"Deep Shit" (Cat no. DS1) was a flexi 7" pressed in 500 copies in September 1987 but nobody has ever seen it, so we can't be absolutely sure of its existence. It was on the KLF1 Completeist List as having been pressed, it has never been confirmed.
From JAMs info-sheet 001: "Deep Shit (the flexi)? I'm afraid although we recorded this we never actually got it out. We were hoping to slip it in with the first few copies of JAMS LP2."
But from JAMs info-sheet 002: "'Deep Shit' can never be made generally available, but don't be surprised if it turns up in odd places."
They allegedly made the single because in 1987 they received a letter from an American calling himself 'Don Lucknowe' who warned them about the "Deep shit" they would be in if they continued with their many links to the "Illuminatus!" trilogy (see 1.023). It all turned out to be a joke (we think!). Their only contact address turned out to be that of a parody news outfit, "Yossarian Universal". Paul Fericano, the then editor thinks the originator of the letter is James Wallis, a British satirist, and long-time Three Stooges fan (hence the name Don Lucknowe = Don't Look Now).
It was then, allegedly released in August 1989 as 6 copies only of a 12" white label (Cat no. KLF 101R), with the A side as "Deep Shit" Parts Two and Three the Illegal Remix" and the B side of "The Lovers Side", from the original TWR album. Again this exists only in myth and has never been seen.
"At the start of 1993, Jimmy completed one issue [started in 1989] of his graphic novel "Deep Shit: The Further Adventures of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu" but he decided it was "crap" and "threw it out"."
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