Library of Mu Top 10 List
Don't know where to start? Here are some of the best articles, my favourites or the most important. Do you disagree? What's on your Top 10 list? Email the librarian.
- KING BOY D
- Date: March 1997
- Author: Ben Watson
- Journal: The Wire
- Type of resource: Interviews
- Description:
Essential article by former kollaborator, which justifies the K output
as "living, active, exciting avant garde art". Feature many juicy
quotes from Drummond on all Subjects: Art as well as Illuminatus! stage
play, Bad Wisdom misogny, etc.
- Status: text (Text available)
- Welcome To The Sheep Seats
- Date: 29 February, 1992
- Author: Danny Kelly
- Journal: NME
- Type of resource: Interviews
- Description: The full story of the infamous KLF Vs The Brit awards: guns, lawyers, buckets of blood, Jonathon King, Simon Bates, Extreme Noise Terror and an essential look into the workings of Drummond's mind.
- Status: original (Text available)
- Who Killed The KLF?
- Date: July 1992
- Author: William Shaw
- Journal: Select
- Type of resource: Articles
- Description:
Essential reading. The full story behind the KLF's split, from the
Black Room sessions to Mexico, with reaction from kollaborators.
- Status: text (Text available)
- Money To Burn
- Date: 25 September, 1994
- Author: Jim Reid
- Journal: Observer
- Type of resource: Interviews
- Description:
Unable to think of a better idea they decided to burn the million
pounds. They decided to make this low-key but still invited a freelance
journalist. This is his full story.
- Status: original (Text available)
- Money To Burn
- Date: 1996-03-01
- Author: John Dower
- Journal: Thee Database
- Type of resource: Interviews
- Description:
Brilliant article and transcript of the K-F's appearance on Sub City
Radio, Glasgow, on November the 3rd '95, talking about art. Highly
recommended
- Status: original (Text available)
- KLF is Gonna Rock Ya!
- Date: 1991-04-01
- Author: Lazlo Nibble
- Journal: X Magazine
- Type of resource: Interviews
- Description:
Drummond discusses sheep, the road trip at the heart of Chill Out,
short attention spans, plans for the Black Room and US record deals.
- Status: text (Text available)
- Thank You For The Music
- Date: 17 October, 1987
- Author: James Brown
- Journal: NME
- Type of resource: Interviews
- Description:
the full disasterous story of the JAMs trip to Sweden: dropping LP's
into the Sea; killing a moose; presenting a gold disc to a prostitute;
burning LP's in a field; being shot at by a farmer and all the details
of the Abba censorship
- Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?)
- A REAL CLIFF-HANGER
- Date: 1996-03-01 ?
- Author: Craig McLean
- Journal: Blah Blah Blah
- Type of resource: Interviews
- Description: The full story of the Cape Wrath debacle from Little Chef to cars stuck in the sand.
- Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?)
- Trash Art & Kreation
- Date: 21 May, 1994
- Author: Alix Sharkey
- Journal: Guardian Weekend
- Type of resource: Articles
- Description: A serious history and analysis of everything, with a lot of attention given to the Art Award Witnesses. Recommended.
- Status: photocopy (Text available)
- Pranks for the Memory
- Date: 16 February, 1991
- Author: David Stubbs
- Journal: Melody Maker
- Type of resource: Interviews
- Description:
Full story of how Bill and Jimmy were arrested after defacing a Gulf
war billboard. Later in the pub, after their release, they talk about
grown men doing pop music, short attention spans and hiding behind the
KLF myth, rather than being famous.
- Status: text (Text available)
- BUT IS IT ART?
- Date: February 1994 ?
- Author: Miranda Sawyer
- Journal: Select
- Type of resource: Articles
- Description: Account by Art Award witness - mainly a good analysis of the money art works
- Status: text (Text available)
