Housecoat Project was an avant-garde punk rock band started in 1984 in San Francisco, California, by Meri St. Mary, Eric Rad Yuncker, Michel Schorro and Erol Cengiz.
In 2012, St. Mary reunited the band after 20 years with Jay Crawford, Bob Bartosik, Mike Sims and Whitey Cox.
Housecoat Project played at the opening of the Punk Rock Museum in Los Angeles, The Eagle in & out of exile[clarification needed] with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Punk Rock Museum in San Francisco and Nevada City.
Wide Eye Doo Dat is out of print and the test pressing for Girlfriend has limited availability.
Housecoat Project played at the Folsom Street Fair, the I-Beam nightclub, The Farm, The Kommotion, The Chatterbox, San Francisco Music Works, The Baybrick Inn and The Sound of Music as well as open public performances such as 1986 record release in the parking lot of Grocery Outlet South of Market SF: have generator will play.. Robert Christgau of Village Voice gave them a "B".