Occasionally people write things about us in an academic type of way. This is a great paper by someone on FU and art from 2010.
by Evan Blanco
On February 12th, 1992, the highest-selling singles act of 1991 – the KLF – took the stage at the BRIT Awards to deliver their final performance. Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty – the individuals who comprised KLF – were joined by the crust punk band Extreme Noise Terror for a reworked rendition of “3 A.M. Eternal”. The grunted and howled vocals, distorted guitars, and blasting beats was by far the largest and most extreme demonstration of what punk had become since the heyday of the Sex Pistols. The cigar-chewing, crutch-leaning Drummond punctuated the performance by pulling a machinegun from his army jacket and firing blanks towards the audience as well as the ceiling before vacating the stage, upon which KLF hype man Scott Piering announced KLF was finished. But apart from the fact that KLF decided to end in the manner they did, little else is remarkable about the performance. Extreme Noise Terror could barely play the song as a cohesive unit, the vocals from Drummond and the ENT vocalists are frequently off-time or poorly executed. Rather than blowing the lid off extreme music in the early 90’s, Extreme Noise Terror faded back into obscurity. KLF went on to form the K Foundation, a subversive arts foundation mostly known for burning the remaining million pounds from KLF’s earnings. Continue reading