Daisy Eris offers advice for creating a show

 "So if you too are struggling with a part-written show, or would like to try your hand at writing a show for the first time - this is the course for you! Perhaps this invitation is just the kick up the backside you've been praying for...?"

We were too slow off the mark with this information, as the first class has already SOLD OUT, but apparently they are working on offering another, concurrently.

For full details of the course(s) go to The Cockpit Theatre site.

[taught on Zoom]

Resonance radio - Ken Campbell Archive

Daisy Eris Campbell and David Bramwell have worked on Ken's archive, and sampled his one-man shows, which have begun to appear online.  See link below.

Ken and Daisy Eris

On iTunes you can now find "Pigspurt, or Six Pigs from Happiness" and "Recollections of a Furtive Nudist".

More on Ken Campbell

People in the UK can find a 45 minute programme on BBCiPlayer, about Ken Campbell.

Ken Campbell as never heard before.

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Currently, Ken's daughter, Daisy Eris Campbell (who has memorably staged Cosmic Trigger) performs a solo show - Pigspurt's Daughter.

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This three hour programme appears not to be available now, but had some wonderful content.

When Diane met Ken

RAW Day At The Santa Cruz Museum of History 2017.

PILGRIMAGE TO SANTA CRUZ
Helloooo you there - over that pond!

Daisy Campbell, Director of Cosmic Trigger Play, is making a pilgrimage to Santa Cruz for July 23rd.

If you are anywhere near, or know anyone who is, do come and connect - for the vitally needed Robert Anton Wilson revival!
BOOK NOW FOR #RAWDAY

Details HERE.

May Our Minds Be Blown Just Right by Daisy Eris Campbell

May Our Minds Be Blown – Just Right — Daisy Eris Campbell
(MinorLits 02/05/2017 Essays & features)

I want to take you back to a moment I experienced about eight years ago. It’s a few weeks after my father, Ken Campbell’s, sudden and untimely death. I’m standing on the corner of two cobbled streets in Liverpool in the rain. And I’m looking at a bust of CG Jung. And that’s kind of weird because right at that moment I’m halfway through an essay about Carl Jung for a Master’s degree I’m doing. But that’s not why I’m there.

Stood next to me is Prunella Gee, Chris Langham and a guy called Peter O’Halligan. We’re all looking up at this bust of Carl Jung.

It’s there because Carl Jung had a dream about Liverpool and he wrote about it in his book, Memories, Dreams and Reflections. He said he thought it may be the most important dream he’d ever had. And he realised that in his dream, Liverpool was the Pool of Life.

I’m writing this essay about Jung’s ideas of the collective unconscious and synchronicity, a phrase he coined, and now I find myself looking at this bust of his head. And that bust has only been erected because of the tireless campaigning of Peter O’Halligan, who’s standing next to me. Because Peter O’Halligan is sure that this very spot is the exact spot that Jung dreamt about.

But just to the side of this bust is another unusual thing – it’s a plaque, set into the wall, which commemorates The Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun.

This has also only been erected due to the tireless campaigning of Peter O’Halligan.

Because just over 30 years previously, which is when O’Halligan first found this illustrious Jung-Dream site, he also noticed that the building on the corner of these two streets – just along from where the Beatles first performed – was derelict. And so he adopted it, set up a caff, and called it The Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun.

And the first production to be staged in a room above the caff, was an eighteen hour epic called Illuminatus!, directed by my father, Ken Campbell, starring (amongst many many others) my mother, Prunella Gee as Eris, Goddess of Chaos and Confusion, and co-adapted with Chris Langham from a novel by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

And there we all are now, and I say “It’s weird because right now I’m in the middle of an essay about Jung“, then I realise that, although I’m doing a distance-learning Master’s degree, I am actually studying at John Moores University, based in Liverpool.

And Peter O’ Halligan tells me that John Moores knew my dad’s dad, my grandfather, who I never met, they were both from just outside Liverpool, and John Moores offered my grandfather the opportunity to get involved with his new business venture, but my grandfather declined. It was the football pools! Which made John Moores a multi-millionaire, which was how come he’d had enough money to build a whole university, where I was right now studying Carl Gustav Jung.

Daisy Hilarious

Daisy Eris Campbell offers a breathlessly hilarious monologue on The Odditorium podcast. (no 34).

Daisy Campbell, (daughter of the performer Ken Campbell) takes us on a rollercoaster adventure exploring the ancient practise of gastromancy – divination from the stomach. It’s one of the most entertaining but weirdest talks we’ve ever had on the Odditorium so hang in there! Meanwhile in the studio, the two Davids appear to be having a spot of bother with the disembodied voice of Aleister Crowley.

