#royal headache

[beatsforbrothels]

Royal Headache - Another World

[bandcampsnoop]

12/24/23.

Leatherman are a Melbourne, Australia based band that rock so hard. The Bandcamp page mentions a combination of The Exploding Hearts, Thin Lizzy and Judas Priest. Users also mention Blondie and Joan Jett.

I would add Stiff Richards, Sheer Mag, Royal Headache and Romero. Really, just great rock n' roll with soulful melodies and singing. This is released on Australian label Legless Records.

[dustedmagazine]

Antenna — S-T (Urge)

Royal Headache had a close to decade-long run, but it was never easy. They went from dive bar shows to opening for the Black Keys within only a few years and flamed out finally in 2017, as substance abuse and interpersonal disputes took their toll. And yet, if you like your punk rock spiked with romantic tunefulness, if you harbor affection for the Buzzcocks, the Jam or, further back, the Small Faces, there just weren’t any other bands like Royal Headache. A lot of that was due to one Tim “Shogun” Wall, vocally a dead ringer for a young Rod Stewart, but scrawny, amped to the gills, grappling with the mic and stalking the stage floor, making an anthemic, super-charged racket.

Interviews suggest that Royal Headache’s rapid rise and fall left Shogun in a pretty nasty place, but now, half a decade later with Antenna, he’s back at it, making music again. We covered Finnogun’s Wake, his duo with Finn Berzin in the first Dust of 2024. Andrew Forell placed it, “somewhere between the concise attack of Shogun’s former band Royal Headache and the anthemic end of Britpop.” This five-song EP from Antenna runs faster and more punk than the last Royal Headache album, and it’s, thankfully, not as indebted to Blur/Oasis and their ilk. It’s better than Finnoguns Wake then, and as good or maybe even better than the two Royal Headache records.

“Cube,” for instance, rages headlong, double-time, in a fury of drum-bass-guitar flailing. It’s fast but precise—Shogun has put together a very capable band here—and it feels like it might fly apart at any moment but doesn’t. But where most bands operating at this pace and volume might content themselves with shouted lyrics, Shogun puts frill and ornament into the singing, nailing the tune and ending phrases in lavish, multi-toned flourishes. It’s like Tom Jones finding himself in front of Bad Brains, and it’s fun.

“English Three” bangs just as hard, slamming the one-two beat with a jackhammer intensity. Musically, it’s got an antsy, carnival glee vibe, which contrasts with the lyrics, which deal with mid-life alienation and isolation. “Don’t own me, touch me, I don’t need anybody, until the ending of the day,” declares Shogun. By the sound, you’d think it’s a stirring manifesto, but the words are more like a suicide note.

The EP ends in glory, with the seething, soaring, blue-eyed soul anthem “Antenna State,” hemmed in by with flaring guitars and Motown-style backing “oohs and ohs.” “Don’t smoke god, don’t smoke god, love should be all that you need,” wails the singer, in fluid, florid dramatics that would carry to the back rows of even the largest venues Royal Headache used to play. Maybe we don’t need religion or drugs to feel this good, but we sure do require quality rock and roll.

Jennifer Kelly

[punkrockmixtapes]

Royal Headache - Really In Love

[verytinysongs]

Live In America by Royal Headache

Band Name: Royal Headache Label: What’s Your Rupture? Location: Sydney, Australia Release Date: June 21, 2024 Tags: garage rock, indie rock, punk, live recordings Recommended Tune: High

[caramelizeddishsoap]

1. What About Us (oklou cover) - Casey MQ 2. Thankful - Candy Moore 3. Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts - Arctic Monkeys 4. Two Kinds of Right - The Grates 5. Wood Cabin - St Etienne 6. Waking Up In Vegas - Katy Perry 7. Love Her If I Tried - Royal Headache 8. Hard To Explain - The Strokes

[ironandmagic]

I used to live in a world

Of rock 'n' roll

And tons of girls

Here in my own fantasy

It was my own fantasy

I used to dream of love

And all the things

That ruled above

They're in my own fantasy

They're in my own fantasy

[maquina-semiotica]

Royal Headache, "Never Again"

[rockingtheorange]

Cry time ಥ_ಥ

Henry and Alex slept together after the lake scene, both conscious of the fact that an unspoken "I love you" was in the air.

The difference is that Henry left the bed in the middle of the night looking at Alex for the last time, meanwhile Alex fell asleep looking at Henry and woke up alone.

[aychama]

Everyone proposing to the royalty and knights. I wanna propose to my main girl, Ruri. Would she accept my hand in marriage? We can bond over our love of making sweets.

She is too busy looking at Lambert and Narinder interacting. Oop Jalala and Rinor are with her as well. The girls are discussing if the two have a thing for eachother or not.

Oh-uh Aym and Baal saw the three maids stalking the king, unforgivable! They scare Rinor and Jalala but then Ruri says "omg Lambert is touching the kings face!!!!"

Suddenly, Aym joins the girls. Baal makes a comment like "what is wrong with you all?" But then Rinor says "oh my god he is leaning into them!!!!!" Baal is now glued to the hiding spot, all of them watching the two.

But they all got too excited and one of them fell to the floor, alerting Lambert and Narinder who quickly part away. Narinder simply looking at them makes the maids scatter but poor Aym and Baal have some explaining to do now....

[bandcampsnoop]

9/20/24.

Reckoner (Los Angeles, California) play a more polished soul-punk. Led by vocalist Jennie Cotterill (ex-Bad Cop/Bad Cop) and featuring members from Fireworks, Alice Bag Band, this 2 song 7" charges out of the gate with sounds reminiscent of Sheer Mag, Royal Headache and Ted Leo & the Pharmacists. This is fist-pumping, anthemic, melodic punk.

Double Helix Records is releasing this. I'm not really sure why they're not selling physical copies on Bandcamp, but you can find the 7" through their shop on Hello Merch.

[caregivingchrysalises]

hi my little dove, awe angel are we feeling icky hun? can you tell buba where it hurts love? a headache, awe dewdrop it’s okay, i know it hurts baby, is there anything buba can do to make things better? i’m going to dim the lights a bit is that alright love? there we go,, much better~ would you like head scratches? i can also bring a bottle/sippy with something cold if you’d like? there’s no pressure to make any decisions now hun, whatever will make my darling happy i’m happy to do angel. you’re never a burden baby, i promise. you’re not being a bother for needing help and wanting someone to look after you while you’re hurting, that’s what i’m here for~ for the good and the icky, i’ll take care of you through it all sweetheart,, now do you want to try and get some rest with me love? the moon and i agree rest will do us all some good sprout.

ʚ♡ɞ

goodnight angel, rest well

[punkrockmixtapes]

Royal Headache "Carolina" (Official Video)

[verytinysongs]

Antenna by Antenna

Band Name: Antenna Labels: Urge Records Location: Sydney, Australia Release Date: March 8, 2024 Tags:  garage rock, indie rock, punk Recommended Tune: Lost

[lesbiamano]

idgaf anymore. here's my iraqi princess goro akechi