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Billy Childish
voc, g, *1959 GB, Chatham, Kent
Singer / Musician of Alternative and Rock
A.k.a. Steven John Hamper Bill Hamper Calico Jack Corporal Kunt Councillor Duxbury Gus Claudius Gus Honeybum Jack Ketch (2) Old Four Legs Rollin Slim Stanley Arthur Jefferson William Loveday
Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has lead and played in bands including the Pop Rivets, The Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and surf.
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All My Feelings Denied on The Kids Are All Square, This Is Hip! by Thee Headcoats & Billy Childish Bottom of the Sea on Devil in the Flesh by Billy Childish & Dan Melchior I'm a Gamekeeper on The Kids Are All Square, This Is Hip! by Thee Headcoats & Billy Childish Davey Crockett on The Kids Are All Square, This Is Hip! by Thee Headcoats & Billy Childish Trouble No More on Devil in the Flesh by Billy Childish & Dan Melchior Length of Pipe on Root Damage by Various Artists Devil in the Flesh on Devil in the Flesh by Billy Childish & Dan Melchior Demolition Girl on In Blood by Holly Golightly & Billy Childish I Don't Like The Man That I Am on My First Billy Childish Album by Billy Childish A Town Named Squaresville on The Kids Are All Square, This Is Hip! by Thee Headcoats & Billy ChildishTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Something's Missing Inside | Billy Childish & CTMF | 2018 | Single |
| I’ve Got A Conflicted Mind / In A Parallel World | Billy Childish & CTMF | 2017 | Single |
| What About Brian / The Fields In Mist | Billy Childish & CTMF | 2017 | Single |
| Brand New Cage | Billy Childish & CTMF | 2017 | Album |
| In The Devil’s Focus | Billy Childish & CTMF | 2017 | Album |
| He's Got A Big Furry Tail Hanging Down His Back | Billy Childish & CTMF | 2016 | Single |
| Escape To Argentina | Billy Childish & CTMF | 2016 | Single |
| A Song For Kylie Minogue / True | Billy Childish, CTMF | 2016 | Single |
| SQ 1 | Billy Childish & CTMF | 2016 | Album |
| By The Way Of Love And Hate / Like A Padlock In My Hand | Billy Childish, CTMF | 2016 | Single |
| I Could Hear The Telephone (3 Floors Above Me) | The Wave Pictures Featuring Billy Childish | 2015 | Single |
| Archaeopteryx Vs Coelacanth | Billy Childish And The Spartan Dreggs | 2015 | Album |
| Damien Hirst Is A Funny Fellow | Billy Childish, CTMF | 2015 | Single |
| He Wore A Pagan Robe | Billy Childish And CTMF | 2014 | Single |
| The Fen Raft Spider | Billy Childish And The Spartan Dreggs | 2014 | Single |
| Punk Rock Enough For Me | Billy Childish, CTMF | 2014 | Single |
| Acorn Man | Billy Childish & CTMF | 2014 | Album |
| 36 Years Later c/w Chatham Forts | Billy Childish, CTMF | 2013 | Single |
| Ich Lieber Dich | Billy Childish, CTMF | 2013 | Single |
| All Our Forts Are With You | Billy Childish, CTMF | 2013 | Single |
| A Tribute To A. E. Housman | Billy Childish | 2013 | Album |
| Joseph Beuys Flies Again | Billy Childish, CTMF | 2013 | Single |
| Die Hinterstoißer Traverse | Billy Childish, CTMF | 2013 | Album |
| All Our Forts Are With You | Billy Childish, CTMF | 2013 | Album |
| Coastal Command | Billy Childish And The Spartan Dreggs | 2012 | Album |
| Tablets Of Linear B (The Siege Of Thebes, Prologue Part The 1st) | Billy Childish And The Spartan Dreggs | 2012 | Album |
| We Spartan Dreggs (Be Fine) C / W A Shropshire Lad | Billy Childish And The Spartan Dreggs | 2012 | Single |
| There Is Only Me / All That's Spoken Is Unkind | Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians Of The British Empire / Billy Childish And The Chatham Singers | 2012 | Single |
| Dreggradation | Billy Childish And The Spartan Dreggs | 2012 | Album |
| Forensic R 'N' B | Billy Childish And The Spartan Dreggs | 2011 | Album |
| Archive From 1959 - The Billy Childish Story | Billy Childish | 2009 | Compil. |
| Live At The Aquarium - Unedited Uncut Uncorrected | Billy Childish | 2008 | Album |
| Poems Of A Backwater Visionary | Billy Childish | 2007 | Album |
| My First Billy Childish Album | Billy Childish | 2006 | Album |
| Billy Childish Is Dead | Billy Childish | 2005 | Single |
| Heavens Journey E.P. | Billy Childish & The Medway Singers | 2005 | Single |
| Heavens Journey | Billy Childish And The Chatham Singers | 2005 | Album |
| Just 15 | Billy Childish And The Buff Medways | 2003 | Album |
| 25 Years Of Being Childish | Billy Childish | 2002 | Compil. |
| Evidence Against Myself | Billy Childish | 2002 | Single |
| Crimes Against Music (Blues Recordings 1986-99) | Billy Childish | 1999 | Compil. |
| Hangman Comunication | Billy Childish | 1999 | Single |
| In Blood | Billy Childish & Holly Golightly | 1999 | Album |
| Devil In The Flesh | Billy Childish / Dan Melchior | 1998 | Album |
| Art Or Arse? You Be The Judge / Notebooks Of A Naked Youth | Thee Headcoats / Billy Childish | 1997 | Single |
| A Man With Eyes Like Little Fishes | Billy Childish And The Singing Loins | 1996 | Single |
| Made With A Passion (Kitchen Demo's) | Billy Childish | 1996 | Album |
| A-Z Of Your Heart | Thee Headcoats / Billy Childish | 1995 | Single |
| The Billy Childish Native American Sampler - A History 1983-1993 | Billy Childish | 1993 | Compil. |
| Hunger At The Moon | Billy Childish | 1993 | Album |
| Dutch Courage | Armitage Shanks Featuring Billy Childish | 1993 | Single |
| Torments Nest | Billy Childish | 1993 | Album |
| Trembling Of Life | Billy Childish | 1993 | Single |
| Shirts Off | Billy Childish With Armitage Shanks | 1993 | Single |
| At The Bridge | Billy Childish With The Singing Loins | 1993 | Album |
| The Sudden Fart Of Larfter | Billy Childish | 1992 | Album |
| Der Henkermann (Kitchen Recordings) | Billy Childish | 1992 | Album |
| The Ballad Of Hollis Brown | Billy Childish | 1992 | Single |
| 50 Albums Great | Billy Childish | 1991 | Album |
| I Am The Billy Childish | Billy Childish | 1991 | Compil. |
| Long Legged Baby | Billy Childish | 1989 | Album |
| Poems Of Laughter And Violence | Billy Childish | 1988 | Album |
| I Remember... | Billy Childish | 1988 | Album |
| The 1982 Cassetes | Billy Childish | 1988 | Album |
| Laughing Gravy | Billy Childish + Russell Wilkins | 1987 | Album |
| I've Got Everything Indeed | Billy Childish | 1987 | Album |
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