The Final Academy Documents

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1984-07

Label: Ikon

Includes four postcards with an image of each artist.

No tracklisting provided.

Documentation of the showcase titled 'The Final Academy', filmed on October 4, 1982 in The Haçienda, Manchester. Video 1 features the movies "Towers Open Fire" and "Ghosts at No. 9", video 2 features Burroughs' readings and performances by John Giorno and Brion Gysin.

First public screening on Thursday, 16th August 1984, during a 1-week Factory showcase at the Riverside Studios, London, called "From The North" (Fac 121). Advertised as:
First public showing of the two cassette documentary video to be released by IKON FCL this Summer. William S. Burroughs, John Giorno, Brion Gysin, Anthony Balch. Video from now and then. Two hours.