Royal Headache, another in a line of fine Australian bands re-igniting the fire of Punk and New Wave, are no more. Apparently their split was somewhat ignominious. But from their ashes rises the phoenix of Shogun & the Sheets. fronted by that band's vocalist Shogun.
And they carry on very much where Royal Headache left off, with this, their debut release. Hold On Kid is blazing. All the desperate fury of The Saints or one of those fabulous offshoot Seventies bands featuring ex-members of The MC5 or Stooges.
Pissing Blood veers more towards Alice Cooper territory. Never particularly my favourite part of the Punk Sea. It's all done with the greatest sense of detail possible though. There's something determinedly archivist going on here. But it has all the full on energy and restless fuel of those great bands, something largely lost in the decades since. On the evidence of this, they'll be well worth watching.
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