Bill Drummond of The KLF set for Neu! Reekie!

Legendary artist, musician and all-round provocateur Bill Drummond is the first name revealed for the latest edition of avant-garde spoken word and multi-arts night Neu! Reekie!

The hugely influential contemporary artist, writer and co-founder of the KLF features at Neu! Reekie!'s Where Are We Now? event in Edinburgh next month. Say Neu! Reekie!: "Bill Drummond will be doing something completely unique to the night.

"We could tell you more but we don’t really know what will be unshackled ourselves; and even if we did it would probably shape-shift, morph and blaze bonfires beyond any description we could give." Given that this is a man who sprayed machine gun blanks over the audience at the 1992 Brit awards, and spent a sizeable chunk of 2004 travelling the country making soup for strangers, it's safe to say you should expect the unexpected.

Also on the bill are poet Clare Pollard, unveiling her new collection Incarnation; music from multi-instrumentalist and Young Fathers and Law Holt collaborator Callum Easter; short film from Iain Gardner and BAFTA-winning duo Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson; and a contribution from radical new publishers 404 Ink, fresh from their debut smash hit anthology Nasty Women. 

The night is Neu! Reekie!'s final event before their Where Are We Now? festival in Hull this June, featuring music from Charlotte Church, Young Fathers, Akala, The Four Owls and Stanley Odd, plus contribtuions filmmaker Mark Cousins, DJs and producers Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston, visual artist Jamie Reid, and many more.  

Neu! Reekie! – Where Are We Now? Edinburgh takes place at Leith St Andrews Church, Edinburgh on 28 April; tickets on sale now. Neu! Reekie!'s Where Are We Now? festival in Hull, part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017, runs from 2-4 June.