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    Milkshakes, The

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    When his punk band, The Pop Rivets, broke up in 1980, Billy Childish formed a new group with Mickey Hampshire, a Pop Rivets roadie who had been performing in a group called Mickey and the Milkshakes.

    The two began writing songs together and released their first LP, Talkin’ About, in 1981.

    With Childish on guitar and vocals, Hampshire on guitar and vocals, Bruce Brand on drums, and Russ Wilkins (later replaced by John Agnew) on bass, The Milkshakes’ sound was a primitive blend of British beat groups, like the early Kinks at their toughest, and hard-rocking American guitar instrumentalists, like Link Wray.

    This sound came to be known as the “Medway sound” (the band hailed from Chatham in Kent) and Childish has been playing a variation on it throughout his whole career.

    The Milkshakes were a very prolific group, recording nine albums in their six years together and achieving two UK independent Top 20 hits with Brand New Cadillac (1984) and Ambassadors of Love (1985).

    Childish and Hampshire split the lead vocal duties and the band was very much a blend of Childish’s primitive songwriting and Hampshire’s more melodic leanings.

    The group also masterminded and acted as the backing band for a Medway girl group, The Delmonas.

    The Milkshakes – who also referred to themselves as Thee Milkshakes – broke up in 1984 (although Milkshakes material continued to be released long afterwards) and Childish, Brand, and Agnew went on to form Thee Mighty Caesars where Childish’s raw punk-blues could roam untainted by any semblance of professionalism.

    Billy Childish
    Vocals, guitar
    Mickey Hampshire 

    Vocals, guitar
    Russ Wilkins 

    Bass
    John Agnew

    Bass
    Bruce Brand 

    Drums

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