The Headies @ Mojo 13 on Friday the 13th

Come out to Mojo 13 on Friday the 13th for more spoooooky fun with yer pals the Headies! Four bands total, but two of which had names far too long to cut out of the News Journal and Wizard Magazine.

Long Lost Videos - Jambox Opening for the Queers

That Jambox opening up for the Queers (along with Tit Patrol and Jake and the Stiffs) @ Mojo 13 a couple years back.

"Blue", "Spazzapality", "Secret History of Rhythm and Blues", and "Please"


And here we are at St. Mary's in Philly 2006. Beware, this is not the Jambox line-up we record with... featuring Officer J.P. on the skins!

"Freedom or Security?" by Plow United and ""Kim Kelly is My Friend"

Hey Jerks, Come See the Headies, Please

The Headies Live at Mojo 13!

The Headies live on February 25th (I think) at Mojo 13! Playing to the best damn two-man audience in the world featuring Timmy "Main Man" Toner and Jamesage Yetter (who filmed, editted, and uploaded these wonderful vids!) No slight to anybody else, but that is great friendship and I appreciate it! See, Billy Frolic tends the bar on Monday nights at Mojo, and when some band cancelled, they needed a fill in, and that is us! We used the low-stress gig to play some numbers we have never brought out in front of people yet. These are almost certainly the last three piece Headies videos you will see, as big things are in the works... big MC things.

"Soap, Soap, Soap" by Judy and the Loadies

"Do the Gremlin"

"Joelle (How Much You Love Yer Baby?)"

"Gimmee My Cheeseburger"

"Money" by the Sonics

"Betty is a Pill-Popper"

"Good Morning Miss Bliss Part 1"

"Fantasy Novels" by Science For Kids

"High on Drugs" by Metal Mike Saunders

"Bebe is a Footballer"

"Ulysses"

"I've Been Around" by the Animals

Tit Patrol Live at Mojo 13!!

Yeah! This one is real good, from the show we played with the Queers at Mojo 13!

"Yer Givin' Me the Heebie-Jeebies", "Tree Branches", "Mikey/Nice Haircut Asshole"

"Cough It Up"

"Candy Not Cops"

"I Wanna Be Happy With Me"

"Punk Rock 40 Party"

"Daily Lobotomy"

"One of My Moods"

"Get Rid of You", "Her Pussy Has a Mohawk"

"I Can't Save No Money", "Working Class Wastoid"

"Soda Pop Bop"

"Surfin' Suzy"

"Spanish Grrrlz"

"Tit Patrol's from Eart-2", "Butt Foot"

The Headies Live!!

Wilmington's best rock and roll band, the Headies live at Mojo 13 in Wilmington, Delaware, December 12, 2008. Thanks to Jamesage for the video! (Don't worry, the guitar gets turned up fast!)

"Feets Don't Fail Me Now" and "Black Bubblegum"

"Mr. Pitiful" by Otis Redding

"Markle"

"Do the Gremlin"

"I've Been Around" by the Animals

"Real Gone Monkey" and "Joelle (How Much You Love Yer Baby?)"

"Out in the Streets" by the Shangria-Las and "Shake It Down!"

"It's a Super-Man's World"

Jake and the Stiffs at Mojo 13

Jake and the Stiffs have always been aglow with Wilmington pride. During the glory days of the mid 1990's, they took a little ribbing, not usually to their faces, from the more snooty and perhaps overall more successful West Chester located bands. Though their outstanding "Love Bomb" graced the best Creep Records compilation "Dad I Can't Breathe" (available on 12" pink vinyl with sides A and B switched), they were subject to weird condescention. Not from me of course. I think people dissed them because of their refusal to do anything hard-core (they are STRICT power-pop style punk rock), towards which the winds of change were blowing, and they were like five years older than the rest of the scene (and I was five years younger). What that means really, is that they were before the rest. In my objective eyes, that wasn't enough to be, shall we say "better" than Plow United (who I never heard dissin' the Stiffs - it was more Arik Creep, Tom Martin, and non-band affiliated West Chester scenesters) at the time. But here's the thing... last night on September 12, 2008, Jake and the Stiffs took the stage at Mojo 13. It was a show to celebrate the release of the Stiffs' iconic bassist, Vince Algy Belial Suicide, from the slammer. The boys took the stage unashamed and unworried about reputation, as they always have, something we could not say about Plow even if they decided to play, which they will never do. What's more the Stiffs did not miss a beat, rocking through everybody's favorite numbers to the delight of punks, skinheads, and underage high school girls. The Stiffs have had a million line-ups, even including the great Wild Bill Kate on rhythm guitar at one point, but the heart is Vince on bass and Randy America on lead guitar and vocals. They played with my old band Ninja Attak when the horrible canadian perverted pop-punk (not sexually perverted, perverted what I like about pop-punk) band Gob came through town, and they played with Tit Patrol and the Endless Mike Jambox when the Queers came through last year. In fact the first show I played ever at the Barn Door in Wilmington was given to us by Bill Kate at a Stiffs/Explosive Kate show, and 1993's "Steal This Record" 7" was the first local vinyl I owned, just prior to Plow United's first LP. They were there for all the major punk rock moments in Delaware, quietly doing it right and getting shit for not fitting in just right. Last night was spectacular, I actually thought I was seventeen again, and the Stiffs played with that twenty-something abandon that is going extinct.

By the way, if the dude who video taped the show (digitally of course) happens to see this and wants to send videos my way, it'd be much appreciated!