Saw this mentioned on another mailing list:
Ex-KLF man, Bill Drummonds latest project involves a silent anti-war campaign. Packs of 'Silent Protest' playing cards, being produced by Penkiln-Burn - his publishing outlet of, are now available in selected bookshops across London. Drummonds initial plans to be silent for year were rejected in favour of the more manageable task of being silent for a day, supported by a visual aid explaining your protest hence the idea of producing a pack of 52 playing cards featuring 52 short statements, questions or single useful words instead of the normal suits. Drummond is doing a special presentation to an invited audience at the Marx Memorial Library in London, Oct 29. There will be a further presentation at The Foundry, on Londons Great Eastern Street, after which artist Tracey Sanders-Wood will release 1000 helium filled balloons. Attached to each balloon will be a randomly selected card from a pack of Silent Protest. Anyone who retrieves one of the balloons and returns the card will be sent a complete pack
In a statement Drummond said, The world seems to want to go to war. I don't want it to. I might not be able to manage more than a day of silence but if I got these Silent Protest cards printed up and distributed to bookshops, maybe other people would do days of Silent Protest which would soon mount up way past the 365 days that I originally envisaged.
To attend Bill Drummond's Silent Protest presentation on Oct 29 at the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell, email silentprotest@penkiln-burn.com with your name and postal address. 50 randomly selected people will receive an invitation.
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Glacial Twenty-Three wrote:
Saw this mentioned on another mailing list:
Ex-KLF man, Bill DrummondÂs latest project involves a silent anti-war campaign. Packs of 'Silent Protest' playing cards, being produced by Penkiln-Burn - his publishing outlet
and here is NME take on the project: http://www.nme.com/news/story.htm?ID=103332 Former KLF man BILL DRUMMOND is launching a set of playing cards aimed at prompting people to take part in a day of silent protest against "The War." Drummond will launch the 'Silent Protest' cards during a special presentation at the Marx Memorial Library in London (October 29). Following the event, he'll move to The Foundry in east London, where Tracey Sanders-Wood will release 1,000 helium-filled balloons. Attached to each balloon will be a randomly selected card from a pack of Silent Protest. Anyone who retrieves one of the balloons and returns the card will be sent a complete pack of Silent Protest. The cards are just like regular playing cards. However, instead of numbers and suits on the front are simple everyday phrases - such as 'Today I'm silent as a protest against the war', 'coffee', 'Where is the lavatory' and 'Fuck you' - which the silent protestor can use to get through. "The world seems to want to go to war. I don't want it to," Drummond explained. "Nobody who can do anything about stopping it is going to listen to me. "Instead of thinking about my futility, I thought maybe I could manage a day of silence, and I thought about the practicalities of getting through a normal working day without saying a word. Maybe I could cut up a sheet of white cardboard so that I would have a stack of cards that could fit in my pocket? Instead of four suits there would be 52 cards with 52 short statements or questions or single useful words - maybe leave a couple blank for whoever, to add their own. "I might not be able to manage more than a day of silence but if I got these Silent Protest cards printed up and distributed to bookshops, maybe other people would do days of Silent Protest which would soon mount up way past the 365 days that I originally envisaged." Drummond added that the silent protest was against "whichever war you want to stop: the one in your family or bedroom; the one at work or the war in a far-flung land". -- Stuart Young, Michelle Ardern & Felix Ardern-Young (1) have moved to: 42B, Sefton Ave, Grey Lynn, Auckland, NZ Same Phone: +64 (0)9 376 8100 say.map@ihug.co.nz Stuey is webmaster of the NZ Green Party: http://www.greens.org.nz/ And webmaster of his own personal website - a cobweb site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/
Top night, arrived late at the Kings Head and briefly met up with some of the list members before the gig. Anyway, the whole evening was split into different segments, each representing the different junctions of the M25, and most with an introduction by Iain Sinclair. Bill was the 2nd person to be on, bringing on a large black and white painting saying 'Gimpo, Gimpo, Gimpo' on it with the explanation that if anybody dies on next years annual M25 spin (nearest Saturday to 21st March), then their family can have the painting! He then read basically the following text - http://klf.life.eu.org/Misc/m25.txt Lots of other artists then appeared, including Ken Campbell (KLF link - Bill helped to put on a stage production of the cult book "Illuminatus!" with Ken Campbell's Science Fiction Theatre), Scanner (two sets - superb), Wire (not sure what they were actually playing live - certainly not the vocals! - but good anyway), the poet - Bill Griffiths - who also played some tunes on the piano, Aaron Williamson (who was dressed in silver with a wheel and a chair on his back - very strange), and of course Jimmy... Well, Jimmy in an Orange fluescent jacket and guitar was joined by two other musicians - a drummer and another guitarist, and Gimpo with a flash light. They played a thrash metal song with the lyrics "Faster Gimpo - M25!" shouted all the way through - although not to be confused with the Kalevala song of a similar name! Very good, and hopefully someone videoed/taped it. There were a couple of press photographers taking photos during the night, and also someone with a video camera - if you're on the list, I want a copy! Anyway, there will be a film about the book being shown on Channel 4 on Tuesday night at 11:30pm, although this won't be a film of the Barbican event - see http://www.illumin.co.uk/ for more details on the programme. Also, it doesn't look (by the credits) as though Bill/Jimmy/Gimpo are featured in the film... Superb night, and I welcome any other reports! l8rs, Nick ;-)
