Electronic music duo The KLF launch surprise new care business in a bid to support their older fans and help ‘ravers to the grave’
Music duo The KLF are moving into the care home business in a bid to look after their older fans.
They have launched KLF Kare to support ‘ravers to the grave’ and are promising ‘branding solutions’ for existing care homes.
The news emerged as Bill Drummond, 70, and Jimmy Cauty, 66, released a remix of Harry Nilsson’s Everybody’s Talkin’, which they previously predicted would be a Christmas no.1 this year.
They said: ‘KLF Kare will take you where the sun keeps shining, through the pouring rain.’
The pair, whose hits include Last Train To Trancentral and Justified, said a Kareovision Kristmas Song Kontest would take place for care home residents.
New venture: Music duo The KLF are moving into the care home business in a bid to look after their older fans (band members Bill Drummond, now 70, and Jimmy Cauty, now 66, pictured in 1996)
Entrepreneurs: They have launched KLF Kare to support ‘ravers to the grave’ and are promising ‘branding solutions’ for existing care homes
The KLF – an acronym for Kopyright Liberation Front – have performed a number of stunts in the past, including burning £1million, and in 2017 they planned a People’s Pyramid, a pyramid made of human ashes.
Actor Vince Williams noted the awkward link between the People’s Pyramid and KLF Kare.
The Ted Lasso star said: ‘Hold on, don’t they also have a business where when you die they put your ashes in a People’s Pyramid?
‘Are they just building up their supply of ashes?’
In August 1994 The KLF burned £1million on the Scottish island of Jura.
When they decided to end their careers as performers, band members Bill and Jimmy decided that they would comment on the dubious ethics of the music industry by tossing a huge chunk of their cash on to a bonfire.
The burning took place in an abandoned boathouse. It was filmed and subsequently presented to audiences as a work of art.
They were heavily criticised for the move st the time when people pointed out the money could have gone to charity.
Stunts: The KLF – an acronym for Kopyright Liberation Front – have performed a number of stunts in the past, including burning £1million
Jimmy said: ‘There’s plenty of people who want to give money to charity. We want to do something we found more interesting with the money.’
It came two yesrs after The KLF fired blanks from a machine gun into the crowd at The BRIT Awards. The moment took place during their final performance before they quit the music industry.
Band members Bill and Jimmy are said to have burned their debut album in some woods in Sweden after ABBA refused to let them use samples of their song Dancing Queen.
In 1991 they were the bestselling British music act in the world.
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