Thee Headcoats has been played on NTS in shows including Diddy Wah, featured first on 15 July 2014. Songs played include I'm Hurtin, Full Time Plagiarist and I'm Hurting.

Thee Headcoats was one of the various band monikers assumed by garage rock primitive Billy Childish (aka Bill Hamper), a native of The Medway Towns, Kent, England. Over several decades — and regardless of the fashion of the time — Childish has churned out no-frills garage rock, the likes of which saw a resurgence in hipness in the new millennium with groups such as the Hives and the White Stripes.

The ultra-prolific bandleader/producer/poet/painter/publisher first emerged in…