Born into the emerging middle classes of the 1950s, Billy Childish takes us on a nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse. Stumbling onward into adolescence he lays bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol, bullies and yes [...]
'God Sends Nuts to People Without Teeth or The Stonemason'. Billy Childish left school in 1976 at the age of 16, an undiagnosed dyslexic with no qualifications. Because of his lack of 'education' he was refused entry to art school without them even looking at his portfolio; with no alternatives on o[...]