MELBOURNE’S ONE-MAN POWER POP/POP-ROCK MACHINE, THE JIMMY C – AKA JAMIE COGHILL OF POWER POPPING GARAGE ROCKERS LAVA FANGS – GIVES YOU A FREE 20 SONG CAREER RETROSPECTIVE/BEST OF TWENTY YEARS OF THE JIMMY C
NEW ANTHOLOGY FOLLOWS LATEST ALBUM REFRESHING
2025 marks the 20th year of The Jimmy C, the solo home recording project of 48 year old Australian multi-instrumentalist, “drummer/songwriter”, husband and father, Jamie Coghill. Since 2005 he has recorded 9 albums, 4 soundtrack albums for American independent film & T.V. and a few miscellaneous singles and EPs. He writes all the songs, plays all the instruments and records, mixes and masters all the recordings by himself (he even does his own graphic design).
To celebrate this impressive milestone, The Jimmy C and Cheersquad Records & Tapes are, for the rest of 2025, giving away a 20-song career retrospective/best of/anthology collection – completely free!
20 fantastically eclectic songs representing the very best of each era of The Jimmy C’s career, and a remarkable document of the evolution of this one-man-band over 20 years of writing, recording and performing.
The Jimmy C remains a well-kept secret treasure within the music industry – well respected by those in the know and among other musicians but still waiting to be discovered by the wider public.
TWENTY YEARS OF THE JIMMY C 2005-2025 follows The Jimmy C‘s most recent album Refreshing which was released in June on Cheersquad Records & Tapes and America’s Kool Kat Musik.
TWENTY YEARS OF THE JIMMY C IS AVAILABLE FROM:
Twenty Years of The Jimmy C | The Jimmy C
THE COMPLETE THE JIMMY C CATALOGUE IS AVAILABLE FROM
Music | The Jimmy C
ABOUT THE JIMMY C
Power Pop is a genre known for one-man band type artists. Emitt Rhodes, Todd Rundgren, The Toms, and more. Even a chap named Paul McCartney was want to do it after his first band broke up. You can add to that list Melbourne musician Jamie Coghill, aka The Jimmy C.
Jamie first started making his presence felt around town at the end of the last millennium, playing drums in Luxedo and then Fez Perez. He was then part of the Devilrock Four – a band who made something of a name for themselves around town when rock came back in the ‘00s. Before the Devilrock Four released their second and final album in 2013, Jamie had already become The Jimmy C to indulge his purer pop tendencies; he released the first of numerous Jimmy C albums, Glamour & Fame, way back in 2009. Since then he’s been prolific, but has seriously flown under the radar.
Remarkably, as The Jimmy C he has also recorded and released a number of film and TV soundtracks – for obviously Academy-noted stuff (not!) like the 2020 Austin, Tx/LA indie production The Brides of Satan (out on Blu-Ray now!) and the web series The Adventures of Superseven.
In addition to all this, Jamie also co-fronts (if you can call a singing drummer a co-front man) the fabulously garage Lava Fangs, who released their acclaimed second album Sub Auroram in May last year.
A big fan of Redd Kross, XTC, Cheap Trick, The Move and other classic and clever power pop stuff as well as lots of garage punk stuff, plus some more left-field acts ranging from Ween to Super Furry Animals to the Queens of the Stoneage, The Jimmy C writes, sings and plays songs that combine those influences – plus a wider range of soundtrack (Morricone, Barry, Budd etc) and surf/exotica/etc instrumental stuff – and he does it really well.
https://thejimmyc.bandcamp.com
