KLF - did they rock you?

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/07/20/537708922/how-three-austrian-unknowns-misunderstood-klf-s-the-manual

i saw Bill Drummond giving a lecture/chat/ramble/series of shaggy dog stories last month, he was great

Ha, thanks for sharing that! Great story. xp

Scooter have made a 20+ career out of The Manual, I think they're the clear winners here

WARNING: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu in any of their various past, present or future guises will not be performing music.

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ha ha, those jokers!

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NPR Music was delighted to receive an advance copy of the first book in the trilogy, 2023, and only slightly less delighted — truly — to discover that it contained 300 blank pages and a helpful note suggesting that we fill them ourselves.

o_O

Co-sign on the thanks for that NPR link, a great little piece, very funny.

hahahahahah classic

Oooh boy an on-the-nose situation. Call the teenage 70's punks, they want their anarchy tourism back from these geezers.

Waiting…

Not that I'm in Liverpool waiting. Just waiting on updates from 2023.

https://twitter.com/KLF_Updates seems to be on it.

https://www.bidolito.co.uk/feature-welcome-to-the-dark-ages-jams-klf-2023/

Strictly Kev is livebloggerising events on Instagram.

PeteR still owes me copies of his 1990s KLF fanzines.

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.

wish there was a livestream somewhere. seems like an interesting event/concept

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.

https://youtu.be/btPZhr4FYew

yeah, saw that this morning ..
have to admit, its a rather wonderful thing.

yeah fab

that's Jeff Minter in the back row (somewhere)

Jarvis Cocker?

Did he sing?

Now, we've told him about this..

Anyone read their new book?

what? https://mumufication.com/

GREAT question, well put.

No book on that website, but ta for the link.

the book is on Faber², can't imagine it will be hard to find in UK bookshops

Those excerpt from the book in theGuardian at the weekend were not good

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.

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.

strictly kev post #1 is up :

http://www.djfood.org/welcome-to-the-dark-ages-pt-1-tuesday-2023-book-stamping/

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

bugger.
the link is in kevs latest post.
with a followup to the outcome.

I have one question: what the fuuk is going on?

The driver of the car seemed to be smiling. Don't think he minded. Could be wrong though.

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.

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.

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?

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!)

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."

http://www.forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-klf-album-by-single-by-album.692361/

I do recommend this one, a KLF rundown.

Something's going down in Mumuland.

https://mumufication.com/

xpost, just discovered the Steve Hoffman forum thread on them, essential reading for any KLFhead.

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 ..' ??

yeah that thread is a great read.

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.

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.

and yes .. "joyous" is the perfect word for it.

JAMMs

JAMMs

JAMMS

JAMMS

guys

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