[kj] KJ at Download

Thu Jun 15 03:07:37 EDT 2006

Are they not still on the bill at Beautiful Days festival??? I can't decided whether to travel down for that... a) not sure whether they will definitely play, and b) we're doing Leeds Festival the weekend after and can't really justify doing both.

Jane

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net
[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of Pssyche
Sent: 15 June 2006 00:10
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] KJ at Download

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?

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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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