William 'Bill' Corbett
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'William 'Bill' Corbett' is a musician, magazine editor, DJ and photographer who lives in London, England.
Corbett was one of the founding members of The Apostles, an anarcho-punk band that formed in Hackney in 1979. He published many anarchist diatribes and fanzines in the early 1980s, such as Precautions essentiales pour la bonne and Luz y Fuerza, and promoted gigs for Crass, Zounds, The Mob, Rudimentary Peni, Flux Of Pink Indians, Primal Chaos and Hagar the Womb. Also he was the key-holder for the Wapping Autonomy Centre from 1981 to 1982. He studied art and photography at Chelsea College of Art from 1982 till 1984, when he dropped out and formed Savage Eden with Julian Portinari (ex Apostle) and Seamus Brady (Crux and ex-IRA H-Block resident). The band were hounded by authorities until their demise in 1987, when Corbett and Portinari formed Pallor with Ben Bethell and Dan Macintyre (another ex-Apostle) The band released one album, Four More Cunts on the Road To Nowhere but a UK tour had to be cancelled after the band were barred from the first four venues on the tour for inciting the crowds to riot.[citation needed] He was often guest session guitarist for bands The Cannibals and The Creepshow.
He was married in July 1987 to Bodil Magdalena Hortlund. The same year he appeared in two of film director Alex Chandon's horror films, Bad Karma and Drillbit, both of which won several awards. In 1990 Corbett became a DJ at the London nightclub Spoon, and from 1992-2004 travelled the world under the name DJ Bill Dup, playing at the Full Moon Party in Ko Pha Ngan, Thailand. In 1996 he moved to Hong Kong and spent two years working for The Triads [1] and released remixes for local band, EXP. In 1999 he released the album Dusted Down and played at the Ministry of Sound, Cream, Renaissance and Filthy Society.[2] In 2002 he played at Tate Britain for the young British artists exhibition and followed this with a tour in 2003 of the United States and Mexico.
In 2004 he returned to photography and now works in the fashion industry. In August 2006 his portrait of Bella Freud appeared in Harpers Bazaar. He is currently working on a new album for release in 2008, provisionally entitled 'Sunset Moonrise'. He is not a member of the Colony Room or Gerry's clubs, but has photographed extensively in both, releasing a book; Gerry-Go-Round in April 2007.
