[kj] Regrets

[Janean Lancaster]

Regrets:  

Far too many to mention!  I'm always late getting into bands.  I only
got into KJ in 2004.

My biggest regret is not seeing Depeche Mode with Alan Wilder.

 

Glad: 

The Cure at their prime in '89.

Jesus Lizard circa Goat.

Curve circa Frozen EP.

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]
On Behalf Of Brian Whitehead
Sent: 17 September 2007 11:30
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: [kj] Regrets

 

Regrets:

Ignoring the support band for the Buzzcocks circa 78...Joy Division.

Deciding the support for the Rezzilos around the same time were crap and
would never make it...Gang Of Four

Only seeing the Ramones very late on.

Ignoring New Model Army until the late 90s.

Hating The Fall until the mid 90s.

+ too many to mention.

 

 

Glad:

Catching one of the first UK PiL gigs.

Seeing the Damned in all their riotous glory in 78.

Seeing KJ in 79/80. 

Seeing, what I now believe, was the last ever Cocteaus gig at the
Subterania.

Seeing the last ever "real" Banshees gig in Belguim.

 

Brian.

 

On 16/09/2007, jpwhkj at aol.com <jpwhkj at aol.com> wrote: 

Regrets:


Never saw the original Undertones - saw them about 3 or 4 years ago
(very good)
Didn't see SLF until 1997 - admittedly they were great then and since
Didn't see the original KJ line-up (first KJ gig was 83, featuring Raven
- which was great) 
Didn't see the Stranglers early on - saw them in 85 (they were great)
Didn't see the original Buzzcocks (but did see them perform dreadfully
at Holidays in the Sun 96)
Only saw about half of an Inner City Unit gig (85). Saw Maximum Effect
quite a few times after that though - they were great. And I "Judge
Trev's Inner City Unit" a few years ago (late nineties I think). 
Never saw Rudimentary Peni.
Never saw the Dead Kennedys (biggest regret by a mile).
Never saw CRASS.
Never saw Joy Division.
Never saw the Clash (but saw a lot of Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros -
who were great) 
Never saw The Mob - though I did see Blyth Power play a Mob set as a
benefit for the McLibel Two (along with Zounds - apparently Steve Lake
is an old mate of Dave Morris')
Didn't see the original Zounds - although I've seen numerous reunions. 
Didn't see the original Beat - but seen plenty of reunions (great).
Didn't see the original Selecter - but seen plenty of times in the last
few years (great).

Things I'm glad about:

The fact that I did manage to catch a lot of reunions (see above) and: 
- seeing Blyth Power very early (the day of Live Aid 85)
- seeing Lords of the New Church several times early on (before the
second album came out)
- seeing the short-lived Maximum Effect
- seeing Big Black
- seeing KJ relatively early on and before the downturn of the late
eighties
- seeing Chumbawamba fairly early (87 - Pictures of Starving Children
era) and then again in 98 and rekindling my interest.
- seeing Motorhead (87) 
- seeing Tackhead (93, I think - wish it had been earlier)
- seeing Flux (91/92? - wish it had been earlier)
- seeing Conflict (my opinion has plummeted since, but at the time it
was very exciting)
- seeing Conflict and Steve Ignorant (Feeding of the 5000) 
- seeing Transmission featuring Big Paul and Youth onstage together for
the first time since 82 I guess.

And plenty of other less well-known bands (Stormed of Cambridge,
anyone?) who provided great nights out, of course... 
 

 



 

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