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Royal Headache is a punk, soul, garage band from Sydney, Australia. Formed in 2008, the band is comprised of Shogun (vocals), Law (guitar), Joe (bass), and Shortty (drums), all monikers. The band has released one album, the self-titled Royal Headache, receiving much praise from such sources as Pitchfork and NPR. The band is signed onto Australian recording label R.I.P. Society Records, XVIII Records in France, and What's Your Rupture? in the US, Japan, and the UK.

2008-Royal Headache

Emerging from Sydney's tight-knit garage band scene, Royal Headache played along side bands like Zond, Dead Farmers, Boomgates, and Bed Wetting Bad Boys. Previous to Headache, the four members played for many punk bands in and around Sydney, eventually coming together in 2008 to play their type of quick, dirty soul-punk.

Royal Headache

The creation of the 7" debut album took only about 15 days to record, but the band spent another 15-months deliberating over fine tuning, at one point getting so intense that the singer (Shogun) quit the band for a stretch. Released in September 2011, Royal Headache, comprised of 12 short blasts of soulful punk, not going over three minutes, received popular reviews from many websites and music critiques, catching the attention of soul/rock duo The Black Keys, who asked Royal Headache to tour with them in the fall of 2012. Produced by R.I.P. Society's Eddy Current Suppression Ring’s Mikey Young and Straight Arrows’ Owen Penglis, the album quickly rose to fame among underground music centers. In 2011 and 2012 the band began touring Europe, Australia, and the US, with the US version of the album being released in 2012.

Royal Headache to present

Currently the band has approximately 30 unrecorded songs, with some going over the previous of three minutes. The band hopes that this time the process will be much shorter and can release the album in 2013.