The KLF Burn a Million (£1M) Pounds - BBC Omnibus Documentary - 'All About The Money' Edit.
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- The KLF withdraw £1M from their bank account, head to the beautiful isle of Jura and burn it... Or did they? 25 years on and people are still debating whether or not they actually burned the full million or any real money at all. Typicaly this will please the mischevious ancients of Mu, the only witnesses were the cameraman (who is a close friend of the band) and reporter (who is also well aquainted), leaving the event shrouded in mystery was just another part of the ploy.
I would love to hear your thoughts and feelings about this highly controversial act of art in the comments below.
The fact that this was never main stream makes it more powerful a statement, they could of turned into Brian from east 17.
Yeah - well i am so glad that KLF didn't give that money to the Children's Hospital in London .- yeah -
i burned a million quid when i bought my new build house, heating still doesn’t work right, sitting room smells of shit, everything leaks. if i’d burned the money in a big fire at least it would have kept me warm for a while unlike my flipping house!!! 😠
Hello, my name is Mr. Krabs, and since I saw money burning in this, you owe me your location. 🦀
Should of used ashes to print vinyl
YES!!!
Missed opportunity wow!! Such a tremendous idea!!!
“It’s not about the money it’s about sending a message”
The excellent book KLF - Chaos Magic the band that burned a million quid - by John Higgs puts the act into perspective for me. I think the KLF wanted to free themselves of the record industry ( deleting their back catalogue ) and everything associated with it - therefore the money that the records had generated. It was also an act of pure defiance and one that would prompt discussion that we associate success with monetary gain . Of course the media made sure it was just money burnt .
Seriously check out Higgs book - def worth a read
Just finished the book, about to start on The Illuminatus Trilogy...
That book brought me here.
Kopyrite Liberation Front KLF, FREE the music from the capitalist system, take E and dance with spiral tribe
Music back catalogue deleted to prevent capitalist enterprise & subjugation to music industry,& music becomes public domain free listening, forward the revolution, mutate and survive,
@@georgedrum1299 capitalism isn't the problem but I get what you trying to say
Probably one of the most emotionally evocative pieces of art I’ve ever seen. Definitely the most unique emotions being evoked, I’m not sure I can think of another piece of art evoking the same feelings of envy, anger, respect, awe, thoughts of the nature of addiction & shame than this.
Yeah sooooo emotive ...they could have got 1000 people out of homelessness but what would be the point of that?... FUK THE POORS
Please stop calling it art.
@@SpeccyHorace lol, grow up! art isn't a judgement word, it's anything humans create for its own sake whether its terrible or great.
@@AliceYobby It's some people burning a pile of cash.
@@AliceYobby In fact it wasn't even as good or aesthetically interesting as a pile of cash, they were just periodically chucking bundles of 50s onto the fire!
“It’s Art if it was made by an Artist.” The problem today
"destruction is a form of creation. So the fact that they burn the money is ironic. They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart. They want to change things."
Exactly right, chao ab ordo (order comes from chaos)
I think the doubters need to ask whats harder, withdrawing a million pounds which was indeed still difficult in the early 90s
Or counterfeiting 1 million pounds?
Those notes look very convincing too so even counterfeiting to that quality wouldn't have been cheap.
For anyone doubting it's an awesome artistic statement then ask why we're still talking about it 30 years later.
In 1994 Real Terms all they burned was around £2,000 worth of paper.
Eh? It was in circulation so was worth exactly £1M, regardless of the material cost... With inflation todays value would be around £2.5M.
@@Yungrexy Another million pounds i 1994 could have easily be printed costing around £2,000 in paper. That in real-terms is all they burned. No food, crops, housing, hospital supplies etc etc was destroyed. Just paper.
@@coolbreez773 I don't think you understand how money works.
@@Yungrexy enlighten me...
@@coolbreez773 It was worth exactly £1M at the days rates... Destroying it took exactly £1M out of the UK economy... All remaining money in circulation within the UK economy became more valuable as a consequence.
The royal mint burns millions of bank notes a year but because they are *out of circulation* they are only worth the paper that they are printed on.
I think you are maybe getting confused between decommissioned money and money in circulation.
I was 6 years old living in a refugee camp and they were burning £1m lol
burning money just makes the remaining money in existence worth slightly more…
Does anyone call Elton John indulgent/pointless for spunking a million quid on chisel and fucking ice cream? No. It's indulged but its far more pointless than the KLF's prank. That said it is one of the strangest of all time. If only they could articulate why the hell they did it! But therein lies the fascination.
Best comment I've read on YT for a while, especially the first line; classic. Salute :)
Yeah, think most of the whingers are just upset the money didn't go to them but they frame it as not giving it to "charity".
Art is always up to the interpretation of the viewer
Loved KLF - but my question is - why not give the money to the homeless, or to a children's hospital, or even a disdvantaged school in a poverty stricken area? A million quid back then could have done quite a lot of good to quite a lot of people who don't have options. Just asking.
I highly appreciate the K foundation for the bold statement they sent out to the world. Money can easily control you but it‘s hard to take control of the money.
The sheer amount of money did not corrupt the KLF, unlike nouveau riche idiots at that time. Had they performed the money burning these days, they would have made more cash by being in the social media limelight.
Big respect from Germany!
I find it interesting how nobody believed they had done it. I can see no reason why they'd fake such a thing, especially given who they are, what they did previously and such. They were loaded, they did it because they just simply could. There isn't much more to it than that I think. KLF have been very... anti-this-and-that for sure, however I don't think that this move was an attack on anything or anyone, it was simply something they did because they had the means to do so.
They didn't burn real money. Well, not legal tender. the UK replace their banknotes often and guess what year they changed the $50?
@@uv77mc85 I don't get your point why would a newer or older bank note not be legal tender?
I guess somebody had to do it.
We fight, kill, lie, cheat, sweat, toil, abuse, use, live, love, enslave, sell ourselves and each other for a bit of paper with a promissory note written alongside a picture of an old woman.
RIP THE KLF X
The KLF is gonna rock ya! That's why they did it. A video of burning that money makes it art, pure and simple, and worth more than the money they lost burning it.
UK be lit af
BUT ONE DOESN'T DECIDE TO BECOME AN ARTIST
Never really understood why they did. But it was there money to do as they please
it was the most punk rock statement in the history of music
Too bad they cried about it for years after. Regretted it all
@@CapCitySmoker-py2ry nah. they went on to nail wads of cash to a canvas and display it in a gallery. you are inventing your own narrative to fit your viewpoint.
@@stevebb2915 nope I watched a documentary on it an was just quoting exactly what they said you twit limp noodle. Do your research
You’ll have no problem whatsoever sending a link then. I’ll wait.... of course if you don’t you’ve exposed yourself as another internet fantasist.
@@CapCitySmoker-py2ry No such documetary exists! Why on earth have you just fabricated this obvious nonsense?
& still people don’t wake up to what fools they are
BEST BIT OF PROMOTION IN HISTORY.
What were they promoting?
@@Yungrexy The KLF. The fact we are still talking about it proves it.
Still astonishing and underrated.
Ancients Of Mu Mu!
I find it weird they are trying desperately to sell it as art months after to try to claim some money back but made out as though they weren’t bothered about burning it in the first place.
They weren't bothered (still aren't). They were not trying to make money they simply thought it should be recognised as art considering the guff that was passing as 'modern art' at the time.
It is art btw, it was done by artists for the purpose of art, it evokes thought, emotion, conversation etc. which is what art is meant to do, 30 years later and people still have strong thoughts and opinions on it. Recognise the genius and all hail Discordia :p
@@Yungrexy I don’t initially think they perceived it as art as it was just a statement to say they weren’t controlled by Money as they point out earlier on but after a few months when it didn’t really have the impact they thought it would (maybe emotionally or financially) they seem to want to turn around the direction of the original statement of burning it as art which I’m not sure it was. Still love KlF and so correct in the debate it presents. Just my take on it’s the beauty of human nature we all have a difference of opinion and there is no right or wrong.
@@davewinst1 I get what you're saying but it is pretty well documented that they made this as a statement of anti-establishment art. Bill & Jimmy were artists primarily and not musicians btw. For a long time I thought Jimmy was Banksy as he did very similar stuff before Banksy. Jimmy still does actual art that sells for thousands a piece, if you google his art you will probably recognise some of it that you previously thought was Banksy's.
Can you fathom a reality in which money doesn't exist? Burn $100. See how free you feel. Push past everything that makes you a slave without you realizing it.
yes i do
They burnt FREEDOM which is ironic
money is freedom?
money is only a symbol
for me they burned enslavement - imagine if all people burned money? Then they would exactly stop being slaves to the system
If I was filming that I would have pleaded,....PLEASE at least give me 1 bundle of that to keep as I'm your mate 😢
They would have laughed at your begging 🤣
This was awesome and they should do it again. They should’ve gotten an award for doing this.
They did get an award.....think about it.
Haha, that thing with the million quid nailed to a board on sale for half a million quid was one of the best things I've ever seen. What a buffoon that gallery owner was, eh? Does he know he looks like Hitler?
LMFAO, I think he may have embraced it, have you seen the "art" he has on the wall behind him ;)
Ha! I thought he looked like Hitler as well.
The art world didn't know what to do with it then, but they would now. And if the k foundation didn't get rejected by the art world then this would never have happened, the rejection was a nesecary component. So I thank the tate, and I thank the gallery owners, and even Rachel whitbread. They pushed Cauty and Drummond to where they needed to be.
The money was REALLY real.
AND it was £1000.000
1Love 4All
It's funny that the high art community, that proselytizes themselves to the rich really have a problem with this as art
Being from the outer Hebrides at the time I was horrified. I am still horrified. It shows how the Highlands of Scotlands are a space for people to be whatever they want and buy whatever they want while the people emigrate and our culture is finished. But carryon and do your art experiment…
Surely the isles rely on tourism? And Bill Drummond is the first person to rap with a Scottish accent and created/pioneered new music genres (trance, ambient house, stadium house etc). Like it or not, The KLF are now part of Scottish history/culture. They made 2 other films on Jura in the early nineties btw, one of which literally brought the world's music press to Jura for a burning man ritual.
@@Dougtroutfisher.4046 Ha, quality. I like how it is still mentioned, a charitable donation of the same amount would have been forgotten within a year or two, the fact this still angers/pleases/confuses people is the reason that this was/is a valid piece of performance art. Surely though the biggest claim to fame for Jura is the then resident Eric Blair (George Orwell) writing the bulk of *'1984'* there?.
@@Dougtroutfisher.4046 He wrote it as a warning but the powers that be used it as a manual. Tis a real shame.
All they burned was 1 million promissory notes with a picture of an old woman on them.
Clever or stupid, it was probably the biggest act of rebellion in the history of music.
last train to trans central, all aboard and no getting off until the end. . . Moo Moo
GREAT WORK
A successful artist spends 1 million quid on making a sculpture or a film. They spent a million (plus videotape and plane fare) making a film. Do people obsess over the scaffolding holding up an actor in front of a green screen, because the cash is that for their film.
wow
Art makes you step outside of system we live in and question our situation. We really are enslaved to money and the burning of it pulls the floor out from underneath us. We raise moral objections over the destruction of an imaginary paper deity.
I'm surprised that someone didn't try to take it, some gangsters would of nicked it causing a load of agg.
Apparently the whole way to the burn site they were extremely paranoid about being followed.
By who I'm not sure, maybe the government or yeah maybe criminals.
It was done in the utmost secrecy on a secluded Scottish Isle in the middle of the night. No media apart from their own little camcorder.
All bound for Mu Mu Land 👊
It's art if it was made by an artist!
Bill & Jimmy always considered themselves artists over musicians to begin with. They met as set designers and mucked about with music as an expression/extension of their art. Bill is more a poet & Jimmy still does and has been doing Banksy style art since the mid 80s. Everything they did was calculated art for maximum impact.
@@YungrexyBill and Jimmy were just the front men. Everyone knows that the real talent behind them was the Ford Timelord.
@@Yungrexy too far up their own arses at the time. Absolutely only thinking of themselves.
Full video. Nice one
"Build a fire! They're gonna build a fire!"
This makes you realise that it's just a load of paper. 'THEY' hate that.
41:10 Tony Wilson
He was one of the few there that actually got it too
Just watched the film who killed the KLF, I did not get it at the time, but now I am older, like they were then, I get why they did it!
Why burn all that money? Perhaps they’re waiting for a reason to be invented? 🤔
They articulated very well why they did it... The reason was/is *'art'* and the fact we are here disussing it vindicates them.
Boom era artworks lol
Austerity era art wouldnt think of doing this
I think it was to say this statement will bring out the worst in those who disagree and for us it’s to prove we didn’t do it all for the money we made the music we wanted and the money just came along with it
Who is "we"?
@@Yungrexy Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty,who else would i be talking about?
@@ThunderWarrior01 Lol, I thought you meant them it's just the way that you wrote it made it sound like your own personal experience.
@@Yungrexy 😂
@@Yungrexy i got 2023 ,the book they both wrote and released in 2017 through my letter box this afternoon,I’m going to have a chilled weekend and get stuck into it
"Abandon all art now".
Welwyn Garden City
What about it?
I applaud the message they were trying to convey as a socialist lover of the arts. But the practical part of me thinks maybe a charitable donation to a worthwhile cause would have been more honorable as this story never really punched through to the mainstream audience unless they'd blown themselves up too
And say they did that, donated it all, what about the charities that didn’t receive enough, or anything? And the future meek and needy? What is honour anyway, Bezos and Musk walk the earth with no harm despite their lack of honour.
@@molly0000000s very defeatist, bleak thinking
@@A-small-amount-of-peas Lol, he's (dizzyflores) not wrong though is he? I used to think Branson was good fella and would spread his wealth a bit more but he would rather spaff it into space instead, why is it that these people want to do it personally instead of joining forces with NASA and exploring space together as a species? Rhetorical question, they obviously have major god complex issues... Who was the last billionare or millionare that was known for charity and equality?
@@Yungrexy I'm a socialist and an anti capitalist and trust me I wanted this to work more than most. I wanted it to resonate into the mainstream conscious. But it didn't. More people know that the Joker set fire to millions in a Batman movie.
The more of life you see you begin to realise what they did was a missed opportunity and made them look like failed art students
@@A-small-amount-of-peas Think you're being a little harsh there tbh... Judging them by todays media reach is unfair and I would argue that it did impact as much as you would expect at the time, I live in the pit villages of Durham and remember it being talked about in the pubs by the younger generations.
They were the biggest selling singles band in the world at the time... They fired an automatic weapon at the Brits audience while announcing they were leaving the industry and deleting their back catalogue and then burned a million quid, what else could they possibly do to draw attention to their disdain for the industry and capatalism in general, seriously? They did all of this back when we only had 4 TV channels and no digital radio, they made the news on all channels and the BBC even made a documentary about it (evidently), I cannot see how they could have amplified their message any further? It is society that you are mad at, Pat. At least these fellas went against the grain and tried to pull the curtain down somewhat and the fact that here we are 30 years later still kicking it about speaks volumes too.
Are they on the Dole now..🤣🤣🤣
Err, not quite. Jimmy sells art for thousands a piece & does minature model exhibitions that travel around the country. Bill does paid speeches amongst other music projects & they both still work together on the peoples pyramid project.
Beside the fact that their music is available on ALL streaming sites and still sells like crazy.
