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25 Years Of Being Childish

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Billy Childish

 
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A two hour celebration of the life and musical works of Chatham, Kent, England's most prolific garage-rocker.

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    This two hour celebration of the life and musical works of Chatham, Kent, England's most prolific garage-rocker (as well as a hyper-productive painter and writer of prose and poetry) demonstrates that artistic evolution does too exist: this devoted primitivist had to learn how to make his primitivism stick — and we hear him figuring it out at the end of the punk epoch on early tracks by the Pop Rivets and the Milkshakes. It's when Thee Mighty Caesars come along that Childish really finds his voice, perma-snarling over readymades of varying shades of mid-'60s stomp, spoken word ("The Noble Beast") and acoustic pub sing-alongs ("One More Bottle to Drink") mixed up with girl-group hymns (The Delmonas' "I Feel Like Giving In"), teeth-gnashing rockabilly ("Get Out of Here Pretty Girl") as well as Childish's twin defaults, post-Stones garage rattle (Thee Headcoats' "All My Feelings Denied") and high-mod Who ("Wild Man" by the female-fronted Headcoats, Thee Headcoatees).

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