![]() And I said, my usual trick, I said ‘’well, we’re recording the 45, might as well do an LP!’’ (laughs) And then Chris Broderick died last year, and I said to the two lads, ‘’why don’t we do a 45 for Chris?’’. They’re a folk group, and we did a folk variations of an album of mine. I recorded their first two albums 30 years ago. A friend of mine died a year ago he was in the Singing Loins. PAN M 360: Two birds with one stone then.īilly Childish: Yeah, essentially, the same thing happened with the Singing Loins. So I said to the lads ‘’do you fancy doing an album?’’ and I had a few tunes in mind. Which is a normal thing with me: if we bother getting the canon out and loading it, then we might as well go one step further. And since he was coming and the other fellas were keen to do it, I saw it as an opportunity to record an album. And then Johnny, our bass player, would have to come out from Sicily. I saw it as a good excuse to do a 45 for Don. Did that lead to the reformation of Thee Headcoats?īilly Childish: Essentially. PAN M 360: You recently got back together as Thee Headcoats Sect to make the Tribute to Don Crane EP. A meeting with a larger than life artist. Captured in his home town of Chatham, Billy Childish kindly gave us some of his precious time to answer a few questions (we would have asked him thousands!). The trio’s last album dates back to 2000 ( I Am The Object Of Your Desire), so a chat with the undisputed king of garage rock and punk was in order. Having recently recalled his two old accomplices Bruce Brand and Johnny Johnson for the Tribute to Don Craine EP (the late leader of the British R&B band The Downliner Sect) under the name of Thee Headcoats Sect, a short-lived band that also produced the 1999 album Ready Sect Go! Recorded last year at Ranscombe Studios in Rochester, Irregularis (The Great Hiatus) features 12 tracks of pure Headcoats, with perhaps a more pronounced blues and R&B bent. Hamper makes a living from his paintings, but Wild Billy Childish is never far behind. In recent years, music has become less important than painting. Not only does he have one of the longest discographies in the history of music with hundreds of albums and singles, but he is also the author of more than 40 books of poetry and nearly a dozen novels, has made several films and photographs and painted more than 2,500 pictures, often under the name William Hamper. A fervent defender of amateurism and free expression, the tireless musician, singer and songwriter has (re)defined garage lo-fi punk, under names such as The Pop Rivets, Thee Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, The Buff Medways, The Chatham Singers, The Spartan Dreggs and Wild Billy Childish & CTMF. ![]() A painter, writer, poet and musician, the Chatham, Kent native co-founded the Medway Poets literary movement, founded the Stuckist art movement and the Hangman Records label. To call Billy Childish (Steven John Hamper) a prolific artist would be an understatement.
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