A couple of weeks ago I received my ticket for The Head Cat at El Corazon on October 9, 2008 but alas, I saw on their web site that the show has been postponed, not canceled,  just postponed…..bummer.

What’s that? Who’s The Head Cat? You never heard of them? I’m sure you have heard of them, just not quite like this.

The Head Cat is a 3-piece rockabilly band. On guitar is Danny B. Harvey best known for his work with 13 Cats and the early 80’s band Rockats. On drums and vocals is Slim Jim Phantom best known as the “stand up” drummer for The Stray Cats and on bass and lead vocals the one and only Lemmy Kilmister best known as the gravely vocalist, Rickenbacker playin’ bassist of Motorhead.

Head Cat  became a side project for these guys during down time from their regular bands which means a couple of times a year they throw together a 6 or 7 town “tour” and do rock and roll cover tunes of the 50’s along with some Stray Cat stuff.

Oh, the reason for the postponement,  Slim Jim Phanton while on the tail end of The Stray Cats European tour,  yes The Stray Cats are still out there touring (and they will being touring Australia in February ‘09) fell off the stage at the end of the London show and broke his wrist in three places…ouch! They are hoping to reschedule The Head Cat show for mid to late January,  just before he heads out to Australia.

The following video I found on youtube, it ain’t the best but it does give you an idea of their sound.  Hopefully I’ll have a better video for you early next year.  The song is Rock This Town with Slim Jim doing the vocals.