Since 2005, the 47-year-old Melbourne multi-instrumentalist, “drummer/songwriter”, husband and father Jamie Coghill has, as The Jimmy C, recorded 9 albums, 4 soundtrack albums for American independent film & T.V. and a few miscellaneous singles and E.P.s. He writes all the songs, plays all the instruments (except for a few rare guest spots) and records, mixes and masters it all himself. He even does his own graphic design. A completely sustainable hobby, Jamie makes music as well as balancing a day job and a family and has been performing live since 1994 in bands; Lava Fangs, The Devilrock Four, Fez Perez and Luxedo. Critically acclaimed and endorsed within the local music industry, The Jimmy C remains a secret treasure waiting to be discovered by the wider public.

The concept of The Jimmy C’s new album, Refreshing, is to take the best songs from The Jimmy C’s formative years (2004-2009) and present them anew with the benefit of over a decade of experience and musicianship and without the restrictions of recording to 4-track cassette tape and primitive mid-nineties recording software.

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.