[kj] Their BRILLIANT career

[Antoni Adamiak]

After my earlier ramblings, I've dug out another NME clipping (when they
weren't such the bunch of w*nk*rs that they are these days) which documents
the birth of Brilliant. Apart from Paul Ferguson & Youth, they had a
vocalist called Marcus and a second bassist called Tintin. Yes, that Tintin,
as in "Stephen Tintin Duffy" who had some minor UK pop hit.

http://home.clara.net/antoni/brillo.jpg

Anyway, after Paul Ferguson rejoined KJ, he was replaced in Brilliant by
Andy Anderson, the one time Cure drummer but I never really kept tabs on
that was going on with Youth's post KJ work. One thing I did take notice of
though was their (one & only ?) John Peel session that was aired in 1983
(roughly at the same time as the Frenzy, Dominator, Harlequin & Wilful Days
session). Consisting of three tracks,  "Bells", "Colours - Break It Down"
and "Holst" (named after another famous Cheltenham son, Gustav) - whatever
else they produced, this JP session was certainly top drawer. I guess I
should send an audio C90 copy of this to someone for a spot of MP3
production. You'll like it, I'm sure of that.

Regards,

Antoni

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Antoni Adamiak" <antoni@clara.net>
To: <gathering@misera.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] THEYR featuring Jaz Coleman


> As from the NME reports, cuttings of which I *lent* to Paul R & were up on
> The Last Laugh website, after Jaz fled to Iceland, only Geordie followed
> whilst Big Paul & Youth then formed Brilliant who brought out the ironic
7"
> single "What Good Friends Are For" - from a further NME press cutting
(link
> below), it appears that Jaz fell out with various people (In a Bjork
> interview, she was in KUKL and said that many people got very upset) and
yes
> probably this guy was briefly in Killing Joke, but at some stage BP
rejoined
> the fold & that's when long time KJ fanatic Paul Raven joined on bass -
> hopefully one day the Black Bird can elaborate further on the
circumstances
> of his recruitment but that's about as much as I know.
>
> http://home.clara.net/antoni/icekj.jpg
>
> Maaaaan, some day, some one needs to sit down and make a book out of all
> this. What a band, what a history. It's bloody criminal that nobody has
> undertaken such a project but then again, I'm probably as guilty as anyone
> in that respect !
>
> Regards,
>
> Antoni
>
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>