[kj] April Fools - Royal Festival Hall?
Brian Whitehead
bawhitehead at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 08:35:56 EST 2011
"Bought (what I thought would be) great seats on a balcony right near one
side of the stage."
Thats exactly where I was sat so maybe the sound is highly dependant on
where you sit.
On 4 February 2011 13:29, Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, yeah, thinking about it, my only experience of this place was
> Motorhead at Meltdown in 2008 I think?
> Bought (what I thought would be) great seats on a balcony right near one
> side of the stage. When the gig
> started the sound was truly atrocious, just white noise more or less. I
> went to move into the front middle
> and of course was stopped by a jobsworth, except it turned out everyone on
> the balcony had had the same
> idea as me so there were too many people to stop. The sound in the middle
> of the hall was actually
> fine, so it turned out to be a good gig, but we were constantly hassled by
> South Bank folk
> desperately trying to get us to go back to our seats/sit down etc. But the
> sound was massively variable
> depending on where you stood/sat. Not a good omen for a KJ gig.
>
> n
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> On 4 February 2011 14:13, <gingoblin at easynet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> The Royal Festival Hall is actually one of the worst places to see a gig!
>> So far have seen The Stooges, Roky Erickson and Magazine there and each time
>> it was just the wrong type of venue for them. Crap seating, dancing frowned
>> upon, bad sound, more tossers than normal... it's just no use for these kind
>> of gigs. God knows why they've chosen this place...
>>
>> Dave in Edinburgh
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>> At 12:50 04/02/2011 +0000, you wrote:
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>>> Spoke to the venue earlier this morning and ticket prices will range
>>> between £15 - £25 depending on where you are SEATED !!!!
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>>> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 13:45:16 +0100
>>> From: 65snoopy at gmail.com
>>> To: gathering at misera.net
>>> Subject: Re: [kj] April Fools - Royal Festival Hall?
>>>
>>> A Killing Joke gig on April 1 for which there seems to be little
>>> information, let alone confirmation?
>>>
>>> I am incredibly, stupidly tempted to book plane tickets!
>>>
>>> n
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>>> On 3 February 2011 15:23, Darren A. Peace <<mailto:dpeace at bigfoot.com>
>>> dpeace at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> No, they didn't know how much the tickets would cost. The £27.50 is to
>>> become a RFH "member" for a year and therefore be able to buy on the 7th.
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>>> Darren
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>>> Hungerford, UK
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>>> From: Simon Abinett [mailto:louiecipher33 at hotmail.com]
>>> Sent: 03 February 2011 2:09 PM
>>> To: <mailto:dpeace at suspiria.demon.co.uk>dpeace at suspiria.demon.co.uk
>>>
>>> Subject: RE: [kj] April Fools - Royal Festival Hall?
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>>> Did they say how much the tickets are for the gig for non members ?
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>>> _____
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>>> From: <mailto:dpeace at bigfoot.com>dpeace at bigfoot.com
>>> To: <mailto:gathering at misera.net>gathering at misera.net
>>>
>>> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 13:26:33 +0000
>>> Subject: Re: [kj] April Fools - Royal Festival Hall?
>>>
>>> The RFH box office has just told me that tickets for the 1st April
>>> Killing
>>> Joke concert go on sale on 7th February for members (£27.50 per year) and
>>> 8th February for plebs. Tickets available for both the individual gig and
>>> a
>>> day pass for all the other Ether nonsense. Box office 0844 875 0073.
>>>
>>> Darren
>>>
>>> Hungerford, UK
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>>> From: <mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net>gathering-bounces at misera.net[mailto:
>>> gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
>>>
>>> Behalf Of pssyche23
>>> Sent: 31 January 2011 10:19 PM
>>> To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'
>>> Subject: Re: [kj] April Fools - Royal Festival Hall?
>>>
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>>>
>>> Some events at the Ether Festival are free but I doubt Killing Joke is
>>> ...
>>> best check here over next few days :
>>> <http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/series/ether>
>>> http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/series/ether
>>>
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>>> From: <mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net>gathering-bounces at misera.net[mailto:
>>> gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
>>>
>>> Behalf Of jon chapman
>>> Sent: 31 January 2011 17:52
>>> To: <mailto:gathering at misera.net>gathering at misera.net
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>>> Subject: Re: [kj] April Fools - Royal Festival Hall?
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>>> The joke continues !
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>>> I just looked at this Ether festival thing & it says it's a free event ??
>>> Can this be right ?
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>>> _____
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>>> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:19:01 +0000
>>> From: <mailto:green.sun1980 at gmail.com>green.sun1980 at gmail.com
>>> To: <mailto:gathering at misera.net>gathering at misera.net
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>>> Subject: [kj] April Fools - Royal Festival Hall?
>>>
>>> <
>>> http://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/article/3745/Exclusive_Ticket_Presale_Killing_%0AJoke_To_Play_Manchester_And_Nottingham_In_March_2011_Get_Your_Tickets.html
>>> >
>>> http://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/article/3745/Exclusive_Ticket_Presale_Killing_
>>> Joke_To_Play_Manchester_And_Nottingham_In_March_2011_Get_Your_Tickets.html
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>>> On 29 January 2011 18:06, Simon Abinett <<mailto:
>>> louiecipher33 at hotmail.com>louiecipher33 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes but he also said to me that he was doing London beginning of April
>>> and
>>> it has been mentioned in a few interviews.
>>>
>>> Bristol ? Notting Hill ?
>>> I am under the impression that those dates that Adrian posted were purely
>>> to
>>> wind Jonnny boy up , had me all excited for a few moments.
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