Podcast appearances and mentions of Bill Drummond

The Farm are touring again this summer and have just made their first album for 31 years (with the same-line-up). This sparky and wide-ranging conversation with Peter Hooton stops off at the following … … the advice Mark E Smith gave him when they were interviewed by Select magazine. … “Suedeheads v Trogs and Greebos”: early ‘70s tribal warfare in Bootle. … seeing Cockney Rebel, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Genesis at the Liverpool Empire. … the death of old heroes – “you imagined Bowie was always going to be there”. … backstage with the Clash in Paris and why they were the Farm's role models. … Bill Drummond's attempt to remodel them “in tracksuits with hard dogs”. … how the death of John Lennon made him start writing. … the use of All Together Now as a football anthem – from everyone to Everton to Euros 2004 to a disastrous campaign by the Labour Party - “but the Qatar World Cup was a bridge too far”. … touring with Mick Jones (“the Pied Piper”) for the Hillsborough 96 Campaign. … his school band, Breakwind - “the forerunners of Half Man Half Biscuit” – and being in the cast of Oliver!. …. his guided music tours of Liverpool and the places they visit. … and why The Farm has “omni-appeal – a band who look like they're from a street corner”. Also in the mix: Big Audio Dynamite, Deaf School, Nile Rodgers, Roger Eagle and Cliff Richard on Top Of The Pops. Buy tickets and the album Let The Music (Take Control) here: https://thefarmmusic.co.uk/Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear

The Farm are touring again this summer and have just made their first album for 31 years (with the same-line-up). This sparky and wide-ranging conversation with Peter Hooton stops off at the following … … the advice Mark E Smith gave him when they were interviewed by Select magazine. … “Suedeheads v Trogs and Greebos”: early ‘70s tribal warfare in Bootle. … seeing Cockney Rebel, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Genesis at the Liverpool Empire. … the death of old heroes – “you imagined Bowie was always going to be there”. … backstage with the Clash in Paris and why they were the Farm's role models. … Bill Drummond's attempt to remodel them “in tracksuits with hard dogs”. … how the death of John Lennon made him start writing. … the use of All Together Now as a football anthem – from everyone to Everton to Euros 2004 to a disastrous campaign by the Labour Party - “but the Qatar World Cup was a bridge too far”. … touring with Mick Jones (“the Pied Piper”) for the Hillsborough 96 Campaign. … his school band, Breakwind - “the forerunners of Half Man Half Biscuit” – and being in the cast of Oliver!. …. his guided music tours of Liverpool and the places they visit. … and why The Farm has “omni-appeal – a band who look like they're from a street corner”. Also in the mix: Big Audio Dynamite, Deaf School, Nile Rodgers, Roger Eagle and Cliff Richard on Top Of The Pops. Buy tickets and the album Let The Music (Take Control) here: https://thefarmmusic.co.uk/Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear

The Farm are touring again this summer and have just made their first album for 31 years (with the same-line-up). This sparky and wide-ranging conversation with Peter Hooton stops off at the following … … the advice Mark E Smith gave him when they were interviewed by Select magazine. … “Suedeheads v Trogs and Greebos”: early ‘70s tribal warfare in Bootle. … seeing Cockney Rebel, the Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Genesis at the Liverpool Empire. … the death of old heroes – “you imagined Bowie was always going to be there”. … backstage with the Clash in Paris and why they were the Farm's role models. … Bill Drummond's attempt to remodel them “in tracksuits with hard dogs”. … how the death of John Lennon made him start writing. … the use of All Together Now as a football anthem – from everyone to Everton to Euros 2004 to a disastrous campaign by the Labour Party - “but the Qatar World Cup was a bridge too far”. … touring with Mick Jones (“the Pied Piper”) for the Hillsborough 96 Campaign. … his school band, Breakwind - “the forerunners of Half Man Half Biscuit” – and being in the cast of Oliver!. …. his guided music tours of Liverpool and the places they visit. … and why The Farm has “omni-appeal – a band who look like they're from a street corner”. Also in the mix: Big Audio Dynamite, Deaf School, Nile Rodgers, Roger Eagle and Cliff Richard on Top Of The Pops. Buy tickets and the album Let The Music (Take Control) here: https://thefarmmusic.co.uk/Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Follow Fr Alex on X @alexdjfrost order his book here https://www.waterstones.com/book/our-daily-bread/father-alex-frost/alastair-campbell/9780008556556 Follow Paul on X @MrPaulSimpson1 his website is here https://www.paul-simpson.co.uk/ order his book here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Revolutionary-Spirit-Post-Punk-Exorcism-Teardrop/dp/1911036831 Simpson's career begins alongside fellow Liverpool luminaries Ian McCulloch, Bill Drummond, Will Sergeant, Pete Wylie, Pete Burns, and Holly Johnson at the infamous Eric's club, where, in 1976, he finds himself at the birth of the city's second great musical explosion. He co-founds and christens the neo-psychedelic pop group The Teardrop Explodes with Julian Cope but walks out of the band just as they are about to break big and goes to work in a tearoom instead. He then forms The Wild Swans, the indie-band of choice for literary-minded teens in the early 1980s, and Care with Ian Broudie of The Lightning Seeds, sharing a flat with a seventeen-year-old Courtney Love along the way. Marriage, fatherhood, tropical illness, and divorce follow, interspersed with artistic collaborations with Bill Drummond and members of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, among others. Following an onstage reunion with Cope at the Royal Festival Hall, Simpson discovers that seven thousand miles away, in the Philippines, he is considered a musical god. Presidential suites, armed-guards, police escorts you couldn't make it up, and, incredibly, he does' t need to. Revolutionary Spirit is the story of a musician driven by an unerring belief that artistic integrity will bring its own rewards. It concludes with an exorcism of sorts as Simpson finally rids himself of the debilitating demon of psychological depression that has, from the age of nine, run like malware in the background of his life.

Our guest in Episode 27 is the musician, artistic director and all-round Liverpool legend, Jayne Casey.  She formed the short-lived but influential 70's band Big In Japan which boasted Ian Brodie, Holly Johnson, Bill Drummond and Budgie in its ranks. Then she founded Pink Military and Pink Industry before finding herself at the epicentre of the dance music explosion of the 90's as part of the CREAM empire.  Her two-volume autobiography is out in 2025 and if it's anything like this episode of Misadventure in Music with Ian Prowse and Mick Ord it will be a real firecracker. Enjoy

Jez Willis in conversation with David Eastaugh http://utahsaints.com/ Utah Saints were described as "the first true stadium house band" by the KLF's Bill Drummond, though their music is difficult to place into one genre. The dance group originally met as music promoters and DJs for the Mix Nightclub in Harrogate in the early 1990s. They began as MDMA, featuring two former The Cassandra Complex members Jez Willis and Keith Langley, along with Bobby Rae and guitarist Martin Scott. Willis started The Utah Saints with the addition of Tim Garbutt

“The one where we say the sentence 'a really angry Egyptian who just wanted to fill the pyramids with piss'” Just one of the episode titles we brainstormed this week - others included: "The one where Rob admits he'd hide a dead pet to prevent not getting a shag" "The one where we add Anon Opin to the show which is like adding horse to your supermarket lasagne - it's a delicious meat but it's not what you paid for" "The one where we write new jingles, muck with the format and mention the KLF & Phil Collins" "The one where we share unsubstantiated gossip about a comedian so rich they have a butler" (Ok, maybe we'll use that one for the show graphic) It's hard doing episode names because it need to be both honest AND give a reason for you to listen. Anyway, it's a good episode, we think. The new sections are: 1. Confessions that most caught our eyes 2. Just ones that make me laugh 3. Highest rated 4. Anon_Opin bonus round 5. Best comments This replaces the idea of doing a top ten, so it's shorter more digestible chunks, that's the theory, or is it copy from a dog food advert? Regardless, here's our fav fesses from the show: "Each time I was at Coventry station, I'd buy a first class single to Birmingham International, which cost £2.10. Then make use of the free hot drinks and biscuits in the first class lounge. A lot cheaper than the station cafe. Lounge now closed, I'm probably responsible." "Dry liner here and on every new build, I used to piss in an empty bottle and put it in the wall cavity then board it up and I wasn't the only person to do this. So basically all the new builds around sports city, them nice apartments near Man City's ground are full of piss." "Whenever I stay away from home with work, which is about every other week, I try and book different hotels to my colleagues. That way I don't have to listen to work chat at breakfast and work chat at dinner time. I've had enough of that at work, oddly enough, you boring fucks." "Mrs had told me she wanted sex later. Chased kids to bed early and locked the house up before heading upstairs. Found the cat, that I'd not seen all day, was dead behind the couch. Knew this would upset the Mrs, so no sex. Ignored cat til the next day." "Me and the wife have been married for over 20 years and decided to try something new. Long story short, I ended up watching her having sex with a guy. Fast forward 6 months, he now lives with us and I sleep in the spare room." BYE AND SEE YOU NEXT WEEK YOU BUNCH OF HORRORS Rob ------- Producer: Will Fitzpatrick tempotalker.com

Episode 124 Trippy Trance Music Origins Playlist   Track Time Start Time Introduction –Thom Holmes 07:14 00:00 The KLF, “What Time Is Love?” from What Time Is Love? (Pure Trance 1) (1988 KLF Communications). Kopyright Liberation Front (KLF), a duo comprised of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond. Cauty was born in Devon, England; Drummond was born in South Africa but grew up in the Dumfries & Galloway area of Scotland. 07:06 07:14 Sven Väth, “Ritual of Life” from Accident In Paradise (1992 Eye Q Records). Music by Sven Väth. Internationally known DJ / producer from Germany. 13:13 14:17 Sven Väth, “Caravan of Emotions” from Accident In Paradise (1992 Eye Q Records). Music by Sven Väth. Internationally known DJ / producer from Germany. 12:22 27:24 Oliver Lieb, “Dimension X” from  Constellation (1993 Recycle or Die). Frankfurt based DJ & producer Oliver Lieb is involved in the production of electronic music since 1988. 16:35 39:36 Pete Namlook & Dr. Atmo, “Trip“ from Silence (1993 Rising High Records). 20:09 56:14 Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue, “Liquid Shade” from Shades Of Orion (1993 Fax +49-69/450464). 20:43 01:16:17 Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue, “Biotrip” from Shades Of Orion (1993 Fax +49-69/450464). 24:09 01:36:56   Opening background music: Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue, “Ethereal Being” from 2350 Broadway 4 (2007 Fax +49-69/450464). Composed, programmed, and played by Pete Namlook and Tetsu Inoue. (07:00) Opening and closing sequences voiced by Anne Benkovitz. Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations.  

