2000

2001

2002

2003

The giving away of 40 bunches of daffodils to total strangers.

It was the making of this film that instigated The17

2004

2005

The giving away of 40 bunches of daffodils to total strangers.

www.greenbelt.org.uk

For further information visit http://www.alandunn67.co.uk/piesnomusic.html

www.nomusicday.com Year one of a five year plan.

2006

The giving away of 40 bunches of daffodils to total strangers.

Infraction 2006 INFORMATION

Further INFORMATION about Infr'action 2006

Resonance 104.FM is an arts based radio station that was based in Denmark Street, London. Resonance hosted No Music Day 2006. For the 24 hours of No Music Day 2006, it broadcast no music. Instead its scheduled music programs discussed various topics inncluding the chanaging role of music in our society; the jazz show discussed the history of jazz album sleeve art work; the folk programme discussed the collection of flolk songs over the last 100 years.

Resonance 104.4 FM can also be listened to online at www.resonancefm.com

Year two of a five year plan.

2007

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To put up No Music Day sign (412cm X 54cm) on the Scotland Welcomes You sign at the Scottish border by Gretna Green.

Year three of a five year plan.

BBC Radio Scotland hosted No Music Day 2007. They are the national station for Scotland with a listnership of over 4,000,000. For the 24 hours of No Music Day 2007 the station played no music. This not only included the music that would have been played on the scheduled music programmes but all the station idents and jingles. Many listeners complained and made it known that they would be spending the day listening to rival stations for the day. Other listeners asked if they could have a no music day once a week.

The giving away of 40 bunches of daffodils to total strangers.

2008

The giving away of 40 bunches of daffodils to total strangers.

It is announced that that Sao Paulo, Brazil will be hosting No Music Day 2008. To mark this announcement a number of 21 NOV graffiti appeared around the city over the coming days and weeks.

My Computer is/was a group show. It featured a NOTICE and a SCORE relating to The17. Text relating to My Computer can be read here. Documentation of My Computer can be seen here

SLICE THROUGH DERBY is the name given to the performance of Score 317 REPEAT to be performed in the English city of Derby. This work has been commisioned to celebrate the opening of QUAD, the multi-million pound arts centre to be opened in August in Derby. Documentation of this performance is to be exhibited in QUAD between August 2008 and January 2009. All 100 performance within SLICE THROUGH DERBY will also be listed on these events pages.  This performance is part of the Coast-to-Coast world tour by The17 and is to be twinned with a performance of the same score in Jerusalem in 2012

Bill Drummond will be doing a Reading & Signing book tour to support the publication of the book 17 at a number of major cities in Scotland and England over a two week period in September. In Liverpool it will only be a signing.

Birth, Marriage & Death is the name given to the performances of scores 9 Welcome, 13 Celebrate, 16 Complement in the the Irish city of Derry, and the documentation of these performances at the gallery VOID, Derry. The exhibition runs from 18 October and 15 November 2008. For further information and documentation visit the World Tour pages of this site.

For further information contact info@eastsideprojects.org or click here.

Bill Drummond delivered a 25 minute talk entitled The History of Music (Part 19) as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival. The talk was followed by a Q & A session mediated by presenter Susan Hitch. The talk and Q & A sesseion were to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves programme on 8 January 2008.

Year four of a five year plan. Bill Drummond was invited by interested parties in Brazil to host No Music Day 2008 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was instructed by his hosts to spend the day handing out No Music Day leaflets (in Portugese) to all those listening to their personal stereos on the main shopping street in Sao Paulo; to apprehend all buskers and tell them that they may want to take a break from their labours for the day and instead re-consider what the position music had in their lives; to enter all the music shop on the cities music shop street and tell them to close their shops and go do something different for the day. He also did numerous interviews with Brazilian magazines, newspapers and radio stations. He doubts that there was even a fraction less music consumed in Brazil on the 21 November 2008 compared to any other day.

Bill Drummond celebrated Saint Cecilia's Day in the streets of the Santa Cecilia district of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

A performance of Score 5 INSTIGATE was performed with the members of the NFA Derby FC

For tickets click here

David Byrne (no, not that one but the other one), tried twice to attend an event at a Waterstone's on the Bill Drummond/17 book tour. Both times he was turned away. The first time because he didn't have a ticket and the event was sold out. The second time he had a ticket but because he was late and Drummond had barred all later comers coming in, Byrne was turned away. David Byrne thought this to be bad form and let this be known. In response to this Drummond agreed to come around to Byrne's place and give him a word for word performance of what he had missed out on at either of the Waterstone's. No date or time was agreed but Byrne said he would be in every Tuesday evening between October and Christmas. Drummond turned up unannounced the second Tuesday before Christmas and did what he promised.

