The weekend I visited Jura, there was nothing more controversial than a performance by Pete Smokes and the Roaches in the village hall. Understandably, this was - and still is - a little outside the average Hebridean's comprehension.
They'd successfully accrued a fortune from releasing records that varied from the sublime (Tammy Wynette singing on Justified and Ancient) to the downright charmless (Doctoring the Tardis, which sampled Gary Glitter and Sweet).
The KLF's motivation was to rid themselves of the gains they'd made out of an ugly music industry they'd found it so easy to manipulate. People thought they could have given the money to charity." "I didn't see the film when they came back to show it in the village hall a bit later, though plenty did and were quite upset. "We didn't really know who they were," Steve says of the KLF as he gazes out at the palm trees that flourish in the gulf stream climate. It has been run by Steve and Fiona Watson for 24 years. It houses the island's only bar and its restaurant serves langoustine straight from the sea. The hotel, stark outside and cosy within, has a maximum capacity of 27. The group stayed at the Jura Hotel in Craighouse, the only village on an island which has a population of around 170 and 80 houses in all. It's just the plentiful details that seem to have been muddied in the retelling. The money-burning, which took place on the little peninsula at Ardfin, just below Jura House, is fresh in the memory here. On an island where myths abound and the wee people are still considered by some to be responsible for most upsets, mishaps and mislaid possessions, the KLF have simply added another story. The result - Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid - is still occasionally screened (it will be shown at PS 1 in Queens, New York, this autumn). Back in 1994, the KLF, a group comprised of jaded ex-A&R man Bill Drummond and commercially unsuccessful musician Jimmy Cauty, who together might be best described as a situationist acid house band, came here to burn £1m in cash and film the event. This booking system and any information appearing on this page is provided for your information and convenience only and is not intended to be an endorsement by VisitScotland of the content of such linked websites, the quality of any accommodation listed, or of the services of any third party.Not that Cameron was the first media manipulator to lay claim to this extraordinary outlying place. VisitScotland does not have any control over the content or availability of any external website. If you proceed to make a booking you will leave our Website and visit a website owned and operated by a third party. Any booking you make will not be placed with VisitScotland and we will have no liability to you in respect of any booking. You may use this booking system to place direct bookings with third party accommodation providers. It is intended to provide real time availability information relating to accommodation which is also provided by third parties. This booking system and any information appearing on this page relating to the availability of any accommodation is provided by third parties and not by VisitScotland. We're still working on it so would love to hear your feedback by email to out more about VisitScotland
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