False Heads – Thick Skin
When Iggy Pop cites you amongst his favourite new bands on the back of your first single, you might start to feel the heat a little. But for East London upstarts False Heads, receiving the official nod from alternative music’s most enduring tastemaker is just the start.
Spawned from the ashes of university bands and a plethora of line-up changes, False Heads were cemented when old school friends Luke Griffiths (vocals/guitar), Jake Elliott (bass) and Barney Nash (drums) came back together in mid 2015.
Describing their sound as ‘crack rock punk’, their insanely catchy lo-fi riffs alongside Griffiths’ biting lyrics soon reached the ears of Libertine Gary Powell who didn’t hesitate to sign them to his own label. First single ‘Steal and Cheat’ was released on 25 Hour Convenience Store in December of that year, to an audience ready to receive.