A short statement by Bill Drummond about The17 read followed by a worldwide performance of Score 326 STOP. The Today programme is broadcast between 6am and 9am on BBC Radio 4 each weekday morning. It is the most widely listened to and influential news and current affairs radio programme in the UK. Drummond was invited to appear on the programme by the guest editor Jarvis Cocker. This performance is part of the Coast-to-Coast world tour by The17 and  is to be twinned with a performance of the same score in Timbuktu. 

2009

The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour dates and locations will be added to the 2009 & 2010  pages over the coming months.

Bill Drummond delivered a 25 minute talk entitled The History of Music (Part 19) as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival in Liverpool on 2 November 2008. The talk was followed by a Q & A session mediated by presenter Susan Hitch. The talk and Q & A sesseion are to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves programme.

Bill Drummond will be giving a talk entitled All Recorded Music Has Run Its Course at this years Transmediale Festival. The talk will be followed by a discussion with Martin Conrads. Drummond will also be inviting the audience as individuals to perform the score IMAGINE when they wake up in the following night.

Post Script: Two photographs taken at the event, one of Drummond reading from 17 and the other of him being questioned by Martin Conrads have been added to Flikr

Conversations is the name of work by artist Sally Lemsford. Lemsford uses conversations as a medium in her practice. These conversations are not documented. The conversation that she had with Bill Drummond in the hire van at the back of QUAD in Derby was begun by Lemsford posing the question 'If "The very urge to make recorded music is a redundant and creative dead-end", what is the motivation to produce hard copy artworks?'

The conversations that are included in Conversations work as a chain. The next conversation in this chain will be between Sally Lemsford, Bill Drummond and Tracey Moberly. Location and date of this conversation yet to be set.

It is announced that Linz in Austria will be hosting No Music Day  2009 as part of the cities Horstadt (Acoustic City) initative. Linz is also the European Capital of Culture for 2009. Further information about No Music Day events in Linz will be added to this page later in the year.

Surround Northampton Fishmarket was Bill Drummond’s contribution to the four-man exhibition 60 Miles By Road or Rail that ran at the Fishmarket in Northampton between 20 February and 28 March 2009.

Surround Northampton Fishmarket involved the promotion, execution and documentation of a performance of Score 328 SURROUND performed by The17. The performance of this score happened on Saturday 14 March 2007. 

This performance was part of Vocal Invention 2009 (a weekend of musical experiment). The first half of this performance was an introduction to The17 by Bill Drummond, the second half of the performance was the world premier of a new score by Drummond entitled Divide & Combine.

The title of this talk is The History of Music (part 19), it is also part of Vocal Invention 2009. Drummond first gave a version of this talk as part of BBC Radio 3's  Free Thinking Festival. There will also be a Q & A session after the talk.

This performance is only open to students at the university.

A performance of Score 328 SURROUND on the 5 kilometre circumference of a circle on the streets of Northampton. The centre of the circle is the Fishmarket. Bill Drummond gave an introductory talk at the Fishmarket at 3pm before the perfomance began. 

Photographic documentation by Mac Canonymous of some of the days events, can be viewed at Flikr

This performance of SURROUND is twinned with a perfomance at the 10th Open Performance Art Festival in Beijing, Chinabe in August 2009. This performance is part of the Coast-to-Coast world tour by The17.

For further information visit Silent Protest Berlin

This is to be the world premier of Score 325 North V South. The match will be between NFA Derby FC (The North) and Derbyshire Constabulary (The South).  This will only be the first half of this performance, the second half will be at QUAD on the 24 April 2009.

Bill Drummond will be giving the keynote speech at the M4Music Conference (2009). The title of the speech is The Meaning of Music. For further information click here

This will be a world premier performance of the score NIGHTCLUBBING. For tickets and further information here click This is the first date on the City-to-City world tour

Ted Hughes & Me is the title of a short film about Bill Drummond's relationship with the work of Ted Hughes. This was filmed by the BBC as part of their 2009 poetry campaign. And can be viewed here on the BBC site.

