fbpx
Wikipedia

Bill Drummond

March 22, 2023

For other persons by the name William Drummond, see William Drummond (disambiguation).

William Ernest Drummond (born 29 April 1953) is a Scottish artist, musician, writer, and record producer. He was a co-founder of the late-1980s avant-garde pop group the KLF and its 1990s media-manipulating successor, the K Foundation, with which he famously burned £1 million in 1994. More recent art activities, carried out under Drummond's banner of Penkiln Burn, include making and distributing cakes, soup, flowers, beds, and shoe-shines. More recent music projects include No Music Day and the international tour of a choir called The17. Drummond is the author of several books about art and music.

Bill Drummond
Drummond in 2011
Born
William Ernest Drummond

(1953-04-29) 29 April 1953 (age 69)
Butterworth, South Africa
Other names
  • King Boy D
  • Time Boy
  • Tenzing Scott Brown
Education
Occupations
  • Artist
  • writer
  • musician
  • music industry manager
Years active1975–present
Musical career
OriginNewton Stewart, Scotland
Labels
Website
  • Penkiln Burn
  • The17
  • Mydeath

Background

William Ernest Drummond[n 1] was born in Butterworth, South Africa,[2][n 2] where his father was a minister for the Church of Scotland.[4] His family moved back to Scotland when he was 18 months old, and his early years were spent in the town of Newton Stewart. He moved to Corby, Northamptonshire at the age of 11. It was here that he first became involved in performing as a musician, initially working with school friends such as Gary Carson and Chris Ward.[5] He attended the University of Northampton and the Art and Design Academy from 1970 to 1973. He later decided that "art should use everything, be everywhere" and that, as an artist, he would "use whatever medium is to hand".[6] He spent two years working as a milkman, gardener, steel worker, nursing assistant, theatre carpenter, and scene painter. Drummond also worked on a trawler.[7][8]

Career

1970s: Illuminatus, Big in Japan, and Zoo

In 1975 Drummond began working at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool as a carpenter and scene painter.[9] In 1976 he was the set designer for the first stage production of The Illuminatus Trilogy,[10][11] a 12-hour performance which opened on 23 November 1976, and which was staged by Ken Campbell's "Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool".[12][13] The production transferred to the National Theatre,[14] and then the Roundhouse, in London.[9] According to Campbell, Drummond became known as "the man who went for Araldite": "In the middle of a tour, Drummond announced he was popping out to get some glue – and never returned."[9][15] Drummond later wrote that none of his career would have happened as it did if not for what he learnt from Campbell, starting with the advice "Bill, don’t bother doing anything unless it is heroic!"[9][16]

After absconding from the Illuminatus! production in London, Drummond returned to Liverpool and co-founded the band Big in Japan.[9][10] Other members included Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood), Budgie (Siouxsie and the Banshees), Jayne Casey (Pink Military/Pink Industry) and Ian Broudie (The Lightning Seeds).[10] After the band's demise, Drummond and another member, his best friend[9] David Balfe, founded Zoo Records. Zoo's first release was Big in Japan's posthumous EP, From Y To Z and Never Again. They went on to act as producers of the debut albums by Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes, both of which Drummond would later manage somewhat idiosyncratically. With Zoo Music Ltd, Drummond and Balfe were also music publishers for Zodiac Mindwarp and The Love Reaction and The Proclaimers. The production team of Drummond and Balfe was christened The Chameleons, who recorded the single "Touch" together with singer Lori Lartey as Lori and the Chameleons[17] and were involved with the production on Echo & the Bunnymen's debut album, released on the Korova label.

1980s: A&R man & solo recording artist

Drummond later took a job in the mainstream music business as an A&R consultant for the label WEA working with, amongst others, Strawberry Switchblade and Brilliant. In July 1986, on his 33 and a third birthday, Drummond repented his corporate involvement and resigned his job by way of a "ringingly quixotic press release": "I will be 33.5 (sic) years old in September, a time for a revolution in my life. There is a mountain to climb the hard way, and I want to see the world from the top..."[n 3] (In an interview in December 1990, Drummond recalled spending half a million pounds at WEA on the band Brilliant – for whom he envisioned massive worldwide success – only for them to completely flop. "At that point I thought 'What am I doing this for?' and I got out.")[18]

Drummond was "obviously very sharp," said WEA chairman Rob Dickens, "and he knew the business. But he was too radical to be happy inside a corporate structure. He was better off working as an outsider."[19]

Later in the year, Drummond issued a solo album, The Man, a country/folk music recording, backed by Australian rock group The Triffids. The album was released on Creation Records[20] and included the sardonic "Julian Cope Is Dead", where he outlined his fantasy of shooting the Teardrop Explodes frontman in the head, to ensure the band's early demise and subsequent legendary status. The song has commonly been seen as a reply to the Cope song "Bill Drummond Said".[21][22] Drummond wrote and performed "The Manager", filmed by Bill Butt[23] in which he lamented the state of the music industry and offered his services at £100 a time to help fix it; one of his complaints was about remixes: "songs have to be written, not layered".[24] The spoken-word recording also appeared as a B-side, and on some compilations as "The Manager's Speech".[23]

The Man received positive reviews – including 4 stars from Q Magazine;[25] and 5 from Sounds Magazine who called the album a "touching if idiosyncratic biographical statement".[26] Drummond intended to focus on writing books once The Man had been issued but, as he recalled in 1990, "That only lasted three months, until I had an[other] idea for a record and got dragged back into it all".[18]

1987–1992: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords and The KLF

Main article: The KLF

While out walking on New Year's Day 1987, Drummond formulated a plan to make a hip-hop record. However, "I wasn't brave enough to go and do it myself", he said. "...although I can play the guitar, and I can knock out a few things on the piano, I knew nothing, personally, about the technology. And, I thought, I knew Jimmy [Cauty], I knew he was a like spirit, we share similar tastes and backgrounds in music and things. So I phoned him up that day and said 'Let's form a band called The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu'. And he knew exactly, to coin a phrase, 'where I was coming from'".[27]

Drummond and Cauty (who Drummond had signed to Food/WEA as a member of Brilliant) released their first single, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu's "All You Need Is Love", in March 1987. This was followed by an album – 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) – in June of the same year, and a high-profile copyright dispute with ABBA and the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society.[28] A second album – Who Killed The JAMs?, also the last album under the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs) name, was released in February 1988.[citation needed]

Later in 1988, Drummond and Cauty released a 'novelty' pop single, "Doctorin' the Tardis" as The Timelords. The song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 12 June, and charted highly in Australia and New Zealand. On the back of this success, the duo self-published a book, The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way).[citation needed]

In late 1988, the duo and released their first singles under the moniker The KLF, "Burn the Bastards" and "Burn the Beat" (both taken from the JAMs' last album). (From late 1987, Drummond and Cauty's independent record label had been named "KLF Communications".) As The KLF, Drummond and Cauty would amass fame and fortune. "What Time Is Love?" – a signature song which they would revisit and revitalise several times in the coming years – saw its first release in July 1988, and its success spawned an album, The "What Time Is Love?" Story, in September 1989.[citation needed]

Chill Out, an ambient house album which had its roots in Cauty's chill-out sessions with The Orb's Alex Paterson, was released in February 1990. Described by The Times as "The KLF's comedown classic",[29] Chill Out was named the fifth best dance album of all time in a 1996 Mixmag feature.[30]

The KLF's commercial success peaked in 1991, with The White Room album and the accompanying "Stadium House" singles, remixes of 1988's "What Time Is Love?", 1989's "3 a.m. Eternal", 1990's "Last Train to Trancentral"; and "Justified and Ancient", a new song based on a sample from 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?)[citation needed]

In 1992, The KLF were awarded the "Best British group" BRIT Award. With grindcore group Extreme Noise Terror, The KLF performed a live "violently antagonistic performance" of "3 a.m. Eternal" at the BRIT Awards ceremony in front of "a stunned music-business audience".[31]

Later in the evening Drummond and Cauty dumped a dead sheep at the entrance to one of the post-ceremony parties.[7] NME listed this appearance at number 4 in their "top 100 rock moments",[32] and, in 2003, The Observer named it the fifth greatest "publicity stunt" in the history of popular music.[33]

On 14 May 1992, The KLF announced their immediate retirement from the music industry and the deletion of their entire back catalogue, an act which associate Scott Piering described as "[throwing] away a fortune".[34]

When he left WEA, Drummond issued an enigmatic press release, this time talking of a "wild and wounded, glum and glorious, shit but shining path" he and Cauty had been following "...these past five years. The last two of which has [sic] led us up onto the commercial high ground—we are at a point where the path is about to take a sharp turn from these sunny uplands down into a netherworld of we know not what."[35][36] There have been numerous suggestions that in 1992 Drummond was at the edge of a nervous breakdown.[34][1] Vox Magazine wrote, for example, that 1992 was "the year of Bill's 'breakdown', when The KLF, perched on the peak of greater-than-ever success, quit the music business, ... [and] machine gunned the tuxedo'd twats in the front row of that year's BRIT Awards ceremony."[37] Drummond himself said that he was on the edge of the "abyss".[38]

1993–1997: K Foundation, burning one million pounds, and other activities with Jimmy Cauty

