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  Bill Drummond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bill Drummond was born to Scottish parents in South Africa, where his father was a preacher for the Church of Scotland.
The song could be seen as a reply to the Cope song "Bill Drummond Said".
Under such aegis, Drummond and Cauty enjoyed a long-running approval and reverence from the music press for their combination of wayward promotional tactics, depthful media critique, and humorous, innovative and influential dance music.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Drummond   (773 words)

  
 Tangents fun'n'frenzy filled web site.
It has a sliver of one of the blue grid lines that Bill Drummond drew on the artwork one night, and a tiny fl dot made by a pen as Drummond and I pinpointed the exact section that I was going to buy.
Some of them are about Drummond's time as a manager of Pop groups like Echo and The Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes, and others about his own experiences as a Pop Star with the KLF.
Bill Drummond says that the first love of his life was Penkiln Burn, which is in the Galloway hills of Scotland.
www.tangents.co.uk /tangents/main/2002/may/drummond.html   (965 words)

  
 UC Berkeley Journalism / Faculty / William Drummond
Professor Drummond has been honored with a National Press Club Foundation Award, the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Journalism Excellence, and the Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Black Condition from the National Association of Black Journalists.
For Marketplace Radio, Professor William Drummond produces a radio piece on Marketplace Radio and KQED-FM examining the shrinking endowment at UC and other institutions of higher learning.
Drummond goes on a NASA laser mapping mission as part of a radio documentary on coastal erosion.
journalism.berkeley.edu /faculty/drummond   (329 words)

  
 Alan Goodrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He filmed (and owns the print of), the Watch The K-Foundation Burn A Million Quid film, drove Bill Drummond and Mark Manning to the top of the world (as recounted in Bad Wisdom), and was the ski-masked person fumbling with lighter fluid and matches when Rachel Whiteread came to claim the K Foundation art award.
The first time this took place was in 1997 when he was accompanied by Bill Drummond and artist Dave Green.
Bill says he was born and raised in Manchester (although there are rumours that Gimpo himself says he's from Mold in Wales), and is a 'brother-in-law' to Mark Manning (Zodiac Mindwarp aka Z).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Goodrick   (582 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts features | 'It's not haute cuisine'
Drummond's promotional flyers explain: "He made it known that anybody living on this Soup Line was welcome to invite him to their home to make soup for their family and friends.
Which is why most of Drummond's concurrent little "jobs" go unpublicised, such as www.mydeath.net, a website where people can post suggestions for their funeral, inspired by two friends who died of cancer and had "really crap funerals".
Drummond is even coaxed into a first-ever live performance of the KLF's Justified and Ancient, with Kegsy taking the Tammy Wynette role and Euge banging soup vats as drums.
arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1220776,00.html   (1050 words)

  
 45 - Bill Drummond
Drummond would have a great memoir in him -- From the Shores of Lake Placid is a great beginning -- but he only offers dribs and drabs of the KLF days, the Doctorin' the Tardis triumphs, even much of the K Foundation work.
Drummond's contemporary focus and more incidental pieces -- about purchasing some Stewart Home pieces, interviewing Richard Long, flying on the same plane with Peter Green, Scots nationalism, making soup, his often mundane life -- are also accomplished, a worthwhile and interesting collection in their own right.
Drummond has found a decent style, and he seems to have more than enough material for further volumes -- if that is the road he wants to take.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/drummb/bd45.htm   (1680 words)

  
 Bill Drummond Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
From 2000 to 2002, Bill was the Manager of Pharmaceutical Consulting Services with RWD Technologies where he was their senior information technology business leader in the New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania area.
Prior to RWD, Bill was an officer in the U.S. Army and attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Bill has a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY and a Master of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from the Naval Postgraduate School.
www.metasol.com /billdrummondpage.htm   (325 words)

  
 KLF ONLINE [ About | Bill Drummond | Biography ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bill was an Elvis-fan who ran away to sea to become a fisherman off the North East coast of Scotland when he was still a teenage boy, which he described as "my youth years lost afloat".
Billed as Kind Boy D on a lot of the Zodiac writings of the time.
In 1996 Bill and Mark Manning (Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction) published a book called Bad Wisdom which is a story about their journey to the North Pole.
www.klf.de /v2.0/home/about.php3?x=drummond   (571 words)

  
 The Edge Books Bill Drummond: 45
Bill Drummond was up to his eyes in the Liverpool scene of the early 80s.
Drummond is, he lets us know, a complicated man. Underneath The KLF's self-styled Stadium House lurked hidden agendas, ideas that allowed them to sculpt records like the monumental 'It's Grim Up North' and plot and execute the perfect novelty Number One ('Doctorin' The Tardis').
Bill Drummond is a national treasure and 45 simply the best - and best written - book by or about a musician since Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices.
www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /booksnonf/fortyfive.htm   (689 words)

