[KJ] Geordie in my living room and new recording with Big PaulFerguson and Ben !

[death wish]

Wonderful report! Naysayers to the back, please.

T.


>From: FrenchyFrenzy at free.fr
>Reply-To: "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: [KJ] Geordie in my living room and new recording with Big 
>PaulFerguson and Ben !
>Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:43:07 +0200
>
>Hi All,
>
>Just had the opportunity to see the Mulhouse and Lyon's gigs and
>spent quite the whole 2 days with the guys and got some infos :
>
>* the new bassist is KNIEL and is very friendly and maybe a little bit shy 
>(
>comparing to Jaz of course !! )
>* they are currently playing UNSPEAKABLE as everybody knows but rehearsed 
>twice
>MONEY IS NOT OUR GOD during the Mulhouse’s soundcheck
>* there are no plan to do a common tour with Ministry ( in the French 
>magazine
>VERSUS of April 06, Al Jourgensen is speaking about one )
>* they still love French cheeses and wines and Jaz spoke about it at the 
>end of
>the Lyon’s gig and read on stage the paper I wrote to him the day before 
>when
>he learned some French words ha ha ha !!
>* Jaz made a signature session at the FNAC (biggest records shop in Lyon) 
>with
>quite a few people
>* the lyon’s gig was full ( approx 450 / 500 people )
>* Philippe ” Jesus “ (another French bastard) has spent the day off with 
>them in
>Lyon and they have visited our beautiful old town
>*At the end of the day off, we spent some times drinking at the TSF’s Bar 
>in
>Lyon and then I drove Geordie and his girlfriend Alexandra at home
>* Geordie has put the CD of his own demos of Hosannas and we played it loud 
>in
>the car…
>* We spent 2 hrs1/2 drinking excellent bottles of cold pink French 
>Champagne,
>eating wonderful “Nougats”;
>* Geordie was so cool and relaxed and excited (and in love with Alex) ; he 
>began
>to choose some CDs among my collection and we put some Beatles “ I am the
>Walrus”, Frank Black “ Los Angeles, Dinosaur Jr etc etc…
>* I showed to him a DVD of the Belgium broadcast Generation 80 when they 
>were
>playing Unspeakable and Exit with an old Stratocaster + their promos videos 
>and
>he laughed very very much looking to those old pictures ;o)
>* We spoke about Stanley Kubrick reading my enormous collector book “ 
>Stanley
>Kubrick’s archives”
>* During the way back to the bus tour, I let him listening on quite all the 
>23
>covers of Killing Joke’s tracks I have: he enjoyed very much the one with 
>PINK
>( it’s not Cristina Aguilera Sorry Rob !) singing on the original tune and 
>Mad
>Capsule Market and of course Nouvelle Vague for Psyche
>* Before leaving, he listened to a famous French rock track of Patrick 
>Coutin “
>J’aime regarder les Filles (it means “I love watching Girls”) and became 
>very
>excited in the car while Alex was sleeping in the back
>* I think that we spent an unforgettable day & night and a very amazing one 
>for
>me
>* Jaz in Mulhouse and Geordie at home ( so at different moments ) spoke 
>about a
>new recording with Big Paul Ferguson (and Ben of course)
>* I told Jaz that the only bands I knew with 2 drummers were Murder Inc and
>Ministry and if I remember well, he had a smile and a black eye ;o)))
>* have met some nice gatherers ( Marc from Strasbourg and Tom Cavanagh I 
>knew
>from Milano’s gig
>* Many Thanks to all the crew and band members, Veronika, Brenda, Alexandra 
>and
>the 2 Kings Jaz & Geordie
>
>Stéphane “ Frenchy Frenzy”
>
>
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