34 Facts About Bill Drummond

William Ernest Drummond was born on 29 April 1953 and is a Scottish artist, musician, writer, and record producer.

Bill Drummond is the author of several books about art and music.

William Ernest Bill Drummond was born in Butterworth, South Africa, where his father was a minister for the Church of Scotland.

Bill Drummond's family moved back to Scotland when he was 18 months old, and his early years were spent in the town of Newton Stewart.

Bill Drummond moved to Corby, Northamptonshire at the age of 11.

Bill Drummond lived on the Beanfield Estate, where his father was the priest of the St Peter and St Andrew church.

Bill Drummond attended Beanfield Secondary Modern School gaining four O-levels, and the sixth form of Kingswood School, where he was expelled in the sixth form.

Bill Drummond attended the University of Northampton and the Art and Design Academy from 1970 to 1973.

Bill Drummond later decided that "art should use everything, be everywhere" and that, as an artist, he would "use whatever medium is to hand".

Bill Drummond spent two years working as a milkman, gardener, steel worker, nursing assistant, theatre carpenter, and scene painter.

Bill Drummond is a fan of Scottish football club Queen of the South, which he says is due to their proximity to his home town of Newton Stewart.

In 1975 Bill Drummond began working at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool as a carpenter and scene painter.

Bill Drummond intended to focus on writing books once The Man had been issued but, as he recalled in 1990, "That only lasted three months, until I had an[other] idea for a record and got dragged back into it all".

In 2004 Bill Drummond admitted to the BBC that he now regretted burning the money.

Bill Drummond contributed a short story titled "Let's Grind, or How K2 Plant Hire Ltd Went to Work" to the book "Disco 2000".

In 1998, the Scottish Football Association invited Bill Drummond to write and record a theme song for the Scotland national football team's 1998 FIFA World Cup campaign.

In 2000, Bill Drummond released 45, a book consisting of a "series of loosely related vignettes forming the rambling diary of one year".

Bill Drummond featured on Seeming's 2020 album The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity, performing the spoken-word portion of "Learn to Vanish".

Bill Drummond studied painting at Liverpool School of Art from 1972 to 1973.

In 1995, Bill Drummond bought A Smell of Sulphur in the Wind by Richard Long, for $20,000.

Bill Drummond decided to try to sell it by placing a series of placards around the country.

In 2002, Bill Drummond was involved in a controversial exhibition at the deconsecrated St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Liverpool.

Bill Drummond has created a Soup Line drawn across a map going through Belfast and Nottingham to the edges of the British Isles.

In 2011, for the Venice Biennale, Bill Drummond took up shoe-shining on the streets of Venice.

Each spring, Bill Drummond gives away 40 bunches of daffodils to strangers on the street in different cities.

Bill Drummond was a Director of The Foundry, an arts centre in Shoreditch, London which closed in 2010.

Bill Drummond is owner of The Curfew Tower in Cushendall, Northern Ireland.

In 2005, Bill Drummond announced an annual No Music Day on 21 November.

Bill Drummond's most recent music project is a choir, the 17.

In 2012 Bill Drummond had a residency in Sheffield at Site Gallery, and the 17 were convened at sites around the city, the actions performed here are recounted in the book Ragworts and led to the instigation of the annual Ragwort Week.

On 28 April 2013, the day before his 60th birthday, Drummond took part in what has been billed as the last performance of The17.

In February 2014, Bill Drummond announced plans for a world tour, beginning under Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham on 13 March 2014 and ending at the same place on 28 April 2025.

The DVD Release of Best Before Death featured a booklet with a piece written by Bill Drummond called Best Before death and featuring the script for an imaginary film by Tenzing Scott Brown called Bad Wisdom.

Bill Drummond burned a million pounds which was not all his, and some of it was mine.