If you ask me, there isn't nearly enough Africa in their sequenced drum patterns and my personal response would have to be "Well, ever so nice of you to ask, but no you don't/didn't rock me in the slightest as a matter of fact". Am I getting old?
― Chris, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
I think you are taking the KLF a little too seriously. They were a couple geezers up for a laugh, and they certainly had one. I thought their music was alright, but 1987(WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON) is an absolutely brilliant album. It is rare as hens teeth as it was only on the shelves for about a day before it was pulled due to copyright violations. A buddy of mine has a vinyl copy and it is absolute madness. Think of rabidly plunderphonic hip-hop as done by the beastie boys if a. they had not tried to sound even remotely influenced by NYC black culture, b. they were hell bent on career suicide, and c. if they had absolutely no flow.
It sounds like it would be god awful, but it is so intentionally bad and purposely clever that is breaks through into genius.
I always thought their writing was more interesting than their music. Check The KLF's Guide To Having a #1 Hit Single The Easy Way, also The White Room Script, and the story about spending 24 hours continously driving on the M03. Simultainously hysterical and insightful. They knew exactly what they were doing.
― mt, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― ethan, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― paul, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Anyone remember Bill Drummond's great pre-JAMMs reply number, Julian Cope Is Dead?
― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Ben Butler, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
Compared to what house/techno?
― Tim, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― cha cha, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Jeff W, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Tom, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― RickyT, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Billy Dods, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― stevo, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
can you burn cds of mp3's?
he also has evry kraftwerk release via the same method
alternatively. fly to russia/bulgaria/somewhere like that and buy a copy. they cost 50 roubles. (1 pound 25). maybe 60.
― ambrose, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
The KLF were utterly (utterly utterly) BRILLIANT.
"Three-ay-ee-am; Three-ayeee-ay-em; Three-ay-ee-ay-em-ETERN-UA-AL!!!"
You know the score.
William Blake said he wasn't interested in what could be made "explicit to the idiot" - what on earth was he on about?!
Good for you Tom btw, I didn't think it was possible to adore the Smiths and the KLF...
Where is Drummond when his country needs him?!!!
― Chris, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (seventeen years ago) Permalink
picked up a copy of the america...what time is love? 12" today - for the hell of it and cuz it was cheap. not something you often see in the us, though i imagine it's a dollar-bin staple in the uk. never was a fan (they never made a dent in the us charts) but this is insane and hilarious and truly truly great. a parody of american excess? i dunno, but it has rocked me.
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:15 (nine years ago) Permalink
That's my favourite KLF track. It's so over the top it's incredible. Brilliant cover too, both of them - the one with the sitars and also the longboat one (different in the US).
― everything, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
mine's got the longboat cover, which IS great and suits the music perfectly. listened to it 3 times in a row.
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 06:13 (nine years ago) Permalink
they never made a dent in the us charts
"3 a.m. Eternal" was big in the US and wikipedia says top 5 Billboard.
And oh yeah, they rocked me. One of the greatest ever groups/artists/acts etc etc of all time.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 07:55 (nine years ago) Permalink
i think you missed the subtext in my earlier remark which might be dumbed-down as, "they never made a dent in the us charts during a period when i was paying more attention to the billboard charts than to my toenails and hey check out this insane sloth."
subtext
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:16 (nine years ago) Permalink
/unfunny
it kinda blows my mind that they made #5 in '91, cuz at that point i WAS at least half aware of radio pop and i missed it entirely.
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
I guess it was a hit because it mentioned "Rock"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:47 (nine years ago) Permalink
plus i lied earlier abt not being a fan. i now remember owning and loving the shit out of their cover of the dr. who theme once upon a really long time ago (late 80s sometime, basically in my childhood). so i guess the truth is that i not only now but always have loved the klf. so what must i hear next?
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 09:28 (nine years ago) Permalink
"If you ask me, there isn't nearly enough Africa in their sequenced drum patterns" what on earth does this mean?
just finished reading the 17 and was left feeling disappointed, drummond has turned into little more than a grumpy old fart. standing in front of a class of schoolchildren and telling them music is irrelevant seems unhelpful and dickish. plus i don't feel the whole 'recording 17 people going hmmmm then deleting it' is quite the genius idea he thinks it is.
― NI, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:20 (nine years ago) Permalink
i fought my way through the 17 book recently as well.enjoyable in parts, but yes, he needs to lighten up.i ended up agreeing with his mate at the end who bluntly tells him on one of their traditional journeys that the whole 17 thing is crap basically.the breakdown of his life on a year by year basis is rather fascinating though.
