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                                                   [ dated 27th February 1992 ]
 
 
> 3 AM with Extreme Noise Terror
 
    A copy of the single seems to have come my way :)  .  It's a one-sided,
    7" pressing (the flip is totally unpressed), with the catalogue/matrix
    number KLF 5TOTP  .  The B-side label is the typical Pyramid Of Mu
    ("Justified"), and A-side label is :
 
 
                                       A
                                     45RPM
 
                                  3A.M. ETERNAL
 
 
                                   CHRISTMAS
                             TOP OF THE POPS 1991
 
                                 KLF 5 T.O.T.P.
 
 
    And that's it : no copyright statements, just the boldly printed lettering
    as above. 1000 copies were pressed.
 
 
 
 
> America:What Time Is Love?
 
    Finally released in the UK this week.  From the NME, dated 22nd February
    1992 :
 
    "                      Single Of The Millenium!!!
 
        THE KLF: America-What Time Is Love? (KLF Communications)
 
        The entire history of rock,  from Wagner to hardcore Techno,  in
        three  planet-toppling   minutes !   Burn  your  useless  record
        collection and board  The KLF's Viking longship as they discover
        whole new  continents  of  uncharted  irony!!  Not  content with
        recruiting gods of grunge  Extreme  Noise  Terror,  and reducing
        last week's stuffed-shirt Brits bash to a bloody gore-fest,  the
        tusk-wearing terrorists  have  gone  full-tilt trouser-exploding
        Metal,  with  Deep Purple's Glen Hughes  bursting his lungs over
        massed choirs and screaming  guitars and crackling thunderclouds
        and walloping skyscraper-sized disco beats!
 
        A novelty hit? Pah!  Recently,  in these very pages,  some dodgy
        Welsh glam-rock  revivalists  said  humour  had no place in pop;
        clearly they have never heard  The Rolling Stones, The Fall, New
        Order,  The Smiths  or  The KLF.  Which  is  why  their 18-track
        juggernaut of  cretinous  pap  will  be  stacked high on bargain
        racks for centuries to come  while this - the coolest, funniest,
        most rock'n'roll record EVER made - will  still be Number One in
        this and every other galaxy  long  after our paltry civilisation
        has crumbled to dust.  Now I just have to persuade Altern 8.....
 
        Chris: When that  guitar  comes  in  over  the  vocals  I  can't
        understand what they're saying.  I like the cover, and the intro
        was excellent.  I was looking  at  the sleeve at the time and it
        all just came together. They're the original scamsters, and they
        keep nicking our ideas - which  is  good.  The ice cream van was
        our idea.
 
        Mark: It's just a mesh of  sound,  they've put too much into the
        record. There's a bit too much thrash-death in there.
 
        Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!  Ignore these picky pop stars,  kids.
        Single Of The Entire History Of The Universe Forever.
 
                                 Review by Stephen Dalton, with Altern 8
 
 
 
    The single was released this week (24th February) on 7", Cassette and 12"
    formats - the CD is being held over for a week.  The 12" tracks are
    "America:What Time Is Love?"  flipped by  "America No More".  There was
    also a 12" promo, KLF 92 PROMO 1, which featured these tracks.  The
    version of "America:" is actually slightly different to that released in
    the USA some months back.  Richard Rackham points out that the vocal
    harmonies for the 'large' "America" operatic chant in the middle are
    slightly different, and the list of American cities has been edited out.
    Also, the ending is slightly different.  The flip, "America No More" is
    an ambient bagpipe piece (!), with various vocal samples and sounds
    of explosions...."What Time WAS Love" revisited.
 
 
 
 
> 1987 Bootleg CD
 
    Mike Wertheim sent in the following :
 
      " I've been in touch with the people who put out the bootleg CD of
        the JAMs' "1987: What the Fuck is Going On?" LP.
 
        If you want to get a copy of this thing,  send me email and I'll
        let you know how to  order.  The price is  US$10  plus shipping.
        Shipping costs US$2 in North America and US$5 anywhere else.  If
        you're interested,  please  get  in  touch  with  me  as soon as
        possible (preferably before March 1st).
 
        Disclaimer:  This  CD  was  mastered  from a vinyl  LP,  and the
        recording is a bit scratchy, and there are pops and clicks.  And
        they reversed the A and B sides.  And  to  top  it all off,  the
        track listing is only on the CD itself;  it's not printed on the
        insert.
 