Daisy's piece starts four minutes in...

Amor et Hilaritas!

Don't hold your breath in Santa Cruz

Hail Eris

It seems as though the plan to put on the Cosmic Trigger play in Santa Cruz - originally announced for this year - has gone on hold, (for a variety of reasons) but Daisy Eris Campbell may well visit the USA to promote the project.

Mama Sutra

The good news remains that the production will make an appearance in London, in May 2017.  

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8 Circuit Brain song and dance

From the current newsletter:

"Hello you lovely Discordians,

*ANNOUNCEMENT RE SANTA CRUZ PILGRIMAGE*

So yes, I have publicly announced on at least 23 occasions that we would be making a pilgrimage to Santa Cruz, where Robert Anton Wilson lived and died, this year, the 10 year anniversary of his death.

This kind of public declaration worked a treat for pulling the Cosmic Trigger in Liverpool on November 23rd 2014, but that's the thing with Cosmic Triggers - they have a tendency to go off in your hand. And I think, bathed in the glory of our last adventure, I got a little trigger happy.

We're not - we now realise - at the Triggering phase when it comes to Santa Cruz. We are still very much in The Finding The Others phase.

So instead I'll come to the US this summer to stir up enthusiasm for a future happening. Tell me Stateside Dwellers; where shall I enthuse, who shall I meet, how shall we scheme? I'm thinking 13-23rd July to coincide with Robert Anton Wilson Day and the start of the Dog Days. But I'll come whenever you call.

I'm truly sorry to disappoint anyone who was all set for the Santa Cruz pilgrimage performance - but let's meet up when I'm there, and before you know it we'll be happily pulling Cosmic Triggers together."

Daisy  x  x

Cosmic Trigger play - updates

New cover from Nic Alderton

Latest Newsletter!

Gathering of the Cosmic Fools

Detailed report on the Gathering of the Cosmic Fools, in London, November 23rd, 2015.

Word of the day: apophenia – the human tendency to find patterns amongst random data / signals.

[See Ian 'Cat' Vincent's blog entry here]

From the email/newsletter from Meesh:

"So, on the weekend of Saturday January 23rd 2016, we will be gathering somewhere in NW London, to begin making good on our promise to get the play to Santa Cruz, USA, by July 23rd 2017, following a second UK run. We will do this by putting our heads together and getting to work on the practicalities, as well as coming up with ways to keep it Heroic/Magical/Capertastic.

HELLLLPPP!!!

We will need all kinds of help. Good job so many of you lot are proper amazing.  [...]

Also on this day will be the signing of The Cosmic Book of True Will for all those foolish enough to tell Goddess your Plans. You write your intention in this book, sign it (in something akin to blood) and achieve it by July 23rd 2016 - but if any one of us fails - WE BURN THE BOOK! No pressure, then.

Until then, KLF - Keep Lasagne Flying


PS:  if you feel unlucky that you didn't get to see the play under discussion, you may catch a glimpse of what you missed in this video:


Cosmic Trigger Theatrical Promo from C S on Vimeo.

Keep up with the story, both on Fnordbook here and Twitter

Cosmic Triggering

Cosmic Trigger Theatrical Promo from C S on Vimeo.

Campaign Update

And you can buy one (or more) of the beautiful fund-raising T-shirts right where you are sitting now.

Lifted directly from Cosmic communications related to the Cosmic Trigger Play. If you missed it the first time round (Liverpool and London) try to catch it in its next incarnation.

An Update for The Cosmically Enthused

All Hail Discordians, Let's take a moment to hail Cosmic Dom - who built the website, budgeted the show, ordered many of the crowdfund perks, oversaw their postage, erected the *#@!* projection scaffold, had his shoulder wept upon, and indulged in many an all-nighter with a spreadsheet. All for the love of Bob and an occasional sandwich. Now he's been at it again - and updated the website to include a gorgeous gallery of pics by Jonathan Greet, a fantastic collaborators page (phew-eee, what a fine bunch) and many other tweaks and twiddles. Please take a look! Are you there grinning ear to ear, off your Discordian chops on Pure Bob?                 Finally, a plea - did you write a review/ post/ testimonal about your Cosmic Trigger experience? If so, would you be so kind as to send a link for inclusion on the website? Reviews Or has your trigger been pulled, resulting in an extraordinary stream of synchronicity and creativity that you are currently chasing? Better let us know about that too. We'll report in to Cosmic Coincidence Control Centre and link to it on our Cosmic Tentacles web-tab. Here's one: Kate Genevieve has created an illustrated record of the dreams folk had in Liverpool the night after the show... The Oneiric Archives Toodle pip til next time. PS. If you await news on T-Shirts, it's a-comin' xx xxx Daisy

Cosmic Trigger - reload

Spring Equinox, and we sense stirrings in the Cosmic Trigger camp - get the T-Shirt and help fund another glorious adventure.

