Wild Billy Childish & the Blackhands [ Captain Calypso's Hoo Doo Party ] CD [EM1065CD]

Britain's bohemian/beat, a poetry/writer, a musician who headed The Milkshakes & The Headcoats, Billy Childish appeared as Wild Billy played the caribbean music with his one night group The Blackhands (what a cool name!). Whole tunes was recorded in a kitchen room, 1988, used only one microphone, in some hours of single day.

So here it is again, dear listener: Captain Calypsoユs Hoodoo Party. Recorded on one Microphone strung from a chipped enamel light shade in Captain Jackユs Dilapidated kitchen, this musical gem is the stuff of which myths and legends abound.

Billy Childish, having heard the Blue Fields Express, wanted his own broken down engine of a group and put out the word. And so they came, from near and afar. Kyra, practicing her Spanish and rattling the pots and pans. A man who didnユt normally drum to play drums. A trumpet player nursing several stitches from having a glass thrust into his face the previous night in a dubious drinking den at the wrong end of town. Miss Ludella Black, dropping in to sing a few numbers during her lunch break from selling fruit and veg on the high street. Shamus, from south of the Thames - having never met the rest of the ensemble, getting lost in the streets of Medway, banging on the wrong door of the wrong house in the wrong town for 2 hours then whipping out his accordion and busking along regardless. And then of course Billy, stringing up his fathers 1910 banjo, picking in open G and singing in what he imagined were the tones of the lost looking for solace.

Thus are great moments born and sometimes recorded for those of us who like our music as well our bread - stone ground and cut thick with the crusts. (from the liner notes)

+Cardboard paper CD case
+Liner notes written by Billy Childish
+English/Japanese text

TRACKS:
1. Rum 'n Coca-Cola
2. Underneath the Mango Tree
3. I Love Paris
4. Long Tall Shorty
5. Capt'n Jack Is Boss
6. Sen' Me To The 'lectric Chair
7. Anarchy in the U.K
8. Three Blind Mice
9. Tequila
10. Yella Skinned Babys
11. Dread Luck