KLF - did they rock you?

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 ..

This is brilliant: https://vimeo.com/197669227

("2017-1994=23")

http://k2planthireltd.com/
https://twitter.com/K2PLANTHIRE

http://k2planthireltd.com/poster-one.jpg

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.

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

don't take my hopes for a klf insurrection away from me on today or all days

er, on today of all days

The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds was one of the best books I've ever read.

yeah, that book is 100% great

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.

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.

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

I listen to most top 40 as if it's subversive KLF arena house, more fun that way.

I definitely listen to Scooter that way

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

they're skint and on the dole?

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.

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

yeah. music's great though - like a more uptempo Chill Out.

when did samples stop being cool? I still think they're cool.

they never stopped being cool, they just started being ruinously expensive to use

Read the Higgs book today thanks to recommendations upthread, and yeah, fantastic.

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

scoured the background of those pictures looking for additional evidence of a pie-eyed raving david cameron but sadly nothing to report :(

Wow, those pictures all look great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jkv47xwkgg

!!!

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

£100

https://www.bidolito.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/POSTER-MASTER-web-768x1235.jpg

i bet the website crashes.

"Every one of the 400 ticket holders will be expected to be Volunteers."

what?

My life could benefit from a three-day "situation" by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.

Not very interesting : The KLF

^challop

My life could benefit from a three-day "situation" by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.

― naus, Friday, July 21, 2017 7:34 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cosign x 10000

Not very interesting : The KLF

Bears unlimited repeating, but "The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds" is literally one of the most interesting books I've ever read.

And I've read the first two "Game of Thrones" books!

otm, it's great and the klf are/were/are great

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.

― mark e, Thursday, July 20, 2017 5:29 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha ha, those jokers!

...

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/