Bill Drummond

45 is a non-fiction book by Bill Drummond, referred to by The Guardian as a "charmingly barking ma memoir". It collects various short stories written by Drummond between 1997 and 1998. The Urge To Paint (or Have I Got The Strength To 'Just...

In this article: The Guardian, Steven Poole, Charles Shaar Murray, KLF, Democracy, B92, The Magnificent, Iain Sinclair, and Will Self

"Doctorin' the Tardis" () is a 1988 electronic novelty pop single by The Timelords ("Time Boy" and "Lord Rock", aliases of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, now better known as The KLF). The song is predominantly a mash-up of the Doctor Who...

In this article: Doctorin' the Tardis, The KLF, Jimmy Cauty, Time Lord, Gary Glitter, Doctor Who, Sounds, and Tardis

...the music industry can be about as exciting as shopping for paper towels. But if you have 30-minutes to listen to this riveting talk by Bill Drummond, you'll know every major event that's happened in the industry in the last 130+ years and...

In this article: The Manual, The KLF, and No.1

KLF star's tower opens for village festival Bill Drummond, who owns the Curfew Tower in Cushendall Community festivals are held all over Northern Ireland but few can boast the involvement of a modern music pioneer. Bill Drummond...

In this article: Cushendall, KLF, Northern Ireland, Democracy, 3am Eternal, BRIT Awards, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Georg Solti

...because it's coming from house and has an uplifting vibe about it. But it's so heavy it will just pin you to the floor."; while Bill Drummond said of it in 1991: "It's the compete yang to the yin of The White Room. It'll be very very dense,...

In this article: The Black Room, The KLF, Jimmy Cauty, Extreme Noise Terror, The White Room, NME, It's Grim Up North, America: What Time Is Love?, and Mark Stent

KLF's Bill Drummond to make London appearance | News | NME.COM KLF's Bill Drummond to make London appearance Man who set fire to GBP1 million to give book talk on Thursday (Sept 18) Bill Drummond, leader of '80s avant-garde pop group The...

In this article: The KLF, London, Waterstone's, and Gower Street

...fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. 17 centres around Bill Drummond's latest (harebrained ?) scheme, The17. Drummond has always been highly ambivalent about the (pop) music world, seeking to...

In this article: The Observer, Oxfam, Big in Japan, Echo and the Bunnymen, K Foundation, and KLF

Robert Sandall talks to professional controversialist and KLF founder Bill Drummond With Bill Drummond now, you feel, it's very much a case of 'cometh the time, cometh the man.' Agreeably sane and reasonable: Bill Drummond By his past...

In this article: Jimmy Cauty, KLF, Echo and the Bunnymen, Suicide, The Sun, 3AM Eternal, Select, and Illuminatus!

...vehicle for all manner of artistic concepts or polemical designs. To names such as Malcolm McLaren and Tony Wilson we can add Bill Drummond, former record executive, manager of Echo and the Bunnymen and mastermind of the KLF, here parading...

In this article: Last Choir Standing, K Foundation Burn a Million Quid, Strawberry Fields Forever, Land Rover, IPod, Gavin Bryars, Jimmy Cauty, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Tony Wilson

...music in favour of 17-person choirs | Music | The Guardian 'I'll never willingly put on a CD again' The latest idea of the KLF's Bill Drummond - to reject all recorded music in favour of ad hoc 17-person choirs - is as barmy yet...

In this article: McDonald's, KLF, Liberal arts, Ice cream, Supply chain management, and Illuminati