Monday 24 August 2009

KLF - For Sale


Something of an oddity this one. Was browsing through eBay and came across a rather knackered looking old Triumph motorbike. Innocently clicking the link, I discovered that it is actually Jimmy Cauty's old bike, 1/2 of mental acid house/stadium house/general madness pioneers, KLF. For more on KLF, read this, it's a potted history of their existence including dropping dead sheep on stages at award shows, burning £1,000,000 of their record deal advance, along with other weirdness...

The description of the bike says it all really:

"Historic motorcycle used by the KLF to go to meetings circa 1987-1991. jimmy cauty purchased this bike
in 1976,crashed it 8 times, seized the engine twice, and badly maintained it over
3 decades, has been rotting in his garage for 15 years and is totally unroadworthy."

On further inspection, you find this is not the only historical KLF item. Back in the days, KLF
were predisposed to building some pretty heavyweight soundsystems,
many of them built to military spec, under the name of Advanced Acoustic Armaments
(see website). So now, on ebay, for reasons only known to Messrs Drummond and Cauty,
you buy one of these soundsystems on ebay here.

A bit of UK music history at a knock down price.

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