Yeah, they're mugs, eh.
@Yungrexy 👍
I understand but burning money surly anyone would regret that
Why??😢
Art.
This is money😮
very bad~^^😮😮
@@지영근vNah, it's liberating. Very good.
Absolutely mindblowingly cool. Fuckyeah this is art. It doesn’t get better than this…
Perverted by language
@@Yungrexy hey, thats just a reference to kenneth's profile picture, love the fall
@@jackgray3190 Oops, my apologies, I thought you were referring to his comment, doh. I know notthing at all about *The Fall* so the reference sailed straight over my head.
A veritable act of contrition………..agitprop to evoke rapacity in the hearts of the proletariat.
I’d never even considered the psychological effect it would have on them and their associates. Seems to have affected them much more than anyone else, nobody else gave much of a shit, rich people waste money like that every day without batting an eyelid. Personally, i like it . I believe the Scottish one originally said they wanted to show that money didn’t have to control you, spend,invest,donate or save . One can make one’s own choices in this life. Burning the cash wasn’t a blag, trying to turn it into “art” might’ve been. We need more K Foundation
….or it was just a tax dodge thing. Rich pop stars cosplaying as angsty artists
Read “45” by Bill Drummond
KLF
This is hard to watch working class people with their first experience of money Working Class guilt made them burn that money TERRIBLE
Seamus, it seems you have your history and facts a little skewed... Do you think that *The KLF* is the only thing they ever did/do?
It's not a waste of time it's a waste of cash
It's a statement!
Think of the billions wasted each year by "artists" on cars, boats, drugs, parties etc. That's why this *is* art for me, it provokes thought, emotion and debate.
@@Yungrexy exactly and also its a statement saying that the money never changed bill or jimmy infact they where happy to burn it instead of waste it on drugs and cars..
Sadly its the way society thinks these days because it would be deemed more acceptable to waste a million quid on drugs and party’s the usuall stuff because people accept that as part of the rich lifestyle but because they burnt it people will always frown upon that..
There are billionaires in the world with enough money to end world poverty today but they dont yet when someone burns a million quid they are despised by so many people
totally missed the point but the jobs done you are stirred and angry so its triggered an emotion in you which is what was intended hahaha!
@@Yungrexy cars can re sell at the same price
@@stephenkissane4268 The word "can" is doing a *lot* of heavy lifting there... They can also devaluate, be crashed, be repo'd, be stolen and just straight up fail mechanically... What was your point again?
Tax Write Off,
Absolutely bonkers. But these two make me proud to be British🇬🇧❤👏 Justified & ancient👊
Pain
ouch!oh klf!that hurt!
Fuck yeah they did it. Makes me sad they worry about it ever.
Way ahead of there time and disgusted with it and its inhabitants (YOU)
I have it on good authority that they regretted it later, but they thought it was the right thing to do at the time.
AND it is no more stupid than some ridiculously rich twat spending SEVERAL millions on some squiggles on canvas - ie, so-called modern art.
3:56 More like Orwellian Garden City, mate !
I bt there skint now lol. You can feed the fire pit with old pallet bits.
Gimpo - in the unlikely event you see this, drop me a message.
It reminds me of the likes of rees-mogg burning £50 notes infront of homeless people. I've gone hungry struggling to pay bills, for me this is just posh boy behaviour
That was Boris not Rees-Mogg & this is nothing like that at all.
It's a statement of art and is vindicated by the fact that it is still debated to this day.
I think that Christ told them to burn money .They burned it .
I know I’m missing the point but . Maybe a wee bit disrespectful to the KLF fans who paid their presumably hard earned money for the bands music ? Maybe just a wee bit ?
They could have changed so many deserving lives with that million . Instead they made a statement that only enhanced their own self aggrandizing egos . Tell me I’m wrong
Also, Bill Drummond is a bona fide genius.
