Billy Childish

Steven John Hamper (1 de diciembre de 1959, Kent, Inglaterra) más conocido por su nombre artístico Billy Childish, es un músico, autor, poeta, pintor, fotógrafo y productor musical. Pintor, poeta, cantante y guitarrista proveniente de Chatham, condado de Kent, Inglaterra, Reino Unido. Se trata de un artista muy prolífico, con más de cien discos y de seiscientas canciones a su nombre. También ha publicado más de 40 libros de poemas, escrito tres novelas y pintado más de 250 cuadros. Billy Childish empezó como poeta del punk en el Medway Art College en 1978; inmediatamente creó The Pop Rivets, en ocasiones escrito Pop Rivits (junto a Bruce Brand, Russell Wilkins and Russell Lax). Después lideró The Milkshakes, Thee Mighty Caesars, The Del Monas y Thee Headcoats. En el año 2001 formó The Buff Medways, nombre que proviene de Friends of the Buff Medway Fancier's Association, una asociación de protección de un tipo de especie de pollo criada en los alrededores del lugar de origen de Billy. Tras la desaparición de The Buff Medways, en septiembre de 2006 creó con los mismos componentes The Musicians of the British Empire. Es un constante defensor de la inmediatez, el amateurismo y la expresión emocional básica. Fundador del movimiento artístico del Stuckism junto a Charles Thomson, en parte como una reacción a lo que percibían como un excesivo énfasis en la sofisticación y teoría en el arte británico contemporáneo. Ha dejado el movimiento desde entonces. Cabe reseñar que Billy Childish fue compañero sentimental y artístico durante varios años de la destacada artista inglesa Tracey Emin, una de las figuras más importantes del antes nombrado arte británico contemporáneo. 1987: I've Got Everything Indeed 1988: The 1982 Cassettes 1988: "i remember..." 1991: 50 Albums Great 1993: Torments Nest 1996: Made With a Passion – Kitchen Demo's 1991: I Am the Billy Childish 1992: Der Henkermann – Kitchen Recordings 1993: Native American Sampler – A History 1983–1993 1999: Crimes Against Music-Blues Recordings 1986–1999 2002: 25 Years of Being Childish 2006: My First Billy Childish Album 2009: Archive From 1959 – The Billy Childish Story 2019: Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot – 1977–2018 1988: Poems of Laughter and Violence 1992: The Sudden Fart of Laughter 1993: Trembling of Life 1993: Hunger at the Moon 2007: Poems of a Backwater Visionary 1987: Laughing Gravy, Wild Billy Childish & Big Russ Wilkins 1989: Long Legged Baby, Wild Billy Childish & the Natural Born Lovers 1993: At the Bridge, Billy Childish with The Singing Loins 1998: Devil in the Flesh, Billy Childish/Dan Melchior 1999: In Blood, Billy Childish & Holly Golightly 1987: Which Dead Donkey Daddy? 1987: Plump Prizes & Little Gems 1988: YPRES 1917 Overture (Verdun Ossuary) 1999: The Cheeky Cheese 2002: Here Come the Fleece Geese 2002: Muscle Horse Was in the War 2012: Dung Beetle Rolls Again 1979: Greatest Hits 1979: Empty Sounds from Anarchy Ranch 1985: Fun in the U.K (recopilatorio) 1990: Live in Germany '79 (directo) 1997: Chathams Burning – Live 77 & 78 Demo's (recopilatorio) 1981: Talking 'Bout... Milkshakes 1982: Fourteen Rhythm and Beat Greats 1983: After School Sessions 1983: The Milkshakes IV – The Men with Golden Guitars 1984: Thee Milkshakes vs. The Prisoners 1984: 20 Rock & Roll Hits of the 50s & 60s 1984: Nothing Can Stop These Men 1984: They Came They Saw They Conquered 1984: Thee Knights of Trashe 1987: Thee Milkshakes Revenge – The Legendary Missing 9th Album 1992: Still Talking 'Bout... Milkshakes! 