[kj] Hammersmith highlights

[jane.shadforth at shell.com]

Who you calling a loon ;-)

 

... also sporting a few bruises, Jane

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]
On Behalf Of PHIL TOFIELD
Sent: 17 October 2010 01:58
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Hammersmith highlights

 

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.

 


> ..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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