should've posted this at the time, has some info about the origin of the soup line I hadn't heard before and a quote on the burning at the end... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/4654301.stm Tuesday, 5 July, 2005, 20:54 GMT 21:54 UK Ex-pop star sets up soup kitchen [Picture: Moody Drummond - Bill Drummond has a history of confounding expectations] Former KLF performer Bill Drummond was visiting Merseyside on Wednesday making soup for local people. Drummond, a visual artist, was to visit St Helens Arts Festival in Haydock, as part of his national Soup Line Tour. The 52-year-old created his Soup Line after drawing a line across the British Isles and cooking up a broth for people living on the line. Drummond, who said "You can lose yourself in making soup", will be in St Helens from 6-8 July. "Pots and pans" The artist said he had always enjoyed making soup, and took the idea a step further when a listings magazine in Nottingham asked him to provide a competition prize, "expecting a signed book or something". "I decided that the prize should be me coming round to the winner's house to make soup for their friends and family," said Drummond. "It went really well, just the idea of turning up with my ingredients and pots and pans. "I drove home that night, and in the larder door in the kitchen I've got a map of the British Isles. "A Million Quid" "I drew a line across the map through Belfast and Nottingham, and decided it should be the Soup Line. If anybody living on the line contacted me, I would come to their place and make them soup. "I kind of like the idea that somebody just got out a pencil and ruler and drew a line. I decided to have my line on the map and called it the Soup Line." Bill Drummond has made his name by confounding expectations. In August 1994, he and KLF collaborator Jimmy Cauty travelled to a boathouse in the Scottish island of Jura with £1m of money earned by KLF hits such as Justified and Ancient, 3AM Eternal and What Time is Love? They lit a bonfire and burned the entire pile of money made up of £50 notes, recording it for a film called Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid. Drummond recently said of the incident: "Of course I regret it - who wouldn't." -- Stuart Young, Michelle Ardern & Felix Ardern-Young (4) Live at: 16, Seacombe Road, Pt Chev, Auckland, NZ Phone: +64 (0)9 849 9020 say.map@ihug.co.nz Graphic and Web design, Web development and hosting: http://www.pixelandgrain.co.nz/ Stuey's personal website - a cobweb site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/ Any views expressed in this email are those of the author and not of any of the organisations we are involved with. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.1/51 - Release Date: 7/18/05