The continuing saga of Jack and Billy

here's a post from
playlouder.co.uk


BEEF 2006 - CHILDISH VS. WHITE
''I have better moustache,'' Billy says!
03 Mar 2006


A veritable brouhaha is developing between multi-talented English hero and
increasingly whingy muli-millionaire Jack White, with both men accusing the
other of "plagarism".

Jack White, who we distinctly remember standing watching Mr Childish with an
expression of some awe on his face at early White Stripes gigs in the UK,
accused the venerable old sot of being "a bitter garage rocker," saying "As
for Billy Childish, Meg and I really feel sorry for you."

"It must be lonely sitting in all of that garage rock bitterness Billy. You
know children, when you take someone else's music and put your own lytics on
top of it, it's still called plagiarism," he wrote.

Being far more intelligent than Mr White, and having had a lot of practice
at this sort of thing after spats with his ex, wonky faced art loon Tracey
Emin, Childish replied rather better in an open letter: "Though I have
undoubtedly angered Jack White, I think it's a bit nasty of him to accuse me
of plagiarism merely because his former admiration of my work was not
reciprocated," he wrote with a twinkle in his eye.

Childish then went on to continue, rather magnificently: "It all smacks of
jealousy to me. I have a bigger collection of hats, a better moustache, a
more blistering guitar sound and a fully developed sense of humour. The only
thing I can't understand is why I'm not rich. Yours sincerely, Billy
Childish." HAHA! You go Billy!

Did anyone see that Billy Childish poem in The Stool Pigeon magazine?
Brought tears to our eyes - TALK!


the NME
pps should read
- I hope I havent gone and offended led zepplin now.

and I didnšt slam him, I rote a witty reply

Re. Jack White Sooks in music and media by Ben
Butler.


Dear Sir

On the subject of plagiarism, which Jack White accuses
me of in your artical, he has by unfortunate
coincidence, with his remarks on critics who can't be
critiqued, just paraphrased the key points of my
manifesto, "The Decrepitude of the Critics"
http://www.stuckism.com/critic.doc
published by myself and Charles Thomson in 2000.
However, I am pleased to see that my work still
provides a stimulus despite our differences.

Yours faithfully
Billy Childish

>>
>> Original artical bellow:
>>
>>
>> http://www.themusic.com.au/im_m/music_money.php


>> JACK WHITE SOOKS White Stripes frontman Jack
>> White is a sook, and he wants the world to know.
>> Over the last week, White has used the White Stripes
>> website to hit out at garage pioneer Billy Childish
>> and music critics. He accuses Childish, who had said
>> White's pop star ambitions were problematic, of
>> plagiarism. "As for Billy Childish, Meg and I really
>> feel sorry for you. It must be lonely sitting in all
>> of that garage rock bitterness Billy. You know
>> children, when you take someone else's music and put
>> your own lyrics on top of it, it's still called
>> plagiarism - something Mister Childish hasn't
>> learned yet." Next target: music critics: "They all
>> play a coward's game. Only one side to their
>> playground. Such an easy fight that way. The
>> faceless opinion of print and the internet. What is
>> it teaching all of us? Back when there was a time
>> when we had great writers, and respected journalists
>> who had earned their position as tastemakers, and
>> won peoples respect with their knowledge and
>> insight, it was much easier to understand a written
>> opinion because at least you knew who it was coming
>> from... Critics are the only public expression that
>> isn't 'allowed' to be critiqued."

posted by Patrick Thursday, March 09, 2006