[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

>

>

> 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

>>>

>>> 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?

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>>> <

>>> 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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