Milkshakes
Milk Box (4cd)
A set of 4 CDs featuring four classic albums by The Milkshakes in a clamshell box set complete with booklet. The four albums in the set are 'Talking 'Bout Milkshakes,' 'After School Session,' 'Thee Knights Of Trashe,' and 'The Milkshakes Revenge!.' The Milkshakes were mainly Mickey Hampshire (git/vox), Billy Childish (git/vox), Bruce Brand (drums) and Russ Wilkins (bass). When punk rock group The Pop Rivets broke up in 1980, Billy Childish joined forces with Mickey Hampshire, a Pop Rivets roadie who had been performing in a group called Mickey & The Milkshakes. The two began writing songs together and the group released their first LP, 'Talking 'bout Milkshakes!' in 1981. 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" and the core members have been playing a variation on it throughout their whole careers. The Milkshakes were a very prolific group, recording nine records in their four years together, and the band was very much a blend of Childish's primitive songwriting and Hampshire's more melodic leanings.