 For several of the Maybe Logic crew witnessing (or performing in) the heroic performance in Liverpool and London formed a highlight of last year.

Triumphant performance in Liverpool, 2014

Cosmic Trigger - locked and loaded

This morning one huge contribution from James Midgley took the Indiegogo funding over the target amount, with two days to go!

If you want the perks, you can probably still contribute (the project can never have too many bio-survival tickets, I reckon).

Cosmic Trigger play crowdfund officially launched!

For more detailed information look here!
Even if you watch the videos it will help the fund.

Update 5 of 5 - cosmic trigger

5 of 5 : CTB_05// Will you pull the CosmicTrigger? from amoeba on Vimeo.

Cosmic Trigger - teasers

1 of 5 : CTB_01// Network23 from amoeba on Vimeo.
2 of 5 : CTB_02// FnordTV from amoeba on Vimeo.

3 of 5 : CTB_03// OM from amoeba on Vimeo.

4 of 5 : CTB_04// Apple ov Cosminatus-7714 from amoeba on Vimeo.



ALSO, at The British Library:

Art and Anarchy in the UK

Open until 19 August 2014

Parental guidance required for visitors under 16 years.

Featuring such iconic names as Neil Gaiman (Sandman), Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), Grant Morrison (Batman: Arkham Asylum) and Posy Simmonds (Tamara Drewe), this exhibition traces the British comics tradition back through classic 1970s titles including 2000AD, Action and Misty to 19^th-century illustrated reports of Jack the Ripper and beyond.

Time to Pull The Cosmic Trigger?

Time to Pull the Cosmic Trigger?
The Kazimier
4-5 Wolstenholme Sq. Liverpool, L1 4JJ.
Sunday, February 23rd, 4pm

Come and join the Discordians Heaven-bent on resurrecting the ideas of Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of Illuminatus!

Fresh dispatches from John Higgs, author of "The KLF - Chaos, Magic and the Band that Burned a Million Pounds", with his talk: "I Blame Liverpool".

Never-before-seen filmed interview with Alan Moore, discussing all matters RAW.

Daisy Eris Campbell brings us up-to-date on the synchronic forces aligning in her mission to stage Cosmic Trigger.  Includes scenes from the play, with music, magick, puppetry, projections - and acting.
If you want to help us pull the Cosmic Trigger, there is nowhere else to be.

You can reserve your place HERE and it's £5 on the door. It's a good idea to reserve, but please don't unless you really are coming, otherwise well, it will be chaos - and we wouldn't want that ;)

January 23rd Cosmic Trigger Play Update

**CHANGE OF LIVEPOOL VENUE**

Calling all Discordians.
This just in from Daisy Eris Campbell:

Cosmic Trigger-Squeezing in the Pool of Life And other Fine Messes

Happy 23rd! (just)

Firstly a quick update for the as-yet uninitiated:

Plan is to stage an adaptation of Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson, with scenes from Illuminatus! woven through, as well as a dramatised peek backstage at the original Liverpool production (directed by my dad, Ken Campbell). To be funded by crowd, staged by enthusiasts and encircled within a festival of Higher Intelligence. We've had a successful read-through of the first draft, done a talk with some scenes WATCH HERE and folk have started sending in money, despite not yet launching an official crowd-funding campaign...

And when you send in your £23 or $23 you will also become a Discordian Pope. And if you're already a Discordian Pope, then I'm excommunicating you until you cough up. Right, consider yourself initiated.

Hello Popes,
A bunch of us are Liverpool-bound for another Discordian Jamboree. It'd be a joy to see you there!

Here's the blurb:

Time to Pull the Cosmic Trigger?
The Kazimier 4-5 Wolstenholme Sq. Liverpool, L1 4JJ.
Sunday, February 23rd, 4pm

Come and join the Discordians Heaven-bent on resurrecting the ideas of Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of Illuminatus!
Fresh dispatches from John Higgs, author of "The KLF - Chaos, Magic and the Band that Burned a Million Pounds", with his talk: "I Blame Liverpool".
Never-before-seen filmed interview with Alan Moore, discussing all matters RAW.
Daisy Eris Campbell brings us up-to-date on the synchronic forces aligning in her mission to stage Cosmic Trigger
Includes scenes from the play, with music, magick, puppetry, projections - and acting.
If you want to help us pull the Cosmic Trigger, there is nowhere else to be.

