[kj] Hammersmith highlights

[PHIL TOFIELD]

just got home. Went on my own in the end after various lightweight mates
dropped out, so I spent the whole gig right down the front. Feeling battered
and bruised now! Thought the sound was pretty bad, but it might have been
better further back. Geordie could have been louder. The Young Gods were a
great support. Id never heard them before but really enjoyed it, and the
rest of the crowd seemed really into them too.

Briefly saw Rob outside and I think I saw Jane flailing around like a
loon in the mosh pit, but didnt recognise anyone else. Ive seen better Joke
gigs, but it was still a top night.
On 17 October 2010 01:22, sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>   Great summary, thanks lots for it.

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

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> 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

>

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> 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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