[kj] London Evening Standard review

[dub]

Ooops

dub 

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Sent: 04 March 2005 7:54 AM
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Subject: RE: [kj] London Evening Standard review

He was at the thurs night gig. The article was in Fridays standard.

Juliet

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 "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

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Sent: 03 March 2005 5:34 PM
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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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