Bill Butt Explained

Bill Butt is a British filmmaker, artist/designer, television director, writer and producer. Butt produced the Eyewitness television series for its first season and has directed music videos and designed album covers.

History

Butt was lighting engineer for Echo & the Bunnymen, a Liverpool band managed by Bill Drummond. In 1981 Butt filmed the band's "Shine So Hard" performance,^[1] and in 1982 he was chosen to direct the videos for the Bunnymen's album Porcupine.^[2]

Butt worked with Drummond again, filming "The Manager" (released on CD in 1987), and with Drummond's band The KLF, being credited as the director of their films, Waiting and the unfinished road movie The White Room.^[3]

Butt produced the Eyewitness television series for its first season.

External links

• Bill Butt Filmography at the British Film Institute
• Bill Butt at Discogs.com

Notes and References

1. Book: Houghton, Mick. Fried & Justified: Hits, Myths, Break-Ups and Breakdowns in the Record Business 1978-98. Faber & Faber. 2 July 2019. 9780571336845.
2. Book: Adams, Chris . 2002 . Turquoise Days: The Weird World of Echo & the Bunnymen . . 93 . 1-887128-89-1 .
3. Web site: Return of the KLF: 'They were agents of chaos. Now the world they anticipated is here'. Andrew. Harrison. 27 April 2017. The Guardian. 1 March 2020.