Haircut 100

Haircut One Hundred (also Haircut 100) are a British pop group formed in 1980 in Beckenham, London, by Nick Heyward, Les Nemes and Graham Jones.

Haircut 100 released their debut album in February 1982, Pelican West. The band were an instant smash with four UK Top 10 singles including ‘Fantastic Day’, ‘Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)’ and ‘Love Plus One’, with the album storming into the UK Top 10 for three months, ten weeks of which were in the Top 5, and 34 weeks in the Top 40.

Haircut 100 - Nick Heyward, Les Nemes, Graham Jones, Phil Smith, Marc Fox and Blair Cunningham - went from being London underground darlings to chart sensations in less than six months, and within a year, had disappeared into pop’s ether, leaving behind one truly memorable album.

Over 40 years on, the band released a bonus version of that iconic Pelican West album, with a one-off live show to bring the album to life – public demand for [ckets spurred the need for a full UK tour. Over four CDs, there are 54 tracks, of which 24 are unreleased, including nascent versions of later Nick Heyward solo hits ‘Whistle Down The Wind’, ‘Blue Hat For A Blue Day’ and the great lost Haircut 100 single ‘Sunny Boy, Sunny Girl’. The album is available as a Super Deluxe Edi[on featuring a new remaster of Pelican West, all the 12” mixes and b-sides, a live set from Hammersmith Odeon and for the first [me, the demos for their unfinished second album, which was given the provisional [tle Blue Hat For A Blue Day. The 4-CD set features a 44 page booklet with a new 10,000-word sleeve note featuring an oral history of the [me with all members interviewed by the set’s curator, author and DJ Daryl Easlea. The booklet includes memorabilia and exclusive photos from the personal collection of Haircut’s guitarist Graham Jones and bassist Les Nemes.