Paul Simpson's story is one wild ride and it's all revealed in his memoir titled Revolutionary Spirit: A Post-Punk Exorcism. Part memoir, part social history, Revolutionary Spirit is the poignant, often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musician's scenic route to fame and artistic validation. If Morrissey was the Oscar Wilde of the 1980s indie scene, Simpson was its William Blake, a self destructive genius so lost in mystical visions of a new Arcadia that he couldn't meet the rent. Simpson's career goes back to 1976, when he finds himself at the birth of Liverpool's second great musical explosion. Along the way, he co-founds and christens the neo-psychedelic pop group The Teardrop Explodes, shares a flat with a teenage Courtney Love, and forms The Wild Swans, who burn bright and brief, in the process recording one of the all-time great cult hit singles, ‘Revolutionary Spirit'. Marriage, fatherhood, and tropical illness follow, interspersed with artistic collaborations with Bill Drummond and members of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, among others. Eventually Simpson discovers that seven thousand miles away, in the Philippines, he is considered a musical god. Presidential suites, armed guards, police escorts—you couldn't make it up, and, incredibly, he doesn't need to. Here's here today to tell his story.Purchase a copy of Revolutionary Spirit: A Post-Punk Exorcism Episode Playlist Paul Simpson's official websiteFollow Paul Simpson on XFollow The Wild Swans Facebook---------- BookedOnRock.com The Booked On Rock YouTube Channel Follow The Booked On Rock with Eric Senich:FACEBOOKINSTAGRAMTIKTOKX Find Your Nearest Independent Bookstore Contact The Booked On Rock Podcast: thebookedonrockpodcast@gmail.com The Booked On Rock Music: “Whoosh” by Crowander / “Last Train North” & “No Mercy” by TrackTribe

In 2019, Elvis Presley Enterprises threatened to deconstruct Graceland and move it to Saudi Arabia, Tokyo, or whoever was the highest bidder. Artist, writer, KLF member and money burner - Bill Drummond - realised something had to be done. Bill's relationship with Northern Ireland began before his relationship with Elvis - but at some junction, these two relationships were bound to collide. It seems the Curfew Tower at the junction of the crossroads in the village of Cushendall in the Glens of Antrim is where this collision will be taking place. Producer: Conor Garrett

Paul Simpson's band The Wild Swans burned briefly and brightly in the flourishing Merseyside music scene of the early eighties.  They had one celebrated single in the indie charts but disbanded acrimoniously having failed to replicate the commercial success of their contemporaries like Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, OMD, China Crisis, Dead Or Alive and  Wah! . They say the best stories can always be found in the corners and around the edges of life and Paul's book 'Revolutionary Spirit - A Post-Punk Exorcism' is a case in point. It's a classic of its kind...highly praised by book critics and musicians such as Will Sergent and Bill Drummond. Which won't come as a surprise to people who know him because Paul's a born storyteller.  'Revolutionary Spirit' tells us what it's really like to be in a band, but it's also an authentic slice of social history of life from a vibrant music scene with a seemingly endless list of larger-than-life characters. And plenty of genuinely laugh-out-loud moments. Paul's tells his story in the new episode of the Misadventures in Music podcast with Ian Prowse and Mick Ord.

  https://www.paul-simpson.co.uk/the-wild-swans/ https://www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/product/paul-simpson/revolutionary-spirit-a-post-punk-exorcism-the-teardrop-explodes-care-the-wild-swans-and-beyond Part memoir, part social history, Revolutionary Spirit is the poignant, often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musician's scenic route to fame and artistic validation, and marks the arrival of an original literary voice. If Morrissey was the Oscar Wilde of the 1980s indie scene, Simpson was its William Blake; a self-destructive genius so lost in mystical visions of a new arcadia that he couldn't meet the rent. Simpson's career begins alongside fellow Liverpool luminaries Ian McCulloch, Bill Drummond, Will Sergeant, Pete Wylie, Pete Burns, and Holly Johnson at the infamous Eric's club, where, in 1976, he finds himself at the birth of the city's second great musical explosion. He co-founds and christens the neo-psychedelic pop group The Teardrop Explodes with Julian Cope but walks out of the band just as they are about to break big and goes to work in a tearoom instead. He then forms The Wild Swans, the indie-band of choice for literary-minded teens in the early 1980s, and Care with Ian Broudie of The Lightning Seeds, sharing a flat with a seventeen-year-old Courtney Love along the way.

John Higgs' brilliant and wide-ranging book 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned A Million Pounds' came out ten years ago and just keeps on selling. It sold initially to the fans who bought their records. Then to those absorbed by the fringe figures in their mythology - Ken Campbell, Alan Moore, Robert Anton Wilson, the Discordians. And then to people who just wanted a staggering and barely believable story about the attacks by two free-wheeling cultural terrorists on the worlds of art and music at the end of the 20th century. It sold so well in fact that it's just been republished in a 10th Anniversary edition with additional material.John Higgs is an exceptional speaker as this pod demonstrates and talks here about the outer reaches of their extravagantly lunatic strategies - the ABBA court case, the dead sheep, the pagan rituals on Jura, the collaboration with Tammy Wynette - and how many backfired on them and why Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty have barely seen each other in almost 30 years. This podcast was recorded in front of an enthralled audience at 21Soho in London on October 30th 2023.Order the 10th anniversary edition here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/KLF-Chaos-Burned-Million-Pounds/dp/139961035XTickets for Word In Your Ear live at 21Soho on November 27th here: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ZOthfatjxiSubscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Higgs' brilliant and wide-ranging book 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned A Million Pounds' came out ten years ago and just keeps on selling. It sold initially to the fans who bought their records. Then to those absorbed by the fringe figures in their mythology - Ken Campbell, Alan Moore, Robert Anton Wilson, the Discordians. And then to people who just wanted a staggering and barely believable story about the attacks by two free-wheeling cultural terrorists on the worlds of art and music at the end of the 20th century. It sold so well in fact that it's just been republished in a 10th Anniversary edition with additional material.John Higgs is an exceptional speaker as this pod demonstrates and talks here about the outer reaches of their extravagantly lunatic strategies - the ABBA court case, the dead sheep, the pagan rituals on Jura, the collaboration with Tammy Wynette - and how many backfired on them and why Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty have barely seen each other in almost 30 years. This podcast was recorded in front of an enthralled audience at 21Soho in London on October 30th 2023.Order the 10th anniversary edition here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/KLF-Chaos-Burned-Million-Pounds/dp/139961035XTickets for Word In Your Ear live at 21Soho on November 27th here: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ZOthfatjxiSubscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Higgs' brilliant and wide-ranging book 'The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned A Million Pounds' came out ten years ago and just keeps on selling. It sold initially to the fans who bought their records. Then to those absorbed by the fringe figures in their mythology - Ken Campbell, Alan Moore, Robert Anton Wilson, the Discordians. And then to people who just wanted a staggering and barely believable story about the attacks by two free-wheeling cultural terrorists on the worlds of art and music at the end of the 20th century. It sold so well in fact that it's just been republished in a 10th Anniversary edition with additional material.John Higgs is an exceptional speaker as this pod demonstrates and talks here about the outer reaches of their extravagantly lunatic strategies - the ABBA court case, the dead sheep, the pagan rituals on Jura, the collaboration with Tammy Wynette - and how many backfired on them and why Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty have barely seen each other in almost 30 years. This podcast was recorded in front of an enthralled audience at 21Soho in London on October 30th 2023.Order the 10th anniversary edition here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/KLF-Chaos-Burned-Million-Pounds/dp/139961035XTickets for Word In Your Ear live at 21Soho on November 27th here: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ZOthfatjxiSubscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"The Beatles gave us a continuing soundtrack of unparalleled charm and reassurance", Derek Taylor said. "As long as they kept on delivering fresh songs along with the morning milk, everything was right in our optimistic world". It happened again on Thursday. Is the old magic still there?Also on the menu in this week's podcast...... Fact or fiction? The extravagant adventures of Bill Drummond and why burning £1m still haunts the KLF.... does it matter if musicians falsify their past? Paging Buffy St. Marie, Sixto Rodriguez, Seasick Steve...... why calling the Beatles "the original boy band" is so ridiculous and wrong and how their story fires our desire to believe.... how Lucinda Williams beat the autocue system.... Crowded House, the strange tale of 'Woodface' and the track that kept them off American radio for two years.... why Peter Jackson's 'Now And Then' video is like "fan fiction".... Giles Martin's theories about producing music the way people remember it sounding (and why he was sacked by Martin Scorsese and then re-hired a few weeks later).... and - in other piping hot news - the man behind 'Manuel and His Music of the Mountains' and the tax problems of the Singing Nun!Tickets for Word In Your Ear live at 21 Soho on November 27th here: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ZOthfatjxiSubscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"The Beatles gave us a continuing soundtrack of unparalleled charm and reassurance", Derek Taylor said. "As long as they kept on delivering fresh songs along with the morning milk, everything was right in our optimistic world". It happened again on Thursday. Is the old magic still there?Also on the menu in this week's podcast...... Fact or fiction? The extravagant adventures of Bill Drummond and why burning £1m still haunts the KLF.... does it matter if musicians falsify their past? Paging Buffy St. Marie, Sixto Rodriguez, Seasick Steve...... why calling the Beatles "the original boy band" is so ridiculous and wrong and how their story fires our desire to believe.... how Lucinda Williams beat the autocue system.... Crowded House, the strange tale of 'Woodface' and the track that kept them off American radio for two years.... why Peter Jackson's 'Now And Then' video is like "fan fiction".... Giles Martin's theories about producing music the way people remember it sounding (and why he was sacked by Martin Scorsese and then re-hired a few weeks later).... and - in other piping hot news - the man behind 'Manuel and His Music of the Mountains' and the tax problems of the Singing Nun!Tickets for Word In Your Ear live at 21 Soho on November 27th here: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ZOthfatjxiSubscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"The Beatles gave us a continuing soundtrack of unparalleled charm and reassurance", Derek Taylor said. "As long as they kept on delivering fresh songs along with the morning milk, everything was right in our optimistic world". It happened again on Thursday. Is the old magic still there?Also on the menu in this week's podcast...... Fact or fiction? The extravagant adventures of Bill Drummond and why burning £1m still haunts the KLF.... does it matter if musicians falsify their past? Paging Buffy St. Marie, Sixto Rodriguez, Seasick Steve...... why calling the Beatles "the original boy band" is so ridiculous and wrong and how their story fires our desire to believe.... how Lucinda Williams beat the autocue system.... Crowded House, the strange tale of 'Woodface' and the track that kept them off American radio for two years.... why Peter Jackson's 'Now And Then' video is like "fan fiction".... Giles Martin's theories about producing music the way people remember it sounding (and why he was sacked by Martin Scorsese and then re-hired a few weeks later).... and - in other piping hot news - the man behind 'Manuel and His Music of the Mountains' and the tax problems of the Singing Nun!Tickets for Word In Your Ear live at 21 Soho on November 27th here: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ZOthfatjxiSubscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early - and ad-free! - access to all of our content!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The KLF, aka The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu were the best selling singles band in the world for a period in the 1990s. Their last single featured Tammy Wynette, the "First Lady of Country Music", in what would be her last chart topping hit. They were pioneers in sampling and house music, but you've likely never heard of them. Why? Because in 1992, after being honored at the Brit awards, they fired a machine gun full of blanks into the crowd, deleted their entire catalog, and resurfaced a short time later only to tour a film of the two members of the KLF, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, methodically lighting their last one million pounds on fire in an abandoned house in remote Scotland, then they disappeared back into the ether (not exactly, but it's a better story that way). The KLF are, whatever else they might be,  are an example of just what you can get away with when you get wrapped up in Discordianism, the real/fake religion that worships Eris, the goddess of chaos, invented the illuminati, and which some suspect had something to do with the assassination of JFK. It's all very silly. But most importantly, The KLF absolutely rule.  We need money to burn, and you can help us do that while getting access to our bonus series The Corkboard Bizarre, as well as our private Discord server where we do most of our online hanging out by supporting us on Patreon https://patreon.com/thenonsensebazaar

Debra Smith, Randy Hardy, Bill Drummond, and Steve Wright recorded an info-taining conversation live on-stage at NWPPA's 83rd Annual Conference and Membership Meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. Debra hosts the three former Administrators of the Bonneville Power Administration who continue to engage in energy policy. The discussion ranges from greatest regrets to reasons for optimism, and proudest moments. At the end Paul Dockery joins to facilitate an energy inspired game called Energy Enthusiasm Distilled.The episode was edited prior to the news of Debra Smith's surgery. For updates on her recovery you can find updates on Caring Bridge. Her electric utility enthusiast friends wish her a speedy and full recovery!You can find the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Share with friends that are electric utility enthusiasts, like us!Public Power Underground, for electric utility enthusiasts! Public Power Underground, it's work to watch!

