[kj] YEAR END POLL FOR `03

[Antoni Adamiak]

1) Your Name: Antoni Adamiak

2) Your Age: almost 39

3) Are you married and have you any children? Divorced 12 years ago & my
daughter is 17

4) I live here: Isleworth, Middlesex (aka West London)

5) I've been a member of the Gathering since: 1998

6) What do you want for X-mas? 9 points from Fulham, Charlton and Portsmouth

7) Your biggest extravagance of the year? The Killing Joke tour

8) Your biggest hopes for 2004? To get my flat sorted ... family health and
happiness ... at least some of my bail money

9) What was the last album you bought,why, and how is it?: Absolution by
Muse

10) Not including the new Killing Joke album, what were your top five
favorite releases of the year? Goldfrapp, the copy of Radiohead album on the
net

11) What live bands have you seen recently. Did they rate? Blyth Power - top
drawer, Buzzcocks, NMA & Metal Urbain - oldies but goldies

12) Worst music you heard all year: the usual old tosh

13) If I find out that the person I'm talking to is a big fan of _POP IDOL_,
I lose all interest in talking to them (note: your answer need not be
restricted to music)

14) Band(s) most in need of reforming/touring/releasing new material: The
Diagram Brothers

15) Band(s) most in need of hanging it up and calling it a day: too many

16) Albums most in need of re-mastering and re-release deluxe stylee: early
KJ

17) Most overrated music of the year: probably The Darkness

18) Most underrated music of the year: Killing Joke of course

19) Next to Killing Joke, my top five favorite bands/artists are: well
known, check the giglist on my website

20) Express your views on Killing Joke's presence on the Internet : poor
from the band itself, could be better from us lot

22) Regarding the Joke, despite all the rumormongering, I'd really like the
following to happen: a new EP

23) Did you get to see Killing Joke on this tour? If so, briefly explain
your reaction - 15 times, an emotional rollercoaster

24) What would you have rather seen on the album cover, other than the red
Krusty Clown? Something by Colesy, hurrah

25) Favorite track on the new album: Total Invasion

26) Least favorite track on the new album: Dark Forces

27) Were it up to you to have chosen the first single, it would have been:
Seeing Red

28) Have you managed to see "the Year of the Devil" as yet? Your thoughts?
Yes, it's great ... go and see it

29) Outside of Andy Gill, who would you like to see produce the next Killing
Joke record?  don't really know ... help ...

30) Killing Joke track that best sums up the world today: Wardance

31) Have you bought anything from Malicious Damage yet? If not, WHAT THE
FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Lots

32) Goods you'd like to see made available on Mike Coles estimable site?
Mugs, car stickers, fridge magnets, condoms

33) Following the 2004 Elections, I'd like to see this man in the White
House: anyone but Bush

34) Do you feel 'safer' now that Saddam Hussein has been apprehended?  No

35) Now that he's in custody, I would handle Saddam this way: Delicately

36) Where is Osama Bin Laden: at Highbury

37) Have we seen the last of terrorism courtesy of Islamists on the
homefront (US/UK/EUR)? Of course not

38) Do you feel prepared for another such instance? Not really, I work in
central London

39) Do you think Iraq had anything to do with the events of September 11,
2001? Of course not

40) Where were you/what were you doing on that day? At work, looking at the
BBC website thinking a little Cessna had ploughed into the first tower

41) Were you the next American president, your first act in office would be:
recall the troops

42) Tony Blair is a: _typical politician_.

43) They want replace Franklin Delano Roosevelt's face on the American Dime
with the face of Ronald Reagan. What is your reaction: if it's gonna be RR
might as well go the whole hog and make it Mickey Mouse

44) George W. Bush is an idiot: True or False. Explain your feeling why you
feel this way. Support your argument: sorry, it I gotta go out for a meal
... anyone with his track record can't be an idiot to become the most
powerful figurehead in the world ... he does seem dim though ... maybe not
quite as dim as Dan Quayle

45) Under which American administration was the world/your own situation
better off: Bush's or Clinton's? Would it really be any different ?

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