The return of the KLF: pop's greatest provocateurs take on a post-truth world


"So why exactly did the KLF set £1m on fire? It’s been a burning question for 23 years, as pop’s greatest provocateurs chose to let rumour, conjecture and myth around the publicity stunt – held on the Scottish island of Jura and ending their career on 23 August 1994 – swirl about unanswered for two decades. Until now. The project formed by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty in 1987, which has lain dormant in a self-imposed moratorium of 23 years, returned at 00.23am on the morning of Wednesday 23 August. As Drummond and Cauty drove into a backstreet of Liverpool in an ice-cream van to begin three days of events, their first new work – a trilogy of dystopian fiction, an 'end of days story', called 2023: A Trilogy – simultaneously dropped online. Yet this is not a book for those looking for straightforward answers, and is as abstruse as the KLF themselves, who have published it under their other moniker, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu. ..."
Guardian
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2009 May: The KLF, 2011 June: Justified & Ancient, 2013 May: "3 a.m. Eternal", 2013 November: "America: What Time Is Love?" / "What Time Is Love?", 2017 March: Embrace The Contradictions: The Strange World Of... The KLF

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