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 Billy
Childish formed the Buff Medways in early 2000.
Their full name is Wild Billy Childish & The Friends
of the Buff Medway Fanciers Association.
During the 19th century a breed a chicken was developed
peculiar to the Medway area. The breed, now extinct, was
a table bird for the London hotel market. The BUFF MEDWAY
project, based at Fort Amherst, Chatham, is attempting to
recreate that ancient fowl through a selective breeding
project.
The original line up was Billy on guitar and vocal, Johnny
Barker (bass) and Wolf Howard (drums), both ex-Daggermen.
Johnny has now left the band to be replaced by Graham Day
ex of The Prisoners
The BUFF MEDWAYS cut a dash with their Victorian army
uniforms and their vintage Vox amps. The gear may be old
but as one critic wrote the band are "the snarled lip
embodiment of rock'n'roll spirit rather than nostalgia or
shabby revivalism". Live and on record The BUFF MEDWAYS
are all about great songs and vibrant raw energy - no frills.
They did their first single on their own Buff Medway Records
followed by the DG single 'Don't Hold Me Back' (Damgood
188)
They have now released four albums, two for Graham Coxon's
label Transcopic Records 'Steady The Buffs' & '1914',
one on 'Vinyl Japan' called 'This Is This' and their last
album 'Medway Wheelers' is out on Damaged Goods.
Check out their female alter-egos The
Buffets.
The Buffs have now decided to call it a day and played
their last gig to a totally sold out show at London's Dirty
Water Club on the 27th of October 2006.
Their last ever single is also out on now on Damaged Goods
called 'The Last Of The Buff Medways' (Damgood274 - 7")
A live album is being put together for release sometime
in 2007.
The Buffs will be sorely missed...but don't fret as Billy
has a new band called The
Musicians Of The British Empire...
...as Beck, one of Mr Childish's many admirers succinctly
put it: "that's how a rock'n'roll group should sound!".
"The three Medways crank out almost unbearably perfect
early rock'n'roll"
NME
BILLY CHILDISH is...
"a seething, dyslexic, better-looking British Bukowski"
THE OBSERVER
"the most garage and most punk rocker alive"
NME
"a musician, artist, writer, and rabble-rouser"
DAZED
& CONFUSED
More info:www.theebillychildish.com/buffmedway.htm
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