Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty are staging a three-day series of events to mark their collaborative return after 23 years – and they’ve already formed a new band, Badger Kull, after day one
“It’s not a book launch.” Bill Drummond’s first five words may come as no surprise to anyone who’s followed his and Jimmy Cauty’s inventively abstruse creative partnership since their 1987 appearance as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the band who’d later storm the charts as the KLF.
For the purposes of writing a novel, 2023, which is either impenetrable or terrible or both, they’re now the JAMs again, sitting side by side in an independent Liverpool bookshop having arrived at midnight in a customised ice-cream van: a) blaring out the KLF’s What Time is Love?; and b) with a coffin in the back. This comes ahead of Welcome to the Dark Ages, a £100-a-head, 400-capacity three-day event drawing on themes from the book and the duo’s 30-year history. They’re rubber-stamping books instead of signing them, because of course they are.
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