Finding difficulty persuading promoters to book them on the rockabilly circuit with a name sounding "too punk", they adopted Hawkes' suggested band name, the Polecats.
The Polecats played rockabilly with a "punk sense of anarchy and helped revive the genre for a new generation in the early '80s.
[5] Boz Boorer left the group to work as a guitarist, musical director and co-songwriter with Morrissey,[2] but led a Polecats reunion in 1989, which produced a live album and a new studio set.
Musically, Tim Polecat also continues to work as a film composer and solo singer-songwriter.
[citation needed] In November 2006, frontman Jarvis Cocker of the British band Pulp, along with bassist Steve Mackey, released the compilation album The Trip, which featured tracks by artists as varied as the Fall, Gene Pitney, the Beach Boys, the Everly Brothers, Dion, Sonny Bono plus the Polecats cover of David Bowie's "John, I'm Only Dancing".