[kj] Sisters Mercy Public Enemy

Wed Dec 15 12:13:03 EST 2004

Ahhh really??!??  He did that in Detroit and I thought it was a statement 
against them not being able to play.  Oh well.  Young Black Teenagers..yeah 
I saw them..on the Anthrax, Public Enemy, Primus show.  That was actually a 
good show.  IT was pretty frightening going in.  Having to go through two 
metal detectors, then being wanded, then being frisked.  A lot of fun 
though.

Crhis

>From: Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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>Subject: Re: [kj] Sisters Mercy Public Enemy
>Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:29:18 -0500
>
>
>I went to that show when it tore through NYC (at Radio City Music 
>Hall)....sadly, they didn't finish out all the dates on the tour. Too 
>bizarre a concept for some people. The other bands along with Gang of Four 
>were Warrior Soul (Paul had left by then, though) and an entirely 
>embarrassing hip hop crew of white kids named YOUNG BLACK TEENAGERS. Dire.
>
>Best part of the show: Andy came out for a Sisters encore wearing a PE 
>baseball jersey.
>
>Alex in NYC
>
>
>
>On Wednesday, December 15, 2004, at 10:06 AM, death wish wrote:
>
>>Reminds me of when I started writing for my university newspaper in 87 - 
>>the Sisters This Corrosion had just come out and I was declaring my love 
>>for it when I got into a scrap with another writer who was into Public 
>>Enemy. At the time, my knowlege of rap was zilch. Four years later, I and 
>>this guy went to see the Sisters and PE play the same stage on their Fear 
>>Of A Black Planet tour. In the interim I'd become a PE fan and he a 
>>Sisters'.
>>
>>Oh, and that was the tour with Gang of Four as well - sweeeet.
>>
>>T.
>>
>>>From: Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>
>>>Reply-To: Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>,"A list about all things 
>>>Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
>>>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
>>><gathering at misera.net>
>>>Subject: Re: [kj] Killing Crue Motley Joke
>>>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:53:38 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
>>>
>>>
>>>It's stupid anecdote time, as once again, I am sequestered here in an 
>>>internet cafe on a fucking freezing December day.  Rewind to the Summer 
>>>of 1984. Joke-wise, I've only heard the 12" singles for "Eighties", "A 
>>>New Day" and "Let's All Go to the Fire Dances" (and its b-sides, 
>>>"Dominator" and the live "Fall of Because") and am hungrily snatching up 
>>>all the old Killing Joke I can find before departing on a bicycle trip 
>>>across Massachusetts (a cheap ploy by my family to get my ass out of the 
>>>house for a month).  I spot a t-shirt in a local record store (the 
>>>wonderful ROCKS IN YOUR HEAD on Prince Street) featuring a Killing Joke 
>>>design (later on in life, I'd learn that it was sleeve design for TURN TO 
>>>RED....Mr.Punch and the Centre Point, etc.) Not even caring, I of course 
>>>purchase it.  The next day, I leave on my crappy bike trip.
>>>
>>>And crappy it is. As wonderful as Massachusetts can be in the summer, I'm 
>>>bunched together with a veritable chain-gang of other characters. I 
>>>befriend a Bostonian metalhead named Josh (who turns me onto the Satanic 
>>>majesty of Venom) and a fellow New Yorker named Mike (who, similarly, 
>>>introduces me to the work of early XTC).  There are also two guys from a 
>>>town in Long Island, appropriately named Dix Hills (and believe me, these 
>>>guys are indeed dicks). At first, they strike up a conversation with me 
>>>because I happen to be wearing a Motley Crue t-shirt (this time the white 
>>>"Alleister Fiend" model, for those of you playing along at home).  A day 
>>>later, I'm sporting the recently aquired Killing Joke shirt I mentioned 
>>>in the first paragraph. "What the fuck is KIlling Joke?" asks one of the 
>>>Dix Hill Dicks. "Oh, they're this amazing band I've recently discovered," 
>>>I reply enthusiastically. "I've never heard of them," comes the 
>>>reply.....vaguely suggesting that I have -- in fact -- made them up. "No, 
>>>honest, they're fantastic, trust me!" Dix Hills looks entirely 
>>>unimpresed. Later in the week, I play him a mix tape I'd made for the 
>>>trip. On comes "Dominator". "What's this fagget shit?" says the Dix 
>>>Hillzer. "THIS is Killing Joke, man!" I earnestly point out, getting 
>>>frustrated. "Well, it's crap.  Turn off this New Wave disco fagget 
>>>bullshit and put on some Motley Crue." Suffice to say, from that point 
>>>on, myself and this idiot are no longer friendly.
>>>
>>>Fast forward to 2005 and Killing Joke are to share the same stage with 
>>>Motley Crue. Wonder what Dix Hills would think of that.
>>>
>>>Alex iN NYC
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Graeme Rowland <crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk>
>>>Sent: Dec 14, 2004 8:57 AM
>>>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
>>><gathering at misera.net>
>>>Subject: [kj] Man Whose Backass Expanded
>>>
>>>No mention of Killing Joke on magazine ads & posters
>>>round Manchester for Motley Crue gigs.
>>>
>>>Never thought I'd go to a Morrissey gig, or a Motley
>>>Crue one. Just back from Glasgow and now off to
>>>BurningHum for the last PJ Harvey gig for a while.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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