[kj] chameleons/killing joke

[Brian Whitehead]

Can you imagine the Chameleons and KJ on the same bill...heaven.

Maybe Marks book will have more on this.

Brian.


On 15/04/2008, Termite <npscott at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>

> You;re right, I previously read about it here has more info :

>

> http://www.thechameleons.com/lyrics/index.php?song=11

>

> Notes by Mark - During our early touring, back in the days when we had 'an

> agent' (gasp!!) we found ourselves, courtesy of 'Wasted Talent' down to

> support Killing Joke in Leicester. We arrived on time ready to sound check.

> KJ arrived four and a half hours late and we couldn't check until they had,

> very boring but no problem. That is until we started our sound check. I

> plugged my bass in, played a few notes to make sure everything was working

> and the sound guy shouted "ok, good, now guitar." I started laughing and

> looked at Dave and he did the same thing, struck a single chord to make sure

> the leads were working and we got another "great, thanks" from the sound

> engineer. We started shouting at them that we wanted a proper sound-check,

> not a line check and they told us that there just wasn't time due to the

> lateness of Killing Joke's arrival. Things escalated and, noticing the band

> at the side of the stage, drawn by the commotion, Dave and I unstrapped our

> guitars and ran at them. Fortunately for them their crew managed to stop us

> before we got to them. We told them all to fuck off and blew out the gig.

> Later a spokesman for the band came over and apologised and hoped we'd play

> the rest of the gigs with them but we told them were to go. Paper Tigers

> came from that basically.

>

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "fatpotanga" <fatpotanga at gmail.com>

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> Subject: [kj] chameleons/killing joke

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>

> just got the 25th anniversary remaster of Script of the bridge.

> > in the sleeve notes:

> >

> > "Paper Tigers

> > Another song with a violent theme that stemmed from an incident one

> > afternoon at a sound check.

> > We'd been booked to open for a famous alternative rock band and almost

> > got into a fight with them.

> > It's quite a paranoid lyric I suppose, but it's the kind of paranoia

> >  that has it's foundation in a real, violent vibe rather than an  imagined

> > one, you know, like being in a bar & knowing that something  is going to

> > kick off at any moment, but powerless to do anything but  go with the flow"

> >

> > I'm pretty sure it's Killing Joke he's referring to.

> > If so, who'd have thought Paper Tigers was about KJ...?

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