[kj] ]KJ[ Part 3/3 Brittania Row Studios Sessions : The Full Report Of 3 Days With Killing Joke in London November 2009

[phil]

hang on a sec......they left you alone in the control room, you had a
usb stick in your pocket, and you *didnt* take the opportunity?

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:57:18 +0100, you wrote:


>3rd Day 21th nov 2009

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>Jaz had a meeting about business at the studio with Matt Luxon and a young

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>During the last 2 days I really really really tried to negociate with

>everybody (Jaz Paul Youth and all the people in the studio) to get one of

>the new tracks on an USB key but as these were “work in progress tracks and

>quite unfinished “ I couldn’t get any of them :o((

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>But the last afternoon was my time !!!!

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>I have spent quite 50 mins in the control room with one guy (who will

>recognize himself) and by chance (after some threats on his family ha ha ha

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>“ The Raven King “  certainly the masterpiece of the album

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>“The New Feudalism”     (incredible guitar rhythm that “lead” everything :

>Geordie in his highest form with a lot of different breaks)

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>“Point Of Singularity”    (with a bass line à la Steve Harris and guitar

>breaks à la Pantera) very different from the others and much more heavier

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>and even let me alone in the control room during one complete track :

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>“A Sixth Son (Holy Mountain)”    (major guitar riff and cool bass lines very

>groovy à la “Wire”)

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>This was a very special privilege and couldn’t help filming myself at the

>mixing desk doing stupid things like Angus Young’s duck walk in a real

>moment of complete euphoria submerged by the music

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>Jaz insisted to introduce me to the young lady seen upstairs as the daughter

>of a good friend of him

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>Her name is Yasmin Kerr, daughter of Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders) and Jim

>Kerr (Simple Minds)

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>Quite a good name for the music business

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>She’s now working for the management.

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>Jaz said to Matt Luxon that it would be a good idea to use all my footages

>during the recording sessions for an EPK and I gave my emails to Miss Kerr

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>Matt Luxon said there were discussions for filming the Apollo Hammersmith’s

>gig in 2010 but the Saturday 17th should be a day off.

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>There are discussions for them to play some festivals in summer 2010 like

>this year too.

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>Concerning the footages of 16 gigs they got from me, the new contract with

>Universal prevent them for releasing a DVD with this footages for about 12

>/18 months

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>Jaz was supposed to record some vocal parts during the afternoon and I had

>the feeling they needed some privacy for the recording with Youth.

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>In fact, they were looking for some other studios to record the vocals for

>different tracks too !!!

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>As it was time to leave and take the taxi to Victoria and train to Gatwick

>and Plane to Lyon, we said goodbye till next time, thanked them for the

>invitation, they both thanked me for the cheeses and Jaz said that Youth was

>driving him mad and Youth answered “You mean to Sanity man !!

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>Stephane “Frenchy Frenzy” very excited about the new album, who spent 3

>memorable days in London

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>PS : names of others tracks should be “I Am War”  and “Absolut Descent” 

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>PS 2 : Nothing of this would have been possible without Big Paul (the

>invitation at the studios)  whose drumming is awesome too and so dynamic

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>PS 3 :There is a  project of a Serge Gainsbourg tribute which Jaz might

>contribute to

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