I have just been watching a documentary about the band and their music career, I never realised just how mad and messy things got for them. Some of the things they done after they walked away from the music world were just as crazy if not more so with things like The K Foundation, deleting and removing thier whole music back catalogue from sale, and burning money just to get rid of it. |
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Haven't seen it, but do recall them burning the million pounds was it?... I think in an interview since a member (can't recall) whose grown up, had kids since... Stated, yes it was a bloody stupid thing to do, of course I now regret it'... Fuck the system! at its finest off its younger face  |
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"Haven't seen it, but do recall them burning the million pounds was it?... I think in an interview since a member (can't recall) whose grown up, had kids since... Stated, yes it was a bloody stupid thing to do, of course I now regret it'... Fuck the system! at its finest off its younger face "
Yup and nailed a load to a board as art. It's on sky documentary, I would say it's worth a watch just for some of the madness |
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"I'm going to watch it, just because of your messages here and it just seems like I need to know!"
I could tell you work related tales that would make your bunny ears curl |
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"I'm going to watch it, just because of your messages here and it just seems like I need to know!
I could tell you work related tales that would make your bunny ears curl "
Lol I could probably add a few after trading in the kink scene for a number of years, I've seen things that just cant be unseen  |
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"The White Room...one of the best albums of the 90s."
A great idea. And one of my “your from the nineties woody, you lived it’ thoughts when I listen to it. Reminds me of all my friends back then and all the stuff we got upto.
If I’d have been in a band, KLF would have probably been it. |
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By *omRachCouple
over a year ago
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"Oh yeah, great band, really interesting film.
Bill Drummond’s a smart chap - always loved his sense of style & humour.
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Great producer, he produced some of Julian Cope & Teardrop Explodes stuff if memory serves. |
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I so loved that song about the ice cream van and mu mu land. I did read about the antics of the band a couple of years ago. Interesting stuff and a tale of mad behaviour.. |
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"Oh yeah, great band, really interesting film.
Bill Drummond’s a smart chap - always loved his sense of style & humour.
Great producer, he produced some of Julian Cope & Teardrop Explodes stuff if memory serves."
Yeah - Cope doesn’t refer to him too kindly in his autobiographies. |
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By *llaandGCouple
over a year ago
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The burning of a million pounds was the K Foundation award which they awarded as a protest to what they considered the worst entry in that year's Turner Prize. Of course they unintentionally picked the actual winner....
Really great to see some of their work appearing on streaming (Solid State Login 1&2) the Tammy Wybette and Jarvis Cocker versions of Justified and Ancient are brilliant
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Drummond & Cauty are absolute legends. I’ve been a huge fan all along.
If you’re interested, there’s a brilliant short book that runs through their history better than the film and ‘explains’ things a bit - as much as anyone can, anyway.
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds, by John Higgs.
It’s only a few quid on Amazon just now. |
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The KLF are (one my 3) Mastermind specialist subjects. And the commonly known antics only scratch the surface of some of what they got up to, both musically and in terms of fucking with the music establishment. Just one amusing one for how far they nearly took stuff, when Bill Drummond got a machine gun and fired blanks at the audience during their Brit Award performance, the original plan was for Bill to chop his fucking hand off, and he had to be talked out of it as he was going to do it.... They only ever did 1 actual gig, I was there in 1997 at their 23 minute one night only Fuck the Millennium thing (still have the nicked back stage pass I got from one of the "choir" of striking dockers), I was there in 2017 at their Liverpool "reunion" weekend, I've got the Brick for my ashes, and the Ice Cream van is booked to convert me to the pyramid when I die. I love these guys. |
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Back in my art school days we invited them to an exhibition we were running in the Midlands, and they actually turned up! Spent the whole day making art interventions around the city and the night playing Monopoly with real money at our party - anyone invited to join in. We even had a screening of Gimpo’s Twat and the burning a million quid film on our nightclub’s big cinema screen. |
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
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"The burning of a million pounds was the K Foundation award which they awarded as a protest to what they considered the worst entry in that year's Turner Prize. Of course they unintentionally picked the actual winner....
Really great to see some of their work appearing on streaming (Solid State Login 1&2) the Tammy Wybette and Jarvis Cocker versions of Justified and Ancient are brilliant
G"
When Tammy Wynette turned up at the studio they allegedly had no idea who she was having intended to ask Dolly Parton but got her name confused! |
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"The burning of a million pounds was the K Foundation award which they awarded as a protest to what they considered the worst entry in that year's Turner Prize. Of course they unintentionally picked the actual winner....
Really great to see some of their work appearing on streaming (Solid State Login 1&2) the Tammy Wybette and Jarvis Cocker versions of Justified and Ancient are brilliant
G
When Tammy Wynette turned up at the studio they allegedly had no idea who she was having intended to ask Dolly Parton but got her name confused! "
This one is apocryphal, because they went to see her specifically in Tennessee not the other way round. However when they left they nearly binned all the recordings because when a country singer like Tammy sings, she sets the tempo (much like the drummer would in a 'normal' band) and everyone has to keep to her timing. Because she just sang the vocals direct with no backing music, she was all over the place timing wise as is normal for her, and it was certainly not in 4/4 dance music time signatures... They sat on the recordings for ages until they worked out a way to chop her vocals into tiny bits and stretch/compress it all to make it fit the beat. |
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