In a message dated 3/16/04 4:35:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, e23topy@yahoo.com writes:
Would it be possible that the KLF will ever perform on stage again? I heard from the previous resident DJ of our local club that they once had the KLF live on stage.... Does anyone have a clue??
They last performed (stretching it there) as 2K back in 1997. It seems unlikely they'd do something like this again. Even if there is a heavy renewed interest in their music Bill and Jimmy aren't the sort to do a comeback tour. Even then we only know of a small handful of instances where they performed live, do we not? Where they handed out the equipment, live in liverpool with Echo, Land of Oz appears to be a proper live track (do we know for certain?), BRITs, and 2K. Any others? -paul Currently in rotation: George Michael - Patience; Too Much Joy - various (mp3); Frank Zappa - Man from Utopia / Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch; Sparks - Angst in My Pants
amsterdam, that was the equipment one ----- Original Message ----- From: <TheMgnt@aol.com> To: <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [KLF] Reunion??
In a message dated 3/16/04 4:35:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, e23topy@yahoo.com writes:
Would it be possible that the KLF will ever perform on stage again? I heard from the previous resident DJ of our local club that they once had the KLF live on stage.... Does anyone have a clue??
They last performed (stretching it there) as 2K back in 1997. It seems unlikely they'd do something like this again. Even if there is a heavy renewed interest in their music Bill and Jimmy aren't the sort to do a comeback tour.
Even then we only know of a small handful of instances where they performed live, do we not? Where they handed out the equipment, live in liverpool with Echo, Land of Oz appears to be a proper live track (do we know for certain?), BRITs, and 2K. Any others?
-paul
Currently in rotation: George Michael - Patience; Too Much Joy - various (mp3); Frank Zappa - Man from Utopia / Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch; Sparks - Angst in My Pants
_______________________________________________ KLF mailing list KLF@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf
There's the Chipping Norton rave where they threw dollar bills from the tower they were on. Andy
Is the Chipping Norton rave different from the Helter Skelter one where Scottish pound notes were thrown from a tower with 'We love you children' scrawled on them. That was the one where the Blue Danube mix was played, with Alex in another tower, no? A little tired so memory may be playing tricks! Refs: "On 31 September [1989], Tintin Chambers attended two raves. At Helter Skelter, near Oxford, a crowd of about 4,000 turned up despite the soft rain to dance to PAs including Ce Ce Rogers and Salsoul disco diva, Loleatta Holloway. The KLF asked for their £1000 fee in Scottish pound notes, wrote 'We love you children' on as many as they could and then through the lot into the crowd during the their performance on top of a high tower which had previously been used to bounce lasers off". [Sheryl Garratt Adventures in Wonderland: A Decade of Club Culture (London: Headline, 1998) p. 176] ³When we were asked to do the party we understood it was going to be £15 to get in. They ended up charging £25, which we thought was such a shitty rip-off that we decided to throw the money away as a statement But even then, after we¹d thrown it all away, the people down the front were shouting, We want more money, we want more money!² [Bill in Matthew Collin, The Mad House?¹, I-D, March, 1990]
I've got it on video so I'll check ----- Original Message ----- From: "KLF Book" <klf_book@yahoo.co.uk> To: "klf mail" <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [KLF] Reunion?? Is the Chipping Norton rave different from the Helter Skelter one where Scottish pound notes were thrown from a tower with 'We love you children' scrawled on them. That was the one where the Blue Danube mix was played, with Alex in another tower, no? A little tired so memory may be playing tricks! Refs: "On 31 September [1989], Tintin Chambers attended two raves. At Helter Skelter, near Oxford, a crowd of about 4,000 turned up despite the soft rain to dance to PAs including Ce Ce Rogers and Salsoul disco diva, Loleatta Holloway. The KLF asked for their £1000 fee in Scottish pound notes, wrote 'We love you children' on as many as they could and then through the lot into the crowd during the their performance on top of a high tower which had previously been used to bounce lasers off". [Sheryl Garratt Adventures in Wonderland: A Decade of Club Culture (London: Headline, 1998) p. 176] ³When we were asked to do the party we understood it was going to be £15 to get in. They ended up charging £25, which we thought was such a shitty rip-off that we decided to throw the money away as a statement S But even then, after we¹d thrown it all away, the people down the front were shouting, We want more money, we want more money!² [Bill in Matthew Collin, OThe Mad House?¹, I-D, March, 1990] _______________________________________________ KLF mailing list KLF@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf
Even then we only know of a small handful of instances where they performed live, do we not? Where they handed out the equipment, live in liverpool with Echo, Land of Oz appears to be a proper live track (do we know for certain?), BRITs, and 2K. Any others?
Baby club in Copenhagen (denmark) New Years Eve 1990/91 (or was it 1989/90), some claims it was a heavymetalversion of WTIL others a 40 min ambient track (the orb also was performing that evening, so maybe thats why people mix it up) Ulrik
Copenhagen was a definite date! This is what I've got in Bill's words: ³Jimmy and I plugged out guitars into the wall of Marshall stacks behind us. Cranked up the volume to overload, flipped the switch on our computer and launched into an uncontrollable electro metal version of WTIL?¹ ³Our one-song set finished with us back on our knees, feedback screaming from a thousand speakers and the crowd baying for more. ³Backstage we were distraught and disillusioned. The plan had been to incite the audience to bottle us off the stage. We had failed. ³It was then that we first asked ourselves the question why sheep? The answer that many people had wanted us to give was Why Not?¹/ This answer always seemed to smack of smug 80s post-modernism. "The question, as the year draws to a close and the third millennium looms, it is yet to be adequately answered² [C90Go! How Was It For You¹, Bill Drummond in NME, 22 / 29th December, 1990] Peace and love to the list!
participants (6)
-
Andrew Lee -
Andy Lee
-
Jon Doe -
KLF Book -
TheMgnt＠aol.com -
Ulrik Brandt