[kj] Chameleons x KJ

[Leigh Newton]

"No soundcheck? No SHOW! Nyaaah!!!"

Wankers.

Leigh

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From: n0153 jr <nomeanswhat at gmail.com>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Mon, September 20, 2010 6:12:55 PM
Subject: [kj] Chameleons x KJ

Was browsing through the Chameleons site and came across this anecdote of the 
Joke... anyone familiar with this? 

On a note about the song Paper Tigers, it reads:
Notes by Mark - During our early touring, back in the days when we had 'an 
agent' (gasp!!) we found ourselves, courtesy of 'Wasted Talent' down to support 
Killing Joke in Leicester. We arrived on time ready to sound check. KJ arrived 
four and a half hours late and we couldn't check until they had, very boring but 
no problem. That is until we started our sound check. I plugged my bass in, 
played a few notes to make sure everything was working and the sound guy shouted 
"ok, good, now guitar." I started laughing and looked at Dave and he did the 
same thing, struck a single chord to make sure the leads were working and we got 
another "great, thanks" from the sound engineer. We started shouting at them 
that we wanted a proper sound-check, not a line check and they told us that 
there just wasn't time due to the lateness of Killing Joke's arrival. Things 
escalated and, noticing the band at the side of the stage, drawn by the 
commotion, Dave and I unstrapped our guitars and ran at them. Fortunately for 
them their crew managed to stop us before we got to them. We told them all to 
fuck off and blew out the gig. Later a spokesman for the band came over and 
apologised and hoped we'd play the rest of the gigs with them but we told them 
were to go. Paper Tigers came from that basically.


      
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