Amogst all the exhibits by other artists this exhibition  contains the one framed copy of Score 326 Stop, by Bill Drummond. This score was first performed on the 31 December 2008 on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4.

"In the ancient world the stars served as markers for the coming of a new year, the changing of the seasons and dawn of a new day and as ‘signs’ they continue to facilitate our punctuation of time. In 2009, UNESCO's International Year of Astronomy, the world commemorates the 400th anniversary of  Galileo's use of the telescope to observe the night sky. The science, the interaction of glass and light and the development of optical technology has revolutionised our understanding of our place in the universe. ‘Space-Time’ draws together works that capture a moment in space and time, that reflect upon applications of astronomical observations and the role of time in our everyday lives, memory and future."

This performance is for the first 17 people who stuck their names on the sheet of paper at Eastside Projects on the 31 October 2008. They know who they are. No further information.

This is the second part of the performance of NORTH V SOUTH. The first half was on the 23 March 2009. No Further information available.

Calvin & Me is the title of a short film about the influence of Presbyterianism on the life & work of Bill Drummond. This was filmed by the BBC as part of a programme entitled Natural Born Sinners to celebrate the 500 anniversary of John Calvin. It will be screened on 14 September 2009 on BBC Four.

Michele Jackson and Bill Drummond made the first complete Cake Circle to ever be constructed in England. It was done over two days in the small town of Newton-le-Willows, half way between Manchester and Liverpool. Documentation of this Cake Circle and its construction will be made available else where.

This was the world premier performance of the score DESTROY by Michele Jackson. Further details of this score and performance will be made available else where.

Recording first half of spoken word version of the book 17

Photographs of the Penkiln Burn painting floating down the Penkiln Burn. This is part of the of the ongoing photographing of the 25 Paintings. To view the photographs taken to date in this series click here. Photograph taken by Tracey Moberly.

This was the first in the ongoing photographic and performance work The Life & Death Of An Artist by Tracey Moberly and Bill Drummond.

Recording second half of spoken word version of the book 17

The UK premier performance of Score 80 HOKUSAI MOTION written by Simon Cullen

Rupert & Me

Saul Taylor will perform Score 6 CLIMB on the top of Snowdon after he has completed competing in the Welsh 1000m Peaks race. His description will be added to this page once he has written it up. ABANDONED DUE TO EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS.

As part of taking part in The17's performance of Score 349 DESTROY at Chester University on 6 May 2009, it was decided to retire the website www.youwhores.com. This was symoblically done at the time by Bill Drummond daubing a canvas with the words I WILL FUCK YOU FOR £10,000 and then slashing the canvas. The site was not actually retired until 10 June 2009. It was replaced by the new job You & Me - Me & You. The You Whores site can still be visited but only viewed as an museum peice,  it is no longer open for business.

Caught By The River (hardback) is a collection of new writings on rivers by numerous living authors. The writers include Irvine Welsh, Jon Savage, Jarvis Cocker, Chris Yates and Bill Drummond amongst others. Drummond's contribution is called The Penkiln Burn, and edited  extract from this was published in The Times and this is a link to  it here. Caught By The River is available from Amazon

All the artists who have previously exhibited at VOID between 2005-2009 have been invited to make a work of art using only a blank side of and A5 size post card. These are to be sold  in aid of Void Art School.

A performance of Score 8 TAKE. This performance took place in a field near Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England. The members of The17 were Steve Peck, Ruth Crome, Frances Cavendish, Paul Benney, Rowan Swanson, Lucy Andre, Catherine Lindsay Davies, Ros Coleman, Rob Hawe, Adam Brace, Cally, Jeannie Calloman, Tracey Moberly, John Hirst and Bill Drummond

The photographing of the Get Your Haircut, Open, Paint and Sledgehammers paintings. These four are part of the 25 Paingtings series of paintings. To view all those photographed to date click here. Photographs taken by Tracey Moberly.

This is the annual open day at the Curfew Tower, where all can vote for the best piece of work produced by an artist-in-residence over the previous 12 months. In the evening there will be a bonfire in the backgarden and a free bowl of curry and glass of wine for all comers. The winner is announced at 11pm.

The17 were invited to perform at 10th Open Performance Art Festival in Beijing, China.

The performance they gave was a version of Score 328 SURROUND. This performance was twinned with a performance of the same score in Northampton, England, that took place on 14 March 2009.