Main articles: K Foundation and Fuck the Millennium

Despite The KLF's retirement from the music business, Drummond's involvement with Jimmy Cauty was far from over. In 1993, the pair regrouped as the K Foundation, ostensibly a foundation for the arts. They established the K Foundation art award for the "worst artist of the year". The award, worth £40,000, was presented to Rachel Whiteread on 23 November 1993 outside London's Tate Gallery. Ms Whiteread had just accepted the £20,000 1993 Turner Prize award for best British Contemporary artist inside the gallery.[39] The K Foundation award attracted huge interest from the British broadsheet newspapers.[n 4]

Infamy followed when, on 23 August 1994, the K Foundation burnt what remained of The KLF's earnings, one million pounds, at a boathouse on the Scottish island of Jura.[40][41] A film of the event – Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid – was taken on tour, with Drummond and Cauty discussing the incineration with members of the public after each screening. In 2004 Drummond admitted to the BBC that he now regretted burning the money.[42] "It's a hard one to explain to your kids and it doesn't get any easier. I wish I could explain why I did it so people would understand."[43]

On 4 September 1995 the duo recorded "The Magnificent" for The Help Album. In 1997, Drummond and Cauty briefly re-emerged as 2K and K2 Plant Hire Ltd. with various plans to "Fuck the Millennium". K2 Plant Hire's published aim was to "build a massive pyramid containing one brick for every person born in the UK during the 20th century"[44] Members of the public were urged to donate bricks, with 1.5 bricks per Briton being needed to complete the project.[45] Drummond also contributed a short story titled "Let’s Grind, or How K2 Plant Hire Ltd Went to Work" to the book "Disco 2000".[46]

Music post-KLF

In 1996-1997 Bill Drummond did a music project in Finland, with Mark Manning and a selection of Finnish artists.

Drummond's involvement in the music industry has been minimal since his final collaboration with Jimmy Cauty as 2K in 1997.

In 1998, the Scottish Football Association invited Drummond to write and record a theme song for the Scotland national football team's 1998 FIFA World Cup campaign. Drummond decided against doing it (Del Amitri got the job) but he wondered if he had twisted fate by declining, because the other major football songs of that year were made by associates of his: Keith Allen ("Vindaloo") and Ian Broudie ("Three Lions"), two men he had met on the same day when working on Illuminatus! in 1976, and former protege Ian McCulloch.[47]

In 2000, Drummond released 45, a book consisting of a "series of loosely related vignettes forming the rambling diary of one year."[48] 45 also explored Drummond's KLF legacy, and was well received by the press.[49]

Drummond featured on Seeming's 2020 album The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity, performing the spoken-word portion of "Learn to Vanish". It was his first appearance on record in 20 years.[50]

Art activities and the Penkiln Burn

Drummond studied painting at Liverpool School of Art from 1972 to 1973. Following that, he decided that instead of limiting his practice to paint and canvas, as an artist he would use any medium that came to hand. He has said that much of his work since – including the pop-music, book-writing, and The17 choir – has been done as art.[51]

From 1998, Drummond's art activities have been carried out using the brand-name of the Penkiln Burn. This is the name of the river in Scotland upon the banks of which he played and fished as a boy.

In 1995, Drummond bought A Smell of Sulphur in the Wind by Richard Long, for $20,000. In Drummond’s own words, he 'fell in love with Richard Long’s work because' "it was art by walking and doing things on his walks."[52] Five years later, Drummond felt that he was no longer "getting his money's worth" from the photograph.[53] He decided to try to sell it by placing a series of placards around the country. When this failed to result in its sale, in 2001 he cut the photograph and mounting card into 20,000 pieces to sell for $1 each. His plan, upon retrieving the $20,000 in cash, is to walk with it to the remote place in Iceland where Richard Long had made the photograph and bury it in a box beneath the stone circle. He will then take his own photograph of the site, bring it home, frame it, hang it in the same place in his bedroom where the Richard Long hung, and call the new work The Smell of Money Underground. Drummond's books How to be an Artist and a later soft-bound edition titled $20,000 recounts this story.[54][55]

In 2002, Drummond was involved in a controversial exhibition at the deconsecrated St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Liverpool. Drummond contributed a guestbook which asked visitors "Is God a Cunt?".[56] It was later reported that the artwork had been stolen and a £1000 reward offered for its return.[57][58] Drummond himself said that he would answer "no" to his own question: "God is responsible for all the things I love, the speckles on a brown trout; the sound of Angus Young's guitar, the nape of my girlfriend's neck, the song of the blackcap when he returns in Spring. I never blame God for all the shit, for the baby Rwandan slaughtered in a casual genocide, the ever-present wars, drudgery and misery that fills most of our lives."[59]

Several Penkiln Burn projects involve making things and then distributing them. Drummond has created a Soup Line drawn across a map going through Belfast and Nottingham to the edges of the British Isles.[60] Anyone living on the Soup Line may contact Drummond to come to their house and make soup for them, their family and friends.[60] Drummond has also constructed – and encourages others to construct – Cake Circles drawn on maps. Cakes are then made and delivered to people who live within the circle with the words "I have baked you a cake, here it is".[61] Other projects involve Drummond building beds from timber in public places which are then raffled off. In 2011, for the Venice Biennale, Drummond took up shoe-shining on the streets of Venice. Each spring, Drummond gives away 40 bunches of daffodils to strangers on the street in different cities.[62]

Drummond's web-based projects include MyDeath.net, where people can plan their own funeral.[63] Another site, youwhores.com, was meant for anyone to advertise any kind of service at their own set price. Due to misuse though, youwhores.com has become archival only. Still open for contributions is Drummond's website www.openmanifesto.com which "exists to define what art is and art is not."[64] The Open Manifesto site invites definitions of art in 100 words or less.

Drummond was a Director of The Foundry, an arts centre in Shoreditch, London which closed in 2010.[65] He is also owner of The Curfew Tower in Cushendall, Northern Ireland.[66] Via an arts trust called in You We Trust, the Curfew Tower acts as an artists' residency.[66][67]

No Music Day

Main article: No Music Day

In 2005, Drummond announced an annual No Music Day on 21 November. The 22 November is Saint Cecilia day – the Patron Saint of Music – so No Music Day represents a fast before the feast.[68] No Music Day was held between 2005 and 2010. In this time, BBC Radio Scotland observed it by broadcasting no music, including jingles, for 24 hours. Radio Resonance FM also acknowledged it. In 2009 the entire city of Linz, Austria observed No Music Day with the backing of the city mayor; music was not played on local radio stations or in shops, and the cinemas only showed films without music soundtracks.[citation needed]

The17

Drummond's most recent music project is a choir called The17. His first formal performance of The17 was staged with 16 other men in a studio in Leicester in 2004. It followed thoughts about music that Drummond had been having for many years. With the advent of recorded music via the internet, iPods and MP3 players etc. Drummond proclaims that "all recorded music has run its course."[69] The17 creates music that follows no musical history, or necessarily has words, melodies or rhythms. It may be made up of many human voices or none. Performances may only be recorded and played back once and then deleted. The17 can be made up of as many people who want to be a part of it at the time of a performance; they are all then lifetime members.

After the first 17 Scores for The17 Drummond opened the writing process to collaborations with The17 members. The17 now has several thousand members who have carried out performances on Drummond's Coast-to-Coast tour across the UK, and a World Tour which has included Jerusalem, Beijing, Port-au-Prince and Gothenburg. 100 performances REPEAT in the town of Derby as a residency for the new Quad arts centre titled Slice Through Derby, were photographed as an ongoing exhibit at the gallery and published as a 100 piece photoset. Performances and actions in Port-au-Prince for the Ghetto Biennale at the end of 2009 preceded the January Haitian earthquake, and the habitual graffito "Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And All Music Has Disappeared" took on a new resonance in a city with no electricity or infrastructure, rendered suddenly -relatively - musicless. Local artist Claudel Casseus wrote an account of this for Drummond during the reconstruction published as a book Imajine (Penkiln Burn 14, 2011), and Drummond's own feelings on the residency and the17 actions, Haiti and the earthquake form four of the interview questions in Drummond's 100 project originally posed by Radio 4.

The17 is the subject of the 2008 book 17 published by Beautiful Books[70]/PB (Penkiln Burn 12, 2008). This was preceded by a small book SCORES 18-76 (Penkiln Burn 11, 2006) featuring the second batch of works by The17, developed in actions in schools in the North East of England, in May 2006, Performances, scores, tours and Drummond's related graffiti are documented on a website: the17.org.

In 2012 Drummond had a residency in Sheffield at Site Gallery, and the17 were convened at sites around the city, the actions performed here are recounted in the book Ragworts (Penkiln Burn 18, 2012) and led to the instigation of the annual Ragwort Week. The book was published in an edition of 1000 copies, and 100 copies are made available each year and sold only during Ragwort Week.

A performance of The17's SURROUND, originally planned to take place in Damascus, Syria, took place in London on 18 March 2012. Drummond explains in his essay for Treuchet Magazine: 'it would best for all concerned if the Syrian leg of the tri-nation festival was postponed for a few weeks or maybe months, when things would have undoubtedly settled down'.[71]

The Atlantic Archipelago

Between 8-19 April 2012 saw a series of Drummond actions and invocations of The17 in a performance titled The Atlantic Archipelago. This was to mark the conclusion of the 17 project, or at least its curation by Drummond. It began with a performance of Man Bangs a Drum - which would become a staple of his later 25 Paintings tour - on Skegness beach, before heading west along a straight line drawn across a map crossing Matthew St in Liverpool, and ending in Inshmore in Ireland. The17 were summoned at various locations along this line and the preparations for these performances were filmed by director Stefan Schwietert for a film Coast to Coast, and documented by photographer Tracey Moberly for a book of the same name.

