[kj] London Evening Standard review

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There's nothing to say which night he was there on. They didn't play LLB on Turdsday.

Anyway it's good to see a positive review for a change, and one that gets the humour inherent in "the joke"
> 
> From: "dub" <kIlLiNgJoKe at pUnKaSs.CoM>
> Date: 2005/03/04 Fri AM 12:55:27 GMT
> To: "'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'" <gathering at misera.net>
> Subject: RE: [kj] London Evening Standard review
> 
>  "They omitted their biggest hit Love Like Blood, " 
> 
> Was he there or did this chap go home early? ...LOL
> As was said earlier they did play this and dedicated it to the two Rons (Jaz
> & Geordies fathers), was 2nd last song, if I remember correctly :0)
> It was a song I had recently said was not one of my favourites, an opinion I
> have since changed.
> 
> "After 90 exhausting minutes, "
> 
> Was nearer the 120 minutes, but I guess Mr. Aizlewood did did pop off early.
> 
> Who said you can never believe what you read in the papers? 
> 
> dub
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
> Behalf Of nicholas fitzpatrick
> Sent: 03 March 2005 5:34 PM
> To: gathering at misera.net
> Subject: [kj] London Evening Standard review
> 
> Apparently KJ did a gig in Shepherds Bush recently. Anyway, the Evening
> Standard reviewed it.
> 
> 
> >>>>Copyright 2005 Associated Newspapers Ltd.
> The Evening Standard (London)
> 
> HEADLINE: Anthems for the Armageddon
> 
> BYLINE: JOHN AIZLEWOOD
> 
> WHEN Killing Joke surfaced 26 years ago, it was far from clear whether they 
> were yobs masquerading as intelligentsia or vice versa. Crystal clear was 
> their simmering menace, underpinned by stomach-quaking bass, inhuman drums, 
> but most of all Jaz Coleman's lyrical celebration of what he saw as 
> impending Armageddon, all delivered in a strained voice which made him the 
> hoarse man of the apocalypse.
> 
> 2003's supremely focused, self-titled album was a heroic vindication of 
> their refusal to go gentle into that good night.
> 
> Somehow predictably, the new album is apparently being recorded in the 
> world's war zones.
> 
> The menace of yore remained intact, even after Coleman emerged carrying a 
> giant cross, wearing a baggy jumpsuit, a clerical collar and with his face 
> covered painted devilish red.
> 
> Latest drummer Ben Calvert proved as extraordinary as his predecessors, so 
> musically they cooked up an unholy storm, but the evening belonged to 
> Coleman: part shaman, part berk, wholly compelling. They omitted their 
> biggest hit Love Like Blood, but thundered through Are You Receiving? and 
> the nearly new Total Invasion, which raised the not wholly fanciful notion 
> that access to water will be the next international flashpoint.
> 
> Asteroid was the most intense moment of an intense evening, while War Dance 
> and The Pandys Are Coming caused pandemonium among the elderly moshers.
> 
> After 90 exhausting minutes, Coleman departed with the prediction that the 
> next four years will be "very strange for us all". Yobs or intelligentsia? I
> 
> still don't know.
> 
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