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Toxteth

Toxteth
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About Toxteth

Toxteth is an inner-city area of Liverpool in the county of Merseyside.

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The KLF are now in the funeral business as well — in Toxteth in Liverpool they're building a ginormous pyramid where every year they add new bricks, and you can buy a brick where you put in a few milligrams of the ashes of a person who's passed away and it gets baked into the brick.

from 413: No Such Thing As Squid Playing Games, 2022-02-11 at 00:51:15 · read transcript

Other times Toxteth came up

  1. They set up this big festival where they were gonna answer the question in 2017 and there's an amazing hour of footage you can watch on YouTube just from one person filming the whole thing where the KLF return and they've got a big announcement and they arrive in an ice cream van and they've written a new book and their big announcement outside of trying to answer why they did the money burning is that they're now no longer just musicians but they're in the funeral business as well. What they've done is, In Toxteth in Liverpool.

    No Such Thing As Squid Playing Games, 2022-02-11 · listen

  2. I've never heard of it, yeah. No, it's new. 2017 was the first one. It was about 400 people and they would walk through the cities of Toxteth wearing like this classic Day of the Dead sort of stuff. You would buy a ticket and you didn't know what to expect. You didn't know what you would do. They would take the numbers and like if you were like number 1 to 20 or something, you would have to form a band.

    No Such Thing As Squid Playing Games, 2022-02-11 · listen

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