You can reserve your place HERE and it's £5 on the door. It's a good idea to reserve, but please don't unless you really are coming, otherwise well, it will be chaos - and we wouldn't want that ;)

And please let folk know!

Thanks yous:

Many thanks to all of you who volunteered your time to do some research for me. And even more thanks to Roman and Jlyte, who delivered! (Only teasing, I'm sure the rest of you are beavering away, down a cosmic fun-hole of bizarre inquiry - I look forward to seeing the results).
Thanks to everyone in Liverpool - Greg, Paul, Paddy, Larry, Nicki, Angie, Tom et al for making it such a magical day on Monday. Can't wait to see what you guys come up with for the 23rd.
Ta, Shelle.
Big thanks to those of you who've donated your £/$23s - it's what's made this Liverpool escapade possible, which should in turn help immanentize the es-Show-ton (seamless).

Help Needed:

The next hurdle (or initiation), following the Liverpool do, is to make sure the crowd-funding campaign ignites like a bastard - CROWD FUND LAUNCHES APRIL 23RD
As some of you will know, I plan to offer the following (amongst many other things) as rewards to those who donate money within the official campaign:
An exclusive, never-before-heard interview with Shea and Wilson backstage at the NT
Ken Campbell box-set of video recordings of his one-man-shows - not previously available!
The audio recording of the original LIVERPOOL Illuminatus! production

So - help-wise:

Can you design beautiful packaging for the above?
Can you edit the above and add nice titles and whatnot?
Can you help burn CDs/DVDs?
Do you have any other recordings/photos/memorabilia that could be copied and offered as rewards?
Do you have any other genius ideas of rewards we could offer?
Could you record yourself wishing us the best with raising the money, and include a RAW or Ken anecdote?
Do you know other people who should darn well be on this mailing list, but may not yet be so?
YOU ARE STILL WELCOME TO DONATE, OR YOU CAN WAIT UNTIL THE OFFICIAL CROWD-FUNDING LAUNCH - OR BOTH!

Donating before we launch the crowd-funding campaign will get you on the guest list to an exclusive after-show party - only available to the Inner Circle of early supporters.


DONATE HERE email address: cosmictriggerplay@gmail.com


All Hail Discordia!

xx xxx Daisy

New Biography of Ken Campbell

We may have previously mentioned Michael Coveney's book about Ken Campbell "The Great Caper".

There is a more recent biography by Jeff Merrifield, one of Ken's closest friends: "Seeker!: Ken Campbell - His Five Amazing Lives".

You may find it on Amazon, although they don't seem to have many copies.  Why not get it direct from the author, at Playback Arts?

Cosmic Trigger - The Play

Here is the brilliant video of Daisy Eris Campbell from the recent Horse Hospital gig:



The plan is for the play to start in the UK and then head to America.
In the meantime anyone who donates £23 or $23 (or multiples thereof) in this pre-launch phase will be on the guest list for
The Grand Discordian opening night. (One in the UK and one in The States).
Much of the money raised will contribute directly to The RAW Estate by securing the rights.

So write an e-mail now to get on the mailing list.
The E-mail address is: cosmictriggerplay at gmail dot com
You can use paypal, or if you would rather use online banking, E-mail Daisy and she'll send you the details.

Another Cosmic Trigger event along the lines of this one, looks likely for Liverpool on *UPDATE* February 23rd, 2014.
A Kickstarter with lots of fun incentives will launch, hopefully on April 23rd, 2014.

Event you missed at the Horse Hospital

Forteans and Discordians have a night out at The Horse Hospital.

We met John Higgs, who has written the definitive book on Tim Leary, and more recently a wondrous book about the KLF, who gave a great talk about Bob, and why his influence remains relevant.

 

Jon One took the opportunity to burn £20 as part of his ongoing rituals, and you can see his explanation here (to the person who shouted out about how many Syrian children that could have helped).

Bogus just destroyed £5 in the washing machine, death by water rather than fire.  Does that count for anything?

Daisy Eris Campbell enthused us with her plans to stage Cosmic Trigger, and we will post links to the second half when it becomes available.  She has already received over £400 in £23 contributions, which allowed her to set up This Book Changed My Life Productions.