Jump to content

Ford timelord


Bren

Recommended Posts

I used to love the KLF when I was growing up, but their post KLF antics shown in the documentary, along with the whole painting of Phill’s car, makes me realise what a washed up pair of narcissists they really are.

I don’t think they though that in destroying KLF at the Brits, they’d actually struggle to stay relevant afterwards. I don't buy the whole “tired of fame” thing because they did everything to stay in the public eye with the “edgy” K Foundation awards stuff immediately afterwards and the burning of the money. Was quite refreshing seeing them doing the Q&As after the “burn the million quid” film showings, and be called out as cunts. Trying to control the narrative with the 23 year embargo in the contract on the Bluebird too - they knew then nobody cared anymore anyway.  

The documentary didn’t really show either of them in a great light but Drummond seems to be a monumental asshole in particular.

The whole peoples pyramid thing is a bunch of bollocks too. 
 

TLDR: Drugs are bad, m’kay

Link to comment
Share on other sites

8 minutes ago, Rod/b said:

I used to love the KLF when I was growing up, but their post KLF antics shown in the documentary, along with the whole painting of Phill’s car, makes me realise what a washed up pair of narcissists they really are.

I don’t think they though that in destroying KLF at the Brits, they’d actually struggle to stay relevant afterwards. I don't buy the whole “tired of fame” thing because they did everything to stay in the public eye with the “edgy” K Foundation awards stuff immediately afterwards and the burning of the money. Was quite refreshing seeing them doing the Q&As after the “burn the million quid” film showings, and be called out as cunts. Trying to control the narrative with the 23 year embargo in the contract on the Bluebird too - they knew then nobody cared anymore anyway.  

The documentary didn’t really show either of them in a great light but Drummond seems to be a monumental asshole in particular.

The whole peoples pyramid thing is a bunch of bollocks too. 
 

TLDR: Drugs are bad, m’kay

The KLF, for all sorts of reasons, were a product of their time.  1988-1992 wasn't a great period in this country's history: Thatcher's policies really started to bite in working class areas, de-industrialization continued apace, privatization went on, there was a recession, a mortgage crisis, vandalism was cool, Essex-man was found urinating in City gutters, there were new drugs, the ERM collapsed and so it went.  It was grim, back then.  Parts of London started to resemble the Blade Runner set: all decaying concrete, graffiti, run-down shops full of second-hand tellies, clapped out cars belching smoke on the streets and the only respite a cup of tea at a plastic table in a cafe with steamed up windows.  I liked and hated it in equal measure; less safe but more interesting than the plastic fantastic, sensitive and inoffensive vision of town we inhabit now.  But anyway, The KLF provided an ideal soundtrack to those lost, grey days.  What they didn't account for, I suspect, was a desire to escape it all on a magic carpet ride of trashy Dutch disco-pop.  What the people wanted, amongst those serious environs, was to have the fun of high-energy music without the pretentiousness and heavyweight aspirations to serious expression that characterised the late eighties.  Some people still liked it, but they all donned death make-up and went to the Bat Cave.  Thus The KLF served their purpose and became obsolete, in a sense.  

Almost anyone with a creative vision is a narcissist, for the record.  One has to be.  

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 7/14/2022 at 9:54 PM, barefoot said:

That's my point; I don't suppose for one minute he did at the time, in fact he was probably a little bit grumpy about it but I suspect that with hindsight, he realises that he's essentially tidied up, washed, ironed, re-made & completely de-valued Tracy Emin's bed.

That’s the arrogance of an some artists.  Why is that more important than what the owner created in a good Timelord?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

14 hours ago, garethj said:

That’s the arrogance of an some artists.  Why is that more important than what the owner created in a good Timelord?

Because it wasn't their creation. See: narcissists 

 

Heaven forbid anybody take anything from the KLF, as they never ever took any other intellectual property and profited from it. Honest m'lud.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

12 minutes ago, Stixy said:

This thread needs making into a film/documentary  excellent work off al those involved  

 

I am going to book a day off work so i can read it all properly 

I know a couple of TV production companies who would be willing to do that.

Maybe if the missing Timelord is found and the puzzle is completed, I'll set some wheels in motion.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 17/08/2022 at 16:47, Missy Charm said:

The KLF provided an ideal soundtrack to those lost, grey days. 

Nice post all round. I agree. I'd argue that Suede and the art school drop out bands that followed along with the Young British Artists (including aforementioned Emin) chronicled the next phase.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 months later...
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...
On 7/13/2022 at 5:21 PM, barefoot said:

How do I get to watch the documentary?

I've just signed up to prime & first it wanted £2.50 for me to rent it, which rapidly increased to £3.49!

WTaF?

 

On 7/13/2022 at 5:48 PM, sierraman said:

It’s available just to download on Sky Q, it was ok but it did just come across as a self indulgent biopic of the time they were active so to speak, I get they were fairly popular at the time but it was hardly fucking Abbey Road by the Beatles. Some good footage of the Timelord though.

My philosophy on it is that it’s probably still surviving albeit beyond restoration under a tarp somewhere in Bickers yard.

 

For anyone that doesn't have prime/sky/etc, it's on sky arts (Freeview ch 11) this Friday night at 10.10pm;

https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-tdhhzi/who-killed-the-klf/

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 weeks later...

smoll post but I happened to come across a picture of The Timelord WGU18G that I dont think I have seen before

from here https://hunttimelord.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/ford-timelord-has-again-returned-to-work-to-demonstrate-the-unorthodox-methodology-and-theories-of-tc-lethbridge-are-justifiedin-the-never-ending-quest-to-unearth-everything-and-anything-ford/

is this photo, which interestingly shows the Timelord, still with its (originial?) white on black number plates, I notice in most if not all pictures of it during KLF ownership it had retroreflective plates

img_6798.thumb.png.6ed56d8fb8f66e0f8f91cd3c847cd6ed.png

perhaps everyone else has already seen this photo but I figured it cant hurt to share just incase :) 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...
  • 4 weeks later...

well this is interesting! twas checking in on the Ford Timelord and me being me, thinking back to this recent system change that I discovered

On 31/12/2022 at 04:07, LightBulbFun said:

following on from this it seems like at long last Northern Ireland vehicle MOT history* is now viewable online! only goes back to 2017 but still very neat to see!

image.thumb.png.63c536448698e9fc35d5e02dc9083ead.png

its a little rough and ready, seems to be taking pages out of the HGV/PSV MOT checker in how if there is no MOT history available it just assumes it expired/is due 1/3 years after date of first registration

image.thumb.png.20c75edae13c838fe8e0008963a9441f.png

 

or just assuming the vehicle is equipped with a flux capacitor and thus is due an MOT 49 years before it existed...

image.thumb.png.723209acd1004836267b7850bcef2f4c.png

 

 

*although sadly detailed info is not available, it seems it can only give you the history of passes and fails no actual details on what the vehicle failed on or what any advisories might be

 

still might be somewhat useful for @Datsuncogand the such like :) 

I thought lets run it through the MOT checker and well would you look at that! it seems like keeper change last year was to someone/or at least an address in Northern Ireland...

image.thumb.png.c4af86e1fb16f1041e203ed4c37aa24e.png

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...