1984: Showcase 1990: 19th Nervous Shakedown 1985: Thee Mighty Caesars 1985: Beware the Ides of the March 1986: Thee Caesars of Trash 1987: Acropolis Now 1987: Wiseblood 1987: Live in Rome [studio recordings with overdubbed 'live' effects] 1987: Don’t Give Any Dinner to Henry Chinaski (demos) 1989: John Lennon’s Corpse Revisited 1992: Caesars Remains (demos etc) 1987: Punk Rock Showcase 1989: Thusly, thee Mighty Caesars (English Punk Rock Explosion) (LP Comp U.S.) 1989: Surely They Were the Sons of God (C.D. Comp U.S.) 1994: Caesars Pleasure (CD Comp) 1985: Dangerous Charms 1986: The Delmonas 5 1988: Do the Uncle Willy 1989: The Delmonas 1988: Play: Capt'n Calypso's Hoodoo Party 1992: The Original Chatham Jack 1993: Live in the Netherlands 1988: Brimful of Hate (como Jack Ketch & the Crowmen) 1989: Headcoats Down! 1990: The Earls of Suavedom 1990: Beach Bums Must Die 1990: The Kids Are Square – This is Hip! 1990: Heavens to Murgatroyd, Even! It’s ! (Already) 1991: W.O.A.H! Bo in Thee Garage 1991: Headcoatitude 1993: The Wurst is Yet to Come 1993: The Good Times Are Killing Me 1993: Cavern by the Sea 1994: Connundrum 1995: The Sound of the Baskervilles (Thee Headcoats featuring Thee Headcoatees) 1996: In Tweed We Trust 1996: Knights of the Baskervilles 1997: The Jimmy Reid Experience 1998: The Messerschmits Pilots Severed Hand 1998: Sherlock Holmes Meets the Punkenstien Monster (Japanese Compilation) 1998: Brother is Dead…but fly is gone! 1998: 17% Hendrix Was Not the Only Musician (Billy Childish & His Famous Headcoats) 1999: English Gentlemen of Rock‘N’Roll/the Best Vol.2 (Japanese Compilation) 2000: I Am the Object of Your Desire 2000: Elementary Headcoats – Thee Singles 1990–1999 (recopilatorio) 2023: Irregularis (The Great Hiatus) 1996: Deerstalking Men 2000: Ready Sect Go! 2001: This is This 2002: Steady the Buffs 2003: The XFM Sessions 2003: 1914 2005: Medway Wheelers 2005: Heavens Journey 2009: Juju Claudius 2020: Kings of the Medway Delta 2007: Punk Rock at the British Legion Hall 2007: Christmas 1979 2008: Thatcher's Children 2010: Poets of England 2011: Forensic R & B 2012: Dreggredation 2012: Coastal Command 2012: Tablets of Linear B 2014: Archeopteryx vs. Coelacanth 2013: A Tribute To A. E. Housman (CTMF & The Spartan Dreggs) 2013: All Our Forts Are With You 2013: Die Hinterstoisser Traverse 2014: Acorn Man 2016: SQ1 2017: Brand New Cage 2017: In The Devil's Focus (10" BBC 6 Music Sessions) 2017: Brand New Cage 2019: Last Punk Standing... 2019: Brave Protector (ltd ed) 2021: Where The Wild Purple Iris Grows 2023: Failure Not Success 2020: People Think they Know Me But They Don't Know Me 2020: Will There Ever Be A Day That You're Hung Like A Thief? 2020: The New Improved Bob Dylan 2020: Set of 8 lathe cut 7″ singles released by L-13 and Hangman Records 2021: The Bearded Lady Also Sells the Candy Floss 2021: Blud Under The Bridge 2022: The New Improved Bob Dylan, Vol 2 2022: Where The Black Water Slid 2022: Cowboys Are SQ 2022: The New Improved Bob Dylan, Vol 3 2022: They Wanted The Devil But I Sang Of God 2022: The Baptiser 2022: Paralysed By The Mountains Datos: Q863049 Multimedia: Billy Childish / Q863049