NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Billy Childish on 4 July 2022. Billy Childish has been played on NTS shows including Andrew Weatherall Presents: Music's Not For Everyone, with Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot first played on 12 August 2014.

A cult figure in America, Europe and Japan, Billy Childish is by far the most prolific painter, poet, and song-writer of his generation. In a twenty year period he has published 30 collections of his poetry, recorded over 70 full-length independent LP’s and produced over 1000 paintings.

Born in 1959 in Chatham, Kent. Billy Childish left Secondary education at 16 an undiagnosed…