― mark e, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:30 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yeah, just got to finish it about 2 days ago.
Seems like the dude's rich enough to just fanny around thesedays.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:33 (nine years ago) Permalink
weren't the klf & co the biggest selling act in the world in 1991 or thereabouts? playing huge stadiums in russia etc. burning £1m probably wasn't probably as big a kick to his bank balance as you'd expect
― NI, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 10:59 (nine years ago) Permalink
part of the current wealth reason : the ongoing success of the Proclaimers
he admits as much re their chart topping charity single for which he refused to let go of the royalties
― mark e, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 11:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/user/klfcommunicationsnet
^AMAZING RESOURCE
― SBing Crosby (haitch), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 11:30 (nine years ago) Permalink
it is - just wasted an hour there. "doctoring the tardis" turns out to be more goofy than revelatory, tho fun. and i realize now that i also used to own the "justified & ancient" 12-inch (or an album it appeared on, something like that). more or less the version featured in the vid. shit is bonkers yo - SO FUCKING GREAT tho i remember it being too fruity for me at the time.
i think i am a fan
― a dimension that can only be accessed through self-immolation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 12:10 (nine years ago) Permalink
Their last public appearance before retiring always raises a smile from UK types of a certain age.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgaik2as06c
― everything, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 18:30 (nine years ago) Permalink
I feel compelled to recommend Drummond's AMAZING early solo album The Man on every KLF thread.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 19:19 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yeah, it's great. Notwithstanding his current, well-earned curmudgeon status, I think he's a genius.
― everything, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 19:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
Revive!
Where the hell are these chants of "MU-MU! MU-MU!" in "Last Train to Trancentral"?
Wigglypedia sez:Splendid Magazine said of the LP version: "The cries of "Mu Mu! Mu Mu! Mu Mu! Mu Mu!" take on a strangely liberating, mantra-like feel. It's the essence of great pop music, of great dance music, wholly compressed."
Tom Ewing, in his Top 100 Singles of the 90s list, sez:And then it fades away and the chanting begins – “MU MU! MU MU! MU MU! KLF!”
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:38 (nine years ago) Permalink
Yes they did rock me.
At the end of the Live from the Lost Continent version, it changes from "Woo-Woo" to "MU-MU"(?)
― everything, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:48 (nine years ago) Permalink
I've been on a early 90s jamz kick and never realized before how much of an exact rip the 3AM Eternal single is of Snap - 'The Power', down to the Eastern European voice sample at the start. feckin brilliant - How to Have a No 1 the Easy Way indeed...
― Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 22:58 (nine years ago) Permalink
I think 3AM Eternal came first though - the first version came out in 89, The Power was a hit in 1990.
I just remembered that in one of his books Julian Cope inspiringly uses "Bill Drummond" as an adjective, as in "David Balfe was Bill Drummonded to the tits". Made me laugh.
― everything, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 23:04 (nine years ago) Permalink
Here is the "Last Train to Trancentral" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqxtBggVsi0
Now would that be the "MU MU!"s there at 3:24?
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
That's what I was thinking, yeah. It's "woo-woo" up till then, then for the last chorus it's "MU MU!".
― everything, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:16 (nine years ago) Permalink
Has anyone got/heard "Edits", the 'legal' version of the LP? So short, it retailed at the price of a 12" single + came with instructions on how to recreate the original record. I could never decide if this was classic or dud.― Jeff W, Sunday, February 24, 2002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-lDwwW7Ql0
― naus, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 09:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
+ the instructions themselves:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woolner/3339270412/sizes/o/
― naus, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 09:21 (nine years ago) Permalink
consider me 100% rocked.
― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 11:23 (nine years ago) Permalink
Strictly Kev is livebloggerising events on Instagram.
PeteR still owes me copies of his 1990s KLF fanzines.
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 08:13 (one year ago) Permalink
looks like the old liverpool gang are having a fun few days.pete wylie seems to be part of the badger kull 'tribute' band set up.
― mark e, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 15:37 (one year ago) Permalink
wish there was a livestream somewhere. seems like an interesting event/concept
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 17:50 (one year ago) Permalink
yeah, following the badger kull twitter blitz is fun. clearly part of the 'project' is to get a new band out there without any help from the usual suspects, or even a real band, but watching it all develop is rather entertaining.