On 28 April 2013, the day before his 60th birthday, Drummond took part in what has been billed as the last performance of The17. A seventeen-hour version of Score 1: IMAGINE was performed while standing on a manhole cover at the bottom of Mathew Street in Liverpool.

Between 3 and 8 July - Drummond screened a film of his Atlantic Archipelago project, Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And All Music Has Disappeared along the same 53.1256 degree line of latitude the original performances had been undertaken. Beginning at the home of film and gender theorist Ellen Wright, in Louth, Lincolnshire, with a version of The17 which include musicians Robert Wyatt, Hell Uberend and Dave Formula. before moving on to a dawn screening on Skegness beach, through the various locations featured in the film, taking in The Galway Film Fleadh (the only paid ticketed event on the tour), culminating in a sunset screening at Dún Aonghasa on the west coast of Ireland.

Between dawn on Monday the 4th of July to sunset on Friday 8 July, Bill Drummond will be screening the film at numerous locations along the latitude ofs North.

The 25 Paintings World Tour: 2014–2025

In February 2014, Drummond announced plans for a world tour, beginning under Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham on 13 March 2014 and ending at the same place on 28 April 2025. Taking in twelve cities in twelve different countries, each leg of the tour will last three months, during which he will produce 25 paintings whilst working on other art projects.[72]

A book The 25 Paintings (Penkiln Burn 19; 2014) featured the paintings themselves in their initial states - to be repainted in different cities of the tour, each describing the different art actions that would for his practice during the following years - some new, some well established - and which would replace the 17 in his repertoire. Other paintings and actions are expected to evolve as the tour progresses and the canvasses are reworked.

So far the 25 Paintings Tour has travelled to: 2014: Birmingham, UK 2015: Belgrade, Serbia 2016: Kolkata, India 2018: Lexington, North Carolina, USA and will conclude in 2027: Damascus, Syria

Best Before Death / White Saviour Complex

A film Best Before Death covering the actions (jobs) Bang Drum, Man Made Bed, Make Soup and Man Shines Shoes during the 2016 Kolkata, India and 2018 Lexington, North Carolina legs of the world tour was made by Paul Duane, Robbie Ryan (Kolkata) and Patrick Jordan (Lexington). The finished film had difficulties gaining distribution and festival screenings as it was criticised as being an example of White Saviour Complex. Drummond wrote a play in his Tenzig Scott Brown persona called White Saviour Complex consisting of three acts, two of which formed a dialogue between Drummond as Brown, and the actor Tam Dean Burn playing Drummond, Duane's film formed the second act, and this toured the UK and its script became a book (Penkiln Burn 22, 2019). The DVD Release of Best Before Death (Anti-Worlds, 2019) featured a booklet with a piece written by Drummond called Best Before death and featuring the script for an imaginary film by Tenzing Scott Brown called Bad Wisdom.

Return of The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu

Drummond reunited with Jimmy Cauty in 2017. They returned as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, with a novel - 2023: A Trilogy - and a 3-day event, "Welcome to the Dark Ages".[73][74][75] Cauty confirmed that the duo's work is an ongoing project.[76]

Reviews, accolades and criticism

In 1993, Select magazine published a list of the 100 Coolest People in Pop. Drummond was number one on the list. "What has this giant of coolness not achieved?", they asked: "Like the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Drummond has always been a step ahead of human evolution, guiding us on. Manager of The Teardrop Explodes, co-inventor of ambient and trance house, number one pop star, situationist pagan, folk troubadour, pan-dimensional zenarchist gentleman of leisure...and then, ladies and gentlemen, he THROWS IT ALL AWAY, machine-guns the audience and dumps a dead sheep on the doorstep of the Brit Awards and vanishes to build dry-stone walls. His new 'band' The K Foundation make records but say they won't release them at all until world peace is established. Deranged, inspired, intensely cool."[77]

Also in 1993, an NME piece about the K Foundation found much to praise in Drummond's career, from Zoo Records through to the K Foundation art award: "Bill Drummond's career is like no other... there's been cynicism... and there's been care (no one who didn't love pop music could have made a record so commercial and so Pet Shop Boys-lovely as 'Kylie Said to Jason', or the madly wonderful 'Last Train to Trancentral', or the Tammy Wynette version of 'Justified and Ancient'). There's been mysticism... But most of all there's been a belief that, both in music and life, there's something more."[17]

Charles Shaar Murray wrote in The Independent that "[Bill] Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. Many of his schemes... involve symbolically-weighted acts conducted away from the public gaze and documented only by Drummond himself and his participating comrades. Nevertheless, they are intended to have an effect on a worldful of people unaware that the act in question has taken place. That is magical thinking. Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician..."[78]

In 2001, NME readers voted "the KLF's Art Terrorism" at the Brit Awards in 1992 at number 4 in the "top 100 Rock moments of all time."[79] NME also ranked Drummond as number 17 in its 20 "Greatest Cult Heroes" in 2010.[80]

Art Review's artworld "Power 100" listed Drummond as number 98 in 2003.[81]

Trouser Press has referred to Drummond as a "high-concept joker".[82]

In 2006, Drummond's book 45 was ranked 21 in the Observer's list of "The 50 greatest music books ever".[83] Kitty Empire of the Guardian included 45 in her list of "10 best music memoirs".[84] in 2010. 45 also featured in a 2010 book list compiled by Belle & Sebastian.[85]

BBC Radio 1 in 2006 included Drummond in a survey of "Most Punk Persons".[86] Virgin Media ranked Drummond at number 8 in a list of "Most Eccentric Musicians".[87]

Julian Cope said in 2000, "I have no relationship with this guy. He burned a million pounds which was not all his, and some of it was mine. People should pay off their creditors before they pull intellectual dry-wank stunts like that."[88]

Drummond's 1986 solo album The Man is among Uncut Magazine's 2010 list of "Greatest Lost Albums".[89]

Artistic output

Discography (solo)

  • The Man (Creation Records, 1986)
  • The King of Joy (Creation Records, 1986)

Exhibitions

Bibliography

  • The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way), with Jimmy Cauty as The Timelords (KLF Publications, 1988) ISBN 0-86359-616-9
  • A Bible of Dreams, with Mark Manning (Curfew Press, 1994)[92]
  • Bad Wisdom, with Mark Manning (Penguin Books, 1996; Creation Books, 2003) ISBN 978-0140261189
  • From the Shores of Lake Placid and other stories (Ellipsis, 1998) ISBN 978-1841660004
  • Annual Report to The Mavericks, Writers And Film Festival (Penkiln Burn, 1998) ISBN 978-1841660011
  • 45 (Penkiln Burn, 2000) ISBN 0-316-85385-2
  • How To Be An Artist (Penkiln Burn, 2002) ISBN 978-0954165604
  • Wild Highway, with Mark Manning (Creation Books, 2005) ISBN 978-1840681161
  • Scores 18–76 (Penkiln Burn, 2006)
  • 17 (Beautiful Books, 2008). ISBN 978-1905636266.
  • $20,000 (Penkiln Burn, 2010 – second edition of How To Be An Artist) (Beautiful Books Limited (UK), 2010) ISBN 9781905636846.
  • Man Makes Bed (Penkiln Burn 2011)
  • Imajine by Claudel Casseus with Introduction by Bill Drummond (Penkiln Burn, 2011) ISBN 978-1908238245
  • Man Shines Shoes (Penkiln Burn, 2011)
  • Ragworts (Penkiln Burn, 2012) ISBN 978-0954165673
  • 100 (Penkiln Burn, 2012) ISBN 978-0954165666
  • The 25 Paintings (Penkiln Burn, 2014) ISBN 978-0954165697
  • Bill Drummond-Lecture at Spoiler, Vienna 2002. (Robert Jelinek, Ed.) Der Konterfei 011, 2015, ISBN 978-3-903043-00-8
  • Missionary Or Cannibal? (Penkiln Burn/Blurb, Inc., 2015) ISBN 978-1320488778
  • 2023: A Trilogy, with Jimmy Cauty as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (Faber and Faber, 2017) ISBN 9780571338085
  • As Tenzing Scott Brown: White Saviour Complex, a play (Penkiln Burn, 2019) ISBN 978-1916143500

Projects

Football

Bill Drummond is a fan of Scottish football club Queen of the South, which he says is due to their proximity to his home town of Newton Stewart. "Queen of the South" is also the title of the sixth track on his 1986 album, The Man.[93]

Notes

  1. ^ Drummond's full name is given in "Special K" by William Shaw, GQ magazine, April 1995.[1]
  2. ^ A music encyclopaedia once mistakenly printed that Drummond was born William Butterworth not in Butterworth. This error has been reported, and Drummond's real name confirmed, by, for example, Scotland on Sunday.[3]
  3. ^ Drummond's 1986 press release, quoted by Shaw in GQ magazine, April 1995[1]
  4. ^ See K Foundation art award#Media and art-world reaction for some of the reports.

