Description:	Billy Childish thingy. CD on Damaged Goods
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Post-Punk
	Label:	Damaged Goods
	Price:	£11.59
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...according to our Phil on 11 March 2010.

It's time for Billy Childish to start a new project! After The Musicians of The British Empire, The Buff Medways, Thee Headcoats, Thee Mighty Caesars and The(e) Milkshakes here's the Vermin Poets!! 'Poets of england' is the name of their debut opus and although it's not my favorite Billy Childish project it's not without its charms. Also it's probably worth noting this is really a project by Neil Palmer (Fire Dept!). The press release is spot on for this one..... think 80's Television Personalities and chuck in a bit of The Who. The thing I do like is the vocals.... There's some good vocal melodies in there and the songs do get under your skin. I'm not a fan of this sort of production as I prefer the ballsy sounding Childish gear though I can see how it wouldn't necessarily suit this as it's more psyche pop punk than garage blues. It's making a lot more sense on 2nd listen so maybe I'll give it another spin later as Baby Booming Bastards is a totally sweet piece of pop music! I think the trick for this is to not think of it as a Billy Childish project and come from it at a fresh perspective and you'll warm to it in no time!

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Sound clips for Poets Of England by The Vermin Poets: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Damaged Goods, DAMGOOD348CD, £11.59.

What their label says...

The Vermin Poets are Neil Palmer on Guitar/Lyre/vox Billy Childish on Bass/Backing Vox   JuJu Claudius on drums/Backing Vox and Wolf Howard on Drums but don’t think this is just another Billy Childish band ‘cos it’s not. The sound is very pop psychedelic, think of 80’s Television Personalities and chuck in The Who and you’ve got it. A small tour is planned for the spring as well as a launch gig at the ICA in London. We are vermin — V...E...ERMIN . The Vermin Poets are the self-discovered heirs to a long line of bards and natural philosophers whose number includes Reg Presley, Sky Saxon, Bo Diddley, D.H Laurence, William Shakespeare, Aristotle, Homer, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and all the unnamed carriers of legend and myth. In raising their songwriting art, the legendary punk rocker William Chyldish and Fire Dept front man Neil Hereward Palmer engaged in an alliance to pursue the thrice-fold aims of Happiness, Poetry and God. They succeed in manifesting the authentic sound of amateurism, elevating it to high art and thus banishing procrastination and the fear of creation from the human imagination. However, mindful that poets are, in the main, vermin Chyldish and Palmer cheerfully mock their own craft, praising limitation. For in unceasingly veiling God’s truth, which is the way to things, with words, the Vermin Poet separates persons-with-an-interest from the wider interests of human beings outside commerce and held in God’s law, which is love. Dr Johnson was none too keen on vermin poets: his English dictionary of 1755 contained a definition of the word "vaticide", which is "a murderer of poets". The Vermin Poets seek neither to gild the ars poetica, nor to slay its sons and daughters. The stated aim of The Vermin Poets is to describe the shape of the things sufficiently well so that others to may understand and explore, or view more effectively the universe and the bounty it contains for themselves.