[kj] Kerrang! (Kerrcrap!) Review of KJ Forum gig

[adrianwason at btinternet.com]

vids-yes
tour-no
 
wait for next one
 
i saw them the night after i saw senser
 
Senser were intense/sounded amazing/self depracating
 
Killing Joke were lethargic/sounded dodgy/complacent
 
The guest vocalist(in Senser) Imma is amazing
 
I love IMMAXXX


--- On Mon, 22/4/13, sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [kj] Kerrang! (Kerrcrap!) Review of KJ Forum gig
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
Date: Monday, 22 April, 2013, 3:39





2 bands. I agree. 




Are the KJ live vids of the 2013 dates at all representative of the actual live performances?? Cuz I saw like 12 or so and they're not doing the "brand" (or the band) any good. Someone please confirm/disconfirm whether this tour is worth seeing, or should I wait** for the proverbial "next" album "our greatest one yet" which no doubt is due out "next year."


Though I like lots Jaz's plain-face long-hair jeans/tshirt-look (cuz it reminds all fuzzy-like of the 90s grunge which me luvs) they're looking and sounding, um, not quite up to the notch on the wall I'v always had of them. 


So, Jaz, baybee: muffin'top and sagging relaxed-fit jeans ain't a good idea on second thought. Stop it. Being accompanied by Captain Yacht-Rock himself Christopher Cross and a heavily sedated Johann the diesel engineer from aboard Das Boot on guitars, well that leaves only Big Paul making any real sense/"viel Spass" or "mach' Show"(beatles..Hamburg..ahfuggetaboutit). 


Even then, I so wanna see Big Paul pound the shit out of the drums with some Revelations stuff for once before I die. 



To wit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=W_P5UTD0xWo#t=128s




**Should I stay or should I go? This indecision's bugging me..



 
Blessed are the Cracked for 
  they let in the Light,
    others all are just a..
      'nother brick in the Wall






From: "adrianwason at btinternet.com" <adrianwason at btinternet.com>
To: Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>; A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [kj] Kerrang! (Kerrcrap!) Review of KJ Forum gig








was it Jaz who said that the most striking thing about a killing joke gig was the reaction of the crowd to their music-or words to that effect...
in the mosh pit this has got more muted every year and at its worst at the Forum gig.
taking Rob's point if I had written songs like darkness before dawn/struggle/nightime/solitude/termite mound/for the love of the masses/judas goat/universe b/fresh fever/depth charge/colony collapse/poleshift etc -i would want to play these every night, but to my knowledge they've never even played 4 of these songs live.
 
To me now Killing Joke have become 2 bands-the studio band peerless writing songs like colony collapse/poleshift in their 33rd? year and after the singles tour the live band which needs a nudge.
 
I thought the gig I saw on the 2012 tour in Bristol was really good, some of the gigs on the Absolute Dissent tour were good such as the Fleece and Rock City but you have to go back to 2005 in my opinion to say that they were really on it with Raven and Benny.
 
I'd like to see Jah Wobble play gigs with Killing Joke. The only time I've seen him it blew my mind at the Astoria 2 playing for the Damage Manual.Ok he did spend most of the gig sitting on a sofa with his back to the audience but he added an extra dimension which made up for that Scottish Wanker
 
 
 

--- On Wed, 10/4/13, Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:


From: Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [kj] Kerrang! (Kerrcrap!) Review of KJ Forum gig
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>, "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
Date: Wednesday, 10 April, 2013, 18:52



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I get the feeling "Asteroid" would be a lot of fun to play ... but i think it could stand to be retired for a little while (just my opinion, mind you).


Alex in NYC



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From: fatpotanga 
Sent: Apr 10, 2013 1:49 PM 
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
Subject: Re: [kj] Kerrang! (Kerrcrap!) Review of KJ Forum gig 



On 10 Apr 2013, at 16:21, Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:

"This World Hell" is a bad song. There, i said it.



Couldn't agree more, shame as there's that really great bit in it.
I wonder if they just like playing it. I can imagine it being fun to play.
 

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