His piece in today's Times is wonderful (about KLF - of whom many people, including the Times - have said are the second greatest band of all time). I must meet up with Bill, who once paid me the compliment of asking me to manage him.

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Pop star turned artist to create daffodil sculpture under Spaghetti Junction
18 Feb 2014 10:05
Madcap Bill Drummond will arrive in Birmingham on March 13 along the Grand Union Canal on a raft made from his bed before making the floral display

A chart-topping pop star turned artist who famously burned a million pounds is launching a world tour by creating a sculpture from 400 daffodils - under Spaghetti Junction.

Madcap Bill Drummond, once half of eccentric dance duo The KLF, has announced he will arrive in Birmingham on March 13 along the Grand Union Canal on a raft made from his bed, before building the floral display.

According to a statement, “Drummond will then walk to the Birmingham Town Hall with the remaining forty bunches of daffodils. On arriving at the steps of the Town Hall he will give away the forty bunches of daffodils to forty complete strangers. This will mark the beginning of his twelve-year World Tour.”

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The former pop star will then take up residency at the Eastside Projects gallery in Heath Mill Lane, Digbeth until June 14 where his paintings and posters will be on show.

The 60-year-old will also be out and about in the city plying his trade as a shoeshine boy, giving away daffodils, writing books, sweeping streets, making cake circles and ‘discovering new lands’.

There will also be lectures and books to accompany the exhibition.

The world tour, which will take in China, India, Germany and the USA, is due to conclude in Birmingham on April 28, 2025 - ‘if Drummond does not die beforehand’.

The Scottish-born artist is best known for his work with Jimmy Cauty, who together performed as The KLF during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their hits included the number one single 3am Eternal, What Time Is Love and Justified and Ancient, as well as the novelty single Doctorin’ The Tardis as the Timelords.

They won a Brit Award for best British Group in 1992 before announcing their retirement. Their subsequent project was as art group the K Foundation, most famous for making a film of themselves burning a million pounds of their KLF royalties on the Scottish island of Jura in 1994.