[kj] Hammersmith highlights

[sade1]

Great summary, thanks lots for it.
 

> ..LLB next. It was dedicated to two people. Don't know who. 

 
I think the two persons Love Like Blood is dedicated to are Jaz's and Geordie's 
fathers, as in past. (both are deceased).
 



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From: nicholas fitzpatrick <gasw30 at hotmail.com>
To: gathering at misera.net
Sent: Sat, October 16, 2010 5:08:40 PM
Subject: [kj] Hammersmith highlights


It was a long gig. They must have played the entire first album, except SO36. 
From memory, other albums visited were: WTF (Madness, Fall of Because); 
Nighttime (80s, LLB); Pandemonium (Pandemonium); KJ 2003 (Asteroid|); Absolute 
Dissent (AD, This World Hell, In Excelsis, European Super State... and others 
but I forget now). Also Change and Pssyche.
 
It was reported on the Gathering recently that Geordie was seen to smile on 
stage. I can report that he was smiling tonight too, a hell of a lot. He must 
have some good stash at the moment. He did not smoke on stage (not that I saw) 
and I doubt he even had time to have one in the break. Nor was there a bottle of 
wine on the amp. It's like he's being professional, or something.
 
They opened with Tomorrow's World. Youth's bass wasn't working at first. 
They then did LLB next. It was dedicated to two people. Don't know who. To my 
ear, Youth messed it up a bit in the instrumental break, or perhaps it was a 
mixing problem.
 
If there was one song that really got the crowd up it was Requiem, which came 
about half way through. The rendition was momentous, the sound cavernous. 
Everyone in the crowd knew the lyrics. It was the best moment and I hope they 
never drop it from the set list. Requiem seemed to launch the final absolutely 
frenzied half of the gig. They just went mental. Unfortunately I was having a 
standing-at-the-back-watching-type gig as I was with a mate who isn't a fan. I 
wish in hindsight it had been an in-the-pit gig because the set list was superb. 
They've obviously totally scrapped the old predictable roster of Communiun, 
Frenzy etc - though War Dance featured prominently at about three or four songs 
in. And it was crap. Youth didn't even play that nice litte doink-doink-doink 
bit on the harmonics.
 
I must say, Youth has really grown on me. He's cool. 
 
A Jaz moment: "Every concert I'm always asked about 2012. The truth is, I don't 
know. But I do know one thing..." Unforturnately, Gatherers, my hearing let me 
down here, so if anyone can fill in the gap. They then launched into Asteroid.
 
Also: "We want a European superstate so we can put Blair, Rumsfeld and Cheney on 
trial."
 
Another moment, just before the last song, Jaz gives the thank-yous: "I first 
want to thank this man here. Geordie. Geordie is the most tenacious... He's the 
only other member of Killing Joke that has been at every Killing Joke event 
since we started... I love him, he's a brother.... [Jaz then thanks the drum 
roadie, calling him, I think, the Stud Roadie, but I may have miss-heard; he 
then thanks the manager, saying he's the best they've ever had; he thanks the 
guitar roadie, saying he can remember him coming to KJ gigs with his school 
satchel]...Youth, Youth has brought so much honour and glory to the Killing Joke 
family; and finally Big Paul, without whom there would be no Killing Joke at 
all."
 
All the above is open to correction and clarifications by others. It's a bit 
late. I'm home now eating peanut butter on toast and watching a Tony Curtis 
film.


      
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