According to Damaged Goods, Childish’s path to fame is the stuff of punk rock legend. He dropped out of school at 16, after struggling because of undiagnosed dyslexia. He worked as an apprentice ...

Billy Childish is the kind of underground legend who makes you wonder if being mainstream is really worth the trouble. Born in 1959 in Chatham, Kent, Childish has spent decades churning out art, music ...

Jack White has slammed Billy Childish in response to derogatory comments made about the White Stripes. The author/singer/songwriter, who has founded many bands ...

British garage rocker Thee Headcoatees — Ludella Black, Kyra LaRubia, Bongo Debbie and Holly Golightly — existed for most of the ’90s, first as a backing band for Billy Childish’s Thee Headcoats ...

Despite being the star-turn, Acorn Man isn’t just a showcase for the talents of Billy Childish with singing duties often shared with bass player Nurse Nancy. In fact, she also takes up lead vocals to ...

Prolific is a word perhaps overused by music critics, but when describing British garage rock mastermind Billy Childish, it defines a recording career that has spanned two decades and has produced in ...

In a 20-year period, Billy Childish has published more than 30 collections of poetry, recorded 80 full-length LPs and produced well over 1,500 paintings. His records with his many different bands, ...

Billy Childish Selected Exhibitions in 2010: Works on paper, L-13 Light Industrial Workshop and Private Ladies and Gentlemen's Club for Art, Leisure and the Disruptive Betterment of Culture, London, ...

Alongside these many activities, Childish also co-founded the Stuckists, that rather silly anti-conceptual art movement whose manifesto proclaimed that - instead of, say, “exploring ideas about death” ...

84 x 72 in. (213.4 x 182.9 cm.) Known for his expansive practice, Billy Childish creates from a place of contemplative candor. Drawing from the intimate and familiar, Childish renders his life through ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.