Ian & Duncan
www.DAMAGEDGOODS.co.uk