I am still a bit tired from lying around 6 hours at London Stansted, but all I can say about the show is two words. FUCKING BRILLIANT ! This was the best thing ever in my life. :-) We will post a lots of lots of pictures for those who missed it (and the others who went there, to revive the evening again) on the web site as soon as we are all back in normality. --- Thomas Touzimsky same shit // different day
So what's the deal with this? Anyone gonna go to the Marx Memorial Library thing and then The Foundry and see if we can't get us a couple balloons? :) Chris Stuey and Michelle wrote:
Glacial Twenty-Three wrote:
Saw this mentioned on another mailing list:
Ex-KLF man, Bill Drummond's latest project involves a silent anti-war campaign. Packs of 'Silent Protest' playing cards, being produced by Penkiln-Burn - his publishing outlet
and here is NME take on the project: http://www.nme.com/news/story.htm?ID=103332
Former KLF man BILL DRUMMOND is launching a set of playing cards aimed at prompting people to take part in a day of silent protest against "The War."
Drummond will launch the 'Silent Protest' cards during a special presentation at the Marx Memorial Library in London (October 29). Following the event, he'll move to The Foundry in east London, where Tracey Sanders-Wood will release 1,000 helium-filled balloons.
Attached to each balloon will be a randomly selected card from a pack of Silent Protest. Anyone who retrieves one of the balloons and returns the card will be sent a complete pack of Silent Protest.
The cards are just like regular playing cards. However, instead of numbers and suits on the front are simple everyday phrases - such as 'Today I'm silent as a protest against the war', 'coffee', 'Where is the lavatory' and 'Fuck you' - which
the silent protestor can use to get through.
"The world seems to want to go to war. I don't want it to," Drummond explained. "Nobody who can do anything about stopping it is going to listen to me.
"Instead of thinking about my futility, I thought maybe I could manage a day of silence, and I thought about the practicalities of getting through a normal working day without saying a word. Maybe I could cut up a sheet of white cardboard so that I would have a stack of cards that could fit in my pocket? Instead of four suits there would be 52 cards with 52 short statements or questions or single useful words - maybe leave a couple blank for whoever, to add their own.
"I might not be able to manage more than a day of silence but if I got these Silent Protest cards printed up and distributed to bookshops, maybe other people would do days of Silent Protest which would soon mount up way past the 365 days that I originally envisaged."
Drummond added that the silent protest was against "whichever war you want to stop: the one in your family or bedroom; the one at work or the war in a far-flung land".
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:20:26PM +0000, Hawx wrote:
So what's the deal with this? Anyone gonna go to the Marx Memorial Library thing and then The Foundry and see if we can't get us a couple balloons? :)
I get the impression the launch thing at the Memorial Library is invitation only - and surely grabbing a balloon before it floats away is _kinda_ cheating? :) The cards _should_ be in bookshops, according to the press stories. -- "A scientific theory should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." - AlbertEinstein
Jonathan Wakely wrote:
So what's the deal with this? Anyone gonna go to the Marx Memorial Library thing and then The Foundry and see if we can't get us a couple balloons? :)
I get the impression the launch thing at the Memorial Library is invitation only - and surely grabbing a balloon before it floats away is _kinda_ cheating? :)
Aww, nuts. I just fancied actually seeing Bill in the flesh (wasn't able to make it to the Barbican thing on Friday) and seeing the balloons go up over London... Wasn't planning on nicking a balloon, honest :) Who knows, maybe one will land in my garden... Chris
Just had a quick chat with the Marx Memorial library - the women on the 'phone didn't know anything about the event, but knew that the library was booked between 1800 and 2000 for "an event". I e-mailed Penkiln-Burn about tickets, but haven't heard anything back from them. As the library is only a short walk from my office I might try and drop down there on the off chance that I might be able to get in. Not sure if I'll make it to the Foundry though as I'm supposed to be having dinner with a couple of clients. Hawx wrote:
So what's the deal with this? Anyone gonna go to the Marx Memorial Library thing and then The Foundry and see if we can't get us a couple balloons? :)
Chris
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:56:11PM +0000, Craig Earnshaw wrote:
Just had a quick chat with the Marx Memorial library - the women on the 'phone didn't know anything about the event, but knew that the library was booked between 1800 and 2000 for "an event". I e-mailed Penkiln-Burn about tickets, but haven't heard anything back from them.
