“What’s all this about then?” a man on a bicycle asks me. It’s a fair question, given that I’m one of 400-odd people blocking the main road, dressed variously in hi-vis overalls, psychedelic ghillie suits and sinister papier-maché masks. Confused shoppers look on as we march through Liverpool city centre waving neon-lit totem poles, banging drums, blowing on discordant foghorns and shouting about death. “It’s sort of a funeral,” I try to explain, “but not really.”
 


My efforts fail to capture the overwhelming strangeness of the People’s Day Of Death: a public ritual created by art-pop provocateurs the KLF as part of their plans to encase the ashes of 30,000 people in a gigantic brick pyramid in the Wirral. Described as “a ceremony to honour the dead and a celebration of life,” it’s part funeral march, part art happening, part club night, and part fashion show — co-curated this year by renegade clothing brand Sports Banger.

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