BACK IN PRINT!!! 40 Years of Childish! A career-spanning compilation! Billy Childish is an English musician, painter, author and poet. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has led and played in bands including the Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Headcoats, Buff Medways and CTMF, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and and releasing more than 130 albums. How did Billy come to be? Holed away in the distant inter tidal marshland of mid-Seventies Kent, breaking rocks in the hot sun as a teenage dockland stonemason, undiagnosed dyslexia and general insubordination denying him the educational path he might have taken, Childish took the punk gospel Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols preached in 1976 as revealed scriptural truth. Forty-two years later Childish is the last man standing, the most enduring, uncorrupted and prolific of the class of '77. And some heroic fool has now tried to sum him up in a mere forty-eight songs, from the thousand or so he has recorded. This compilation provides tiny tasters of each of Childish's phases, and some snippets of short-lived side-projects too. Administered correctly, it will make an addict of you. You have been warned. Here's a field guide to the many faces of Billy Childish.

The Pop Rivets - Whatcha Gonna Do About It (Live)
The Pop Rivets - Kray Twins (Demo)
The Milkshakes - Love Can Lose
The Milkshakes - I'm out of Control
Thee Mighty Caesars - You Make Me Die
Thee Mighty Caesars - The Double Axe
Thee Mighty Caesars - Come into My Life
Thee Mighty Caesars - Cowboys Are Square
The Delmonas - I Feel Like Giving In
Jack Ketch and The Crowmen - Brimful of Hate
Thee Headcoats - Davey Crockett
Thee Headcoats - Girl from '62 (Reagle Select 45)
Thee Headcoats - All My Feelings Denied
Thee Headcoats - Punk Rock ist nicht tot
Thee Headcoats - An Image of You
Thee Headcoatees - Evil Thing
Thee Headcoatees - Wild Man
Thee Headcoatees - Hurt Me
Thee Headcoats - I'm Hurtin'
Billy Childish and Holly Golightly - Step Out
Billy Childish and Holly Golightly - Upside Mine
Billy Childish and The Singing Loins - I Don't Like the Man I Am
Billy Childish and Sexton Ming - Muscle Horse
Kyra - This Wondrous Day
Wild Billy Childish and The Blackhands - Rum and Coca Cola
Wild Billy Childish and The Blackhands - Mr Hitler
The Buff Medways - Archive from 1959
The Buff Medways - Troubled Mind
The Buff Medways - Unable to See the Good
The Buff Medways - Strood Lights
The Chatham Singers - The Man with the Gallows Eyes
The Chatham Singers - The Angel of Death
The Buff Medways - Medway Wheelers
The Buffets - You Piss Me Off
The Musicians of the British Empire - Joe Strummer's Grave (Archive Version)
The Musicians of the British Empire - Snack Crack
The Musicians of the British Empire - Christmas 1979
The Guy Hamper Trio - Polygraph Test
The Spartan Dreggs - We Spartan Dreggs (Be Fine)
The Spartan Dreggs - Headlong Fly the Aceans
The Spartan Dreggs - A Shropshire Lad
CTMF - A Song for Kylie Minogue
CTMF - In a Parrallel World (Billy Vocal)
CTMF - Something's Missing Inside (7” version)
CTMF - All Our Forts Are with You
The Dear Watsons - Cadillac
The Shall I Say Quois - It's so Hard to Be Happy
CTMF - CTMF