Here’s Bill Drummond reading from his book 17, about The 17 choir project he’s been working on for the past several years. He was very well received despite a late entrance, but he did put £200 behind the bar for the waiting audience. What a lovely man. He described The 17 in layman’s terms as ‘a bunch of guys standing in a darkened room and going EEEEUUURRRGGGHHHH.’ The actual philosophy around it is this:
He then introduced a new score about manholes for a Birmingham 17 choir and there was a practical rugby scrum for the email list to get in it. I of course fought my way to the front to get on it. I can’t wait. Now all Eastside Projects have to do is find a suitable manhole cover – for some reason it has to be a round one, which are pretty rare these days. Speak up if you know of any!
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