John Higgs is the author I HAVE AMERICA SURROUNDED, THE KLF, STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE, WATLING STREET, THE FUTURE STARTS HERE, WILLIAM BLAKE NOW, WILLIAM BLAKE VS THE WORLD and LOVE AND LET DIE. He lives in Brighton.
The best non-fiction book I've ever read. It's magical.
Stunning
*NO SUCH THING AS A FISH*
The best non-fiction book I've ever read. It's magical.
Stunning
*NO SUCH THING AS A FISH*
A pop biography for people who don't read pop biographies. Higgs
approaches the short career of the early 90s top 10 provocateurs
like Adam Curtis brainstorming with Thomas Pynchon, exploring all
manner of magical thinking and conspiracy theories. Touching on
Dada, Doctor Who and Discordianism, it's as playful and sui generis
as the KLF themselves, which is saying something
*GUARDIAN*
A pop biography for people who don't read pop biographies. Higgs
approaches the short career of the early 90s top 10 provocateurs
like Adam Curtis brainstorming with Thomas Pynchon, exploring all
manner of magical thinking and conspiracy theories. Touching on
Dada, Doctor Who and Discordianism, it's as playful and sui generis
as the KLF themselves, which is saying something
*GUARDIAN*
Might well be the best music book of the 2010s . . . eccentric,
bizarre, confusing, hilarious and more than a little pretentious
but utterly irresistible and totally brilliant
*THE QUIETUS*
Might well be the best music book of the 2010s . . . eccentric,
bizarre, confusing, hilarious and more than a little pretentious
but utterly irresistible and totally brilliant
*THE QUIETUS*
The book brilliantly captures the anti-establishment attitude of
Drummond and Cauty, and makes you wish the pop charts were full of
such madness these days
*THE BIG ISSUE*
The book brilliantly captures the anti-establishment attitude of
Drummond and Cauty, and makes you wish the pop charts were full of
such madness these days
*THE BIG ISSUE*
This wildly entertaining thesis speculates on how the KLF arrived
at a crowning act of transgression even they did not understand,
drawing together threads including practical magic, strange
patterns of coincidence and punk
*MOJO*
This wildly entertaining thesis speculates on how the KLF arrived
at a crowning act of transgression even they did not understand,
drawing together threads including practical magic, strange
patterns of coincidence and punk
*MOJO*
Succeeds by ignoring music for much of the story, in favour of the
group's philosophical and psycho-geographical underpinnings in
Discordianism, situationism, art and magic. Sometimes, the music is
just a means to an end - in their case, a million-quid bonfire that
Higgs suggests may be "a magical act that forged the 21st century".
Well, maybe . . .
*INDEPENDENT*
Succeeds by ignoring music for much of the story, in favour of the
group's philosophical and psycho-geographical underpinnings in
Discordianism, situationism, art and magic. Sometimes, the music is
just a means to an end - in their case, a million-quid bonfire that
Higgs suggests may be "a magical act that forged the 21st century".
Well, maybe . . .
*INDEPENDENT*
Book of the Century. Most pop biographies are a dull patchwork of
clippings - this is something else
Book of the Century. Most pop biographies are a dull patchwork of
clippings - this is something else
By far the best book this year, brilliant, discursive and wise
By far the best book this year, brilliant, discursive and wise
I am going to bang on about THE KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who
Burned a Million Pounds rather a lot. Fascinating . . .
Enthralling'
I am going to bang on about THE KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who
Burned a Million Pounds rather a lot. Fascinating . . .
Enthralling'
John Higgs's book about the KLF is - like its subject - a thing of
endlessly fascinating, utterly demented genius
John Higgs's book about the KLF is - like its subject - a thing of
endlessly fascinating, utterly demented genius
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