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PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
RANDOM ANSWERS
Tuesday the 4th of November 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
All of the further random answered offered between now and the 14th of November 2025 will be listed on the page that you can visit by clicking HERE.
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
Tuesday the 4th of November 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
Passing observers might already be aware of this but...
The former Bill Drummond looks back at everything he has ever done in his working life to be little more than provide content for Western Cultural Imperialism, however niche that ‘content’ might be.
And when we say, ‘Western Cultural Imperialism’ we actually mean ‘American Cultural Imperialism’, as in the UK is little more than a vassal state to the USA. As in that is the real meaning of the Special Relationship. I mean, how many of those Born in The USA know where the real Boston or for that matter York are, or any other towns in the UK that have given their name to cities in the USA.
Anyway...
This might just be his version of ‘Woe is me’, but it begs us to add further question to the ever-lengthening list of question that are already clambering to be asked.
To cast judgement on The Last Questions click HERE.
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
DOCUMENTATION
Monday the 3rd of November 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
Tracey Moberly is the Director of Documentation for The Penkiln Burn Players.
Tracey Moberly has history of instigating forms of documentation that have not been explored in earlier times.
That said...
We live in a world where every passing moment exists to be documented.
We live in a world where the Past is in league with the Future to dominate the Present.
We live in a world where Documentation tells lies while claiming to be the truth.
We live in a world where many truths can exist at the same time.
Thus...
No one truth is The Truth.
Over the course of the construction of The Coventry Soup Line and the performance of The Tied Toes, Tracey Moberly will direct the documentation of both.
This documentation might involve students of Coventry University using whatever means necessary to document the events of the day.
Tracey Moberly will collect, collide and collate, the efforts of the willing documentarians in an attempt to create a collective whole of the events of the day.
Thus...
The Past will be in league with the Future to dominate the Present one more time.
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
Post Script:
The content of the above missive to you might be edited under the influence of the Penkiln Burn Players’ Director of Documentation.
THE PENKILN BURN PLAYERS
Sunday the 2nd of November 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
You may already know this but...
The Penkiln Burn Players are group of wandering players, who have been playing and wandering for some time.
On Friday the 14th of November 2025, The Penkiln Burn Players will be wandering into the Delia Derbyshire Building in Coventry to perform the play The Tied Toes.
With them will be their Artistic Director who goes by the name of Tam Dean Burn.
And...
Their Musical Director who goes by the name of Leo Condie.
And...
The Tier of Toes who goes by the name of the former Bill Drummond
The rest of the cast for this performance comprises of forty individuals who have bought tickets in the hope they are to witness the former Bill Drummond do something other than tie toes. What they did not know was that in the act of buying a ticket they have unwittingly become a member of the cast for The Penkiln Burn Players for that evening’s performance of The Tied Toes.
The Costume Department of The Penkiln Burn Players, will provide work coats for The Cast to wear for the duration of the performance of the play.
Tam Dean Burn will be in character as The Minister.
And...
Leo Condie will be in character as The Precentor.
The Minister and The Precentor are also characters in the wider and ongoing performance that goes by the name of Voices From The Galloverse
The Stage Set for The Tied Toes, will include the following...
1: Forty chairs positioned in a circle at the centre of the Hyper Studio in the Delia Derbyshire Building.
2: A painting painted by The Part Time Painters that very afternoon during the creation of The Coventry Soup Line. The title of the painting is TIED TOES.
3: A large cumbersome easel to position the TIED TOES painting upon.
4: A public history of The Shangri-Las created by STEWY that very morning on the outside wall of the Delia Derbyshire Building.
The Stage Props for The Tied Toes, will include the following...
1: A large ball of twine.
2: A bottle of blood red nail varnish.
3: A brush to paint the nail varnish onto the nails forty pairs of Big Toes.
4: A copy of the record EMOTIONS by The Tied Hands.
And...
5: A record player to play the record EMOTIONS by The Tied Hands on.
The tech required will be recording equipment to record the various layers of the vocal performance of Past, Present & Future originally recorded by Shangri-Las in 1966.
The dialogue for The Tied Toes has not been scripted.
But...
It is hoped that the performance of The Tied Toes will include the following actions...
The Forty unsuspecting members of the cast will arrive at the Delia Derbyshire Building between 7:30 and 8pm on the evening of Friday the 14th of November.
They will be handed a work coat to wear.
They will be asked to sit on the Forty Seats in a Circle that are waiting for them.
