The Milkshakes - Milk Box - 4CD

PRE-ORDER EXPECTED RELEASE DATE 26TH SEPTEMBER 2026 2026 REPRESS Four 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 The Milkshakes Revenge! THE MILKSHAKES were mainly Mickey Hampshire (Git/Vox); Billy Childish (Git/Vox); Bruce Brand (Drums); 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 and the Milkshakes with his cohort Banana Bertie. The two began writing songs together and the group released their first LP, Talking ’bout Milkshakes! in 1981. With Childish and Hampshire sharing guitar and vocal duties, Bruce Brand on drums, and Bertie on bass (later replaced by Russ Wilkins then John Agnew), 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. The group also masterminded and backed a Medway girl group, the Delmonas. When Mickey left The Milkshakes in 1984 Childish, Brand and Agnew went on to form Thee Mighty Caesars. Mickey and Bruce now play in The Masonics along with Ludella Black from The Del Monas, and Russ lives in Scotland and fronts the Wildebeests as well as being Lord Rochester. Tracklistings: Disc One: Talking 'Bout Milkshakes: 1 She'll Be Mine 2 Pretty Baby 3 For She 4 I Want'cha (For My Little Girl) 5 Ruhrge Beat 6 After Midnight 7 Bull's Nose 8 Shed Country 9 Don't Love Another 10 Tell Me Where's That Girl 11 Can'tcha See 12 Love You the Whole Night Through 13 There's Nothing You Can Say or Do 14 I Say You Lie Disc Two: After School Session: 1 Shimmy Shake 2 I Can Tell 3 Tell Me Child 4 Goodbye Girl 5 More Honey 6 Soldiers of Love 7 El Salvador 8 Let's Stomp 9 Hide and Scatter 10 Jaguar 11 That Girl of Mine 12 You Can Only Lose 13 Little Minnie 14 Cadillac Disc Three: Thee Knights Of Trashe: 1 I'll Use Evil 2 What You've Got 3 Girl, It No Good 4 I'm Out of Control 5 I Dreamt Last Night (That I Lay Dead) 6 Bill's Beat (Instrumental) 7 Old Time Shimmy 8 Can't Seem to Love That Girl 9 Club M.I.C. (Instrumental) 10 Despite the Danger 11 You're Asking Too Much 12 Cassandra 13 Green Hornet (Instrumental) Disc Four: The Milkshakes Revenge!: 1 Let Me Love You 2 I Want You 3 If I Saw You 4 Graveyard Words 5 Boys 6 Little Girl Be Good 7 Pipeline 8 She Tells Me She Loves Me 9 Little Girl (Mumble The Peg) 10 Every Girl I Meet 11 The One I Get 12 Baby What's Wrong?