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

[Cliff Livingston]

Great,thanks for sharing,Cliff

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Frenchy Frenzy <frenchyfrenzy at killingjoke.fr

> 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 lady.*

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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

> ) he let me listening to quite all the tracks …….*

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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)*

>

> *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.*

>

> * *

>

> *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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