BILLY CHILDISH & CTMF - DIE HINTERTOISSER TRAVERSE
LIMITED EDITION COLOURED VINYL LPs!!
Originally available on a limited double 10” courtesy of Squoodge Records of Germany, these songs were released to mark Billy's exhibition "Darkness was here yesterday" at the Carl Freedman Gallery in London back in 2013.
We released a hand-stamped mail-order only CD version at the time but now we have some lovely 12" vinyl LP copies. On a choice of colours - green, clear or orange. Each is limited to 180 copies. If you find it hard to choose we have a 3 LP bundle offer too!
There's free digital copies of this album with every physical purchase made via our online shop!
Click above for your choice of colour, or if you want all three go for the bundle option below!
In 1976/ 77 the ‘shortly to be’ Billy Chyldish, as well as being head of research in the counties first fortress study group The Medway Military Research Group, was working as an apprentice stonemason in Chatham dockyard. After seeing a feature on punk on the London Weekend show Billy thought he wouldn’t half mind being the singer in a punk rock group himself.
Childish duly left work and suggested to a few old secondary school mates that they should form one pronto. “What about a name?” they asked, “simple”, answed Wild Billy, “we’ll be called CTMF.” Button Nose Steve, who was to shortly give Billy Chyldish his punk moniker – and even owned a Woolworth’s guitar, and Dave Marsh, a form mate who said he might buy a drum kit one day – both nodded slightly.
36 years later, and CTMF have finally come into being.
No ones sure where Dave Marsh now is, but button nose Steve is busy feeding pigs and ducks on his small holding in New Romney and Billy Chyldish, with other mates, has recorded an LPs worth of material – and half a dozen 45’s for different destinations around the globe – utilising lyrics first jotted down for the original CTMF line up in 1977.
Billy describes CTMF group as “the epitome of modern” and their sound as “the sound of yesterday, tomorow”
All of their records are released under the moniker CTMF. Some say this stands for Copyright TerMination Front, others claim it is simply short form for Clarity Through Fuzz .
Here's some other CTMF releases you may have missed -
Happy weekend!
Ian & Duncan