Men of the Year: The KLF

Compared to burnina million quid, as they did in 1994, The KLF’s 1991 ’scam’ was a mild one. On the day of the summer solstice, Bill Drummon and Jimmy Cauty flew 50 journalists and record company folk to a remote Hebridean island, forced them to dress up in pagan robes and chant “Mu” while Bill, pretending to be a priest, set fire to a giant Wicker Man. What did it all mean?

But if 1991 was short on scams, there was no shortage of hits. The band that mixmag called “the Pet Shop Boys from hell” trimphed with “3am Eternal”, “Last Train To Trancentral” and “Justified And Ancient” – records that felt both daft and thrilling at the same tiem.

According to Drummond, The KLF was “two people having a laugh”, but to many people they were so much more. They were DIY anarchists combining avant grade ideas like situationsm with pop music. They summed up so much that wa great about the emerging dance scene… that there were no rules.

publishing info	Source |	Mixmag
	Date |	December 1994