You're wrong! They made all our remaining money worth more, and nobody would still be talking about a charitable donation after 30 years. The Joe Lycett stunt raised exactly this debate the other day... You cannot buy this level of exposure with any amount of cash, for whatever cause you're promoting, whether it be art or human rights, burning/shredding money makes people think & talk about real issues.
They are both genius' to be fair... Cauty was doing Banksy style graffiti in the 80s, he currently sells art for £1000s a piece, and he was the main musical contributor out of the pair (including the album *'Space'* and his early work with *'The Orb').*
Also think you are off the mark with the self aggrandising ego thing too... If they had not deleted their back catalogue & left the industry I might have agreed somewhat but their actions proved otherwise.
Cheers for checking out the edit and leaving your thoughts, I appreciate the feedback.
Yes you are wrong.
It’s their money, they can spend it however the fuck they want
So Noble ...such a Statement ...about how demented some people are...if they gave it to charities or worthy causes it would be impressive , this was just some Ultra Leftard flex and its why i hate the KLF
People often hate things that they cannot understand. Oh btw, change your profile pic you absolute divvy... Ken Loach is as 'left' as you get.
People burn money every single day, do you not understand that?
Una pena que no tenga subtítulos en español
What a shame!
@@itsmewayne428
Your sister
A deflationary act. Perhaps billionaires ought to get onto that. Sell company stock for it.
OUCH!!!
Drugs don't work!
You should change dealer!
@@YungrexyI think they over estimated the public's mentality back in the 90s..
@@itsmewayne428 Care to elaborate? Not sure what your second point has to do with the first so.
@@Yungrexy they were hoping for a bigger reaction from the media and public..the 90s weren't a lucrative time for most it was a time of hardship especially up north were they came from...the Tory government were still pinonliseing the working class..unemployment was sky high ..so to watch folk burning money wasn't exciting...people didn't care about art or librilisem but getting off their heads to shut out the depressed council estates and suburbs were they would spend their green & whites ...I agree it's their brass and to do with it what they wish...biput the reaction wasn't what they were hoping for sure..by the way I'm a fan always loved their music.
Burning a million quid has more artistic and anarchistic relevance now than ever, but also more consequence. Legendary act. Be proud of it.....BUT.........
.....that's the beauty of it
I bet the regretet ❤
Make a film about burning money as a statement about how the industry is obsessed with money. Is that art? Nope. It's about trying to make money. And that's all KLF were... How can we make money! There was no art here. No dedication to good music - just money. Boring shit. Notice, there is nothing here about their songs! No example of one of their songs. Shouldn't the songs be the argument? Nope, because they just had a couple of average songs and everytihng else about them was pretence.
Just say you know feck all about the KLF and move along man. No need to embarrass yourself like this.
A veritable act of contrition………..agitprop to evoke rapacity in the hearts of the proletariat.
Trickster's lol
Most radical art ever made ❤
Looks like fake money to me?
Did you miss the part where they had the ashes verified?
ART more like Arses . Think of all the good you could do with a million pounds. Love the music though.
How many rock/pop stars do 'good' with their money? How many of them waste more than that on cars/boats/drugs/holidays/plastic surgery/parties etc without you batting an eyelid or calling them arses??
It was theirs to burn. They made all other money in circulation worth more as a result and it is a valid statement of art that is still being talked about 30 years after the event. People seem to view Bill & Jimmy as musicians who dabbled in art when the exact opposite is true. All things considered it was money well spent... Well, burned.
돈의속성 읽고 온사람?
Красавцы! Куда деть бабло? Давай сожгем 😂
Im gon report them 😂
정신 나간
Utter bollox, but no one will say.
If it was real.
I guess it's about getting a response,well...
All the toffs and do-gooders , will buy into it.
I can hear them now ' oh yar whot,whot,whot..
Why didn't they fly over the nearest town ,and throw it out ,so at least make some people happier.
I can also hear the people saying, you don't understand art .
Well that's my reaction
BOLLOX.
weigh anchor's
Are you on glue?
