The Buff Medways

Billy Childish formed the Buff Medways in 2000. Their full name is
Wild Billy Childish & The Friends of the Buff Medway Fanciers
Association.

During the 19th century a breed of chicken was developed peculiar to
the Medway area. The breed, now extinct, was a table bird for the London
hotel market.

The BUFF MEDWAY project, based at Fort Amherst, Chatham, is
attempting to recreate that ancient fowl through a selective breeding
project.

The original line up was Billy on guitar and vocal, Johnny Barker
(bass) and Wolf Howard (drums), both ex-Daggermen. Johnny has now left
the band to be replaced by Graham Day ex of The Prisoners.

The BUFF MEDWAYS cut a dash with their Victorian army uniforms and
their vintage Vox amps. The gear may be old but as one critic wrote the
band are “the snarled lip embodiment of rock’n‘roll spirit rather than
nostalgia or shabby revivalism”. Live and on record The BUFF MEDWAYS are
all about great songs and vibrant raw energy – no frills.

They did their first single on their own Buff Medway Records followed by the DG single ‘Don’t Hold Me Back’ (DAMGOOD188).

They have now released four albums, two for Graham Coxon’s label
Transcopic Records ‘Steady The Buffs’ & ‘1914’, one on ‘Vinyl Japan’
called ‘This Is This’ and their last album ‘Medway Wheelers’ is out on
Damaged Goods.

Check out their female alter-egos The Buffets.

The Buffs have now decided to call it a day and played their last gig
to a totally sold out show at London’s Dirty Water Club on the 27th of
October 2006.

Their last ever single is also on Damaged Goods called ‘The Last Of The Buff Medways’ (DAMGOOD274 – 7”)

An XFM sessions live album is available now.

STOP PRESS – THE BUFFS RE-FORMED LATE 2009 – GIGS AND RELEASES TO FOLLOW

…as Beck, one of Mr Childish’s many admirers succinctly put it: “that’s how a rock’n‘roll group should sound!”.

“The three Medways crank out almost unbearably perfect early rock’n‘roll” NME

BILLY CHILDISH is…

“a seething, dyslexic, better-looking British Bukowski”

THE OBSERVER

“the most garage and most punk rocker alive”

NME

“a musician, artist, writer, and rabble-rouser”

DAZED & CONFUSED

More info:www.theebillychildish.com/buffmedway.htm