Doc & The Headshrinkers

Rockabilly Revivalists

In 2006 after a back operation, Doc, bass player with Katsquire, Doctor Bison and a thousand scratch bands, picked up a 16 Track digital porta studio, sat in his living room and thought, “ wonder how this works? “ . A few days later he’d started writing a couple of songs and a couple of weeks after that had recorded a whole albums worth of tracks. First idea was to sell them as a library album for adverts, TV and elevators, but good friend and former band cohort Rob ‘Livestock’ Davies persuaded him to get it pressed up and released. The result was DIED JOGGING.After moving to Deepest, darkest West Wales he finally met up with Richie Evans, Double bass player and lifelong Rockabilly fan. He’d played with bands including Tootinskamoon, a successful Ska outfit, but his true passion was Rockabilly. Doc shifted from bass to guitar and vocals they started a search for a drummer and that illusive second guitarist. Drummer John ‘haircut’ Lovell was playing in Richie’s other band, Monsterometer at the time and fancied a crack at the job. They decided to rework a lot of the old songs, stay as a three piece and Doc & the Headshrinkers, the band, was born. A handful of rehearsals under their belts and at last, Died Jogging, Heart Attack and others from that first album got a well-received live airing at the Rampin in Cilgerran.