References

  1. ^ a b c Shaw, William (April 1995). . GQ. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/397
  2. ^ Confirmed by Drummond's official website (link 30 December 2005 at the Wayback Machine)
  3. ^ "Bill Drummond". Scotland on Sunday. Edinburgh. 27 February 2000. p. 22.
  4. ^ Harrison, Andrew (13 June 2008). . The Word. Development Hell Limited. Archived from the original on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 10 October 2009.
  5. ^ McKerron, Ian (1 October 1994). . Daily Express. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/388
  6. ^ . Penkiln Burn. Archived from the original on 27 December 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  7. ^ a b Kelly, Danny (29 February 1992). . New Musical Express. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/297
  8. ^ O'Neill, Declan (21 November 2005). "Bill Drummond: Agent provocateur". The Independent.
  9. ^ a b c d e f Drummond, Bill (18 November 2014). "Bill Drummond: the five lessons I learned from Ken Campbell". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  10. ^ a b c . Q. January 1992. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/271
  11. ^ Drummond, Bill (19 October 1996). "Shelf life: Bill Drummond reviews his own back catalogue". The Independent. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  12. ^ . Gneurosis (interview). 1991. Archived from the original on 12 July 2006.
  13. ^ Hanks, Robert (3 September 2008). "Ken Campbell: Actor, writer and director famed for his epic plays and one-man shows - Obituaries, News". The Independent. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  14. ^ . National Theatre. Archived from the original on 19 November 2009. The National opened theatre-by-theatre, as the building became available. The Lyttelton opened first in March 1976, with a season of plays transferred from the Company's first home, the Old Vic. It was followed by the Olivier in October of that year with Tamburlaine The Great; the Cottesloe opened on 4 March 1977 with Illuminatus!, an eight-hour play by Ken Campbell. The Queen officially opened the National Theatre on 26 October 1976.
  15. ^ McCormick, Neil (11 October 1998). . The Arts. The Daily Telegraph. London. p. 26. Archived from the original on 26 February 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  16. ^ Graham, Ben (1 February 2017). "Embrace The Contradictions: The Strange World Of... The KLF". The Quietus. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  17. ^ a b . NME. 20 November 1993. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/359 passim.
  18. ^ a b Drummond, Bill (December 1990). (Interview). Interviewed by Richard Skinner. BBC Radio 1. Archived from the original on 24 May 2006.
  19. ^ Sharkey, Alix (21 May 1994). . The Guardian Weekend. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/384
  20. ^ "Bill Drummond – The Man (Vinyl, LP, Album) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  21. ^ . Bar-none.com. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  22. ^ Johnston, Graham. . Beefheart.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  23. ^ a b Longmire, Ernie; et al. (2020) [1998]. "Discography: The KLF (including The JAMS, The Timelords, 2K etc.)". from the original on 29 February 2020.
  24. ^ Drummond, Bill (1987). "The Manager". The King of Joy (B-side). Creation Records. 6 minutes in. CRE 39T.
  25. ^ Du Noyer, Paul (December 1986). . Q (Review). Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/483
  26. ^ Wilkinson, Roy (8 November 1986). . Sounds (review). Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/15
  27. ^ Alan Freeman (host); Bill Drummond (interviewed). "It's a Steal - Sampling". The Story of Pop. Episode 48. 31 minutes in. BBC Radio 1.{{cite episode}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) First broadcast in 1994, per "The Story of Pop". BBC Radio 6 Music. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  28. ^ "Thank You for the Music", New Musical Express, 17 October 1987.
  29. ^ Fields, Paddy, "And you thought they were dead", The Times (London) ISSN 0140-0460 , 4 May 2001, Features p2.
  30. ^ Phillips, Dom (1 March 1996). . Mixmag. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/478
  31. ^ McCormick, Neil (2 March 2000). . The Arts. The Daily Telegraph. London. p. 27. Archived from the original on 27 February 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  32. ^ "100 Rock Moments" 17 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine, NME.com. Retrieved 21 April 2006.
  33. ^ Thompson, B. "The 10 greatest publicity stunts", The Observer, 27 September 2003 (link)
  34. ^ a b Shaw, William (July 1992). . Select. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 11 October 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/315
  35. ^ KLF Communications advertisement in New Musical Express, 16 May 1992.
  36. ^ . New Musical Express. 16 May 1992. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 11 October 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/309
  37. ^ Martin, Gavin (December 1996). . Vox. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/430
  38. ^ Drummond, Bill and Mark Manning, Bad Wisdom (ISBN 0-14-026118-4)
  39. ^ Ellison, Mike (24 November 1993). . The Guardian. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/362
  40. ^ Reid, Jim (25 September 1994). . The Observer. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/387
  41. ^ Smith, Andrew (13 February 2000). "Burning Question". The Observer. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  42. ^ McKevitt, Greg (30 April 2004). "What Drummond did next". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  43. ^ "KLF Bill: I regret burning £1m", Sunday Mail (Glasgow), 25 July 2004, p27.
  44. ^ Fortean Times, referencing The Big Issue, 15–21 Sep and The Guardian, 5 November 1997. (link 4 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine).
  45. ^ . NME (News item). 8 November 1997. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/457
  46. ^ Champion, S. (editor), Disco 2000, Sceptre, ISBN 0-340-70771-2, 1998.
  47. ^ Drummond, Bill (27 February 2000). . Sunday Herald. Glasgow. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 25 August 2007.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/553
  48. ^ Maunsell, J.B., The Times (London), 26 February 2000, p22.
  49. ^ For reviews see 45 (book)#Reviews.
  50. ^ "Seeming to release new album featuring The KLF vocalist Bill Drummond". regenmag.com. 29 June 2020.
  51. ^ See interview Apollo Magazine, Belgium March 2010. Or questions 77 to 80, Q&A penkilnburn.com
  52. ^ page ii How To Be An Artist 2002
  53. ^ see page 27 $20,000 2010
  54. ^ Q ARTS | How to be an Artist 11 May 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  55. ^ Drummond, Bill, Job 5, Penkiln Burn 14 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  56. ^ "Artistic or offensive?", Liverpool Daily Post, 20 September 2002, p1.
  57. ^ "Art stolen from church", Liverpool Echo, 1 October 2002, 1st edition p9.
  58. ^ Self, W., "God is in the details", The Independent (London) ISSN 0951-9467 , 14 October 2002, Features p14.
  59. ^ "Artwork that uses obscene language is stolen from Merseyside church", The Independent (London) ISSN 0951-9467 , 1 October 2002, News p5.
  60. ^ a b "'It's not haute cuisine'". Arts. The Guardian. 20 May 2004. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  61. ^ . Penkiln Burn. Archived from the original on 16 December 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  62. ^ Penkiln Burn jobs are detailed at www.penkilnburn.com
  63. ^ Heaney, Mick, "Bill Drummond once burnt Pounds 1m for art's sake. Now he is taking a soupopera to Belfast", Sunday Times (London), 18 April 2004, p18.
  64. ^ "The Open Manifesto". The Open Manifesto. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  65. ^ "The Foundry". Foundry.tv. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  66. ^ a b "Perfect tower for artistic retreat", Arts Diary, The Belfast News Letter, 26 April 1999, p27
  67. ^ Drummond, Bill, Welcome to the Turnly Prize, Penkiln Burn 6 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, June 2005
  68. ^ 16 November 2009, Financial Times, A Day for Savouring the Sound of Silence
  69. ^ Penkiln Burn Poster 59
  70. ^ "Review: 17 by Bill Drummond – Telegraph". The telegraph. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  71. ^ Bill Drummond Presents: SURROUND: Damascus in London, Trebuchet-Magazine 17 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  72. ^ Ben Beaumont-Thomas (14 February 2014). "Bill Drummond announces world tour that will last until 2025 | Culture". theguardian. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  73. ^ Paterson, Colin (23 August 2017). "The KLF return 23 years after bowing out of the music industry". BBC News (video). Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  74. ^ Pilley, Max (24 August 2017). . Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 26 February 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  75. ^ "The KLF: Pop's saboteurs return after 23 years". BBC News. 23 August 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  76. ^ Youngs, Ian (26 November 2018). "KLF's Jimmy Cauty: 'We don't make records, we make pyramids out of dead people'". BBC News. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  77. ^ . Select. September 1993. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/343
  78. ^ Murray, Charles Shaar, The Independent (London), 26 February 2000, p10.
  79. ^ "NME.COM'S TOP 100 ROCK MOMENTS OF ALL TIME". Nme.com. 15 January 2001. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  80. ^ "Pictures of 20 greatest cult heroes – Photos". Nme.com. 16 March 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  81. ^ . Artreview100.com. 22 February 1999. Archived from the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  82. ^ Robbins, Ira. "KLF". Trouser Press. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  83. ^ "The 50 greatest music books ever: 11 – 25". The Guardian.
  84. ^ Empire, Kitty (28 February 2010). "The 10 best…music memoirs". The Guardian.
  85. ^ "Book Clubs announced for December ATP Events – Events – All Tomorrow's Parties". Atpfestival.com. 12 November 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  86. ^ "Radio 1 – Most Punk – Top 20 List". BBC. 24 February 2007. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  87. ^ "Prince – Most eccentric musicians – Music". Virgin Media. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  88. ^ "Julian Cope presents Head Heritage | Julian Cope | Q&A 2000Ce | Cope Musicians & Cohorts". Headheritage.co.uk. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  89. ^ . Scribd.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  90. ^ "#2 Bill Drummond, How to be an Artist". Norwichoutpost.org. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  91. ^ "Bill Drummond, The 25 Paintings". Eastsideprojects.org. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  92. ^ Martin, Gavin (2 November 1994). . NME (Review). Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 5 October 2007.Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/391
  93. ^ "Bill Drummond interview for the official Queen of the South website". Qosfc.com. Retrieved 15 January 2012.

