Holly Golightly

Holly Golightly (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. She spent four years as a Headcoatee before breaking away to release her debut 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. Apart from the wide range of covers of such artists as Willie Dixon, Ike Turner, Lee Hazelwood, Wreckless Eric, and Bill Withers, Golightly also writes all her own material.

Holly Golightly is definitely the most interesting and diverse artist to come out of the Billy Childish school and is certainly one of the better singer/songwriters of the post-grunge era.

Since her debut in 1995, Golightly has been very prolific, releasing ten long play records and loads of singles for a wide variety of labels and has toured America eight times. 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 with her friend Billy Childish, on which the two sound like a scuffed-up British version of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood. Another is 2001's Desperate Little Town, another collaboration, which marked a bit of a stylistic diversion as it is a very relaxed and mostly acoustic record. In the same year she also collected up all thirteen of her singles and E.P's onto one double album called Single's Round-Up.

After playing several west coast shows with The White Stripes, and supporting them at their some of their London shows, Holly has become good friends with Jack and Meg, recording a duet with them, It's true that we love one another, for their latest album Elephant. Holly has also recently been recording in the US with garage band The Greenhornes and they released a special Christmas 2002 single together on Damaged Goods called Little Stars. Holly appears on the Greenhornes latest album Dual Mono which is out in the States on Telstar.

Over the years Holly has been guest vocalist on various other bands projects, including live with Mudhoney and on a few Rocket From The Crypt releases. Her new album, Truly She Is None Other which is her first for two years was recorded as usual by Liam Watson at Toe Rag and Ed Deegan at FatSounds studios in London. It will be released in July and will be supported with a US tour and also some UK dates too.There is also a new 7" called Walk A Mile taken from the album with an exclusive b-side Don't Fuck Around With Love featuring the ever wonderful Sexton Ming.