The Guy Hamper Trio (feat. James Taylor) – The Goddess Tree LP/CD (pre-order)

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Artist – The Guy Hamper Trio (feat. James Taylor)

Release – The Goddess Tree LP/CD

Label – Spinout Nuggets

Cat No. – SN143

Release date – 28th February 2025

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Artist – The Guy Hamper Trio (feat. James Taylor)

Release – The Goddess Tree LP/CD

Side A
1. Bo Pug (2:27)
2. Shapes Of Things (2:26)
3. The Goddess Tree (3:05)
4. The Cuckoo’s Cuckoo (3:04)
5. If The River Was Whiskey (2:57)
6. 2 Minutes From 10am (2:51)
Side B
1. Chatham’s Burning (5:27)
2. Rock All The While (2:57)
3. The Magpie’s Flown (3:40)
4. For Your Love (2:32)
5. I’ll Carve Your Name (2:57)
6. Modern Terms Of Abuse (2:47)

Label – Spinout Nuggets

Cat No. – SN143

Release date – 28th February 2025

The Guy Hamper Trio was formed by Billy Childish, after a chat with his friend  James Taylor (Hammond organ).

Billy and James had played respectively in The Milkshakes and The Prisoners, often sharing the same bill in the early 80’s. After James formed The James Taylor Quartet, Billy’s blues ensemble, The Natural Born Lovers, were often the support act for the early shows of JTQ.

The Guy Hamper Trio is: Billy Childish on guitar, his wife Julie on bass and Wolf on drums – who as it happens was the drummer in the original incarnation of JTQ – and of course James Taylor on Hammond organ.

The Guy Hamper Trio provide a bottom end, Blues-influenced instrumental mayhem for those unafraid of dirt, germs and true grime. With no particular wish, other than to be recognised as the best at playing badly, they refuse to obey the usual rules of combat and music.

Their first 45 (Polygraph Test / Sally Sensation) was released in 2009, followed by a full-length studio album, ‘All The Poisons In The Mud’, appearing, as if by magic, in 2022, followed by five 7” singles (via Damaged Goods and Spinout Nuggets), and also two further full-length albums.

This long playing record proves that The Guy Hamper Trio and James Taylor are a perfect team. The fourth in this ‘series’ of finely crafted compositions, listen out for several tracks also featuring Bash Brand and  Tub Johnson as stand in rhythm section (in effect Thee Headcoats). Let’s hope there’s plenty more from the leaders in jazz/pop mayhem!

Limited to 500 copies on vinyl (also on CD).

FACT: Chatham Burning is the title of Billy Childish’s Punk fanzine in 1977.

Line Up:
Guy Hamper – Guitar, Vocals
Juju Hamper – Bass
Wolf Howard – Drums
James Taylor – Hammond Organ

*Bash Brand – Drums
& Tub Johnson – Bass

Notes:
Recorded at Ranscombe Studios, Rochester, Kent.
Produced by William ‘Spook’ Loveday.
Engineered by Jim Riley.
Published by Another Music.

 

 

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