The first question from journalist Martin Conrads about J.G. Ballard’s short story The Sound-Sweep put [Bill] Drummond immediately on the defensive (”I don’ know it”), where he stayed for the next half an hour deftly deflecting all questions with charm if not aplomb.
… and here’s the irony. I’ve ploughing my way through the Complete Short Stories, so I do know The Sound-Sweep (about a sound-janitor, sweeping up the sounds of the past and trying to help a faded opera-star). I did have to look up Bill Drummond though (of KLF fame).
