{"id":21264,"date":"2023-02-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21264"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:44:18","slug":"wild-billy-childish-and-ctmf-failure-not-success-damaged-goods-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=21264","title":{"rendered":"Wild Billy Childish And CTMF – \u2018Failure Not Success\u2019 (Damaged Goods Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taking a break from his recent Bob Dylan obsession (phew), Billy Childish returns to bring us more raucous garage rock in his inimitable style with CTMF. Seeing this upcoming release, I realised that I\u2019d missed a CTMF album in 2021, \u2018Where The Wild Purple Iris Grows\u2019, so that was a double bonus for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This takes up where that previous album left off, with a hectic version of Richard Hell\u2019s \u2018Love Comes In Spurts\u2019, the second time that Billy has covered the song, but it fits well here. As does the band\u2019s take on Hendrix\u2019s \u2018Fire\u2019, with Nurse Julie\u2019s backing vocals adding something extra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That aside, we have ten new songs, three of which are instrumentals. Normally, that might ring alarm bells, but with Billy and company, it\u2019s a treat. \u2018Walk Of The Sasquatch\u2019 is particularly fine, with the publicity spiel of Billy quoting \u201cthe North Kent Sasquatch program has gone a little quiet of late, but I believe they are still trying to get Cobham Woods – nearby across the river – to be designated as a reserve, though of course this poses some danger to the public during the spring breeding season\u201d. I think some people haven\u2019t noticed his sense of humour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title track and \u2018The Old, Long Bar\u2019 are as good as any \u2018Medway garage rock\u2019 songs he\u2019s ever written, with \u2018Failure Not Success\u2019 there is an autobiographical lyric, similar to those on the previous album; \u201cat twelve years old, I walked the streets in my mother\u2019s dress\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some quieter moments, such as \u2018Beneath The Flowers\u2019 and \u2018Becoming Unbecoming Me\u2019, with its Velvets-like appeal. And even the reappearance of Mr Zimmerman with \u2018Bob Dylan\u2019s Got A Lot To Answer For\u2019 can\u2019t spoil proceedings; a list of potential pros and cons of Dylan\u2019s influence on music, set to a \u2018Stepping Stone\u2019 riff. Masterful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For us fans of Billy\u2019s more abrasive tunes, this, like the previous \u2018Where The Wild Purple Iris Grows\u2019, is an essential purchase. An eccentric, a one-off, sometimes frustrating, always entertaining. We\u2019re lucky to have him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Martin Chamarette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking a break from his recent Bob Dylan obsession (phew), Billy Childish returns to bring us more raucous garage rock in his inimitable style with CTMF. Seeing this upcoming release, I realised that I\u2019d missed a CTMF album in 2021, \u2018Where The Wild Purple Iris Grows\u2019, so that was a double bonus for me! This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2043,1800],"class_list":["post-21264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-damaged-goods-records","tag-martin-chamarette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21266,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions\/21266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}