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The KLF’s plans for a reformation in 2017 include a collaboration with Alex Paterson of The Orb and building a huge pyramid somewhere in the north of England, it has been revealed.

Speculation about the return of the multi-million selling duo, who announced their retirement at 1992’s Brit Awards, started earlier this week with the appearance of a 40 minute video posted on YouTube alongside a cryptic message suggesting 2017 might see their return. The video splices recordings from the whole span of their history with footage of writer/philosopher Alan Moore, comedians Alan Partridge and Chris Morris, Abba and many others.

The following day the manager of band member Bill Drummond shared a poster which had apparently been left in London’s Kingsland Road which distanced itself from the video but confirmed they are “currently at work in their light industrial unit” and that new work would be unveiled on 23 August of this year.

The statement gives the email address K2PlantHire@PositiveVoid.co.uk as a contact and further inspection of www.positivevoid.co.uk reveals a full on website containing biographies of the duo’s numerous musical, art and literary projects, as well as a range of K2 Plant Hire Ltd merchandise, from construction hats and hi-viz jackets to 12” stone cutting discs.

The site states KLF member Jimmy Cauty may be about to collaborate with The Orb’s Alex Paterson again. Cauty was a founder member of The Orb but fell out with Paterson over credits for the KLF’s ‘Chill Out’ album in 1990, but “they appear to have patched things up and are rumoured to be working together.”

It also states that the website is intended as a communication point for people keen on contributing to The People’s Pyramid, a huge monument using a brick for every man, woman and child born in the UK between 1900 – 2000. Plans for the monument were originally mooted soon after the pair burned £1m in 1997 and reported that the ashen remains of the n=money had been turned into a brick.