Effective period / Period of releases: 2016 - 2019

Members: Mick Wooding, Tim Cross (4), John Sawyer (5), Geoff Bennett (4), Robert Lovelock, Simon Lewis (13)

Punk band formed in the late 80s in Gravesend, Kent.

Current line up:
Mick - Vox, John - Guitar, Geoff - Drums, Tim - Bass
(Past members: Gonk - Bass, Simon - Drums)

Terminal Heads were formed in the late 80's with Mick on vocals, John on guitar, Geoff on drums and Gonk on Bass. They played their first gig under the name The Satsumo Wrestlers at the Red Lion in Gravesend. After more gigging and a name change to The Plastic Thingies they finally settled on the Terminals Heads moniker.

Geoff left around this time and Simon joined the band as their 'hippy' drummer. It was this line up that recorded the 'Smalltalk' cassette in September 1990 which included live favourite 'Top Of The Pops'. By this time the band were playing around South London regularly.

Simon soon left the band and Geoff came back in on drums, and in 1994 the band recorded the 'B.Y.C.' cassette which included the inimitable 'B.Y.C' that was to become a firm live favourite and remains so to this day.

This was followed up in 1995 by the 'Sick' cassette. At this point the band were still playing regularly around London and were also travelling further afield doing gigs in cities such as Leeds and Dublin.

In September 1996, the band recorded their last and probably best cassette 'Slice', with tracks such as 'Yourself', 'Fly' and 'Walking On The Ceiling' still being mainstays of their live performances today. The band continued to play regularly, but finally drifted apart in the late 90s.

In the interim guitarist John's avid following of Canadian band nomeansno resulted in an offer to support nomeansno offshoot band The Hanson Brothers in November 2008. Terminal Heads played three dates with them in London (at the Underworld), Brighton and Derby. The band continued to play sporadically and in 2011 began to write new material again such a 'Drone' and 'Joker'.

In October 2012 John's friendship with nomeansno yielded a further support slot, this time with the band themselves, again at the London Underworld.

After a gig in January 2014 Gonk finally left the band for good to focus on his role as guitarist in another project. At the same gig the band were able to recruit Tim as replacement bassist and this gave the band a new lease of life. Since then they have been busy writing songs and playing regularly around London and Kent (and even as far away as Groningen in Holland).

In November 2015 the band entered Squarehead Studios with Rob Wilks to record their first proper album 'Back!' and this was released on CD in January 2016 and on limited 180g vinyl in Feb 2016. It contained crowd favourites, 'Sheep', 'Clique', 'Special', 'Control' and 'Noise'. In April 2016 a track from the album, 'Must Be' was included on the Grow Your Own Records compilation 'Birds Of A Feather Flock Together'.

Terminal Heads continued to gig throughout 2016 and 2017 sharing a stage with such notables as The Warriors, Surgery Without Research, Peter And The Test Tube Babies, The Defects, The Vibrators, Chron Gen and Menace. They also took another jaunt to Holland to support the mighty Uhgah? Wugha! on their album launch where they played the renowned Vera club. In November 2017 the Terminal Heads once more entered Squarehead Studios with Rob Wilks to lay down the first songs that would eventually form part of their second album 'The Duncan Norbert Memorial Album'.

2018 saw them playing with The Drones and The Restarts as well as more gigs with Chron Gen, The Defects and Surgery Without Research. The end of the year saw a strange interlude as Mick and John went (almost!) unplugged in support of Canada's Tom Holland (formerly of nomeansno, the Hanson Brothers and the Show Business Giants) on the UK dates of his solo acoustic tour.

2019 kicked off giging with Surgery Without Research before the band went back into Squarehead Studios with Rob Wilks to complete recording and mixing on their seciond LP. More gigs with The Subhumans, GBH, Hard Skin and the UK Subs paved way for the band's first appearance at the Rebellion Festival in August, where advanced CD copies of their second album 'The Duncan Norbert Memorial Album' were unleashed on the world. After supporting the Restarts with their October album launch in London, the band released a vinyl issue of the 'Duncan Norbert Memorial Album' in December 2019 on a limited pressing of 250 LPs. They capped off 2019 with another gig with Peter And The Test Tube Babies in London.