The KLF - It's Grim Up North - TOTP 7th November 1991

[@alexanderwilliams3955]

Not only the greatest TOTP performance of all time, but probably the high water mark of post war British culture

[@nutster9000]

General Levi with Incredible coming a close second.

[@alanoneill3065]

Very good!

[@patrickcullinan1554]

Strong 2012 Olympic opening ceremony vibes here, the KLF really were decades ahead of anything else

[@robwilliams6753]

not the KLF

[@jamesmullen3601]

@@robwilliams6753 No, YOU'RE not the KLF!

[@matthewsmith6051]

I love the disdain on Drummond’s face as he’s reading the list. What a masterclass.

[@mrgladstone4044]

All time best BBC.

[@mickbuxton9165]

Absolutely outstanding. The KLF taking the rise, whilst making decent music. Their like will never be seen again

[@vincentbrannelly8786]

A Biopic sanctioned and overseen by them would be a hugely entertaining piece of music history . All aboard ?

[@teamblitz1990]

Wanna bet! Watch out for the " prezident of propaganda" P.O.P watch out for the choas? It's about to explode...

[@adamshaw8649]

This is an Outstanding piece of work. The KLF operated on a different level. Almost three decades on. No question. Outstanding.

[@robwilliams6753]

not the KLF

[@MarkDynamix]

This is what's missing in music these days. Absolute chaos.

[@stationsixtyseven67]

For a short while the lads freed pop from the moguls. They deserve credit for that and for showing the rest of us that IT CAN BE DONE. Hail Eris!

[@suebradford5758]

Its the first time I heard this ...😁🎶❤🎶😁...Thank you 😅👍👌...Thank You Lord ✝️ for the Tingles 🙏❤✝️ ( especially with Jerusalem )

[@edfromtheairship]

Thank you so much for this upload. I am hooting with laughter! And, strangely, felt my chest swell with a bit of pride. Mu! Mu!

[@suebradford5758]

👍...I got Tingles ✝️ when I read your Cimment 🙏❤✝️

[@Spedupguy69]

Proud to be a northener👍👍😁😁

[@DS-ii8gz]

On Top Of The Pops the camera panned from The JAMs to Crowded House whose singer started their song by saying "It's Grim Down South"

[@BaljitSingh-hm9gq]

It is grim down south I lived there for 20years people heads are always in there phones & live American live styles eating every 2 minutes

[@SkinnyEMedia]

I wish I could’ve been there. This is absolutely brilliant! Only in Britain!

[@KingboyD2008]

I didn't know this was performed ON TOTP! Great performance of a brilliant tune! Love that my small hometown is mentioned 🤣

[@kristianTV1974]

London?

[@dinzehhh]

@@kristianTV1974 ah yes the famous northern place, london!

[@uv77mc85]

Cockermouth or Shitterton?

[@Spedupguy69]

@@uv77mc85 shitesville?

[@blehblah9309]

​@@dinzehhh It's Grim Up North London

[@davidfarnes4615]

Remember seeing this on TOTP at the time, one of the most memorable performances ever.

[@BaljitSingh-hm9gq]

I live in Bradford & I still love this tune wow

[@maartendeen8404]

Why am I only now finding out this song has been around for 33 years!

[@ernieburke3695]

Yes as comment below, an all time great TOTP performance.

[@jasonfernee2401]

The fabulous art of playing an organ with no cable or indeed playing any of the notes at all. But let's be honest, KLF taking the piss as usual. Great song.

[@richscales9022]

whilst I completely agree its crap.... I guess youve never heard of wireless systems

[@foljs5858]

@@richscales9022 TOTP was always using playback anyways. no bands ever played really there

[@Lanarkish]

@@foljs5858 This was a live vocal from Bill. In the 60's - 90's many bands recorded 'new' versions of singles or new versions of their backing tracks to perform live vocals with. Many more simply used the released track and mimed. Particularly awful are some of the BBC Orchestra's attempts at recreating hit single arrangements for singers to do live vocals to. Get this - poor girls kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYnLeoOPaZdspJY

[@Soruk42]

@@foljs5858 pretty sure the Shamen did, they tweaked the lyrics of Ebeneezer Goode ("Got any underlay?")

[@robwilliams6753]

not the KLF

[@mcbain23]

KLF back with a bang 2021.. The North Will Rise Again

[@msteel93889]

Performance art. This is when top of the pops actually used to be good

[@richscales9022]

the reason the music industry went downhill, is partly because of people like you

[@mcleodclan]

@@richscales9022 Most popular music has always been cornholio cheesy shit.

[@namafarm]

Performance Art about BritianEpic stuff, archtypical and primal

[@popehadrianthe4th648]

I be originally from the West Country, but love this. It can be grim in Somerset as well.

[@geezerbutler4582]

Weird out west?