  
 Peter Knight's Forgiveness
Kate draped Bill Drummond’s still damp letter over the radiator in her room, placed the beer mat that she had brought with her from the bar on the bed-side table, and she too turned in for the night.
Drummond was bound to have picked out some ambitious dim-wit, businesslike and probably very efficient at keeping her filofax in good order, but gullible, and no doubt already fallen for some line from Drummond about the future good of the department.
And if Bill trusted her enough to share with her his vision of the future, and to take her on board as a part of that future, then the least she owed him was her support.
www.petergknight.com /forgiveness.html   (9875 words)

  
 [No title]
Drummond, his wife, Laura, and their son, Jonathan, now 7, were on a tour of Civil War battlefields in 1996 when they decided to find the spot where Laura's great-great-grandfather-Fleet Johnson-had fallen in battle.
Drummond was amazed at the combination of tenacity and luck it took to make the discovery, and began to ponder how to make it easier for others to trace the paths of their ancestors who fought in the Civil War.
Drummond, who came to Tech in 1987-and whose own great-grandfather, David Deaderick, was a Confederate cavalry officer who survived the war-was dismayed at the thought that his son would not be able to show his descendants where their ancestors had fought because of encroaching development.
gtalumni.org /StayInformed/magazine/spr00/Art3.html   (1614 words)

  
 Jack London Story: South of the Slot
It was a fierce battle, for Drummond was a large man and an athlete, but the crowd finally jumped on his ribs, walked on his face, and stamped on his fingers, so that it was only after lying in bed for a week that he was able to get up and look for another job.
Freddie Drummond accepted the doctrine of evolution because it was quite universally accepted by college men, and he flatly believed that man had climbed up the ladder of life out of the weltering muck and mess of lower and monstrous organic things.
Bill’s job was in the wash-room, and the men had been called out first, that morning, in order to stiffen the courage of the girls; and Bill chanced to be near the door to the mangle-room when Mary Condon started to enter.
www.jacklondons.net /writings/StrengthStrong/slot.html   (5845 words)

  
 Journalists are kneading to learn balance
Drummond speculates the disparity reflects his belief that women are more attuned to their emotional needs, largely because they often have to navigate between career and family.
Drummond, a slender man with wispy salt-and-pepper hair, appreciates the irony that a grizzled newshound like himself is now teaching such a touchy- feely subject.
Drummond used to assign his students to interview journalists at the old M&M bar (now called the Chieftain) in San Francisco, where Chronicle and Examiner staffers retired to lick their wounds.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/07/LVGGP5DR761.DTL   (1260 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Ex-pop star sets up soup kitchen
Drummond, a visual artist, was to visit St Helens Arts Festival in Haydock, as part of his national Soup Line Tour.
Drummond, who said "You can lose yourself in making soup", will be in St Helens from 6-8 July.
Bill Drummond has made his name by confounding expectations.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/merseyside/4654301.stm   (377 words)

  
 Annual Report - Bill Drummond
Bill Drummond is a man of many faces and talents.
It is the year that Drummond finds himself strangely drawn to the Indian goddess Kali, "the greatest of all female deities." He is invited to go to Calcutta, repeatedly, until it is clear that the goddess has summoned him: karma or destiny, Bill has to go.
Drummond's success is in his simple straightforward style (strenuously avoiding, as he keeps reminding the reader, descriptive detail) and his proper approach to India.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/drummb/annualr.htm   (747 words)

  
 Bill Drummond
Bill Drummond is a name which is relatively unfamiliar to the press and public, yet he has enjoyed world-wide success with a number of musical endeavors.
The project caused a great deal of outrage and legal wrangling due to the inclusion of snippets from Margaret Thatcher's speeches, an Abba single and various BBC broadcasts.
Drummond's musical history actually began in 1977, when he performed with the group Big in Japan.
www.bar-none.com /bios/drumbio.html   (457 words)

  
 Clicks and Klangs - Bill Drummond - 45
Drummond's past exploits with Zoo Records, the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, the KLF and the K Foundation.)
Drummond's take on all these shenanigans is as self-contradictory and ambiguous as you might imagine.
It was both the ultimate challenge and the impossible dream for Drummond to work with her, and for that reason once the idea had occurred to him it had to be carried out.
www.beefheart.com /zine/001/45rm.htm   (1258 words)

  
 NME.COM - News - BILL DRUMMOND IN THE SOUP!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NME.COM - News - BILL DRUMMOND IN THE SOUP!
Drummond, who once burnt £1 million in cash on a Scottish island, will spend a week in Northern Ireland in May preparing soup.
In 2002, Drummond launched the silent protest playing cards, which were used as a silent call for peace.
www.nme.com /news/107671.htm   (259 words)

  
 erasing clouds
If it is easy to wonder why Drummond is going through all of this to sell this work of art, it is also easy to wonder why he now dislikes the work of art he bought with such enthusiasm.
Gimpo was ready to change their pounds in dollar banknotes, then he asked them to choose two numbers from two different bags: the numbers acted as the X and Y coordinates of the work of art.
Pics of Bill Drummond at CCA, Glasgow, Scotland, by Anna Battista.
www.erasingclouds.com /04april.html   (3628 words)

