{"id":1140,"date":"2017-05-10T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/?post_type=ufaq&#038;p=1140"},"modified":"2020-04-26T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T12:24:18","slug":"drummondcauty-forming-jams","status":"publish","type":"ufaq","link":"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/ufaqs\/drummondcauty-forming-jams\/","title":{"rendered":"What did Drummond\/Cauty do before forming The JAMs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.ewd-ufaq-faq-title .ewd-ufaq-post-margin-symbol span { font-size: 16px !important; }div.ewd-ufaq-faq-categories, div.ewd-ufaq-faq-tags { font-size: 10pt !important; }div.ewd-ufaq-post-margin-symbol {\r\nmargin-top:7px;\r\n}\r\n\r\ndiv.ewd-ufaq-faq-category-title {\r\n   display: none;\r\n}<\/style><div  class=\"ewd-ufaq-faq-list ewd-ufaq-page-type-load_more ewd-ufaq-category-tabs-\" id='ewd-ufaq-faq-list'>\n\n\t<input type='hidden' name='show_on_load' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-show-on-load' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='include_category' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-include-category' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='exclude_category' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-exclude-category' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='orderby' value='set_order' id='ewd-ufaq-orderby' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='order' value='asc' id='ewd-ufaq-order' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='post_count' value='-1' id='ewd-ufaq-post-count' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='current_url' value='\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq\/1140' id='ewd-ufaq-current-url' \/>\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faqs'>\n\n\t\t<div  class=\"ewd-ufaq-faq-div ewd-ufaq-faq-column-count-one ewd-ufaq-faq-responsive-columns- ewd-ufaq-faq-display-style-one\" id='ewd-ufaq-post-1140-MhAG3eML8z' data-post_id='1140'>\n\n\t\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-title '>\n\t\n\t<a class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin'  href='http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/ufaqs\/drummondcauty-forming-jams\/' >\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin-symbol ewd-ufaq-square'>\n\t\t\t<span >B<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-title-text'>\n\n\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\tWhat did Drummond\/Cauty do before forming The JAMs?\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-clear'><\/div>\n\n\t<\/a>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-body' >\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin ewd-ufaq-faq-post'>\n\t<h5>Bill Drummond<\/h5>\n<p>William E. Drummond was born in 1953 and grew up in Galloway and Corby in the Borders in Scotland. Prior to the formation of the JAMS, the teenage Drummond ran away to sea to become a fisherman off the North East coast of Scotland, which he described as \u201cmy youth years lost afloat\u201d. And he developed interests in bird-watching, nature walks and the ins-and-outs of livestock farming before going to Liverpool to study art. There he helped to put on a stage production of the cult book Illuminatus! with Ken Campbell\u2019s Science Fiction Theatre (and he maintained an interest in amateur dramatics throughout the 80\u2019s), before becoming involved with the punk scene and forming Liverpool punk band \u2018Big In Japan\u2019 with Holly (\u2018Frankie Goes To Hollywood\u2019) Johnson, and Ian (\u2018Lightning Seeds\u2019, now top producer) Broudie, on the 5th of May 1977, a date which he would later refer to as \u201centering the music industry\u201d. Later Budgie (\u2018Siouxsie and the Banshees\u2019) and Jayne (\u2018Pink Industry\u2019) Casey, joined the group, which released a couple of singles in its year-long life.<\/p>\n<p>Bill then formed Zoo Records in 1978 with Dave (\u2018Food Records\u2019) Balfe to release an acrimonious posthumous \u2018Big In Japan\u2019 EP and then records by seminal UK independent bands \u2018Echo and The Bunnymen\u2019 and \u2018The Teardrop Explodes\u2019 whom he also managed. Balfe and Drummond were also the Zoo in-house production team \u2018The Chameleons\u2019 and the band \u2018Lori and the Chameleons\u2019. Both the Bunnymen and the Teardrops signed publishing deals through Zoo with WEA, and Drummond returned this gesture by re-mortgaging his house to fund a Bunnymen tour, and on making his money back, doing it again to pay for the recording of the first Teardrops LP.