How To Burn A Million Quid

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01Rule 1. Begin An Inner Alchemy To Transcend The Consensual Reality Tunnel And Move From A State Of Fixation To A Condition Of Mutability20190917Outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island, with only one journalist and their roadie-come-fixer, Gimpo, in attendance. Why? Why would they do that?

~How To Burn A Million Quid lays the story bare. A comic, surreal and fast moving adventure that sees Bill and Jimmy rise to the very top of the music industry, becoming the biggest selling music act in the UK before crashing out of the industry in spectacular fashion and heading toward the art world with the intention of creating similar mayhem. Inspired by a madcap theatrical genius and a cult novel, they blaze a trail that takes them to Sweden, the North Pole and the Sierra Nevada, via Northampton, before arriving finally on the Isle of Jura, with two suitcases containing a million quid.

A sonic roller coaster featuring Paul Higgins (The Thick of It, Line of Duty) as Bill Drummond, Nicholas Burns (Nathan Barley, The World's End) as Jimmy Cauty, with Kevin Eldon as Gimpo, Jeremy Stockwell as Ken Campbell and an outstanding cast of multi-voice comedy performers.

Bill sets off on a mission to shake up the music industry by causing chaos and confusion.

02Rule 2: Don't Do Anything Unless It's Heroic20190924Bill, Jimmy and Gimpo set off for Sweden in order to persuade Abba to let them sample their music. They'll be OK with that. Won't they? Just in case they say no, they're taking all the records with them so that they can burn the vinyl before the legal deadline. Just in case.

Besides, Bill has another plan for how to get onto Top of the Pops.

Part two of the outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF, who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island.

How to have a number one hit, the easy way.

03Rule 3: Only A Madman Is Absolutely Sure20191001Pop stardom is going well, the KLF are a music industry sensation with a string of hits. An inspired collaboration with country music legend Tammy Wynette takes them to new heights. But is that enough, asks Bill, where's the meaning? In the North Pole perhaps? Well that's the conclusion he reaches and so off they go. Really. All this happened.

Part three of the outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF, who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island.

KLF are a pop sensation but the search for meaning goes on.

04Rule 4: Go It Alone20191008At the height of their success the KLF can do no wrong. But they really want to. News of their forthcoming BRIT Award confirms their status as music industry establishment – exactly the thing they're fighting against – and so they go in search of an idea so outrageous, so disgusting, that they would succeed in becoming outcast from the industry. At the BRIT Awards ceremony of 1992 they try out their idea -

Part four of the outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF, who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island.

At the height of their success, Bill and Jimmy redouble their efforts to cause outrage.

05Rule 5: Know When To Walk Away20191015With the last gasp from the now dead sheep, the KLF leave the music industry. They now take their fight against the Illuminati to the art world, and the Turner Prize of 1994. They are about to have the most brilliant idea of all. Or the most stupid. You decide.

Part five of the outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF, who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island.

Bill and Jimmy take their fight against the Illuminati to the art world.

06 LASTRule 6: Never Ask For Anyone's Blessing20191022Finally, having landed on the Isle of Jura, Bill, Jimmy, Gimpo, and one chosen witness check into the Jura hotel carrying two suitcases containing a million quid. They must pass the night before committing the act for which they have come. Burning one million pounds. Can they really go through with it?

The final part of the outrageous comedy drama telling the true story of the chart-topping pop duo known as KLF, who, in 1994, burned £1 million in cash on a remote Scottish Island.

Finally, to the Isle of Jura with two suitcases containing a million quid.