Tam Dean Burn in his role as The Minister will appear and precede to the centre of The Circle.
The Minister will introduce himself and welcome the other members of the cast and introduce them to the fact that they are no longer a group of individuals that have bought a ticket for something but were not too sure what that something was but they are now to be in character as one combined character that is to go by the name of The Congregation. And as such they have to follow his instructions given by Tam Dean Burn as The Artistic Director of The Penkiln Burn Players and in his role as The Minister of The Congregation.
The Minister will tell The Congregation that in 1801, Ludwig Van Beethoven composed his Piano Sonata Number 14, which was later anointed the title Moonlight Sonata.
And...
It was on this evening 85 years ago that Luftwaffe, under strict instruction from Adolf Hitler, carpet bombed the City of Coventry.
And...
That Adolf Hitler decided to call this carpet bombing of Coventry his Moonlight Sonata.
And...
That in the early months of 1966, Shadow Morton used the Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to be the backing track of The Shangri-Las record Past, Present & Future.
And...
The Minister may play the original version of Past, Present & Future by The Shangri-Las and one or two of the other versions recorded by The Tied Hands during their tour of the World Wide Web. This will be done to give context to whatever may happen next.
As in...
The Minister will then introduce Leo Condie as both the musical director of the evening’s performance and as The Precentor.
The Precentor will then inform how he and The Congregation will construct a recording of Past, Present & Future with ‘nothing but their voices’.
This construction will involve risk and anxiety.
This construction will be recorded and mixed in the real time as part of the performance.
While this is happening, The Tier of Toes may want the forty members of The Congregation, to remove their shoes and socks, so that he can use his ball of twine, to tie their big toes together, and then paint the nails of their big toes, with blood red nail varnish.
But...
That tying of toes and painting of toenails might not happen, because sometime things don’t happen for both good and bad reasons.
But...
Recording of Past, Present & Future by The Tied Toes will happen.
And...
The Minister will then inform The Congregation that the complete cast of the performance of this play are to retire to the outside of the building, where STEWY has done his street art portrait of the original members of The Shangri-Las.
And...
Then the newly constructed version of Past, Present & Future will be played to the original line up of The Shangri-Las and to the night sky, where on that night, 85 years ago the bombs fell from the sky onto the streets of Coventry. And we will all imagine as strongly as we can what it is like to have bombs fall out of the sky on to us in this very real world that we are living in.
And...
That might be the end of this performance of that play.
The Cast will take their bows and retire into the night.
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
PAIN TING
Saturday the 1st of November 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
The former Bill Drummond is a part time painter.
He has painted ever since he learnt to use his hands to spread fresh cow dung mixed with ash, on the walls of a home in Nqamakwe. In his mother tongue of Xhosa, this act was known as ukusinda.
He was taught how to ukusinda by his by his favourite baby minder Matilda
Matilda also taught him how to dance and sing and talk and walk.
This all being done while his mother was at work teaching older children to read and write.
But on his families return to Scotland he found that ukusinda was no longer used, so he took up the local act of whitewashing walls.
The History of Art, regarding the work of Bill Drummond, has decreed it is because of this that...
His favourite painter has always been Tom Sawyer.
His favourite painting has always been The White Fence.
The White Fence was ‘thirty yards long and nine feet high’
The White Fence was Tom Sawyer’s greatest painting.
Tom Sawyer was also a part time painter, but it is not known if Tom Sawyer ever used his hands to rub cow dung into the walls of Aunt Poly’s home.
But back to the History of Art...
The word ‘painting’ is a conjunction of the two word ‘pain’ and ‘ting’.
The use of the word ‘pain’ in the word ‘painting’ is there to represent the hidden form of self harm experienced while indulging in the activity of painting.
The use of the word ‘ting’ in the word ‘painting’ is there to represent the hidden rush of endorphins experienced while indulging in the activity of painting.
Some part time painters aspire to be full time painters and even to be recognised as artists or even Artists. They are driven to do this in the hope that they are able to carry on doing painting without the side effects that make painting an activity worth doing.
But back to Coventry on the evening of the 14th of November 2025...
The former Bill Drummond will have two fresh canvases, each measuring 1,910mm by 1,350mm that are to be specifically painted for that evening. On the first of these two paintings the words SOUP and LINE are to be painted in yellow, red, black and white. On the second of these two paintings the words TIED and TOES are to be painted in black and white.
