2011–2014 - Formation Cox arrived in London in October 2010 to pursue a career as a professional musician. In January 2011, she was recruited to Georgie Girl And Her Poussez Posse as guitarist and backing vocalist. The band also included Baillie, Molly Spiers-MacLeod (the daughter of
Spizz) on bass and backing vocals, drummer Rachael Smith This lineup supported Ant on four tour dates in Spring/Summer 2011 and recorded tracks for a planned single plus EP. Footage from early 2011 of a Poussez Posse band meeting at Ant's home is included in
The Blueblack Hussar, a documentary about Ant directed by
Jack Bond. Unhappy with the general direction of the band and Ant's style of mentoring, Cox, Spiers-MacLeod and Smith all left the group The trio formed their own band The Feathers, making their debut
guerilla gig appearance at the
Occupy London camp outside
St Paul's Cathedral on 23 October 2011. The band's track "Life Stranger" reached the quarter-finals of the YouBloom online talent contest and was released on the compilation
Hipsters 3. Two years later in April 2014, they performed a second acoustic set for Bushell's show - by now transferred to online literary community Litopia's podcast section. At around the time of the first session, Smith left the group to be replaced by Alex Gold, also of
The Boys. Gold in turn would be replaced by Monroe in January 2013. In April 2013, Cox befriended Boy George after they met at the launch party of an exhibition of stage costumes of their mutual hero
David Bowie at the
Victoria and Albert Museum at which George was a guest speaker. Impressed with the appearance and demeanour of the glammed-up Cox, George invited her to show herself on stage. Subsequently, Cox appeared in three videos for singles by George: "I'm Coming Home" (also featuring a cameo by Monroe), "King of Everything" and "My God" directed by Dean Stockings. The band also supported George on his November 2013 solo UK tour to promote his album
This Is What I Do. In early 2013, the band undertook a photo session for fashion designer Mark Charles and his Charles of London fashion label. From then until mid 2016, all band members regularly wore Charles' designs as stagewear and
Radio Caroline. The
Ipswich Star gave a headline preview to the band's 25 January 2014 gig at the Steamboat Tavern in Monroe's native Ipswich, alongside a photo of the band, noting how "The London trio, fresh from Boy George on his recent UK tour, led by Danie Cox, are getting rave reviews for their brand of punk-pop."
Wales On Sunday extensively interviewed Cox in the 9 February 2014 edition about the band, their associations with Ant, Baillie, George and Charles, and her life in general. Commenting on Cox and her band, the newspaper noted "With her electrifying red hair, extravagant make-up and outrageous dress sense, 23-year-old Danie Cox and her band The Featherz look every inch pop stars." (the daughter of Bond's partner and credited on
The Blueblack Hussar as Assistant to the Director). The gig also marked Cox's return to the stage following a severe knee injury days after Spiers McLeod's departure. Due to Marlene's commitments outside the band, she left amicably and an ongoing vacancy for additional guitarist existed for 14 months until Daniel Jones' spell with the band. In the meantime Cox, Atkinson and Monroe continued to gig in the three-piece format, Vera Wild of the band Jelly and Polly Hedges of the band Seek Destroy. In late 2014, they recorded fresh material at Broadoak Studios, Sussex with producer/guitarist
Kevin Armstrong. Their
14 February 2015 headline gig at the Irish Centre in
Basingstoke received praise from the
Basingstoke Gazette "The headline band were The Featherz ... who continued the general theme of girls showing just how well they can rock it up ... Not quite as heavy as (
second on the bill act)
Petrol Girls, they still had a real fast punky set. They had also picked up a posse of new followers who were now ready to worship every bead and every bit of glitter - as well as dance along to their songs." The band also played the Pavilion Stage of the 2015
Rebellion Festival. Their set received an enthusiastic review from Martin Haslam of
Louder Than War: "Bringing their brand of self-styled ‘Flock Rock’ to the masses, I'm pleased that the venue is filling up. Glam anthems (Glamthems?) get the crowd onside, ‘When Was The Last Time You Had Sex?’ and other ear worms. I’ve seen them before, but this line up has added Alice Atkinson, which is a very good thing; the three-piece with Danie Cox and Dazzle Monroe are now tighter and born to entertain. Championed by Boy George and dressed by Charles Of London, they deserve your attention. Now!" The band appeared again at the 2017 and 2018 festivals, both times on the
Opera House stage. Cox returned to the festival in 2023 on the
