Jimmy Cauty

James Cauty, Jimmy or Jimi, also known as Rockman Rock, was born in Devon in 1956 and not much is known about him until, as a 17-year old artist he painted the Lord of the Rings poster for Athena. He has continued painting over the years, with his early reputation being "London artist, bohemian". In 1981/2 he and (now wife) Cressida were in a band called Angels 1-5 which did a Peel session. He next crops up as a guitarist with Brilliant in the 80's with Youth. Youth said he "cut the original ten (or so) members of the band down to just him, June (Montana) and Jimmy..." Brilliant signed for WEA where Jimmy met Bill Drummond. They collaborated on the JAMs' early work and Jimmy wasalso DJing in the chill-out room at Paul Oakenfold's London club, Heaven, with Dr. Alex Paterson with whom he formed The Orb. He left the Orb and joined the KLF full-time.

After having formed several other projects after the KLF splitup together with Bill (K Foundation, The One World Orchestra) he continued his solo work under new aliases. He eventually called himself AAA (aka Triple-A, Advanced Acoustic Armorments) and experimented with low-frequency weapons that he bought from the British Ministry of Defence. His '\'Squawk-EP'' was already listed by Blast First Records but like a lot of his projects this album was never released. In 1999 Cauty produced several remixes under his new alias The Scourge Of The Earth for artists such as Placebo, Marylin Manson, Hawkwind, Ian Brown, The Orb etc. Then, in december 1999, he was joined by Guy Pratt and they released the novelty record "I Wanna 1-2-1 With You" under the name Solid Gold Chartbusters. Although it was intended to be Christmas number 1 it didn't even go top ten as BBC Radio 1 refused to play the song.

In 2000 Cauty worked on several new tracks for his new record company Crapola Records. Currently, together with James Fogerty and Keir, he is part of Blacksmoke.