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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