K Foundation Burn a Million Quid[n 1] was a work of performance art executed and filmed on 23 August 1994 in which the K Foundation, an art duo consisting of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, burned £1 million (equivalent to £2.5 million in 2023) in the back of a disused boathouse on the Ardfin Estate on the Scottish island of Jura.

2023年1月2日 · In the early hours of the morning on an otherwise insignificant summer’s day on a remote Scottish island, four men stood around a smouldering pile of ash where a million pounds in Sterling had once...

2024年8月23日 · Thirty years ago today, two men burnt £1m on the Isle of Jura in a now notorious stunt. Scottish musician Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty – together known as electronic band The KLF – set alight...

2017年9月1日 · The money burning by the band’s two core members, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, was one of a series of subversive manoeuvres designed to “amend art history”. The pair had previously fired blanks from a machine gun into a horrified music industry crowd after being named best band at the Brit Awards in 1992.

On August 23, 2024, it will be 30 years since Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, also known as The KLF, burned 1 million pounds on the remote Scottish island of Jura. With this article, I aim …

2023年9月5日 · Jura, land of raptors, adders, rutting stags, the Corryvreckan maelstrom, Orwell, and the Paps. It’s a wild place where, on August 23, 1994, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty (The KLF) burned £1 million. They filmed the event, then a year later were back on the island for the first screening in a village hall.

" Burn the Bastards " is a 1988 song by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs), from their second, and final before changing names, album Who Killed The JAMs?.

2024年8月23日 · In the early hours of the morning, Drummond and Cauty were filmed methodically burning £1 million in cash - the bulk of the money they earned from record sales. …

2024年2月29日 · Acclaimed author John Higgs talks to us about the enigmatic band The KLF, how Robert Anton Wilson and Discordianism influenced them, and what might have possessed them when they infamously burnt...

On 23 August 1994, the K Foundation (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty) burnt one million pounds sterling in cash on the Scottish island of Jura. This money represented the bulk of the K Foundation's funds, earned by Drummond and Cauty as The KLF, one of the United Kingdom's most successful pop groups of the early 1990s.