Today, my guest is Will Storr. Will is an award-winning writer, teacher, and consultant. He's the author of six critically acclaimed books, including the novels ‘The Hunger' and ‘The Howling of Killian Lone' and the Sunday Times bestseller ‘The Science of Storytelling.' He joined us today to talk about his book, ‘The Science of Storytelling," which is based on research in psychology and neuroscience.You cannot understand others unless you see things from their perspective. Good storytelling gives you much-needed character perspective and helps you understand what they are going through and why they are like that. Starting the conversation, we talk about how empathy could be created toward the character in the readers' minds.Will explains the reason for the readers to show empathy towards characters with flaws rather than perfect characters. They want a character who is learning from their mistakes and fighting for what they believe in.This podcast episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking to understand the underlying psychology that drives compelling storytelling. [08.26] Storytelling – You have to get into their shoes to understand how they feel. Starting the conversation, Will shares how good storytelling can show the perspective of the characters.[15.00] Living the experience – The ability to make the reader live through the experience is the superpower of good storytelling.[25.47] The protagonist – Will explains the reason for readers to empathize with the protagonist in stories rather than repel them.[33.45] Status – We talk about how cruel people are toward powerful business people, celebrities, politicians, royalty, etc.[40.00] External and internal - In good storytelling, you can see how people change internally due to things that happen externally.[45.05] Wants vs. needs - People want a million things, but what they really want are three things: survival, connection, and status.[55.26] Human tribes - gossip controls human behavior within the human tribe.[01.05.55] Being a hero - Being a hero means that when something terrible comes your way, you get through it and grow.[01.11.38] Five-act structure - The five acts that show the full transformation of a characterResourcesConnect with WillWebsite - http://willstorr.com/LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/will-storr/ Twitter - twitter.com/wstorr Instagram - instagram.com/williamstorr/ Book by WillThe Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better Book by Bill Drummond and Mark ManningBad Wisdom: The Lighthouse at the Top of the World

Encountering the cheerful ping-pong bats of conversation this week you'll find … … the most unprepossessing rock band on God's green earth. … Ed Sheeran v Marvin Gaye – “the case continues”. But does anybody genuinely copy anyone else these days? … Springsteen and Michelle Obama and their irresistible thirst for publicity.   … the return of the Stack Waddy game: Spencer Birtwistle? Wilfred Mott? … Bernard Cribbins sitcom character or former member of the Fall? … Santana's Caravanserai still sounds like it was made yesterday. … what Paul McCartney and Coldplay were paid to play Glastonbury. … if you tell people they'll like things they tend to look for reasons to disagree but can we (cautiously) recommend the Australian comedy Colin From Accounts? … Happy 70th, Bill Drummond. We remember his deafening ‘retirement' exit at the BRITS in 1992 and his exotic activities since. … the delicate rhythms of the funniest lines by PG Wodehouse.   … a chilling stat involving football academies. … Harry Belafonte, the original “singer and activist”, and the time he was in a drama class with Walter Matthau and Marlon Brando. … plus Shakespeare, a light-fingered Noel Gallagher and amplified busking.------------Tickets for Word In The Park in London on June 3rd here!: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-happy-return-of-word-in-the-park-tickets-576193870377------------Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to https://nordvpn.com/yourear to get up a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 months for free! It's completely risk free with Nord's 30 day money-back guarantee!------------Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early and ad-free access to all of our content!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Encountering the cheerful ping-pong bats of conversation this week you'll find … … the most unprepossessing rock band on God's green earth. … Ed Sheeran v Marvin Gaye – “the case continues”. But does anybody genuinely copy anyone else these days? … Springsteen and Michelle Obama and their irresistible thirst for publicity.   … the return of the Stack Waddy game: Spencer Birtwistle? Wilfred Mott? … Bernard Cribbins sitcom character or former member of the Fall? … Santana's Caravanserai still sounds like it was made yesterday. … what Paul McCartney and Coldplay were paid to play Glastonbury. … if you tell people they'll like things they tend to look for reasons to disagree but can we (cautiously) recommend the Australian comedy Colin From Accounts? … Happy 70th, Bill Drummond. We remember his deafening ‘retirement' exit at the BRITS in 1992 and his exotic activities since. … the delicate rhythms of the funniest lines by PG Wodehouse.   … a chilling stat involving football academies. … Harry Belafonte, the original “singer and activist”, and the time he was in a drama class with Walter Matthau and Marlon Brando. … plus Shakespeare, a light-fingered Noel Gallagher and amplified busking.------------Tickets for Word In The Park in London on June 3rd here!: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-happy-return-of-word-in-the-park-tickets-576193870377------------Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to https://nordvpn.com/yourear to get up a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 months for free! It's completely risk free with Nord's 30 day money-back guarantee!------------Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early and ad-free access to all of our content!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Encountering the cheerful ping-pong bats of conversation this week you'll find … … the most unprepossessing rock band on God's green earth. … Ed Sheeran v Marvin Gaye – “the case continues”. But does anybody genuinely copy anyone else these days? … Springsteen and Michelle Obama and their irresistible thirst for publicity.   … the return of the Stack Waddy game: Spencer Birtwistle? Wilfred Mott? … Bernard Cribbins sitcom character or former member of the Fall? … Santana's Caravanserai still sounds like it was made yesterday. … what Paul McCartney and Coldplay were paid to play Glastonbury. … if you tell people they'll like things they tend to look for reasons to disagree but can we (cautiously) recommend the Australian comedy Colin From Accounts? … Happy 70th, Bill Drummond. We remember his deafening ‘retirement' exit at the BRITS in 1992 and his exotic activities since. … the delicate rhythms of the funniest lines by PG Wodehouse.   … a chilling stat involving football academies. … Harry Belafonte, the original “singer and activist”, and the time he was in a drama class with Walter Matthau and Marlon Brando. … plus Shakespeare, a light-fingered Noel Gallagher and amplified busking.------------Tickets for Word In The Park in London on June 3rd here!: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-happy-return-of-word-in-the-park-tickets-576193870377------------Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to https://nordvpn.com/yourear to get up a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 months for free! It's completely risk free with Nord's 30 day money-back guarantee!------------Subscribe to Word In Your Ear on Patreon for early and ad-free access to all of our content!: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Matt and Pete are joined by writer, editor and comedian Donna Scott. We talk her editing for Alan Moore, the antics of Bill Drummond, her style of comedy and her great impression of Jen from the IT crowd... if you know you know. You can find Doinna here: https://donna-scott.co.uk/ @wishusdonna And as always you can download this podcast and all the rest on any good podcasting site. Merch: https://geek-pride.creator-spring.com/? Tip us: https://streamelements.com/geekpridetv/tip  

With their unauthorized sampling, outrageous PR stunts, and signature ice cream van, the KLF set out to blow up the music industry. Pairing electric guitars with house beats, rapping with new age lyricism, and rave culture with the art world, the mysterious U.K. duo of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty were all about breaking rules and getting away with it.    They reached their crazy sonic peak when they teamed up with country icon Tammy Wynette for the 1992 dance-pop hit “Justified & Ancient,” which became an unlikely global smash. Their response to their newfound fame? Just as fans thought they'd arrived at the fictitious Mu Mu land at the center of the song, the group abandoned music altogether and vanished, deleting their entire catalog.   In this episode, we explore the KLF's wild rise and fall, from their doomed road trip to meet ABBA, to their infamous BRIT Awards performance in which Drummond took a machine gun and fired blanks into the audience, to their mind-boggling decision to film themselves burning their earnings—a shocking one million pounds.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2022 has been a stellar year for music books – you'll know this if you listen to the podcast regularly, I've interviewed the authors who've penned many of the best. And though I haven't quite got around to compiling my own favourites of the year list, somewhere towards the top of said list is Exit Stage Left… The Curious Afterlife of Popstars by Nick Duerden. Nick's book came out in paperback last week, it includes new interviews with the likes of – deep breath - Bob Geldof, Shaun Ryder, Robbie Williams, Roisin Murphy, Stewart Copeland, Billy Bragg, Wendy James, Alex Kapranos, Joan Armatrading, Leo Sayer, Gary Lightbody, Lisa Maffia, Tim Booth, Bill Drummond, Rufus Wainwright, David Gray, and Justin Hawkins - so I thought it high time I got him on the podcast to talk about what happens when the bright light of fame fades… drug addiction, bankruptcy, depression and divorce… but truth be told, what Nick found out in researching the book, and what I found out here, wasn't anywhere near as miserable as you might imagine. A lot of what follows is inspiring stuff. Heads up; Some of the audio is a bit scratchy in this episode – Nick's wearing one of those headset microphones that makes him look a little bit like Madonna in the eighties. But I haven't had many people on the podcast more interesting than he this year. This was a conversation I really enjoyed and I hope you do too. Join the Substack!

A foolproof way to hit number 1 is what the Time Lords—AKA the JAMS, AKA the KLF—promised the readers of “The Manual,” their 1988 book. After all, they had just done it, with the insipid brilliance of their Gary Glitter Meets Dr. Who mashup “Doctorin' the Tardis.” And if they could do hack it, so could you, right? But if you did…would it even matter? Today, we're talking through the careers of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, following them on their remarkable journey into the dark heart of pop music as they moved from fake-rap pirates to stadium-ambient pioneers. And yet, even as the duo found fame, fortune and respect for their work, they discovered that all was (quite literally) ashes and dust, ultimately retreating into silence. Were they right? It's a beyond-wild true story that asks a terrifying question: What if music isn't enough?    Subscribe to our newsletter! Follow us on Twitter! Read "The KLF: Chaos, magic and the band who burned a million pounds" by John Higgs      

The newest of the new.  That's what our podcast brings you, sometimes, anyway, and this episode features four bangers from brand-spankin' 2022.   Three of the four offer some "fusion" elements of one kind and another, and the other Mike keeps at arm's length because it edges him into the Jackie attack zone, and long-time listeners know that's not where he likes to be.  Also, the boys threaten to eat Pandas, so there's that.  Harish Raghaven – IN TENSE; Joy Lapps – GIRL IN THE YARD;  Brian Landrus – RED LIST; Billy Drummond – VALSE SINISTRE. 

In July of 1980 Echo & the Bunnymen released their debut album. Recorded over the course of about three weeks and produced by Bill Drummond, David Balfe, and Ian Broudie, the album is considered one of the finer debut records in the 80s. Let's talk Echo & the Bunnymen, Crocodiles!

For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as thought-provoking human interest stories like Moondust by Andrew Smith, and books by Jon Ronson, Louis Theroux and Stuart Maconie. A quirky, thought-provoking look at the curious afterlife of pop stars. Nick Duerden has spent many years interviewing the most famous musicians on the planet. Without exception, they are at their most interesting when they've peaked, and when they are on their way down. In many ways, this is when these former idols are at their most heroic, too, because they reveal themselves not only to be humane and sensitive, but also still driven to create, to fulfil their lingering dreams, to refuse to live quietly. Some sustain themselves on the nostalgia circuit. Others continue to beaver away in the studio, no longer Abbey Road so much as the garden shed. The desire for adulation is a light that never goes out. We live in a culture obsessed by the notion of fame—the heedless pursuit of it, the almost obligatory subsequent fallout. But what's it like to actually achieve it, and what's it like when fame abruptly passes, and shifts, as it does, onto someone else? These are tales of heroin addiction, bankruptcy, depression, divorce—but also of optimism, a genuine love of the craft, humility and hope. All of which makes Exit Stage Left a fascinating, laugh-out-loud funny and often shocking look at what happens when the brightest of stars fall down to earth. Featuring brand-new interviews with the likes of: Bob Geldof, Shaun Ryder, Robbie Williams, Roisin Murphy, Stewart Copeland, Billy Bragg, Wendy James, Alex Kapranos, Joan Armatrading, Leo Sayer, Gary Lightbody, Lisa Maffia, Tim Booth, Bill Drummond, Rufus Wainwright, David Gray and Justin Hawkins.

