The KLF respond to reunion rumours with mysterious messages (original) (raw)
The KLF have responded to rumours that they are set to reunite in 2017 – denying that they’ll reform but saying that something is coming in August.
Earlier this week, fans grew excited after a documentary about the electro pioneers appeared online, along with a mysterious message that suggested they’d be returning to music this year. DJ Food also teased that he expected the KLF to be making a comeback in 2017.
Now, the band have dismissed the rumours – but revealed that new films are on the way – as well as ‘work from their industrial unit being made public on 23 August’.
“I’m aware of a film that has been edited out of old bits of stuff and has been put up on Vimeo and Youtube,” The KLF’s Bill Drummond said in a statement, “but it has nothing to do with us.
“We do understand that there are two documentaries being made about The KLF – both of these are nothing to do with us. Jimmy Cauty and I have always remained very close but we have no plans to reform The KLF or exploit our back catalogue in any way.”
Another message from the band was then been shared on Twitter – titled ‘2017: What The Fuck Is Going On?’
https://twitter.com/K2PLANTHIRE/status/817010126364221441
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“It is almost 23 years since the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu announced a self-imposed and self important moratorium,” they said. “The reasons for the moratorium have now been lost in time, space and a rusting shipping container somewhere near Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station.
“What is known is: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu have zero involvement with any video clips, films, recorded music, documentary productions, biographies, West End musicals or social media chatter relating to the letters K, L or F, now, or at any other time over these previous 23 years.”
They continued: “Futhermore, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu have no interest in anything that seeks to comment on, bounce off, glorify, debunk or resurrect their historical work.
“The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu are currently at work in their light industrial unit. This work will not be made public until the 23rd of August 2017.”
The KLF split in 1992 after four acclaimed albums – the same year that they they fired machine gun blanks into the audience and dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party at the BRIT Awards before ‘deleting’ their entire back catalogue.
Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty went on to form The K Foundation, who in 1994 set fire to £1million, which was then made into the film Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid.