2013

FORTY JARS OF SEVILLE MARMALADE is a sculpture that Bill Drummond re-constructs each January. For further information read PB Poster 380

This is the first of The Lone Sweeper's seasonal sweepings. For this he marks the passing of Winter by sweeping up the fallen snow on the frozen Baltic Sea off the coast of Finland.

This was the eigth part in the ongoing sculpture The Life & Death Of An Artist.

Bill Drummond returned to the scene of a previous crime to recreate his IMAGINE graffiti has he was unsatisfied with his earlier attempt. This was also done to celebrate the earlier performance of Score 368: The17 VERSUS GUITARS. It was also done as part of the construction of the FORTY GRAFFITI sculpture.

The17 performed Score 360: BEFORE ANY MEAL on the Bon Accord scallop dredger out of Falmouth, Cornwall. The members of The17 were made up of the two man crew, Brynn & Andrew and Bill Drummond. The performance took place six miles out to sea during their working day catching scallops for the French and Spanish market. This performance is also part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour.

Bill Drummond will be giving a performance lecture at the Unversity College Falmouth, to both celebrate the performance by The17 on a fishing boat out in the Falmouth Bay the previous day and 20th anniversary of him breaking into the building in 1993. This break in was done for no other reason than he was in the town and had nothing better to do and wanted to see what the art looked like that was being done there. When confronted by some late working art students Drummond claimed he was a future visiting lecturer.

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This was the second public flying of the flag of the Atlantic Archipelago. The flag, also known as the Old Chevron, has no political or nationalistic meaning but celebrates the wild life, the evolving cultural life, the  physical geography and the underlying geological make up of the Atlantic Archipelago.

Between 2012 and 2025, forty of these flags are to be flown from 40 of the ilsands within the Atlantic Archipelago. This is also part of the construction of the sculpture FORTY FLAGS.

Once flown, each flag wll be FOR SALE

Bill Drummond vandalised a wall by a bridge in Berlin with an IMAGINE graffiti. This was done to celebrate the begining of working with Stefan Schwietert on a film about The17.  It was also done as part of the construction of the FORTY GRAFFITI sculpture.

The17 performed Score 328: SURROUND in Berlin on the afternoon of Saturday, 24 November 2012.

This performance is the tenth in The17’s City-to-City world tour.

The17 will no longer perform the world premier of Score 318: CONSIDER along latitude 36.1 degrees North between Kitty Hawk on the Atlantic coast of North Carolina and Lucia on the Pacific coast of California.

Instead they were to perform it along Latitude 53.07 degrees North, from the beach at Skegness on the North Sea coast of England to the Atlantic facing cliffs of Inishmore off the West Coast of Ireland.

The performance will begin with Bill Drummond recording himself banging a bagpipe band bass drum on the beach at Skgness for five minutes and conclude with him playing back and then deleting the completed performance of Score 318: CONSIDER while sitting on the cliffs at Dún Aonghasa, Inishmore.

Inbetween Skegness and Inishmore, Drummond will have inlisted members of The17 to take part in this performance at numorous locations along the same parrallel. Photographic evidence of each of these groups of The17 may be dislplayed below:

This was the first documented sighting of The Man Who Bangs His Drum

The man who blows his horn on the Holyhead to Dublin ferry

Nuns at the Presentation Sisters' Convent in Kildare, who are also members of The17 who took part in the performance of Score 318: CONSIDER

Drinkers at O'Connell's Bar in Galway, who are also members of The17 who took part in performing Score 318: CONSIDER

Students at the University of Galway, who are also members of The17 performing Score 318: CONSIDER

The man who blew his horn to calm the storm

The man who banged his drum for the forgotten dead

The17 performed the world premier of Score 4: AGE within the Curfew Tower, Cushendall, County Antrim, Ireland. Although Score 5: PERFORM, which in a sense is a version of AGE, has been performed many times before, this will be the first time that AGE has been performed following the score precisely, as in a building with five floors and five lots of people of the right ages, if not 17 of each group. AGE was originally composed with the Curfew Tower in mind. This performance was also part of The17 Coast-to-Coast world tour.

This was the final performance of Score 328: SURROUND in The17's City-to-City world tour.

Bill Drummond performing a seventeen hour version of Score 1: IMAGINE, while standing on a manhole cover at the bottom of Mathew Street, Liverpool. This was the last performance by The17 that Drummond will take part in. It will started at 7am and ended at midnight. At midnight Drummond turned 60 and his direct involvement with The17 comes to an end. Other members of The17 were welcomed to join him for any part of this performance they cared to. Many did. This was also the last performance in The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour.

Although Bill Drummond had already witnessed a Ragwort in full bloom from the window of the train as it pulled into Euston Station, London on the 25 April, this one growing from a crack between a wall and concrete outside of his flat in the Borough of Hackney, London on 30 April was the first he got close enough to touch its pettles.

The Lone Sweeper marks the passing of Spring by sweeping up the fallen cherry blossom in Regent's Park, London