Bill Drummond, Dan Catchpole, Karen Heim, and Paul Dockery talk about the latest in public power and public-power-adjacent news, including Lineworker Appreciation Day, solar developers betting on RTO development, what's going on with the battery supply chain, and jumpstarting interregional transmission!08:45 - Arin Reports with Karen Reporting14:10 - Lineworker Appreciation Day21:11 - solar developers betting on RTO development31:08 - a bunch of battery stories CAISO is developing a new participation model for energy storage resources a Southern California Edison's energy storage project is facing delays Rivian Chief Executive Officer, RJ Scaringe has a warning Supply chain issues facing batteries 41:21 - DOE's $2.5 billion Transmission Jump Start Program50:01 - TL;DR the rest of the news in “Energy West, lite” K.C. Mehaffey Rick Adair Linda Daily Paulson Rick Adair Abigail Sawyer “News Roundup” Albuquerque Journal You can find our merch on shopify. Remember to share this with any friends you have that are electric utility enthusiasts like us!Public Power Underground, for electric utility enthusiasts! Public Power Underground, where you're valued and appreciated.

For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as thought-provoking human interest stories like Moondust by Andrew Smith, and books by Jon Ronson, Louis Theroux and Stuart Maconie. A quirky, thought-provoking look at the curious afterlife of pop stars. Nick Duerden has spent many years interviewing the most famous musicians on the planet. Without exception, they are at their most interesting when they've peaked, and when they are on their way down. In many ways, this is when these former idols are at their most heroic, too, because they reveal themselves not only to be humane and sensitive, but also still driven to create, to fulfil their lingering dreams, to refuse to live quietly. Some sustain themselves on the nostalgia circuit. Others continue to beaver away in the studio, no longer Abbey Road so much as the garden shed. The desire for adulation is a light that never goes out. We live in a culture obsessed by the notion of fame—the heedless pursuit of it, the almost obligatory subsequent fallout. But what's it like to actually achieve it, and what's it like when fame abruptly passes, and shifts, as it does, onto someone else? These are tales of heroin addiction, bankruptcy, depression, divorce—but also of optimism, a genuine love of the craft, humility and hope. All of which makes Exit Stage Left a fascinating, laugh-out-loud funny and often shocking look at what happens when the brightest of stars fall down to earth. Featuring brand-new interviews with the likes of: Bob Geldof, Shaun Ryder, Robbie Williams, Roisin Murphy, Stewart Copeland, Billy Bragg, Wendy James, Alex Kapranos, Joan Armatrading, Leo Sayer, Gary Lightbody, Lisa Maffia, Tim Booth, Bill Drummond, Rufus Wainwright, David Gray and Justin Hawkins.

For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as thought-provoking human interest stories like Moondust by Andrew Smith, and books by Jon Ronson, Louis Theroux and Stuart Maconie. A quirky, thought-provoking look at the curious afterlife of pop stars. Nick Duerden has spent many years interviewing the most famous musicians on the planet. Without exception, they are at their most interesting when they've peaked, and when they are on their way down. In many ways, this is when these former idols are at their most heroic, too, because they reveal themselves not only to be humane and sensitive, but also still driven to create, to fulfil their lingering dreams, to refuse to live quietly. Some sustain themselves on the nostalgia circuit. Others continue to beaver away in the studio, no longer Abbey Road so much as the garden shed. The desire for adulation is a light that never goes out. We live in a culture obsessed by the notion of fame—the heedless pursuit of it, the almost obligatory subsequent fallout. But what's it like to actually achieve it, and what's it like when fame abruptly passes, and shifts, as it does, onto someone else? These are tales of heroin addiction, bankruptcy, depression, divorce—but also of optimism, a genuine love of the craft, humility and hope. All of which makes Exit Stage Left a fascinating, laugh-out-loud funny and often shocking look at what happens when the brightest of stars fall down to earth. Featuring brand-new interviews with the likes of: Bob Geldof, Shaun Ryder, Robbie Williams, Roisin Murphy, Stewart Copeland, Billy Bragg, Wendy James, Alex Kapranos, Joan Armatrading, Leo Sayer, Gary Lightbody, Lisa Maffia, Tim Booth, Bill Drummond, Rufus Wainwright, David Gray and Justin Hawkins.

In this truly fascinating interview Rupert Callender, founder of the Green Funeral Company, shares how he has applied the lessons and spirit of raves and punk to funerals. As a pioneer in the field, and breaking from tradition, Rupert began a new approach to funerals twenty years ago when he was inspired by the natural death movement which came on the heels of the earlier natural birth movement. Ru calls himself an undertaker (versus a funeral director) in that he undertakes to accompany and empower families to hold the most meaningful and personal of ceremonies and rituals. Towards the end Rupert makes the connection between the qualities and skills required of an undertaker and modern business leadership. Active listening, empathy, service to others vs self, “letting go of control”, trust and authenticity. “People are hungry for authenticity” says Rupert. And as he says, “Around death bullshit goes.” Rupert Callender set up The Green Funeral Company in 1999 in response to his own experiences around bereavement and ran it with his partner Claire up until the beginning of this year, 2021, when she left the business to take a break from death. They both brought their experiences within the rave and punk subcultures to their work, as well as some more unusual influences like the crop circle scene. They pioneered a strip backed and immersive way of working which threw away the formality and faux Victoriana of the modern traditional funeral. Their watchwords are honesty, transparency and participation, and this they bring to every funeral they do. Ru edited Writing on Death, and co-wrote the fifth edition of The Natural Death Handbook available directly from the Natural Death Centre, deliberately avoiding Amazon. They both did a TED X talk entitled Death, Grief, Ritual and Radical funerals, and are partners in an art memorialisation project with former KLF members Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty to build a 23 ft high pyramid in Toxteth with each brick containing cremated human remains. They have been described as “The best undertakers of all time by a country mile.” by The Good Funeral Guide.

Happyness / Birthday show, playing tracks that make me happy. Songs from Bill Drummond, Elbow, Pete Wingfield, Del Amitri, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Paolo Nutini, Rufus Wainwright, David Byrne & Brian Eno, Temper Trap, Brockhampton, Dominic Fike.

Bill Drummond, The Knife, Simple Minds, Japan, (Giorgio Moroder) The Chemical Brothers, LCD Sound System, Sam Fender and Lykke Li.

A Soul Sunday featuring songs by Bill Drummond, The Tams, Radiohead, The Isley BrothersDavid Bowie / Mick Ronson, David Bowie / Marc BolandRoberta Flack, The Clash, Joe Strummer, Garbage, ENZO and Sting.

This is a bit of deviation from what we've been doing so far but a) there is a music industry connection and b) change never harmed anyone c) it's an ace story and d) I've got an ace guest Jenny Valentish started her working life in the music industry starting her own fanzine - cheekily called "Slapper: The Groupie's Guide to Gropable Bands" and then writing for Dazed and Confused, NME, Time Out and doing artist bios, various stints in music publicity for artists like Swans, Jimmy Cauty, Bill Drummond and Afghan Whigs and over the last few years she has become a speaker, coach and author. She's written 3 books. Her 2017 memoir called Woman of Substances in which she uses scientific research and theories and her own experiences, to investigates the paths that, in particular, women take into and out of addiction. Her latest book is a follow up to Woman of Substances and is called Everything Harder Than Everyone Else, which follows people doing the things that most couldn't, wouldn't or shouldn't. By delving into their extreme behaviour, there's a lot that us mere mortals can learn about the human condition.It's a rollercoaster read of experiences with a neuroscientis, performance artists, pornstar turned fighter, architect, BDSM Dom, bare knuckle fighter, wrestler and bodybuilder.We're gonna talk about what Jenny learnt, what we can all learn and how her immersive journalism has challenged her own mindset.I Wanna Jump Like Dee Dee is a music podcast that does music interviews differently. I'm Giles Sibbald and I'm talking to extraordinary musicians, DJ's and producers about how they use an experimental mindset in their lives to amplify their own creativity, pursue new challenges, overcome fears and bounce back from mistakes.- brought to you by Hey Sunday, the mothership of the experimental mindset™.Podcast logo and art by Tide Adesanya, Coppie and Paste

Bill Drummond, Paul McCartney, Dominic Fike, Elbow, Brockhampton, Sam Fender and the Manic Street Preachers

Um das musikalisch-künstlerische Schaffen von Bill Drummond und Jimmy Cauty geht es ganz ausführlich in dieser "Elektro Beats"-Ausgabe. Aktueller Anlass ist ihr vor genau 30 Jahren veröffentlichtes Album "The White Room" und unlängst wurde auch ihr jahrelang nicht verfügbarer Backkatalog wieder zugänglich gemacht. Gast in der Sendung mit Olaf Zimmermann war Thomas Ecke. Er ist absoluten Kenner der Materie und hat Jimmy Cauty und Bill Drummond mehrmals persönlich getroffen, sie fotografiert und verfügt über eine umfangreiche Sammlung rund um das musikalische Universum von The KLF. Einige dieser Raritäten sind auch in der Sendung zu hören.

Stay out of the dark, as this week Sam and Dan take a look at Arrow Video's recent 4k restoration of David Twohy's nerve shedding sci-fi creature feature PITCH BLACK, starring an early career Vin Diesel and Radha Mitchell. Other similar-themed film recommendations include DREDD and FORTRESS whilst Dan and Sam also talk about recent films seen including the Bill Drummond documentary BEST BEFORE DEATH. Next Week: GAMERA Email the Arrow Video Podcast hosts for any comments, suggestions or questions at arrowvideopodcast@arrowfilms.co.uk.

Good Morning, Bitcoin is a short conversation about various topics in the blockchain industry. Today, your hosts, Dale and LD, discuss the hype around coins with YF in their tickers, the uncertain future of Bill Drummond projects, and COVID-19’s possible effects on cryptocurrencies. Listen through to the end and play “Two Truths and a Lie” with LD. Good Morning Bitcoin is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GM_Bitcoin ---------------------------------------- Enjoy More From HASHR8! Follow HASHR8 on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/h4shr8 Follow HASHR8 TV on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/hashr8_tv Watch HASHR8 TV on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/hashr8 ----------------------------------------- Want the best news on Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and mining? Subscribe to Difficulty Adjustment, HASHR8's weekly email newsletter. Now also available in Chinese! Read Difficulty Adjustment here: https://hashr8.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/newmoney/message

Marked as explicit because of strong language   His hair longer, perhaps, than it has ever been in his life, Charles Adrian talks art, bad people and bookshops.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   Correction: during this episode Charles Adrian calls the Bill Drummond book For Sale $20,000 because that is what is written on the cover but its title is in fact $20,000. You can read more about Bill Drummond on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Drummond and you can read about Duncan McLaren’s book Personal Delivery on his website here: http://www.duncanmclaren.co.uk/pages/david/index-david.html.   You can read all about the National Poetry Library – which is, in fact, on level 5 of the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre – on their home page here: https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/   Another book by Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley, is discussed in Page One 53.   You can hear Helen Fielding, the author of Bridget Jones’s Diary, among other things, on BBC radio 4’s Desert Island Discs here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kmr7   Ben Walters was also a guest on Bernadette Russell’s podcast How To Be Hopeful, which you can listen to here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-be-hopeful-episode-12-home-made-mutant-hope-machines/id543504687?i=1000480104936   Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 74 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/74-katrina-crear/), Page One 76 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/76-ben-walters/) and Page One 77 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/77-bernadette-russell/).   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 21st July, 2020     Book listing:   $20,000 by Bill Drummond (Page One 74) Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith (Page One 76) Three Things You Need To Know About Rockets by Jessica A. Fox (Page One 77)

Young Southpaw talks to The Silent Academy founder Andrew Shaw about his new metaphysical mixtape in book form questions, Bill Drummond, suspending your brain, Pigs & Zen, and much more. Van Halen too, obviously...  https://www.silentacademy.com/product/questions-book/   Young Southpaw: At the end of the intro you write that your hope is that ‘in accessing intuitive awareness, we are free to act with the full force of our nature, to create some things and to smash some things - completely.’   Andrew Shaw: Yeah  YS: Which reminded me of The Damned song ‘Smash It Up’. And then the first question you pose - ‘does light from the stars create loneliness’ - reminded me of that Lush song ‘Light From A Dead Star’. So in what ways is this book a mixtape?  AS: Aw, man. Again, like the Van Halen...absolutely. It is a mixtape, isn’t it? I mean is anything not a mixtape? When you really think about it...(laughs)  YS: But yeah I like the idea that this is a compilation, well in the truest sense it’s a compilation like a mixtape is a compilation, but it also has resonances and is your form of communication  AS: And you pass it to a girl to impress her  YS: Obviously  AS: Or an object of your affection, yeah. I mean why else would we do these things? I think a mixtape’s a pretty nice analogy. It’s a grab bag of ideas and observations from everywhere and then scramble them up and hope there’s some continuity that makes sense to anybody that spends time with it. Yeah. Something interesting along the way.   YS: I like that a lot. Yeah. I miss mixtapes, man. Luckily we have your book now.   AS: Oh yeah, I really miss mixtapes. The Spotify playlist doesn’t really cut it, does it?   YS: It really doesn’t. I mean, having two sides that you would structure accordingly.   AS: Right. And sticking the pencil in the middle to correct it.   YS: Funnily enough, that came up on the last episode of ETC. Something about pencils. I think the cassette was really the highest point of technology we needed. I don’t need everything going on these days. But to be able to listen to music in your car, I’m glad we got there.   AS: Yeah. And the unspooling. Just even the word ‘unspool’.  

