[Daniel Silk]

Liverpool:Welcome To The Dark Ages.
23rd - 25th August 2017

Day One: Why Did The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid?
Day Two: 2023: What The Fuuk Is Going On?
Day Three:The Rites of MuMufication.

Only 400 tickets available.
No guest lists.
No press passes.
All ticket holders are Volunteers.
Tickets go on sale
11:23AM 23rd July 2017

bidolito.co.uk/jams/

[Daniel Silk]

[everyoneowes]

All ticket holders will be volunteers....

..three different events over three days.

Very Black Mirror. Love it.

[yobaby]

Love this.

[Daniel Silk]

Hope it's real.

A bit disappointed in the "Day One: Why Did The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid?" I mean let's move forward please 😉

I'm a big KLF fan, as I have said before, it's part of the story how I got into Art and this forum certainly would never have been created without the inspiration of the KLF.

[yobaby]

I have to agree with you about point 1.
The million quid stunt has been pored over to death, reinvention not nostalgia is what I'd expect from the KLF.

This could well or spectacularly wrong, precisely why I love these guys

[Daniel Silk]

I think most of us pray for a full return of the KLF, coz I'm sure they can have a bigger impact now than they did before. They clearly both have strong views on today's world and they have the skills to really make a mark. I just wonder if they have slightly lost track of things? I mean are they both happy in what they have been doing in the last decade or are they secretly hoping things would be getting more exposure?

[blackdogprints]

kLF kylie said to Jason propa

[stillborncrisps]

Jul 22, 2017 12:01:15 GMT 1 yobaby said:

I have to agree with you about point 1.
The million quid stunt has been pored over to death, reinvention not nostalgia is what I'd expect from the KLF.

This could well or spectacularly wrong, precisely why I love these guys

I sort of agree, but at the same time from what I remember, they've always claimed they don't know why they did it. Maybe they will finally give a real answer. (some hope )

[Daniel Silk]

I think the KLF could maybe go along the lines of what Banksy has done.
What I mean is, they seemed a bit shy making so much money from the music, but I think now they would have more imaginative ways of using it on projects similar to how Banksy selling his art to help fund things like the Hotel and Dismaland.
I would guess if KLF allowed download sites to start selling their back catalogue, and possibly releasing some new tracks or remixes of old tracks, that could fund more exciting KLF projects.
Even start a art Gallery under the KLF name? Supporting similar artists.

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Jul 22, 2017 13:17:30 GMT 1 stillborncrisps said:

Jul 22, 2017 12:01:15 GMT 1 yobaby said:

I have to agree with you about point 1.
The million quid stunt has been pored over to death, reinvention not nostalgia is what I'd expect from the KLF.

This could well or spectacularly wrong, precisely why I love these guys

I sort of agree, but at the same time from what I remember, they've always claimed they don't know why they did it. Maybe they will finally give a real answer. (some hope )

There was a contract written on a car pushed off a cliff that said they wouldn't speak about it for 23 years. That was 23 years ago.

klf.de/home/ufaqs/push-car-cape-wrath/

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Hang on a minute. Supposed Banksy pops up in Liverpool and now the KLF are playing. Is Banksy Jimmy Cauty? Is Robert Del Naja one of the KLF? Is the new Timelord a lady, Could Banksy be Bambi?

[notudon]

Anyone else buy tickets?

[yorkie]

Didn't get a ticket but I would have if I'd have been in the U.K.

ELF - great songs!

Yorkie

[mose]

IMO, I would pay close attention the the return of the KLF. I think it will give hints as to how Banksy will translate for younger generations.

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"Yes.
They burnt a million pounds in an abandoned boathouse on Jura, (near
the village of Ardfin if you want to make a pilgrimage) in the middle of
the night of the 23rd of August 1994. It took just over an hour for
Cauty and Drummond to pile the wads onto the flames, while Gimpo filmed
it, and freelance journalist Jim Reid witnessed it. The whole story is
told by Reid in an article called ‘Money To Burn’ from GQ magazine,
available in the ftp archive. Reid admits to feeling at first guilt,
then boredom while watching the money burn. In the Omnibus documentary,
the K-F’s bank confirmed that a million pounds in cash had been
withdrawn (intriguingly, the pictured statement also shows a credit
transfer of ukp1,300,000 going into the Foundation’s account just a few
days later!!!), and picked up by a private security firm who also
confirmed the amount. Some of the notes remained unburned, were washed
out to sea when the tide came in, and were later found by a Jura
resident on a beach. He handed 1500 pounds into the police who traced
the serial numbers and confirmed with Drummond that they were his and
that he didn’t want them back. Some ashes (valued in the Omnibus
documentary at between ukp 800 to 81,000!) were brought back from Jura,
and kept in a suitcase, until Bill and Jimmy asked Chesham brickmaker
James Matthews (age 23) to make them into a brick. Bill said the reason
for the request would be revealed in 23 years.