@@Yungrexy no telling the truth, I'm not brainwashed, into believing that someone said 'oh look it's art'
Bollox
@@lairdstephenrousek.r.o.6505 *'Everything is art'* & *'Art has no rules'* if an artist calls it art then art it is! Your failure to comprehend this does not change that fact.
@@Yungrexy lol , follow like sheep then ,
@@lairdstephenrousek.r.o.6505 Whatever you gotta tell yourself, Stephen lad.
They definitely regret that lol
I doubt it! even if they did would it be as much regret as the faded pop/rock star who blew *everything* on drugs, parties, women & cars?
They knew exactly what they were doing and why they were doing it, people trying to apply their own (often limited) logic and reasoning is where the confusion lies.
@@Yungrexy yeah i mean they would have definitely blown their money anyway. by burning it, at least they are in the history books for something.
@@becoollikefonzie8007 How many snort a million, plenty do.
The problem is you can’t criticise this as pure stupidity, as then people just say ‘ah yeah but you don’t get the full picture’. Yes I see the whole picture and still think they were knobs and the thing they did was knobbish!
Doesn't matter how you feel about it, the fact that 30 years later people are still discussing it just goes to prove that it is indeed art.
Art is meant to invoke emotion, discussion and sometimes controversy... This does all 3. Thanks for playing.
@@Yungrexy Of course I am bound to be wrong as you have to justify your pretentiousness. This is no more ‘art’ than the odour coming from my shoe, and in the same vain you write, it doesn’t matter what you or followers think. Art is defined by people talking about it thirty years later, that is a fallacious and ridiculous argument. People talk about loads of things three hundred years later, doesn’t make it art! Carry on with your deluded opinions, I would expect no less.
@@THEBOYDALEK Where did I say you were wrong? You are entitled to your opinion, doesn't mean we have to agree... The fact we are having this discussion 30 years after the event qualifies this as art is all I said.
It was done as art by artists! It is art by all definitions. Anything can be art (even your stinky shoes) as long as it is presented as or displayed as art (in a gallery etc.) This documentary proves that it was done for art and presented as art by recognised artists. Again, we can disagree amongst ourselves but those facts remain.
@@Yungrexy It could just be that people discuss this thirty years later merely for the pure stupidity of the act per se? Yes they were artists, in their own right and the monies they hung inside a picture frame might very loosely be perceived as art, but I can never agree that the art of burning that monies and making a brick out of its embers was more of a statement about the leftards anti capitalist view than art. Obviously we are never going to agree so I wish you a good day and good life.
@@THEBOYDALEK *"leftards"*
Lol, sorry, didn't realise I was responding to a 12 year old. Take care.
Is it not a crime to deface ,damage, or destroy money?? You Could make that million quid into something possitive rather than a waste of time and money. Could have put that dough into making a few good songs . 😆
This is a good example of a one hit wonder that is so desperate to remain “relevant”, that they literally burned away any chance they had at a future. They realize the massive mistake they made basically right away then try to recoup
Mate, they were the biggest selling singles band in the world for a few years... They got to number one with three different names (Timelords, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu & The KLF), They know how to make a hit song, so much so that they literally wrote a manual on it! They have also released hit songs as Space, One World Orchestra, The K Foundation & 2K... Jimmy also formed The Orb and had hits with them too, you have picked the worst possible example of *"a one hit wonder"* to make your point (which is also way wide of the mark). They are artists and anarchists who took the p!ss out of the music industry and moved on... Jimmy Cauty sells art for £1000s a piece and has been doing Banksy style stuff 30 odd years now. Don't let their scruffy appearance fool you.
They really didn't give a shit about music.
One hit wonder! 😂😂... Bit of research required here
@@Yungrexy One hit wonder?! They were the biggest singles pop band in the world at one point, you goon. They stopped making music at the height of their peak.
@@bungle3912 Are you sure you meant to direct that comment at me?
Made conceptual art as good as the records, beautiful.