Alan David Goodrick (born April 1962 in

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

), better known under the pseudonym Gimpo, is an English film director and former roadie, best known as an associate and collaborator of

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and the

K Foundation The K Foundation was an art foundation set up by Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, formerly of The KLF, in 1993, following their 'retirement' from the music industry. The Foundation served as an artistic outlet for the duo's post-retirement KLF in ...

. Goodwick organises an annual 25-hour drive around the M25 called the M25 spin, repeated every year on the weekend closest to 23 March (with many KLF fans from around the world joining in). The first time this took place was in 1997 when he was accompanied by

Bill Drummond William Ernest Drummond (born 29 April 1953) is a Scottish artist, musician, writer, and record producer. He was a co-founder of the late-1980s avant-garde pop group the KLF and its 1990s media-manipulating successor, the K Foundation, with wh ...

and artist Dave Green, and has produced a film of this event. The M25 spin can be seen as exploring similar motifs to those in

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's ''

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'' book. In August 1994, Goodrick made a film of K Foundation originators Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty burning one million pounds sterling in cash; he kept the master tapes before the Foundation reacquired them. He drove Drummond and Mark Manning to the top of the world (as recounted in ''Bad Wisdom''). He was the ski-masked person fumbling with lighter fluid and matches when

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came to claim the

K Foundation art award The 1994 K Foundation award was an award given by the K Foundation (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty) to the "worst artist of the year". The shortlist for the £40,000 K Foundation award was identical to the shortlist for the well-established but cont ...

. He is currently an underground/alternative arts film maker and is frequently involved with both Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's current projects. Although he has claimed that he has given up the role, he is often described as a

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Background

Goodrick reportedly served with the

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in the Falklands War. He later met up with Zodiac Mindwarp (the alter ego of Mark Manning) and started to work part-time with his band ''The Love Reaction''. After a period as a roadie for various

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bands such as Blur and

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, he set up Pit Bull management and began to manage the Love Reaction.

Bibliography

''K Foundation: Burn A Million Quid'', with Chris Brook (Ellipsis, 1997)

References

External links

Gimpo Gimpo – Official site
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