The members of The17 taking part in this performance were made up of 100 Beijing market stallholders or their families.

Read a full account of The17’s performance in Beijing, written by Bill Drummond.

View the 100 Beijing market stallholder members of The17.

View Score 328 Surround in Chinese.

This performance is part of The17’s Coast-to-Coast world tour.

A talk given by Bill Drummond about The17's performance of the score SURROUND that happened earlier in the day. This talk was for the other visiting artists and members of the public.

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

This is one of the 40 haircuts or shaves had by Bill Drummond, at 40 different barbers  in the cities, towns or locations on The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

A drive from London to Murlough Bay and back via Northampton, The Mull-of-Galloway, Cushendall, Derry & The Penkiln Burn

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

This is one of the 40 haircuts or shaves had by Bill Drummond, at 40 different barbers  in the cities, towns or locations on The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour

Photographs of City-to-City and Coast-to-Coast paintings nailed to trees. This is part of the 25 Paintings project. To view all photographs taken to date in this series click here. Photographs taken by Tracey Moberly.

Calvin & Me was not thought a sexy enough title by the powers that be in the BBC - so the title was changed to The Scots: Natural Born Sinners. The programme was trailed as a 'lighthearted documentary about the effect of Calvinism on the Scottish psyche, in which a cast of well-known Scots ruminate on growing up under Calvin's shadow.' Bill Drummond has said that if he had known it was to be 'lighthearted' he would not have taken part. He also has made it known that he believes that his contribution was so edited that it lost the meaning of what he had to say.

Photographic and performance event to promote No Music Day in Linz on the 21 November 2009. 

This is one of the 40 haircuts or shaves had by Bill Drummond, at 40 different barbers  in the cities, towns or locations on The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour

A talk given by Bill Drummond to staff & 6th formers of Kingswood School. And a performance given by The17. The members of The17 for this performance were the members of staff and 6th formers. This talk and performance was done as a way of introduction to the perfomances that were to be carried out in Kingswood over the following two weeks.

Przedostatnie kuszenie Billa Drummonda (The Last Temptation But One Of Bill Drummond) is a play written and directed by Marcin Wierzchowski for the Theatre Wilama Horzycy, in the city of Torun, Poland. The real Bill Drummond has neither read, seen or had anything to do with the production. There is/was a second run of the play in December 2009.

Over the previous two weeks 24 classes of pupils ranging between year 7 and year 11 (11 to 16 in age) from Kingswood School have become members of The17 and put together a version of Score 7 COLLABORATE. Their performance of this score will have been played back to them at 2pm on this date. The recording will not be deleted immediately

This performance is also twinned with a performance of the same score in early December 2009 in a school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. At the performance in Port-au-Prince, the recording of what was done in Kingswood will also be played for pupils there to compare and contrast with what they have done. In January 2010 the pupils in Kingswood will have a chance to hear what was done in Haiti, before both recordings are deleted.

Both are part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour.

This was the premier performance of Score 354: RECEIVE/TRANSMIT. The members of The17 performing is were: Jonny Ambrose, Caitlin Desilvey, Sara Gadd, Christine Haven, Caroline Healy, Jessie Higginson, Lisa Lucas, Elizabeth Masterton, Eric Masterton, Hannah Maughan-Robb, Carol Patten, Lizzie Ridout, Bryony Rogerson, Andy Rossiter, Katherine Smith, Adam Stringer & Mike Westley.

For further information about this performance please contatct Elizabeth Masterton info@elizabethmasterton.com

This was the premier performance of Score 354: RECEIVE/TRANSMIT. The members of The17 performing included: Jonny Ambrose, Caitlin Desilvey, Sara Gadd, Christine Haven, Caroline Healy, Jessie Higginson, Lisa Lucas, Elizabeth Masterton, Eric Masterton, Hannah Maughan-Robb, Carol Patten, Lizzie Ridout, Bryony Rogerson, Andy Rossiter, Katherine Smith, Adam Stringer & Mike Westley.

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For further information about this performance please contatct Elizabeth Masterton info@elizabethmasterton.com

This will be a performance/lecture open to the public given by Bill Drummond concerning selected aspects of his practice.

This will be for students attending the university.

Part of The IPCRESS File

This is also part of The IPCRESS File.