March 22, 2023
bill, drummond, other, persons, name, william, drummond, william, drummond, disambiguation, william, ernest, drummond, born, april, 1953, scottish, artist, musician, writer, record, producer, founder, late, 1980s, avant, garde, group, 1990s, media, manipulatin. For other persons by the name William Drummond see William Drummond disambiguation William Ernest Drummond born 29 April 1953 is a Scottish artist musician writer and record producer He was a co founder of the late 1980s avant garde pop group the KLF and its 1990s media manipulating successor the K Foundation with which he famously burned 1 million in 1994 More recent art activities carried out under Drummond s banner of Penkiln Burn include making and distributing cakes soup flowers beds and shoe shines More recent music projects include No Music Day and the international tour of a choir called The17 Drummond is the author of several books about art and music Bill DrummondDrummond in 2011BornWilliam Ernest Drummond 1953 04 29 29 April 1953 age 69 Butterworth South AfricaOther namesKing Boy DTime BoyTenzing Scott BrownEducationUniversity of NorthamptonArt and Design AcademyOccupationsArtistwritermusicianmusic industry managerYears active1975 presentMusical careerOriginNewton Stewart ScotlandLabelsZooKorovaWEACreationKLF CommunicationsWebsitePenkiln BurnThe17Mydeath Contents 1 Background 2 Career 2 1 1970s Illuminatus Big in Japan and Zoo 2 2 1980s A amp R man amp solo recording artist 2 3 1987 1992 The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu The Timelords and The KLF 2 4 1993 1997 K Foundation burning one million pounds and other activities with Jimmy Cauty 2 5 Music post KLF 2 6 Art activities and the Penkiln Burn 2 6 1 No Music Day 2 7 The17 2 7 1 The Atlantic Archipelago 2 8 The 25 Paintings World Tour 2014 2025 2 8 1 Best Before Death White Saviour Complex 2 9 Return of The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu 3 Reviews accolades and criticism 4 Artistic output 4 1 Discography solo 4 2 Exhibitions 4 3 Bibliography 4 4 Projects 5 Football 6 Notes 7 ReferencesBackground EditWilliam Ernest Drummond n 1 was born in Butterworth South Africa 2 n 2 where his father was a minister for the Church of Scotland 4 His family moved back to Scotland when he was 18 months old and his early years were spent in the town of Newton Stewart He moved to Corby Northamptonshire at the age of 11 It was here that he first became involved in performing as a musician initially working with school friends such as Gary Carson and Chris Ward 5 He attended the University of Northampton and the Art and Design Academy from 1970 to 1973 He later decided that art should use everything be everywhere and that as an artist he would use whatever medium is to hand 6 He spent two years working as a milkman gardener steel worker nursing assistant theatre carpenter and scene painter Drummond also worked on a trawler 7 8 Career Edit1970s Illuminatus Big in Japan and Zoo Edit In 1975 Drummond began working at the Everyman Theatre Liverpool as a carpenter and scene painter 9 In 1976 he was the set designer for the first stage production of The Illuminatus Trilogy 10 11 a 12 hour performance which opened on 23 November 1976 and which was staged by Ken Campbell s Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool 12 13 The production transferred to the National Theatre 14 and then the Roundhouse in London 9 According to Campbell Drummond became known as the man who went for Araldite In the middle of a tour Drummond announced he was popping out to get some glue and never returned 9 15 Drummond later wrote that none of his career would have happened as it did if not for what he learnt from Campbell starting with the advice Bill don t bother doing anything unless it is heroic 9 16 After absconding from the Illuminatus production in London Drummond returned to Liverpool and co founded the band Big in Japan 9 10 Other members included Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood Budgie Siouxsie and the Banshees Jayne Casey Pink Military Pink Industry and Ian Broudie The Lightning Seeds 10 After the band s demise Drummond and another member his best friend 9 David Balfe founded Zoo Records Zoo s first release was Big in Japan s posthumous EP From Y To Z and Never Again They went on to act as producers of the debut albums by Echo amp the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes both of which Drummond would later manage somewhat idiosyncratically With Zoo Music Ltd Drummond and Balfe were also music publishers for Zodiac Mindwarp and The Love Reaction and The Proclaimers The production team of Drummond and Balfe was christened The Chameleons who recorded the single Touch together with singer Lori Lartey as Lori and the Chameleons 17 and were involved with the production on Echo amp the Bunnymen s debut album released on the Korova label 1980s A amp R man amp solo recording artist Edit Drummond later took a job in the mainstream music business as an A amp R consultant for the label WEA working with amongst others Strawberry Switchblade and Brilliant In July 1986 on his 33 and a third birthday Drummond repented his corporate involvement and resigned his job by way of a ringingly quixotic press release I will be 33 5 sic years old in September a time for a revolution in my life There is a mountain to climb the hard way and I want to see the world from the top n 3 In an interview in December 1990 Drummond recalled spending half a million pounds at WEA on the band Brilliant for whom he envisioned massive worldwide success only for them to completely flop At that point I thought What am I doing this for and I got out 18 Drummond was obviously very sharp said WEA chairman Rob Dickens and he knew the business But he was too radical to be happy inside a corporate structure He was better off working as an outsider 19 Later in the year Drummond issued a solo album The Man a country folk music recording backed by Australian rock group The Triffids The album was released on Creation Records 20 and included the sardonic Julian Cope Is Dead where he outlined his fantasy of shooting the Teardrop Explodes frontman in the head to ensure the band s early demise and subsequent legendary status The song has commonly been seen as a reply to the Cope song Bill Drummond Said 21 22 Drummond wrote and performed The Manager filmed by Bill Butt 23 in which he lamented the state of the music industry and offered his services at 100 a time to help fix it one of his complaints was about remixes songs have to be written not layered 24 The spoken word recording also appeared as a B side and on some compilations as The Manager s Speech 23 The Man received positive reviews including 4 stars from Q Magazine 25 and 5 from Sounds Magazine who called the album a touching if idiosyncratic biographical statement 26 Drummond intended to focus on writing books once The Man had been issued but as he recalled in 1990 That only lasted three months until I had an other idea for a record and got dragged back into it all 18 1987 1992 The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu The Timelords and The KLF Edit Main article The KLF While out walking on New Year s Day 1987 Drummond formulated a plan to make a hip hop record However I wasn t brave enough to go and do it myself he said although I can play the guitar and I can knock out a few things on the piano I knew nothing personally about the technology And I thought I knew Jimmy Cauty I knew he was a like spirit we share similar tastes and backgrounds in music and things So I phoned him up that day and said Let s form a band called The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu And he knew exactly to coin a phrase where I was coming from 27 Drummond and Cauty who Drummond had signed to Food WEA as a member of Brilliant released their first single The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu s All You Need Is Love in March 1987 This was followed by an album 1987 What the Fuck Is Going On in June of the same year and a high profile copyright dispute with ABBA and the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society 28 A second album Who Killed The JAMs also the last album under the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu The JAMs name was released in February 1988 citation needed Later in 1988 Drummond and Cauty released a novelty pop single Doctorin the Tardis as The Timelords The song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 12 June and charted highly in Australia and New Zealand On the back of this success the duo self published a book The Manual How to Have a Number One the Easy Way citation needed In late 1988 the duo and released their first singles under the moniker The KLF Burn the Bastards and Burn the Beat both taken from the JAMs last album From late 1987 Drummond and Cauty s independent record label had been named KLF Communications As The KLF Drummond and Cauty would amass fame and fortune What Time Is Love a signature song which they would revisit and revitalise several times in the coming years saw its first release in July 1988 and its success spawned an album The What Time Is Love Story in September 1989 citation needed Chill Out an ambient house album which had its roots in Cauty s chill out sessions with The Orb s Alex Paterson was released in February 1990 Described by The Times as The KLF s comedown classic 29 Chill Out was named the fifth best dance album of all time in a 1996 Mixmag feature 30 The KLF s commercial success peaked in 1991 with The White Room album and the accompanying Stadium House singles remixes of 1988 s What Time Is Love 1989 s 3 a m Eternal 1990 s Last Train to Trancentral and Justified and Ancient a new song based on a sample from 1987 What the Fuck Is Going On citation needed In 1992 The KLF were awarded the Best British group BRIT Award With grindcore group Extreme Noise Terror The KLF performed a live violently antagonistic performance of 3 a m Eternal at the BRIT Awards ceremony in front of a stunned music business audience 31 Later in the evening Drummond and Cauty dumped a dead sheep at the entrance to one of the post ceremony parties 7 NME listed this appearance at number 4 in their top 100 rock moments 32 and in 2003 The Observer named it the fifth greatest publicity stunt in the history of popular music 33 On 14 May 1992 The KLF announced their immediate retirement from the music industry and the deletion of their entire back catalogue an act which associate Scott