Records

New album! On CD, digital and vinyl LP! The first Damaged Goods release of 2020 is a brand new album featuring Wild Billy and his regular cohorts Nurse Julie and Wolf Howard. It’s the third album they’ve released as The Chatham Singers and features twelve tracks of gritty Chess Studio style blues with Billy on […]

COMPILATION SPANNING THIRTY YEARS OF DAMAGED GOODS! Seems like only yesterday but it’s 30 years since the first Damaged Goods release! As part of the anniversary celebrations we’re releasing this compilation bringing together a selection of top tracks, deep cuts, lost gems and personal favourites. Punk, garage and indie are all well represented, with artists […]

40 Years of Childish! Career-spanning compilation! TRIPLE GATEFOLD LP & DOUBLE CD – Sleeve notes by Stewart Lee 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 […]

500 COPIES ON BLACK VINYL!
The A-side is an alternate version of a track from the band’s recent Brand New Cage LP. The B-side is a cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival classic exclusive to this release.
“My interest in music is very much of when it was a vaudeville tradition, before it turned into rock… When I’m writing lyrics either I get an idea from the outside world or the world of rock ‘n’ roll – we reference things quite openly which most people don’t do.”
Billy Childish – July 2017

Brand new single from Billy Childish’s CTMF!

On transparent red or transparent yellow vinyl! (each limited to 400 copies!)

Brand new album from Billy Childish’s CTMF!

‘the reason we didn’t sound like the Smiths is because we wanted to sound like this’

40 years ago, Billy Childish, then a 16 year old working in Chatham dockyard formed a group called ‘the Chatham Forts’, and started a journey through punk rock from 1977 to now. Along the way this painter/ poet has released over 140 independent LPs. (SQ 1 is something like his 150th – no one knows for sure.)

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF are back! Hot on the heels of their recent “Punk Rock Enough For Me” single is the band’s second longplayer ‘Acorn Man’.

A 12” LP only re-issue of a long deleted, previously US only Thee Headcoats album. Originally issued in 1996 on the Birdman Records label (BMR-013) 12 tracks including ‘This Wondrous Day’ ‘She’s In Disguise’ & ‘What You See Is What You Are’ The cover has been totally reworked by Billy Childish Thee Headcoats were formed […]

NOW AVAILABLE ON WHITE VINYL – CLICK HERE A 12” LP re-issue of arguably the best of Thee Headcoats album. Originally issued in 1990 on Billy’s own Hangman Records label  12 tracks including bona fide Headcoats classics ‘All My Feelings Denied’ ‘Davey Crockett’ & ‘Cowboys Are Square’ This album also features the first ever recording by […]

Billy Childish has been releasing records, painting, writing poetry and generally doing his own thing for the past 32 years. He first took to the stage back in October 1977 with seminal punk garage band The Pop Rivets, they split after two years and from there he joined The Milkshakes along with fellow Pop Riveter […]