Diz Willis

Here is a tiny selection of some sounds and pics, just a few pieces from a vast body of work by Diz Willis who was an extremely prolific artist. Diz was involved in many artforms from performance art with Welfare State, John Bull and Smell & Quim to music with many collaborators to painting. What you see and hear here is just the tip of the iceburg, there really is a lot of it I have 4 CD's worth of music here in front of me. I was in the process of digitising much of his music and removing hiss from ones that were on tape in the run up to him releasing a box set of music and art. Then he died and I carried on with the work, trying to make a compilation, he hadn't quite decided how it would go and then other issues sprang up and all work went on hold. Still - it's about time some of this stuff was available for the listening, that's what her would have wanted, I wish he were here to say which songs I could put up here, I think I will rotate them, I wanted to put some of the Sketches in Steam or Burton Richards up but the files are too big at the mo. He also has hundreds or pictures and paintings not to mentions all the videos appearances and countless life performances he was part of. Please see a more in depth write up by Phil Smith on a Diz Willis sister site; profile.myspace.com/dizwillis for more info.