― mark e, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 18:01 (one year ago) Permalink
https://youtu.be/btPZhr4FYew
― naus, Saturday, 26 August 2017 19:22 (one year ago) Permalink
yeah, saw that this morning .. have to admit, its a rather wonderful thing.
― mark e, Saturday, 26 August 2017 19:31 (one year ago) Permalink
yeah fab
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 August 2017 19:38 (one year ago) Permalink
that's Jeff Minter in the back row (somewhere)
― koogs, Sunday, 27 August 2017 20:11 (one year ago) Permalink
Jarvis Cocker?
Did he sing?
Now, we've told him about this..
― Mark G, Sunday, 27 August 2017 20:20 (one year ago) Permalink
Anyone read their new book?
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 28 August 2017 03:39 (one year ago) Permalink
what? https://mumufication.com/
― StanM, Monday, 28 August 2017 08:36 (one year ago) Permalink
GREAT question, well put.
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Monday, 28 August 2017 09:57 (one year ago) Permalink
No book on that website, but ta for the link.
― Mark G, Monday, 28 August 2017 11:16 (one year ago) Permalink
the book is on Faber², can't imagine it will be hard to find in UK bookshops
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Monday, 28 August 2017 13:41 (one year ago) Permalink
Those excerpt from the book in theGuardian at the weekend were not good
― i know kore-eda (or something), Monday, 28 August 2017 13:57 (one year ago) Permalink
for a rundown on each days events, this girl (the tattoo girl) has given the proceedings a good shot :
http://planetslop.co.uk/?s=klf
still not so sure i would have enjoyed any of the corporate styled team building exercises.
― mark e, Monday, 28 August 2017 16:26 (one year ago) Permalink
for example : http://www.2019warisover.com/
student rag week taken to the extreme.still, the jarvis thing + ritual burning thing, does sound rather cool.and i have actually contemplated the ashes/brick thing once i had a good read around that website.it does all sound rather legit.
― mark e, Monday, 28 August 2017 16:29 (one year ago) Permalink
strictly kev post #1 is up :
http://www.djfood.org/welcome-to-the-dark-ages-pt-1-tuesday-2023-book-stamping/
― mark e, Monday, 28 August 2017 19:20 (one year ago) Permalink
i realise for a lot of people this gang can do no wrong ...
but i think this is an arsey move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq6XJl9xw80
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:52 (one year ago) Permalink
bugger.the link is in kevs latest post.with a followup to the outcome.
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:53 (one year ago) Permalink
I have one question: what the fuuk is going on?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 21:00 (one year ago) Permalink
The driver of the car seemed to be smiling. Don't think he minded. Could be wrong though.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 21:07 (one year ago) Permalink
Ah, just read the blog post. Does seem to be a dick move. Situationist art is all well and good when it's your own property you're using, but if there was no coordination with the car owner, this was pretty poor form.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 21:11 (one year ago) Permalink
yeah .. car owner was not happy.he confronted jimmy later in the day, and it was uncomfortable by all accounts.more to be revealed by all involved later on i believe.that said, i love the postscript on kevs post.
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 21:37 (one year ago) Permalink
I do not know what the fuck to make of this 2023 book, or even if I'll read it, or why I should read it ... joke's on me, I guess?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 September 2017 20:49 (one year ago) Permalink
Is it more like a Bad Wisdoming of Drummond's last 5-10 books, an actual novel, or just an Illuminatus knockoff? Hasn't been published here (I'm surprised it's in Chicago already!)
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Friday, 1 September 2017 23:13 (one year ago) Permalink
I literally can't tell what it is. It's hard to tell what is supposed to be a put on, or is it all a put on, does it have a plot? I've only skimmed bits of it, but it's very ... conceptual? It's novel-esque but features plenty of direct and oblique KLF mythology, from the Bunnymen on up. Just really intimidating.
I bought a "used" copy online via Amazon, just arrived today. There is literally one review on Amazon right now, a five-star review. The complete text is "I am amused."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 September 2017 01:20 (one year ago) Permalink
http://www.forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-klf-album-by-single-by-album.692361/
I do recommend this one, a KLF rundown.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 09:18 (one year ago) Permalink
Something's going down in Mumuland.
https://mumufication.com/
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 24 August 2018 17:00 (eight months ago) Permalink
xpost, just discovered the Steve Hoffman forum thread on them, essential reading for any KLFhead.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:41 (four months ago) Permalink
Though think he's wrong about 'Whitney Joins the JAMMs'.
