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The FLK burn copies of Liege & Lief
Posted by James Blast on 18 August 2011 - 1:42pm.
the scallywags
and a Starkey mash-up
http://soundcloud.com/theflk/idiot-starkey-riot-in-a-jam
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Who are the FLK?
And why would they want to burn one of the greatest records ever made?
Probably don't like it.
Perhaps not.
Yes, but...
who are the FLK? Is this something to do with that pillock Bill Drummond?
No.
It has nothing to do with Bill.
Who is not a pillock.
I somehow feel any arguement on this subject will end in an agreement to disagree.
No
It won't.
Oh that's VERY good
and of course the question will always be "is it really a spoof?"
They even have a website as well http://www.theflk.com/
EDIT: August 2011 is 23 years since the KLF 'burned a million quid'. At the time, they swore to remain silent on the subject "for 23 years"
Far too unsubtle
to be the work of either.
Expect some form of activity after 2017/8.
Just a little meme messing about.
YDFMB...
NO!!
The contract is dated November 5th 1995. The duration is 23 years.
Was this a trailer for the new Dr. Who?
I know the KLF discussed the burning of the £1m during the In The City conference in Manchester - I was there. It was September 1995 according to Wikipedia, which also states they discussed it in 2000 and 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid
The actual burning was (so I believe) done on 23-Aug-1994
So, 23 years from that brings us to 23-Aug-2017. Not sure where I got 2011 from!
Wankers
I hate that kind of thing. Like smashing guitars or book burning. Twats.
At least
it wasn't an original pink label pressing they burned. Perhaps the video budget only ran to palm tree label second pressings?
Wow what a brilliant art statement....
..it's made me think (as all great art is meant to do) that I've been completely misguided in my love of classic Brit folk-rock.
Its all FLK for me from now on.
What a fool I've been.
so who the FLK are they
?
Basically they are
a poor xerox of percieved cliches concerning KLF.
See also the Ford Timelord project online, a far better thought out homage.
As any fool will tell you KLF ceased to exist in 1992. It was the K Foundation that burned the money and tried to explain before sealing the contract of silence by spray painting it on a Nissan Sunny and pushing it off Cape Wrath.
Wish it were the KLF
...but I don't think it is. It has made me laugh, though, which the KLF always did. A much under-rated "band" - the White Room is still one of my favourite records ever, and Bill Drummond one of pops great characters whose books are always great reading.
I briefly shared a house with Jimmy Cauty in Brixton Hill at the time of their regular TOTP appearances...a nice, unaffected, shy man who enjoyed a smoke. Happy days.