Bill Drummond Said (Part Two)

Bill Drummond said: “All recorded music has run its course. Dispense with all previous forms of music and music-making and start again”

Bill Drummond is right.

How many times have you bought a CD only to find that the recording you now own is a pale shadow of the track you heard the band play live?

How many times have you bought a CD only to find that the recording you now own has lost something since you heard it on the radio?

How many times have you bought a CD and only played it the once?

Bill Drummond has formed a choir, The17.

I’m going to do something different. The Revolutionary Music shop will close on Saturday 20th September, at 5pm.

Revolutionary Music is dead. Long live revolutionarymusic.co.uk

Dan Thompson, 8th September 08

Made In Worthing

So – Worthing will get a new arts festival in September 2009, a year from now.

Made In Worthing will showcase contemporary visual and live arts, music and literature, produced by local artists, companies and groups – and will continue the tradition of the now-defunct Artists and Makers Festival to bring interesting, challenging and unusual guests to the town. For the record, they’ve included Bill Drummond, Dave Gorman, Andrew Collins, Gimpo, The Caravan Gallery and acts from the Big Chill.

Made In Worthing will aim to explore the place and spirit of Worthing and take a sideways look at our local identity. The whole thing will be brought together by the Revolutionary Arts Group and will happen in September 09.

Interested?

Bill Drummond Said

Bill Drummond's The17 Manifesto

Bill Drummond has just launched his latest book, The17.

It takes, as its starting point, the idea that ‘all recorded music has run its course. Dispense with all previous forms of music and music-making and start again’.

Now, I’ve been running Revolutionary Music for six months, selling CDs to Worthing’s most discerning customers from a tiny store in a back alley hiding beneath the heavy weight of the Guildbourne Centre. We sell to people who can talk knowledgably about The Wedding Present and their side-project The Ukrainians; understand the difference in fiddle style between Eliza Carthy, John McCusker and Bella Hardy; and already have Laura Marling’s album in the rare Songbox format.

And I’ve become slowly aware that, after a lifetime collecting music and building up over 2000 CDs filled with nu-folk and old jazz, psychedelic rock and dirty indie, new music and old Northern soul, that like Bill, I’m getting a bit bored of listening to music.

Bill formed a choir, The17, performing Fluxus-style scores. I’m not sure what I’m going to do yet.