Piering described as throwing away a fortune 34 When he left WEA Drummond issued an enigmatic press release this time talking of a wild and wounded glum and glorious shit but shining path he and Cauty had been following these past five years The last two of which has sic led us up onto the commercial high ground we are at a point where the path is about to take a sharp turn from these sunny uplands down into a netherworld of we know not what 35 36 There have been numerous suggestions that in 1992 Drummond was at the edge of a nervous breakdown 34 1 Vox Magazine wrote for example that 1992 was the year of Bill s breakdown when The KLF perched on the peak of greater than ever success quit the music business and machine gunned the tuxedo d twats in the front row of that year s BRIT Awards ceremony 37 Drummond himself said that he was on the edge of the abyss 38 1993 1997 K Foundation burning one million pounds and other activities with Jimmy Cauty Edit Main articles K Foundation and Fuck the Millennium Despite The KLF s retirement from the music business Drummond s involvement with Jimmy Cauty was far from over In 1993 the pair regrouped as the K Foundation ostensibly a foundation for the arts They established the K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year The award worth 40 000 was presented to Rachel Whiteread on 23 November 1993 outside London s Tate Gallery Ms Whiteread had just accepted the 20 000 1993 Turner Prize award for best British Contemporary artist inside the gallery 39 The K Foundation award attracted huge interest from the British broadsheet newspapers n 4 Infamy followed when on 23 August 1994 the K Foundation burnt what remained of The KLF s earnings one million pounds at a boathouse on the Scottish island of Jura 40 41 A film of the event Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid was taken on tour with Drummond and Cauty discussing the incineration with members of the public after each screening In 2004 Drummond admitted to the BBC that he now regretted burning the money 42 It s a hard one to explain to your kids and it doesn t get any easier I wish I could explain why I did it so people would understand 43 On 4 September 1995 the duo recorded The Magnificent for The Help Album In 1997 Drummond and Cauty briefly re emerged as 2K and K2 Plant Hire Ltd with various plans to Fuck the Millennium K2 Plant Hire s published aim was to build a massive pyramid containing one brick for every person born in the UK during the 20th century 44 Members of the public were urged to donate bricks with 1 5 bricks per Briton being needed to complete the project 45 Drummond also contributed a short story titled Let s Grind or How K2 Plant Hire Ltd Went to Work to the book Disco 2000 46 Music post KLF Edit In 1996 1997 Bill Drummond did a music project in Finland with Mark Manning and a selection of Finnish artists Drummond s involvement in the music industry has been minimal since his final collaboration with Jimmy Cauty as 2K in 1997 In 1998 the Scottish Football Association invited Drummond to write and record a theme song for the Scotland national football team s 1998 FIFA World Cup campaign Drummond decided against doing it Del Amitri got the job but he wondered if he had twisted fate by declining because the other major football songs of that year were made by associates of his Keith Allen Vindaloo and Ian Broudie Three Lions two men he had met on the same day when working on Illuminatus in 1976 and former protege Ian McCulloch 47 In 2000 Drummond released 45 a book consisting of a series of loosely related vignettes forming the rambling diary of one year 48 45 also explored Drummond s KLF legacy and was well received by the press 49 Drummond featured on Seeming s 2020 album The Birdwatcher s Guide to Atrocity performing the spoken word portion of Learn to Vanish It was his first appearance on record in 20 years 50 Art activities and the Penkiln Burn Edit Drummond studied painting at Liverpool School of Art from 1972 to 1973 Following that he decided that instead of limiting his practice to paint and canvas as an artist he would use any medium that came to hand He has said that much of his work since including the pop music book writing and The17 choir has been done as art 51 From 1998 Drummond s art activities have been carried out using the brand name of the Penkiln Burn This is the name of the river in Scotland upon the banks of which he played and fished as a boy In 1995 Drummond bought A Smell of Sulphur in the Wind by Richard Long for 20 000 In Drummond s own words he fell in love with Richard Long s work because it was art by walking and doing things on his walks 52 Five years later Drummond felt that he was no longer getting his money s worth from the photograph 53 He decided to try to sell it by placing a series of placards around the country When this failed to result in its sale in 2001 he cut the photograph and mounting card into 20 000 pieces to sell for 1 each His plan upon retrieving the 20 000 in cash is to walk with it to the remote place in Iceland where Richard Long had made the photograph and bury it in a box beneath the stone circle He will then take his own photograph of the site bring it home frame it hang it in the same place in his bedroom where the Richard Long hung and call the new work The Smell of Money Underground Drummond s books How to be an Artist and a later soft bound edition titled 20 000 recounts this story 54 55 In 2002 Drummond was involved in a controversial exhibition at the deconsecrated St Peter s Roman Catholic Church Liverpool Drummond contributed a guestbook which asked visitors Is God a Cunt 56 It was later reported that the artwork had been stolen and a 1000 reward offered for its return 57 58 Drummond himself said that he would answer no to his own question God is responsible for all the things I love the speckles on a brown trout the sound of Angus Young s guitar the nape of my girlfriend s neck the song of the blackcap when he returns in Spring I never blame God for all the shit for the baby Rwandan slaughtered in a casual genocide the ever present wars drudgery and misery that fills most of our lives 59 Several Penkiln Burn projects involve making things and then distributing them Drummond has created a Soup Line drawn across a map going through Belfast and Nottingham to the edges of the British Isles 60 Anyone living on the Soup Line may contact Drummond to come to their house and make soup for them their family and friends 60 Drummond has also constructed and encourages others to construct Cake Circles drawn on maps Cakes are then made and delivered to people who live within the circle with the words I have baked you a cake here it is 61 Other projects involve Drummond building beds from timber in public places which are then raffled off In 2011 for the Venice Biennale Drummond took up shoe shining on the streets of Venice Each spring Drummond gives away 40 bunches of daffodils to strangers on the street in different cities 62 Drummond s web based projects include MyDeath net where people can plan their own funeral 63 Another site youwhores com was meant for anyone to advertise any kind of service at their own set price Due to misuse though youwhores com has become archival only Still open for contributions is Drummond s website www openmanifesto com which exists to define what art is and art is not 64 The Open Manifesto site invites definitions of art in 100 words or less Drummond was a Director of The Foundry an arts centre in Shoreditch London which closed in 2010 65 He is also owner of The Curfew Tower in Cushendall Northern Ireland 66 Via an arts trust called in You We Trust the Curfew Tower acts as an artists residency 66 67 No Music Day Edit Main article No Music Day In 2005 Drummond announced an annual No Music Day on 21 November The 22 November is Saint Cecilia day the Patron Saint of Music so No Music Day represents a fast before the feast 68 No Music Day was held between 2005 and 2010 In this time BBC Radio Scotland observed it by broadcasting no music including jingles for 24 hours Radio Resonance FM also acknowledged it In 2009 the entire city of Linz Austria observed No Music Day with the backing of the city mayor music was not played on local radio stations or in shops and the cinemas only showed films without music soundtracks citation needed The17 Edit Drummond s most recent music project is a choir called The17 His first formal performance of The17 was staged with 16 other men in a studio in Leicester in 2004 It followed thoughts about music that Drummond had been having for many years With the advent of recorded music via the internet iPods and MP3 players etc Drummond proclaims that all recorded music has run its course 69 The17 creates music that follows no musical history or necessarily has words melodies or rhythms It may be made up of many human voices or none Performances may only be recorded and played back once and then deleted The17 can be made up of as many people who want to be a part of it at the time of a performance they are all then lifetime members After the first 17 Scores for The17 Drummond opened the writing process to collaborations with The17 members The17 now has several thousand members who have carried out performances on Drummond s Coast to Coast tour across the UK and a World Tour which has included Jerusalem Beijing Port au Prince and Gothenburg 100 performances REPEAT in the town of Derby as a residency for the new Quad arts centre titled Slice Through Derby were photographed as an ongoing exhibit at the gallery and published as a 100 piece photoset Performances and actions in Port au Prince for the Ghetto Biennale at the end of 2009 preceded the January Haitian earthquake and the habitual graffito Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And All Music Has Disappeared took on a new resonance in a city with no electricity or infrastructure rendered suddenly relatively musicless Local artist Claudel Casseus wrote an account of this for Drummond during the reconstruction published as a book Imajine Penkiln Burn 14 2011 and Drummond s own feelings on the residency and the17 actions Haiti and the earthquake form four of the interview questions in Drummond s 100 project originally posed by Radio 4 The17 is the subject of the 2008 book 17 published by Beautiful Books 70 PB Penkiln Burn 12 2008 This was preceded by a small book SCORES 18 76 Penkiln Burn 11 2006 featuring the second batch of works by The17 developed in actions in schools