His boss however, Stephen Cauldwell (Head), is sex-obsessed, cocksure and roguish. "Blues & Rhythm" magazine described his band as "lazily cocksure and coolly aggressive". The phrase ""Jack the Lad"" is British slang for a "flashy, cocksure young man". The Cocksure Lads perform as a real live band. In 2014, he directed the Independent Film, The Cocksure Lads Movie. Cocksure is a novel by Mordecai Richler. Thompson defended Mordecai Richler's novel "Cocksure" in "Canada Reads 2006". In 2010, Foster and Mike Ford recorded a CD under the name The Cocksure Lads. Records with the release of a 12-inch single from Cocksure. The live band is a separate project from "The Cocksure Lads Movie". James Montgomery from MTV News called the song a "cocksure, club-ready banger". Cocksure is the fourth album by Laura Stevenson. In 2010, Foster and Ford released "The Greatest Hits of the Cocksure Lads, 1963-1968".