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...

2022年11月15日 · In the middle of the night of the 23rd of August 1994 the K Foundation burnt a million pounds in an abandoned boathouse on Jura (near the village of Ardfin if you want to make a pilgrimage). It took just over an hour for Cauty and Drummond to pile the wads onto the flames, while Gimpo filmed it, and freelance journalist Jim Reid witnessed it.

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 to...

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.

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.

In the early hours of 23 August 1994, Jimmy Cauty & Bill Drummond, the K Foundation, AKA the KLF, AKA the Justified Ancients of Mumu, burnt £1,000,000 of their own money, in an abandoned boat house on the Isle of Jura. The money was all the cash they had left from their careers in …

2022年5月24日 · On August 23, 1994, mysterious musical duo The KLF took £1 million to a remote Scottish island and, in the middle of the night, they ceremoniously burned the lot. The bonkers move on the Isle of Jura came two years after the electronic duo fired blanks from a machine gun into a stunned Brit Awards crowd - their final performance before ...

2021年8月2日 · In 1994 the art duo K Foundation burned a million pounds in cash. They did it on purpose. The KLF was a highly successful British electronic band in the early 1990s. Its two members, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, excelled at spectacle and grand gestures.