[@robwilkinson8497]

havent heard this for many years...thanks for the upload

[@MelodeonTunes]

I'm one of the morris dancers, bloody hell it was 20 years ago

[@Lanarkish]

Bloody Hell. It was 30 years ago mate. 30 years ago today it was released.

[@michaelbarnard2128]

Bet that was fun

[@Soruk42]

First time seeing this and I just went "WTF? Morris dancers on TOTP?"

[@marcp.1752]

I liked some of The KLF's songs as a teen, young adult...if one thing was for sure, The KLF was totally nuts.

[@BaljitSingh-hm9gq]

These days that paper bill is holding would be on a piece of card now because everyone on tv has a card no one wrights things down anymore

[@alexanderkeys1038]

One time the TOTP performance is better than the video, the vocal sounds different too, like he's doing it live.

[@Lanarkish]

Bill is doing it live.

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

This was just after top of the pops introduced the all vocals must be live rule

[@ChrissyboyH44]

The good old days when the UK charts had PROPER MUSIC!!!

[@bigpoppapaulsradiocontroll2724]

most correct comment of all time!!!

[@richscales9022]

this is music to you? its talentless utter shit

[@ChrissyboyH44]

@@richscales9022 Why are you here then?

[@valiantv2897]

@@richscales9022 its genius

[@uv77mc85]

Every generation thinks their music was the only proper music.

[@n2kmasteroriginal]

Whoa....never even heard of this song from them...and I bought that White Room album a few times here in Canada cuz I wore it out. Shame it was so hard to just hear and obtain music from overseas at that time period...i missed an album or two it seems....

[@davros76]

This was released as The Jamms rather than KLF which is why you may have missed it.

[@BaljitSingh-hm9gq]

It's a pity they didn't do a grim up north in America 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@wisteela]

Fantastic performance

[@martinsteel3136]

Magnificent

[@kennethpickeringsrensen9478]

AMAZING KLF! Loved it 90-93

[@userasofnow7371]

always were Bonkers! ... but great!!!

[@lynda7244]

And at the same time we had Grin Up North, house music events in Liverpool.

[@keithjames2450]

Transcendental Morris dancing is the future.

[@andyt3120]

If not the best TOPT performance ever.

[@davidballingall6383]

He sounds like Ian Stirling the Love Island narrator going through these northern towns

[@darrenlovett8258]

Pisser

[@jammin023]

Magnificent.

[@thebyronicmann]

Mu Mu. Mu Mu. Mu Mu. KLF!!!

[@VinylSamuraisMusic]

Bizarre as the lyrics are on this and they was blatantly taking the pee. The production on this is fire

[@johnforkan1492]

There just place names

[@glenndouglas8822]

They are northern places ya numbnut....

[@duncanstone4514]

The Lady of the Lake brings not Excalibur but a keyboard!

[@jasonfernee2401]

And the keyboard has no power either lol.

[@Ashethetics]

@@jasonfernee2401 Bill’s also not playing any real notes lol He’s just slamming his fingers down wherever, a la Nirvana’s (much) later miming on TOTP 😅

[@frazerpeddle]

I remember the show due to the Morris dancers. Didn't know who they were until I found this video 😄

[@otemale]

Who are those dancers?

[@garymckenna1624]

classic.

[@loungejay8555]

1:15 Sheffield

[@alanoneill3065]

Performance Act of the Highest order

[@pabloojeda3596]

My first CD!! Epic!!

[@fractos1701]

oh my god.

[@mrgladstone4044]

Keep it on You Tube, 2024

[@hoa4619]

曲がカッコイイ!

[@hustysemporium6359]

KLF is gonna rock yaaa !!!

[@robwilliams6753]

not the KLF

[@nige3801]

They were just a little later than the Deeply Vale free festivals in Bury, Mancs...these would've been spot on at Deeply

[@steveforest8385]

They took the title for this song from a Harry Enfield sketch on his 'Norbert Smith' mockumentary.

[@Mishima505]

Sounds like a British Rail announcer

[@mejulie246]

It's grim 🙂

[@dereksidders2084]

Bring them back

[@jackjude]

Situationalists par excllence.

[@ludwig327]

The one and only

[@stephenclarke8864]

Us southern fairy's. We love you people up north

[@darrenlovett8258]

The KLF owe alot to their name as well.

[@РусланРосоха-ц7г]

KLF Respect MU MU

[@kevinsprague5988]

423rd Catch-22 Ex Mechina[sic] Hot Cocoa Barberella

[@tedblight]

One day this will be on Apple Music, along with The White Room!... you mark my words!

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

Doubt it.

[@0x777]

No chance. They deleted their back catalogue.

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

@@0x777 They did in the UK and territories were they had enough control to do so. Their material however remained available in the USA for example for many years after the 1992 scorched earth announcement.

[@BarryRowlingsonBaz]

You need to buy a lottery ticket right now. (Its on Spotify)

[@njlouch]

And now it is!

