[kj] OT : Feeding Of The 2,500 tonight

[jpwhkj at aol.com]

The sound was fine last night.  Sounds like the Crass set was much the same.  Particularly good moments for me were:

Do They Owe Us A Living
Securicor (great track)
Big A Little A
Bloody Revolution
Do They Owe Us A Living (again)

Anyway, I'm inclined to agree with Antoni's point.  I really don't see this as a sell-out or whatever - just a bunch of mostly ageing anarchos playing or watching songs from 25-ish years ago.  Let's face it, most of us are doing it the rest of the time!

Jamie





-----Original Message-----
From: pssyche23 <antoni at clara.net>
To: gathering at misera.net
Sent: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11.23am
Subject: Re: [kj] OT : Feeding Of The 2,500 tonight



 

Due to me not checking out planned engineering works on the tube network, I made a bit of a hash getting to the gig last night therefore I managed to miss both The Restarts and The Disrupters. As it was I got there at about 20:20 hrs & had to join a big queue to get in !!! By the time I did get in The Disrupters had just finished. When Conflict started, the sound was pretty awful - there was no snare drum for the first few songs !!! Then it kicked in & ahhh, okay, yes this sounds a lot better !!! Never really been interested in Conflict after the first couple of releases so didn't recognise that much but I did know a few of the songs. 

 

Steve Ignorant and friends duly came on at 10 and launched into the entire "Feeding" set (bar Reality Asylum of course) ... add to that Big A Little A, Shaved Women and Bloody Revolutions and a couple of other songs. The whole event has sparked off a shitstorm in various online communities but why do some people in the old "anarcho" scene get so anal and elitist about this ... times have bloody changed ... why not celebrate these songs after all these years ... the idealism was admirable at the time and many of the issues have filtered through the rest of society ... maybe it was just "nostalgia" last night (and tonight) but well worth the £17.50 for the "Crass" performance alone. If anyone is at a loose end in London tonight and is half tempted to go, do yourself a favour and pop along ... 

 

Regards, Antoni   

 


----- Original Message ----- 

From: pssyche23 

To: gathering at misera.net 

Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 11:28 AM

Subject: [kj] OT : Feeding Of The 2,500 tonight




Anyone else going to the "Steve Ignorant & Friends" event at the Shepherds Bush Empire tonight (support from Conflict and The Disrupters) ? It appears to run from 7pm to 11pm which allows me to watch Derby vs Chelsea in a local pub somewhere that's got Setanta.

 

I see that Flux Of Pink Indians and Zounds are playing tomorrow night but I already have a ticket & cannot get a pass out.

 

It will be interesting to see the audience tonight - I suspect there will be plenty of mildly curious punters - a bit like the RFH event back in 2002.

 

Regards, Antoni

 

  




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