[kj] KJ at Download

[Pssyche]

one thing I do remember Jaz saying was that 'this is our second last UK show
of the year'.
-giving some legs to the rumours of a 1-off at Brixton Academy later in the
year?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Platts" <matt.platts at delerium.co.uk>
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
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Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] KJ at Download


> I thought the download set was amazing, atmosphere was electric.
>
> I managed to persuade a mate i hooked up with, who really just listens to
> very extreme death/black metal to forfeit metallica and come and have a
> look for 'at least a couple of songs'. Hes only 17, and stayed for the
> whole set and walked out saying it was about the best thing he'd seen all
> weekend haha! (And spent the majority of yesterday finding tracks and
> videos on the net of course..)
>
> Jaz's getting us all to shout 'lets get the fuck outta here' was a
slagging
> of the UK in general as far as i remember, going on about the government,
> taxes etc. He also had a good rant about Christianity before unspeakable,
> dont know if anyone remembers what he was saying? Id missed all sleep the
> night before due to guitar teching for ginger the previous night, then
> equipment drops all over the country and only just got back in time, and
> most of it's a bit of a blur, just remember it being brilliant!
>
> I did see the rest of Metallica who Id never seen before and who actually
> amazed me with a storming set throwing in the entire master of puppets
> album in the middle and maybe only one or 2 new songs. They certainly knew
> what the audience really wanted - classic tracks - and delivered just
that.
>
> The trouble on the sunday night was probably brought on by a very pissed
> off audience for two reasons. Firstly the prodigy played the 2nd stage and
> really should have played the main. I saw thousands turned away from it
due
> to lack of room, it was ridiculous, the tent was literally bursting,
people
> were standing in places where they really couldn't have seen a thing. I
> finished up perched at the top of a hill listening to it. Thousands tried
> to watch from outside, and security had to cordon off the entire area
> around the snickers stage, directing further thousands of people coming
> through back to the main stage. Secondly, all that was left after that was
> Guns n Roses, who rather than take a leaf out of metallicas book managed
an
> utterly piss poor performance with several long gaps in the set with no
> explanation - no continuity whatsoever, and every time it built up into
> something it just flopped straight after. Apparrently there were technical
> problems, but what those were is anyones guess as the sound was fine
> whenever they were on stage. There was no build up and no atmosphere -
> maybe there was for the real fans at the front, but a lot of people just
> walked away, everyone i met was slagging them. There was rioting in the
> camp sites later, im assuming fueled by both the aforementioned events as
> either prodigy or gnr should have been the culmination of the festival.
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> At 10:38 12/06/2006 +0100, Paula Cook wrote:
> >KJ played a banging set at Download - absolutely loved it and well worth
> >the effort to get to / endure the festival.
> >
> >As for the tent being half-full I didn't even notice - too busy dancing
> >like crazy down the front! Jaz was in fine fettle, black and white face
> >paint and khaki boiler suit and Geordie was unusally animated, waving his
> >arms around and pulling faces at the start of the set. (Something not
> >right I suspect, he did become his normal self after the second song!).
> >And when Jaz got us all to shout "Let's Get the f*** out of here!", that
> >completely cracked me up! Much better than "Make Poverty History" and no
> >truer word was ever said by Mr. Coleman - boy was Download an endurance
> >test, I was out of there like a shot afterwards! (Not what he meant I'm
> >sure! ;-) )
> >
> >Really great to hear "Unspeakable", and "Gratitude" is now my new
> >favourite from the new LP.
> >
> >Even more gutted I missed the UK tour now and looking forward to
> >"Beautiful Days" - even if that's going to be another endurance test! Are
> >there any US / Europe dates being lined up, anyone?
> >
> >By the way - I've heard rumours of trouble at Download last night - any
> >truth in that?
> >
> >Regards to everyone,
> >Nuclear Girl
> >
> >
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