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Does anyone else wish Bill Drummond would just fuck off?

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I do. This "No Music Day", aka I am old and don't like music anymore, plus we are all doomed and culture reached its pinnacle the day before I stopped doing drugs...

And also, people citing his ingenuity at "playing the media" etc, it's all so fucking overstated. HE BURNED A MILLION POUNDS OMG!

GO AWAY BILL DRUMMOND YOU MEDIA WHORE

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

Oh? Is that today?

Well, I haven't actually listened to any music yet. Maybe I shall continue to do so.

Even though I'm dying for an Early Years song right now.

I quite like Bill Drummond (these days) but then again, I would.

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Does Luke Haines have a case for plagiarism with regard to "No Music Day," seeing as he thought up the idea several years ago?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Most days are 'no music day' for me anyway. I don't really think of Bill Drummond as really 'around' anymore as it is.

― ;_; (blueski), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh.

http://www.firstfoot.com/good%20scottish%20pop/Images/brits1992.JPG

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Thing is he looks like Michael Palin now.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Today, I am playing some KLF records and The Man.

Oh, the irony!

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Friday, 20 October 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Feeling your age, Ronan?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

who's bill drummond?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

I really like Bill Drummond and would have enjoyed his autobiography that my Dad got me for Chrimbo a few years ago had it not been nicked along with my Two Lone Swordsmen t-shirt, a walkman and an unplayed copy of Wowee Zowee when I went on a trip to Oxford.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Today, I played "Octopus" and the bside, "Golden Hair", Syd Barrett.

Oh, is that Bill Drummond exploding?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

nm i just looked up wikipedia

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

"BILLY DRUMMOND, COMEDIAN"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Is it today? I DJed from 1.30 to 3 last night, the power cut for ten minutes, perhaps that was fate. I listened to music all the way home in the car, and all morning today. I am definitely part of the problem...

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't that Gary Coleman's father?

― Portable Dorkness (Dick Butkus), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

It's Nov 21.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

I heart Bill Drummond, he's only fulfilling the classic evolution from angry young(ish) man to bitter, reactionary old fogey. God forbid if he was still trying to cut it as a popstar now. I still think the demise of the KLF was one of the most beautiful and audacious artistic acts of the past twenty years.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

"I am observing No Music Day because:
1 - As most broadcast music has become aural wallpaper and ipods merely an excuse to crush individual awareness with the sonic doodles perpetrated by the latest fad to hit the charts, a deliberate attempt to eradicate all musical activity for 1 day provides the impetus for us all to wake up and realise what music is and then consider what it could be if we reset the hands of the clock to zero"

Seriously when will Chris Morris grow some balls and do the same "decline" sketch on this brand of person that he did on the news media....maybe too close to himself?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

the only good thing Drummond has down in the last 12 years is youwhores.com

― ;_; (blueski), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

(oh and i guess the books wot i haven't read yet)

― ;_; (blueski), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

The documentary film where they burn the million quids was quite something, just watching money burn.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

It was fake as the moon landing.

― ;_; (blueski), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

BILL DRUMMOND
Entertainer

- was one I saw not so long ago (I can't remember which programme though).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

It was fake as the moon landing.

Really? I though there were journalists there as witnesses. And if I remember correctly, they also got billed by the British central bank for destroying such an amount of money.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Does Luke Haines have a case for plagiarism with regard to "No Music Day," seeing as he thought up the idea several years ago?

At his show on Wednesday he said "is anyone observing Bill Drummond's No Music Day? It's a great idea, I wish I'd thought of it myself", in that voice that he does.

― Fraggle O Rly (Ferg), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Haha yeah if Bill Drummond has to die, then Luke Haines definitely has to go first.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone still describe themselves as an 'ART TERRORIST' post 9/11?

― ;_; (blueski), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I tried to read that "Bad Wisdom" novel he wrote with Mark Manning after a recommendation from a friend, and it was unbelievably tedious.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

DOn't destroy him. 45 is one of the best things ever.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I fail to see how doing next to fuck all for a decade and having the odd moan makes someone a MEDIA WHORE.

― ONIMO's lips can't feel! (GerryNemo), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

He is wheeled out too regularly...

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

By whom?

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Iain Sinclair, mostly.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

eg last year when that press release about Pete Doherty being a media creation went around, I read on about 3 messageboards, "this is Bill Drummond, a classic example of media manipulation, and the idiots who lap from the commercial trough taken in as ever"

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I read on about 3 messageboards, "this is Bill Drummond,..."

I think I see the flaw in Ronan's argument.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

It was also in the papers at the time, pretty sure the Guardian carried the rumour...

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe, he is indeed wheeled out regularly though...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/2K_-_Wheelchair.gif

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

is he the same guy who burned loads of expensive branded goods?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

No.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

No, that's Neil Boorman.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

It was fake as the moon landing.
Really? I though there were journalists there as witnesses. And if I remember correctly, they also got billed by the British central bank for destroying such an amount of money.

-- Tuomas (lixnix...) (webmail), Yesterday 1:30 PM. (later) (link)

First part is correct.
Second part is actually about their 'art' when they nailed £1,000 to a canvas/frame.

However, I've already posted a long time ago, my theory about how the whole thing was a scam (quell surprixe) and the reason they had jouros and independant witnesses etc was to be able to burn a mill, and only have to pay for the printing costs.

I saw back in the day, Julian Cope wrote a very angry article about the waste of a mill and what it would buy for the common good. I suspect he's in on it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 21 October 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

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