        Also (I'm not making this up), this guy has some extra copies of
        the Negativland U2 CD,  so if you still want a copy,  make me an
        offer and I'll pass it on to him. "
 
                                              Mike : <sybase!mw@Sun.COM>
 
 
 
 
> CHOC ICE 3
 
    Charles Breen describes the copy of CHOC ICE 3 (the 'Anti-Acapella') that
    he managed to obtain :
 
      " No singing on it,  just the  music  and the chants.  There is no
        lead Tammy/Maxine vocal.... Also, the slide guitar is a lot more
        prominent and there are a coupla acidy bits.  The B side is just
        unpressed.  There were 200 copies made. "
 
 
    Apparently, however, one mail-order company has a TWO track version of this
    item, although no others have been confirmed, so we suspect that it is a
    mistake (or mis-lead ?) on their part.
 
 
 
 
> Comments from a couple of people
 
    I received this some time ago, from Charles Kerr (@uoknor.edu).  It
    reflects a common situation,  especially in the USA.
 
      " Oklahoma is a strange place to live, even if only temporarily.
 
        While most people  have  heard  of  The KLF  because  of  the US
        airplay  that  "3 AM"  and  "What Time is Love"  got  here,  I'm
        more likely to find someone who's heard of  The Timelords than I
        am to find someone who's heard of  The JAMs  [ or Spacemen 3, or
        King Crimson,  or Vicious Pink,  but  that's  another  story,  I
        suppose ].
 
        Essentially, if I want to know where to find "America: What Time
        Is Love?", things are fine, but if I want to know what the White
        Room is, or what direction  Drummond and Cauty  are  moving in :
        dance, ambient, etc.,   [ You'd be amazed -- or amused -- at how
        many people here go to  the  record  store  and buy  "Chill Out"
        after seeing  "What Time is Love"  on MTV ], or ESPECIALLY where
        to find discs of  "Justified & Ancient",  "Kylie Said To Jason",
        "Shag Times",  and "1987" [ ha ha ],  things are grim.  And info
        on The Orb is even harder  to  come  by here than a full copy of
        their album or a wordless version or "Perpetual Dawn". "
 
 
    Francois Dion (@UMontreal.ca) works for the biggest student radio in
    America, apparently, CISM 89.3FM in Montreal, Canada.  He had this to
    say :
 
      " A little more than a year ago  we  received  "3 AM Eternal"  and
        played it. It was the first time that  The KLF  were played on a
        Montreal Radio.  I'd  never  heard  any JAMS or Timelords on any
        radio.  One of my  friend  who  is  a  DJ  in  a club played the
        Timelords but that's about as far as it went....... "
 
 
 
 
> KLF Make-your-own-vid competition
 
    Lazlo mentions that the deadline has been extended to March 6th, due to
    the flood of entries.
 
 
 
 
> System 7 : "Freedom Fighters"                                  Ten Records
 
   12"Pr SYSDJ 7       [2/92]  Depth Disco <mixes>
 
   7"PS  TEN  394    [3/2/92]  Freedom Fighters//
                               Depth Disco
 
   12"PS TENX 394    [3/2/92] @Freedom Fighters(Praying By The Sea)/
                               Freedom Fighters(New Style-Extended 12" Mix)//
                               Depth Disco(Extended Mix)/
                               [Freedom Fighters(Freedom Void Mix)--labelled]
 
   5"CD  TENCD394    [3/2/92]  Freedom Fighters
 
 
   5"CD  TENCX394   [10/2/92]  Freedom Fighters(New Style Edit)/
                              @Freedom Fighters(Praying By The Sea)/
                              %Mia(Fisherman Mix)/
                               Depth Disco(Extended Mix)
 
                              @ - mixed by Robin Hancock
                              % - mixed with Steve Hillage, mix consultant
                                   Alex Paterson.
 
 
    Reviewed in the NME, dated 22nd February 1992 :
 
     "  SYSTEM 7: Freedom Fighters (Ten)
 
        Steve Hillage,  Alex Paterson, Zoe, Aniff Cousins from Chapter &
        The Verse....and still this shuffles along with all the spark of
        a wounded  hippo.  Where  are  the  spaceships ?  The  Gregorian
        chants ?  The twiddly hippy nonsense even ? Set the controls for
        the Planet Mediocre, Captain.
 
