I'm not sure if I still have the cutting, but it was a story in "The Sun" in November 1995 (under the punning headline "We're Drop Stars"). The story went something like this: Bill and Jimmy (and Gimpo?) drove up the A9 to the Highlands, left their car parked in Inverness (although it may have been Perth, I'm not 100% sure) and hired another car to travel up to the far, far north of Scotland.
I seem to remember reading somewhere the original plan was to get to Dunnett Head (a few miles along the coast from John O'Groats, beside the Dounreay Power Plant, and the final destination of Bill's "How To Be An Artist" road trip a few years later) but in the end B & J decided to drive the extra seventy or eighty miles due west to Cape Wrath (the north-west point on the British mainland, about 50 miles north of Ullapool).
This was all immediately after their "K Foundation Burn ... " movie tour. Now, once they got to Cape Wrath, they covered the hire car in paint, writing out a "contract" which said that they would "refuse to discuss" the K Foundation for 23 years after that date (5th November?) and then pushed the car off a cliff (the cliffs at Cape Wrath are 200 feet high or so).
There is a tiny photo of the car, covered in paint, standing on a windy clifftop, in the "K Foundation Burn a Million Quid" book, although I don't think there's much explanatory text.
This one of the reasons why some of us hope against hope for something "big" to happen KLF-wise in November 2018 (just under eight years from now, of course). Although, after all this, if it's a sheep-shaped pen drive of 1987-1992 FLAC files available from Amazon, I'll be disappointed!
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Ross Jarvis <jarvmeister@gmail.com> wrote:
Hire car firm? Car? Pushed off cliff?!
Where can I read more about this?
Ross
From: klf-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:klf-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of John Milne
Sent: 16 January 2011 13:49
To: All bound for Mu-Mu Land.
Subject: Re: [KLF] Kartographic
I've also wondered sometimes about the whereabouts of the car hire firm in Inverness (there are several) who loaned them the car that they pushed off the cliff. I bet at the time, he or she thought they were pricks - but nowadays, they have a fine tale to tell!
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Andy Lee <andrewdavidlee@gmail.com> wrote:
BTW I've updated the map with such highlights as
- The location of the Elvis statue buried by Bill Drummond & Mark Manning
- The Cape Wrath contract
- Kalevala Records Iso Roobertinkatu 4100120 Helsinki Finland
- Actual Penkiln Burn
- Where the KLF’s 1992 BRIT award was buried.
Enjoy
Andy
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