Hello folks!
A bumper email for you today! Lots of exciting stuff coming out in the next few weeks including records by Holly Golightly, Thee Headcoats, and Thee Headcoatees! All of which you can order via the cover art below.
There will also be a new single by Wild Billy Childish & CTMF, a live acoustic album by Johnny Moped coming out at the end of November! Oh and a pink vinyl reissue of Mikabomb's debut album. More info these below. (PRE-SALE NOT OPEN YET FOR THESE THREE BUT WILL BE STARTING SOON!!)
Let's start with Holly. Here's the info on her new album...
Look Like Trouble is set for release on October 17th on LP, CD and digital.
You can pre-order it now!
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Scroll down for cover art, full tracklisting and Holly's biog.
You can also have a preview listen to 'Miss Fortune', taken from the album, via YouTube...
HOLLY GOLIGHTLY - LOOK LIKE TROUBLE (CD/LP)
**Release Date 17th October 2025**
Holly Golightly is back with her first new album since Do The Get Along from seven years ago!
Look like Trouble is set for release on October 17th 2025. It features ten new original songs all offering Holly’s unique look at life and reflecting its many ups and downs.
“‘Black Tongue’ is a melodic hex” says Holly, “feel free to use it, it works!”
Another standout track is ‘It’s All’ which Holly describes as a memorial song. “This one is dedicated to several old friends. A contribution to funerals I could not attend” she says.
As always, the darker songs are offset with lighter offerings – “‘Rolling Along’ is an upbeat ditty of encouragement for everyone, since we are all doing it!”
It also wouldn’t be a Holly Golightly album if there wasn’t a sharp caustic track or two included. “‘Miss Fortune’ is a blunt advisory number for those without a lick of sense” says Holly.
We’ve been enjoying this album immensely in the DG office for the last few months. Now it’s time to share it with you. We hope you enjoy it!
Holly Golightly – BIOG
Holly Golightly (yes, that is her real name!), started her musical career as a founder member of all girl garage band Thee Headcoatees, a Billy Childish / Thee Headcoats splinter group in 1991.
After four years as a Headcoatee she also found time to release a debut solo record, The Good Things, in 1995. Where the Headcoatees sound was a blend of girl group sounds and three-chord garage-rock with all the original songs coming from the pen of Billy Childish, Holly’s solo sound is more a blend of pre-rock electric blues, folk rock, and less frantic rock & roll.
In addition to Holly’s original songs, she’s also covered a wide range of artists including Willie Dixon, Ike Turner, Lee Hazelwood, Wreckless Eric, and Bill Withers.
She is one of the most interesting and diverse artists to come out of the Billy Childish school and is certainly one of the better singer/songwriters of the post-grunge era who seems to get better with every album.
Since her debut in 1995, Holly has been very prolific, releasing twelve solo albums, one with Billy Childish (In Blood), one with Dan Melchior (Desperate Little Town), and eight albums alongside The Brokeoffs plus loads of singles for a wide variety of labels.
She has toured the world many times, the US being a particular favourite as well as Australia & Europe.
Holly’s sound has remained remarkably consistent throughout, but each record has a quality that sets it apart from the others. In 1999 she released an album, In Blood, with her friend Billy Childish, on which the two sound like a scuffed-up British version of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood.
One of her most popular albums was Truly She Is None Other, which was recorded at Toe-Rag studios in London at the same time as The White Stripes were recording Elephant in the same studio.
Holly knew Jack & Meg after playing several west coast shows with The White Stripes, as well as supporting them at some of their London shows. They became good friends and Holly ended up recording a duet with Jack called ‘It’s True That We Love One Another’, which ended up as the final track on the classic album Elephant.
The Truly… album also featured the song ‘Tell Me Now So I Know’ which was used as the main title theme for Jim Jarmusch’s movie Broken Flowers starring Bill Murray.
There’s also a great compilation of all those early singles & EPs called Singles Round-Up.
Over the years Holly has been guest vocalist on various other band projects, including live with Mudhoney, on a couple of Greenhornes releases, and on a couple of Rocket From The Crypt tracks including their hit single ‘Lipstick’.
After relocating to USA in the early 2010s to concentrate more on touring with Lawyer Dave as Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs, she also made two more solo albums, Slowtown Now! and Do The Get Along which were released in 2015 and 2018 respectively. Both were recorded at Ed Deegan’s new Gizzard Studios with Ed at the controls and featured the current band line-up of Bruce Brand (drums), Matt Radford (double bass), Ed Deegan (guitar) and Bradley Burgess (guitar).
She’s been busy living and working at her home in the US with her animals as well as heading back to Europe for a few tours in the 2020s and finally got back in the studio while in London at the end of 2024 to record ten new original songs for her brand-new album Look Like Trouble.
TRACKLISTING
1 – Black Tongue 2 – My Get Back 3 – It’s All 4 – Rolling Along 5 – Down To One 6 – Miss Fortune 7 – Secrets We Keep 8 – The Right Thing 9 – Time 10 – Sail On
THEE HEADCOATS - THE SHERLOCK HOLMES RHYTHM 'n' BEAT VERNACULAR
(CD/LP)
**Release Date 14th November 2025**
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“The undisputed kings of garage rock” * are back once again!
Two years on from their 2023 album Irregularis (The Great Hiatus), Thee Headcoats are back with a new record that ranks alongside the very best of their 1990s albums. We proudly present to you The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm ’n’ Beat Vernacular. Featuring 12 fab cuts (or ditties, if you prefer) recorded last year at Ranscombe Studios in Rochester.
The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm ’n’ Beat Vernacular will be released on the same day as Man-Trap, a brand-new album by Thee Headcoatees, which features the chaps on rhythm section duties.
THEE HEADCOATEES - MAN-TRAP (CD/LP)
**Release Date 14th November 2025**
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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 unravel a deerstalker ribbon the chaps were at it again, and another new Headcoats LP was “in the can”, originally scheduled for release earlier this year. HOWEVER, somewhere along the line, some bright spark pointed out, “Why should the boys get all the fun? How about giving those Sisters of Suave, Thee Headcoatees a look in, too?”
Utilising all the masculine wiles at their disposal, Thee Headcoats / Damaged Goods suaveness and charm machine shuddered into action. Through sheer determination and tenacity, one-by-one, Ludella Black, Kyra LaRubia, Bongo Debbie and Holly Golightly were dragged kicking and screaming (the things they do best) out of the woodwork to lay down the 14 killer-diller cuts found on this, their latest long-playing release, the cunningly titled Man-Trap. That’s no mean feat!
THEE HEADCOATEES - THE MAN-TRAP SESSIONS EPs VOL ONE & TWO (7" EPs)
**Release Date 31st October 2025**
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VOLUME 1 - A four-song EP featuring two tracks taken from the band’s forthcoming Man-Trap album plus two exclusive non-album tracks!
TRACKLISTING 1 – He’s Gonna Kill That Girl 2 – Little By Little **EXCLUSIVE TO THIS RELEASE** 3 – You’re Gonna Lose That Boy **EXCLUSIVE TO THIS RELEASE** 4 – I Can’t Find Pleasure
VOLUME 2- A four-song EP featuring two tracks taken from the band’s forthcoming Man-Trap album plus three exclusive non-album tracks!
TRACKLISTING 1 – The Money Will Roll Right In 2 – Got Sect If You Want It **EXCLUSIVE TO THIS RELEASE** 3 – All Of Your Love **EXCLUSIVE TO THIS RELEASE** 4 – We’er Gone **EXCLUSIVE TO THIS RELEASE**
ALSO COMING SOON ON DAMAGED GOODS...
WILD BILLY CHILDISH & CTMF - (I'm) Stranded (7")
**Release Date 28th November 2025 - PRE-SALE STARTING SOON**
CTMF cover The Saints! Featuring Nurse Julie on lead vocals!
Black vinyl 7” – limited edition of 300 copies!
Having bought ‘(I’m) Stranded’, and seen The Saints supporting The Jam in 1977, Billy had an inkling it might be a grand wheeze to cover a couple of their tunes at some juncture in the near future. Fast forward to 2025. Whilst celebrating their silver wedding anniversary over tiffin, Billy suggested to the Mrs, “maybe we should do a cover of them there Saints tracks.” Mrs Childish (she of bass to CTMF) nodded slightly, “’(I’m) Standed’, and have a bash at that ‘Untitled’?” "Whats that one?" “It’s my favourite Saints track." A recording day was duly booked in at Jim Riley's famed Ranscombe Studios (A semi-professional outfit situated on the stinking banks of The River Medway). The Childishes, accompanied by The Wolf, (he of The Skins), set up their old crap in a corner, did a couple of quick run throughs - so as to have some inkling of how the stupid tracks went - and Jim's hairy mitt (imagine a werewolf’s hand in a ‘60s Hammer Horror movie) moved scarily across the rotting mixing desk and pressed the record button, which luckily worked this time, and 'Hey-presto!' the deed was done. You now have that very 45 recording blasting in your lug 'oles. Well done.
N.B. It being wisely decided that a female vocal would bring a fresh, glistening inflection to these two charmers Mrs Childish takes lead vocal duties with Billy demoted to mumbling along on backing vocals. So there!
JOHNNY MOPED - Matinee Acoustic Live At The Prince Albert (CD/LP + Bundle)
**Release Date 28th November 2025 - PRE-SALE STARTING SOON**
On 16th March 2025 Johnny Moped played two sets at The Prince Albert in Brighton. In the afternoon they played an acoustic set. They had a quick break for some fish, chips and ice cream before playing a full electric show in the evening.
The afternoon acoustic set was recorded for a live album which we now present to you! So here they are – Johnny Moped stripped-down in all their glory playing a selection of their most-loved tracks! The vinyl LP is pressed on random colour eco vinyl (though all the ones we’ve opened so far have been the same lovely colour you see below) …
You may get something completely different!
There will also be a special mail-order only bundle set complete with three badges, two stickers, a poster, and a special Johnny Moped (un) knotted hankie!
MIKABOMB - The Fake Fake Sound of Mikabomb (Neon Pink LP)
**Release Date TBC - PRE-SALE STARTING SOON**
Mika Bomb formed in 1997 after front-woman Mika left her tedious office job in Japan and escaped to London to start a band and indulge in a life of rock and roll. Within weeks of arriving in England, Mika met up with a 16-year-old punk-brat called Agi who had recently left her hometown of Beijing for similar reasons to Mika's. Needless to say, it wasn't long before Mika and Agi started cranking out their own brand of trashy pop punk tunes. With Ergi, Mika Bass and Tomoko completing the line-up, they began playing regularly and building up a fearsome reputation through their ever-exuberant live shows.
Not only were they wining over gig-goers up and down the country, but NME were calling them 'the new Ramones', Melody Maker described them as 'awesome' and Radio One's Steve Lamacq said they were 'the best band ever to come out of Japan'. Consequently, Mika Bomb also caught the attention of many record labels including Grand Royal, the label run by the Beastie Boys, who went on to release two limited edition singles 'Super Sexy Razor Happy Girls' and 'Heart Attack' in the year 2000.
They originally released their fantastic 15-track debut album The Fake Fake Sound of Mikabomb on July 2nd 2001.
Long out of print on vinyl we’re reissuing it again as the reformed Mikabomb are active once again, playing shows up and down the country.
Limited to 300 copies only on pink vinyl!