Ritzy, Brixton

The Final Academy was, organized by David Dawson, Roger Ely and  Genesis P-Orridge centring around and including William Burroughs as well as works inspired by him or having a covalence. The Academy included Psychic TV, John Giorna and Brion Gysin

…electic the Final Academy was. The roll-call sounded like an impossible dream— William Burroughs, Jeff Nuttall, Paul Burwell and Anne Bean and Ian Hinchcliffe …

Burwell and Bean put on an incredible show of pyrotechnics, pounding of drums, and proclaiming of ‘White Man’s Gotta God Complex” by the Last Poets. A sample of the late Steve Cripps ‘legacy” of explosives had the battery of exotic snappers, video and super eighters, minor celebs and their retinues, scampering for cover, as Anne Bean raged, stomping her feet in the billowing smoke.

I literally ate my words, choking on the lyrics of ‘Whiteman’s gotta God complex’ as I stuffed the paper with the words I had just sung into my mouth.