# Kevin Bloody Wilson

Kevin Bloody Wilson (born Dennis Bryant; 13 February 1947) is an Australian musical comedian who performs comical songs with his heavy Australian English accent and often including sexual themes. He has won one ARIA Music Award.

## Early career

Bryant was born in Bathurst, although he identifies with Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, where he was an electrician in the gold mines.
In the 1970s, Bryant fronted his own band called 'Bryan Dennis and the Country Club'. He also used the name 'Bryan Dennis' when he hosted a country music show on radio 6KG in Kalgoorlie from 1973 to 1980, before he was thrown off air for playing the parody song, "I'm Heaving on a Jet Plane".
He moved to Perth and began playing bawdy songs as a hobby, singing at pubs and Australian rules football clubs. He had adopted the name Kevin Bloody Wilson by 1984, when he put together a cassette of his songs called Your Average Australian Yobbo, which he sold at gigs and by mail order. He managed to sell 22,000 copies of the cassette before it was eventually transferred to LP, where it went on to sell many thousands more.
He is one of Perth's most famous comedians. His humour is regarded by media commentators as politically incorrect. As one of Australia's most successful comedians, he continues to tour and performs an average of 120 concerts worldwide each year.
Wilson is married and his wife Betty comes on tour with him. She sells merchandise at shows and has appeared on guest vocals in a few of his songs, including "Dick'taphone".
Wilson appeared on the popular television show Enough Rope with Andrew Denton in October 2008, which resulted in the show's highest ratings of the year. On the show, he told of how he met his wife Betty, who was originally from Kalgoorlie, but lived in Perth at the time they met. She had returned to the town to visit friends and her brother who still lived there and they met when she attended one of his shows. Betty, who was in the studio audience, told Denton that Wilson was a romantic who regularly bought her flowers.
"The Genie in the Bottle", a country song which Wilson co-wrote with Adam Harvey, spent more than six weeks on the Australian Country Singles chart as well as reaching the number one video spot on the Country Music Television Channel in 2008.

## Discography
### Studio albums

| Year | Album | Peak positions | Certifications |
| Year | Album | AUS | Certifications |
| 1984 | Your Average Australian Yobbo Released: 1984 Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (SBP 8174) Format: LP, cassette | 20 | |
| 1985 | Kev's Back (The Return of the Yobbo) Released: 1985 Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (SBP 8215) Format: LP, cassette, CD (BBCD 100797R) | 8 | ARIA: 4× Platinum |
| 1987 | Born Again Piss Tank Released: October 1987 Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (460432 1) Format: LP, cassette | 16 | ARIA: 2× Platinum |
| 1989 | My Australian Roots Released: May 1989 Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (465428 1) Format: LP, cassette, CD | 25 | |
| 1991 | Let's Call Him ... Kev! Released: November 1991 Label: Both Barrels Music, CBS (469188 2) Format: CD, cassette | 50 | |
| 1993 | Nashville Trash Released: 1993 Label: Both Barrels Music (BB01) Format: CD | — | |
| 1994 | Backout from the Outback Released: 1994 Label: Both Barrels Music (BB05) Format: CD | — | |
| 1996 | Santa's Kummin': Kev's Kristmas Album Released: November 1996 Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD 60896) Format: CD | — | |
| 1998 | Kalgoorlie Love Songs Released: November 1998 Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD 160798) Format: CD | — | |
| 2001 | The Second Kummin' of Kev Released: 2001 Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD 08) Format: CD | — | |
| 2006 | DILLIGAF Released: 2006 Label: Both Barrels Music, Sony Music Australia (BBCD 011006) Format: CD | — | |
| 2009 | Excess All Areas Released: September 2009 Label: Both Barrels Music, Sony Music Australia Format: CD | — | |
| 2013 | Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Released: September 2013 Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD011113) Format: CD, Digital download | — | |
| 2016 | Rides Again Released: 14 October 2016 Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD010916) Format: CD, Digital download | — | |
| 2018 | Kev's Krissmas Vol 2 Released: August 2018 Label: Kevin Bloody Wilson Format: CD, Digital download | — | |
| 2023 | International DILLIGAF Day Released: April 2023 Label: Kevin Bloody Wilson Format: CD, Digital download | — | |

### Live albums

| Year | Album | Peak positions |
| Year | Album | AUS |
| 1995 | Let Loose Live in London Released: 1995 Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD2894) Format: CD | — |
| 2003 | Let Loose Live in the Outback Released: 2003 Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD10) Format: CD | — |
| 2007 | Let Loose Back Home Released: 2007 Label: Both Barrels Music (BBDVD011107) Format: CD/DVD, download | 95 |

### Compilation albums

| Year | Album | Peak positions | Certifications |
| Year | Album | AUS | Certifications |
| 1990 | The Loveable Larrikin Released: 1990 Label: X Rated, Both Barrels Music Format: LP, CD | — | |
| 1990 | Far-Canal Released: 1990 Label: Both Barrels Music Format: LP, CD | — | |
| 1992 | The Worst of Kevin Bloody Wilson Released: 1992 Label: Sony Music (472317 2) Format: CD | — | ARIA: Gold |
| 2004 | 20 Years Of Kev Released: August 2004 Label: Both Barrels Music (BBCD 160704) Format: CD | 64 | ARIA: Gold |
| 2011 | Klassic Kev Released: December 2011 Label: Kevin Bloody Wilson Format: CD, Digital Download | — | |
| 2019 | 35 Years of Kevin Bloody Wilson Released: 26 July 2019 Label: Sony Music Australia (19075979242) Format: Digital Download, CD, streaming | — | |
His songs generally consist of irreverent humour and plenty of swearing with eclectic musical backing.

## ARIA Awards

He has been nominated five times for the ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release at the ARIA Music Awards:
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
| 1987 | Kev's Back | Best Comedy Release | Won |
| 1987 | Kev's Back | Highest Selling Album | Nominated |
| 1990 | My Australian Roots | Best Comedy Release | Nominated |
| 1992 | Let's Call Him Kev | Best Comedy Release | Nominated |
| 1995 | Let Loose Live in London | Best Comedy Release | Nominated |
| 2002 | The Second Kummin' of Kev | Best Comedy Release | Nominated |

## Website

Wilson was the first Australian performing artist to have a website which a friend set up for him in 1993, which has since been a major source of album and product sales. He also runs an internet radio station kevfm.com, which was the first 24-hour adult comedy radio station.

## Daughter

Tammy Jo "Jenny Talia" Bryant has followed in her father's footsteps singing similarly bawdy songs, some of them being reworded Kev songs, but done from a female perspective.