| International Standard Book Number |
9781636142135 : $31.95
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| International Standard Book Number |
1636142133 : $31.95
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
709.2 [B] 23
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| Personal Name |
Kessler, Ted (Periodical editor), author.
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| Title Statement |
To ease my troubled mind : the authorized unauthorized history of Billy Childish / Ted Kessler.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
xiv, 314 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color), facsimilies (chiefly color), photographs (some color) ; 24 cm
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| Content Type |
still image sti rdacontent
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Formatted Contents Note |
by Stewart Lee -- Ten minutes on the phone with Billy Childish, March 2021 -- Chatham Town welcomes desperate men -- For whom will we inscribe the grave? -- Childish witness: Keith Gulvin -- At home with the Hampers -- Froom across the kitchen table -- Pedophile -- Bates Motel -- An afternoon in Walderslade, 1973 -- I, Gus Claudis -- The tea huts of hell -- Top ten hits in another universe -- Blimey, you need your bleedin' head felt, mate: an oral history of the POp Rivets, the Milkshakes, and the Delmonas -- Sanchia -- Our father, who art in prison, hallowed by thy name -- Groningen and Brussels -- The ballad of Tracey Emin and Billy Childish -- Pictures of Billy (Billy, oh Billy!) -- Self-portraits in broken glass -- Kyra -- Childish witness: Kyra De Coninck -- Billy Graham -- But I know what I like -- Childish witness: Wolf Howard -- Saucy Jack -- Demons -- Nurse Julie -- Damaged tangerine -- Childish witness: Ian Ballard of damaged goods -- Childish witness: Michael Curran -- The son and heir -- Hanging from a tenuous thread (at the Victorian Ropery) -- Unknowable but certain. Foreword /
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| Summary, Etc. |
In 1977, seventeen-year-old Steven Hamper was a stonemason in the dockyards of Chatham, Kent, in England. His heart, however, beat in sync with the punk rock tremors of the era, seduced by its celebration of amateurism. So, in a gesture of revolutionary defiance, he took a three-pound club hammer and smashed his hand, vowing to never work again. In doing so, Steven Hamper metamorphosed into Billy Childish, a true Renaissance man. Childish has since remained steadfastly true to punk's DIY cred, becoming one of the most recongnizable and authenic voices in whichever artistics endevor he undertakes. he has released over 150 albums, written countless volumes of poetry and autobiographical novels, and is perhaps best known for his painting, for which he is critically, commercially, and internationally feted. "To Ease My Troubled Mind" is a mosaic portait collated over a year of interviews with Childish, as well as with close family, ex-girlfriends, band members past and present, friends, foes, collaborators, even his therapist. it is an unflinching, yet frequently spiritual and funny portrait of an artist who is now one of the most prolific and uncompromising of his generation. -- From dust jacket.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Childish, Billy.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Painters Biography. England
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Poets, English Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Punk rock music England.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Punk rock musicians Biography. England
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies. lcgft
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Lee, Stewart, 1968- writer of foreword. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmXFbvpc4vj6gmXMGMgKd
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