Photo by Chris Bishop | William Burroughs : The Final Academy (1982) |
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The Ritzy, Brixton The Final Academy, organised by David Dawson, Roger Ely and Genesis P Orridge, centred around and included William Burroughs as well as works inspired by him or having a covalence with him. The Academy included Psychic TV, John Giorna and Brion Gysin. “…eclectic the Final Academy was. The roll-call sounded like an impossible dream - William Burroughs, Jeff Nuttall, Paul Burwell and Anne Bean and Ian Hinchcliffe... Burwell and Bean put on an incredible show of pyrotechnics, pounding of drums, and proclaiming of White Man’s Gotta God Complex by the Last Poets. A sample of the late Steve Cripps “legacy” of explosives had the battery of exotic snappers, video and super eighters, minor celebs and their retinues, scampering for cover, as Anne Bean raged, stomping her feet in the billowing smoke”. Performance Magazine I literally ate my words, choking on the lyrics of White Man’s Gotta God Complex as I stuffed the paper with the words I had just sung into my mouth. Back to the PULp main page. |