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21st November 2023
It is November 23rd 2323, and The KLF featuring The Children of The Children of The Revolution are performing at Trancentral, Brixton (HITS) and Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain(CHILL OUT) and the completed People’s Pyramid awaits.
But before all that…
It is November 23rd 2023, and The People’s Pyramid has grown again, close to South bank of the River Mersey.
But before all that…
It is November 23rd 2018, and the first Brick of The People’s Pyramid is laid on The Foundation Stone.
The First Brick is Simon Cauty.
Simon Cauty is in the first brick laid
How high the People’s Pyramid?
Simon Cauty made a tea chest Dalek
How high the People’s Pyramid?
Simon Cauty in a Viking long boat
How high the People’s Pyramid?
Simon Cauty had a pyramid logo…
But before all that…
It is November 23rd 2017, and 99 tikket holders are in the McDonalds restaurant on Kingsland Road. They are chanting Big Mac with Fries. They are disrespecting The Brand.
But before all that…
It is November 23rd 2014, and the Camp & Furnace is hosting the Find The Others Conferestival. Extracts from the play Cosmic Trigger which includes extracts from the play Illuminatus! are aired publicly for the first time.
But before all that…
It is November 23rd 1995, and the film Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid is being shown in the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool. Several views are aired forcefully and publicly for the first time.
But before all that…
It is November 23rd 1993, and Gimpo has petrol, matches and £40000 in £50 notes, and, at the same time, a box of CD single and cassette singles is making its way to Israel in acknowledgement of the brave steps made by the Israeli government and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
But before all that…
It is November 23rd 1992, and Destiny Hope Cyrus is born in Franklin, Tennessee.
But before all that…
It is November 23rd 1991 and Freddie Mercury announces that he has AIDS. Bohemian Rhapsody is the Christmas Number One.
But before all that…
It is November 23rd 1977 and Jesus Christ Superstar opens on Broadway.
Judas has a three-note warhorse of a signature tune.
But before all that…
It is November 23rd 1976 and Illuminatus! opens at The Liverpool School of Language, Music, Dream and Pun with a cast of 23 performing on a tiny stage with impressive sets.
And the production moved to London, along with the impressive sets.
And the set designer was helping.
And a toilet bowl cracked.
And Araldite was sought.
But punk rock beckoned.
Maybe that box of Araldite is the glue that binds this story together, with its fonts and its colours.
And maybe, that box of Araldite is the Rosebud of this story, and the Rosebud of this Society.
And maybe…
14th of October 2023
Take one JAM JAR that has been relieved of its jam.
Fill the jam jar with a building material of your choice.
Chill until 23-11-23.
Bring your oven-ready Re-Enactment to THE DEPOSITORY.
Take one JAM JAR that has been relieved of its jam.
Fill the jam jar with a Re-Enactment of your choice.
Chill until 23-11-23.
Bring your oven-ready Re-Enactment to THE DEPOSITORY.
Take one JAM JAR that has been relieved of its jam.
Fill the jam jar with a colour of your choice.
Chill until 23-11-23.
Bring your oven-ready Re-Enactment to THE DEPOSITORY.
Take one JAM JAR that has been relieved of its jam.
Fill the jam jar with a song of your choice.
Chill until 23-11-23.
Bring your oven-ready Re-Enactment to THE DEPOSITORY.
Take one JAM JAR that has been relieved of its jam.
Fill the jam jar with a dream of your choice.
Chill until 23-11-23.
Bring your oven-ready Re-Enactment to THE DEPOSITORY.
VACANCIES
29th of September 2023
THE SKOOL OF DEATH exists, but The Tillerman will be otherwise engaged.
However, The Tillerman has responsibilities that can not be shirked.
So the The KLFRS are hiring.
We require an annoyingly unspecified number of Tillerman Surrogates to carry out duties in THE SKOOL OF DEATH on November 23rd 2023.
Full training in the art of tillering will be provided, if not definitively delivered.
KLOSING DATE FOR APPLIKATIONS IS 23-10-23.
NO AGENCIES, NO TIMEWASTERS.
23rd of September 2023
THE DEPOSITORY exists.
THE DEPOSITORY is movable feast.
THE DEPOSITORY ask questions.
THE DEPOSITORY demands answers.
THE DEPOSITORY is bigger on the inside.
THE DEPOSITORY is empty until it is full.
THE DEPOSITORY is seven imaginary recycling bins for your youthful misremberings.
THE DEPOSITORY supports cone-sharing.
THE DEPOSITORY wants you out and about.
THE DEPOSITORY wants you close, where it can see you.
THE DEPOSITORY relies on the support of its volunteers.
THE DEPOSITORY relies on contributions from its supporters.
THE DEPOSITORY is a not-for-profit disorganisation.
THE DEPOSITORY needs cones.
THE DEPOSITORY needs hazard tape.
THE DEPOSITORY needs twigs.
THE DEPOSITORY needs string.
THE DEPOSITORY needs folding currency, the more inauthentic, the better.
THE DEPOSITORY needs open minds.
THE DEPOSITORY needs heroes.
THE DEPOSITORY needs Araldite.
THE DEPOSITORY needs you.
THE DEPOSITORY is accepting submissions.
Make KONTACT
Q.P.Q.
Tillerman
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Telegram received from somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean,
1st of September 2023
We are in uncharted waters.
The Tillerman asked, and you responded.
Then 23/8 happened.
Coincidence?
No such thing.
As we continue to strive to get our cones in a row, updates to the site will be signposted on the usual social platforms.
Elite Re-Enactors should make their way to THE 23 GOLDEN RE-ENACTMENTS section. Certification awaits the brave and well-documented.
In the foothills of Mount Re-Enactment, The KLF WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM is collecting your Mu-related photographic memories to be displayed in the WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON? section. These images may also go a long way to prove that The KLF did in fact exist and that they were not secreted onto nascent internet by bad actors.
The University of Mu (UMU) is pleased to have approved the first thesis to tackle the issue detailed above. This academic will attempt to find enough evidence to thoroughly justify their claim that The KLF did exist. As an academic establishment dedicated to intellectual rigour, UMU is also looking to commission an academic to put forward a counter-argument.
We will very shortly begin our MIRROR HOLDER page to salute those Extraordinary Re-Enactors that The Board hold in the highest of esteems.
As ever, submissions should be directed through the KONTACT page. A comment on a social media platform today, is tomorrow’s fish and chip paper.
We are building The Depository.
Who knows what’s coming next?
Q.P.Q.
Tillerman
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Extract from the minutes of an emergency meeting convened by The Board,
23rd of July 2023.
Opening address
The KLFRS exists. But for some time now, it seems its purpose has been neglected. Mini-figs have mini-figged. Ice Kream Vans have been miniaturised. Solid States have been Logiked. But large swathes of the activities of The KLF and The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu between the 1st of January 1987 and the 31st of December 1991 (and Beyond) remain distinctly under re-enacted.
This will not do.
Let us be clear. There is no you and us. There is no us and them. There is simply US, The KLFRS and all who sail in her, and THEM, you know, them lot over there. Re-enactments breed RE-ENACTMENTS. Quid. Pro. Quo.
Does life re-enact art or does art re-enact life? Are re-enactors artists or are they just living their best lives?
There exists a 23-month window of opportunity for The Society to do their best. There also exists a 23-month window of opportunity for The Society to do their worst. It is not for The Board to make judgments.
The Board exists to initiate, motivate and document. Upon confirmation of a successfully completed re-enactment, kontent kreators will be issued with a stamped certificate of inauthenticity. Full details of the re-enactments worth certifying will be made available soon.
The Board exists to bring people together. To unite the vikings with their longships, to bring a sheep to the party, to bring posters to the paste.
The 23-month window also exists to fill The Depository. The Depository exists, on a flip chart, in a dream, on the back of a fag packet. The journey of The Depository, over the 23-month window, is not without danger.
This is one of the risks of navigating uncharted territories.
There is no point in having a North West Passage without danger.
The Depository exists in the minds of The Board. Our aim is to empty it into the minds of others and then drive off into the sunset or off a cliff. Whatever is closest.
What emerges from the storm drain after that is truly anyone’s guess.
Under new management?
Less of a coup. More of a caw.
Tillerman