In tribute to his favourite part time painter, as in Tom Sawyer, the former Bill Drummond will be inviting those attending the creation of the Coventry Soup Line to exchange small treasures and trinkets for the privilege of taking part in the painting of these two paintings.
The painting of these two paintings must be completed within the time frame given for the construction of the Coventry Soup Line, as in between the former Bill Drummond slicing the first onion for the cauldron of soup at 2pm and the last drop of soup being wiped from a bowl with a chunk of broken bread at 7pm.
What happens to the paintings after that is not known.
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
THE COVENTRY SOUP LINE
Friday the 31st of October 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
You might be very aware of THE SOUP LINE.
You might have even broken bread and supped soup on THE SOUP LINE
But...
The Coventry Soup Line is not THE SOUP LINE.
The Coventry Soup Line is something different.
The Coventry Soup Line is no longer than one hundred feet from one end to the other.
The Coventry Soup Line will be made up of a continuous row of tables stretching diagonally across the Hyper Studio in the Delia Derbyshire Building. On each side will be fifty chairs.
As in...
One hundred chairs in total.
And...
The Coventry Soup Line will only exist for two hours in its entire life.
Those two hours will be between 5pm and 7pm* on Friday the 14th of November 2025.
*Note: Not the ‘5pm and 8pm’ as alluded to elsewhere.
But...
The Coventry Soup Line will not go down in the Official History of Soup Lines, if any less (or anymore) than one hundred people were not to sit down at the table and consume a bowl of soup.
As in...
Soup made and served by the former Bill Drummond.
As stated elsewhere...
The price of a Bowl of Soup will be answering one of the One Hundred Question that the former Bill Drummond needs to find answers for. To help engage the willing to answer one of these one hundred questions, one hundred pencils and one hundred sheets of paper will be laid out on the full length of The Coventry Soup Line tables. There will also be printed copies of the One Hundred Questions.
For those concerned by such things, The Soup will not contain any animal products or any form of nuts but contain various forms of vegetables and varieties of beans. It will be thick and attempt to be wholesome. It will contain spices and herbs. But not too many chillies.
Also...
The Coventry Soup Line will not be considered worthy if each Member of the Sisterhood of Soup Liners do not converse with other Members of the Sisterhood of Soup Liners around them about the purpose of the questions being asked and answered.
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
Post Script:
Copies of the long playing record EMOTIONS by The Tied Hands will also be on sale during the creation of The Coventry Soup Line. Copies can either be bought for Twenty Quid each or for those wanting to enter the world of Record Distribution, they can purchase ten copies for the price of One Hundred Quid for ten copies and resell them at whatever the market deems to be the going rate.
Also...
The Intercontinental Twinning Association have been contracted to twin the Coventry Soup Line with a Soup Line in any other city in the world that you may choose to twin it. If you are a citizen of a city that is not Coventry and would like to construct a Soup Line in your city, please contact admin@penkilnburn.com
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Friday the 31st of October 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
It has brought to our attention that people might be drawn to answering the questions using the Artificial Intelligence of The Day.
This begs the Question of The Day...
Do we reject Answer that adopt the style of answers created by The Artificial Intelligence?
Or...
Do we accept Answers that adopt the style created by Artificial Intelligence, as that is this Modern World, as opposed to the former Modern World celebrated by Paul Weller?
That said...
One-word Answers to the above two questions will not be accepted.
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
MORE ANSWERS
Thursday the 30th of October 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
And more questions have been answered.
To read those More Answers click HERE
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
MORE QUESTIONS
Wednesday the 29th of October 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
Bill Drummond awoke in the night from a dream about...
Well he can’t remember what the dream was about, other than it was disturbing and that sleep did not welcome him in again before the first light of dawn sneaked in and the cat demanded to be fed, by which time it was too late for any of that more sleep.
Anyway...
There were more questions there troubling his thoughts. Many of these are questions that have troubled his thoughts many times as the years fleet by.
To read those more questions click HERE.
And feel free to answer these questions in whatever way you feel they should be answered.
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
EARLY ANSWERS
Wednesday the 29th of October 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
Yesterday the first of the One Hundred Questions were asked with little thought being given to what those questions were for, or why they were being asked, or even if they had anything at all to do with what EMOTIONS by The Tied Hands was about, or even why Hitler decided to call his bombing of Coventry on the 14th of October 1940 his Moonlight Sonata.
But...