A world premier of Score 329 TWO TRIBES is to be performed in south Wales between two sides of break dancers - one from Swansea the other from Cardiff. It will be performed on neutral territory somewhere between the two cities. This performance is to be twinned with a performance of the same score by two tribes in Papua New Guinea.

This is part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour.

This may also be part of The IPCRESS File.

Further information to follow.

100,000 dissposable mats used on the trays in McDonald's restraunts in Upper Austria will carry information pertaining to No Music Day 2009.

For further information regarding this press conference given by Bill Drummond please contact  Pia Leydolt for German language media, or Maija Handover for rest of world media.

For further information regarding this press conference given by Bill Drummond please contact  Pia Leydolt for German language media, or Maija Handover for rest of world media.

This event will be a public discussion between Austrian musician & writer Rainer Krispel and Bill Drummond. Admission free.

This live DJ-Set with DJ DSL (Hamburg/Vienna) at Solaris Bar,
starts at 8 p.m. sharp and ends at 12 p.m. sharp. Admission free.

At the stroke of Midnight as DSL's set ends, Bill Drummond will welcome in No Music Day 2009.

Linz is the capital of the Austrian state of Upper Austria.

The following are a cross section of the institutions and business' in Linz and Upper Austria that, in their various ways, will be observing No Music Day 2009:

Church: The Jesuit parrish of the Old Cathedral Saint Ignatius will celebrate all masses on No Music Day without organ, choir or any congregational singing whatsoever;

Radio: Upper Austria's  Radio FRO will resist from playing any music for the 24 hours.

Supermarkets: Throughout Upper Austria the 122 branches of the SPAR and 140 branches of the  Maximarkt will not be playing piped music.

Schools: The Upper Austrian Music School will be closed. The students will spend the day discussing the future of music.

Shops: The majority of shops along Linz' central shopping mile Landstrasse will not run their instore radio stations or soundsystems, including for example the Diesel flagship store.

Cinema: Moviemento Cinema will be screening films that use no musical soundtrack - further details below.

Venues: The cities culture institutions, concert halls and music spots will hosts no concerts, gigs or DJs. These venues include the Brucknerhaus, Posthof, Ars Electronica Center (featuring No Music Day on its huge glass front to the city and the Danube), Café Strom, Grand Hotel Café Zum Rothen Krebsen, the OK - Offenes Kulturhaus and the Solaris Bar (playing a central role on No Music Day 2009).

At 6pm Bill Drummond will start to make soup in a public space within the Solaris Bar. The soup will be ready by 8pm. As long as supplies last, it will be free to all those that turn up and answer one of his questions. This is a Soup Lines International project.

At 6pm Moviemento Cinema will screen the first of the evenings two films without music. The first film is "Ten Skies" (James Benning / USA / 2004).

At 8pm Moviemento Cinema will screen the second of the evenings two films without music. The second film is "13 Lakes" (James Benning / USA / 2004)

At 10.30pm, Bill Drummond will give a talk about the hows & whys he imagined No Music Day in the first place; the successes and failures of the No Music Day between 2005 and 2009; and what could become of No Music Day in the future. Admission free.

This was a performance by Sprechbohrer (Talking Drills). The performance was sanwiched by performances by Sprechbohrer on both the 20 & 22 November in the same venue. The performance on the 20th began at 23:00 and ended at 23:59 and on the 22nd it began at 00:00 and ended at 01:00. The performance included recitals of the following works by the following composers:

   Georg Sachse: in dubio 1 (2009 UA)
   Peter Behrendsen: Atem des Windes
   Sigrid Sachse: ZU-VO-EL
   Harald Muenz: de(ux)ChiffrAge
   Stefan Streich: Nr. 1 aus 15 Gesänge
   John Cage: 4'33

The programme on the 20th was constructed to constitute one single decrescendo from "music" via speech-only pieces until reaching Cage's 4'33. This last (and iconic) piece
acting as a bridge to the 24 hours of No Music Day.
At 00:00 on the 22nd, the same works were performed again but in the reverse order starting with the hush of 4'33 building up through the speech-only pieces to the crescendo of the "music" pieces at the end. Thus leading the audience and performers back to the world of noise and music. 
Kunst-Station St. Peter, as well as being a venue for art and contemporary music, is also an active Catholic Church. The mass taking place on No Music Day was celebrated without the use of music.

For further information visit this site

The Waiting Room (TWR) is a UK-based new  music radio programme broadcast on US-based radio station WOXY. Instead of the usual two hour playlist of new releases they will be having a number of guests in the studio discussing the topics that arise from No Music Day.

