Double vinyl LP pressing. A compilation of Billy Childish related groups to celebrate the release of the brand-new book - To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish written by Ted Kessler. My name is William Ivy Loveday, aka Steve Hamper, aka Guy Hamper, aka Jack Ketch, aka Billy Childish. I was born on the Medway, Kent, where I still live. I left school in 1976 when I was 16. Because I have no qualifications I was turned down by art school so went to work in Chatham dockyard as an apprentice stonemason. I later managed to get onto a painting course at St. Martin's School of Art on the basis of my paintings. Me, Bruce, big Russ, and little Russ formed The Pop Rivets in 1977 and made our first recordings. Our inspiration was punk rock, TV21 and The Swinging Blue Jeans. I learned to play guitar then in 1979 I worked for four weeks at Oakwood Mental Hospital as a ward porter, then me, Mick and Bertie formed The Milkshakes. Our inspiration was Link Wray, the Beatles Live at the Star Club LP, the track 'Gotta Get the First Plane Home' by The Kinks and our hatred of new romanticism. Then I was expelled from St. Martin's School of Art for writing what was described as the worst type of toilet wall humour. I beat my father up on his release from prison for drug smuggling. We never paid ourselves in The Milkshakes and put all the money back into making our own records. I kept the money in a bank account under the name of Kurt Schwitters. I lived on the dole for 12 years. -Billy Childish

Tracklist:

You Make Me Die
Archive From 1959
For She
You Gotta Move
Fingers in the Sun
Headlong Fly the Achaeans
Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot
Last Punk Standing
Bob Dylan's Got a Lot to Answer For
Troubled Mind
I Don't Like the Man I Am
Upside Mine
Moon of the Popping Trees
All Our Forts Are With You
Christmas 1979
I Feel Like Giving In (French)
Thatcher's Children
Llie Detector
Fun in the UK
Hurt Me
Song for Kylie Minogue
It's So Hard to be Happy
Brimful of Hate
Failure Not Success (Alt.)
Davey Crockett
Joe Strummer's Grave
Medway Wheelers
You Can't Capture Time (Slight Return)
Shropshire Lad
Sex and Flies
Same Tree
Cowboys Are Square
Song of the Medway

UPC: 5020422061118
Label: Damaged Goods
Release Date: 7.5.24
Format: Vinyl Record

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