Wild Billy Childish is an awesome human being. He is a painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. He's often described as "one of the most outstanding, and often misunderstood, figures on the British art scene." He writes a lot about his strange love life and his childhood sexual abuse, but don't let that scare you away, he truly is fantastic.
He was also a co-founder with Charles Thomson of a pretty cool international art movement called Stuckism. It was founded in 1999 and it's main goal is to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art. Started with 2 guys, then to 13 different groups of British artists, and is now up to 209 groups in 48 countries as of May 2010.
He has gone through so many bands: The Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, The Mighty Caesars, The Del Monas, Wild Billy Childish & The Blackhands, Wild Billy Childish & The Natural Born Lovers, Thee Headcoats, Wild Billy Childish & The Buff Medways, and has made albums with at least 10 different artists. He has written over 100 books (poetry, fiction and nonfiction), and made 6 different films. This guy really has his shit together.
Something else I find pretty funny though, is Billy Childish's longstanding battle with Jack White. Jack White loved Billy Childish and for some reason or another Billy Childish hates Jack White and has actually written songs about how stupid he is!
Anyway, check it out. My FAVORITE song on the album is called "Dustbin Mod." I rarely use this word, but that song is seriously just so. fucking. tough.
http://www.mediafire.com/?mnozmwoj2lf
He was also a co-founder with Charles Thomson of a pretty cool international art movement called Stuckism. It was founded in 1999 and it's main goal is to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art. Started with 2 guys, then to 13 different groups of British artists, and is now up to 209 groups in 48 countries as of May 2010.
He has gone through so many bands: The Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, The Mighty Caesars, The Del Monas, Wild Billy Childish & The Blackhands, Wild Billy Childish & The Natural Born Lovers, Thee Headcoats, Wild Billy Childish & The Buff Medways, and has made albums with at least 10 different artists. He has written over 100 books (poetry, fiction and nonfiction), and made 6 different films. This guy really has his shit together.
Something else I find pretty funny though, is Billy Childish's longstanding battle with Jack White. Jack White loved Billy Childish and for some reason or another Billy Childish hates Jack White and has actually written songs about how stupid he is!
Anyway, check it out. My FAVORITE song on the album is called "Dustbin Mod." I rarely use this word, but that song is seriously just so. fucking. tough.
http://www.mediafire.com/?mnozmwoj2lf
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