[kj] KJ 2010 Tour Support

[jpwhkj at aol.com]

Yes, definitely one of my best gigs ever, in large measure 'cos I arrived so early that I walked in and watched the soundcheck.  This was just moderately interesting until everyone finished except for Geordie.  Then he played Night Time all the way through, just him, and it blew my mind.  There were sounds which I'd assumed were keyboards which turned out to be guitar.  (OK, I'm not a muso.)  It was like consuming essence-of-Joke.

Southern Jamie






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From: Brian Whitehead <bawhitehead at gmail.com>
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That gig must be in my top two or three KJ gigs ever. If I remeber right it was the one where Geordie threw his guitar at the floor at the end of the gig. I thought he was gouing to smash it up.

There was a big gang feud going on at that time and the previous week there had been shootings in the International although I dont think anyone got killed and you could see the bullet holes in the ceiling still. I think one of the gangs called themselves the Quality Street Gang. It was these problems that led to its closeure.

Brian.



On 7 August 2010 01:00, <jpwhkj at aol.com> wrote:

Jamie,
 
Did you go to the gig at Manchester International II in'89?  If so, do you remember the fight just before and as the Joke were coming on - looked like a couple of gangs having handbags at 30 paces, though one guy did look quite badly hurt.  First and only time I've seen a gang fight at a Joke gig.
 
Jamie






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ah yes!
lthough all I really remember of those was the overweight black guy on guitar 
n boots & really tight red pants.
a support I really enjoyed was from around the same time at the International II 
n Manchester but I can't for the life of me remember the name.
oth guitarists played Firebirds & the singer kept saying things like "Yeah, I 
now we're crap" which probably wasn't the best tactic.
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry were good.
The one I wish I'd seen was when the Chameleons supported them.
On 6 Aug 2010, at 08:58, Brian Whitehead wrote:

> I enjoyed Strange Boutique circa 89. Did a cracking version of Magazine's Song 

>From Under The Floorboards.

 
 Brian.
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