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the people who would later work with the KLF worked with Zoo in these days: Mick Houghton was publicist for the Teardrops, and Bill Butt directed the Teardrops videos. Drummond later sent the Bunnymen on a tour of bizarre and apparently random sites, including the Northern Isles. \u201cIt\u2019s not random,\u201d said Drummond, speaking as the Bunnymen\u2019s manager. \u201cIf you look at a map of the world, the whole tour\u2019s in the shape of a rabbit\u2019s ears.\u201d As the Teardrops manager, Bill once told Julian Cope to commit suicide in order to boost record sales. Julian Cope\u2019s autobiography, \u2018Head On\u2019 is a good source for more info on the late 70\u2019s\/early 80\u2019s Liverpool scene and all the players therein, including some great anecdotes.<\/p>\n<p>After an acrimonious parting with both bands, he joined WEA Records as a A&#038;R person, working with Strawberry Switchblade, Zodiac Mindwarp And The Love Reaction, The Proclaimers and Brilliant who featured ex-Killing Joke member (and now top producer) Martin &#8216;Youth&#8217; Glover and ex-artist Jimmy Cauty and were produced by Stock-Aitken-Waterman.<\/p>\n<p>When Brilliant failed to be a hit with the British public, Drummond retired from WEA in 1986 when he was aged 33 and a third, writing a typically Drummond-esque retirement note. He recorded his solo LP <a href=\"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/record\/the-man\/\"><em><strong>The Man<\/strong><\/em><\/a> for Creation Records as a cathartic farewell gesture to the music industry in 1986. This features the hilarious \u2018Julian Cope Is Dead\u2019 which is Drummond\u2019s answer to the track \u2018Bill Drummond Said\u2019 which appears on Julian Cope\u2019s solo LP \u2018Fried\u2019. (This features Cope quoting what he must have seen as typical Drummond quotes, such as \u201cGive me one good reason why this couldn\u2019t wait\u2026\u201d. \u2018Fried\u2019 was released on Island Records in about 1985.) Many future KLF collaborators also helped with the recording and production of this album. When Drummond was given money by Creation to film a video, and record a b-side for the \u2018King Of Joy\u2019 he used it to start a new project: \u2018The Managers Speech\u2019 was an ambient video filmed by Bill Butt, with Drummond dressed as a street sweeper ambling up a country lane talking of the music industry and telling how if you sent him 100 pounds he would give new bands important advice on how to be successful. An extract of this featured on the cover tape of the May 1992 issue of Select magazine.<\/p>\n<p>His self-imposed retiral from the music industry only lasted six months until on the 1st of January 1987 he decided to form the JAMs. In a Radio 1 \u2018Story Of Pop\u2019 documentary interview, Bill said: \u201cIt was New Year\u2019s Day, um, the first day of 1987. I was at home with my parents, I was going for a walk in the morning, it was, like, bright blue sky, and I thought \u201cI\u2019m going to make a hip-hop record. Who can I make a hip-hop record with?\u201d. I wasn\u2019t brave enough to go and do it myself, cos\u2019, although I can play the guitar, and I can knock out a few things on the piano, I knew nothing, personally, about the technology. And, I thought, I knew Jimi, I knew he was a like spirit, we share similar tastes and backgrounds in music and things. So I phoned him up that day and said \u201cLet\u2019s form a band called The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu.\u201d. And he knew exactly, to coin a phrase, \u201cWhere I was coming from\u201d. And within a week we had recorded our first single which was called \u201cAll You Need Is Love\u201d.<\/p>\n<h5>Jimmy Cauty<\/h5>\n<p>James (or Jimmy or Jimi) Cauty was born in Devon in 1956 and not much is known about him until, as a 17-year old artist he painted a quite famous Lord of the Rings poster for Athena. He has continued painting over the years, with his early reputation being \u201cLondon artist, bohemian\u201d. His later paintings include various posters and postcards, which also got released on Athena, as well as a record cover for the audio book \u2018The King Of Elfland\u2019s Daughter\u2019 (narrated by Christopher Lee and featuring later KLF vocalist P.P. Arnold).<\/p>\n<p>In 1981\/2 he was in a band called <a href=\"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/record\/cut-and-dried\/\">Angels One 5<\/a> along with his later wife Cressida Bowyer. He next crops up as a guitarist with <a href=\"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/record\/brilliant-kiss-lips-life\/\">Brilliant<\/a> in the mid-80\u2019s with Youth. Youth said he \u201ccut the original ten (or so) members of the band down to just him, June (Montana) and Jimmy\u2026\u201d Brilliant sign for WEA where Jimmy meets Bill. They collaborate on the JAMs early work and Jimmy also DJ\u2019s in the Chill Out room at Paul Oakenfold\u2019s London club, Heaven, with Alex Paterson with whom he forms The Orb. 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