To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish
To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish

Author: Ted Kessler

Publisher: Akashic Books

Published: 2025-01-07

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1636142141

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The story of Billy Childish, the most famous artist you’ve never heard of, by legendary music journalist Ted Kessler 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 recognizable and authentic voices in whichever artistic endeavor he undertakes. He has released over 150 albums of raw rock and roll, punk, blues, and folk; and has written many volumes of searing poetry as well as several autobiographical novels. But what he is perhaps best known for in recent years is his painting, for which he is now critically, commercially, and internationally feted. He hasn’t changed course in any of his disciplines, though. The world just caught up with the sheer volume of his brutally honest work. To Ease My Troubled Mind is a mosaic portrait 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. The volume also includes a foreword by British comedian Stewart Lee.

Notebooks of a Naked Youth
Notebooks of a Naked Youth

Author: Billy Childish

Publisher: Virgin Books Limited

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780753510179

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Highly personal and uncompromising, Notebooks of a Naked Youth is narrated by one William Loveday, an acned youth, possessed of piercing intelligence, acute self-loathing and great personal charm. Over the course of the novel, he leads us through a series of encounters and adventures from industrial North Kent to the sleazy sex clubs of Hamburg's Reeperbahn. A powerful sequel to Childish's first novel My Fault

Paper Cuts
Paper Cuts

Author: Ted Kessler

Publisher: White Rabbit

Published: 2022-07-21

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 147462555X

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'A great writer' 'A music journalist of integrity' 'There's only one Ted Kessler!' Paul Weller Billy Childish Liam Gallagher Paper Cuts is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press. But it's also a love letter to it, the tale of how music magazines saved one man's life. Ted Kessler left home and school around his seventeenth birthday, determined 'to be someone who listened to music professionally'. Paper Cuts tells how Kessler found redemption through music and writing and takes us on a journey alongside the stars he interviewed and the work-place dramas he navigated as a senior staffer at NME through the boom-time '90s and on to the monthly Q in 2004, where he worked for sixteen years before it folded with him at its helm as editor in 2020. We travel in time alongside musical heroes Paul Weller, Kevin Rowland, Mark E Smith, and to Cuba twice, first with Shaun Ryder and Bez, then with Manic Street Preachers. We spend long, mad nights out with Oasis and The Strokes, quality time with Jeff Buckley and Florence Welch, and watch Radiohead deliver cold revenge upon Kessler in public. A story about love and death, about what it's like when a music writer shacks up with a conflict of interest, and what happens when your younger brother starts appearing on the cover of the magazines you work for, this is the memoir of "a delinquent doofus" whose life was both rescued and defined by music magazines.

To Ease My Troubled Mind
To Ease My Troubled Mind

Author: Ted Kessler

Publisher:

Published: 2025-01-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781636142135

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The story of Billy Childish, the most famous artist you've never heard of, by legendary music journalist Ted Kessler

Man in the Mouth of a Cave
Man in the Mouth of a Cave

Author: Rikard Osterlund

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781908067241

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Featuring more than 80 photographs taken at Billy Childish’s painting studio over the course of six years. Available in three variations: Regular edition, no dust jacket, unsigned. Three pictorial dust jackets: Ladder, Silhouette, or Man in Cave, each an edition of 50 books, signed and numbered by Billy Childish and Rikard Österlund; Original Woodcut Edition, one colour woodcut on 175gsm Somerset Book stock with hand-stamped titles, edition of 29, lettered in the Swedish alphabet, signed by Billy Childish and Rikard Österlund. With an additional award-winning photograph laid in, Billy & Huddie In The Studio.--L-13 website.

My Fault
My Fault

Author: Billy Childish

Publisher: Virgin Books Limited

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780753510612

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This is a semi-autobiographical account of Billy's childhood, growing up in 1960s and 70s Chatham. His father - alcoholic, authoritarian and ever-present though often absent - refers to him as 'Smell' and finds fault with all he does. He is picked on at school by both pupils and teachers. Aged 9, he is abused by a family friend on holiday. He leaves school and goes onto work in the Dockyard before gaining entry to St Martin's through sheer ability, where he meets Tracey Emin ('Dolli') and, subsequently gets kicked out because of his anti-establishment views. Under the brash, dysfunctional, rebellious exterior is a polite, gentle, sensitive kid who is ultimately saved by his imagination and creativity.

The Lear Diaries
The Lear Diaries

Author: Brian Cox

Publisher: Drama

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 9780413698803

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One of the most frank and authentic accounts yet written of the pressures placed on today's stars King Lear is perhaps the most challenging role in the Shakespearian canon. In 1991, directed by Deborah Warner, Brian Cox gave a highly-acclaimed performance. In this compulsive account of a theatrical journey, Cox describes the rehearsal room investigation in the possibilities of the text in performance as the production toured to Bucharest and Tokyo, Cairo and Paris in the wake of Perestroika and with the Gulf War gathering momentum in the early '90s. But this is also a personal story; for Lear, like Hamlet is a part notorious for consuming it's players and Cox is not only separated from his family for months, but also trying to negotiate a window in the storm to get married as he plays the character of an old man, rejected by his daughters and friends and sunk in madness…

Who's Horrible in History
Who's Horrible in History

Author: Terry Deary

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781407107899

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This title features fifty foul people from history-personally selected by His Dearyness for their beastly behaviour. It is split into ten sections, including Awful Assassins, Rotten Rebels, Wicked Women, Crazy Criminals and Ruthless Rulers. Each section follows a different format-stories, newspaper articles, diary entries, fact files and so on.

Uncorrected Billy Childish
Uncorrected Billy Childish

Author: Billy Childish

Publisher:

Published: 2016-05-19

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781910691090

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The Uncorrected Billy Childish was first published in 2009 as a 'Penguin Art Edition' by L-13 Light Industrial Workshop, in tandem with handbound, limited editions by Tangerine Press. Penguin's lawyers insisted that all paperbacks were destroyed, resulting in an infamous Book Burning event in London. Unusually for Childish, The Uncorrected... has been broken down into themed sections (Love & Sex; Abuse & Forgiveness, etc). Includes black & white woodcut illustrations by Bill Hamper. Fully updated, revised with new poems not included in the original edition.

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

Author: Elizabeth Blackwell

Publisher:

Published: 1895

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York, in 1849. A pioneer in opening the medical profession to women, she founded hospitals and medical schools for women in both the United States and England. She was a lecturer and writer as well as an able physician and organizer. -- H.W. Orr.