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El Jefe said:
The KLF never really played live.
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El Jefe said:
Certainly didn't play live.
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You know what he bloody means, FFS.

rikwakefield said:
I did try to search for The KLF before I posted but two 3 letter words don't work when there's a 4 letter minimum :hmm:.
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Well, you see, Drummond & Cauty had a pretty big involvement in developing vbulletin, and that's one of the features they insisted on- so that they wouldn't ever be found in any searches. Wacky, eh? But that's just them through & through. :)
 
KLF are God like. One of the few bands I went to all sorts of lengths (and still would) to see. They never dissapoint. I really was quite obsessed with them...:cool:
 
I had a flashback at work today - someone was playing Elvis's "Children of the Ghetto" ...

methinks I will now have a frantic search for "Chillout" ...
 
Anyone (Geoff) know if there were more than 2 different versions of the Fuck the Millennium CD released in the UK?
 
El Jefe said:
Yehm, they did one or two rave PAs, they just fucked about. Certainly didn't play live.

They did a gig in Montreux and handed out all the equipment the promoters had provided to the audience.
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That made me feel better. Thank you El Jefe and thank you KLF.

never google your heroes, just wait for them to pass through your sights.
 
My missus has an original copy of the JAMs album 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?), the one that had to be destroyed :cool:

She was working at Rough Trade at the time and managed to blag a copy. Have to say, its not the best recording that i've ever heard, certainly nowhere near as good as the White Room or Chill Out.
 
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Ooooh! The Quietus | News | KLF Announce Return After 23 Year Absence
 
More of this please:

Were the band sometimes taking the piss? Absolutely, and it looked and sounded spectacular. When the time came to rework What Time Is Love? for the US market, their behaviour bordered on trolling: America: What Time Is Love? was a nine-minute, stadium house, techno-metal extravaganza featuring Glenn Hughes, once of Deep Purple. The first 90 seconds explained how, 1,000 years previously, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu had discovered America, 500 years before Columbus. (The NME decided Single of the Week would not suffice, and declared the song Single of the Millennium.) After being asked to contribute a track to a compilation album organised by CND they delivered What Time Was Love? an explosion, followed by 99 seconds of post-nuclear rumbling.

Even the band’s self-destruction was extraordinary. At the 1992 Brits (where they sent a motorcycle courier on to the stage to collect their Best British Group award), the KLF performed a thrash-metal version of 3am Eternal, fired blanks into the audience from a machine gun and closed with the declaration: “Ladies and gentlemen, the KLF have now left the music business.” They then dumped a dead sheep bearing the message, “I died for you – bon appetit,” at one of the aftershow parties.

Because they owned their own music, their farewell was more final than most – their entire back catalogue was immediately deleted and remains commercially unavailable...

The KLF are back (sort of) – and it’s exactly what 2017 needs
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