The film “Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid” was shown to
nearly half the population of Jura on the 23rd of August 1995.
Unfortunately it was very badly filmed (on Super 8) and all the dialogue
is almost intelligible.

The next question is why on earth did they do it?

For the first six months of 1994 the K-F tried to get their art
exhibition (which consisted of over a million pounds in actual bank
notes) staged. The most likely gallery was the Tate in Liverpool, where
Jayne Casey from Big In Japan now works (shown here with Bill and
Jimmy). Unfortunately it didn’t come off so they had to consider other
options. They thought about taking the exhibition across Russia by
train, but the cost of insuring a million pounds against robbery by the
armed gangs that roam across the Steppes, was too high. They decided
that the money was a millstone around their necks, that depressed them.
They decided they would have to really burn the money.

They couldn’t decide whether to make the burning public or not. They
thought of putting a picture of ‘Nailed to the Wall’ with a
flame-thrower beside it, on a billboard in London. A week later the
picture would have changed to ashes. Eventually Drummond decided that
‘the shock value will spoil it really. Because it doesn’t want to be a
shocking thing; it just wants to be a fire’. However they still took a
journalist along to witness it. They thought it was important that the
public had faith that they did do it, so they (said they had) destroyed
the video evidence.

All through their career the concept of burning a million pounds
comes up. When they deleted their back catalogue it was described as
being the equivalent of burning millions of pounds. They threatened to
burn the K-F art award prize money (Gimpo was fumbling with matches and
lighter fluid when at the last moment Rachel Whiteread accepted the
prize). And in the 7th K-F press advert they stated “What would you do
with a million pounds? Burn it?”

Also they had made the decision that the money was not theirs, it was
the K-F’s. It had to be used for a K-F project, and couldn’t be given
to anyone else. The money burning is in effect a massive, and very
expensive, publicity stunt so that Drummond and Cauty can go down in
history as the men who burnt a million pounds. It is supposed to make
you think about money, and its relationship with art. Really what is the
difference between spending money on useless objects or publicity, and
making the actual loss of the money the publicity. No one castigates
Cher for spending her millions on 12 mansions world-wide and not giving
them to charity. Why attack the K-F for spending their million and not
giving it to charity. Bill once said in a letter to Nick: “…we could
have gone and put the money to some publicly acceptable good use (The
starving millions, cancer research, Greenpeace; take your pick), but no,
we chose to burn it. Why?… What is the appeal?”

If they have introduced an important debate about the nature of
money, art and fame, then the money might have been used wisely. It’s
not even true that they are fools who have lost their money, as by
having “he burnt a million pounds” on their CV’s they will be
interesting to the media for the rest of their lives, and able to make
it back easily. Just like the first line in every biography and obituary
of Divine was “he once ate dog shit on film” the names of Bill Drummond
and Jimmy Cauty will always be followed by “the men who burnt a million
pounds”. Bill also said, in 1996, that someone once told him, (after
seeing the video for Earth Song), that the reason the K Foundation
burned it is because they knew they would never be as good as Michael
Jackson.

In March 1997, after some years consideration, Bill explained: “One
night an audience was asked: is there anyone here that would’ve liked to
do this or thought about this? And people put up their hands. That
became a regular thing and it would be about ten per cent [of the
audience], so ten per cent of the population …or ten per cent of the
people who came to see this film! [Drummond laughs uproariously] Or
maybe they were just trying to endear themselves to us- but it was a
real thing. We realised that it wasn’t like we were so different or so
special or so far-out or so fucking fucked-up; we just happened to have a
million lying around…”" klf.de/home/faqs/other-creative-exploits/

[notudon]

Two interesting articles about the upcoming happening. Looks like they'll be arriving at 00:23 on Wednesday morning to the book release event in an Ice Cream Van.

confidentials.com/liverpool/KLF-Liverpool-2023-Ice-Cream-van-justified-and-ancient?id=5981ffad88db9

planetslop.co.uk/slop/klf-liverpool-the-jams/

Super bummed I can't get out of work for this and fly in. I'll need to sell my tickets. I Have one up on eBay now as a test. I guess I could burn the tickets and film it as an art experience.

[notudon]

I have one ticket available for the three day event with the 2023 book bundle. Asking price paid 124 GBP or 160 USD PM if interested.

[Leo Boyd]

Tammy Wynette is Banksy!
Just the other week I went to Cushendall Curfew tower which is owned by Bill Drummond for use for artists residencies. The tower is tiny. Like a little toy town folly. No one was in. Unless they were asleep?
Cushendall town was pretty cute but I was expecting the whole thing to be a bit more KLF.