Kevin Bloody Wilson | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Dennis Bryant |
Also known as | Kevin Bloody Wilson |
Born | Bathurst, New South Wales | 13 February 1947
Origin | Australian |
Genres | Country |
Occupation(s) | Comedian, satirist, parodist, singer-songwriter, |
Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar |
Years active | 1977-present |
Website | http://www.kevinbloodywilson.com/ |
Kevin Bloody Wilson (born Dennis Bryant; 13 February 1947) is an Australian musical comedian who performs comical songs with his heavy Australian English accent and often including sexual themes. He has won one ARIA Music Award.
Bryant was born in Bathurst, although he identifies 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'. [1] He also used the name 'Bryan Dennis' when he hosted a country music show on radio 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 Australian rules football clubs. He had adopted the name Kevin Bloody Wilson by 1984, when he put together a cassette of his songs called Your Average Australian Yobbo , [2] 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 one of Perth's most famous comedians. [3] [4] His humour is regarded by media commentators as politically incorrect. [5] [6] [7] As one of Australia's most successful comedians, he continues to tour and performs an average of 120 concerts worldwide each year.
Wilson is married and his wife Betty comes on tour with him. [8] She sells merchandise at shows and has appeared on guest vocals in a few of his songs, including "Dick'taphone".
Wilson 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.[ citation needed ] On the show, he told of how he met his wife Betty, who was originally from Kalgoorlie, but lived in Perth at the time they met. She had returned to the town to visit friends and her brother who still lived there and they met when she attended one of his shows. Betty, who was in the studio audience, told Denton that Wilson was a romantic who regularly bought her flowers.
"The Genie in the Bottle", a country song which Wilson co-wrote with Adam Harvey, spent more than six weeks on the Australian Country Singles chart[ citation needed ] as well as reaching the number one video spot on the Country Music Television Channel in 2008.[ citation needed ]
Year | Album | Peak positions | Certifications |
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AUS [9] [10] | |||
1984 | Your Average Australian Yobbo
| 20 | |
1985 | Kev's Back (The Return of the Yobbo)
| 8 |
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1987 | Born Again Piss Tank
| 16 |
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1989 | My Australian Roots
| 25 | |
1991 | Let's Call Him ... Kev!
| 50 | |
1993 | Nashville Trash
| — | |
1994 | Backout from the Outback
| — | |
1996 | Santa's Kummin': Kev's Kristmas Album
| — | |
1998 | Kalgoorlie Love Songs
| — | |
2001 | The Second Kummin' of Kev
| — | |
2006 | DILLIGAF
| — | |
2009 | Excess All Areas
| — | |
2013 | Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
| — | |
2016 | Rides Again
| — | |
2018 | Kev's Krissmas Vol 2
| — | |
2023 | International DILLIGAF Day
| — |
Year | Album | Peak positions |
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AUS [9] | ||
1995 | Let Loose Live in London
| — |
2003 | Let Loose Live in the Outback
| — |
2007 | Let Loose Back Home
| 95 |
Year | Album | Peak positions | Certifications |
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AUS [9] | |||
1990 | The Loveable Larrikin
| — | |
1990 | Far-Canal
| — | |
1992 | The Worst of Kevin Bloody Wilson
| — |
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2004 | 20 Years Of Kev
| 64 |
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2011 | Klassic Kev
| — | |
2019 | 35 Years of Kevin Bloody Wilson
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His songs generally consist of irreverent humour and plenty of swearing with eclectic musical backing.
He has been nominated five times for the ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release at the ARIA Music Awards: [16] [3]
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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1987 | Kev's Back | Best Comedy Release | Won |
Highest Selling Album | Nominated | ||
1990 | My Australian Roots | Best Comedy Release | Nominated |
1992 | Let's Call Him Kev | Nominated | |
1995 | Let Loose Live in London | Nominated | |
2002 | The Second Kummin' of Kev | Nominated |
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. [8]
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. [17] [18]
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