  
 Bill Drummond at the Arts Depot, Finchley, 27th October 2004 - a photoset on Flickr
Bill Drummond at the Arts Depot, Finchley, 27th October 2004 - a photoset on Flickr
Bill Drummond at the Arts Depot, Finchley, 27th October 2004
Bob, Miki, Andy and I went to see Drummond pitching his cutting-up of Richard Long's "The Smell Of Sulphur In The Wind" into 20,000 pieces.
www.flickr.com /photos/yoz/sets/35229   (50 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Drummond joked that his Scottish Presbyterian upbringing has instilled in him a shame about having, and holding onto, money - but he is obviously preoccupied with the power the green stuff holds over what are now referred to as the creative ‘industries’.
Drummond is an excellent, if erratic, storyteller, but for the full tale - which spans 35 years - you will have to buy a copy of the book ‘How To Be An Artist’ (on sale tonight for £10 a signed copy, £15 unsigned - yet another comment on the commodification of art).
For Drummond has carved up his favourite artwork, and the lucky Baltic audience are being offered a 1/20,000th of a Richard Long for the knock-down price of $1 a go.
www.chatshow.net /Reviews/reviews.aspx?reviewID=161   (830 words)

  
 The White Room (1989)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After the success of their Timelords single in 1988, Bill Drummond (the lanky one, wearing Martin Bormann's coat in the movie) and Jimmy Cauty (smaller, hairier, and the driver of their car) claimed they were sent a bizarre music contract by a shadowy organisation called "Eternity".
Drummond and Cauty were apparently upset at the Spanish footage, which was filmed in a wintry November 1988, but some of the visuals are simply stunning.
There is some (muffled) dialogue as Bill and Jimmy sign the Contract from Eternity, and then some shots of Ford Timelord driving around the Thames Embankment area (to a soundtrack of "3 AM Eternal").
www.imdb.com /title/tt0098641   (934 words)

  
 Interview with Bill Drummond
Bill Drummond does not have the prestige of some of our past interviewees, and while not a household name, he does deserve some credit for his turd polishing exploits with' Echo and the Bunnymen' and 'Teardrop Explodes'.
Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook.
V.M. So Bill, at the age of thirty three and a third you made an album of autobiographical songs and now at forty five you have written a similar book ; at seventy eight you say you will read it again.
www.dingdongtwist.org.uk /Vol3/html/drummond.html   (784 words)

  
 IDEASFACTORY UK: Careers: Bill drummond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bill Drummond seems like a man who is constantly weighing up the outside chance of his hair-brained schemes ever succeeding - then doing them anyway.
Bill Drummond was ensconced in room in the Adelphi hotel with a £10,000 price tag on his head - or whichever part of his anatomy his beneficiary had designs on.
As he was sat there, Drummond says he lost his bottle and crapped out.
www.ideasfactory.com /careers/features/car_feature30.htm   (1169 words)

  
 South of the Slot
And Bill Totts liked the girls, and the girls liked him, while Freddie Drummond enjoyed playing the ascetic in this particular, was open in his opposition to equal suffrage and cynically bitter in his secret condemnation of co-education.
It was Freddie Drummond, irreproachably clothed and comforted, seated at his study desk or facing his class in Sociology 17, who saw Bill Totts and all around Bill Totts, and all around the whole scab and union-labor problem and its relation to the economic welfare of the United States in the struggle for the world-market.
Bill's job was in the washroom, and the men had been called out first that morning in order to stiffen the courage of the girls; and Bill chanced to be near the door to the mangle-room when Mary Condon started to enter.
ackmo.baylor.edu /~bellc/JL/SouthOfTheSlot.html   (5844 words)

  
 Jimmy Cauty & Bill Drummond...
On the night of February 23, Cauty and Drummond began to invest much of the money that KLF Communications had made in setting up the K Foundation of which they are both trustees.
On 23 August Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond set fire to £1,000,000 of their own money and burnt the lot.
In June, Cauty and Drummond enter the studio to produce a new interpretation of this version of their track.
www.mutelibtech.com /mute/2k/cautdrumm.htm   (1418 words)

  
 Drowned in Sound - Reviews - Book - Bill Drummond
Alongside Jimmy Cauty, Bill Drummond was better known as the KLF (latterly the K Foundation), and with the arrival of his 45th birthday Drummond decided to compile a collection of his musings on life, music and fame.
In parts Drummond is deliberately obtuse; anyone hoping for further explanation of why the KLF saw fit to burn a million pounds will be disappointed, but in places the humility and honesty of the book mean that it reads almost as an open journal.
Drummond’s self-depreciating assessment of his life is endearing and entertaining without sounding like false-modesty.
www.drownedinsound.com /articles/2282.html   (440 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Pick of the day: radio
When they made Bill Drummond, they threw away the mould.
As half of the KLF, he once machine-gunned an awards ceremony with blanks, causing a distinguished composer to flee in terror.
Grutas Park, as it is officially known, sits in southwest Lithuania in a reclaimed swamp, and aims to recreate the dark days of Soviet occupation.
www.guardian.co.uk /tv_and_radio/story/0,,1358252,00.html   (252 words)

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