Tag: Book
How To Be Free
Back Cover Blurb Modern life is absurd. How can we be free? If you’ve ever wondered why you bother to go to work, or why so much consumer culture is crap, then this book is for you. Looking to history, literature and philosophy for inspiration, Tom Hodgkinson provides a joyful…
The Writing On The Wall (Replica Reissue)
Replica reissue of Roger Perry’s books originally released in 1976, now featuring a text by Bill Drummond.
A Bible Of Dreams
“A Bible Of Dreams” is a book of images by Mark Manning, largely photomontages, with text by Bill Drummond. It is described as “a visual poem composed by MS Manning”, with Drummond giving “a personal interpretation of the poem” in a commentary, along with a biographical background piece. The colour…
How Soon Is Now?
Released by Faber & Faber in 2012, “How Soon Is Now?” features a whole chapter covering the history of The KLF, from Bill Drummond managing Brilliant to the band’s demise in 1992. Filled with background information and sprinkled with various quotes this makes for quite an entertaining read. A revised…
The 25 Paintings (Birmingham, England 2014)
The 25 Paintings compiles a selection of past Penkiln Burn posters and photographs from the now-defunct PB website into a comprehensive archive of Bill Drummond’s work during the last 25 years. Published in a hard back edition of 1,000 to coincide with The 25 Paintings exhibition at Eastside Projects, Birmingham,…
Bad Wisdom: The Lighthouse At The Top Of The World
Bad Wisdom is the first book in the projected “Travel Books From Hell” trilogy by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning, retelling their journey to take a picture of Elvis Presley to the North Pole to achieve world peace. Realizing it’s not possible to reach their destination from continental Europe they…
The Wild Highway
The Wild Highway is the sequel to Bad Wisdom and the second book in the projected Travel Books From Hell trilogy, released on Creation Books in 2005. This time around the two protagonists are on a journey along the Congo to battle-scared Zaire in an attempt to reclaim their souls….
Man Makes Bed
“Man Makes Bed” is the 15th book published by Penkiln Burn. Originally released as a softcover edition of 40 copies for those attending Witte de With Straat Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands, a hardcover edition of 1,000 copies was published in 2014, including a Chinese translation by Zhang Rui and Hou Junmou….
Man Shines Shoes
“Man Shines Shoes” is the 16th book published by Penkiln Burn. It was first released as paper back edition of 40 copies, specifically published for those having their shoes polished by Bill Drummond in Sherwood Forest on 3 October 2011. A second hardcover edition of 1,000 copies got published in…
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Back Cover Blurb THIS BOOK IS ABOUT Music, uncertainty, sitting on a ledge, night trains across Russia, Bill Drummond, drunken mercenaries on the North Sea, starting over again, a classroom of 13-year-olds, getting everything done before death, art, a river full of headless eels, girl pop, waking up to find…
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