[kj] 2012 Tour dates

Brian Whitehead bawhitehead at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 13:58:00 EDT 2011



>>Manchester International II, 1989

I'm going along with this. For me this was the best KJ I have ever seen by a
long way. If my memory serves me right Geordie threw his guitar to the floor
at the end. I've Geordies set list from this gig somewhere.

Brian.

On 10 July 2011 19:38, <jpwhkj at aol.com> wrote:


> Seeing as this has turned into a serious discussion...

>

> My first few KJ gigs were at Hammersmith Palais. Great venue, big

> crowds... fantastic.

>

> Since then, I'll pick 3:

>

> Manchester International II, 1989: the gig that heralded (after a bit of a

> wait) the return to form after OTG. Lots of new (and at

> that point unreleased) material and the flexi of Beautiful Dead to take

> away. And you've all heard my story about watching the soundcheck, followed

> by Geordie playing Night Time on his own.

>

> London, Astoria, 1991: Just before the first Gulf War. Extraordinarily

> tense atmosphere; it felt like Killing Joke's time had come. "This is for

> everyone who's gonna die in the Gulf."

>

> London, Camden Underworld, 2002(?): After a long absence, an astonishing

> and brutal gig.

>

> Southern Jamie

>

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Paul Rangecroft <paul.rangecroft at gmail.com>

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net

> >

> Sent: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 20:46

> Subject: Re: [kj] 2012 Tour dates

>

> Surely someone who has been to as many gigs as Jane has - I'm not sure but

> I'm guessing thousands - is in a better position to say which places work

> best than someone who hasn't. That's all I was saying. Nothing strange about

> that.

>

> I'm not sure why the focus of this discussion has centred on Wolverhampton.

> Jon originally mentioned Norwich and Oxford and put Wolverhampton in

> brackets and then Jamie mentioned Bristol.

>

> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Nick Scott <npscott at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

>

>> What a strange mailing list this is, you have to "earn your right to

>> have an opinion", is there a holier than thou attitude going on here

>> about how much of a fucking KJ fan you are?!

>>

>

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