Headline Maniac is the debut album by Eddie & the Hotrods side project Headline Maniac and features Ian Dipster Dean, Chris Taylor and Simon Bowley from the Hotrods recent line-ups.
The album comes roaring out of the Thames delta for opener Idiot Me that has a full on raging riff and some real cool vocals to get everyone going. Give Me One More Chance starts off a bit slower and then explodes as they ask for one more chance before they are dumped for good over a backing that sounds somewhere in between The Wildhearts and Therapy? With a good screaming guitar solo that sounds like the woman raging at them.
Someone Like You keeps to the formula of great ballsy rock songs with good chorus' and great guitars. Hero opens with a repeated guitar figure before the band come in sounding like the Wildhearts getting all emotional as they plead to be your hero. You're the One for Me is asking her out over raging guitars and some pretty huge drums and a good plea for some love to get everyone bouncing around to it with a riff that may have been nicked off of Jimi Hendrix.
I Want All Of Your Love keeps up the same theme but seems to amp things up a bit more and has a real classic rock feel to it. Millionaire makes the claim that he feels like one when he's with you AHH isn't that sweet! It has to be said the tune is pretty sweet too!
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Don't stop Doing What Your Doing has me singing along after a few listens as it's very catchy indeed a great slice of Pop rock with great guitars that seem to sustain for ever. 14 days may well be the length of the relationship they want with the woman they desire but is actually how long since they asked her out it's a good bruised song of desire with a good bouncy sound to it.
I'm Bad (Rotten To the Core) is a rocking plea for a one night stand at least you know what you're getting all over a really cool riff that will eat into your brain and stay there longer than he will. The album closes with Gotta Get Away that could be the reply to all the pleading for sex on the rest of the record but of course it's almost more pleading but still a good end to a very cool rocking album as they realise the object of their desires has been cheating on them all along, which is some kind of poetic justice.
Find out more at www.headlinemaniac.com
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