Bill Drummond is a saint as far as I am concerned and should be treated as such. Spud *mostly* agrees but has some very angry feels, particularly about the documentary "Imagine" which is about Drummond's The17 project. We also discuss the new doc "Best Before Death" As usual, the main conversation starts about half an hour in. Bill Drummond Links: The Docs: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4519166/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4440644 Other http://the17.org/score_set_bill.php https://www.popbollocks.com/author/bill-drummond/ _ _ _ _ _ Join the PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/tommiekelly Join the DISCORD https://discord.gg/qA2Tpvr Send a donation via PAYPAL http://www.paypal.me/tommiekelly Buy Me a Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/33TYYN3KT7ZAJ/ Buy me something off my AMAZON WISH LIST https://www.amazon.de/registry/wishlist/302ZDU38CDO3R _ _ _ _ _ Executive Producers: Scott Madison, Dylan Sticker, The Shocker , Chris Palmisano, Marcio Mendonca, Rodrigo Franco, Shawn P. Rakar, Sepherion, William Opdyke, and Michael Metelits. _ _ _ _ _ Buy The Forty Servants: DECK https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/the-forty-servants DELUXE DECK https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/forty-servants-deluxe-box-set-includes-the-four-devils- GRIMOIRE https://amzn.to/2MIta4T Buy Me a Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/33TYYN3KT7ZAJ/ Buy me something off my AMAZON WISH LIST https://www.amazon.de/registry/wishlist/302ZDU38CDO3R Please Share the videos, website, blog posts etc on your social media! Obviously, there is no obligation or pressure to do so, but if you do I thank you from the bottom of my heart! _ _ _ _ _ As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases, so if you see an Amazon link it's more than likely an affiliate link. The price will be the exact same for you, but I get a commission. ***SITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA*** Web: http://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com Discord: https://discord.gg/qA2Tpvr Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tommiekelly Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adventuresinwoowoo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tommiekelly/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PEvElCUoa6Eyz2d129UjE?si=MGgNKT-pQ52tOZ_Xv4cJOQ

In our first episode of the post-COVID world, we dive into some listener letters about language and the atlas adventures. Then the episode devolves as Courtney begrudgingly delves into one of the many topics she loathes to consider: record labels and the music biz. Fear not, though, Shane maintains a sunny disposition about the subject at hand and the duo pull through. Courtney manages to describe the riveting missed connection between Tony Wilson and Roger Eagle as they have a near miss at collaborating on a split-label record release, and Shane teases at the emerging shared destiny between Bill Drummond and the Bunnymen, while unwittingly becoming a fan of OMD and the Durutti Column in the process. Sorry for the delay in release. Things have turned upside down since the troubles began. We hope to make up for our tardiness with duration and depth of analysis.

Kören The17:s musik existerar bara i stunden. Den kan skapas av vem som helst, när som helst, var som helst men får aldrig någonsin bevaras eller höras av publik. Över hela världen engagerar sig tusentals personer i det som blivit en folkrörelse. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. En vårdag för 14 år sedan annonserade musikföreningen Fylkingen i Stockholm världspremiären för kören The17. Men för att få höra kören var man själv tvungen att sjunga i den, eftersom The17 aldrig uppträder inför publik. Sedan dess har nya 17-körer sjungit, hummat, lyssnat och ropat över hela världen. Körernas grundare är Bill Drummond, en skotsk konstnär, musiker och författare, känd som en av de två grundarna av musikduon The KLF som fick en rad superhits i slutet av 80-talet och början av 90-talet. Duon avslutade dock sin karriär brutalt i det som kallats musikhistoriens största kommersiella självmord, när de som ett konstprojekt brände upp en miljon brittiska pund. The17 ses av många som ett resultat av att Drummond tagit avstånd från den kommersiella musikindustrin. Det han gör nu är musik som händer här och nu, varje dag med vem som helst som vill delta. Musik som inte finns bevarad. I programmet hörde vi även ett utdrag ur dokumentären Build a fire av Tor Billgren och Gustaf Görfelt från 2002 där även musikjournalisten Magnus Haglund intervjuades. Den här P2 Dokumentären är en utbyggd version av en Kulturdokumentär som Marie Wennersten gjorde för P1 2013.

Kören The17:s musik existerar bara i stunden. Den kan skapas av vem som helst, när som helst, var som helst men får aldrig någonsin bevaras eller höras av publik. Över hela världen engagerar sig tusentals personer i det som blivit en folkrörelse. En vårdag för 14 år sedan annonserade musikföreningen Fylkingen i Stockholm världspremiären för kören The17. Men för att få höra kören var man själv tvungen att sjunga i den, eftersom The17 aldrig uppträder inför publik. Sedan dess har nya 17-körer sjungit, hummat, lyssnat och ropat över hela världen. Körernas grundare är Bill Drummond, en skotsk konstnär, musiker och författare, känd som en av de två grundarna av musikduon The KLF som fick en rad superhits i slutet av 80-talet och början av 90-talet. Duon avslutade dock sin karriär brutalt i det som kallats musikhistoriens största kommersiella självmord, när de som ett konstprojekt brände upp en miljon brittiska pund. The17 ses av många som ett resultat av att Drummond tagit avstånd från den kommersiella musikindustrin. Det han gör nu är musik som händer här och nu, varje dag med vem som helst som vill delta. Musik som inte finns bevarad. I programmet hörde vi även ett utdrag ur dokumentären Build a fire av Tor Billgren och Gustaf Görfelt från 2002 där även musikjournalisten Magnus Haglund intervjuades. Den här P2 Dokumentären är en utbyggd version av en Kulturdokumentär som Marie Wennersten gjorde för P1 2013.

The KLF aka The Jams aka The Timelords aka The K Foundation aka K2 Plant Hire aka The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu... it's complicated. Whatever name or weird mythology they happened to be operating under at the time, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty managed to top the UK pop charts in the early nineties with songs about love and ice-cream vans - often with plastic horns strapped to their heads. Then they turned their backs on the music industry, deleted their entire back catalogue and cremated £1 million of their own earnings on a remote Scottish island. Scroll forward 23 years and Drummond and Cauty re-emerge to announce they're building a pyramid in Liverpool out of bricks containing the cremated remains of just under 35,000 people. As more bricks are added to The People's Pyramid at the 2019 Toxteth Day of the Dead, Conor Garrett tries to work out what's going on... Produced and presented by Conor Garrett.

Happy NEW YEAR from us all at FNI. Here's our first Episode of 2020. and we've a brand new theme thanks to composer Pat O'Connor. Check out Pat's website here: https://www.patrickoconnorcomposer.com/about-1/ Paul Duane RETURNS, our first guest to come on a second time.  Paul Duane is a Director of Film, Tv and a writer. Has directed television programmes including: Ballykissangel, Casualty, The Royal, Small Potatoes and Footballer's Wives He has also made several short films including LSD 73! based on an original script by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. More recently he co-created the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl based on the well-known blog, Belle de Jour. The Irish production company Screenworks was established by Paul Duane and Rob Cawley in 2008. Their first production, Barbaric Genius, on the life of the London-Irish author John Healy premiered in February 2011. More films include Very Extremely Dangerous and Natan, about the French producer Bernard Natan. In December 2013 he was listed by Variety magazine as part of their yearly 10 Directors to Watch feature.  His latest film What Time Is Death? described as "his long-gestated study of new activities by the men who used to be KLF"[8] is a documentary charting Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's latest project to build a pyramid of hand-fired bricks, each containing the ashes of a dead person, a process dubbed MuMufication (referencing the KLF song Justified & Ancient). What Time Is Death? featured at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival and screened to a full house in the IFI in 2019. We're also pleased to announce that Paul will be joining our panel this SAT 18th of Jan for our Documentary; Finding the Story Panel and workshop. All details on following link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/84791011197 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy NEW YEAR from us all at FNI. Here's our first Episode of 2020. and we've a brand new theme thanks to composer Pat O'Connor. Check out Pat's website here: https://www.patrickoconnorcomposer.com/about-1/ Paul Duane RETURNS, our first guest to come on a second time.  Paul Duane is a Director of Film, Tv and a writer. Has directed television programmes including: Ballykissangel, Casualty, The Royal, Small Potatoes and Footballer's Wives He has also made several short films including LSD 73! based on an original script by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. More recently he co-created the ITV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl based on the well-known blog, Belle de Jour. The Irish production company Screenworks was established by Paul Duane and Rob Cawley in 2008. Their first production, Barbaric Genius, on the life of the London-Irish author John Healy premiered in February 2011. More films include Very Extremely Dangerous and Natan, about the French producer Bernard Natan. In December 2013 he was listed by Variety magazine as part of their yearly 10 Directors to Watch feature.  His latest film What Time Is Death? described as "his long-gestated study of new activities by the men who used to be KLF"[8] is a documentary charting Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest project to build a pyramid of hand-fired bricks, each containing the ashes of a dead person, a process dubbed MuMufication (referencing the KLF song Justified & Ancient). What Time Is Death? featured at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival and screened to a full house in the IFI in 2019. We're also pleased to announce that Paul will be joining our panel this SAT 18th of Jan for our Documentary; Finding the Story Panel and workshop. All details on following link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/84791011197

Jason Isaacs talks Hotel Mumbai. Plus the only reviews of the week's films you need including Brad Pitt in Ad Astra, dramedy The Farewell, and crime drama The Kitchen. Mark Kermode also reviews a documentary about KLF frontman Bill Drummond, Best Before Death and drama Tomorrow. Mark and Simon chat through all the films worth seeing in UK cinemas in the UK Box Office Top Ten. Download the Kermode and Mayo podcast from the BBC Sounds app. We welcome your contributions: Email: mayo@bbc.co.uk Twitter: @wittertainment 00:00 Pod begins, Brexitcast chat 05:28 Teacher's email 07:13 Tailenders email 10:41 H2JI in space 15:00 Daniel in Massachusetts 17:14 Radio show begins 25:15 Box office top ten 45:18 Jason Isaacs arrives 01:07:08 Hotel Mumbai Review 01:18:06 Ad Astra review 01:36:37 TV Movie Of The Week 01:42:43The Farewell review 01:48:14 The Kitchen review 01:51:10 Best Before Death review 01:53:40 DVD Of The Week