in the North East of England in May 2006 Performances scores tours and Drummond s related graffiti are documented on a website the17 org In 2012 Drummond had a residency in Sheffield at Site Gallery and the17 were convened at sites around the city the actions performed here are recounted in the book Ragworts Penkiln Burn 18 2012 and led to the instigation of the annual Ragwort Week The book was published in an edition of 1000 copies and 100 copies are made available each year and sold only during Ragwort Week A performance of The17 s SURROUND originally planned to take place in Damascus Syria took place in London on 18 March 2012 Drummond explains in his essay for Treuchet Magazine it would best for all concerned if the Syrian leg of the tri nation festival was postponed for a few weeks or maybe months when things would have undoubtedly settled down 71 The Atlantic Archipelago Edit Between 8 19 April 2012 saw a series of Drummond actions and invocations of The17 in a performance titled The Atlantic Archipelago This was to mark the conclusion of the 17 project or at least its curation by Drummond It began with a performance of Man Bangs a Drum which would become a staple of his later 25 Paintings tour on Skegness beach before heading west along a straight line drawn across a map crossing Matthew St in Liverpool and ending in Inshmore in Ireland The17 were summoned at various locations along this line and the preparations for these performances were filmed by director Stefan Schwietert for a film Coast to Coast and documented by photographer Tracey Moberly for a book of the same name On 28 April 2013 the day before his 60th birthday Drummond took part in what has been billed as the last performance of The17 A seventeen hour version of Score 1 IMAGINE was performed while standing on a manhole cover at the bottom of Mathew Street in Liverpool Between 3 and 8 July Drummond screened a film of his Atlantic Archipelago project Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow And All Music Has Disappeared along the same 53 1256 degree line of latitude the original performances had been undertaken Beginning at the home of film and gender theorist Ellen Wright in Louth Lincolnshire with a version of The17 which include musicians Robert Wyatt Hell Uberend and Dave Formula before moving on to a dawn screening on Skegness beach through the various locations featured in the film taking in The Galway Film Fleadh the only paid ticketed event on the tour culminating in a sunset screening at Dun Aonghasa on the west coast of Ireland Between dawn on Monday the 4th of July to sunset on Friday 8 July Bill Drummond will be screening the film at numerous locations along the latitude ofs North The 25 Paintings World Tour 2014 2025 Edit In February 2014 Drummond announced plans for a world tour beginning under Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham on 13 March 2014 and ending at the same place on 28 April 2025 Taking in twelve cities in twelve different countries each leg of the tour will last three months during which he will produce 25 paintings whilst working on other art projects 72 A book The 25 Paintings Penkiln Burn 19 2014 featured the paintings themselves in their initial states to be repainted in different cities of the tour each describing the different art actions that would for his practice during the following years some new some well established and which would replace the 17 in his repertoire Other paintings and actions are expected to evolve as the tour progresses and the canvasses are reworked So far the 25 Paintings Tour has travelled to 2014 Birmingham UK 2015 Belgrade Serbia 2016 Kolkata India 2018 Lexington North Carolina USA and will conclude in 2027 Damascus Syria Best Before Death White Saviour Complex Edit A film Best Before Death covering the actions jobs Bang Drum Man Made Bed Make Soup and Man Shines Shoes during the 2016 Kolkata India and 2018 Lexington North Carolina legs of the world tour was made by Paul Duane Robbie Ryan Kolkata and Patrick Jordan Lexington The finished film had difficulties gaining distribution and festival screenings as it was criticised as being an example of White Saviour Complex Drummond wrote a play in his Tenzig Scott Brown persona called White Saviour Complex consisting of three acts two of which formed a dialogue between Drummond as Brown and the actor Tam Dean Burn playing Drummond Duane s film formed the second act and this toured the UK and its script became a book Penkiln Burn 22 2019 The DVD Release of Best Before Death Anti Worlds 2019 featured a booklet with a piece written by Drummond called Best Before death and featuring the script for an imaginary film by Tenzing Scott Brown called Bad Wisdom Return of The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Edit Drummond reunited with Jimmy Cauty in 2017 They returned as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu with a novel 2023 A Trilogy and a 3 day event Welcome to the Dark Ages 73 74 75 Cauty confirmed that the duo s work is an ongoing project 76 Reviews accolades and criticism EditIn 1993 Select magazine published a list of the 100 Coolest People in Pop Drummond was number one on the list What has this giant of coolness not achieved they asked Like the Monolith in 2001 A Space Odyssey Drummond has always been a step ahead of human evolution guiding us on Manager of The Teardrop Explodes co inventor of ambient and trance house number one pop star situationist pagan folk troubadour pan dimensional zenarchist gentleman of leisure and then ladies and gentlemen he THROWS IT ALL AWAY machine guns the audience and dumps a dead sheep on the doorstep of the Brit Awards and vanishes to build dry stone walls His new band The K Foundation make records but say they won t release them at all until world peace is established Deranged inspired intensely cool 77 Also in 1993 an NME piece about the K Foundation found much to praise in Drummond s career from Zoo Records through to the K Foundation art award Bill Drummond s career is like no other there s been cynicism and there s been care no one who didn t love pop music could have made a record so commercial and so Pet Shop Boys lovely as Kylie Said to Jason or the madly wonderful Last Train to Trancentral or the Tammy Wynette version of Justified and Ancient There s been mysticism But most of all there s been a belief that both in music and life there s something more 17 Charles Shaar Murray wrote in The Independent that Bill Drummond is many things and one of those things is a magician Many of his schemes involve symbolically weighted acts conducted away from the public gaze and documented only by Drummond himself and his participating comrades Nevertheless they are intended to have an effect on a worldful of people unaware that the act in question has taken place That is magical thinking Art is magic and so is pop Bill Drummond is a cultural magician 78 In 2001 NME readers voted the KLF s Art Terrorism at the Brit Awards in 1992 at number 4 in the top 100 Rock moments of all time 79 NME also ranked Drummond as number 17 in its 20 Greatest Cult Heroes in 2010 80 Art Review s artworld Power 100 listed Drummond as number 98 in 2003 81 Trouser Press has referred to Drummond as a high concept joker 82 In 2006 Drummond s book 45 was ranked 21 in the Observer s list of The 50 greatest music books ever 83 Kitty Empire of the Guardian included 45 in her list of 10 best music memoirs 84 in 2010 45 also featured in a 2010 book list compiled by Belle amp Sebastian 85 BBC Radio 1 in 2006 included Drummond in a survey of Most Punk Persons 86 Virgin Media ranked Drummond at number 8 in a list of Most Eccentric Musicians 87 Julian Cope said in 2000 I have no relationship with this guy He burned a million pounds which was not all his and some of it was mine People should pay off their creditors before they pull intellectual dry wank stunts like that 88 Drummond s 1986 solo album The Man is among Uncut Magazine s 2010 list of Greatest Lost Albums 89 Artistic output EditDiscography solo Edit The Man Creation Records 1986 The King of Joy Creation Records 1986 Exhibitions Edit How to be an Artist OUTPOST Norwich 2004 90 Ragworts Site Gallery Sheffield 2012 The 25 Paintings Eastside Projects Birmingham 2014 91 Bibliography Edit The Manual How to Have a Number One the Easy Way with Jimmy Cauty as The Timelords KLF Publications 1988 ISBN 0 86359 616 9 A Bible of Dreams with Mark Manning Curfew Press 1994 92 Bad Wisdom with Mark Manning Penguin Books 1996 Creation Books 2003 ISBN 978 0140261189 From the Shores of Lake Placid and other stories Ellipsis 1998 ISBN 978 1841660004 Annual Report to The Mavericks Writers And Film Festival Penkiln Burn 1998 ISBN 978 1841660011 45 Penkiln Burn 2000 ISBN 0 316 85385 2 How To Be An Artist Penkiln Burn 2002 ISBN 978 0954165604 Wild Highway with Mark Manning Creation Books 2005 ISBN 978 1840681161 Scores 18 76 Penkiln Burn 2006 17 Beautiful Books 2008 ISBN 978 1905636266 20 000 Penkiln Burn 2010 second edition of How To Be An Artist Beautiful Books Limited UK 2010 ISBN 9781905636846 Man Makes Bed Penkiln Burn 2011 Imajine by Claudel Casseus with Introduction by Bill Drummond Penkiln Burn 2011 ISBN 978 1908238245 Man Shines Shoes Penkiln Burn 2011 Ragworts Penkiln Burn 2012 ISBN 978 0954165673 100 Penkiln Burn 2012 ISBN 978 0954165666 The 25 Paintings Penkiln Burn 2014 ISBN 978 0954165697 Bill Drummond Lecture at Spoiler Vienna 2002 Robert Jelinek Ed Der Konterfei 011 2015 ISBN 978 3 903043 00 8 Missionary Or Cannibal Penkiln Burn Blurb Inc 2015 ISBN 978 1320488778 2023 A Trilogy with Jimmy Cauty as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Faber and Faber 2017 ISBN 9780571338085 As Tenzing Scott Brown White Saviour Complex a play Penkiln Burn 2019 ISBN 978 1916143500Projects Edit This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it March 2020 The17 No Music DayFootball EditBill Drummond is a fan of Scottish football club Queen of the South which he says is due to their proximity to his home town of Newton Stewart Queen of the South is also the title of the sixth track on his 1986 album The Man 93 Notes Edit Drummond s full name is given in Special K by William Shaw GQ magazine April 1995 1 A music encyclopaedia once mistakenly printed that Drummond was born William Butterworth not in Butterworth This error has been reported and Drummond s real name confirmed by for example Scotland on Sunday 3 Drummond s 1986 press release quoted by Shaw in GQ magazine April 1995 