[kj] Lastest Blog Post from Youth:

[Brendan]

I understand why they aren't as big as their music dictates they should be
now. Keep alienating a small but fiercly loyal fanbase, and you end up with
a progressively smaller, less loyal fanbase. Regardless of getting Grohl on
drums. Decades of this stuff just shows a real persistent problem with ego,
personality, sanity, planning, goals, ethics. I dunno. I really dig the guys
but I can understand why they wanna punch each other up every time they get
into the studio.

 

Snap quiz: If they kept pissing people off, and whittled their fans down to
one hardcore individual...who do you reckon would be the last gatherer
standing? I'm going with Pete West, becuse that would be the Killingest
Joke.

 

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of The Exorcist
Sent: Saturday, 6 March 2010 2:49 PM
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Lastest Blog Post from Youth:

 

It's sort of hard to hold off when you're so excited to see one of your all
time favorite bands.

As much as history has shown in the past, the fear of not getting the
flight/train ticket and the fear of rising costs at
any given moment is usually more than enough for one to go ahead and buy it.


Trump/shmump. I understand that they want it to be success (as we all do)
but they should never have scheduled a tour 
date if they did not have an somewhat tentative timetable of when the album
would be completed.

My heart goes out for every gatherer that shelled out hard earned money only
to be told "oopsie".

It's just wrong.

Honor thy fans. (Who've gone out and bought just about every damn thing you
put out.)

At 08:15 PM 3/5/2010, TB wrote:



gathering-bounces at misera.net wrote:

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view
<http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=40797754&b
logID=530414170> &friendID=40797754&blogID=530414170 

+++++++

Well, it's official.  I found it interesting that there's no mention of
refunds, only that tickets would be honored for whatever the
new dates will be.

I really think that no matter how much Youth trumps up the new album,
postponing what looked to be KJ's biggest tour in the past 15
years over the fact they're still fudging with the album is inexcusable at
this stage, especially considering show and whole tour
postponements and cancellations have been a major issue with this band for
decades.  I would be floored if the "listening party"
goes forward at this point.

Knowing this band's history, I would have never booked travel arrangements
for outside my area to see a show until the absolute last
minute and in fact, I hesitated even buying a ticket for the local show in
LA when it first went on sale.  I feel for those people
who trusted this band to deliver on their obligation and have been let down
(again, in many cases) and are out whatever sums of
cash, especially in this poor economy.

T.B.

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