Anyone on list in attendance?
I was at the Marx Memorial Library for the first bit, but didn't go to the Foundry. A fairly good talk by Bill, (with heckling from Z, who walked out) to about 60 people. Bill carried in an old portable record player and two easels. He then placed a large canvas on the left easel and a framed poster on the right. He also set up a small card table at the front, and played a 7" of one of the tracks from The Man (I think it was True to the Trail, but my turntables are in cases downstairs and I'm not checking now) The canvas was landscape, "SILENCE" in white on black, with a horizontal yellow line near the bottom. The poster was the rules of the Silent Protest game, as played with the cards. He started talking about how Tony Blair is two weeks younger than him. When he was younger he thought that he couldn't stop the wars that were going on, but that when he was older government would be made up of people who'd listened to the same records as he had, and read the same books and seen the same films, and so they'd realise that war was stupid. Now that there's a Prime Minister younger than him, who's trying his damnedest to go to war, Bill felt that he should do something. He spoke a bit about wanting to do something like Lichtenstein's fighter plane pictures, and about how an artist's job is to make the world a better place, and that before they die they should have achieved that. Most of the rest of the talk covered what is in the online interviews already posted here. There were two cameras there, one was Gimpo's handycam and the other a large broadcast quality job. At the end everyone wrote a name and address on a bit of paper and ten were picked at random to be sent a pack of the cards, and everyone present was given a pack as they left. I'm too tired to remember any more details now, so I'll go to sleep now. -- "What I tell you three times is true" - The Hunting of the Snark