Hiatus

After a short break from updating thee site, I will hopefully start giving it my undivided attention. Check back regularly for updates.

It may help me if anyone can email me with graphics or details of new releases I am now missing.

Cheers now

Pat

posted by Patrick Monday, November 03, 2008

Thursday, January 10, 2008

 

Asda and Mr Hitler

For those of you in the UK, may have noticed a new Asda (Wal Mart) advert on TV, with Billy Childish and the Blackhands song "who do You think you are kidding Mr Hitler?".

posted by Patrick Thursday, January 10, 2008

Saturday, September 23, 2006

 

Latest

Here are the upcoming listings.

Sept 29th - Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers - At the Command House in
Chatham.

October 20th - Billy will be reading and performing a solo blues show at The
Horsebridge Art Center in Whitstable- 01227 281174 for more details or check
the website

http://www.horsebridge-centre.org.uk

Oct 23rd - The last Buff Medways single will be released on Damaged Goods.
See website for details -
http://www.damagedgoods.co.uk

Oct. 27th - Sadly, this will be the last Buff Medways gig. It's upstairs at
The Dirty Water Club- with special support from The Buffets


November 17th - The first official London gig for The Musicians of the
British Empire at The Dirty Water Club, Tufnell Park


December 15th - The Musicians of the British Empire will be at The Dirty
Water Club-

look for a special Christmas EP from The Musicians of the British Empire -
from The Aquarium.


thatıs it for the moment.

posted by Patrick Saturday, September 23, 2006

 

Latest

Here are the upcoming listings.

Sept 29th - Billy Childish & The Chatham Singers - At the Command House in
Chatham.

October 20th - Billy will be reading and performing a solo blues show at The
Horsebridge Art Center in Whitstable- 01227 281174 for more details or check
the website

http://www.horsebridge-centre.org.uk

Oct 23rd - The last Buff Medways single will be released on Damaged Goods.
See website for details -
http://www.damagedgoods.co.uk

Oct. 27th - Sadly, this will be the last Buff Medways gig. It's upstairs at
The Dirty Water Club- with special support from The Buffets


November 17th - The first official London gig for The Musicians of the
British Empire at The Dirty Water Club, Tufnell Park


December 15th - The Musicians of the British Empire will be at The Dirty
Water Club-

look for a special Christmas EP from The Musicians of the British Empire -
from The Aquarium.


thatıs it for the moment.

posted by Patrick Saturday, September 23, 2006

Sunday, August 13, 2006

 

The Buff Medways split up

Sorry about lack of comunication, due to lack of internet whilst moving....

You all probably know this already, but the Buff Medways are to be no more....

At the Dirty Water Club in September the Buffs play for the penultimate time, then in October the very last one. They are playing upstairs as they did when Thee Headcoats split up.

Billy
Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire

The new band is already rehearsing, or at least already sorted out in one way or another. Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire. I've
heard that they are already playing a date in Germany under that name next month. So the dates that the Buffs already had booked in for November and December
at Dirty Water will go ahead with the MBEs.

Wolf still on drums, Julie on bass. Not a huge change really. But without Graham, it's not the Buffs any more.

posted by Patrick Sunday, August 13, 2006

Saturday, May 13, 2006

 

Link

Childish Review

posted by Patrick Saturday, May 13, 2006

Thursday, May 11, 2006

 

Long Time...

Sorry about the lack of updates, been moving (yet again)...

Anyway I finally have the Buffets album (out now on Damaged Goods) no info on thee site yet though. But I have found a new Buff Medways "1975" on an (almost) free CD from Soundlfat.de

TTFN

posted by Patrick Thursday, May 11, 2006

Thursday, April 13, 2006

 

New info

A few links and gig reminders....

You might want to mention this forthcoming anthology which features the poetry of Mr Childish: http://www.snowbooks.com/edgierwaters.html

Also, we have two interviews with the man on our site and a third forthcoming: www.3ammagazine.com for your links section.

Artistica.co.uk

Gigs
Check out the calender for more details but the Buffs are in Manchester tonight and Leicester tomorrow!!

posted by Patrick Thursday, April 13, 2006

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

 

A Childish spat: 'Whingy' White calls in the lawyers

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/pandora/article351164.ece


By Guy Adams
Published: 14 March 2006

posted by Patrick Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Thursday, March 09, 2006

 

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 didnıt 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