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Bill Drummond & Mark Manning - Readings from “Bad Wisdom”. Originally broadcast on Mark Radcliffe’s late-night show on BBC Radio One in 1996. Part 1 [0:00] Part 2 [1:30] Part 3 [3:27] Part 4 [5:18] Background music “Quagmire / In a State of Permanent Abyss” by The Future Sound of London.

All of Ricky Gervais' moments at the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards, which was broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on the 15th of January 2012. This was the third time that Ricky Gervais hosted the ceremony.

All of Ricky Gervais' moments at the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards, which was broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on the 17th of January 2010. This was the first time that Ricky Gervais hosted the ceremony.

All of Ricky Gervais' moments at the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards, which was broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on the 17th of January 2011. This was the second time that Ricky Gervais hosted the ceremony.

The KLF vs Extreme Noise Terror - 3 a.m. Eternal (Special Brits 1992 Version). The 12th edition of the Brit Awards, an annual pop music awards ceremony in the United Kingdom, took place at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on the 12th of February 1992, and was broadcast on BBC 1 the following night. The KLF was awarded ‘Best British Group’ (shared with Simply Red) and were booked to open the show. In an attempt to hijack the event, the duo collaborated with grindcore metal band Extreme Noise Terror to perform a death metal version of ‘3 a.m. Eternal’. Disgusted, eminent Hungarian classical composer Sir George Solti tried to walk out the auditorium during the performance and had to be persuaded to return to his seat. The song ended with Bill Drummond firing blanks from a machine gun over the audience, and KLF publicist Scott Piering announcing “Ladies and gentlemen, The KLF have now left the music business”. Subsequently, the band were barred from collecting their ‘Best British Band’ award, so ordered a motorcycle courier to collect it on their behalf. However, the organisers of the Brits refused to allow the leather-clad biker into the building. Later that evening, The KLF dumped a dead sheep outside the Royal Lancaster Hotel, where a glitzy after-show party was taking place. Tied to the carcass was a message: “I DIED FOR EWE - BON APPETIT”. The KLF eventually received their Brit statuette, which was presumably buried after reportedly being unearthed in a field near Stonehenge by a local farmer in 1993.

The KLF’s Bill Drummond - Interview on The Other Side of Midnight (with Tony Wilson): Episode 37. Broadcast by Granada Television in the UK on the 23rd of February 1989. In the wake of the success of ‘Doctorin’ The Tardis’ as The Timelords, The KLF’s Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty penned ‘The Manual (How To Have A Number One The Easy Way)’, a tongue-in-cheek guide to hitting the top of the charts. To promote the book, Drummond appeared on Factory Records head honcho Tony Wilson’s TV show ‘The Other Side Of Midnight’ wearing a moustache drawn on paper with a felt-tip pen, as he felt “the real iconic figures have based their status on their ‘tache”. Drummond later admitted his error, “Afterwards I just thought, what a fucking arsehole I was to do that”.

2K (The KLF) - ***K the Millennium (Uncensored) [Promo VHS Video Cassette Tape] 1997.

The KLF - Omnibus: Foundation Course in Art. Broadcast by the BBC in the UK on the 6th of November 1995. In 1992, enigmatic ‘stadium house’ act The KLF announced their retirement from the music industry, re-emerging as the K Foundation, dedicated to the “advancement of Kreation”. “The BBC 1 Omnibus documentary tells the story of the creative partnership of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, and how they tried to storm into the art world”.

In May 2018, dozens of anchors on local news stations across the United States gave the same speech to their combined millions of viewers, reading from a script provided by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. Ironically, the script included a warning about fake news and a promise to report fairly and accurately. Originally compiled and stitched together by Timothy Burke, the video director at Deadspin: https://deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local-tv-owner-turned-its-news-anc-1824233490

“It's now 7am. The sun is up over Hyde Park. The limousine trip is nearly over. Lennon is stoned, but distinctly edgy. Dylan is about to be sick.” Dramatis Personae: John Lennon, a Beatle; Bob Dylan, a folk-rock superstar; Bobby Neuwirth, friend of Dylan’s and temporary sound recordist; D.A. Pennebaker, cinema verite film-maker; Tom, a chauffeur.

An excerpt from Elon Musk’s interview with columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit on the 29th of November 2023.

Today's News - “Brought to You by Pfizer” [US Television] 2021.

At a gala dinner during the North Korea–Russia Summit in Vladivostok on the 25th of April 2019, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin made a toast to stronger friendship and future cooperation between the two countries… but old Mad Vlad was a tad para.

