'William 'Bill' Corbett' (born 10 September 1965, Surbiton, Surrey) is a musician, historian, disc jockey 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. For several years he was the 'key-holder' for the Wapping Autonomy Centre. Corbett studied art and photography at Chelsea College of Art from 1982 till 1984, when he dropped out and formed the band 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' which achieved cult status on the anarcho-punk scene in the late 80's.
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, and Chandon has gone on to become one of UK's premier horror film directors with the films Pervarella and Inbred to his name. 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. The punk connection continued in to the new techno scene, seeing Corbett work with D.A.V.E The drummer aka Henry Cullen on the ground-breaking single 'The Big G' considered to be the forerunner of bands The Prodigy, Orbital and The Chemical Brothers. In 1996 he moved to Hong Kong and spent two years working for The Triads following Lee Burridge as resident DJ in the seedy Wan Chai district at The Big Apple. Bill Dup played an eclectic mix of Trance and Techno dance music six nights a week, working from midnight until 10am or beyond and he released remixes for local band, EXP.[1] In 1999 he released the album Dusted Down[2] and played at the Ministry of Sound, Cream, Renaissance and Filthy Society, as well as supporting pioneers like Danny Rampling, Dave Clark and Sasha. 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 and music. In August 2006 his portrait of Bella Freud appeared in Harper's Bazaar. In 2008 he was interviewed by the New York Times while shooting on location in Essaouira, Morocco. Essaouira is a windswept port made famous by visits from Orson Welles and Jimi Hendrix, it now hosts the Essaouira Gnawa festival every year in June.[3] He photographed the band Alabama 3 of The Sopranos fame in 2008 for their CD 'M.O.R.'and in 2010 he photographed Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction for their CD 'We are Volsung'. Although he is not a member of the Colony Room or Gerry's club, he has photographed extensively in both, releasing a book of smokers portraits before the smoking ban came into force in 2007 called; Gerry-Go-Round.
In 2011 he published a book of photographs documenting the demise of the Soho drinking establishment, the Colony Room Club, entitled Behind the Green Door and exhibited them as part of the 'One More for The Road' show at Soho's reading Room Gallery, curated by Carlo Zenone.