THEE WORKAHOLIC

Billy Childish has never been one to sit around scheming, planning, negotiating or primping. He's too busy creating. He just gets out there and does it. A lot of it. Music, art, books, poetry, film and photography, the whole shooting match. He's like one of those people that just churn out stuff because they don't know how not to. Roughly a hundred and fifty LPs, forty plus books of poetry, plus all that other stuff. You have to think, how much of it could possibly be good? That's a grey area. It depends on what your thresholds are, and what your tastes are. He doesn't seem to care, he considers himself an amateur.

I haven't made it past the music and not more than random samples of that. But what I've heard, I've liked, and that goes for the three below, from a 2007 Christmas LP by one of his zillion bands, Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire, They include a Who sound-alike and a Sonics cover. There's a link to another post down there too, with four songs from another of his bands, Thee Headcoats.You may want to check out the videos on his site, a four part series documents the making of one of his paintings. As far as music videos go, you know how to search YouTube as well as I do, but you probably won't have to. You can just throw a rock over there and hit something.

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Listen:

Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire - A Quick One (Pete Townshend's Christmas) mp3 at Black Squirrel Amusements

Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire - Santa Claus mp3 at Indie Rock Cafe
Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire - Father Christmas is Dressed In Green mp3 (via Box.net) at Big Rock Candy Mountain

Thee Headcoats - Four songs at this old post

Visit:

Billy Childish - Official Site Videos, discography, interviews, etc,

Billy Childish at Wikipedia