ditto
As the library is only a short walk from my office I might try and drop down there on the off chance that I might be able to get in.
ditto Plan B: might have a pint in the Crown Tavern (also on Clerkenwell Green) -- "Because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" - Jack Kerouac
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 03:43:38AM +1300, Stuey and Michelle wrote:
Glacial Twenty-Three wrote:
Saw this mentioned on another mailing list:
Ex-KLF man, Bill DrummondÂs latest project involves a silent anti-war campaign. Packs of 'Silent Protest' playing cards, being produced by Penkiln-Burn - his publishing outlet
and here is NME take on the project: http://www.nme.com/news/story.htm?ID=103332
And another: http://www.playlouder.com/news/4234.html Bill was on BBC London Live this afternoon as well, I didn't hear it but have had a very rough synopsis given to me. It basically says the same as the above link, which is.... BILL DRUMMOND SHUTS UP! No war, no words, etc. 24.oct.02
From the desk of Sir Billiard Drummond...
"The world seems to want to go to war. I don't want it to. Nobody who can do anything about stopping it is going to listen to me. That's what I thought a few months ago. It's what I still think now. My first reaction was to go into my workroom and make a painting. I already had a large, landscape proportioned canvas primed and sitting in my easel. I painted the canvas black then I painted the word SILENCE in white big bold letters. Then I added a yellow stripe at the bottom. While I was making this painting I had a thought process that went something like this. Maybe I should stop talking for a year as a zen-like silent protest against the prospect of this war. But then I thought about all the problems that I would cause for my family if I tried that and, anyway, I couldn't keep it up. Then I thought about it being arrogant and self-indulgent and not one life being saved. And if I really wanted to stop the war I'd go and work for Amnesty International instead of making this painting. So, instead of thinking about my futility, I thought maybe I could manage a day of silence, and I thought about the practicalities of getting through a normal working day without saying a word. Maybe I could cut up a sheet of white cardboard so that I would have a stack of cards that could fit in my pocket? On the face of each card I'd write something like, 'today I'm silent as a protest against the war' or 'coffee' or 'where is the lavatory' or 'fuck you'. Finally, and this was the big thought, in the whole-line-of-regular-sized-thoughts that I'd been having, I should produce a commercially available pack of cards called Silent Protest. Instead of four suits there would be 52 cards with 52 short statements or questions or single useful words - maybe leave a couple blank for whoever, to add their own. I might not be able to manage more than a day of silence but if I got these Silent Protest cards printed up and distributed to bookshops, maybe other people would do days of Silent Protest which would soon mount up way past the 365 days that I originally envisaged. Would one less person be killed? I don't know. But I wasn't going to let this possible futility stop me now. And why stop at stopping World War? Why not all those little petty domestic ones that go on in our families, bedrooms or at work? So I had the cards designed and printed. At 7pm on Tuesday 29th October, I will be giving a presentation of Silent Protest to a small invited gathering... at the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell (warning no drinking or smoking allowed). This will be followed at 9pm by a more rumbustious and open to all presentation at the Foundry, 84 Great Eastern Street, EC2 (warning drinking and smoking allowed but no dancing). The flames of debate will be fanned and the artist Tracey Sanders-Wood will release 1000 helium filled balloons. Why Silence? Because it's golden, sound, worth a shot. Because somebody once said 'the right to silence is our trump card'." So there you go. To attend Bill Drummond's Silent Protest presentation on October 29th at the Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, EC1, e-mail silentprotest@penkiln-burn.com with your name and postal address. 50 randomly selected people will receive an invitation. We're going to the Foundry though, so there. Mumumumu... -- Please contact me if you didn't receive this message.
Jon wrote:
Bill was on BBC London Live this afternoon as well...
hopefully the interview will be up on his site soon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/insideldn/radio/robert_elms.shtml ...and there's currently a fifteen-minute interview with Iain Sinclair on there, which may be of interest to some. ;-) cheers, --- Smiley __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:47:11AM -0800, Smiley wrote:
Jon wrote:
Bill was on BBC London Live this afternoon as well...
hopefully the interview will be up on his site soon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/insideldn/radio/robert_elms.shtml
...and there's currently a fifteen-minute interview with Iain Sinclair on there, which may be of interest to some. ;-)
Ah, nice one, cheers! Apparently Drummond and Sinclair both on at the same time today. -- "Strange how potent cheap music is." - Noël Coward
Does anyone here happen to know what kind of speakers were used for the White Room sleeve? There MUST be a number and a name for these speakers... Guesses? Dan --- a.k.a. Kuta, KLF Online (www.klf.de)
Tonight, Channel 4, 23.40 - 01.10. dont think there'll be ant KLF mention but may be of interest to those that went to the Barbican on Friday. Phil
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