The Managing Director
The character of The Managing Director SPOKE by Tam Dean Burn
Any other characters SPOKE by the former Bill Drummond
THE COVENTRY SOUP LINE
SPOKE
WRIT
From the Desk of The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
Friday, 31st October 2025
Dear Concerned Parties,
I have been told by those that have been working on the shop floor of the Penkiln Burn Universe fore sometime you might already be very aware of THE SOUP LINE.
And that you might have even broken bread and supped soup on THE SOUP LINE.
I had never heard anything about soup lines before, let alone THE SOUP LINE.
But I have now been told that...
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 The Willing to answer 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,
The Managing Director of Penkiln Burn Recordings
Post Script:
Thus back to what I am supposed to be talking to you about...
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 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 theITA@penkilnburn.com
And again nobody here on the shop floor of the Penkiln Burn Universe has told me anything about this Intercontinental Twinning Association. I guess you might know.
