Bill Pritchard biography
Three Months, Three Weeks and Two Days
Three Months, Three Weeks and Two Days art
Bill has certainly been around a bit--his formative Midlands teenage years spent under the bed sheets with his flashlight and Camus, Sartre and all the other Penguins; a fixation with the works of Ray Davies, Ron Nasty and Dirk McQuickly; post-teenage linguistic studies in Sheffield, Bonn and Bordeaux; a spell as a languages teacher in London; two LPs in quick succession for Third Mind Records which firmly established his name in Europe; several successful European tour jaunts; and now, the all important new album.

From the childhood nostalgia of Tommy & Co. to the bittersweet romanticism of Je N'Aime Que Toi; from the kitchen sink drama of Sometimes to the political arena with Kenneth Baker; and from the lost love of Cosy Evenings to the lost hope of Better To Be Bitter, Bill's songs manage to combine the deeply lyrical with the dead commercial while avoiding wordiness and worthiness. It's personal pop music that really has something to say.

Three Months, Three Weeks and Two Days could be proof of the fact that every so often there appears a classic pop album that seems to come from nowhere. This one doesn't of course (Bill's high media profile in France and Belgium disproves this theory), but you would be forgiven for thinking so.

The album is produced by French star Etienne Daho and the track Tommy & Co. features legendary chanteuse Francoise Hardy singing backing harmonies.

 
Nettwerk Records, 1989