[kj] Hammersmith highlights

[Brendan]

Jaz seems to have started toning down his comments, that interview he did
on bFM in Auckland was a lot more down to earth than I've heard in a long
time.

My 2c at least.


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>  "Every concert I'm always asked about 2012. The truth is, I don't know.

> But I do know one thing..."

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> Jaz said "we're going to try & do a concert on the date" or something very

> close to that !

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> "Youth, Youth has brought so much honour and glory to the Killing Joke

> family"

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> Jaz also added that "Youth is the reason why they will be doing a new

> album next year !!!"

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> From: gasw30 at hotmail.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:08:40 +0000

> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> I must say, Youth has really grown on me. He's cool.

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> 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.

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> Also: "We want a European superstate so we can put Blair, Rumsfeld and

> Cheney on trial."

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> 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."

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> 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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