From the Mancentral files:
Hello there. This is the first time I've checked out websites relating to the KLF. To find a huge number of dedicated sites including Bill Drummond's own "plan your own funeral" website should have came as no surprise. Who am I? I'm the nephew of a close friend and ex-schoolmate of Bill Drummond. In 1990 the KLF and their entourage set up camp on the Isle Of Jura with the aid of my uncle. Over the course of several days they managed to shoot some videos, do some frankly dubious things involving sheep, and then, according to legend, decided to burn a million quid - more on this in a bit. Sadly my uncle passed away a few years after the KLF's visit. He was a lovely and eccentric guy with some strange quirks. The fact that he was friends with someone as fundamentally strange as Bill Drummond now makes perfect sense. Anyway, I decided to post on this website just to clear up a widely-held myth: THE KLF DID NOT BURN A MILLION POUNDS. Well, not quite. The day after that legendary art-publicity stunt, a guy walking along Jura Beach towards the boathouse found an abundance of half-burnt fifty pound notes scattered amongst the seaweed. Some of the notes were in fact intact, and he managed to collect together a few thousand of your finest pounds sterling. The guy was my dad, and as no-one claimed the money back, he was eventually allowed to keep it - he donated the money to good causes. Whether Bill and Jimmy know about the unburned money is not clear - my guess is that they are happy to say they burnt a million quid and would like to leave it at that. By the way I'm a huge fan of Bill Drummond and the KLF, but if they truly believe they burnt a whole million pounds one night on a remote Scottish island, well, I think someone should inform them otherwise. Ooo ;) Laatâ, Maarten _________________________________________________________________ Meld je aan bij de grootste e-mailservice wereldwijd met MSN Hotmail: http://www.hotmail.com/nl