TikiRobot! » klf http://www.tikirobot.net/wp Mai Tais and Blinky Lights, Ahoy! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:39:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/08/30/watch-the-k-foundation-burn-a-million-quid/ http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/08/30/watch-the-k-foundation-burn-a-million-quid/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:56:44 +0000 rajbot http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/08/30/watch-the-k-foundation-burn-a-million-quid/ The KLF is maybe the world’s most enigmatic band. Once known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, their lyrics are filled with references to Discordia, and their crazy exploits are too numerous to mention. When Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond retired The KLF, they went out with a bang. They won the award for ‘Best British Album’ at the BRIT awards in 1992, and while playing on stage, fired a machine gun (with blanks) at the audience (the entire British music insdustry), and a few months later left the music biz for good, deleting their entire back catalog. After retirement, they set up the art organization K Foundation, and in 1994 they burned £1,000,000 in a fire on a Scottish island. Although only four people attended (Drummond, Cauty, filmmaker Gimpo and journalist Jim Reid) and all evidence of the event was supposedly destroyed, Gimpo kept a copy of the video. One year after the burning, the K Foundation screened Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid, which chronicled the whole thing. This BBC video, A Foundation Course in Art, has excerpts, and gives a view of the K Foundation mindset.. linky:

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