William 'Bill' Corbett
| William John Corbett | |
|---|---|
| Born |
10 September 1965 Surbiton, Surrey, England |
| Residence | London |
| Other names | Bill Dup |
| Education | William Ellis School; Middle Temple |
| Occupation | Photographer, author |
| Known for | The Master of the Ceremonies |
William 'Bill Dup' Corbett (born 10 September 1965, Surbiton, Surrey) is an English disk jockey, photographer, historian and former musician who lives in London, England. He has also written a book on the Shakespeare authorship question.
Corbett was one of the founding members and original vocalist 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 until 1984, when he dropped out and formed the band Savage Eden with ex Apostle Julian Portinari 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 80s.
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. Chandon went on to become one of the 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". In 1996 he moved to Hong Kong and spent two years working for The Triads 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. He released remixes for local band EXP.
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