I had the dreaded lurgy over Christmas and wrote some songs in bed, when well enough. Jamie Taylor: Hammond/Piano on a few tracksĬan we expect more William Loveday Intention records, or is there a new project formulating for the next thing? William Ivy Loveday sings, plays guitar/some bass, J A Loveday sings a few + backing and a bit of bass. It was tough getting everyone to record in lock down so me and Jim (Harp) sometimes had to cover drums, bass, guitar organ, etc.

I’m friends with Dave (Lead Guitar) from co-writing/recording an LP for his group The Wave Pictures. Jon, (Hamond organ) played bass in The Buff Medways. We basically use friends and muck in together. Who else is playing on the record, how did the band come together? I selected tracks I thought had more interesting lyrics – ones I had a soft spot for. This project has seen you recording new versions of tracks from you back catalogue – with more than 100 albums to choose from, how did you manage to whittle it down to these four LPs? What was the selection process? It’s best for me to mix things up as I get bored easily. But it was something to do other than paint and work on my poetry and novels. We had problems getting people into play, etc. (We actually recorded 5 LPs – but The New & Improved Bob Dylan was released separately on Hangman Records.)ĭid recording and releasing them during the pandemic have much of an impact, either on the writing process or the recording? As normal I just do what I fancy not what the world wants, or asks for. The LPs sort of suggested themselves as we went along – no plan and no one asked for them. It did so then I had to keep up – writing songs on the hoof, often the night before the sessions. I just pressed the start button to see if the engine would go. Releasing four LPs in four months is pretty fast going even by your standards – were they recorded as one big project and then split or was the idea for each album fully distinct from the beginning? With the fifth and final instalment of this run, The Bearded Lady Also Sells The Candy Floss, due for release on 19th February through Childish’s long-term home Damaged Goods Records, we caught up with Billy to talk about the project and the strange times in which it’s being released, and asked him to guide us through the record track by track. The hirsute polymath, an influence on artists as diverse as Jack White, Tracy Emin and Kylie Minogue, is renowned for having more than 100 albums to his name, not to mention the volumes of poetry, the paintings, fiction and films that stack up in his considerable back catalogue, and over the past five months he’s added a further five LPs to his considerable body of work with his latest project The William Loveday Intention, and the new tracks, covers and reworkings from previous records sound as fresh and vital as any of their predecessors. Medway garage punk legend Billy Childish is a man for whom the word ‘prolific’ barely seems sufficient.

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