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Transistor Sister #213: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILLY CHILDISH December 1, 2024

I learned right before I left the house that it was Billy Childish's birthday! So I played a Billy Childish set natch. listen to the show

Freddy Cannon - Transistor Sister The Oppressed - Work Together Delivery - The New Alphabet The Undertones - Billy's Third (Peel Session) ABSCAM - ANDY CAPP Dead Pioneers - My Spirit Animal Ate Your Spirit Animal E.V.A. - La Luna

Thee Headcoats - What's Wrong With Me Thee Mighty Caesars - You Make Me Die The Pop Rivets - Beatle Boots The Milkshakes - Comes Along Midnight Thee Headcoatees - Louis Riel The MBEs - He's Making a Tape

Honeyboy - Bloodstains On The Wall Bog People - Education Cleanser - Unseen Ways Crispy Ambulance - From the Cradle to the Grave Boytronic - Tonight (Alternate Mix) Benzin - Zeichen der Zeit

Chumbawamba - The Day the Nazi Died

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Billy Childish *December 1, 1959

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Thee Headcoats- Headcoatitude (Garage Rock, Garage Punk) Released: 1991 [Shakin' Street Records/ Get Hip Records] Producer(s): Thee Headcoats, Billy Childish

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An internet friend sent this awhile back, not even sure what book this is from, but that's a photo of Billy Childish's home library, and the astute can see my book circled in there! Granted, Billy's a big part of it, so he better have the fuckin' thing, but still -- NEAT!!

I might note that Billy's copy is the original 2010 orange cover edition. In 2022, I whipped up a new expanded edition for Rowman & Littlefield, featuring a new green cover, with way cool Gories shot, two more chapters, and loads more images including like 33 color pix! Plus a download compilation of noisemakers from the book!

I wonder if Billy's got that one? I'll have to ring him up...

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A Town Named Squaresville

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Thee Headcoatees (1991-1999)

[mywifeleftme]

243: Dave Russell // Bricolage

Bricolage Dave Russell 1992, Hangman

Tracked on a reel-to-reel recorder in an afternoon in the basement of Billy Childish’s home in Chatham, UK and released on his personal label, 1992’s Bricolage was the first album by Dave Russell, a folk musician and poet who has been performing around London since the late ‘60s. While he got a flicker of interest from an MCA A&R man back in 1969, he’d never been picked up despite the era’s post-Dylan / Fairport Convention feeding frenzy. Upon listening to Russell this isn’t exactly surprising: between his sarcastic, paranoic lyrics, spindly fingerstyle playing, and pinched, aggravated voice, this is thoroughly outsider-coded music. If he were cast in a Pixar movie, it would be as the voice of a cranky leftist-libertarian mosquito troubadour.

Of course, the dyspepsia of Bricolage is what helps it rise above standard peace-and-love folk revival pablum. The songs inveigh against clinical psychiatry, Britain’s elite, ecological collapse, and uh cosmetics (Jonathan Swift style). Russell’s lyrics begin as poems, and you can often feel him bending his melodies to accommodate his intricate wordplay—songs with the simple cadences of traditional folk songs are crammed with syllables, while others drift off into more diffuse, atonal structures as he rambles. He plays fiercely, his technical precision juddering against the manic force of his picking. In interviews, Russell’s talked about his interest in progressive jazz and experimental classical music (e.g. Bartok, Stockhausen), and that bent reveals itself in the fractured, hair-raising virtuosity of story-song “Microscope”:

My favourite cut is probably his cover of the Jazz Butcher’s “Bicycle Kid.” While the Butcher original juxtaposes its hysterical description of an 11-year-old sociopath with a sunny guitar pop arrangement, Russell’s is a jagged Billy Childish-esque folk-punk screed that vibrates with irritated rage—when Russell sings the closing “You’re an evil little fucker” refrain you feel like he’s about to throttle the kid.

By the end of Bricolage I usually feel a little rubbed raw by Russell’s style, but beyond its status as an interesting footnote in the Childish/Thee Headcoats musical universe, on balance the record is a bit of an unplucked gem for aficionados of avant-folk music. As of late 2023, Russell still performs regularly in his community, and had a handful of CD-only releases around the turn of the millennium.

243/365

See also: Rob Hertner

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As is customary, Dusted is taking the rest of the week off while most of our staff (and many of our readers!) observe American Thanksgiving. We'll be back on Monday; whether you're eating turkey or not, have a good one.

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Thee Headcoats

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Check out “I Wasn't Made For This World”

Listen to I Wasn't Made For This World on your streaming service https://tidal.com/track/52130328?u

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Billy Childish *December 1, 1959

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thee headcoats -- i ain't about to give you my name

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12/11/2012

It's time for some contemporary garage with none other than Billy Childish!

Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper; 1 December 1959) is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has led and played in bands including the Thee Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and surf and releasing more than 100 albums.

Bio from wikipedia.

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Thee Headcoats - The Day I Beat My Father Up

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I Wasn't Made For This World

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Thee Headcoats - Comanche