Kevin Bloody Wilson
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Kevin Bloody Wilson is a comedy
singer/songwriter who uses his heavy Australia
n accent/style with great success. Without the aid of radio or TV
coverage (due to the explicit, crude and sexual nature of his songs and general humour), he has built up a widespread cult following.
, New South Wales
, although he identifies himself with Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
, where he was an electrician in the gold mines.
In the 1970s Bryant fronted his own band called 'Bryan Dennis and the Country Club'. He also used the name 'Bryan Dennis' when he hosted a country music show on 6KG in Kalgoorlie from 1973 to 1980, before he was thrown off air for playing the parody song, "I'm Heaving On A Jet Plane".
He moved to Perth and began playing bawdy songs as a hobby, singing at pubs and football
clubs. In 1984 he put together a cassette of his songs called Your Average Australian Yobbo
, which he sold at gigs and by mail order. He managed to sell 22,000 copies of the cassette before it was eventually transferred to LP, where it went on to sell many thousands more.
He is notable as Perth's most famous comedian. His humour is regarded as politically incorrect
.
As one of Australia's most successful comedians, he continues to tour and perform an average of 120 concerts world wide each year. In 2010, he released his 14th album Excess All Areas
.
Wilson is married, and his wife Betty comes on tour with him. She can normally be seen selling merchandise - and has even appeared on guest vocals in a few of his songs, including "Dick'taphone".
Kevin appeared on the popular television show Enough Rope
with Andrew Denton in October 2008, which resulted in the show's highest ratings of the year.
"The Genie in the Bottle" is a country song Kevin co-wrote with Adam Harvey that spent more than 6 weeks on the Australian Country Singles chart as well as reaching the number one video spot on the Country Music Television Channel in 2008.
His songs generally consist of irreverent humour and plenty of swearing with eclectic musical backing.
He has been nominated four times for Best Comedy release for the Australian ARIA Music Awards
:
Wilson's recordings are mainly sold through his website, and he has licensed them to mail order companies in different countries to provide easier distribution. In 2003 he placed a free mp3
on his website called The Shane Warne
Song, a song about the extracurricular exploits of the controversial Australian cricket
er.
In 2007, Agence France-Presse
note that Wilson's Christmas songs were popular downloads on YouTube
.
where he has a large following. The majority of his fans are male and drawn from a wide age range - from 14 to 90. A favourite pastime of his (he almost always meets his fans afterwards) is autographing bare female breasts. When dedicating an autograph, it is not unusual for him to put "To _____, get fucked! Kev!". During several tours, Kevin has been joined by his daughter Jenny Talia
.
While visiting Canada
on a world tour, Kevin alleges that he was told that due to the high level of taboo surrounding the word, he was not allowed to say "cunt
" in Canada. It is unknown whether this was an order or a suggestion. Whatever the case, Kevin made a note of this and walked onto the stage in Toronto
and the first song he sang was his now somewhat infamous "You Can't Say Cunt In Canada".
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
singer/songwriter who uses his heavy Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n accent/style with great success. Without the aid of radio or TV
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
coverage (due to the explicit, crude and sexual nature of his songs and general humour), he has built up a widespread cult following.
Early career
Bryant was born in SydneySydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, although he identifies himself with Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Kalgoorlie, known as Kalgoorlie-Boulder, is a town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, and is located east-northeast of state capital Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway...
, where he was an electrician in the gold mines.
In the 1970s Bryant fronted his own band called 'Bryan Dennis and the Country Club'. He also used the name 'Bryan Dennis' when he hosted a country music show on 6KG in Kalgoorlie from 1973 to 1980, before he was thrown off air for playing the parody song, "I'm Heaving On A Jet Plane".
He moved to Perth and began playing bawdy songs as a hobby, singing at pubs and football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
clubs. In 1984 he put together a cassette of his songs called Your Average Australian Yobbo
Your Average Australian Yobbo
Your Average Australian Yobbo was the debut album released by Australian singer/comedian Kevin Bloody Wilson. It started out as just a collection of rude songs on a tape which he sold at performances at pubs and clubs around Australia, and by mail order. 22,000 copies of the cassette, Your Average...
, which he sold at gigs and by mail order. He managed to sell 22,000 copies of the cassette before it was eventually transferred to LP, where it went on to sell many thousands more.
He is notable as Perth's most famous comedian. His humour is regarded as politically incorrect
Political correctness
Political correctness is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts,...
.
As one of Australia's most successful comedians, he continues to tour and perform an average of 120 concerts world wide each year. In 2010, he released his 14th album Excess All Areas
Excess All Areas
Excess All Areas is a 2009 album by Australian rude singer/comedian Kevin Bloody Wilson-Track listing:All tracks written by Denis Bryant.#"Dont Let The Goat Go" - 3:21#"Nigel & Wilma" - 3:00#"Old Home Videos" - 3:37#"Bring Back The Biff" - 3:09...
.
Wilson is married, and his wife Betty comes on tour with him. She can normally be seen selling merchandise - and has even appeared on guest vocals in a few of his songs, including "Dick'taphone".
Kevin appeared on the popular television show Enough Rope
Enough Rope
Enough Rope with Andrew Denton is a television interview show originally broadcast on ABC Television in Australia...
with Andrew Denton in October 2008, which resulted in the show's highest ratings of the year.
"The Genie in the Bottle" is a country song Kevin co-wrote with Adam Harvey that spent more than 6 weeks on the Australian Country Singles chart as well as reaching the number one video spot on the Country Music Television Channel in 2008.
Discography
- Your Average Australian YobboYour Average Australian YobboYour Average Australian Yobbo was the debut album released by Australian singer/comedian Kevin Bloody Wilson. It started out as just a collection of rude songs on a tape which he sold at performances at pubs and clubs around Australia, and by mail order. 22,000 copies of the cassette, Your Average...
(1984) - Kev's Back (The Return of the Yobbo)Kev's Back (The Return of the Yobbo)Kev's Back is the second album by the rudeAustralian singer/comedian Kevin Bloody Wilson. The album won the 1987 ARIA Award for "Comedy Album of the Year"...
(1985) - Born Again Piss TankBorn Again Piss TankBorn Again Piss Tank is a 1987 album by Australian rude singer/comedian Kevin Bloody Wilson-Track listing:All tracks written by Denis Bryant.#"Born Again Piss Tank" - 5:33#"Kev's Love Song " - 4:01#"Supa Mega Fugly" - 2:42...
(1987) - My Australian RootsMy Australian RootsMy Australian Roots is a 1989 album by Australian rude singer/comedian Kevin Bloody Wilson-Track listing:All tracks written by Denis Bryant.#"You Orta' See Me - 3:36#"Double Decker Dog" - 4:26#"The Great Roberto" - 5:05...
(1989) - The Loveable Larrikin (best-of) (1990)
- The Far-Canal Album (best-of) (1990)
- Let's Call Him ... Kev! (1991)
- The Worst of Kevin Bloody Wilson (best-of) (1992)
- Nashville Trash (1993)
- Let Loose Live in London (1993)
- Backout From the Outback (best-of) (1994)
- Kev's Kristmas (1996)
- Kalgoorlie Love Songs (1998)
- The Second Kummin' of Kev (2001)
- Let Loose Live in the Outback (2002)
- 20 Years of Kev (best-of) (2004)
- DILLIGAF (2006)
- Excess All AreasExcess All AreasExcess All Areas is a 2009 album by Australian rude singer/comedian Kevin Bloody Wilson-Track listing:All tracks written by Denis Bryant.#"Dont Let The Goat Go" - 3:21#"Nigel & Wilma" - 3:00#"Old Home Videos" - 3:37#"Bring Back The Biff" - 3:09...
(2009)
His songs generally consist of irreverent humour and plenty of swearing with eclectic musical backing.
He has been nominated four times for Best Comedy release for the Australian ARIA Music Awards
ARIA Music Awards
The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...
:
- 1987 for Kev's Back (won)
- 1992 for Let's Call Him Kev
- 1995 for Let Loose Live In London
- 2002 for The Second Kumin' Of Kev
Wilson's recordings are mainly sold through his website, and he has licensed them to mail order companies in different countries to provide easier distribution. In 2003 he placed a free mp3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
on his website called The Shane Warne
Shane Warne
Shane Keith Warne is a former Australian international cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler selected in the quintet...
Song, a song about the extracurricular exploits of the controversial Australian cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er.
In 2007, Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse
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note that Wilson's Christmas songs were popular downloads on YouTube
YouTube
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.
