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RE: [KLF] "Wild highway soundtrack"-google fun
by John Milne 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Jimmy's remix of the Herbie theme popped on T4 (UK Channel 4's Sunday early morning segment) last week as part of a half-hour ad ... er, documentary, about "Herbie Fully Loaded". Is this the first time Jimmy's music has appeared on a non-music TV channel since the screening of "The Falconer" (which features "Fuck the Millennium" in its soundtrack) back in 1998? John > Message Received: Aug 12 2005, 10:23 AM > From: "Ulrik Brandt Hansen" <ulrikbrandt(a)galnet.dk> > To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Cc: > Subject: [KLF] "Wild highway soundtrack"-google fun > > If you search Google for "wild highway soundtrack" then the first link that > you get is a page about the Herbie soundtrack with the lyrics to "Born to be > Wild". > > We all know that Jimmy is featured on the soundtrack and that Mark once did > a cover af "Born to be wild" (did'nt Bill produce it). > Funny, don't you think?? > > > Ulrik Brandt > > > > > _______________________________________________ > KLF mailing list > KLF(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf > Report list abuse to list-abuse at studio-nibble.com > >

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Re: [KLF] Question...this is a tough one
by say.map＠ihug.co.nz 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

> In the "Rites of Mu" track I'm interested in knowing what language the singer is > singing in in the first part of the track -- Vietnamese? > it sounds like it might be from that part of the world. Is it just the Tuvan throat singers as also used on Chill Out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Tuva The only Vietnamese I was aware of was: Duy Khiem, Vietnamese clarinetist, and old friend of Drummond was one of the musicians on 'The Man'. He plays clarinet on 1987, and 3am, and pops up in the video (stadium) and TOTP appearance in traditional costume during the clarinet solo. He sings the traditional Vietnamese song 'Me Ru Con' which appears on 1987. Otherwise, pass. cheers -- This is the webmail account of Stuart Young, Michelle Ardern & Felix Ardern-Young (4) 16, Seacombe Rd, Pt Chev, Auckland, NZ Phone: +64 (0)9 849 9020 say.map(a)ihug.co.nz Photography, Graphic and Web design, Web development and hosting: http://www.pixelandgrain.co.nz/ Stuey's personal website - a cobweb site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/