The Waiting Room broadcast times are:

Saturday - 1pm GMT / 8am ET

Repeated Sunday - 9pm GMT / 4pm ET

Podcast Monday - 1pm GMT / 8am ET

The Sound of Mu will open at 3pm and stay open until the early hours of the 22nd. They have numerous events planned, visit their web site to learn more.

Yet again the singing of Happy Birthday will be stopped at the birthday celebrations of Toby Dyter.

Portland, Oregon will be hosting No Music Day in North America. Event details to follow. 

At the stroke of midnight DJ Michael Fakesch (Funkstörung/K7) ends No Music Day 2009 and welcomes in the festivities of Saint Cecilia's Day. 

Saint Cecilia is the patron saint of music. In many countries the 22nd of November was the day chosen to give thanks for and to celebrate the existence of music.

Those that supped soup on this occasion were: John Banks, Katie Dixon, Dustin Lyons, Dave West, Geoff Salisbury, Ross, Nicola, Simon Marson, Danny Wilkinson, Tracey Moberly & Bill Drummond. John Banks, the host, would like it known that the Soup Line goes right through his house and that if there was any soup left that he would not be putting it on eBay and that you should check out Bumblepuppy

From Bethnal Green, London to Mathew Street, Liverpool via Lowton, Lancs and back. The drive featured the head gasket blowing while driving at speed and other incidents.

Bill Drummond performed Score 1: IMAGINE while standing on the manhole cover at the bottom of Mathew Street, Liverpool, three yards infront of what was the entrance of the Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun. This performance is to be twinned with a performance of the same score outside the Brill Buildings, New York. It is also part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour

Bill Drummond had his haircut by Bert Jackson in 2005. Bert's barbers  shop was one of the most memorable that he has ever come across. Drummond was looking forward to having it cut by Bert again and to interview him. On arrival at his shop, Drummond found it closed, he enquired, at the news agents next door, if Bert was still in business, to be told that Bert 'passed away two or three months ago'.

This will sitll be considered one of the 40 haircuts or shaves had by Bill Drummond, at 40 different barbers  in the cities, towns or locations on The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour.

Bill Drummond performed Score 1: IMAGINE while standing on the manhole cover infront of the Brill Building on Broadway, New York.  The performance included Drummond singing Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow to the Brill Building. This performance is twinned with the performance of the same score that happened at 00:23 on the 2 December 2009 on Mathew Street, Liverpool. It is also part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour.

As part of the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, The17 will perform Score 7 COLLABORATE. The members of The17 for this performance will be made up of 60 + students from  L'Ecole Guillaume Manigat, Rue Chareron, off Blvd Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Grand Rue) - . This is part of Coast-to-Coast world tour by The17.

All The17 at L'Ecole Guillaume Manigat holding photograph of The17 at Kingswood, Corby. Both schools performance of the same score were twinned with each other.

Score 328 SURROUND was performed by citizen of the Grand Rue area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

This is one of the 40 haircuts or shaves had by Bill Drummond, at 40 different barbers  in the cities, towns or locations on The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour

Bill Drummond took part in a public discussion called Does It Bleed, along with Myron Beasley, Leah Gordon and other artists and academics taking part in the Ghetto Biennaale. Drummond's brief was respond to this following words "the dematerialisation of art and the relevences and conflicts this could have for artists in the developing world"

This event was part of the Ghetto Biennale Conference. The conference began at 12:30pm and ends at 6:00pm.

This was to be the site of one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. But it being a Sunday  none of the local 'hardware stores' were open to purchase paint and brush. To view all the other graffiti done to date click here.

2010

This is the begining of Volume 1: 100 Answers to 100 Questions. Click here to read the questions and the answers so far.

Between the 1 January and the 31 December 2010 a Cake Circle consiting of 50 cakes will be constructed in London. Further details to follow and week-by-week updates.

The performance of Score 7: COLLABORATE at Kingswood school on 16 October 2009 was twinned with a performance of the same score on 15 December 2009 at  L'Ecole Guillaume Manigat, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

At Kingswood's morning assembly on 20 January 2010, John Hirst and Bill Drummond told the pupils about their experience with working with the pupils in Haiti. It was also the launch of the appeal to raise funds for the needs of the pupils and the rebuilding and furbishing  of L'Ecole Guillaume Manigat. Tracey Moberly the artist who took the photos at the school was also there to show the prints of these photos.