I hang out there, but don't want to have to trawl through the thread.
is there a problem with 'Whitney ..' ??
― mark e, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:48 (four months ago) Permalink
yeah that thread is a great read.
― visiting, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:53 (four months ago) Permalink
xpost, he's a bit sniffy about it, rating it as an annoying novelty song. Which I suppose it is, but I find the concept very amusing and the punchline whene she 'joins' the JAMMs utterly joyous.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 21 December 2018 20:59 (four months ago) Permalink
ta Dan, as I expected.it was a glorious moment in which the guys declared their love for dance music as opposed to the JAMMS hip hop origins.for me that 12" was a massively defining release as I too was a hip hop kid, but getting bored with the genre.so to hear a 12" that hit the house groove using a song I hated was a big wake up and opened my ears to a whole new world.its anything but a novelty, it was the perfect bridge from JAMMS to the KLF.
― mark e, Friday, 21 December 2018 21:04 (four months ago) Permalink
and yes .. "joyous" is the perfect word for it.
― mark e, Friday, 21 December 2018 21:05 (four months ago) Permalink
JAMMsJAMMsJAMMSJAMMS
JAMMs
JAMMS
guys
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d4/The_JAMS-_1987_%28What_The_Fuck_Is_Going_On%3F%29.jpg
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51pgGyXKYbL._SY355_.jpg
https://www.rockers.de/cover/1024/133491a.jpg
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f19e93_8fd2a977d69b4556a14f9bfb7e896d6f.jpg/v1/fill/w_567,h_509,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/f19e93_8fd2a977d69b4556a14f9bfb7e896d6f.jpg
http://img.tradera.net/images/105/279249105_20437804-2e53-4d3e-86c4-f88bcd4a664b.jpg
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:41 (four months ago) Permalink
http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/032/211/large/LP_front_1.jpg?1465309126
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/86/07/80/86078014de3fb0c30d15c4a211355549--uk-images-music-albums.jpg
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 21 December 2018 21:42 (four months ago) Permalink
haha.sorry, old habits die hard.
― mark e, Friday, 21 December 2018 21:51 (four months ago) Permalink
Whoops!
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 21 December 2018 22:02 (four months ago) Permalink
6 part BBC radio drama “How to Burn a Million Quid”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06x3pn5
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 21:56 (three months ago) Permalink
.. and Bill Drummond's response ( received via email, this morning)
The JAMs don’t do Sidekicks You are either in The JAMs or you are not in The JAMs. In an English national newspaper in January 2019, there was a short piece about a podcast called How To Burn A Million Quid. It would have been written by a journalist just trying to get a job done.A job that they might not have been thinking that much about. A job that needed a sprinkling of adjectives etc to spice it up. In this short piece Jimmy Cauty, my colleague of some thirty years and counting, was passingly defined as a sidekick. I don’t think I have ever known someone to be less of a sidekick than Jimmy Cauty. But even more important than that – The JAMs don’t do sidekicks. The media often make assumptions about the roles of those working in creative partnerships. This is often done for the sake of the story that is being told. And we all want our stories to be simply understood. We want to know who the baddy is and who the goody is from the moment the film starts etc… Over those thirty years and counting that Jimmy Cauty and I have been working together most of the memorable things that we have done as The JAMs started as a passing suggestion by Jimmy Cauty. This is a list of some of those suggestions: 1: Including ABBA's Dancing Queen on the album 1987 – What The Fuck's Going On? 2: Using the Doctor Who theme in a pop song and combining it with the glitter beat 3: Creating The KLF crop circle in Wiltshire 4: Using the cash from Doctorin’ The Tardis to make a road movie 5: Creating a KLF wicker man on the isle of Jura 6: Performing a metal version of 3AM and using a machine gun at the Brits 7: Deleting the KLF catalogue 8: Burying the Brit award at Stonehenge 9: The 1994 K Foundation award for worst artist 10: Burning the money But the narrative that seems to keep coming up time and time again, is that Bill Drummond comes up with the unrealistic ideas and Jimmy Cauty has to use practical skills to make them a reality. Or that it is me that comes up with the words and Jimmy Cauty comes up with the tunes. Wrong… When I got my first guitar at the age of 15, and after I had done the Bert Weedon Play in a Daybook, I bought the Bob Dylan Song Book and learnt the chord structure of every song in it. And from there I went to learn the chord structures of every hit that Goffin & King had ever written. And it is that knowledge I used in the basic structures of almost all of The KLF tracks. Whereas when Jimmy Cauty got his first guitar he learnt every riff that Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page had ever played. And it was with that understanding and knowledge he was able to create the riffs in almost all of The KLF tracks. In any creative partnership there is no simple black and white. The sum is always greater than the parts. Neither of us could have ever done it with anyone else. I hoped I would never have to talk about The KLF again in my life, let alone find myself writing about it, but that line in that newspaper has prompted this outburst. The JAMs don’t do sidekicks. Bill Drummond 30 January 2019
You are either in The JAMs or you are not in The JAMs.
