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

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In March 1994, members of the anarchist band Chumbawamba expressed their respect for the KLF. Vocalist and percussionist Alice Nutter referred to the KLF as "real situationists" categorising them as political musicians alongside the Sex Pistols and Public Enemy. Dunst Bruce lauded the K Foundation, concluding "I think the things the KLF do are fantastic. I'm a vegetarian but I wish they'd sawn an elephant's legs off at the BRIT Awards." [140] Direct influence [ edit ] The 2017 reunion happened at 00:23 on 23 August 23 years after the burning, with the release of a book entitled 2023: A Trilogy. The numerals of the date – 23 August 2017 – also sum to 23 (2+3+0+8+2+0+1+7=23). [93]

Tingen, Paul (January 1999). "Spike Stent: The Work of a Top Flight Mixer". Sound on Sound . Retrieved 17 March 2020. The book was prophetic about recording technology: "It's obvious that in a very short space of time the Japanese will have delivered the technology and then brought the price of it down so that you can do the whole thing at home. Then you will be able to sod off all that crap about going into studios." A book The 25 Paintings (Penkiln Burn 19; 2014) featured the paintings themselves in their initial states - to be repainted in different cities of the tour, each describing the different art actions that would for his practice during the following years - some new, some well established - and which would replace the 17 in his repertoire. Other paintings and actions are expected to evolve as the tour progresses and the canvasses are reworked. Paterson, Colin (23 August 2017). "The KLF return 23 years after bowing out of the music industry". BBC News (video) . Retrieved 27 February 2020.His film covers the duo’s creation of No 1 singles in the late 1980s and early 90s, their decision to exit the music industry and burn a million pounds, and their move into the art world with the K Foundation. Drummond (left) and Cauty at a debate in Liverpool, August 2017. Photograph: Richard Martin-Roberts/Getty Images

a b c d e f g h i j Shaw, William (July 1992). "Who Killed The KLF". Select. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 11 October 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/315 The pair were then in their mid 50s, and patiently listened as I explained how our film would chart their extraordinary journey from sampling stolen records in a south London squat to becoming one of the biggest bands in the world a couple of years later: six UK Top 10 hits in 18 months that crashed an entire mythological rave universe into transatlantic pop culture. They nodded sagely, and very politely told me to piss off.Youngs, Ian (26 November 2018). "KLF's Jimmy Cauty: 'We don't make records, we make pyramids out of dead people' ". BBC News . Retrieved 26 February 2020. a b c Ellis-Petersen, Hannah. "The return of the KLF: pop's greatest provocateurs take on a post-truth world". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 August 2017. The English-language version of The Manual has had at least 3 print runs, being reissued in 1989 and, with a new foreword by Drummond, in 1998. The book has also been translated into German, and was released as an audiobook (read by Bela B., drummer of the punk band Die Ärzte) in Germany in 2003, [2] with Drummond voicing the foreword, a motivational piece about reaching out for one's dreams today as ‘tomorrow is always too late’. In 2010, the book was published in Czech. [3] a b c d Wilkinson, Roy (28 May 1988). "...Ford Every Scheme". Sounds. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/81

a b c d e Longmire, Ernie; etal. (2020) [1998]. "Discography: The KLF (including The JAMS, The Timelords, 2K etc.)". Archived from the original on 29 February 2020. Phillips, Dom (1 March 1996). "50 greatest dance albums - No. 5, Chill Out - The KLF". Mixmag. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/478 By the time the JAMs' single "Whitney Joins the JAMs" was released in September 1987, their record label had been renamed "KLF Communications" (from the earlier The Sound of Mu(sic)). [36] The duo's first release as the KLF was in March 1988, with the single " Burn the Bastards"/"Burn the Beat" (KLF 002). [36] Although the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu name was not retired, most future Drummond and Cauty releases went under the name "The KLF". Maconie, Stuart (March 1994). "Chumbawamba interview". Select. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/378 a b c Ray, Josh (30 August 2017). "Welcome To The Dark Ages: The JAMs Return". Super Weird Substance . Retrieved 26 February 2020.Shaw, William (April 1995). "Special K". GQ. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/397 Martin, Gavin (December 1996). "The Chronicled Mutineers". Vox. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/430 KLF has been reported as being an initialism for "Kopyright Liberation Front", [4] [5] [6] or "Kings of the Low Frequencies". [7] [8] Sleevenotes from 1991 said that Cauty and Drummond have "yet to find out what K.L.F. stands for". [9] 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 pop biography for people who don’t read pop biographies. Higgs approaches the short career of the early 90s top 10 provocateurs like Adam Curtis brainstorming with Thomas Pynchon, exploring all manner of magical thinking and conspiracy theories. Touching on Dada, DOCTOR WHO and Discordianism, it’s as playful and sui generis as the KLF themselves, which is saying something’ (Dorian Lynskey GUARDIAN)

A music encyclopaedia once mistakenly printed that Drummond was born William Butterworth not in Butterworth. This error has been reported, and Drummond's real name confirmed, by, for example, Scotland on Sunday. [3] KLF chase money ... and McCulloch" ". NME. 29 February 1992. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/295 Music press journalists were occasionally invited to witness the defacements. In December 1987, a Melody Maker reporter was in attendance to see Cauty reverse his car Ford Timelord alongside a billboard and stand on its roof to graffiti a Christmas message from the JAMs. [35] In February 1991, another Melody Maker journalist watched the KLF deface a billboard advertising The Sunday Times, doctoring the slogan " THE GULF: the coverage, the analysis, the facts" by painting a 'K' over the 'GU'. Drummond and Cauty were, on this occasion, caught at the scene by police and arrested, later to be released without charge. [123] On 31 December 2020, the release of series of remastered compilations under the collective title Samplecity thru Trancentral was announced on a graffiti and posters hung under a railway bridge on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch, East London. The 30-minute collection of eight remastered singles Solid State Logik 1 appeared at midnight 1 January 2021, on streaming platforms, while high-definition videos were published for the first time on the band's official YouTube channel, marking the first activity of Cauty and Drummond as the KLF since 1992. [101] On 23 March 2021, the collection was followed by its part 2 featuring 12" versions of the singles. [102] Fields, Paddy, "And you thought they were dead", The Times (London) ISSN 0140-0460 , 4 May 2001, Features p2.

Mellor, Christopher (February 1989). "Beam Me Up, Scotty – How to have a number one (The JAMs way)". Offbeat. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 24 August 2007. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/94 Jamie Reynolds of Klaxons admitted in an interview to reading The Manual and stated that he "took direct instructions from it.... Get yourself a studio, get a groove going, sing some absolute nonsense over the top, put a breakbeat behind it, and you're away! That's what I did! That's genuinely it. I read that, I noted down the golden rules of pop, and applied that to what we're doing and made sure that that always applies to everything we do. That way, we always come out with a sort of catchy hit number." [7] [ unreliable source?] Editions [ edit ] Drummond and Cauty have appeared frequently in British broadsheets and music papers since the KLF's retirement, most often in connection with the K Foundation and their burning of one million pounds. The NME called them "masters of manipulating media and perceptions of themselves". [145] a b Poole, Steven (26 February 2000). "Hit man, myth maker - 45". The Observer. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/487 a b c d Youngs, Ian (26 November 2018). "KLF's Jimmy Cauty: 'We don't make records, we make pyramids out of dead people' ". BBC News . Retrieved 26 February 2020.