Billy Childish - From Fossilised Cretaceous Seams 2x Vinyl LP Record

Billy Childish - From Fossilised Cretaceous Seams: A Short History Of His Song And Dance Groups

A compilation of Billy Childish related groups to tie in with Ted Kessler's authorised biography.

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

Track Listing
Disc 1:

• 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)
  Disc 2:
• Thatcher's Children
  
• Llie Detector
  
• Fun in the UK
  
• Hurt Me
  
• A 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)
  
• A Shropshire Lad
  
• Sex and Flies
  
• The Same Tree
  
• Cowboys are Square
  
• Song of the Medway