Bill Butt

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.

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),^[3] and with Drummond's band The KLF, being credited as the director of their films, Waiting and the unfinished road movie The White Room.^[4]

Butt produced the Eyewitness television series for its first season.

Bill Butt Filmography at the British Film Institute
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Bill Butt at IMDb

[1]
Houghton, Mick (2 July 2019). Fried & Justified: Hits, Myths, Break-Ups and Breakdowns in the Record Business 1978-98. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571336845.
[2]
Adams, Chris (2002). Turquoise Days: The Weird World of Echo & the Bunnymen. Soft Skull Press. p. 93. ISBN 1-887128-89-1.
[3]
Longmire, Ernie; et al. (2020) [1998]. "Discography: The KLF (including The JAMS, The Timelords, 2K etc.)". Archived from the original on 29 February 2020.
[4]
Harrison, Andrew (27 April 2017). "Return of the KLF: 'They were agents of chaos. Now the world they anticipated is here'". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2020.

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[1] [1]
Houghton, Mick (2 July 2019). Fried & Justified: Hits, Myths, Break-Ups and Breakdowns in the Record Business 1978-98. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571336845.

[2] [2]
Adams, Chris (2002). Turquoise Days: The Weird World of Echo & the Bunnymen. Soft Skull Press. p. 93. ISBN 1-887128-89-1.

[3] [3]
Longmire, Ernie; et al. (2020) [1998]. "Discography: The KLF (including The JAMS, The Timelords, 2K etc.)". Archived from the original on 29 February 2020.

[4] [4]
Harrison, Andrew (27 April 2017). "Return of the KLF: 'They were agents of chaos. Now the world they anticipated is here'". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2020.

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