[kj] Chameleons x KJ

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Wed Sep 22 03:04:01 EDT 2010


How embarrassing. That sounds like "we're really hard, we wanted to fight them but mummy/daddy/the police/their crew wouldn't let us."





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From: n0153 jr <nomeanswhat at gmail.com>
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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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