A long time ago, a long way from anywhere, in a West Australian mining town called Kalgoorlie, the legend of Kevin Bloody Wilson was born. It all started innocently enough - just a guy with too much time on his hands changing the words to other people’s songs, and writing a few of his own, purely for the fun of it. Kev was an electrician for a while, a music teacher for a while, and he even sold whitegoods for a while. But the whole time Kev was doing these jobs he’d find himself walking around humming whatever melody was in his head at that moment. If that melody didn’t already go with some very wrong lyrics, Kev would simply go ahead and invent some.

After a year or so of performing these songs to three miners and a dog in the pubs in and around Kalgoorlie, some of Kev’s mates suggested that he make a recording of his dirty ditties so they could take them away and play them to the rest of their mates.

Next thing you know Kev went and roped his wife Betty and his young kids Travis and TJ into helping him prepare his first batch of Kevin Bloody Wilson cassettes. Kev would pay the kids ten lousy bloody cents for every cassette they labelled up (the kids went along with this quite happily until Betty pointed out that they’d probably make more money as slave labourers making running shoes in Manilla) and when Kev sold 87 of his initial batch of 100 cassettes within a week, he realised he was onto something and decided to take his show on the road. (To the best of my knowledge his kids, now both successful grown-ups in their own individual rights, never did have the presence of mind to sue the old man for the whole ten-cents-a-cassette thing-x80xA6)

Twenty years, countless live gigs and millions of album sales down the track, Kevin Bloody Wilson has not only found his niche, he’s grabbed an esky and a deckchair and he’s made himself really bloody comfortable in it!

Kev’s songs match the Kalgoorlie landscape, dry and unforgiving. These songs are uniquely Australian, and yet year after year, album after album, tour after tour, people from all corners of the globe keep laughing their guts out at Kevin Bloody Wilson’s completely authentic and original body of work.

Kev spends the vast majority of each year touring Australia and the rest of the world. In the last year Kev has extensively toured New South Wales, Victoria, New Zealand, and The UK, as well as doing a few special shows in his home state of Western Australia. Kev loves being on the road, and his uniquely Australian humour seems to translate faultlessly wherever he roams. (It seems a song about your Grandfathers hard-on can be funny in any language!) Kev loves the rhythm of the road: The driving, the new and interesting places and people, and the great song ideas that often come from moments that happen while Kev is on tour. Kev’s favourite travelling companion is his wife Betty, who you may also spot behind the merchandise counter at some of Kev’s shows.

There’s hardly a place on earth Kev hasn’t done a gig in at some stage, so have a good gawk at Kev’s tour calendar, -cos chances are Kev will be playing one of his legendary shows near you sometime soon!

KEVIN BLOODY WILSON'S "EXCESS ALL AREAS"

For over twenty years Kevin Bloody Wilson has been responsible for making more people piss themselves laughing, and Kev’s headed back to town armed with some great new songs and of course the old classics that have made him the comedy legend that he is.

Kev’s been a busy boy lately, writing lots of new songs and hanging out at home, where he has been updating his Myspace and Facebook pages and recording exclusive behind the scenes videos for his fans and posting them at www.kevinbloodywilson.com

The internet has transformed the way artists like Kevin Bloody Wilson can communicate with their audience, and Kev has always kept up with the changes in technology because he loves finding new ways of keeping in touch with his fans. (That, and the fact that he absolutely loves choking his chicken to net porn...) But if you want to experience the real deal, step away from your computer and head out on the town for one of the funniest nights out of your life, and experience Kevin Bloody Wilson live on his "EXCESS ALL AREAS" Tour.

INTRODUCING KEVIN BLOODY WILSON

His songs are as unique as the man himself, with an insight and singalong quality that appeals to all ages and races. They completely cross international boundaries and cultural backgrounds. You’re bound to recognise either yourself or someone you know in a Kevin Bloody Wilson song. His songs are not written with saccharin-sweetened ink and they sound as they are meant to sound. His humour is as hard and dry as his outback heritage. This unique humour was a proven hit with such avid listeners as the late Kerry Packer to tennis stars Lleyton Hewitt and Pat Rafter.

The Kevin Bloody Wilson story started in his hometown of Kalgoorlie with Kev simply performing self-penned compositions for his mates and buddies in bar rooms, pool halls and pubs. In just a few short years, and largely by word of mouth, Kev now plays to sell-out concert venues worldwide. His bar stool philosophies, humour and values have translated instantly and readily from those early outback beginnings to the world’s most prestigious venues, including Las Vegas and the London Palladium, and have earned him hundreds of thousands of loyal fans.

Such has been the phenomenal success of Australia’s outback outlaw, Kevin Bloody Wilson, and his unbelievable popularity, it has propelled him from the outback to international cult status. And yet Kevin Bloody Wilson still writes all his own songs, still doesn’t own a necktie and remains as down-to-earth and as irreverent now as he was in the beginning.

Kevin Bloody Wilson has built up an enormous cult following simply by word of mouth - friends telling friends.

As well as a rigorous travelling schedule Kevin Bloody Wilson has always surfed the cutting edge of technology and now owns a complete commercial recording studio complex. He is also considered an internet pioneer having had a web presence since 1993, the first Australian artist to do so. His internet radio station, kevfm.com, is also the world’s first 24x7 adult comedy radio station attracting in excess of 450,000 hits per week worldwide.

Furtune favours the bold.....and the risk paid off. World tours, album sales and critical acclaim led to Kevin Bloody Wilson becoming a true Australian icon. For a man who is passionate about the bush, the country and its people, surely there is no greater accolade?

It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Kevin Bloody Wilson emerged from his former life as a Kalgoorlie electrician to become the comedian whose cassettes every school kid loved to listen to behind their parents backs. The funny thing is, the parents often had their own copy playing at home while the kids were away!! Kev has always managed to make people laugh, really laugh, the sort of laugh that comes when you know you shouldn’t be laughing but you just can’t help it.

Kev’s brand of uniquely Australian humour has made him an absolute f*****’ legend both in Australia and overseas, and 3-million album sales and thousands of live shows later, it’s time to celebrate and reflect on Kev’s incredible body of work with the release of Kevin Bloody Wilson’s new double CD “20 Years Of Kev”.

Those who are easily offended will make it approximately seventeen seconds into the opening track “I Gave Up Wanking”before they have a coronary. From then on you can expect to be laughing out loud all the way through two decades of hits, including “Manuel The Bandito”, “Grandad’s Got A Bone”and the crowd favourite “Hey Santa Claus”to name but a few.

There is a least one hit from each of Kev’s 13 albums on the 1st disc, reminding the listener just how on-the-mark Kev’s humour has been for the last two decades.

The 2nd disc contains 10 live tracks including “You Can’t Say **** In Canada”, “DILLIGAF”, “The Browneye Medley”, and arguably the most popular song Kevin Bloody Wilson has released to date, “Livin’ Next Door To Alan”. After all of that you may well need to lie down and hold your stomach for a while, but wait, there’s more......

The bonus track on “20 Years Of Kev” is a rousing rendition of “Rootin’ In The Back Of The Ute” performed by Dave Gleeson and The Stilsons. Dave Gleeson says he instantly became a Kevin Bloody Wilson fan the first time he heard “Hey Santa Claus”. “I had all the Kev albums, then years later when I had my own band, The Screaming Jets, and having been a big Kevin Bloody Wilson fan for years, I had no qualms about writing a song which included a breakdown that went “You Fat Rich *****”.