Beleaguered throughout his career by dubious summations and categorisations advanced by bewildered critics, Childish has remained defiantly obtuse and uncategorisable.Ĭhildish has chosen 10 artefacts from his long and hugely eclectic career as a way in to familiarity with what may appear to be an intimidating corpus. Childish is also responsible for of countless incarnations of esoterica, including the Short Sunderland door-knocker, the Dazzlelac guitar and home-made guns discussed in our interview below.Ĭhildish has forayed too into the realm of experimental film, and collided repeatedly with the high-end art world represented in part by (now-not-so) 'Young British Artists' with increasing penetration, success and recognition - Childish arguably now has a better reputation among the more critically astute. It's an oeuvre which, to date, has produced hundreds of records of punk, rock & roll,blues, spoken word, nursery rhymes and garage rock via his litany of bands and musical projects (including the Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Headcoats, The Buff Medways and Wild Billy Childish And The Musicians Of The British Empire - latterly morphed into CTMF), thousands of paintings, sketches and woodcuts, collections of poetry, artistic treatises and a slew of autobiographical and experimental novels (including My Fault, Notebooks Of A Naked Youth and Sex Crimes Of The Futcher). Once inaccurately described by The Guardian as the definitive 'gentleman monomaniac' of the British counterculture, genius savant Billy Childish is in fact distinguished by his omnivorous, multifaceted approach to his work.
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