A Box of Buffs

Three brilliant albums by the Buff Medways, neatly contained in one box, complete with booklet! The albums are Steady The Buffs, 1914, and Medway Wheelers. Buffs leader Billy Childish kindly answered a few questions about the band… The Buff Medways were formed quickly after Thee Headcoats split. The group split after ‘The Last of The Buff Medways’ 7” on Damaged Goods, with Billy Childish forming the Musicians of The British Empire soon after. How do you feel about the group looking back? Do you ever listen to the Buffs LPs? “I listen to some tracks if I have to learn them (I don’t know any of my songs and can’t remember words or how to play them, even live). I like the group a lot.” Were The Buff Medways the greatest group ever to be named after a breed of chicken?According to all accounts indeed they were.

STEADY THE BUFFS 1 – Troubled Mind 2 – Dawn Said 3 – A Strange Kind of Happyness 4 – Archive From 1959 5 – Time’s up 6 – Sally Sensation 7 – Vanessa Does Favours 8 – Strood Lights 9 – Misty Water 10 – Well Well 11 – You Piss Me Off 12 – Ivor 1914 1 – Unable to See the Good 2 – All My Feelings Denied 3 – Sonya Fagg 4 – Evidence Against Myself 5 – The Least Disappointing Man 6 – Just 15 7 – Nurse Julie 8 – Saucy Jack 9 – Mons Quiff (Instrumental) 10 – Barbara Wire 11 – You Are All Phonies 12 – Caroline MEDWAY WHEELERS 1 – The Man I Am 2 – A Distant Figure of Jon 3 – Karen With a C 4 – 22 Weeks 5 – Dustbin Mod (Instrumental) 6 – Medway Wheelers 7 – (I’m a) Lie Detector 8 – Private View 9 – The Poet’s Dream 10 – You’re out the Band Sunshine 11 – Poundland Poets 12 – I’m Glad I’m Not Like David Wise