Filmmaker Paul Duane joins Alan and guest co-host Andrea Cleary to talk about the NME in the 80s. We talk about how to find good music in pre-internet Ireland, political music writing, working class autodidacts, owning music vs streaming it, whether boxset rarities are ever worth it, and Paul’s current work with Bill Drummond. It’s a wide-ranging and it was a delight to record. Follow Paul on Twitter @MrPaulDuane. His latest film, Best Before Death, will be showing on Friday 27th September at the IFI Documentary Festival. Alan is @alan_maguire. He does standup sometimes but this is his main thing. Andrea is @AndreaCleary_. She co-hosts the Nialler9 podcast and her music writing can be found at Nialler9, The Thin Air, Goldenplec, and other places too. Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced by Tall Tales @Tall_Tales_Podcasts. Also we have a Patreon! We have good rewards! It’s patreon.com/juvenalia

David Keenan’s For the Good Times (Faber), set in Belfast during The Troubles, pursues four friends battling for an identity in a neighbourhood harangued by violence and religious intensity. The book highlights the complexity of believing in a cause whilst indulging in the spoils of amoral days. Keenan’s second novel is an urgent and experimental follow up to This is Memorial Device (Faber). Keenan was in conversation with artist and musician, Bill Drummond. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the first part of an extensive career-spanning interview with Pete Paphides, Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie talks about his years as a key player in the Liverpool post-punk scene, first as a member of Big In Japan (alongside Holly Johnson, Bill Drummond & Budgie) and Care (with Paul Simpson) – and then as producer to the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen and The Pale Fountains. In Part 2, Ian goes on to talk about his "pop star" years with the Lightning Seeds and his beautiful 2004 solo album Tales Told – the joint first release on the new Needle Mythology label, out on May 31, 2019. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

En este primer episodio de 2019, repasamos la carrera de uno de los dúos más fascinantes, vanguardistas y rompedores de la historia de la música: THE KLF . Auténticos abanderados del DO IT YOURSELF y acérrimos enemigos del copyright, su discografía es un auténtico ejercicio de libertad creativa y experimentación. Sonarán hits de THE JAMS, THE TIMELORDS, BILL DRUMMOND, JIMMY CAUTY, PET SHOP BOYS, DEPECHE MODE, EXTREME NOISE TERROR y, por supuesto, THE KLF.

Rule 1. Begin an inner alchemy to transcend the consensual reality tunnel and move from a state of fixation to a condition of mutability. Outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island, with only one journalist and their roadie-come-fixer, Gimpo, in attendance. Why? Why would they do that? How To Burn a Million Quid lays the story bare. A comic, surreal and fast moving adventure that sees Bill and Jimmy rise to the very top of the music industry, becoming the biggest selling music act in the UK before crashing out of the industry in spectacular fashion and heading toward the art world with the intention of creating similar mayhem. Inspired by a madcap theatrical genius and a cult novel, they blaze a trail that takes them to Sweden, the North Pole and the Sierra Nevada, via Northampton, before arriving finally on the Isle of Jura, with two suitcases containing a million quid. It was their mission to cause chaos. And they did. A sonic roller coaster featuring Paul Higgins (The Thick of It, Line of Duty) as Bill Drummond, Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley, The World's End) as Jimmy Cauty, with Kevin Eldon as Gimpo, Jeremy Stockwell as Ken Campbell and an outstanding cast of multi-voice comedy performers. Bill Drummond: Paul Higgins Jimmy Cauty: Nicholas Burns Gimpo: Kevin Eldon Ken Campbell: Jeremy Stockwell Everyone else: Kate O’Sullivan, Polly Kemp, Ronnie Jhuttie and Niall Ashdown Original music by Somerset & Lewin Original music by MZYLKYPOP (Mick Somerset, David Lewin, Simon Lewinski, Rachel E, Flip Clegg and Thom Foote) Sound Design by Carl Scheleeshti Johnson Produced and Directed by Boz Temple-Morris Written by Sean Grundy and Cara Jennings A HOLY MOUNTAIN production for BBC Radio 4.

Rule 2: Don’t do anything unless it’s heroic. Bill, Jimmy and Gimpo set off for Sweden in order to persuade Abba to let them sample their music. They’ll be OK with that. Won’t they? Just in case they say no, they’re taking all the records with them so that they can burn the vinyl before the legal deadline. Just in case. Besides, Bill has another plan for how to get onto Top of the Pops. Part two of the outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF, who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island. It was their mission to cause chaos. And they did. How to Burn a Million Quid features Paul Higgins (The Thick of It, Line of Duty) as Bill Drummond, Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley, The World’s End) as Jimmy Cauty, with Kevin Eldon as Gimpo, Jeremy Stockwell as Ken Campbell and an outstanding cast of multi voice comedy performers. Bill Drummond: Paul Higgins Jimmy Cauty: Nicholas Burns Gimpo: Kevin Eldon Ken Campbell: Jeremy Stockwell Everyone else: Kate O’Sullivan, Polly Kemp, Ronnie Jhuttie and Niall Ashdown Original music by Somerset & Lewin Original music by MZYLKYPOP (Mick Somerset, David Lewin, Simon Lewinski, Rachel E, Flip Clegg and Thom Foote) Sound Design by Carl Scheleeshti Johnson Produced and Directed by Boz Temple-Morris Written by Sean Grundy and Cara Jennings A HOLY MOUNTAIN production for BBC Radio 4.

Rule 3: Only a madman is absolutely sure. Pop stardom is going well, the KLF are a music industry sensation with a string of hits. An inspired collaboration with country music legend Tammy Wynette takes them to new heights. But is that enough, asks Bill, where’s the meaning? In the North Pole perhaps? Well that’s the conclusion he reaches and so off they go. Really. All this happened. Part three of the outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF, who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island. It was their mission to cause chaos. And they did. How to Burn a Million Quid features Paul Higgins (The Thick of It, Line of Duty) as Bill Drummond, Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley, The World’s End) as Jimmy Cauty, with Kevin Eldon as Gimpo, Jeremy Stockwell as Ken Campbell and an outstanding cast of multi voice comedy performers. Bill Drummond: Paul Higgins Jimmy Cauty: Nicholas Burns Gimpo: Kevin Eldon Ken Campbell: Jeremy Stockwell Everyone else: Kate O’Sullivan, Polly Kemp, Ronnie Jhuttie and Niall Ashdown Original music by Somerset & Lewin Original music by MZYLKYPOP (Mick Somerset, David Lewin, Simon Lewinski, Rachel E, Flip Clegg and Thom Foote) Sound Design by Carl Scheleeshti Johnson Produced and Directed by Boz Temple-Morris Written by Sean Grundy and Cara Jennings A HOLY MOUNTAIN production for BBC Radio 4.

Rule 4: Go it alone. At the height of their success the KLF can do no wrong. But they really want to. News of their forthcoming BRIT Award confirms their status as music industry establishment – exactly the thing they’re fighting against – and so they go in search of an idea so outrageous, so disgusting, that they would succeed in becoming outcast from the industry. At the BRIT Awards ceremony of 1992 they try out their idea… Part four of the outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF, who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island. It was their mission to cause chaos. And they did. How to Burn a Million Quid features Paul Higgins (The Thick of It, Line of Duty) as Bill Drummond, Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley, The World’s End) as Jimmy Cauty, with Kevin Eldon as Gimpo, Jeremy Stockwell as Ken Campbell and an outstanding cast of multi voice comedy performers. Bill Drummond: Paul Higgins Jimmy Cauty: Nicholas Burns Gimpo: Kevin Eldon Ken Campbell: Jeremy Stockwell Everyone else: Kate O’Sullivan, Polly Kemp, Ronnie Jhuttie and Niall Ashdown Original music by Somerset & Lewin Original music by MZYLKYPOP (Mick Somerset, David Lewin, Simon Lewinski, Rachel E, Flip Clegg and Thom Foote) Sound Design by Carl Scheleeshti Johnson Produced and Directed by Boz Temple-Morris Written by Sean Grundy and Cara Jennings A HOLY MOUNTAIN production for BBC Radio 4.

Rule 5: Know when to walk away. With the last gasp from the now dead sheep, the KLF leave the music industry. They now take their fight against the Illuminati to the art world, and the Turner Prize of 1994. They are about to have the most brilliant idea of all. Or the most stupid. You decide. Part five of the outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF, who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island. It was their mission to cause chaos. And they did. How to Burn a Million Quid features Paul Higgins (The Thick of It, Line of Duty) as Bill Drummond, Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley, The World’s End) as Jimmy Cauty, with Kevin Eldon as Gimpo, Jeremy Stockwell as Ken Campbell and an outstanding cast of multi voice comedy performers. Bill Drummond: Paul Higgins Jimmy Cauty: Nicholas Burns Gimpo: Kevin Eldon Ken Campbell: Jeremy Stockwell Everyone else: Kate O’Sullivan, Polly Kemp, Ronnie Jhuttie and Niall Ashdown Original music by Somerset & Lewin Original music by MZYLKYPOP (Mick Somerset, David Lewin, Simon Lewinski, Rachel E, Flip Clegg and Thom Foote) Sound Design by Carl Scheleeshti Johnson Produced and Directed by Boz Temple-Morris Written by Sean Grundy and Cara Jennings A HOLY MOUNTAIN production for BBC Radio 4.

Rule 6: Never ask for anyone’s blessing. Finally, having landed on the Isle of Jura, Bill, Jimmy, Gimpo, and one chosen witness check into the Jura hotel carrying two suitcases containing a million quid. They must pass the night before committing the act for which they have come. Burning one million pounds. Can they really go through with it? The final part of the outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF, who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island. It was their mission to cause chaos. And they did. How to Burn a Million Quid features Paul Higgins (The Thick of It, Line of Duty) as Bill Drummond, Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley, The World’s End) as Jimmy Cauty, with Kevin Eldon as Gimpo, Jeremy Stockwell as Ken Campbell and an outstanding cast of multi voice comedy performers. Bill Drummond: Paul Higgins Jimmy Cauty: Nicholas Burns Gimpo: Kevin Eldon Ken Campbell: Jeremy Stockwell Everyone else: Kate O’Sullivan, Polly Kemp, Ronnie Jhuttie and Niall Ashdown Original music by Somerset & Lewin Original music by MZYLKYPOP (Mick Somerset, David Lewin, Simon Lewinski, Rachel E, Flip Clegg and Thom Foote) Sound Design by Carl Scheleeshti Johnson Produced and Directed by Boz Temple-Morris Written by Sean Grundy and Cara Jennings A HOLY MOUNTAIN production for BBC Radio 4.

Outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island. Why? Why would they do that? How To Burn a Million Quid lays the story bare. A comic, surreal and fast moving adventure that sees Bill and Jimmy rise to the very top of the music industry, becoming the biggest selling music act in the UK before crashing out of the industry in spectacular fashion and heading toward the art world with the intention of creating similar mayhem. Inspired by a madcap theatrical genius and a cult novel, they blaze a trail that takes them to Sweden, the North Pole and the Sierra Nevada, via Northampton, before arriving finally on the Isle of Jura, with two suitcases containing a million quid. It was their mission to cause chaos. And they did. A sonic roller coaster featuring Paul Higgins (The Thick of It, Line of Duty) as Bill Drummond, Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley, The World’s End) as Jimmy Cauty, with Kevin Eldon as Gimpo, Jeremy Stockwell as Ken Campbell and an outstanding cast of multi-voice comedy performers. Listen to all six episodes from Monday 21 January 2019. Produced and Directed by Boz Temple-Morris Written by Sean Grundy and Cara Jennings A HOLY MOUNTAIN production for BBC Radio 4.