1 See K Foundation art award Media and art world reaction for some of the reports References Edit a b c Shaw William April 1995 Special K GQ Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 397 Confirmed by Drummond s official website link Archived 30 December 2005 at the Wayback Machine Bill Drummond Scotland on Sunday Edinburgh 27 February 2000 p 22 Harrison Andrew 13 June 2008 Bill Drummond The Man Who Wants To End Recorded Music The Word Development Hell Limited Archived from the original on 12 September 2009 Retrieved 10 October 2009 McKerron Ian 1 October 1994 Duo Burn 1M in Midnight Madness Daily Express Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 388 About Penkiln Burn Archived from the original on 27 December 2011 Retrieved 15 January 2012 a b Kelly Danny 29 February 1992 Welcome to the Sheep Seats New Musical Express Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 297 O Neill Declan 21 November 2005 Bill Drummond Agent provocateur The Independent a b c d e f Drummond Bill 18 November 2014 Bill Drummond the five lessons I learned from Ken Campbell The Guardian Retrieved 10 March 2020 a b c Big in Japan Where are they now Q January 1992 Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 271 Drummond Bill 19 October 1996 Shelf life Bill Drummond reviews his own back catalogue The Independent Retrieved 27 February 2020 Ken Campbell Gneurosis interview 1991 Archived from the original on 12 July 2006 Hanks Robert 3 September 2008 Ken Campbell Actor writer and director famed for his epic plays and one man shows Obituaries News The Independent Retrieved 4 March 2020 Denys Lasdun s National Theatre National Theatre Archived from the original on 19 November 2009 The National opened theatre by theatre as the building became available The Lyttelton opened first in March 1976 with a season of plays transferred from the Company s first home the Old Vic It was followed by the Olivier in October of that year with Tamburlaine The Great the Cottesloe opened on 4 March 1977 with Illuminatus an eight hour play by Ken Campbell The Queen officially opened the National Theatre on 26 October 1976 McCormick Neil 11 October 1998 Yes this is the cutting edge of rave music The Arts The Daily Telegraph London p 26 Archived from the original on 26 February 2016 Retrieved 11 March 2020 Graham Ben 1 February 2017 Embrace The Contradictions The Strange World Of The KLF The Quietus Retrieved 10 March 2020 a b Tate tat and arty NME 20 November 1993 Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 359 passim a b Drummond Bill December 1990 Saturday Sequence Interview Interviewed by Richard Skinner BBC Radio 1 Archived from the original on 24 May 2006 Sharkey Alix 21 May 1994 Trash Art amp Kreation The Guardian Weekend Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 384 Bill Drummond The Man Vinyl LP Album at Discogs Discogs com Retrieved 13 August 2012 Bill Drummond Bar none com Archived from the original on 6 February 2012 Retrieved 15 January 2012 Johnston Graham Clicks and Klangs Bill Drummond 45 Beefheart com Archived from the original on 7 February 2012 Retrieved 15 January 2012 a b Longmire Ernie et al 2020 1998 Discography The KLF including The JAMS The Timelords 2K etc Archived from the original on 29 February 2020 Drummond Bill 1987 The Manager The King of Joy B side Creation Records 6 minutes in CRE 39T Du Noyer Paul December 1986 The Man Q Review Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 483 Wilkinson Roy 8 November 1986 The Man Sounds review Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 15 Alan Freeman host Bill Drummond interviewed It s a Steal Sampling The Story of Pop Episode 48 31 minutes in BBC Radio 1 a href Template Cite episode html title Template Cite episode cite episode a CS1 maint uses authors parameter link First broadcast in 1994 per The Story of Pop BBC Radio 6 Music Retrieved 9 March 2020 Thank You for the Music New Musical Express 17 October 1987 Fields Paddy And you thought they were dead The Times London ISSN 0140 0460 4 May 2001 Features p2 Phillips Dom 1 March 1996 50 greatest dance albums No 5 Chill Out The KLF Mixmag Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 478 McCormick Neil 2 March 2000 My name is Bill and I m a popaholic The Arts The Daily Telegraph London p 27 Archived from the original on 27 February 2016 Retrieved 11 March 2020 100 Rock Moments Archived 17 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine NME com Retrieved 21 April 2006 Thompson B The 10 greatest publicity stunts The Observer 27 September 2003 link a b Shaw William July 1992 Who Killed The KLF Select Archived via the Library of Mu on 11 October 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 315 KLF Communications advertisement in New Musical Express 16 May 1992 Timelords gentlemen please New Musical Express 16 May 1992 Archived via the Library of Mu on 11 October 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 309 Martin Gavin December 1996 The Chronicled Mutineers Vox Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 430 Drummond Bill and Mark Manning Bad Wisdom ISBN 0 14 026118 4 Ellison Mike 24 November 1993 Terror strikes at the Turner Prize Art at its very best or worst The Guardian Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 362 Reid Jim 25 September 1994 Money to burn The Observer Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 387 Smith Andrew 13 February 2000 Burning Question The Observer Retrieved 21 March 2020 McKevitt Greg 30 April 2004 What Drummond did next BBC News BBC Retrieved 18 August 2013 KLF Bill I regret burning 1m Sunday Mail Glasgow 25 July 2004 p27 Fortean Times referencing The Big Issue 15 21 Sep and The Guardian 5 November 1997 link Archived 4 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine 2K Brickin it NME News item 8 November 1997 Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 457 Champion S editor Disco 2000 Sceptre ISBN 0 340 70771 2 1998 Drummond Bill 27 February 2000 A Cure For Nationalism Sunday Herald Glasgow Archived via the Library of Mu on 25 August 2007 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 553 Maunsell J B The Times London 26 February 2000 p22 For reviews see 45 book Reviews Seeming to release new album featuring The KLF vocalist Bill Drummond regenmag com 29 June 2020 See interview Apollo Magazine Belgium March 2010 Or questions 77 to 80 Q amp A penkilnburn com page ii How To Be An Artist 2002 see page 27 20 000 2010 Q ARTS How to be an Artist Archived 11 May 2005 at the Wayback Machine Drummond Bill Job 5 Penkiln Burn Archived 14 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine Artistic or offensive Liverpool Daily Post 20 September 2002 p1 Art stolen from church Liverpool Echo 1 October 2002 1st edition p9 Self W God is in the details The Independent London ISSN 0951 9467 14 October 2002 Features p14 Artwork that uses obscene language is stolen from Merseyside church The Independent London ISSN 0951 9467 1 October 2002 News p5 a b It s not haute cuisine Arts The Guardian 20 May 2004 Retrieved 14 March 2020 Penkiln Burn Penkiln Burn Archived from the original on 16 December 2011 Retrieved 15 January 2012 Penkiln Burn jobs are detailed at www penkilnburn com Heaney Mick Bill Drummond once burnt Pounds 1m for art s sake Now he is taking a soupopera to Belfast Sunday Times London 18 April 2004 p18 The Open Manifesto The Open Manifesto Retrieved 15 January 2012 The Foundry Foundry tv Retrieved 15 January 2012 a b Perfect tower for artistic retreat Arts Diary The Belfast News Letter 26 April 1999 p27 Drummond Bill Welcome to the Turnly Prize Penkiln Burn Archived 6 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine June 2005 16 November 2009 Financial Times A Day for Savouring the Sound of Silence Penkiln Burn Poster 59 Review 17 by Bill Drummond Telegraph The telegraph Retrieved 29 September 2015 Bill Drummond Presents SURROUND Damascus in London Trebuchet Magazine Archived 17 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Ben Beaumont Thomas 14 February 2014 Bill Drummond announces world tour that will last until 2025 Culture theguardian Retrieved 28 July 2014 Paterson Colin 23 August 2017 The KLF return 23 years after bowing out of the music industry BBC News video Retrieved 27 February 2020 Pilley Max 24 August 2017 The Ice Kream Van Kometh The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Return Drowned in Sound Archived from the original on 26 February 2020 Retrieved 26 February 2020 The KLF Pop s saboteurs return after 23 years BBC News 23 August 2017 Retrieved 26 February 2020 Youngs Ian 26 November 2018 KLF s Jimmy Cauty We don t make records we make pyramids out of dead people BBC News Retrieved 26 February 2020 Cool like what Select September 1993 Archived via the Library of Mu on 16 September 2016 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 343 Murray Charles Shaar The Independent London 26 February 2000 p10 NME COM S TOP 100 ROCK MOMENTS OF ALL TIME Nme com 15 January 2001 Retrieved 13 August 2012 Pictures of 20 greatest cult heroes Photos Nme com 16 March 2010 Retrieved 13 August 2012 2003 The ArtReview Power 100 Artreview100 com 22 February 1999 Archived from the original on 1 September 2012 Retrieved 13 August 2012 Robbins Ira KLF Trouser Press Retrieved 15 January 2012 The 50 greatest music books ever 11 25 The Guardian Empire Kitty 28 February 2010 The 10 best music memoirs The Guardian Book Clubs announced for December ATP Events Events All Tomorrow s Parties Atpfestival com 12 November 2010 Retrieved 13 August 2012 Radio 1 Most Punk Top 20 List BBC 24 February 2007 Retrieved 13 August 2012 Prince Most eccentric musicians Music Virgin Media Retrieved 13 August 2012 Julian Cope presents Head Heritage Julian Cope Q amp A 2000Ce Cope Musicians amp Cohorts Headheritage co uk Retrieved 13 August 2012 50 Greatest Lost Albums UNCUT Mag May 2010 Scribd com Archived from the original on 13 September 2014 Retrieved 13 August 2012 2 Bill Drummond How to be an Artist Norwichoutpost org Retrieved 24 August 2021 Bill Drummond The 25 Paintings Eastsideprojects org Retrieved 24 August 2021 Martin Gavin 2 November 1994 A Bible of Dreams NME Review Archived via the Library of Mu on 5 October 2007 Wikipedia WikiProject The KLF LibraryOfMu 391 Bill Drummond interview for the official Queen of the South website Qosfc com Retrieved 15 January 2012 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bill Drummond amp oldid 1139140930, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.