Wild Billy Childish & CTMF "Brand New Cage" 2017

It is fascinating how lively and impetuously Wild Billy does his thing further and stubbornly zaps out an album every year. The 2017 round does not disappoint either, pushing punk rock riffs through Chatham...In addition to ten also textually irresistible 10x Childish originals provide two more songs written and sung by bass player Nurse Julie. Negotiated topics are the own youth in the 70s in Chatham, the real revolution of the punk, spirituality, lost loved ones and how Brian Jones got cold at the Stones ("What about Brian"). The cover shows a photo of 18-year-old Billy, which was taken in a King´s Cross photo machine in September 1978. Billy remembers very clearly: "I used to cut tribal markings on my cheeks with a razor blade every few weeks. At the time I was very interested in African tribal scars and I knew that they had ashes in their scars so I took my cigarette ash and rubbed it in my wound. A very painful ritual. In the photo I’m also wearing the most dangerous thing you could wear then, a punk rock teddy boy combination I wore a leopard skin vest and a bootlace tie, but my hair was flat and without pomade. We went to Bo Diddley concerts in the 70s and dressed a bit like Teds, so I was on some Teddy Boys death lists. " - Damaged goodstrax:

01 Brand New Cage 02 You Destabilise Me 03 Under Blue Montana Skies 04 It's All Gone Wrong 05 What About Brian 06 In The Devil's Focus 07 Are You Better Than Me? 08 In a Parallel World 09 The Punk Was in Me (And It Had Come Out) 10 Something's Missing Inside 11 I've Got a Conflicted Mind 12 Bullet Proof

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