Press Reviews

• BEN GOLDACRE

  By far the best book this year, brilliant, discursive and wise

• ROB MANUEL, co-founder of B3ta

  Book of the Century. Most pop biographies are a dull patchwork of clippings - this is something else

• Cay McDermott

  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

• 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

• 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

• Dorian Lynskey

  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

• Andy Gill

  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 . . .

• ALEXIS PETRIDIS

  John Higgs's book about the KLF is - like its subject - a thing of endlessly fascinating, utterly demented genius

• ROBIN INCE

  I am going to bang on about THE KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds rather a lot. Fascinating . . . Enthralling'

• Dan Schreiber

  NO SUCH THING AS A FISH

  The best non-fiction book I've ever read. It's magical. Stunning

• BEN GOLDACRE

  By far the best book this year, brilliant, discursive and wise

• ROB MANUEL, co-founder of B3ta

  Book of the Century. Most pop biographies are a dull patchwork of clippings - this is something else

• Cay McDermott

  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

• 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

• 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

• Dorian Lynskey

  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

• Andy Gill

  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 . . .

• ALEXIS PETRIDIS

  John Higgs's book about the KLF is - like its subject - a thing of endlessly fascinating, utterly demented genius

• ROBIN INCE

  I am going to bang on about THE KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds rather a lot. Fascinating . . . Enthralling'

• Dan Schreiber

  NO SUCH THING AS A FISH

  The best non-fiction book I've ever read. It's magical. Stunning