Bill Drummond - 'Art provocateur'

Bill Drummond's 10 Commandments of Art 

 From The Observer    15 June 2014

Photograph taken by Tracey Moberly

The 25 Paintings were recently on display at Eastside Projects

They are now about to set off on a World Tour - until 2025.

You might enjoy exploring the Penkiln Burn website

January 23rd Cosmic Trigger Play Update

**CHANGE OF LIVEPOOL VENUE**

Calling all Discordians.
This just in from Daisy Eris Campbell:

Cosmic Trigger-Squeezing in the Pool of Life And other Fine Messes

Happy 23rd! (just)

Firstly a quick update for the as-yet uninitiated:

Plan is to stage an adaptation of Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson, with scenes from Illuminatus! woven through, as well as a dramatised peek backstage at the original Liverpool production (directed by my dad, Ken Campbell). To be funded by crowd, staged by enthusiasts and encircled within a festival of Higher Intelligence. We've had a successful read-through of the first draft, done a talk with some scenes WATCH HERE and folk have started sending in money, despite not yet launching an official crowd-funding campaign...

And when you send in your £23 or $23 you will also become a Discordian Pope. And if you're already a Discordian Pope, then I'm excommunicating you until you cough up. Right, consider yourself initiated.

Hello Popes,
A bunch of us are Liverpool-bound for another Discordian Jamboree. It'd be a joy to see you there!

Here's the blurb:

Time to Pull the Cosmic Trigger?
The Kazimier 4-5 Wolstenholme Sq. Liverpool, L1 4JJ.
Sunday, February 23rd, 4pm

Come and join the Discordians Heaven-bent on resurrecting the ideas of Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of Illuminatus!
Fresh dispatches from John Higgs, author of "The KLF - Chaos, Magic and the Band that Burned a Million Pounds", with his talk: "I Blame Liverpool".
Never-before-seen filmed interview with Alan Moore, discussing all matters RAW.
Daisy Eris Campbell brings us up-to-date on the synchronic forces aligning in her mission to stage Cosmic Trigger
Includes scenes from the play, with music, magick, puppetry, projections - and acting.
If you want to help us pull the Cosmic Trigger, there is nowhere else to be.

You can reserve your place HERE and it's £5 on the door. It's a good idea to reserve, but please don't unless you really are coming, otherwise well, it will be chaos - and we wouldn't want that ;)

And please let folk know!

Thanks yous:

Many thanks to all of you who volunteered your time to do some research for me. And even more thanks to Roman and Jlyte, who delivered! (Only teasing, I'm sure the rest of you are beavering away, down a cosmic fun-hole of bizarre inquiry - I look forward to seeing the results).
Thanks to everyone in Liverpool - Greg, Paul, Paddy, Larry, Nicki, Angie, Tom et al for making it such a magical day on Monday. Can't wait to see what you guys come up with for the 23rd.
Ta, Shelle.
Big thanks to those of you who've donated your £/$23s - it's what's made this Liverpool escapade possible, which should in turn help immanentize the es-Show-ton (seamless).

Help Needed:

The next hurdle (or initiation), following the Liverpool do, is to make sure the crowd-funding campaign ignites like a bastard - CROWD FUND LAUNCHES APRIL 23RD
As some of you will know, I plan to offer the following (amongst many other things) as rewards to those who donate money within the official campaign:
An exclusive, never-before-heard interview with Shea and Wilson backstage at the NT
Ken Campbell box-set of video recordings of his one-man-shows - not previously available!
The audio recording of the original LIVERPOOL Illuminatus! production

So - help-wise:

Can you design beautiful packaging for the above?
Can you edit the above and add nice titles and whatnot?
Can you help burn CDs/DVDs?
Do you have any other recordings/photos/memorabilia that could be copied and offered as rewards?
Do you have any other genius ideas of rewards we could offer?
Could you record yourself wishing us the best with raising the money, and include a RAW or Ken anecdote?
Do you know other people who should darn well be on this mailing list, but may not yet be so?
YOU ARE STILL WELCOME TO DONATE, OR YOU CAN WAIT UNTIL THE OFFICIAL CROWD-FUNDING LAUNCH - OR BOTH!

Donating before we launch the crowd-funding campaign will get you on the guest list to an exclusive after-show party - only available to the Inner Circle of early supporters.


DONATE HERE email address: cosmictriggerplay@gmail.com


All Hail Discordia!

xx xxx Daisy

Cosmic Trigger - The Play

Here is the brilliant video of Daisy Eris Campbell from the recent Horse Hospital gig:



The plan is for the play to start in the UK and then head to America.
In the meantime anyone who donates £23 or $23 (or multiples thereof) in this pre-launch phase will be on the guest list for
The Grand Discordian opening night. (One in the UK and one in The States).
Much of the money raised will contribute directly to The RAW Estate by securing the rights.

So write an e-mail now to get on the mailing list.
The E-mail address is: cosmictriggerplay at gmail dot com
You can use paypal, or if you would rather use online banking, E-mail Daisy and she'll send you the details.

Another Cosmic Trigger event along the lines of this one, looks likely for Liverpool on *UPDATE* February 23rd, 2014.
A Kickstarter with lots of fun incentives will launch, hopefully on April 23rd, 2014.

Event you missed at the Horse Hospital

Forteans and Discordians have a night out at The Horse Hospital.

We met John Higgs, who has written the definitive book on Tim Leary, and more recently a wondrous book about the KLF, who gave a great talk about Bob, and why his influence remains relevant.

 

Jon One took the opportunity to burn £20 as part of his ongoing rituals, and you can see his explanation here (to the person who shouted out about how many Syrian children that could have helped).

Bogus just destroyed £5 in the washing machine, death by water rather than fire.  Does that count for anything?

Daisy Eris Campbell enthused us with her plans to stage Cosmic Trigger, and we will post links to the second half when it becomes available.  She has already received over £400 in £23 contributions, which allowed her to set up This Book Changed My Life Productions.

Playing Cosmic Trigger

Daisy Eris Campbell has written a play based on RAW's Cosmic Trigger.

In London, on the evening of October 23rd John Higgs and Daisy Eris Campbell put on a lovely event titled "The late, great Robert Anton Wilson." I went along with some friends from the Maybe Logic Academy and the audience also comprised a mix of Forteans, Discordians and Bob fans. John Higgs talked about some of Bob's central themes. Then after a small interval Daisy Campbell with some actors performed a scene from the play.

The project is going to need to raise funds, and at this stage donations of £23 or multiples thereof will be a great help.
Anyone who makes this donation before the Kickstarter project is launched next year will be on the guest list for The Grand Discordian opening night. (UK or USA).

Down the line there will likely be a kickstarter project for this.
Some of the things to do are: the forming of a Theatre Company, sorting out a Website and finalising the rights from the RAW Estate etc.

So write an e-mail now to get on the mailing list.

The E-mail address is: cosmictriggerplay at gmail dot com

You can use paypal, or if you would rather use online banking, E-mail Daisy and she'll send you the details.

Review: KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money

bc ideogrammic review of KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money by JMR Higgs

.@johnhiggs Great googily moogily! KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money is one of my favorite books ever. Best statement on art since "F For Fake"
— Bobby Campbell (@RGC777) January 5, 2013

Bogus Magus has more infos: They're Justified and They're Ancient… #KLF
Tom Jackson has an Interview w/ the author: JMR Higgs talks about his new book on The KLF and RAW