[kj] Hammersmith highlights

[Janean]

Thanks to everyone for posting their gig reviews etc.  I’d completely
forgotten about the day/date of the gig – but as it turned out I wouldn’t
have been able to go anyway, even if I’d planned to.

 

Last week was a tough one as my partner’s eldest sister died suddenly.  A
group of us had to fly to Spain for the funeral (as her body couldn’t be
flown home for less than £20K!), and I then caught a bad cold and spent the
weekend in a blur.  So at least I wasn’t sat at home thinking “KJ are
playing right now and I’m missing it”.

 

Glad to get the news that it was recorded and I’ll be ordering the CD as
soon as I get paid – as the unexpected trip to Benidorm hit my bank account
hard.  Sounds like it was a great gig, would love to have heard the new
stuff and Fall of Because.  And Eighties.  Ah well.

 

Cheers,

Janean

 

 

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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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