The Polecats are go! They have announced that they will be performing an afternoon set at The Prince Albert in Brighton on Sunday 23 October. The event will run from 2pm to 5pm and you can purchase your tickets HERE.
The Polecats began life in the late 1970s as The Cult Heroes, playing youth clubs in the Mill Hill area of north London with Tim Polecat and Boz Boorer on guitar, Phil Bloomberg on bass and Chris Hawkes on drums. Boz and Phil shared vocals at the time. With a change of drummer from Chris to Neil Rooney and with Tim now on vocals, the Polecats were born.
The band released their first single Rockabilly Guy on Nervous Records and were soon signed to major record label, Phonogram. With the release of their first album Polecats Are Go in 1981, they established themselves as one of the most exciting rockin’ bands around. The album was followed by UK top 30 hit singles, John I’m Only Dancing, a re-recording of Rockabilly Guy and Jeepster.
In early 1982, the Polecats released the hit single Make A Circuit With Me and replaced Neil Rooney with Poorboys drummer, John Buck. After a brief “lay-off” between 1985 and 1988, the Polecats have continued to gig throughout the world playing regularly in Europe, Japan and America. During the early 90s they released two albums for the Japanese label Vinyl Japan, Won’t Die and Nine. And in 1994 the now rare White Devils, inspired by a name given to the band in Japan, was released. The US and UK top 30 single Make A Circuit was used as part of the promo for Disney movie Wall-E and in the US sit-com Glory Daze.
Tim now lives in Palm Springs but keeps close ties with Mill Hill. He and Phil wrote the score for the 2010 movie Isle of Dogs, which also features a role for John Buck. The band have continued to tour the UK, US, Europe and Japan and are currently working on some new recordings and now they will be rockin’ on up at the Prince Albert on the afternoon of Sunday 23 October. Purchase your tickets HERE.
