The William Loveday Intention

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Second of four albums revealing Billy Childish’s more musical side.

Last summer, Billy Childish and a core band of Nurse Julie and Wolf Howard went into Rochester’s Ranscombe studios and recorded four albums under the William Loveday Intention banner to be issued consecutively over the winter months. This second in the series builds on

October’s People Think They Know Me But They Don’t Know

Me, and sees Childish occupying a more refined musical space than usual with help from Jim Riley on blues harp, Jon Barker on organ and The Wave Pictures’ David Tattersall on guitar. Chief influences are

Highway ’61 Revisited-era Bob Dylan and Jacques Brel, effectively utilised on a new version of Thee Headcoats’ I Don’t Like The Man I Am, the original’s clattering punk replaced with a more poetic reading over waltzing guitars and Al Kooper-styled wonky organ.