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not just soup, now Bill's baking cakes! (in Norwich)
by say.map＠ihug.co.nz 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/WhatsOn/story.asp?datetime=12+Aug+2005+12:05… (The site where Norfolk entertainment really matters!) Bill's baking a new stunt JON WELCH August 12, 2005 If a man you've never met before knocks on your door and hands you a home-baked cake, don't be alarmed. He's not a nutter, he's an artist - although you might wonder whether anyone who has burned £1m in cash could be described as sane. Prankster and former pop star Bill Drummond is among those taking part in an art "outreach project" in Norwich tonight. Making a rare public appearance at PROVOPOLIS, part of the CAN.05 arts festival, Drummond will be baking a cake live on stage. He will then encourage the audience to follow these instructions when they get home: "Take a map of your locality. Draw a circle on the map. The circle can be any size. The centre point of the circle must be your home. "Then bake a cake. Travel to a home on the circumference of the circle. Taking the cake with you. "Knock on the door. If there is no answer, knock on the neighbour's door. If the door is answered, say: 'I have baked you a cake, here it is.' They may think you are mad or bad. You are neither. "Give them the cake. Go back home. Bake and deliver cakes to different homes on the circle. Whenever you want. It is a friendly thing to do." Drummond, 52, grew up in Scotland but visited Norwich twice a year as a child to stay with his grandparents. In his autobiography 45, he recalls visiting Jarrold's and the Theatre Royal panto, and describes how his grandfather would take him to Norwich Castle. There he was inspired by the dioramas depicting Norfolk scenes and of prehistoric man hunting and fishing, and paintings by artists of the Norwich School, especially John Middleton. Drummond's current activities seem a far cry from his earlier career as a pop star and art 'guerilla'. As a member of KLF, The Timelords and The JAMMs, he sold millions of records and had no fewer than seven Top 10 hits during the 1980s and '90s, including two number ones. But he and collaborator Jimmy Cauty, aka King Boy D and Rockman Rock, were as well known for their scams and stunts as their music. The KLF announced their retirement from the music industry at the 1992 Brit Awards. Drummond, chomping on a cigar and wearing a kilt, fired blanks from a machine gun over the heads of an audience. They later dumped a dead sheep, with the message "I died for you - bon appetit" outside one of the post-awards parties. In 1993 they emerged as the K Foundation, hijacking that year's Turner Prize by staging their own award for the "worst artist of the year" - with exactly the same shortlist as the Turner Prize, but double the £20,000 prize money. Rachel Whiteread, winner of the Turner Prize, reluctantly accepted the K Foundation prize only after they threatened to burn it, announcing that she would give the money to struggling artists. As part of the stunt, Drummond and Cauty unveiled their own art work: £1m in cash nailed to a board. They gave it a reserve price of £500,000, reasoning that its cash value would be eroded by inflation and would eventually be overtaken by its artistic value, which could only rise. The following week the K Foundation returned the cash to the Bank of England, but pierced with nail holes the money was unusable. They were fined £9000 for damaging the money and charged £500 for the cost of printing a new batch of notes. But Drummond and Cauty were not through with cash-related stunts. On August 23, 1994, they set light to £1m in banknotes at a disused boathouse on the remote Scottish island of Jura. They later screened a film of them burning the money, entitled Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid, and invited members of the public to quiz them about their rationale for burning the cash. Cauty and Drummond then made a pact that they would not discuss the burning of the cash until November 5, 2018. Although many believed the burning was a hoax, a BBC Omnibus documentary obtained evidence from the K-Foundation's bank that £1m in cash had been withdrawn and picked up by a private security firm, which also confirmed the amount. PROVOPOLIS, billed as "Performance, Screenings, Music & Happenings" will feature work by more than 30 artists in three rooms. They include Matthew Noel-Tod, a video artist working in Norwich and London. He will introduce his most recent work, Atomic, a shot-for-shot remake of the video to the Blondie song, cut to a contemporary score for classic horror movie Nosferatu. PROVOPOLIS takes place at the Keir Hardie Hall Working Men's Club, St Gregory's Alley, Norwich, from 7.30pm to midnight tonight. Tickets, priced £4 (£3 concessions), are available from Soundclash, St Benedict's; Outpost Gallery, Wensum Street; and Norwich Gallery, St George's Street. www.originalprojects.org -- This is the webmail account of Stuart Young, Michelle Ardern & Felix Ardern-Young (4) 16, Seacombe Rd, Pt Chev, Auckland, NZ Phone: +64 (0)9 849 9020 say.map(a)ihug.co.nz Photography, Graphic and Web design, Web development and hosting: http://www.pixelandgrain.co.nz/ Stuey's personal website - a cobweb site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/

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Question...this is a tough one
by Sven Torpedo 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

In the "Waiting for the Rites of Mu" track that is narrated by what most people think is Martin Sheen (please, no responses debating this issue. that description is just so you know what track I'm revering to). I'm interested in knowing what language the singer is singing in in the first part of the track -- Vietnamese? it sounds like it might be from that part of the world. I know they used the BBC sample library extensively so is it something from there? Thanks torpedo mkII .......self propelled

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Guardian review of Big Chill
by Stuey and Michelle 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1545469,00.html includes: Similarly, one of the most intriguing-sounding acts played to an almost empty field. Transit Kings brought together the KLF's Jimmy Cauty and the Orb's Alex Paterson, backed by Pink Floyd session musician Guy Pratt and soundtrack man Dom Beken. Their four-laptop collaboration produced a rich wash of surprisingly melodic electro, punctuated by Paterson's trademark echoey samples and even the occasional chord change. But it was the wrong place, wrong time. -- Stuart Young, Michelle Ardern & Felix Ardern-Young (4) Live at: 16, Seacombe Road, Pt Chev, Auckland, NZ Phone: +64 (0)9 849 9020 say.map(a)ihug.co.nz Graphic and Web design, Web development and hosting: http://www.pixelandgrain.co.nz/ Stuey's personal website - a cobweb site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/ Any views expressed in this email are those of the author and not of any of the organisations we are involved with. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.7/70 - Release Date: 8/11/05