Poème électronique (English Translation: "Electronic Poem") is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. The 8-minute film was created by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (known as Le Corbusier) with the help of his assistant Iannis Xenakis. According to the introduction of the film, the performance was made up of the following parts: Creation (or Genesis), Spirit and Matter, From Darkness to Dawn, Gods Created by Man (or Man-Made Gods), How Time Moulds Civilization, Harmony, To All Mankind.

Bill Drummond - The Manager [Promotional Video] 1986. Directed by Bill Butt. ‘The Man’ was Bill Drummond’s 1986 solo album on Creation Records, meant as a farewell to his previous musical past at the age of 33. “When I was involved in management and all that stuff, it was great for a time, but it started to bother me. I never really wanted to be a manager in the first place. It’s something I just sort of fell into. It was taking over my life, so I had to get out of it.” – Bill Drummond (Option, Nov 1989). With his interest slowly fading and after having spent half a million pounds at WEA trying to get Brilliant into the charts without any success, Bill finally decided to leave the music business behind. “At that point I thought ‘What am I doing this for?’ and I got out. I did an album myself, wrote the songs in five days, recorded it in five days, and put it out on Creation Records.” – Bill Drummond (Saturday Sequence, Dec 1990). Despite an impressive list of musicians he had worked with until then, Bill chose instead to work with Anglo-American alternative pop rock band Voice Of The Beehive, and Australian indie-rock band The Triffids whose pedal steel player Graham Lee would appear on The KLF’s ‘Chill Out’ a couple of years later. ‘The Man’ is probably best known for the song Julian Cope Is Dead, a tongue-in-cheek fictional story of how Drummond shoots The Teardrop Explodes’ front singer Julian Cope to fuel his stagnating career (Drummond being the Teardrops’ former manager) and make him ‘bigger than the Beatles, for sure’. “I made a list of emotions I wanted to cover, then a list of titles somehow and I wrote them in a week without thinking at all about what I was doing. I just wanted to get some things out of my head.” – Bill Drummond (Beat, Nov 1986). Following the album’s release, Creation Records released ‘The King Of Joy’, the last track Bill had recorded for the album,as a 12″ single the following year. “I did that one after I’d done the rest. I’d recorded them and I’d got one more day and I thought ‘Ooh, I haven’t done joy!’ I haven’t done an up thing, it’s all looking back and all that. I was feeling so good that I’d actually got things done, I’d been doing the vocals that day and I thought this is Bill Drummond, actually making an LP, I don’t believe it!! So I was sitting at home singing away. I’d always wanted to use those chords, the most corny chords going I’m not a song writer, I haven’t written songs for 9 years, but when I did I never dared use those chords. Now, at this more mature age I’m willing to take these risks” – Bill Drummond (Beat, Nov 1986). Included on the B-side was ‘The Manager’, the soundtrack of a video shot by Bill Butt which was a rant about the state of the music industry. In the video, Bill Drummond demands musicians not to spend any more than ten days recording their LPs, and the abolishment of advances, because ‘no really great music has ever come from a band that’s got themselves a big advance’. Furthermore, Bill suggests to become ‘the manager of the complete music thing’, inviting everybody to write to him for his advice and personal guidance for a mere one hundred pounds enclosed as a cheque. “Before the record had even been released, I’d received a couple of cheques. I can’t say who they’re from but I’ve got £200, so the video’s more or less paid for.” – Bill Drummond (Sounds, 1987) However, Bill did not follow through with his offer, in turn following advice from his own manager. “As soon as I’d finished ‘The Manager’, my manager said, Don’t do it – don’t try and attempt what I was setting myself up as on the record. He said I should stop telling other people what they should do and just do what I want.” – Bill Drummond (Sounds, 1987).

The Timelords (The KLF) - Interview on Reportage (with Magenta Devine). Broadcast by the BBC in the UK on the 2nd of February 1989.

The KLF - Top of the Pops (BBC TOTP Compilation) [UK Television] 1988–1991. 1. The Timelords - Doctorin’ the Tardis [9 Jun 1988] 00:00 2. The KLF - What Time Is Love? [30 Aug 1990] 03:32 3. The KLF - 3 a.m. Eternal [19 Jan 1991] 06:18 4. The KLF - Last Train to Trancentral [2 May 1991] 09:28 5. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - It’s Grim Up North [7 Nov 1991] 12:55 6. The KLF (featuring Tammy Wynette) - Justified and Ancient [5 Dec 1991] 16:10

The KLF - Interview on Rapido. Broadcast by the BBC in the UK in 1991. Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty answer questions while working on their “model dreamworld for the video of the Last Train to Trancentral”. Rapido was notable for presenter Antoine de Caunes’ idiosyncratic delivery. His English is completely fluent, but he deliberately spoke with exaggerated French intonations on the programme.

