Bill Drummond: Last News

3am Eternal and Justified and Ancient.Members Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty reportedly burned their debut album in woods in Sweden after Abba refused to let them use samples of Dancing Queen. But by 1991 they were the bestselling British act in the world.

The KLF’s music publisher is seeking to block the screening of a documentary about the duo on the basis that tracks which feature in the film have not been licensed. Which is very possibly a legitimate reason for stopping the distribution of ‘Who Killed The KLF?’, though it’s also slightly ironic given the uncleared samples that famously appeared in The KLF’s early releases.According to The Guardian, the film, by director Chris Atkins, is not endorsed by KLF members Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, despite it basically being a tribute to their music, art and infamous accompanying antics.Indeed, not only is the documentary not endorsed, Drummond and Cauty seem very much against it.

EXCLUSIVE: Who Killed the KLF?, a feature documentary about the cult and mysterious band, has been picked up for world sales by Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment ahead of its debut at Austin’s Fantastic Fest this weekend.

The KLF have shared ‘Come Down Dawn’, a new album which sees the influential electronic duo putting a new spin on their 1990 album ‘Chill Out’.Released to streaming services earlier today (February 4), the record sees the band offering a reworked version of the seminal album – with a variety of previously unlicensed samples being removed from the release.Clocking in at 38 minutes, the 12 tracks take their name from a series of concurrent road trips across America – beginning with ‘Brooklyn to Atlantic City’ and finishing with ‘San Rafael to Mexico City’.It comes after the duo, made up of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, uploaded their music to major streaming services for the first time.The pair scored a series of global hits in the late 80s

KLF, Welcome To The Dark Ages, has been released – find out how to stream it below.The electronic duo, who returned to action in August 2017 following a notorious 23-year period of silence, are the subject of Paul Duane’s new film.The KLF’s Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty no longer consider themselves “a pop group”, a press release about the film explains, but rather “new age undertakers building ‘The People’s Pyramid’, a monument built out of 34,952 bricks forged from the ashes of the dead and have made November 23 in Liverpool ‘The Toxteth Day of the Dead’.”A synopsis for Welcome To The Dark Ages reads: “Welcome To The Dark Ages begins in the 23rd century, in a post-apocalyptic wasteland which was once the northern English City of

The KLF have added a number of tracks from their back catalogue to streaming services for the very first time.The British electronic duo (made up of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty), who scored a series of global hits in the late 80s and early 90s, famously walked away from the music industry in 1992.Their departure from the business followed an appearance at that year’s BRIT Awards, during which they fired machine gun blanks into the audience and then dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party. With their exit, they discontinued their entire discography.Drummond and 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.In 2018, Billboard named