The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds

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Subramanian Swamy’s “Himalayan Challenge: India, China and the Quest for Peace”, Rupa Publications (2020) MOTORWAY GRAFFITI - Early Day Motions" (Early Day Motion by Joe Ashton MP). House of Commons. 21 October 1991 . Retrieved 29 February 2020. That this House calls on the Secretary of State for Transport to remove the huge white painted graffiti on the bridge over the M1 on the northbound carriageway just north of the M25 junction which reads – Its Grim Up North, or alternatively arrange to add the words, Gruesome in the Midlands, and Nowt but Homeless Folk in Cardboard Boxes in London, to restore a fair regional balance during the next election. At the time of the KLF's retirement announcement, Drummond's old friend and colleague David Balfe said of Drummond's KLF career that "the path he's trod[den] is a more artistic one than mine. I know that deep down I like the idea of building up a very successful career, where Bill is more interested in weird stuff... I think the very avoidance of cliché has become their particular cliché". [5] MU (Sleeve notes: "History Rewritten: The KLF Biography - Autumn 1991"). The KLF. Japan: Toshiba-EMI/ KLF Communications. 1991. TOCP-6916. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/519

a b Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (23 August 2017). "The return of the KLF: pop's greatest provocateurs take on a post-truth world". The Guardian . Retrieved October 23, 2017. Between 8-19 April 2012 saw a series of Drummond actions and invocations of The17 in a performance titled The Atlantic Archipelago. This was to mark the conclusion of the 17 project, or at least its curation by Drummond. It began with a performance of Man Bangs a Drum - which would become a staple of his later 25 Paintings tour - on Skegness beach, before heading west along a straight line drawn across a map crossing Matthew St in Liverpool, and ending in Inshmore in Ireland. The17 were summoned at various locations along this line and the preparations for these performances were filmed by director Stefan Schwietert for a film Coast to Coast, and documented by photographer Tracey Moberly for a book of the same name. A 2017 piece in The Guardian, pondering the rumoured return of The KLF, noted that "in the 25 years since their disappearance, nobody else has come up with anything that matches the duo's extraordinary career"; [60] another piece in the same newspaper in the same year, by a different author, called them "abstruse" and "pop's greatest provocateurs", and their career "anarchic, anti-commercial and mostly ludicrous". [93] Instrumentation [ edit ]Bill Drummond explained the licensing situation – and inducements made by Arista – in an interview by Ernie Longmire, X Magazine, July 1991. [38] People's Pyramid". Melody Maker (News item). 15 November 1997. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/499 Drummond (left) and Cauty at a debate in Liverpool, August 2017. Photograph: Richard Martin-Roberts/Getty Images But there was one central character missing. The KLF drove everywhere in a battered American police car, Ford Timelord, that featured in all their music videos, and even appeared on BBC Breakfast. The original car was long destroyed by Jimmy, but I found an ardent fan who had lovingly recreated this legendary vehicle, right down to the seat fabric and tax disc. We took Ford Mk 2 filming in Suffolk, and were chased out of a field by an irate man. I broke into waste ground in Turnpike Lane and buried a fake Brit, as the KLF did with their real award at Stonehenge

Sodomsky, Sam (15 November 2018). "The KLF Announce Plans to Build Pyramid Out of 34,592 Dead People". Pitchfork . Retrieved 26 February 2020. The Timelords released one other product, a 1989 book called The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way), a step-by-step guide to achieving a number one hit single with little money or talent. [50] The KLF [ edit ] Ellison, Mike (24 November 1993). "Terror strikes at the Turner Prize / Art at its very best (or worst)". The Guardian. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/362 Normally that would be the end of it. The rules of film-making dictate that music documentaries require the artists’ consent. No access meant no rights to music, and no first-hand stories. But I kept ruminating on this exasperating paradox: that the band with the most unhinged story imaginable was slipping into obscurity because they didn’t want their story to be told. It was my cameraman Chris Smith who made the mistake of drunkenly asking: “Well, what would the KLF do?” The answer was suddenly obvious: they’d stuff the rules and get on with it. Which is exactly what we did. The story of the KLF is a reminder that you rarely make anything interesting by doing things the right wayInfamy followed when, on 23 August 1994, the K Foundation burnt what remained of The KLF's earnings, one million pounds, at a boathouse on the Scottish island of Jura. [40] [41] A film of the event – Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid – was taken on tour, with Drummond and Cauty discussing the incineration with members of the public after each screening. In 2004 Drummond admitted to the BBC that he now regretted burning the money. [42] "It's a hard one to explain to your kids and it doesn't get any easier. I wish I could explain why I did it so people would understand." [43] K-Foundation nailed". NME. 11 December 1993. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/368 a b c Drummond, Bill (October 1987). "KLF Info Sheet Oct 1987". Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 11 March 2007. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/500

Cauty emphasised to the BBC in 2018 that the People's Pyramid project, inspired by his brother's death, is serious: "It's easy to make it sound like a joke", he said, "but it isn't a joke, it's deadly serious and it's a long-term project." [98] He also confirmed that The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu are a going concern: "It's interesting to be in a band that doesn't make records but only makes pyramids of dead people. [98] Samplecity thru Trancentral [ edit ] The Best Of Artists, The Worst of Artists". New York Times. 29 November 1993. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/366 a b Flint, Charlie (2 September 1997). "Media Pranksters KLF Re-emerge As 2K". Billboard. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/496 Tingen, Paul (January 1999). "Spike Stent: The Work of a Top Flight Mixer". Sound on Sound . Retrieved 17 March 2020.

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It's Grim Up North". NME (Single of the Week). 2 November 1991. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/257