The KLF - Stadium House (The Trilogy) [VHS Video Cassette Tape] 1991. Live footage of The KLF performing at Woodstock, Europa. Conceived and created by Jimmy Cauty, produced and directed by Bill Butt. 3 a.m. Eternal [01:28] Last Train To Trancentral [05:17] What Time Is Love? [09:25] • closing credits • [13:25] Support Feature: This Is Not What The KLF Is About [15:34] “WARNING: THIS IS ALSO NOT THE MOTION PICTURE The White Room”.

The KLF - Interview on The Late Late Show (with Gay Byrne). Broadcast by RTÉ in Ireland in October 1995. In August 1994, The KLF’s Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, then calling themselves the K Foundation, undertook one of the most infamous performance art pieces of all time, as they burnt one million pounds sterling on the Scottish island of Jura. The only interview the duo did on the back of the incident, however, was with RTÉ’s The Late Late Show, a long-running panel show, hosted by Irish institution Gay Byrne. Organised by then-show researcher (and club promoter) Donal Scannell, the interview is probably one of the most interesting in The Late Late Show’s history.

“Viewers, you don't know who the cameraman is. You don't know why you're being made to see these things. Nor do I. You're seeing me, I can't even see you. I may be dead by the time you watch this, very possibly are. You don't know who's the man who's making things he wants you to see. Destroy your television sets, now. You must listen to no orders. That's all I can tell you for this point of humanity. Believe me.”

Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove [Documentary] 2000. Written and Directed by Alex Jones. 1. Intro [00:00:00] 2. The History [00:06:29] 3. The Adventure Begins [00:15:29] 4. The Redcoats [00:17:19] 5. The Locals [00:29:53] 6. D-Day [00:39:03] 7. Hidden Camera [00:42:45] 8. Bab-Y-Lon / Mo-Loch [00:56:38] 9. Back in Austin [01:26:35] 10. Closing Credits [01:30:56] Since 1873, the Global Elite has held secret meetings in the ancient redwood forest of Northern California. Members of the so-called “Bohemian Club” include former presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan. The Bush family maintains a strong involvement. Each year at Bohemian Grove, members of this all-male “Club” don red, black and silver robes and conduct an occult ritual wherein they worship a giant stone owl, sacrificing a human being in effigy to what they call the “Great Owl of Bohemia”.

Nathan Barley - Episode 1 (HD) [UK Television] 11 February 2005. Written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris. Cast: Nicholas Burns as Nathan Barley. Julian Barratt as Dan Ashcroft. Claire Keelan as Claire Ashcroft. Richard Ayoade as Ned Smanks. Ben Whishaw as Pingu. Rhys Thomas as Toby. Noel Fielding as Jones. Spencer Brown as Rufus Onslatt. Charlie Condou as Jonatton Yeah? David Hoyle as Doug Rocket. Nina Sosanya as Sasha. Kevin Eldon as Nikolai the Barber. Julia Davis as Honda Poppet. Benedict Cumberbatch as Robin. Iddo Goldberg as 15Peter20.

Nathan Barley - Episode 2 (HD) [UK Television] 18 February 2005. Written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris. Cast: Nicholas Burns as Nathan Barley. Julian Barratt as Dan Ashcroft. Claire Keelan as Claire Ashcroft. Richard Ayoade as Ned Smanks. Ben Whishaw as Pingu. Rhys Thomas as Toby. Noel Fielding as Jones. Spencer Brown as Rufus Onslatt. Charlie Condou as Jonatton Yeah? David Hoyle as Doug Rocket. Nina Sosanya as Sasha. Kevin Eldon as Nikolai the Barber. Julia Davis as Honda Poppet. Benedict Cumberbatch as Robin. Iddo Goldberg as 15Peter20.

Nathan Barley - Episode 3 (HD) [UK Television] 25 February 2005. Written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris. Cast: Nicholas Burns as Nathan Barley. Julian Barratt as Dan Ashcroft. Claire Keelan as Claire Ashcroft. Richard Ayoade as Ned Smanks. Ben Whishaw as Pingu. Rhys Thomas as Toby. Noel Fielding as Jones. Spencer Brown as Rufus Onslatt. Charlie Condou as Jonatton Yeah? David Hoyle as Doug Rocket. Nina Sosanya as Sasha. Kevin Eldon as Nikolai the Barber. Julia Davis as Honda Poppet. Benedict Cumberbatch as Robin. Iddo Goldberg as 15Peter20.