Today the first of the One Hundred Answers have been delivered and will be added to this website for you to consider. Other answer will be added between now until there are no more answers to be given.
That said...
There may be more questions asked, which in turn will be beg more answers to be given.
We will see...
But...
In the meantime, if you feel the urge to read the answers given to date click HERE.
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
ONE HUNDRED QUESTIONS
Tuesday the 28th of October 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
Bill Drummond is uncertain...
Bill Drummond is uncertain about almost everything in life.
This uncertainty usually takes the form of his mind bombarding his thoughts with an endless list of questions he does not have the answers to.
Most mornings, the endless list of questions begins when he is still not fully awake wondering what the meaning of the dream is, as in a dream he has as yet not fully escaped from.
What follows are a selection of the questions that his mind has been bombarding his thoughts with this morning.
This selection of the questions might contain some of the ONE HUNDRED QUESTIONS that will be asked in exchange for a bowl of soup at the Delia Derbyshire Building between 5pm and 8pm on Friday the 14th of October 2025.
But...
In the meantime, you can answer as many or as few as these questions you want, as long as the combined word count of your answers is no more than 100 words. And then email your Anwer(s) to me via admin@penkilnburn.com
Your Answer(s) will then be considered upfront payment for your Bowl of Soup, if you were to attend the soup kitchen at Delia Derbyshire Building as mentioned above.
That said, your answers to any (or all of the) following questions will be welcomed by Bill Drummond, and may find themselves be used as content on these pages in the coming days / weeks / months or even years.
To read the One Hundred Questions click HERE
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
FORTY TICKETS
Monday the 27th of October 2025
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Dear Interested Parties,
Deliaphonic have now announced that...
The FORTY TICKETS to become lifetime members* of The Tied Toes are currently available by clicking HERE
WARNING:
The responsibilities, or even the disadvantages, of becoming a lifetime member of The Tied Hands are as yet unknown.
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
MOONLIGHT SONATA
Tuesday the 21st of October 2025
Dear Interested Parties,
The Tied Hands are to mark the completion of their 480-day tour of the World Wide Web (17th of May 2024 and the 8th of September 2025) on the 14th of November 2025, at the Delia Derbyshire Building in Coventry, England.
This marking will begin with Bill Drummond fly posting posters at far flung quarters of the city of Coventry.
And...
STEWY completing his Public History of the Shangri-Las, also at somewhere in the city, as yet not known.
These actions will be followed by Bill Drummond making and serving soup in the Delia Derbyshire Building. This serving will be for the first one hundred people that turn up with the answer to a question that is yet to be asked.
As in...
The price of a bowl of soup is the willingness to answer a question asked by Bill Drummond there and then before he ladles the soup into the waiting bowl.
As yet...
Bill Drummond does not know what those questions are. But they might include ‘Where would you rather be?’ or even ‘Why don’t we do it in the road?’ or maybe ‘If you were to bomb one city in the world which one would it be?’
Anyway...
That evening after Cauldron has been emptied and the Ladle laid to rest and the Soup Bowls have been washed, and the one hundred questions have been asked and answered...
The Tied Toes will perform a performance as a tribute to The Tied Hands.
The Tied Toes being a tribute act of The Tied Hands. The Tied Toes will be led by a tribute version of Bill Drummond.
As yet it is not known what form this tribute performance will take...
But...
It is known that it will begin at 8pm in the Delia Derbyshire Building...
And...
It will last for no more than one hour...
And...
There will be no more than 40 members of The Tied Toes.
And...
Forty Tickets to become lifetime members of The Tied Toes will be made available in the coming days.
And...
All there will be no audience other than those forty members of The Tied Toes.
And...
EMOTIONS by The Tied Hands is to be the third of five scheduled Long Playing records released by Penkiln Burn Records.
EMOTIONS by The Tied Hands is to be released in the Delia Derbyshire Building on the 14th of November 2025
EMOTIONS by The Tied Hands is to be released in an edition of 480. As in one copy for every day that The Tied Hands tour of the World Wide Web lasted (17th of May 2024 and the 8th of September 2025). Each of the 480 copies will be given their own handwritten date on the copy. None of the 480 copies will be signed by members of The Tied Hands those.
What follows are images of the artwork for the album EMOTIONS by The Tied Hands.
WARNING:
Do not buy a copy of this album, if you consider music as something to be enjoyed / emotionally moving or appreciated. Or even an investment.
Yours Faithfully,
W. E. Drummond
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
