Acting

Bill Drummond

Born 1953-04-29 · Butterworth, South Africa

Drummond is a Scottish artist, musician, writer, and record producer. He was the co-founder of late 1980s avant-garde pop group The KLF.

Acting credits

PressPausePlay poster
7.1

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.

PressPausePlay

2011

No artwork available
NR

A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the making of The KLF's videos.

KLF: Unfinished

1992

Proclaimers: This Is the Story poster
8.0

David Tennant talks to Craig and Charlie Reid of The Proclaimers about a 30-year career that has seen them become one of Scotland's most iconic bands.

Proclaimers: This Is the Story

2017

23 Seconds to Eternity poster
7.3

Journey through the music videos and short films from Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond in their various guises as The JAMs, The KLF and The Timelords, one of the most successful and subversively creative electronic bands of the early 90s.

23 Seconds to Eternity

2023

Who Killed the KLF? poster
7.3

Between 1988 and 1992, British Electronic duo The KLF had scored #1 records throughout the world and had become household names. Determined to ridicule the establishment, they battled The Beatles and ABBA after sampling their music in hit records, and published the best-selling book The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way). In 1993, to mock performance art in the ultimate fashion, The KLF set fire to £1,000,000 in cash and destroyed their entire catalogue, vanishing from the public view... until now.

Who Killed the KLF?

2023

No artwork available
NR

In 1992, enigmatic pop band KLF announced their retirement from the music industry, re-emerging as the K Foundation -dedicated to the "advancement of Kreation". In this film, Omnibus tells the story of the creative partnership of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, and how they tried to storm into the art world.

A Foundation Course in Art

1995

The Rites Of Mu poster
NR

The KLF require your presence. You’ll be transported to the lost continent Mu. Bring your passports.

The Rites Of Mu

1991

Waiting poster
8.5

The KLF, King Boy D and Rockman Rock, are waiting on the Scottish island of Jura for their equipment to arrive. They ponder the sights and sounds of the landscape around them: the surf, the wind, birdsong, farm animals, fields, gardens, and moors. They savour the qualities of waiting. When their equipment arrives, they record these sounds and re-broadcast them to world, along with their own music.

Waiting

1990

Best Before Death poster
7.5

Bill Drummond, once the most notorious man in pop music, now travels around the world baking cakes, building beds and shining shoes as part of a twelve year World Tour which is his final art project. This film follows him as he does his work in India and the United States.

Best Before Death

2019

The White Room poster
6.6

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, King Boy D and Rockman Rock, try to find and gain access to the mystical White Room. They leave a party at their house and drive in their 1968 US Cop Car through night-time London and the dusty plains of the Sierra Nevada region of Spain. There they face judgement: will they be allowed to enter the White Room? Meanwhile their lawyer David Franks tries to find a loophole to free them from their contract with Eternity.

The White Room

1989

Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared poster
6.0

Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CDs, iPods, instruments?

Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared

2015

Welcome To The Dark Ages poster
NR

In 2017 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly The KLF, returned after 23 years of silence with a new project. They were no longer a pop group but undertakers, building the People's Pyramid out of bricks made from the ashes of dead people.

Welcome To The Dark Ages

2019

Watch The K Foundation Burn a Million Quid poster
7.2

Former members of the techno music group The KLF Bill Drummond and Jimi Cauty after forming a new "art collective" named the K Foundation burn 1 million UK pounds of their own money in a shack on the Isle of Jura while being taped by their roadie, Gimpo.

Watch The K Foundation Burn a Million Quid

1995

The KLF: Stadium House poster
NR

The Stadium House Trilogy is a video collection featuring the first three singles taken from the White Room album, as well as a 14 minute making-of (UK release only). Even though videos for What Time Is Love? and 3 a.m. Eternal already existed The KLF created new clips for their previous singles as well to match the tone of their latest release, bringing all three together as a kind of mini-concert on the fictional stage of Woodstock, Europa.

The KLF: Stadium House

1991

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