The Irish Times

Best Before Death: KLF’s Bill Drummond takes another arty figary

Review: Paul Duane documents Drummond on his latest quest to confuse and bewilder

Fri Oct 04 2019 - 05:00

Galway Film Fleadh: ‘My spare liver is in my suitcase’

There was lots of comedy and a little Celtic misery at the famously bibulous festival

Mon Jul 15 2019 - 10:10

Galway Film Fleadh: Which Irish films will be a breakout success?

Prestigious festival provides point of reference for for the very best of new Irish cinema

Mon Jul 08 2019 - 05:00

As KLF they burned £1m. Now they’re firing bricks of human ashes

Dublin International Film Festival: Paul Duane’s What Time Is Death? charts Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty’s latest singular project

Wed Feb 27 2019 - 17:00

‘If a painting gets too pretty, drag it across the studio’

Elizabeth Magill makes works of tremendous beauty, but she’s not averse to a little rough treatment to get to the heart of the work

Wed Oct 11 2017 - 05:35

The KLF return with a three-day blitz of Liverpool

Last week, the KLF broke 23 years of silence on why they burned a million pounds, and launched a new novel, band and funeral home

Mon Aug 28 2017 - 12:15

Doctorin’ the tower: KLF maverick in a small Antrim town

Bill Drummond, who once burned £1m as half of the KLF, is behind a left-field endeavour at Curfew Tower in Cushendall

Wed Oct 07 2015 - 06:00

The lesson of Michael Landy’s ‘Art Bin’: do we all hate art?

Take a work of art out of its normal context and it can be like seeing the expensive T-shirt you splashed out on at Brown Thomas screwed up on the floor in the discount corner at TK Maxx. Is it still desirable? Does it hold its value?

Sat Nov 29 2014 - 05:00

The case sensitive tUnE-yArDs bubbles up

To create her new tUnE-yArDs album, Merrill Garbus kept strict hours in the studio, writing songs and reading James Joyce. ‘He was one who really shifted what words could do,’ says the fast-talking ex-puppeteer

Fri May 02 2014 - 00:00