Ongoing information about the money raised and what use it is being put to will be documented on these EVENTS pages. As of the 20 January the fund is over £2,000.

An exhibition of photographs taken by Tracey Moberly of local members of The17 on 15 December 2009 in L'Ecole Guillaume Manigat, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The photographs are hung as large scale unframed prints around the school. They depict members of The17 in formal and casual poses. They are brilliant.

DROP OF THE HAT is an online publication based on a blog  that started in January 2009 and ended 12 months later. The blog documented and explored issues arising from a performance based on SCORE 320: CHOOSE. The score was performed by Emily & James Unknown. They also wrote the blog.

This Haiti fundraising event has been organised by John Hirst and Karen Reilly. As well as there being a raffle and performances by The Neutrinos, BK & Dad and Death of Death of Discoteque, Bill Drummond will be leading a short performance of The17 with everybody in the bar at that particular time. This event is twinned with another event at The Bicycle Shop, 17 St Bennedicts Street, Norwich.

Hackney Borough Council's planning sub-committee was in session to vote on planning permission be given to knock down the Foundry and have an Art Hotel built in its place. Bill Drummond was invited to make a statement on no longer than 90 seconds. The thrust of his statement being that Hackney Borough Council should value the contribution given by the Foundry to the cultural life of the Borough over the previous 11 years and they are more than honour bound to help find a new location for the Foundry within the Borough, if planning permission is given for the Art Hotel. Planning permission was given. The full transcript of Drummond's statement can be read at WORDS 59 in the Catalogue section of this site. 

Bill Drummond spent two days in Belfast recording a programme for BBC Radio 4 about his relationship with the city over the past 50 years and how it has influenced his art. The programme is entitled Belfast: Re-Imagining The City and was broadcast at 11:30am on 9 March 2010.

Drummond requested that the programmes producer Rachel Hooper, should pose four questions for him to answer in writing before they met up to record the programme. And that the answers to these four questions would be the four pillars for the programme to based upon.  The complete written answers to these four questions can be read on the 100 Questions page of this site

Tivoli's has been at the same location for over 100 years. In that time it has always been owned by the same family. If you are ever in Belfast get your haircut there. All the other shops in the street are boarded up. Tivolvi's has still some of its original fittings. Sadly the original sinks got smashed in the past few years by some lads that broke in. It is not a tourist attraction it is a barbers.

Bill Drummond will be giving a performance/lecture at this years by:Larm festival in Oslo.

Bill Drummond will be giving a performance/lecture at the Supermarket Art Fair in the Kulturhuset, Stockholm. His performance will be part of the Documentation / Non Documentation series of talks and discussions.

Bill Drummond was patron for the Haiti Earthquake Fundraiser @ The Roundhouse. His involvement in the event was undefined. What is known is that he wrote a piece for the events website - to read it click here. On the night he said a few words and lead the world premier of Score 357: LOUDER & LOUDER

A drive from Bethnal Green, London to Overstones Farm in the Dark Peak and back to Bethnal Green, London.

A photography session was done with Bill Drummond and Tracey Moberly on the Dark Peak. The photographs taken at this session were to be used to promote the book $20,000 and as one of the photographs for 25 Paintings.

The recording of a radio proagramme entitled On The Map for BBC Radio 4. To be broadcast on 22 March 2010.

Belfast: Reimagining A City is a programme first broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 9 March 2010.
The programme was written and presented by Bill Drummond and produced by Rachel Hooper. It was chosen to be Radio 4's podcast of the week and was also featured on the station's Pick Of The Week programme. A podcast of the programme may be made available via this site at a later date.

Drummond requested that Rachel Hooper, should pose four questions for him to answer in writing before they met up to record the programme. And that the answers to these four questions would be the four pillars for the programme to based upon.  The complete written answers to these four questions can be read on the 100 Questions page of this site

In 1995 Bill Drummond bought a  work of art by the artist Richard Long. It was a photography & text work called A Smell of Sulphur In The Wind. It cost him $20,000. Richard Long was his favourite artist. The photographic element to the work was a photo of a stone circle created by Richard Long while walking across Iceland from top to bottom in 1994. 24 years earlier in 1970, the 17 year old Drummond and his sister attempted and failed to walk the same route across Iceland. Bill Drummond hung the the newly bought work