[kj] Hammersmith highlights

[Rob Moss]

Every band concentrates on what made them famous initially don't they?

Fuck what the fans think anyway! Play what the hell you like.
If after 31 years you can't start pleasing yourself a little then it's a bad old job!

Killing Joke 31 years young. That's worth celebrating isn't it!!??




----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Tibbits
Sent: 10/18/10 02:35 PM
To: Gathering
Subject: Re: [kj] Hammersmith highlights

 I don't want to raise expectations but Jaz was talking in Brussels about doing an Extremities based performance/gig at some point. The Revelations era brings back too many bad memories for Youth, sadly. We should rejoice that we heard The Hum at the Forum. Jaz is completely off doing anything from BTATS live. I think he associates it with OTG and the break up of the band. 

 There'll never be a gig that pleases everyone. It's great that they are playing so many new songs but I would have loved Singularity. I would have also loved Sun Goes Down, Feast of Blaze or Dominator. Blood On Your Hands or something other than Asteroid from KJ2003 would have been good, too. How well would The Gathering go down!? You never know though. How many of us would have predicted three years ago that they'd be opening their set now with Tomorrow's World and playing Madness? Probably right about the Raven comment though - we're less likely to hear obscure songs from the albums he did.



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 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:12:46 +0100
From:  paul.rangecroft at gmail.com 
To:  gathering at misera.net 
Subject: Re: [kj] Hammersmith highlights

Seems Youth is no more keen on Revelations now than he was at the time. Tragedy. Fire Dances is the most "Raven" of all the albums so maybe he's not keen to revisit that either. BTaTS wasn't the easiest album to perform live although they seemed to do ok on the BBC CD. OTG - forget it. ED&VRE was written to be performed live. Very sad that they've decided to neglect this one. Inexplicable and inexcusable! Democracy and HFtBoH possibly considered weak albums. Looks like we're doomed to hear first album, Pssyche, Change, plus new stuff and a few over-familiar "classics". Don't get me wrong, gigs are still great. When you're there the songs come to life all over again and even Requiem, which I lost interest in years ago (the studio version) is awesome. Just bit of a shame we're missing out on even better experiences.

Pleased to hear talk of a new album but hope they don't rush it and we have another Democracy on our hands. Can't believe I'm saying it but: take you time, lads!


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Neil Perry < 65snoopy at gmail.com > wrote:
How was the sound? And does the general euphoria of the show compensate for what
I think is a slightly disappointing set list (in terms of the same old songs reappearing). Does
anyone hold out any chance of our fantasy set lists ever becoming reality or do you think
large chunks of the back catalogue will never again see the light of day? 
Just thinking aloud...
n



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