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Prole Art Threat or Middle Class Revolt? Part Two - Who Killed the KLF?
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Prole Art Threat or Middle Class Revolt? Part Two - Who Killed the KLF?

Artistic statement, political act, or extreme nail-biting therapy? Why did the K- Foundation burn a million pounds and, more importantly, does this film get any closer to answering the question?
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29 British Currency Burning Pound Symbol Fire Stock Photos, Pictures &  Royalty-Free Images - iStock

Alternatively, go watch The Wicker Man instead. Better movie.

Some random clues…

In Scotland we remember the “Bunny Ears” tour, but who remembers The Crystal Day? This was another of Drummond’s wheezes with the Bunnymen.

If you want a physical copy of the KLF's book "The Manual", it'll set you back at least £150. Here's an online version, which will even read it to you in a soothing robot voice...

Here's a short interview with Rachel Whitehead that talks about the Turner prize, but rather pointedly doesn't mention the KLF

Did the K Foundation see this one coming?

A Short History of Burning Money

Setting fire to money is not against the law everywhere, but it does seem to get everybody quite upset. Here’s the master of detached cool, Serge Gainsbourg, giving an impromptu masterclass on the art…

Would this scene from The Dark Knight have happened without the KLF? You tell us!

It’s not quite incineration, but the KLF album that started all the fuss, “1987 - what the fuck’s going on?” included a short track called “Why did you throw away your giro?” Coincidence? Is there such a thing?

STOP PRESS!! It may well be that by the time this show goes out, this is old news, but could this action from Joe Lycett have found its inspiration in the JAM's Million-pound bonfire?

Here's a moment of nostalgia. Some years before 1987, Gav dropped in on then del amitri sticksman Paul Tyagi, who was experimenting with cassette tape loops...does their spontaneously composed masterpiece hold echos of the KLF, still some time in the future at this point? You decide!

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Gas Giants
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All of culture explained by two fat old men, one artifact at a time. Gav and Tom gas about music, movies, TV, books and their creators attempting to understand what they mean about everything else in the world. New episodes every other week Fridays.