The Hair Thieves. An ecelctic mix of indie punk pop jazz rock ambient soundtracks
Why The Hair Thieves?
After University, Rollasoc finally found a job which enabled him to fund a PC
and some musical equipment,
in order to write and record some music on. The name of the project was going
to be "Rubik's Duvet" , (the
name coming from a David Baddiel sketch on his insomnia and how his black duvet
managed to become grey and crinkly).
However this name ran into a bit of trouble, when the company that holds the
rights to the "Rubik's" name said the name could only be used, if royalties were
paid to them. Yeah right!
A search for a new name started. For a while, the name changed to "Human Gnome
Project, this had the unfortunate problem of some bloke cyber squatting the URL,
or at least, owning it, but not using it. (I've just checked and it is currently available).
Finally, the name "The Hair Thieves" was chosen. The name comes from a Eddie
Izzard sketch, about why old ladies only ever buy dog food and hair nets.
After initially spending much of 2000 and 2001 as a solo type project, 2002 saw
the first real incarnation of The Hair Thieves, with a gig at Worfestock and
subsequent expansion of the lineup before the inevitable implosion that
occurred, due to illness and the proverbial musical differences, (mostly due to
everyone compromising on a common ground, meaning no one really wanted to do it).
2003 saw the Hair Thieves as essentially a one man band once again, as everything went temporarily pearshaped, with a couple
of failed attempts of working with other vocalists and the music
going in various directions, before settling back into Rollasoc's eclectic vision.
2004 saw The Hair Thieves back with some new tunes, and a new studio setup. 2005
sees more tunes, some competition work and the start of
an albums worth of material being collated. 2005 also sees the expansion of the lineup as E joins on guitar.
2006 saw, saw the release of two EPs and work starting on recording the first
Hair Thieves long player..
2007 sees an expansion of the line up, EP3 and hopefully, but not probably the Hair Thieves album.
Who are The Hair Thieves?
Chris Rollason (Rollasoc)- Vocals \ Guitars \ Bass \ Keyboards \ Programming \ Percussion \ Engineering \ Production.
Ian (E) Packman - Guitars\ Engineering \ Production \ Hardware
Pete (Codge) - Bass\ Backing Vocals