Empress Ballroom main stage with Slady who also played 2024 on the Almost Acoustic stage as a duo of Cox and guitarist Dawn Firth-Godbehere. The full band played the Club Casbah stage in 2025. A second single for Charles Of London Records, "You" was released from the sessions with Armstrong on download in early September 2015 followed by a CD release two months later. Around the time of the single's download release, the additional guitarist role was briefly filled when Jones joined. He left amicably three months later due to musical differences, shortly before the band played three high profile support slots in Sheffield, Liverpool and London, for
The Damned. Following the death of her hero
David Bowie in January 2016, Cox was filmed by Italian television show
Studio Aperto performing Bowie's songs at his shrine at the
Heddon Street telephone box while the Featherz performed at a Bowie memorial concert at the
Union Chapel, Islington with
Mick Ronson's sister Maggi guesting with the band on vocals for "
Ziggy Stardust" Cox and
Mike Garson's biographer Clifford Slapper also performed a vocal/piano version of "
We Are the Dead". Also in early 2016 the band, plus Donley again on additional guitar, recorded new material at Quadra Studios in Walthamstow with producer John "Lucifer" Pridige. Cox and Slapper recorded another version of Moonage Daydream for the latter's planned album
Bowiesongs 2, while Cox also collaborated with
The Lurkers on their track High Velocity, which was released as a single 24 November 2017.
Louder Than War's Ged Babey praised Cox's contribution: "Dani (
sic) has a likeable
Honey Bane meets
Beki Bondage singing style and is perfect on the song." and Cox recorded further material with the Lurkers in December 2017, February 2018 and May 2018.
2016–2018 - Five-Year-Itch, Ordinary Girl? EP Atkinson and Shepherd left the band in late 2016. Guitarist Holly Henderson of the band Dorja and bassist Jenny Lane of the band Planet Of The Capes, both of whom previously deputised in these roles in The Featherz, served as temporary live members until the arrival of permanent replacements, Swedish bassist Gerda Lucy Rankka aka Lucy Lawbreaker and Italian additional guitarist Aryanne Maudit. In the meantime, the band produced new music videos of the tracks Chelsea, Takes One To Know One and Moonage Daydream and recorded further material in Quadra Studios with Pridige and
Faebhean Kwest. Appearing on internet radio station K2K Radio's show Flipside London Radio hosted by Aidan McManus, on 28 March 2017, Cox confirmed that the band's imminent debut album was entitled
Five-Year-Itch and would be 17 tracks long. The album was released on 13 April 2017 and was compiled by Pridige (who also funded the release) from content from various sessions since 2012 (hence the album title) including material from his own sessions with the band at Quadra Studios as well as the Broadoak Studios sessions with Armstrong, both sides of the RNR★ single recorded in 2013 and the band's earliest attempt at making an album at Perry Vale Studios in 2012, as well as Pridige's own live recordings of the band.
Vive Le Rock's Alison Bateman rated the album 7/10. Although lukewarm about the choices of covers included, she nevertheless enthused, "(The band) have already built a buzz with their energetic live shows, centred on flame-haired attitude-oozing young frontwoman Danie Cox. Their cheeky punked-up glitter rock risks being a tough act to translate to the studio, but
Five-Year-Itch mostly manages with charismatic flair... They're neither short on musical chops, nor shy of buckling down to serious business of writing infuriatingly immovable hooks." The band's next single, Ordinary Girl? recorded late 2016 at Quadra with Atkinson and Shepherd (shortly before their departures) and produced by Pridige, was released on Bandcamp on 1 May 2017. The band recorded a session in January 2018 with Centric (as Cox was now known) self-producing. Around this time it was announced that Centric was now permanent vocalist for The Lurkers, while also continuing with The Featherz. In February 2018 Maudit returned to the band after only three months away, to form a new six piece lineup, with Centric no longer playing guitar. Further work on the January recording was carried out in mid March; shortly afterwards however, Maudit, Lawbreaker, Jönsson and Robertson all left. In April, with Pridige once again producing, Centric and Monroe recorded another session, with lead guitarist Calle Englemarc of
The Members and, together with Lane on bass, they filmed an official live video at the
Dublin Castle Bassist Emily Condon (of Southend band The Fleas) joined the band in July, making her debut in August at the Rebellion Festival, but was fired in September after pulling out of several gigs, the last of which, in Ipswich, went ahead regardless as a duo performance, which has since remained the band format. Centric, Monroe and Pridige also recorded yet further tracks at QRS Studios at the end of 2018.
