Wild Billy Childish & CTMF - House On Fire / I Give Myself To You All (7") (pre-order)

Wild Billy Childish has been recording and performing since the 1977 punk explosion. The Pop Rivets, Thee Milkshakes, The Headcoats and The Buff Medways being just a few outfits that Billy has helped ruin, but it's all just a hobby so who cares? His day job is being an internationally exhibited artist, cult hero and vermin poet.

CTMF (The Chatham Forts) was the first group name Billy came up with for a group whilst he was Head of Research for The Medway Military Research Group - investigating the Medway Fortifications (as well as being an Apprentice Stonemason at Chatham Dockyard, Kent, 1976). It wasn’t until 2013 that Billy got around to utilising the name.

CTMF features his wife Julie on bass/vocals and Wolf Howard on drums (both playing with Billy in previous incarnations over the years to little or no effect).

CTMF - described by Billy as ‘the epitome of modern: the sound of yesterday, tomorrow!’, CTMF have released over ten albums and over thirty singles/EPs (all to little effect).

Lifted from the recent album ‘House On Fire’ (released by Damaged Goods Records in March ’26), the title track was always destined for a 45 release, and here it is on Face A, written by Julie and with her taking lead vocals too.

Face B provides us with more garage punk from the Wild Billy Childish & CTMF combo, once again cutting some more uselessness (to little or no effect).

Limited to 500 copies.

Line Up:

Billy - Guitar, Vocals
Juju - Bass, Vocals
Wolf - Drums

Notes:
Recorded at Ranscombe Studios, Rochester, Kent.
Produced by ‘Spook’ Loveday.
Engineered by Jim Riley.