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00:00I haven't done one of these for a while, but in the post yesterday afternoon I got this
00:12massively packaged item from Rough Trade which contains something from K2
00:25plant hire to do with the People's Pyramid it's been constructed there across the
00:32water from Liverpool in Birkenhead. I unzipped it last night and unnecessarily large packaging
00:43there's the item inside, it's in a mailer. I've been looking forward to this, it came out about
00:50just over a week ago with a launch in Liverpool Rough Trade on Friday the 24th of October which
01:01it didn't go to but some friends did and then it went on for sale on the Rough Trade site the next
01:06morning I managed to buy one and it's taken about 10 days to come. I've been looking forward to it
01:10arriving and then when it came last night you see it's sealed so I thought I'd save a little bit, sorry I
01:25remember what it looked like before it was sealed before I had to rip it open, so I thought yes
01:29let's let's do an unseeming unboxing video. K2 plant hire, current iteration of
01:40formerly the KLF, the Justified Ages of Moon movie, etc. Buy now, dilator, zine, record and
01:47poster, signed limited edition, in collaboration with the designer and promoter
01:52sports banger. Merchants of Death merchandise, L13, who sort of handle K2 plant hire and Jimmy
02:04Cortis artworks, that's the current version of the old Pumid blaster logo. An official
02:13fundraiser for the People's Pumid, construction by K2 plant hire limited and
02:17sports banger. There's a couple of stamps down there, get mummification, which is the
02:22process of having 23 grams of your cremated ashes baked into a brick and
02:28inserted into the People's Pyramid. Somethings might make sense to you. There's another
02:32Pyramid blaster stamp and this is number 244 out of 500. So I'm going to see how
02:43peelable or otherwise the sticker on the front is. Oh that's peeling quite nicely. There you
02:51go. Not having to disembowel the astronaut on the front. And then it'll be a bit more
03:04Terry trying to get into the mailer, of course. I hate having to break seals. I've got an
03:19Oppy over there, out from Fierce Recordings, a white label of a test pressing of a Poo Sticks
03:29Demos album that they found. They issued some white labels of the other year, hand-coloured
03:36with highlighter pens, the way that Fierce Recordings always used to do on Poo Sticks stuff. But the sticker on that
03:41says, sure, seal's worth more. And I haven't opened it as a result or listened to it. It's just like, get you every time.
03:51Anyway, right, what do we have? Okay. Here is the record part. L13 Light Industrial
04:03Recordings. That's quite, it's quite minimal packaging. Let's have a look. And there's just a little bit of plastic.
04:14So here we have a, yeah, it's blank on the other side. Yeah, one-sided 33 RPM, 12 inch by Power Block 1, which is a name of Jimmy, one of Jimmy Court's current musical projects. The track is called The Levitation. No idea what I'm saying.
04:44It sounds like. Quite a reasonably widely spaced groove, so I'm not sure how long it is. But anyway, so you've got a one-track promo there.
04:53Apparently there's an EP out soon, which that is going to be on, but that's a promo of that. Which I should just put there. And also in the mailer we have...
05:06Double-sided poster, here we go. The next People's Day of Death will be calling the ancestors at the Birkenhead Day of the Dead in Birkenhead Park on 23rd November 2025, which is in...
05:25Today's the fall? Two or three weeks? Yeah, about three weeks. Then Sportsbanger Afterlife Party, which will be at Future Yard in Birkenhead. Optimo DJing and...
05:41I can't remember the name of the band they're on. To get some further information from People's Pyramid website, peoplespyramid.org, by now dilator.
05:48And that's signed by Jimmy Court at the bottom there. And on the other side, it's by now dilator zine.
06:02There you go, same bit with our sticker. So yeah, so we have a poster. And down there. What else do we have?
06:15Oop, do you want? Just a little bit.
06:20Here is a piece of artwork by Kid Acne, who I met at the People's Day of Death last year.
06:36So here we have this illustration. We've got the People's Pyramid there. Pyramid blaster. We've got the astronaut.
06:50Someone in a K2 Plant High poncho. There's the... I don't know the name of the fellow.
06:57There's the fellow who does the cement mixing. And presumably, that's possibly, yes.
07:00And that's Daisy Campbell there, with a brick of glue in her hand.
07:06This is essentially a picture of the bricklaying ceremony. Life-affirming, death-confirming.
07:13And there are other things like eyeball.
07:18And furthermore, the final bit in the theme.
07:27Cup of tea, hold on.
07:31Here's the zine. Right, and that's signed again. That's...
07:36I think that's...
07:38Jimmy called his signature again.
07:41That could be sports...
07:43Hang on, was it...
07:44Oh, was that Steve L13? I'm not sure.
07:48Signatures.
07:50First published October 2025.
07:52Blah blah blah.
07:53Standing by the People's Pyramid.
07:56There's quite a lot to it.
08:02So, um...
08:04Sportsbanger...
08:07Does do...
08:09I don't know, it does do fairly regular zines.
08:11As well as clothes designing and putting on events.
08:14Um...
08:17And this looks...
08:20I mean, the zines I've seen that he's done before have been, uh...
08:24Five ones.
08:25But the design inside of this is very similar.
08:27So I suspect...
08:29A larger...
08:30A large amount of a hand in this.
08:32Um...
08:34Shall I freak through?
08:36It did occur to me last night.