2019–present - Side projects, second album Centric's second single with
The Lurkers, Electrical Guitar, came out in January 2019 and topped the UK Vinyl Singles chart. Parent album
Sex Crazy was released in October 2020, featuring the two A-sides recorded with Centric although "This Is Your Revolution" and other songs were rerecorded in 2019 without Centric for the release. Interviewed for
Vive Le Rock in 2020 to promote the album release, Centric's fellow Lurkers praised her contributions. Esso recalled "I asked her to join us for a few tracks or whatever, and I'm glad she did. I think she sounds great, it gave us a bit of a lift - she's a great singer." Moore concurred, "We were looking for a fresh feel at the time, so when she asked to meet Esso to talk about his book ''God's Lonely Men'', I suggested she ask her if she like [sic] to do some vocals, she agreed and made a great job of "High Velocity" and "Electrical Guitar." I can't imagine anyone else singing "High Velocity." Early in 2019, Pridige mastered the Featherz' 2017–2018 Quadra Studios sessions to form a second album with the working title
Flock On, to clear up most of the band's remaining songs thus far. However this was not released at the time as Centric was dissatisfied with the mix on one track. The combination of intensive Slady-related activity (as detailed below) and disruption from the
COVID-19 pandemic has left this project on hiatus as of . However, both Centric and Pridige expressed willingness to complete the album at some point in the future. The pandemic also halted plans for a collaboration between the two Featherz and TV presenter
Gareth Jones on bass in early 2020. Centric also formed all-female
Slade tribute band Slady, with drummer Fiona Dulake and bassist Wendy Solomon (aka Angel Melodyhorn - the partner of
David Woodcock who has guested with the full band, billed as "
Our Friend Stan"), who made their debut in Southend in November 2018. The band were later joined by guitarist Annie Needham and drummer Sophie Reed who replaced Dulake. Respectively, Centric, Solomon, Reed and Needham adopted the aliases Gobby
Holder, Jem
Lea. Donna
Powell and Davina
Hill in the band. Since February 2019, this project has been Centric's main focus and they played at Slade's main fan convention in Wolverhampton in Octobers of 2019, 2021 and 2022. They were listed in
Metro as one of three "Acts To Catch This Christmas" in their 'Going Out' section. Slady's live set for 2021 featured a track-by-track performance of the hit album
Slade Alive!. Needham left Slady at the end of 2021, once all existing commitments were completed, to focus on her other band Sweet Giant (formerly Big Peyote). The search for Needham's replacement received press coverage in the
Shropshire Star. She was replaced by Dawn Firth-Godbehere as the new "Davina Hill" in early 2022. Shortly afterwards, Jessica Dann replaced Reed as "Donna Powell" on drums. Both Needham and Reed have occasionally returned to stand in for their respective successors. The band toured with
The Rezillos in June and recorded a studio session in August 2022 for a first single, a cover of Slade's "
Merry Xmas Everybody" and custom composition "Slade Are For Life Not Just For Xmas" (by Slade fan John Barker). A video for the former was filmed in a
Hoxton pub in October; the filming attracted coverage from the
Hackney Post and
Hackney Gazette. The CD and download single were released and the video was premiered on Youtube on 1 December A video of the title track was filmed at The Ship pub in Soho.
Classic Rock magazine made the lead song one of their Tracks of the Week for 1 December, 2025.. The band made its US debut - also Cox's American debut - in March 2027 with gigs in
San Diego and
Los Angeles plus a video of "My Oh My". and as a graphic designer and on one occasion (an August 2019 support slot for
John Rossall's disputed version of
The Glitter Band at the
Dublin Castle) as substitute drummer for Reed, once again on stage with Cox/Centric. In addition, he has occasionally played reunion gigs with his early Suffolk scene band, Rue De La Mort. ==Personnel==