Kevin Bloody Wilson

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Kevin Bloody Wilson
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Kevin Bloody Wilson signing an autograph after a performance on the 2005 DILLIGAF Tour
Background information
Birth nameDennis Bryant
Also known asKevin Bloody Wilson
Born (1947-02-13) 13 February 1947 (age 77)
Bathurst, New South Wales
OriginAustralian
Genres Country
Occupation(s)Comedian, satirist, parodist, singer-songwriter,
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar
Years active1962-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.

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Early career

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 ]

Discography

Studio albums

YearAlbumPeak positionsCertifications
AUS
[9] [10]
1984 Your Average Australian Yobbo
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (SBP 8174)
  • Format: LP, cassette
20
1985 Kev's Back (The Return of the Yobbo)
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (SBP 8215)
  • Format: LP, cassette, CD (BBCD 100797R)
8
  • ARIA: 4× Platinum [11]
1987 Born Again Piss Tank
  • Released: October 1987
  • Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (460432 1)
  • Format: LP, cassette
16
  • ARIA: 2× Platinum [11]
1989 My Australian Roots
  • Released: May 1989
  • Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (465428 1)
  • Format: LP, cassette, CD
25
1991Let's Call Him ... Kev!
  • Released: November 1991
  • Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (469188 2)
  • Format: CD, cassette
50
1993Nashville Trash
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Both Barrels Music (BB01)
  • Format: CD
1994Backout from the Outback
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Both Barrels Music (BB05)
  • Format: CD
1996Santa's Kummin': Kev's Kristmas Album
  • Released: November 1996
  • Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD 60896)
  • Format: CD
1998Kalgoorlie Love Songs
  • Released: November 1998
  • Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD 160798)
  • Format: CD
2001The Second Kummin' of Kev
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD 08)
  • Format: CD
2006DILLIGAF
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: Both Barrels Music, Sony Music Australia (BBCD 011006)
  • Format: CD
2009 Excess All Areas
  • Released: September 2009
  • Label: Both Barrels Music, Sony Music Australia
  • Format: CD
2013Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
  • Released: September 2013
  • Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD011113)
  • Format: CD, Digital download
2016Rides Again
  • Released: 14 October 2016 [12]
  • Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD010916)
  • Format: CD, Digital download
2018Kev's Krissmas Vol 2
  • Released: August 2018 [13]
  • Label: Kevin Bloody Wilson
  • Format: CD, Digital download
2023International DILLIGAF Day
  • Released: April 2023
  • Label: Kevin Bloody Wilson
  • Format: CD, Digital download

Live albums

YearAlbumPeak positions
AUS
[9]
1995Let Loose Live in London
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD2894)
  • Format: CD
2003Let Loose Live in the Outback
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD10)
  • Format: CD
2007Let Loose Back Home
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Both Barrels Music (BBDVD011107)
  • Format: CD/DVD, download
95

Compilation albums

YearAlbumPeak positionsCertifications
AUS
[9]
1990The Loveable Larrikin
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: X Rated, Both Barrels Music
  • Format: LP, CD
1990Far-Canal
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Both Barrels Music
  • Format: LP, CD
1992The Worst of Kevin Bloody Wilson
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Sony Music (472317 2)
  • Format: CD
200420 Years Of Kev
  • Released: August 2004
  • Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD 160704)
  • Format: CD
64
2011Klassic Kev
  • Released: December 2011 [14]
  • Label: Kevin Bloody Wilson
  • Format: CD, Digital Download
201935 Years of Kevin Bloody Wilson
  • Released: 26 July 2019 [15]
  • Label: Sony Music Australia (19075979242)
  • Format: Digital Download, CD, streaming

His songs generally consist of irreverent humour and plenty of swearing with eclectic musical backing.

ARIA Awards

He has been nominated five times for the ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release at the ARIA Music Awards: [16] [3]

YearNominee / workAwardResult
1987 Kev's Back Best Comedy Release Won
Highest Selling Album Nominated
1990 My Australian RootsBest Comedy ReleaseNominated
1992 Let's Call Him KevNominated
1995 Let Loose Live in LondonNominated
2002 The Second Kummin' of KevNominated

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. [8]

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. [17] [18]

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