23rd February 2014, The Kazimier Club, Liverpool From the outset of planning Cosmic Trigger we fixed the opening show to be in Liverpool during the weekend of 23rd November 2014 because Daisy’s father Ken Campbell had opened his adaptation of Illuminatus in Liverpool on 23rd November 1976… and Daisy would be the same age then…
23rd November 2014, Camp & Furnace, Liverpool Named in honour of Tim Leary’s call to arms, this gathering of Seekers was a celebration of all things Robert Anton Wilson. It was the collective pulling of the Cosmic Trigger. It was a place of self-learning; a palace of hedonistic joys; a chapel of perils; a meeting…
Festival 23 is the creation of our friends the NotWork 23 collective in Sheffield, UK. They were inspired to produce a Discordian themed festival as a result of seeing The Mycelium’s 2014 double-bill of Cosmic Trigger play and Find The Others conferestival in Liverpool. We produced the Sunday cabaret tent at Festival 23 – a…
The 14 Hour Super Weird Happening was a fundraising event for The Florrie, a Grade II listed community venue in Liverpool, organised by Greg Wilson and Kermit Leveridge of Super Weird Substance. It was a Discordian gathering of the tribes… a melting pot for new myths and cultures to form… where the Elders and the…
6th + 14th + 21st + 27th May 2017, The Cockpit, London Four special extended programming events at weekends during the 2017 run of Cosmic Trigger featuring day time talks, debates, performance, comedy, music, video art, and cosmic surprises. The final event included a panel discussion with Alan Moore and Adam Curtis on the lasting…
21st-23rd November 2014, Camp & Furnace, Liverpool / 26th-29th November 2014, LOST, London.4th-27th May 2017, The Cockpit, London. In 1976 Ken Campbell staged Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s trilogy of novels called Illuminatus, an attempt to “do for the state what Voltaire did for the church”; in which they attempted to portray a world…
23 shows across the UK during 2018, including: Hampstead Theatre, The British Library and The Cockpit in London Having grown up repeatedly watching her father Ken Campbell’s one-man shows (cheaper than a babysitter), Daisy Campbell marked the 10 year anniversary of her dad’s death with her first one-woman show. Pigspurt’s Daughter follows Daisy’s surreal quest…
1st September 2018, 2pm-9pm, The British Library, London. A celebration of theatre maverick and ‘antic visionary’ Ken Campbell hosted by The British Library. A day of conversation, performance and rarely-seen film with some of those who worked with Ken. 14.00 – 16.00 Film screeningRarely seen footage of Ken Campbell in action 16.30 – 18.00 Panel…
Pilgrimage by coach: the Cerne Abbas Giant in UK to the centre of CERN in Switzerland, 20-25th April 2019(or… The Large Hard On to The Large Hadron) An interactive art-magick experience for 69 hardcore Seekers. Their mission was to re-set the world by performing a ritual at the heart of The Gnothing that would Immanentised…
A Research & Development project funded by Arts Council England.Stay tuned for further transmissions. The show will explore what HG Well’s myth-making genius can teach us about the urgent need to alter our cultural narrative. Could we be heroes? Told by imagining that Ziggy Stardust himself was HG Wells’ muse before David Bowie’s, this will…