08:37You know, reaction videos, um...
08:39Um...
08:40Where people watch a YouTube video.
08:42Or...
08:43A stand-up routine.
08:44Or a bit of a film.
08:45And go...
08:47Exaggerated reactions to it.
08:48I thought we should be...
08:49Do, um...
08:50Reaction videos to, uh...
08:51Great works of, um...
08:53Great works of literature.
08:55Where you just set the camera up.
08:57And you get, like...
08:58Ulysses, or...
08:59Middlemarch, or...
09:01The camera won't be Christo.
09:02Or...
09:03War and Peace.
09:04A big book.
09:05And then just film yourself reading it.
09:08For days, or possibly weeks.
09:11With no other reaction apart from light.
09:18That'd be good, wouldn't it?
09:19That'd be...
09:21That'd just be hours and hours of non-reaction.
09:25The antithesis of exaggerated reaction videos.
09:28Anyway.
09:29I might do that one.
09:30I could do that for this.
09:31If you've got 20 minutes to spare,
09:32I'll just sit here and read it.
09:33Um...
09:34Let's have a brief look.
09:35Okay.
09:36What do we have?
09:37Uh...
09:38Introductory bit about...
09:39What is the people's day of death?
09:40I'll talk about that anyway.
09:41Uh...
09:42Peel and the Builders.
09:43And the other sisters.
09:45Shhh.
09:46Bit by R.U.B.
09:47Roop.
09:48Sam Hutchison.
09:49Um...
09:52When I was doing...
09:53Where can I start these people?
09:54When I was at the School of Death last year.
09:59Which is something that happened in Liverpool's Adelphi Hotel.
10:03Before...
10:05Before the Ferry Crossing.
10:06Before the Brick Laying Ceremony.
10:08Uh...
10:09We did a...
10:10School of Zines.
10:12And...
10:13Where uh...
10:14The plan was to...
10:15Write.
10:16Design.
10:17Uh...
10:18And print.
10:19And distribute.
10:20A fanzine on the day.
10:21Which I managed to do.
10:22Um...
10:23They'd give it.
10:24And then uh...
10:25Various...
10:26People who...
10:27Sat at the table with me and...
10:29Scribbled or used the broken typewriter.
10:32And did stuff on that.
10:33Have contributed to this.
10:34Which is...
10:35Pretty good.
10:36Kid Ackley was one of them.
10:37Um...
10:38I won't go through the rest of it.
10:39Um...
10:40But yeah.
10:41That...
10:42I think I ended up...
10:44I handed a print off.
10:45Because we made it.
10:46And then I ran...
10:47Into town.
10:48To uh...
10:50Ryman's.
10:51And printed off.
10:52A couple of dozen I think.
10:54And I handed them out.
10:55Maybe to the...
10:56People who'd contributed to the...
10:58Zine on the day.
10:59Um...
11:00I had a couple left over.
11:03But I...
11:05Uh...
11:06Then when I got home.
11:07After the weekend.
11:08I did make a PDF of it.
11:09Which...
11:10Uh...
11:11I then attached to...
11:13A...
11:14Little bit of AI chiptune music.
11:17I'd done for the...
11:18For the school.
11:19Which is on my band cam.
11:20So I'll put a link in the description of this.
11:22Uh...
11:23If you want to have a look at...
11:25The PDF of the...
11:27The...
11:28Uh...
11:29School of Death.
11:30School of Zines.
11:31Death Zine.
11:32At the middle of the day.
11:33Um...
11:34Uh...
11:35It's free.
11:36Just click on it.
11:37It'll...
11:38Get a download and it'll be there.
11:39Uh...
11:40So yeah.
11:41Oh they talk...
11:42Yeah.
11:43Hang on.
11:44It's just someone's writing about it.
11:45Um...
11:46Who's that?
11:47Who's that?
11:48Who's that?
11:49Who's that?
11:50Who's that?
11:51Who's that?
11:52Who's that?
11:53What?
11:54Who's that?
11:55Yeah.
11:56There we go.
11:57So it's in there as well actually.
11:58What could we say?
11:59So...
12:00In summary.
12:02You're going to be in Liverpool or Birkenhead in a couple of weeks.
12:06Um...
12:08On Saturday the 27th.
12:11The day before the Saturday 22nd, the KLF Reliacment Society are holding a
12:16an event called Preschool at Static Gallery. So I'm going to pop along to that and then
12:25the next day is all about the People's Day, the Birkenhead Day of the Dead, with an afternoon
12:32of creating stuff at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool for a parade down to Liverpool
12:39be ahead then there'll be a ferry crossing on Mersey Ferry over to Birkenhead and then a parade
12:46through to Birkenhead Park and the other items that you can see on the poster. I did briefly
12:52mention earlier about mummification and the building of the People's Pyramid which is due
12:55to take about 300 years to complete. People'spyramid.org, that's where to have a look, have a look, go
13:05and have a look. If you're in Liverpool on Sunday and you're not coming to that thing, but you're
13:15in Liverpool city centre around tea time, keep an eye out for the procession because there
13:20will be a procession and you come along and wave and blow your vuvuzela. That'll do, right I've got to get rid
13:27to work and pack all this up again. But yeah, that is Unseen and Unboxing and I'm surrounded by bits of
13:35cardboard and paper and plastic. As ever, right, see you in a couple of weeks.
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