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Details have been released for the fourth annual Birkenhead Day of the Dead event, the ceremony created by former chart-topping band The KLF.
The event, titled The Dead Don't Stop, will take place on 21 November and involves people gathering to construct a giant pyramid made from bricks, which contain the cremated remains of their loved ones, as reported by the Wirral Globe.
Members of KLF Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond created the event, and it's now going into its fourth year.
Eventually, they want the People's Pyramid to have 34,592 bricks, but the pyramid is expected to take centuries to complete.
Daytime activities begin at Future Yard at 2 pm with the Skool of the Spektacle, where attendees can prepare props, learn roles for the procession, or volunteer for tasks including sign carrying and traffic marshalling.
A Spektacle Procession departs Future Yard at 5:30 pm, making its way to Birkenhead Park with a stop at the Burning Trolley for the Naming of the Bricks and the Kalling Out of the Names of the Dead.
The bricklaying ceremony takes place at Birkenhead Park from 6:30 pm, featuring sound and vision from TowerBlock1 and an attempt at pyramid levitation between 7 pm and 9 pm.
The day will end with the Sports Banger AfterLife Party, also at Future Yard, which will run from 9 pm to 3 am.
The process of having cremated remains fired into a Brick of Mu and laid in the pyramid is known as MuMufication. According to Cauty and Drummond, the pyramid will be "a lasting, collective tribute that transcends individual lifetimes" – built "by the people, for the people, of the people".
The KLF became one of Britain's biggest music acts in the 1990s with hits like 3 A.M Eternal.
Further information is available at ThePeoplesPyramid.org. Tickets can be purchased from futureyard.org.
