oooooh kayyyyyyyy...
― Mark G, Friday, 18 January 2013 06:56 (eleven years ago) link
The video doesn't work above, but one of the best things you will ever see is the KLF destroying the Brit Awards in 1992 with proto-grindcore group Extreme Noise Terror.
http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/562902
The audience at the end, politely clapping but with either bemused or horrified looks on their faces, is priceless.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 18 January 2013 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
?
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 18 January 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
The idea of the 1st issue being some sort of "benign" bootlegger..
Then again, whaddooIknaa...
― Mark G, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
I've never got further than the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star section on Space
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Friday, 18 January 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
of "benign" bootlegger..
a dozen ppl on an email list compiling a CD and posters chipping in to get it pressed vs ilx posters compiling a disc of 80s Australian synthpop or three discs of UKG or a four-disc set of live Cure recordings
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 18 January 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
Those early FA cup rounds are a buggr
― Mark G, Saturday, 19 January 2013 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
they were reported to be doing a proper compilation/ reissue series i heard a while back from a relatively good source.
― piscesx, Saturday, 19 January 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
'James Cauty's 1:87-scale police stateJAMs and KLF pioneer creates "twisted model village experience" populated by 5000 policemen'
http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2013/october/07/james-cautys-1-87-scale-police-state/
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
He's been doing them forever, I think the video for "Last train to Transcentral" featured close-down shots of one..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
just watching the 3 am eternal video for the first time... were their live shows anywhere close to as cool as how the video makes them look?
― skip, Monday, 4 August 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
never mind, now also reading they rarely if ever performed live...
― skip, Monday, 4 August 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
They didn't play live - they did a few PAs early on, but the Brits performance of 3AM with Extreme Noise Terror is probably the closest to an actual live performance they ever did.
― boney tassel (sic), Monday, 4 August 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
xpost obv
― boney tassel (sic), Monday, 4 August 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
Jimmy Cauty's Model Village
― bored at work (snoball), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
My 8 year old is prone to blurting KLF is gonna rock you with some regularity.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 20:07 (eight years ago) link
The KLF have now left the (miniature) building.
― bored at work (snoball), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
Is one of those cars Ford Timelord?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
This was pretty good, obviously chapman bros inspired but politically cynical and comic instead of unremittingly bleak and nihilistic. Plus cool blue flashing lights.
― ledge, Sunday, 24 January 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
i saw this at dismaland.in fact it was the best thing there for me.it's really quite something.could have spent a lot longer scanning it for all the little details ..
― mark e, Sunday, 24 January 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
This is brilliant: https://vimeo.com/197669227
― everything, Monday, 2 January 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
("2017-1994=23")
― everything, Monday, 2 January 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link
http://k2planthireltd.com/https://twitter.com/K2PLANTHIRE
http://k2planthireltd.com/poster-one.jpg
― naus, Friday, 20 January 2017 08:48 (seven years ago) link
Didn't they release that "F**ck the Millennium" tune in the late '90s, and even made a video for it? So it's not like this is their first comeback since their retirement, as fitting as it would be for their Illuminatus mythology to return after 23 years of absence.
― Tuomas, Friday, 20 January 2017 10:07 (seven years ago) link
comeback since their retirement
The K Foundation were active from 1993 to 199...8? 2K was 1997. The One World Orchestra featuring The Massed Pipes and Drums of the Children's Free Revolutionary Volunteer Guards was 1995. They've specifically suggested that any new work will be by K2 Plant Hire Ltd, which was active from ...1994 to at least 31st December 1999. The company was formed or bought off the shelf to rent the equipment for the K Foundation making a cube of Tennents, iirc, has evidently been a registered company ever since, and may have actually been a plant hire company when not being used to facilitate installations.
Anyway, the nigh-statement that anything they do this year will be as K2 Plant Hire, which has only been involved in (grand scale) installations and logistics before, coupled with Cauty's last couple of exhibitions being installations (of miniatures), suggests that this will a) be an installation of some kind and b) https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6ZtfZp8ID54YUne0/giphy.gif
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Friday, 20 January 2017 12:53 (seven years ago) link
don't take my hopes for a klf insurrection away from me on today or all days
― i don't watch lamestream porn (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 January 2017 13:00 (seven years ago) link
er, on today of all days
― i don't watch lamestream porn (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 January 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds was one of the best books I've ever read.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 January 2017 13:24 (seven years ago) link
yeah, that book is 100% great
― i don't watch lamestream porn (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 January 2017 14:24 (seven years ago) link
Agree about the book. I personally don't need to hear any new music from KLF, but I wouldn't mind being able to stream their entire catalog on Spotify.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 20 January 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
Just copped Waiting for the Rites of Mu recently and I am ... disturbed by how much I enjoy it, and how it sounds to my aging ears like it's from five minutes in the future. Although if literature is "news that stays news" I guess there's no reason music from the past can't evoke a perpetual onward sweep.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Friday, 20 January 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
I kinda feel like all those tropical house covers littering the charts are completely in synch with the guidelines from The Manual and so much as I would love the KLF spirit to return I fear it would be actually disappointing
― boxedjoy, Friday, 20 January 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
I listen to most top 40 as if it's subversive KLF arena house, more fun that way.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 January 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
I definitely listen to Scooter that way
― frogbs, Friday, 20 January 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
I went to see Scooter live a few months ago and it was probably the greatest night of my life because they do everything by The Manual
― boxedjoy, Friday, 20 January 2017 18:49 (seven years ago) link
they're skint and on the dole?
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Friday, 20 January 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
Waiting and The Rites Of Mu are two different short films whose audio tracks were bootlegged onto a single CD, if you don't know
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Friday, 20 January 2017 23:28 (seven years ago) link
yeah. music's great though - like a more uptempo Chill Out.
when did samples stop being cool? I still think they're cool.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Saturday, 21 January 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
they never stopped being cool, they just started being ruinously expensive to use
― i don't watch lamestream porn (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 21 January 2017 08:23 (seven years ago) link
Read the Higgs book today thanks to recommendations upthread, and yeah, fantastic.
― albvivertine, Monday, 23 January 2017 12:13 (seven years ago) link
Jimmy "Mad Max" Cauty looking like he was ready to rock whoever: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/10/a-lost-freedom-when-new-age-travellers-found-acid-house-in-pictures#img-7
― willem, Friday, 12 May 2017 07:20 (six years ago) link
scoured the background of those pictures looking for additional evidence of a pie-eyed raving david cameron but sadly nothing to report :(
― PRESIDENT STEAMPUNK J. BRAINSTEM (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 May 2017 09:29 (six years ago) link
Wow, those pictures all look great.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 May 2017 11:34 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jkv47xwkgg
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 20 July 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link
!!!
― he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 20 July 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
WARNING: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu in any of their various past, present or future guises will not be performing music.
― mark e, Thursday, 20 July 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
£100
― Mark G, Thursday, 20 July 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
https://www.bidolito.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/POSTER-MASTER-web-768x1235.jpg
― Jeff W, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
i bet the website crashes.
― mark e, Thursday, 20 July 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
"Every one of the 400 ticket holders will be expected to be Volunteers."
what?
― brimstead, Thursday, 20 July 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link