Morning!

Here's an exclusive look at the new video for Wild Billy Childish|CTMF's new single 'I've Got A Conflicted Mind'

Made by Fred Burns who you may know from his great film 'Basically Johnny Moped'

As you know, the single is out on Friday along with the new CTMF album and Thee Headcoatees 'Punk Girls' LP reissue too, details below...

DAMGOOD488 LP, CD & DIGITAL

“The punk was in me and it had to come out, You mite try to dismiss me as dockyard lout, but I never sort fame – I came to glory by a different rout”

Billy Childish – 'The Punk Was In Me (And It Had Come Out)'

“We're like a cherry tree in the garden that nobody can be bothered to scrump cos it has slightly undersized fruit which has not been standardised for a supermarket. But we're the real thing and the jays and the crows like us.”

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF are back with their fifth album in five years. Brand New Cage follows the critically acclaimed SQ1 album from 2016. It features 10 new Billy Childish songs along with two written and sung by the band's bassist Nurse Julie. Subjects include lost landmarks of '70s Chatham, the true revolution of punk, spirituality, lost loves and the sidelining of Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones.

Some of the tracks have already been featured in the first double session on BBC 6Music, this was a track a night on the Marc Riley & Gideon Coe shows in July 2017 (which will released on a limited 10” LP in November). The sleeve art features a photo of an 18-year old Billy taken in a King's Cross photo booth in September 1978. - “I used to cut these tribal marks into my cheeks every few weeks with a  razor blade. I was really interested in African tribal scars, and I knew they had ash in there so I would rub cigarette ash in – very painful! I'm actually dressed there the most dangerous way you could be, as a punk rock teddy boy. The teds didn't like you wearing any ted gear. I've got a leopardskin waistcoat, bootlace tie and my hair flat. You had 40 year old men that would glass you. We'd go see Bo Diddley in '70s and we'd dress a little bit ted. I was on a few death lists locally with teddy boys.”

The first pressings are on Turquoise and yellow vinyl as well as CD.

The first pressings are on Turquoise and yellow vinyl as well as CD

I'VE GOT A CONFLICTED MIND / IN A PARALLEL WORLD

DOUBLE A-SIDED 7"  DAMGOOD487 7" & Digital

The first single from the album is 'I've Got a Conflicted Mind' backed with 'In A Parallel World', both songs are different versions to those on the album, with Julie taking the lead vox on 'In A Parallel World'  500 copies only.

THEN WE HAVE THE FIRST EVER REISSUE OF 'PUNK GIRLS' from THEE HEADCOATEES

DAMGOOD482 LP & DIGITAL

LONG OUT OF PRINT 1997 LP (ORIGINALLY ON SYMPATHY FOR THE RECORD INDUSTRY) – ON VINYL ONCE AGAIN!

Thee Headcoatees Punk Girls reissued after 20 years, it’s one of their best and meanest records. The opener, 'Punk Girl', is Kyra at her most defiant. She’s had people walk all over her and abuse her and she’s not taking shit from anyone anymore. She’s out for blood and it shows. Ludella is equally spiteful on 'Don’t Wanna Hold Your Hand'. This is really a great angry album. Best version of 'Teenage Kicks' after the original. Screw The Raconteurs. Jack White knows who ripped off who. Of course closer, 'Ca Plane Pour Moi' is the Thee Headcoatees on fire. Not a bad song on here.

Cheers

Ian & Duncan