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Wild Highway - is it out yet?
by TheMgnt＠aol.com 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Amazon.co.uk says this is now available. The US site does not say the same. Has anyone gone looking for it yet? -paul

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RE: [KLF] buggin
by John Milne 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Apart from "The Children's Film Foundation" there was "The Film Board of Canada", which is where the band take their name from. The one I remember most from them was the film version of Ray Bradbury's kid's-living-on-Venus short story "All Summer in a Day". Every school in the country has these movies gathering dust (and no DVD release!) John > Message Received: Jul 28 2005, 10:54 PM > From: "Simon Glass" <tygerbc(a)yahoo.com> > To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Cc: > Subject: RE: [KLF] buggin > > The Children's Film Foundation...our headmaster used to dust off his projector for an evening 'film club' every week and showed a lot of CFF films, but really it was just an excuse for us to hang out with our friends or kiss our girlfriends =) 'Young Robin Hood' sticks in my mind, starring a young Keith 'Cheggers' Chegwin...the only other films of note starred a certain VW Beetle, which was the only time we actually watched...excuse me, i seem to have something in my eye...*sniff* > > tbc. > > Chris Peel <chris(a)k23productions.com> wrote: > I remember the Red Hand Gang but my memory is hazy too - were they American or English? One bit of an episode sticks in my mind as I thought it was cool then, but stupid now. It went something along the lines that the kids were trying to scare two con men / gangsters out of a house and one of the kids swapped the hot and cold taps over. The line went (I'm paraphrasing of course; I was only about 6 at the time): > > Gangster #1: "Boss! This house is haunted - I just turned the cold tap on and got boiling hot water!" > Gangster #2: "Don't be crazy! It's your imagination." > > etc... > > ps, Does anyone remember some short English films (something like the 'Children's Film Foundation') featuring a group of kids? Seem to recall watching these on film (of the projector sort) at school occasionally... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: klf-bounces+chris=k23productions.com(a)mailman.xmission.com [mailto:klf-bounces+chris=k23productions.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Simon Glass > Sent: 27 July 2005 19:46 > To: klf(a)mailman.xmission.com > Subject: [KLF] buggin > > > Not sure about Jimmy's contributions to 'Herbie'....are they variations of the original theme? And does anyone remember the Red Hand Gang? =) > > > > --------------------------------- > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page _______________________________________________ > KLF mailing list > KLF(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf > Report list abuse to list-abuse at studio-nibble.com > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > [ (no name for attachment) (0.2 Kb) ]

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Re: Wild Highway - is it out yet?
by klf＠atdot.demon.co.uk 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Borders On The charing cross road in london has copies, in the stairwell, oddly enough

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Re: [KLF] Wild Highway - is it out yet?
by TheMgnt＠aol.com 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

> just got delivered this morning from amazon.co.uk Thanks. The US site still says it's unreleased. Man I hate these small presses. I ordered a book from one in Jan because they said it would be released in April and I'm still waiting. Never mind the fact it was supposed to be out two years ago... but I digress. Maybe I'll hit the local shop just in case. It may seem like I'm desperate to get this but in actuality I'm just sick of seeing the cover on my Amazon wish list. :) -paul

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Transit Kings @ The Big Chill, anyone?
by Thomas Touzimsky 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

So, did anyone go to the Big Chill festival to see the Transit Kings yesterday? ..::// Thomas Touzimsky "My head is spinnin' so my feet don't touch the ground My eyes is blinded by the light, my hearing deafened by the sound My body's shackin' like a leaf, my heart's been beatin' out of time My blood's been boilin' up inside and I've been fearin' for my life..."

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