Hello and welcome to EPISODE 48 of MOOD SWINGS. This week's episode saw me back out on the podcast trail again, this time on a trip to Edinburgh where I was delighted to meet (in a Wetherspoons of course) author and electronic musician STEPHEN CLARKE 1980 for a chat. Me and Stephen discussed his debut book 'DELETED SCENES', the KLF and Bill Drummond, Stephen's experiences growing up in Belfast during the troubles, mental health and much more! Cheers to Stephen for giving up his time and for the brilliant conversation!  Keep up with Stephen and check out his work at the links below: Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B077VG4VKS Bandcamp - https://stephenclarke1980.bandcamp.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/stephenclarke80 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/stephenclarke1980/

Bill Drummond is many things. As well as an artist, a writer and former pop-star - he's the owner of an old curfew tower in Northern Ireland which he runs as an artists' residency. Last year some poets from Belfast's Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry stayed there and Bill published their collected work in a little black book called The Curfew Tower is Many Things. Except for a poem the award-winning Belfast poet Stephen Sexton wrote. Apparently that one went missing. So Bill has left two pages blank in the book for Stephen to fill in with poetry as they drive through all of Ireland's 32 counties in 5 days in a white Ford Transit hire-van, giving out copies as they go. But what exactly is driving Bill Drummond? Producer Conor Garrett is there to find out. As they cross the Irish border and over each county boundary, Conor is becoming increasingly concerned he may not have a good enough story for his radio programme. It's a problem further complicated by the fact Bill won't talk about his chart-topping '90s pop band who once famously set fire to a very large pile of their own cash. Then, when a narrative arc does eventually develop, Conor can't be sure how authentic it is. And what's all this stuff about eels? Producer: Conor Garrett.

Back once again like renegade plasterers, John and Luke are reunited on the wireless in the white hot cauldron of torpor, ennui and vague anxiety that is The Quietus Hour. The dynamic duo fall even further down a wormhole of implausible chat with subjects including why Mods are no good at fighting with pirates at sea, producer Seb's convincing impression of Ayrton Senna when he's behind the wheel, our best Persuader to date, the return of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty and the latest updates on Barry The Barber, before asking, 'Where have all the negative reviews gone?' All of today's music is drawn from the length and breadth of our recent Albums Of The Year So Far chart including bangers from Bargou08, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Endon, Richard Dawson, SZA, Harriet Brown, Algiers and British Sea Power.

1. I Want You - Utah Saints 2. Hallucination Generation (Syametic Nightmare) - Gruesome Twosome 3. Salvation (Razormaid! Mix) - The Hood 4. State Of The Nation - New Order 5. Happiest Girl (Jack Mix) - Depeche Mode 6. You Make Me Wonder (Razormaid! Mix) - Celebrate The Nun 7. What Do You See (Arabian House Mix) - Cause & Effect 8. LSI (Love Sex Intelligence) (Beatmasters 12" Mix) - The Shamen 9. Lucky Charm (Extended Club Mix) - Hard Corps 10. Send Me An Angel '89 (Dance Mix) - Real Life 11. We Came To Dance (12" Version) - Ultravox 12. The Calling (Full Extended 12" Mix) - Ken Heaven 13. We Are The Boys (Razormaid! Mix) - Until December 14. The Sound Of The Crowd (12" Version) (Complete) - The Human League 15. My Translucent Hands (No. II) - I Start Counting Notes and other random things: Well, here it is. My first brand new podcast in nearly seven months. Where does the time go? They say patience is a virtue and good things come to those who wait and I think this one was worth waiting for. A good blend of the familiar and the not-so-familiar; some things you may remember and some you've long since forgotten or maybe never heard in your entire life. Before I get to a few band notes, I want to mention that I have now upgraded my account back to a Pro account. I just couldn't bear the thought that people were actually making a point of coming to this site to listen to the music only to be told by a pre-recorded message that they could not because of bandwidth limitations. What does that mean for you all? It means no more running out of bandwidth two days after I post a new episode. With apologies to the Pet Shop Boys it means more "opportunities" to listen and to download when you have time. It means more storage, so I don't have to delete the audio from an older podcast just to post a new one. (You may have already noticed I've re-posted some of the more recent back-catalog episodes). Over time, I will add more of them. For long-time listeners, it's a chance to re-visit some of the older stuff from "back in the day". For newer listeners, it will be like a glut of new podcasts to check out. I also want to note that I've removed the audio for my previous episode (CRC #42) as the recording levels were all over the map and I didn't think the quality was up to snuff. Perhaps 5 or 6 years ago, it would have been okay, I suppose, but even in light of the cheap mixer and free recording software I use to assemble these 'casts, I think this podcast has come too far now and demands a higher level of quality. So, I may re-record that one at a future date. At that point, I'll re-post. Same for back-catalog items. The really good ones, I'll re-post. The ones that could use a little work will most likely be re-recorded and re-posted as a "reboot" episode. All in all, thank you all again for tuning in. Have a Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2017! Now on to the bands ... If you've been a follower of this podcast since the beginning and you've clung to the belief that, against all probability, the thrash metal band, Slayer, would somehow make its presence felt at some point then your patience has finally been rewarded. And you should book your ticket to Vegas immediately. Taking a riff from the group's tune, "War Ensemble", "I Want You" was one of four Top-25 hits for Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt on Utah Saints' self-titled debut. The duo were at the pioneering edge of sampling, also grabbing a snippet of Kate Bush from her track Cloudbusting for the song "Something Good" and a soundbite from the inimitable Annie Lennox from her song "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" for the track "What Can You Do For Me". Called "the first true Stadium House band" by Bill Drummond of The KLF, Utah Saints were one of the first rave acts to play live and one I had the good fortune to see on the same bill with The Shamen in the early 90s during the rave culture explosion. And let me tell you: it was quite a show ... probably. I first heard "Salvation" by The Hood sometime in 1989 while in college. A guy who lived down the hall from me had a version of it on an old mix tape. I really liked the track and was pleased as punch when the first of many Razormaid! discs from my nascent subscription showed up in the mail containing a mix of that song. It is a portion of that 10+ minute version that appears here. I would soon come across a movie soundtrack of the same name while sifting through record bins at a local indie shop. New Order, Cabaret Voltaire, The Hood, hip-hop producer extraordinaire Arthur Baker and others appeared on the album, so I purchased it. While I've listened to the song "Salvation" umpteen times over the years, I did not know much about the band or its members. To this day, I still don't. I spent the better part of an hour trying to find information on the group, but mostly found song credits and track listings. Eventually, I did find a tiny bit of info on a website called The Lost Turntable. The info was posted by an Arthur Baker and a John Hood respectively, both of whom I can only assume to be the real article. "the hood- is john hood, a legendary nyc party promoter-doorman,who is also quite a good writer. he was signed for a short time on the sire label and is active on the club scene in south beach, miami, florida" "Wow! Yeah, that The Hood track is indeed me: John Hood. (Thanks AB!) And I'm delighted to find it posted. In fact, till right now I never even had an MP3 of the song! So if no one minds, I'll post this, save this, and send this around. Nice to find Salvation!" If anyone knows anything more about The Hood, I would LOVE to get a one-sheet or press kit or bio on them. Speaking of bands I don't know much about, Gruesome Twosome would qualify as well. Sort of a one-off project for founders Samy Birnbach from Minimal Compact (aka Lord Solomon Pearbrook) and Norwegian producer Per Martinsen, who had been recording under the name Syamese, "Hallucination Generation" is the only official single from the group and was released in 1989. A cult classic in its own right, the song sort of bridges the gap between traditional industrial dance music and the bourgeoning New Beat music scene that was starting to take hold at the time. Birnbach and Martinsen would later collaborate with the likes of Bertrand Burgalat, Thrash from The Orb, Paul Kendall and Fortran 5 to eventually release a full-length album called Candy From Strangers, which was released in 1993. Birnbach currently releases material under the DJ Morpheus moniker, having once worked with Colin Newman from Wire for a project called Oracle, while Martinsen performs as Mental Overdrive. While it's probably not the best analogy as they employed very different musical styles, Ultravox is much like the band Genesis in the sense that they have two distinct timelines, led by two distinctly different front men. And much like one could argue Peter Gabriel represented the true vision for Genesis, there is no denying that Phil Collins took the band to massive commercial heights and is probably remembered more readily as the face of the group. Similarly, one could argue that while John Foxx may have been the driving force behind Ultravox during their formative years, it was Midge Ure, who took over after Foxx left for a solo career, that kept the band from imploding and pushed them further into the mainstream and to massive success in the UK. With 7 Top-10 albums and 17 Top-10 singles, U-Vox, like many other bands of the day, took their cue from the glam rock outfits that came before such as Neu! In fact, early on Ultravox was known as Ultravox! (with an exclamation point) in deference to Neu! The first album with the classic line-up of Ure, Billy Currie, Warren Cann and Chris Cross would be the amazing Vienna, which marked a very different direction for the group. Produced by long-time Kraftwerk producer Conny Plank, the album included the title track, which would reach #2 in the UK and would be the highest charted song for the band. (John Lennon's "Woman" and "Shaddap You Face" by Joe Dolce would both keep the song from reaching #1). And while the 1982 album Quartet, produced by George Martin, would be the best-selling US album for U-Vox, the band would not again reach the level of critical success they found with Vienna. The song in this podcast is the 12" version of "We Came to Dance", the final single from Ultravox's sixth studio album, Quartet, released on April 18, 1983. The single reached #18 on the UK charts and was the last of seven consecutive top-20 singles for the band. This being the Christmas season, I would be derelict not to mention that Midge Ure also co-wrote (with Bob Geldof of Boomtown Rats fame) and produced the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid. Last but not least, I want to mention "State Of The Nation" by New Order. Though it reached #1 on the UK Indie Singles Chart and #30 on the UK Singles chart in 1986, the song is probably not a favorite of the majority of New Order fans. I would wager if every NO devotee were to compile a list of his or her Top 10 songs, it would probably appear in less than 5% of those lists. Still, the track is a great one even if only for the fact that it's one of the few NO songs whose title actually appears within the lyrics and/or chorus of the song. As most die-hard fans know, the titles of most NO tunes have little or no relevance to the subject matter being discussed. "Shellshock", "Regret", "Touched By The Hand Of God" and "Confusion" are a few songs I can think of off the top of my head that go against that grain. While the song did not appear on the album, Brotherhood, which was released around this time, both the remix version appearing here and the B-side called "Shame Of The Nation", which was produced by John Robie, appear on the Substance compilation, released in 1987. That will do it for this epidsode. I've got my next podcast ready to record. As soon as I find some time, I'll do just that. Happy Listening!

This week's episode is filled to the brim with mince. That's enough about our hosts and, so, on with the show. News this week includes stuff about Manhattan, Grayson Perry, Wetransfer, The Smiths and Mr Bill Drummond. The chaps talk about scheduling work, worrying about the cliff and what they do to try to bring order to their work. It's December and so begins our intrepid explorers' hunt for the UK's best mince pie. Rob's off to a strong start and Jon had to nip to Co-op because he'd forgotten it was December.

This week’s episode is filled to the brim with mince. That’s enough about our hosts and, so, on with the show. News this week includes stuff about Manhattan, Grayson Perry, Wetransfer, The Smiths and Mr Bill Drummond. The chaps talk about scheduling work, worrying about the cliff and what they do to try to bring order to their work. It’s December and so begins our intrepid explorers’ hunt for the UK’s best mince pie. Rob’s off to a strong start and Jon had to nip to Co-op because he’d forgotten it was December.

The news this week seems to be full of Kickstarter projects. The chaps also look at a new approach to kickstarting your design education in just three months. The book of the month is Bill Drummond's 45, a memoir of his life at that point in time and a truly great book about art, music and the perception of truth. NVS thoroughly enjoyed it and urge you to read it. Rob returns to a fertile pie source while Jon ferrets around in the freezer for yet another disappointment. Beer is also drunk.

The news this week seems to be full of Kickstarter projects. The chaps also look at a new approach to kickstarting your design education in just three months. The book of the month is Bill Drummond's 45, a memoir of his life at that point in time and a truly great book about art, music and the perception of truth. NVS thoroughly enjoyed it and urge you to read it. Rob returns to a fertile pie source while Jon ferrets around in the freezer for yet another disappointment. Beer is also drunk.

