List, Read this freaky story about those guys on a mission... I received my Confusion Incorporated this morning. Ran through it and encountered this story about KLF being a cover for their bootlegactivities. Bill also gives an answer to the buring of a million quid. I quote: "At first, operating under the KLF provide good cover for our bootlegging activities. However, by the time we won the Brit Awards, the KLF had become a millstone around our necks. We were always being shadowed by the press, which impended the dodgier end of our business deals. Tonight, we finally succeesed in moving 5 tons of bootlegs out of a London warehouse without being molested by the copyright enforcement squad." (...) "One time we were passed a milloin quid in marked notes as part of a string operation. We could have dumped the hot cash, but instead we burnt it and declared th ashes to be art. That really annoyed the cartel of multinationals who were desperate to prove we'd been pirating their acts." And now the Osama Bin Laden link: "At the back of the warehouse was Jimmy's pride and joy, his arsenal of weapons. These included bazooka's, grenade launchers, mortars, bombs, airbursts, mines, flame throwers and plenty of other stuff that I (Stewart Home) couldn't identify." Have I been financing some FREAKY terrorist duo over the past few years or what? ;) Maarten
List, Read this freaky story about those guys on a mission... [snip!]
"Sounds like bullshit, Barry." A million quid used in a sting operation that didn't involve drugs or other hard crime? I think that article should have been published in the Fortean Times! Scary thing is, some people will read it and believe it! But hey, it can all merge with the rest of the KLF mythology now, right? Michael
It was all a hoax by Stewart Home in the form of an article in, I think, the Big Issue (a magazine sold by the homeless in the UK). He is a well known British situationist-type and has done many similar things. He seems to enjoy adding to the KLF myths. Surely this must have been covered before....?
List, Read this freaky story about those guys on a mission... [snip!]
"Sounds like bullshit, Barry."
A million quid used in a sting operation that didn't involve drugs or other hard crime? I think that article should have been published in the Fortean Times!
Scary thing is, some people will read it and believe it! But hey, it can all merge with the rest of the KLF mythology now, right?
Michael
Andrew Fox <andrew@andrewfox.co.uk> writes
It was all a hoax by Stewart Home in the form of an article in, I think, the Big Issue (a magazine sold by the homeless in the UK).
It did indeed: http://www.codexbooks.co.uk/confExt.html http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/klf/press.txt The Guardian 15-Nov-96 diary text y untitled (MI5 raid on Cauty) 30 officers raided Cauty's home after reading Stewart Home's spoof Big Issue article. http://www.versuspress.com/vsint_sh1.htm "Another example would be the story I made up for The Big Issue about the KLF pop star Jimmy Cauty showing me an arms dump. This resulted in anti-terrorist police making a raid on his farmhouse, then holding him for four hours at Exeter police station." SH has also alleged in other publications that he has been abducted by The KLF in their ice cream van and this is when he first learnt that they subsided The K Foundations activities from setting up the Grey Matter label that sold the likes of bootleg CDs featuring Charles Manson, Reverend Jim Jones and Culturcide.
He is a well known British situationist-type and has done many similar things. He seems to enjoy adding to the KLF myths.
I'm sure that they don't really mind that much... At least Bill still likes Stewart to write up stuff about the both of them and also got Stewart to help him out with this little bit of 'twinning' graffiti at the Hull Festival of Hoaxing: http://www.fnord.demon.co.uk/billskip1.jpg http://www.fnord.demon.co.uk/billskip2.jpg
Surely this must have been covered before....?
Yup! :-> Also, check out: http://www.fringecore.com/magazine/m6-2.html 'The ways you can try and influence are endless. I realise that even more today. I know Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty of KLF now, whereas I didn't earlier on. I was actually talking to Jim Reed who wrote the major body of their work - the manifestos. He was married to a girl I knew from my punk rock days and she'd picked up a couple of my books, which Jim Reed told me he actually used as his model. Jim didn't know anything about writing art manifestos and my Neoist manifestos are in many ways a set of art trimmers to post avant-gardist texts, literally using phrases out of them and rewriting them and denigrating them. So whereas Marinetti writes "we will sing the love of danger" in the Anarcho-Futurist Manifestos, I changed it to "we will sing the love of hot running water and colour television".' Stewart Home` CD "Cyber-Sadism Live!" (Sabotage Editions CD) also contains a short taped interview with Jimmy Cauty about his sonic experiments. (Distributed by Overground: PO Box 148, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 3DQ Fax: (0)1273 205502) http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/75613/www-klf-cx/k/art/d-tour.txt http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/reaction/ReAction10a3.pdf Some of you might be interested to know that Stewart Home is doing a reading this Friday at this year`s Edinburgh Festival this Friday. It will be brief and expensive. Here is some blurb: Toby Litt, Stewart Home, Emma Forrest. Provocations Fine Fiction. The Field & Lawn Tent 8.30pm on Friday. Three boldly challenging young authors who have all recently published new books. Toby Litt says he will try to pretend that when he called Stewart Home "a git" he thought this phrase meant spiritied and hampster like. Stewart Home will fake being even older than he is to differentiate himself from Emma Forrest, since there is a slight danger they might be confused by journalists who are tired and emotional after spending too long in Edinburgh. A night not to be missed, that is if you can get to the hotel room party afterwards (don't forget to bring a condom and a bottle of malt). 8 (6 concessions). There have not been any updates to SHS website recently, but there are loads of new texts to go online sometime maybe..... http://www.stewarthomesociety.org
So Stewart Home spreads lies about lies? It's a complicated world we live in! I'd just like to mention that went you go to the "How To Buy" page at: http://www.codexbooks.co.uk/confbuy.html it lists "other books by the author", then includes a series of books by and about Martha Stewart!! Not really the same thing... <grin> Michael
John wrote:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/klf/press.txt The Guardian 15-Nov-96 diary text y untitled (MI5 raid on Cauty) 30 officers raided Cauty's home after reading Stewart Home's spoof Big Issue article.
Good grief I'd forgotten I had a txt file on my site, its so long ago, I guess it is there for accessibility for non MS users. You might find the Excel version easier: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/klf/press.xls sorry I haven't been keeping it up to date. I have been meaning to turn it into a database driven website version that people could query and add to, to force myself to learn how to build one, but I'm not a programmer and I keep running into problems that I can't solve, so I give up again, (it is half built and some parts of it work, twice now, in Coldfusion, and again using Dreamweaver Ultradev) ... it should all be simple... If there are any PHP freaks out there who would want to help me build a database driven website I will attempt to act as Librarian of Mu and keep the press database upto date... http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/klf/ Meanwhile, the "diary text y" entry in the above refers to: diary - type of resource - this is a diary or gossip column text - the library of Mu has this article, but only in electronic text form (not paper original) y - refers to In Stock - the library of Mu has this article so I guess this means I should be able to find the whole text of the article for you somewhere on my hard drive, but I can't!!! Ha! Some librarian I am! It may be on a zip disc at work, but I think John has given you the jist of it so its not important... cheers -- Stuart Young, Michelle Ardern & Felix Ardern-Young (1) have moved to: 42B, Sefton Ave, Grey Lynn, Auckland, NZ Same Phone: +64 (0)9 376 8100 say.map@ihug.co.nz Stuey is webmaster of the NZ Green Party: http://www.greens.org.nz/ And webmaster of his own personal website - a cobweb site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/
Also try reading http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/klf.htm - all about the K Foundation adverts... l8rs, Nick ;-)
John wrote:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/klf/press.txt The Guardian 15-Nov-96 diary text y untitled (MI5 raid on Cauty) 30 officers raided Cauty's home after reading Stewart Home's spoof Big Issue article.
Good grief I'd forgotten I had a txt file on my site, its so long ago, I guess it is there for accessibility for non MS users. You might find the Excel version easier: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/klf/press.xls
sorry I haven't been keeping it up to date. I have been meaning to turn it into a database driven website version that people could query and add to, to force myself to learn how to build one, but I'm not a programmer and I keep running into problems that I can't solve, so I give up again, (it is half built and some parts of it work, twice now, in Coldfusion, and again using Dreamweaver Ultradev) ... it should all be simple... If there are any PHP freaks out there who would want to help me build a database driven website I will attempt to act as Librarian of Mu and keep the press database upto date... http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/klf/
Meanwhile, the "diary text y" entry in the above refers to: diary - type of resource - this is a diary or gossip column text - the library of Mu has this article, but only in electronic text form (not paper original) y - refers to In Stock - the library of Mu has this article
so I guess this means I should be able to find the whole text of the article for you somewhere on my hard drive, but I can't!!! Ha! Some librarian I am! It may be on a zip disc at work, but I think John has given you the jist of it so its not important...
cheers
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Stuart Young, Michelle Ardern & Felix Ardern-Young (1) have moved to: 42B, Sefton Ave, Grey Lynn, Auckland, NZ Same Phone: +64 (0)9 376 8100 say.map@ihug.co.nz
Stuey is webmaster of the NZ Green Party: http://www.greens.org.nz/ And webmaster of his own personal website - a cobweb site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/
Hi Just checking out the Pepsi Chart website looking at all the different stations the Pepsi Chart is played on and I came across one that has to be mentioned on this website. It's probably totally off topic 'cos I don't think B&J run a radio station in Norfolk but I found a station called KLFM 96.7... here's there website http://www.klfm967.co.uk/home.html How about everyone e-mail them and ask them to play KLF!!
Anyone else see the K foundation on BBC4 last night? It was part 2 of a series called Britart ( yes I was actualy watching it!) I didn't know B&J were on otherwise I would have taped it . . Nice bit on how they "blackmailed" Rachel Whiteread into accepting her "prize" BBC4 stuff is usualy repeated on BBC2 later in the year. I'll keep an eye out for reruns Cheers Andy PS I taped 4 Scott but not watched it yet. Any refs?
Andy Lee <andy@adlee.co.uk> writes
Anyone else see the K foundation on BBC4 last night? It was part 2 of a series called Britart ( yes I was actualy watching it!)
AFAIK it was originally shown a few months ago in the week when the channel was initially launched.
PS I taped 4 Scott but not watched it yet. Any refs?
S4C (Welsh Channel 4) are showing it at 4:20am one morning this week...
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