[@grahamknox6369]

What's wrong with the north east it's grim here but no mention

[@oldgitsknowstuff]

Yeah, It's grim up North, but you know that when you shake the hand of the most 'Miserable Northern Wretch', you know that it's the hand of value, confidence, Goodwill and Honour. 'Slap my hand' and that's a deal. 'Up North, an Englishman's word is 'Final. Break your word and your less than shit. Reasonable ? High 5s to Those in OUR North.

[@mattsawyer343]

Looking a bit hollow after Election Day, though!

[@oldgitsknowstuff]

@@mattsawyer343 . The map has gone blue in the North, and most probably the language and the air.

[@creepvision1380]

They were way ahead of there time

[@ЕгуруЕгуру]

Просто круто. Супер

[@paulcrisp9861]

Well they got one thing right decades later, it's grim in grimsby and scunthorpe and hull and doncaster and sheffield and rotherham it's gim up north. Sept 2021🙄🙄🙄🤣😁😅😀😐😆

[@SkinnyEMedia]

I would've loved to see this live especially when the KLF sacrificed a sheep and then shot bullets in the air or burning £1 million. KLF surely was a strong inspiration for Headsmoke.

[@Hellwyck]

1. They sacrificed nothing, the sheep was already dead. 2. They fired blanks, not live rounds. 3. This wasn't the track they played, it was 3AM Eternal (The Black Room version with Extreme Noise Terror).

[@showdown2006]

Weren't they already known as The KLF by this point?

[@OfflineSetup]

Did they mention Blackpool?

[@nutster9000]

Northern towns spoken like they're swear words.

[@ZuluRomeo]

2:40 The Lady of the BAKED 😜

[@SkinnyEMedia]

Why does Bill Drummond, the singer, look a little like actor Paul Rudd?

[@anglodoomer5995]

funny that he's reading the lyrics lmao

[@SkinnyEMedia]

Dark humour at its finest!

[@vincentbrannelly8786]

Labour should harness this power . Worked for Blair !!!

[@andrewyeo2818]

Sounds like a government warning in the present times

[@maxdagg-heston4962]

Now that's hockey!

[@sinicalypse]

Drummond looks like Dr who here

[@Mr_Ed.]

All three of my towns I've lived in are mentioned in this song. Am I ashamed? Am I fuck. The North rock's! ✊🏾

[@Lanarkish]

Grocer's apostrophe. Nice.

[@matthewpayton]

They nicked Jerusalem By Charles Herbert Parry

[@alanoneill3065]

Follow THAT

[@paulcarr370]

0:31 Grim sby.

[@alanoneill3065]

The Gurus from MuMu

[@0x777]

Can't tell... art or trolling?

[@sea80vicvan]

Both!

[@ZuluRomeo]

Yes

[@richf3344]

Yup. Dadaist, or situationist, depending on your view eh

[@cityzens634]

Harrogate is lovely

[@Steveholmes1972]

It's in the north

[@cityzens634]

@@Steveholmes1972 Exactly

[@leefrancis007]

Try Pakuranga Highland Park

[@magphilips]

Boom noxe ))) Welcome tomorrow )))

[@alanoneill3065]

THAT North is Dahn Sath to me...here is Glesga

[@F217-o3r]

FUCKING MENTAAAAAAAAALLLL : )

[@SkinnyEMedia]

@SkinnyEMedia If only Sleaford Mods were only around 1991 that they could've even done a collaborative project alongside The KLF with this satirical yet awesome tune.

[@arthurs7882]

It's Grim Up North? Trve Norwegian Black Metal?

[@urbanmidnight1]

Norwegian?

[@BaljitSingh-hm9gq]

They should have done a America version of this there's plenty of grim places there 😊😊😊😊

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

He’s not wrong

[@ElliotFlowers]

Can someone please explain?

[@themomentalist]

Anyone who ever explains this to you will be lying. Including me.

[@stephenclarke8864]

Lot of rubbish but great

[@JohnTaylorMusicClips53]

The only place I know of as being grim is the north east. Worst place of them all! People calling dinner tea and coal mines and beamish

[@urbanmidnight1]

I take it you're from the north west? Lol

[@Spedupguy69]

IT'S Grimm Up North But its full of immigrants down south🤔🤔i wouldnt want to be doow there erugh😒😒Prod to be a northener😁😁👍👍

[@Jzargo35]

At least you don't so as many inflatable boats turning up in Blackpool.

[@akesire]

That's a half-bred Asian GUY at 2:37! XD

[@uv77mc85]

Its actually a girl. Bill Drummond was banging the asian girls who did KLF videos. Thats why she has the look of someone who has seen some sh1t.

[@richscales9022]

look at me.... Im a "vocalist" geting paid to read a list

[@icetonky]

Look at you, not realising that “vocalist” is Bill Drummond 😂