        Mark: Not very Orb-y, and not all that ambient either.  Zoe's on
        there, sounding like Sinead O'Connor,  a very smoochy record for
        your Mecca-style  club.  Are  they  releasing  singles  from the
        album,  because if they are,  when are they going to release the
        one with Derrick May on ?
 
        Yeah!  The kids want Derrick and they want him now. "
 
                                 Review by Stephen Dalton, with Altern 8
 
 
 
 
> The Brit Awards : UK press backlash !
 
 
   The day after the UK Brit Awards were broadcast, there was the usual
   flurry of activity on the popular national press' music pages.  Lots
   of photographs of Seal clutching his *three* awards, and then of course
   the story behind The KLF's little performance.
 
   From 'The Daily Star'  :
 
    " The KLF almost brought chaos to the awards by firing a machinegun
      into the celebrity-packed crowd.
 
      Frightened members of the  audience  were calmed after organisers
      said the gun,  carried by band leader  Bill Drummond,  was loaded
      only with blanks.
 
      Then the band were barred from collecting their award.  The group
      ordered a courier company to collect their trophy as a joke.
 
      But the organisers of the glitzy show,  which went out on TV last
      night, refused to allow the leather-clad biker into the Odeon.
 
      The group's Press officer  said  after  the show:  "It looks like
      their joke backfired."  "
 
                                               Linda Duff/Julia Kuttner
 
 
 
   'The Sun' took it to an extreme  :
 
    "             KLF'S SICK GUN STUNT FAILS TO HIT THE TARGET
 
      The KLF proved  pop's  biggest  wallies  by  'firing' a realistic
      machine gun at the star-studded audience.
 
      Singer  Bill Drummond  left the stage as the band performed their
      No 1 hit 3am Eternal.
 
      Drummond, 36, who was using a crutch after damaging his knee in a
      fall, then reappeared and pointed the gun at the crowd.
 
      But his antics  were  met  with  apathy  by guests who carried on
      chatting.  KLF did manage to  cause a stir eventually by trashing
      their instruments at the end of their song.
 
      They hurled guitars across  the  stage, smashed microphone stands
      against scenery and  threw  buckets.  Sadly,  they won best group
      award jointly with Simply Red. "
 
                                  Piers Morgan/Peter Willis/Dan Collins
 
 
   From the NME, dated 22nd February 1991 :
 
    "               Baa-nned!! KLF sheep chopped by BBC
 
      THE KLF,  who released their  "America-What Time Is Love" 45 this
      week,  brought chaos  to  last week's  Brit Awards,  resulting in
      heavy censorship by the BBC and the near-withdrawal of one of the
      event's star guests.
 
      The duo, joined on the televised show by EXTREME NOISE TERROR for
      their thrash version of  "3 am Eternal",  were scrutinised by BBC
      lawyers during the  rehearsal  for  the  show.  Bill Drummond and
      Jimmy Cauty  were  allegedly  instructed  that  rumoured plans to
      throw buckets of blood  at  the  audience  during the performance
      would have serious legal implications.
 
      A further scheme to  disembowel  a dead sheep during the song was
      also nixed, by Extreme Noise Terror themselves!
 
      The sheep was collected earlier  in the day from a slaughterhouse
      in Northampton,  but the  all-vegetarian thrash-metal outfit were
      so repelled by the prospect,  that they threatened to pull out of
      the performance.
 
      Meanwhile,  Sir George Solti,  the eminent Hungarian composer who
      was present to accept the Best Classical Recording award,  had to
      be persuaded to  return  to  his  seat  by  Brits  staff after he
      attempted to leave the auditorium during the song.
 
      Having completed their work,  the  band left the building unaware
      that they were about to receive the award for Best British Group.
      Producers  of  the  show  then  refused  to  allow  a  motorcycle
      messenger sent by Drummond and Cauty to pick up the 'bauble' from
      star guest Martika. "
 
 
   Christian said :
 
    " MTV covered the  Brit Awards  rather nicely.  Right after the KLF
      had played  Trevor Horn  was interviewed.  He  seemed  to be in a
      state of  shock.  "They  were  horrible!  Shooting  with  machine
      guns...!  Disgraceful!".  Poor Trev  seems to have lost his sense
      of humour..... "
 
 
   Indeed. The days of Buggles and Frankie Goes To Hollywood weren't really
   *that* long ago !!
 
 
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