Some people say "It's all so shallow, it's deep sea diving to me" Bill DrummondDavid Bowie, Transvision Vamp, Suzi Quatro Wilco , The The, Petula Clark, Marianne Faithfull Black, Fiction Factory, Icehouse, Roxy Music, Ed Sheeran

Jag heter Bill Drummond och ni är The17. Det är över för musik som vara att passivt konsumera. Nu är det tid att börja från början som om musik aldrig funnits och vi skulle uppfinna den, här och nu. En vårdag för sju år sen annonserade musikföreningen Fylkingen i Stockholm världspremiären för kören The17. Men för att få höra kören var man själv tvungen att sjunga i den, eftersom The17 aldrig uppträder inför publik. Sedan dess har nya 17-körer anförda av Bill Drummond, sjungit, hummat, lyssnat och ropat över hela världen, i Kansk i Sibirien, utanför konstbiennalen i Venedig, i Sao Paolo och i Cork. Flera tusen personer har deltagit, det har blivit en slags folkrörelse. Bill Drummond är en skotsk konstnär, musiker och författare, känd som en av de två grundarna av musikduon The KLF som fick en rad superhits i slutet av 80- början av 90-talet, en karriär som de själva avslutade brutalt i det som kallats musikhistoriens största kommersiella självmord. Oavsett om det var ett spekulativt sätt att skapa uppmärksamhet eller ett logiskt slut för musikvärldens enda sanna anarkister, så kan man se The17 som ett resultat av att ha tagit avstånd från den kommersiella musikindustrin. Det Drummond gör nu är musik som händer här och nu, varje dag med vem som helst som vill delta. Musik som inte finns bevarad. Den här radiodokumentären bygger på intervjuer som Marie Wennersten har gjort med Bill Drummond över flera års tid. Hon har själv varit med och sjungit i Stockholm, Zagreb och Wales, samt gjort telefonintervjuer med Drummond i samband med att han hållit körer i Jerusalem, Beirut, Venedig och New York. Man skulle kunna hävda att det handlar om relationell konst, om politiska handlingar inspirerade av Situationisterna, om musik inspirerad av Arvo Pärt och James Brown. Eller helt enkelt om att vilja att musik ska vara mer. Ett program av Marie Wennersten

In 1994 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty took a million pounds to a deserted boathouse on the island of Jura and burnt it. The writer JMR Higgs looked at this event from a magickal perspective and came up with some interesting results. The story involves the world's first joke religion, the JFK assasination, Robert Anton Wilson, Alan Moore and a bunch of ideas collectively known as "Chaos Magick". This week is an entirely new interview, the previous lot have all been unedited bits from the Nick Margerrison archives. If you're interested in "sigils" which we get to talking about right at the end of the interview go to the Disinfo.com website where I've written some short essays on the topic. Once there you're looking for "Essays for the Discordian Occultist". twitter.com/nickmargerrison

Episode 92 brings Graeme McMillan and Jeff Lester together again for the first time as we podcast together live from Graeme's attic in Portland Oregon. Topics discussed include Avengers and the oddness of its worldwide profits; The Amazing Spider-Man movie and its marketing scheme; Safety Not Guaranteed and a terrifying quasi-related Blair Witch Project story; our very favorite place on earth, The Waffle Window; Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's The Manual: How to Have a Number One the Easy Way; Batman: Earth One by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, and much more. Also for the first (and maybe the last) time ever, we have time-stamped show notes waiting for you at my July 3rd entry over on the Savage Critic website! Yes, for those of you who only want to hear us talk about Spider-Man and Alpha, or Casanova, you can now narrow our ramblings down with pinpoint precision. If this is a thing you like, definitely let us know as I am already hurting my head with all the proper timestamp adjustments to be made once this introduction is recorded and it is probably worth trying to keep me motivated to do stuff like that if you like it. We thank you for listening and, as always, we hope you enjoy!

 История этой компиляции и ее корни на сегодняшний день потеряны и ушли в никуда… эх… неудача, решил наконец выложить то, что могло выйти в красивой обложке и стать первой компиляцией из серии Асфальт… ну, да ладно… двигаемся дальше… Жизнь человека зависит от движения молекул внутри его организма, не давайте им останавливаться, будьте сами в движении и пусть музыка сопутствует вам в этом… Спасибо… Всем радиослушателям программы Асфальт за внимание и интерес к проекту, клабберам за эмоциональную поддержку и улыбки, меломанам за любовь к музыке и тем, кто не может жить без романтики…   Ну и пара, рекомендаций… Микс слушается как одно целое, есть начало, кульминация и логическое завершение… это не так часто встречается в наши дни. Мне нравится. (Эд Космонавт) Компиляция получилась именно в том стиле, который я люблю и мало того, в котором творю, очень приятно, что Алексей поддержал релизы с моего лейбла. Получил огромное удовольствие от прослушивания.(Andy Moor, UK) 01.Beatman Ludmilla - Couldnt Sleep (Original) [Aurium Recordings] Written & Produced by Beatman & Ludmilla (p) fi. (c) Aurium Recordings 02.Fretwell - Fill Me Up (Dub Mix] [Electrofly] Written & Produced Tim Fretwell. Vocals by Anita Kesley (c) Baroque Records LTD. (p) Skyblue Music / Truelove 03.Jono Fernandez - Colours Of Conscience (Fretwell Remix) [Electrofly] Written & Produced by Jono Fernandez. Additional Remix Productions by Tim Fretwell (c) Baroque Records LTD. (p) Skyblue Music / Truelove 04.Neo - Aura (Cosmonaut Remix] [Electrofly] Written & Produced by Neo. Additional Remix Productions by Eduard Gubin (c) Baroque Records LTD. (p) Skyblue Music / Truelove 05.Stuart С - Electron Vibe (Luke Porter Remix) [Often Gruven Recordings] Written & Produced by Stuart Carey. Additional Remix Productions by Luke Porter (p) fi. (c) Often Gruven Recordings 06.Dirty Dot - Heart Of Pain [Monogato 'Funk N Trance" Remix] [Rococo Records] Written & Produced by Bas van Essen & Willem van Hanegem. Additional Remix Productions by Peter Smith (c) Baroque Records LTD. (p) Skyblue Music / Truelove 07.Jav D ft. Mat Zo Einat - Silver Lining (Tell Me] (Mikey and Sharky Vocal Mix] [AVA Recordings] Written & Produced by Mat Zo & Jav D. Additional Remix Productions by Mikey and Skarky [p] fi. (c) Ava Records 08.Andy Moor vs. Orkidea - YearZero [Andy Moors First Light Remix) [AVA Recordings] Written & Produced by Andy Moor S. Orkidea. Additional Remix Productions by Andy Moor [p] fi. (c) Ava Records 09.Slusnik Luna vs. Lowland - Baas (Original] Written & Produced by Jimmy Cauty fi. Bill Drummond aka KLF [p] fi. (c) Ava Records 10.Santiago Nino ft. Paleday - Arpeggia [Original Mix] [Wildchild Records] Written fi. Produced by Santiago Nino fi. Anthony (c) Baroque Records LTD [p] Skyblue Music / Truelove 11.Pilot (Sergey Tkachev] - Crash My Heart [Original Mix) [Method] Written fi. Produced by Sergey Tkachev (c) Baroque Records LTD [p] Skyblue Music / Truelove

 История этой компиляции и ее корни на сегодняшний день потеряны и ушли в никуда… эх… неудача, решил наконец выложить то, что могло выйти в красивой обложке и стать первой компиляцией из серии Асфальт… ну, да ладно… двигаемся дальше… Жизнь человека зависит от движения молекул внутри его организма, не давайте им останавливаться, будьте сами в движении и пусть музыка сопутствует вам в этом… Спасибо… Всем радиослушателям программы Асфальт за внимание и интерес к проекту, клабберам за эмоциональную поддержку и улыбки, меломанам за любовь к музыке и тем, кто не может жить без романтики…   Ну и пара, рекомендаций… Микс слушается как одно целое, есть начало, кульминация и логическое завершение… это не так часто встречается в наши дни. Мне нравится. (Эд Космонавт) Компиляция получилась именно в том стиле, который я люблю и мало того, в котором творю, очень приятно, что Алексей поддержал релизы с моего лейбла. Получил огромное удовольствие от прослушивания.(Andy Moor, UK) 01.Beatman Ludmilla - Couldnt Sleep (Original) [Aurium Recordings] Written & Produced by Beatman & Ludmilla (p) fi. (c) Aurium Recordings 02.Fretwell - Fill Me Up (Dub Mix] [Electrofly] Written & Produced Tim Fretwell. Vocals by Anita Kesley (c) Baroque Records LTD. (p) Skyblue Music / Truelove 03.Jono Fernandez - Colours Of Conscience (Fretwell Remix) [Electrofly] Written & Produced by Jono Fernandez. Additional Remix Productions by Tim Fretwell (c) Baroque Records LTD. (p) Skyblue Music / Truelove 04.Neo - Aura (Cosmonaut Remix] [Electrofly] Written & Produced by Neo. Additional Remix Productions by Eduard Gubin (c) Baroque Records LTD. (p) Skyblue Music / Truelove 05.Stuart С - Electron Vibe (Luke Porter Remix) [Often Gruven Recordings] Written & Produced by Stuart Carey. Additional Remix Productions by Luke Porter (p) fi. (c) Often Gruven Recordings 06.Dirty Dot - Heart Of Pain [Monogato 'Funk N Trance" Remix] [Rococo Records] Written & Produced by Bas van Essen & Willem van Hanegem. Additional Remix Productions by Peter Smith (c) Baroque Records LTD. (p) Skyblue Music / Truelove 07.Jav D ft. Mat Zo Einat - Silver Lining (Tell Me] (Mikey and Sharky Vocal Mix] [AVA Recordings] Written & Produced by Mat Zo & Jav D. Additional Remix Productions by Mikey and Skarky [p] fi. (c) Ava Records 08.Andy Moor vs. Orkidea - YearZero [Andy Moors First Light Remix) [AVA Recordings] Written & Produced by Andy Moor S. Orkidea. Additional Remix Productions by Andy Moor [p] fi. (c) Ava Records 09.Slusnik Luna vs. Lowland - Baas (Original] Written & Produced by Jimmy Cauty fi. Bill Drummond aka KLF [p] fi. (c) Ava Records 10.Santiago Nino ft. Paleday - Arpeggia [Original Mix] [Wildchild Records] Written fi. Produced by Santiago Nino fi. Anthony (c) Baroque Records LTD [p] Skyblue Music / Truelove 11.Pilot (Sergey Tkachev] - Crash My Heart [Original Mix) [Method] Written fi. Produced by Sergey Tkachev (c) Baroque Records LTD [p] Skyblue Music / Truelove

In the summer of 1990, Operation Blackbird was launched, to investigate the curious (and then growing) appearances of Crop Circles across the world. These mysterious, geometric shapes would appear in crops, prompting some to claim UFOs were at work, and others to cry 'hoax'.On the second night of Operation Blackbird, researchers were excited to see a crop circle emerge…but when they examined closer, the plot thickened. They found strange circular boardgame boards, in the centre of every circle, and then the next day, one of the researchers received a letter from the notorious UK dance band…the KLF.Join me as I try to get to the bottom of this curious case, which involved me interviewing original witnesses, and gaining access to a handwritten letter supposedly by KLF front man, Bill Drummond.Visit us online at itsourcuriouspast.comSpecial Thank you for those that helped with this Episode:Colin Andrews played by David StephensonGeorge (Merlin) Vernon played by Owen StatonHelp support our show through Patreon:Peter Laws | creating podcasts, immersive audio, video and more! | PatreonFind us on all podcasting platforms:Our Curious PastThank you!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy