New subject: Live footage (was Deep Shit)

8 Sep 2005


      A long time ago, someone on this list sent me a CDR of KLF stuff (sorry, can't remember who) and an 8 minute mpeg of this footage was included with.  From what I recall, Andy is a bit unsure about having this footage in the public domain (sorry if I'm speaking for you here, Andy) as it was apparently footage recorded by the KLF themselves and submitted to "The Word" (TV show of the early nineties) for showing, but they rejected it.
Anyway, here's a quick description ...
The first scene appears to be filmed in Trancentral, with Jimmy, Bill and Cress and various others congregating round first a road map ("that's where the rave is folks" says Bill) and then a bag of money (the infamous Scottish pound notes?)  It looks late at night, and maybe taken inside a van rather than in the Stockwell Squat.  Cressida is wearing a distinctive blood red top - can't remember if it has a JAMs or KLF logo on it.
We then cut to the rave (Chipping Norton?) with about a minute of footage of just flashing lights and strobes, and 808 State playing audibly in someone's DJ set.  Then an announcer says something like "KLF in the middle of the field ... playing all their smash hits, check it out party people!" and we cut to Bill and Jimmy atop a 20-foot rig.  Hanging over this are a couple of keyboards, Bill is wearing his "Martin Bormann" leather jacket and Jimmy is wearing his trapper's hat.  There's also a huge disco ball and some dry ice, but it all looks rather wobbly.
The footage is shot from the ground, and we hear people cheering as Bill and Jimmy play the intro of "Jersualem" (the vocal version from "Waiting") and then launch into a pure trance "What Time is Love".  The crowd cheer, but the sound seems muted and people are shouting: "Pump it up!"  Neither seem to be playing keyboards, just adjusting knobs and laughing and smiling.  Bill keeps drinking from a beer bottle.
The next bit of footage is a bit wobbly as it takes lots of shots of the legs of the scaffolding the KLF are on top of ("WTIL" is still playing though - very percussive, sometimes reduced to just a 120BPM clicking and thumping sound).  Then we hear Cressida shout "Free money! Free money" and Bill and Jimmy empty a bucket over the side of their keyboards, and it flutters down to the crowd, who seem a bit lacklustre about picking the money up.
There's an abrupt cut and a few shots of them playing "3 AM Eternal", but it's a lot less coherent that WTIL.  There's the cries of "Eternaaaaaaaal", followed by some Space-y samples.  Two or three seconds of people dancing to the Pure Trance mix, and then many bodies swaying and swooping to the Blue Danube which has obviously been dropped into the tune (this would have been performed around about the time KLF5R was initially released, I think).  Then, after another few seconds footage of the lighting rig, the tape stops after about 8 minutes of play.  
Date of recording: Saturday 1st October 1989, I think.
Hope this is of help, Thomas.  Presumably, it was available on file-share at some point, hence it appearing on the CDR I received.
John
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Message Received: Sep 08 2005, 10:41 AM
From: thomas@klf.de
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Subject: Re: Re: [KLF] Deep Shit (was: Ultimate rarity?)
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affraid i'll have to rule myself out of this one thomas
Ah, my bad. No donut.
But an interesting description. Guess I should add this to the FAQ as
well.
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a very simple litmus test would be to ask Andy Lee if he has ever seen
a
flexi... it would beggar belief that if they had produced 500 flexi
discs
that one wouldnt have been given to Scott!
Oh yeah, totally forgot about Andy. Did want to mail him anyway, as he
mentioned some video footage of Bill & Jimmy playing live. There once
was a snippet of this on Mancentral IIRC, but he apparently had a
longer version (the snippet only being some seconds).
Andy?
..::// Thomas
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