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- airey
fantastic. the founder and nutcase is back, but with a book:
http://www.nme.com/news/klf/3974…i loved them although i preferred the 'doctor'n the tardis' track they released when they called themselves the timelords.
- ukit0
Pretty awesome band. You can hear (almost) all of their music here:
- _me_0
"wooooooooooo-er-wwwwwoooooooooo... – ancients of mumu"
- eighteen0
I got this one somewhere for free on the internet as a pdf. Really quick and fun read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…- Any chance of uploading that PDF someplace?MrOneHundred
- i could do it, whats a good site for that?eighteen
- My email would be a good place to start. Actually, I’m not sure. Maybe someone else might know.MrOneHundred
- see below... it's been online for years.kingsteven
- Mimio0
Yeah, Tammy Wynette.
- ukit0
- eighteen0
god this band is weird
- ukit0
- 23kon0
the manual is a quality read.
i've got his book "45" but only read the first couple of chapters (im not a reader and easily tire of a book)
also got the photo-book of them burning a millionim a BIIIIIG fan of the KLF and always have been.
love how they played with the media and took the piss out of "the establishment". thats something that somebody desperately needs to do right now!!!! especially with the likes of Banksy and Damien Hirst commanding stupid amounts of money for fuck all.I did my dissertation at art college about the creative exploits of the KLFand the way they kicked against the system and mocked the establishment. unfortunately, the title i chose and some of the content didnt go down too well with "the establishment" who were marking my dissertation.
While discussing "mocking/fighting against the establishment" i used examples of me doing as such and managing to wangle out of going to art history lectures and life drawing classes - argueing it was NO RELEVANCE to what i wanted to do as a career and my time would be better spent in the computer suite. So it was a kind of "fuck off" to the lecturers and art history folk (the folk marking the dissertation). I also questioned why we did dissertations etc.Around the time i was doing my dissertation the KLF had had a single out called "fuck the millennium".
So i called my dissertation FUCK THE DISSERTATION
was nicely printed and book bound and in a black card sleeve that had the words (in true KLF stylee - BIG BOLD SANS) ....
FUCK THE DISSERTATION on the cover.
I got a 2:1 for my hons degree - it was my dissertation result that brought me down from a first i reckon.
something i am quite proud of though.
FUCK THE ESTABLISHMENT!!!! lol- i didn't know banksy could actually be paid? where do you buy his stuff?airey
- call me clueless!airey
- http://www.blavish.c…invisiblechamber
- you can also buy canvas prints of his work at galleries across the UK. dean galleries edinburgh have them23kon
- 23kon, isn't fucking the establishment kind of dancing with it? and yr still hot about it?capsize
- kelpie0
were you just reading the blog thread Kon?
- 23kon0
nah i never read the blog thread
il go have a look at what yer on aboot
- kingsteven0
The Manual:
- 23kon0
nah i never saw the blog.
damn - where was he? glasgow or edinburgh? fuck i sooo wouldve went. he's a biiig hero of mine - think id have been starstruck haha.his promo stuff is deliberate, he knows he's taking the piss by doing that kinda stuff, and he's mocking the students who read further into his stuff. my take on the guy is that he's just a real person, like some funny guy youd meet down at your local - constant sceptic and can see the funny and twisted side of things and rather than complaining about it , he rips the piss out of them in a high brow manner.
- SkyPoo0
^ Yeah that's what I was trying to get at, he can home in on people's raw nerves and play them like a fiddle if he wants to.
Did you ever listen to that phone line they set up after burning the millions quids? They got their mate (something like Ratty or Moley) to record this really irritating long message, and anybody interested in hearing about why they burned the million quid could call it. Its rumoured that they made back their million quid within 18 months by this sort of thing: the pre-recorded message ambled on and on for fucking hours and it was on a premium rate... not so much that you'd feel like you'd been shanked, but enough to earn them some decent cash back. I listened to about forty minutes of it and the guy never got round to actually saying owt about the burning of the million.
- but why did he burn all that money? It could've gone tp something useful, like schools or pensioners orNairn
- ...keeping immigrants out, or setting up a Diana anti-landmine fundNairn
- HFS. The KLF murdered Diana! It's all so clear now - FUCKING COMMUNISTS!Nairn
- From what I heard they actually planned to ressurect her afterwards but it went wrong. = (SkyPoo
- they burnt a million but 2 million appeared in their bank the next day. it was a sponsored stunt23kon
- Mal0
- kelpie0
@spook
when the chat was opened up to Q&A after his reading, the first thing he did was tell us how much he hated Q&A sessions and declare that HE would be asking the questions. He asked one guy something, got an answer, then some chode blurted out "why did you burn a million quid" and BD goes "I'M ASKING THE QUESTIONS HERE" then calls the session off and goes to do the highly awkward signing session.
the man's a legend in wind-up merchant circles, a personal hero of mine. All the stuff like the £1M quid thing and his refusal to say why he did it is so perfectly pitched to get meedja types frothing at the mouth with interest then dying of frustration when he turns on 'enigmatic mode'. hehehe, twist the knife Drummond you big cunt :D
- moth0
23kon. I'm afraid you sound like you deserved the 2:1
I've gone to quite a few university art exhibitions in recent years, and the pattern of "descent" among the students work is sickeningly predictable - year on year. There's always one guy who photographs his penis. There's always one girl who scans her vagina. There's ALWAYS hardcore porn passed off as "art". There's always someone who thinks that a years study can culminate in putting an empty skip in a room. There's always one who will say something like "fuck the establishment", whilst, quite hypocritically, attending a voluntary higher education course.
- 23kon0
FUCK THE MOTH! lol
Other than the title, it wasnt a blatant attack on the establishment, it was done in the same highbrow pisstake way that mr drummond himself would have taken.
I wasnt trying to be shocking, just stressing the "if you dont ask you dont get, or if you dont question things, then things will never change. stand up, make a point : change things : change things to fit in with what YOU want"