[kj] Hammersmith highlights

[Brendan]

Perhaps if you all chipped in, I could fly over to Sydney, buy 4000 copies
of Absolute Dissent thus making it a number one album, and also sign the
petition 4000 times in different handwriting...we could at least get them
to visit Sydney again, which would reduce the cost of seeing them for us
Kiwis by three quarters...

Oh and I promise not to spend it all on Guinness.


> If this petition is spread worldwide, it would be great. And KJ should

> also play in Iceland and New Zealand ;)

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> CG

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> From: Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com>

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

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> Sent: Mon, Oct 18, 2010 3:36 pm

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> I like that idea a lot.

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> k.w.

> SoCal

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> From:   Paul Wady

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> To: Gatherers Killing Joke Gatherers

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> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 3:43   AM

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> Subject: Re: [kj] Hammersmith   highlights

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> What we need is to petition the Joke for a Gathers gig.    Some small

> warm-up show or something where they use a small venue and do what   we

> vote for on this very list?  Give them a chance to beta-test old stuff   n

> things they may never have done before?

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> There are a lot of us   and we form the fan base that keeps them going?

> Some of us know the   lads.  So...?

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> Make the tickets cheap too!!!    Family-friendly.  They could cover costs

> & make something out of it   and have the experience of meeting loads of

> us?    Win-win?

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>   Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:34:35 +0200

> From: 65snoopy at gmail.com

> To:   gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] Hammersmith highlights

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> 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...

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> On 17 October 2010 14:17, <jpwhkj at aol.com> wrote:

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> Yep, fantastic night.

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> We arrived very late - too late for the pub, unfortunately - but saw a

> fair spread of Gatherers inside.  The crowd was enthusiastic, and the

> band on fine form.  I spent the first few tracks and the occasional

> rest period later on just watching Geordie.  Incredible as ever.      That

> aside, it was into the pit for some honest sweaty fun!

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> Musical highlights for me were:

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> Absolute Dissent - this got chopped from the setlist at Bristol, and

> it's one of my faves off the album.  I was struck again by the

> similarity of the riff to Pssyche.

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> European Super State - wonderful bouncy dance number.

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> Requiem - judderingly powerful version, really wound up the crowd.

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> Eighties - what a monster song this is!  Crunching,     triumphant...

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> Asteroid - my daughter loves this one, so watching her disappear into

> the pit reminded that actually I quite like it too!

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> Change - great till the silly sirens kicked in.  But the start was

> awesomely hard and funky.

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> Pssyche - everyone went crazy, as the song deserves.

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> Much else was also of very high quality (Primitive, Tomorrow's World,

> Bloodsport, Complications, Love Like Blood, Fall of Because, The

> Wait).  Definitely buying the CD set.

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> Musical disappointments:

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> Ghosts - probably the one I was looking forward to the most.  As     Rob

> said to me at the time - it was just a bit flat.

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> Kali Yuga & Singularity - because they didn't play them.  OK,     I wasn't

> really expecting them to, but...

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> When Jaz said he wanted to introduce his friends, I thought we were

> going to get the usual "this is so-and-so on guitar" (cheers), "this is

>  so-and-so on bass" (cheers) etc etc.  You've all heard it     somewhere.

> But in fact, it was a deep, heartfelt, and very individual     tribute to

> the rest of the Joke.  It was odd that Raven didn't     get a mention

> though.

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> Cheers,

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> Jamie

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> But markedly no reference to Raven. 3 years this week!

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> Fabulous night. Great to see so many gatherers!

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> Had a lovely time at the gay disco down the front with Jamie, Dirk and

> Paul Stronkle!

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> On 17 Oct 2010, at 09:23, jpwhkj at aol.com wrote:

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> One was definitely John       Hinklenton (spelling according to Wiki).

> Not sure about the other,       but Youth's dad would make sense.

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> From: pssyche23 <antoni at clara.net>

> To: 'A list       about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'

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> I believe it was Youth’s       father (Alan Glover) and John Hinkleton

> (the Judge Dread artist who spent       time in the studio with KJ and

> later checked into Dignitas) ... but you       are right that previously

> it has been dedicated to Ron and Ron ...

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> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net

> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]       On Behalf Of sade1

> Sent: 17 October 2010       01:22

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the       band!)

> Subject: Re: [kj] Hammersmith       highlights

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> 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.

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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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