In an English national newspaper in January 2019, there was a short piece about a podcast called How To Burn A Million Quid. It would have been written by a journalist just trying to get a job done.
A job that they might not have been thinking that much about.
A job that needed a sprinkling of adjectives etc to spice it up.
In this short piece Jimmy Cauty, my colleague of some thirty years and counting, was passingly defined as a sidekick. I don’t think I have ever known someone to be less of a sidekick than Jimmy Cauty. But even more important than that – The JAMs don’t do sidekicks.
The media often make assumptions about the roles of those working in creative partnerships. This is often done for the sake of the story that is being told. And we all want our stories to be simply understood. We want to know who the baddy is and who the goody is from the moment the film starts etc…
Over those thirty years and counting that Jimmy Cauty and I have been working together most of the memorable things that we have done as The JAMs started as a passing suggestion by Jimmy Cauty. This is a list of some of those suggestions:
1: Including ABBA's Dancing Queen on the album 1987 – What The Fuck's Going On?
2: Using the Doctor Who theme in a pop song and combining it with the glitter beat
3: Creating The KLF crop circle in Wiltshire
4: Using the cash from Doctorin’ The Tardis to make a road movie
5: Creating a KLF wicker man on the isle of Jura
6: Performing a metal version of 3AM and using a machine gun at the Brits
7: Deleting the KLF catalogue
8: Burying the Brit award at Stonehenge
9: The 1994 K Foundation award for worst artist
10: Burning the money
But the narrative that seems to keep coming up time and time again, is that Bill Drummond comes up with the unrealistic ideas and Jimmy Cauty has to use practical skills to make them a reality. Or that it is me that comes up with the words and Jimmy Cauty comes up with the tunes.
Wrong…
When I got my first guitar at the age of 15, and after I had done the Bert Weedon Play in a Daybook, I bought the Bob Dylan Song Book and learnt the chord structure of every song in it. And from there I went to learn the chord structures of every hit that Goffin & King had ever written. And it is that knowledge I used in the basic structures of almost all of The KLF tracks. Whereas when Jimmy Cauty got his first guitar he learnt every riff that Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page had ever played. And it was with that understanding and knowledge he was able to create the riffs in almost all of The KLF tracks.
In any creative partnership there is no simple black and white. The sum is always greater than the parts.
Neither of us could have ever done it with anyone else.
I hoped I would never have to talk about The KLF again in my life, let alone find myself writing about it, but that line in that newspaper has prompted this outburst.
The JAMs don’t do sidekicks.
Bill Drummond 30 January 2019
― Mark G, Thursday, 31 January 2019 12:27 (three months ago) Permalink
awesome
― nxd, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:11 (three months ago) Permalink
Did BBC edit that blurb, cos I don't see the word "sidekick" or anything equivalent there?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:27 (three months ago) Permalink
It wasn't the podcast itself he's referring to, the English national newspaper piece is here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jan/25/what-made-the-klf-burn-a-million-pounds-podcasts-of-the-week?CMP=share_btn_tw
― willem, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:51 (three months ago) Permalink
I managed to get a copy of "2023", the "novel" that is seemingly authored by the KLF.
Despite the Amazon reviewer suggesting it's "probably" more the work of Drummond that Cauty (once again)..
I find that it's quite an entertaining read. The Amz reviews are either 1 star or 5, but hey. Also, most say it's "inpenetrable", but who wants to penetrate a book?
― Mark G, Monday, 13 May 2019 09:24 (one week ago) Permalink
hey don't knock it etc etc
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 13 May 2019 10:29 (one week ago) Permalink
!
― Mark G, Monday, 13 May 2019 17:00 (one week ago) Permalink
just ordered it since it's like 50% off on Amazon... hope it's better than the Julian Cope novel from a few years back
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 13 May 2019 17:13 (one week ago) Permalink
probably" more the work of Drummond that Cauty (once again)..
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Monday, 13 May 2019 19:39 (one week ago) Permalink