Touring
He regularly tours, spending about six months each year overseas. His tours include visiting less populous venues such as small towns in New ZealandNew Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
where he has a large following. The majority of his fans are male and drawn from a wide age range - from 14 to 90. A favourite pastime of his (he almost always meets his fans afterwards) is autographing bare female breasts. When dedicating an autograph, it is not unusual for him to put "To _____, get fucked! Kev!". During several tours, Kevin has been joined by his daughter Jenny Talia
Jenny Talia
Jenny Talia is an Australian female comedy singer/songwriter. Her real name is Tammy-Jo. Tammy is the daughter of Kevin Bloody Wilson, for whom she is occasionally a support act...
.
While visiting Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
on a world tour, Kevin alleges that he was told that due to the high level of taboo surrounding the word, he was not allowed to say "cunt
Cunt
Cunt is a vulgarism, primarily referring to the female genitalia, specifically the vulva, and including the cleft of Venus. The earliest citation of this usage in the 1972 Oxford English Dictionary, c 1230, refers to the London street known as Gropecunt Lane...
" in Canada. It is unknown whether this was an order or a suggestion. Whatever the case, Kevin made a note of this and walked onto the stage in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
and the first song he sang was his now somewhat infamous "You Can't Say Cunt In Canada".
Website
Wilson was the first Australian performing artist to have a website which a friend set up for him in 1993, which has since been a major source of album and product sales. He also runs an internet radio station kevfm.com, which was the first 24-hour adult comedy radio station.Recording and production studios
In 2006, Kev expanded his business interests by purchasing the recording and production studios that he recorded his first 2 albums at some 20 years earlier. PARAMOUNT MEDIA is a state of the art studio in Wanneroo in Western Australia that diversifies Wilson's media empire to create documentaries and pilots for TV shows.List of some better-known songs
- Absolute Cunt of a Day
- Amazing Grass
- Bali Belly Song
- Big Fat Bum
- Breathe Through Me Ears
- Chucka Browneye
- D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F.
- Dick'taphone
- Do You Fuck On First Dates?
- Don't Touch Your Sister
- Double Decker Dog
- Festival Of Farts
- Fuck Ya Guts Out
- Grandad's Got A Bone
- Hey G.M.H.
- Hey Santa Claus
- Ho Ho Fucking Ho
- (The Ode To) Huey & Billy
- Jacko Can't Get Up
- I Gave Up Wanking
- It Was Over (aka Kev's Lament)
- Kev's Courting Song (aka Do Ya Fuck On First Dates?)
- Living Next Door To Alan
- Manuel The Bandito
- Mick Me Mate The Master Farter
- My Dick's On The Dole
- My Grandfather's Cock
- Nigel Krap
- Ollie & Olga
- Pussy Tricks
- Rootin' In The Back Of The Ute
- Santa Was Stoned
- Says A Me Steve
- See Me When I'm Pissed
- She's The Sorta Sheila
- Stack The Fridge
- Super Mega Fugly
- That Fuckin' Cat's Back
- That's What He Really Said
- The Apprentice
- The Builder
- The Featherbrain Championship
- The Festival Of Life
- The Great Roberto
- The Kid (He Swears A Bit)
- The Last Lager Waltz
- The Local
- The Perfect Ten
- The Potato Song
- The Pubic Hair Song
- You Can't Say Cunt In Canada
Daughter
Tammy Jo "Jenny Talia" Bryant has followed in her father's footsteps singing similarly bawdy songs, some of them being reworded Kev songs, but done from a female perspective.Further reading
- Britton, David (1985) Perth comic warned on language. The West Australian, 1 November 1985, p. 14.
- Nicholson, Brendan (1986) It’s no joke for Kevin. Daily News, 4 January 1986, p. 4.
- Cornish, Patrick (1996) The Kalgoorlie kid comes home. West Australian, 12 October 1996, p. 4,(West Magazine).
- Chris ThomasChris Thomas (author)Chris Thomas is an Australian writer, actor, journalist and broadcaster.Thomas was born in Perth, Western Australia. He has extensive acting and journalistic experience, working for mainstream newspapers, independent publications and as a freelance. He has also worked in media and public...
(1996) Kevin's bloody well back home. Sunday Times, 13 October 1996, (Rock On). - (1997) Wilson curse threat case. The West Australian, 20 February 1997, p. 40.
- Jansen, Ara (2004) Kevin Bloody Wilson Esquire West Australian, 10 April 2004, p. 10-13, (West Magazine).