[kj] Killing Joke Last Night in LA

LONESTYLE at aol.com LONESTYLE at aol.com
Sun Oct 12 14:22:37 EDT 2008



Yes, that would have been a master plan for that is what we did is eat at
the venue. Everyone was supposed to meet for a gathering at El Compadre on
Sunset.

Did any L.A. Gathers go to that by the way?


~LB


In a message dated 10/11/2008 9:54:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
concrete_cookie at hotmail.com writes:

see... Thursday i took a 4 hour exam, then rushed home and actually
contemplated cooking a meal..then got takeout...THEN on friday morning I thought "why
didn't we all meet at the HOB restaurant again?" D'OH

- Homer



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From: LONESTYLE at aol.com
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:34:34 -0400
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] Killing Joke Last Night in LA


Yes, us too bro. Wish I saw some of you other L.A. Gathers too. :)

~LB


In a message dated 10/11/2008 5:22:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
sandstorm_mg at yahoo.com writes:


I was at the show and fully agree to your review. It also saves me from
writing one as I just finished driving 400 miles to get home today from teh show.
I'll probably post some thoughts later after I'm a little more rested. Great
meeting you LONLYBOY and Countess!

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Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 9:34:31 AM
Subject: [kj] Killing Joke Last Night in LA

Holy shit, what a great show. Hands down, the best KJ show I've ever seen
(even if that comes down to one '85 show and one '03 show and a lot of
bootlegs).

Got in the House of Blues just after 8pm and immediately noticed security
was tighter than just a month ago. Staff used metal detector wands to
search people going in and I noticed several LA police cars parked on the
street. It took a long time for the venue to fill up, but from what I could
tell, there was a lot of walk up ticket buyers and by the time KJ came on at
10:40, the place seemed pretty full. The audience was a pretty wild mix of
old school mid 80's punkers and younger people right outta High School. I
even saw one guy with an elaborate Lords of the New Church/Alien Sex Fiends
jacket and another punker easily in his mid 50's with a balding, grey
mohawk.

Pigmy Love Circus, which was the opening band, played a 45 minute set.
Music was kind of a mix of Revolting Cocks and The Supersuckers with a bit
of Rob Zombie thrown in. One of the guitarists looked to be about 300lbs and
the rest of the band were pretty butt-ugly. Not bad, and they got a decent
reception from the crowd, but not what I'd call a good opening band for KJ.

After a long wait, Killing Joke came on and opened with "Requiem." For the
first few songs, I was kind of on the fence about Paul Ferguson but when
they broke into "Follow The Leaders" about 5 songs in, I was blown away with
his playing and power. For the most part, the crowd was really into the
show and the floor got progressively more rowdy to the point there was big
time moshing by about the halfway mark. A big highlight about 45 minutes
into the show was the double shot of "Love Like Blood" (dedicated to Raven
with Jaz emotionally tearing up at the end of the song) and a very fast
paced "Eighties" (prefaced with Cobain comment) back to back. I was kind of
surprised to hear Communion buried near the end of the set in a nice,
compact version although the keyboard string backing was a bit too prominent
for my tastes. "Pandemonium" which closed out the main set also had a
sparser arrangement that had at times just bass and drums which worked very
well.

Other songs in the 24 - 25 song set played included Change, Primitive, The
Wait, Exorcism, Madness, Money Is Not Our God and Asteroid. Speaking of
Asteroid, I can kind of understand why they continue to play that one as
they clearly have fun playing it and the audience really loved shouting
"AAAAASTEROOOOOIIIDDD!!!" at the key moments. The only song I really
noticed kind of fell flat was "Turn To Red" which Youth clearly enjoyed
playing but left the audience cold. For the encore, one of the new songs
was played, "Fresh Fever From The Skies" which was pretty decent. The 1
hour 45 minute show ended around 12:15 with a slamming version of "Wardance"
and it almost looked like we'd get a second encore but that didn't happen.

The band was really tight. Jaz was at his theatrical best, focused and in
fine voice and as the show went on, he clearly grew more and more happy with
the very enthusiastic response. Whoever said Geordie's tone is much
improved is absolutely right on. Much more "crunchy," and compact and not
drenched in out of control feedback like it was on the '03 tour. Geordie
managed to chug down a bottle of wine through the set and started on a 2nd
one during the encores but didn't smoke even though at one point he motioned
frantically for a smoke from one of the roadies. Youth who reminds me
physically of Paul McCartney fit in very nicely and clearly enjoyed being
onstage with the band and several times thanked the band for getting him his
start in music. I do have to say, I preferred Raven's playing over Youths'.
Big Paul killed on drums really giving energy and new life especially to a
lot of the Night Time and Pandemonium album tunes. Although it's clear
there's a noticeable divide between Jaz/Geordie and Paul/Youth,

The sound was actually one of the best sounding shows I've caught at the
Hollywood HoB. Not overdriven although for the first couple songs, I
thought Geordie wasn't high enough in the mix and Pauls drumming sounded a
bit thin but that improved to perfection by the 3rd song or so. The asshole
factor on the floor got a little out of hand by about an hour into the show
which some of the more aggressive slamming nearly causing a few fights. One
obnoxious fat blond chick with huge tits wearing a tiara was drunkenly
slamming into anyone she could but if someone, especially this older balding
punk (who almost passed out loaded near the end of the show) would bounce
into her, she'd get all pissed and angrily shove back at them. However, I
hung out on Geordies side about 15 feet back from the stage and rarely had
anyone bounce into me.

The very limited merchandise only consisted of two black t-shirts
respectively featuring the first two album's artwork for $25 (no XXlarge
for you big boys) and a small black pamphlet of Youth's poems.

I *really* hope they put out a new album and continue touring. Based on
last night's show, they still have plenty of fire for a lot more music, on
stage and off. Those catching the Chicago and NYC shows are in for a huge
treat.

T.B.

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