[kj] Auckland gig "review":

[bongo]

there was no way i was having shit sightlines!
front and center, representing The Fucking Gathering !
great crowd, shared many grins with other sweaty fanatics in the pit..
some pillock in the hard-pressed front two 'rows' of ppl was elbowing
anyone behind him, so when TDARS come on that fucker was a target! great
fun!  that track was probably my highlight,awesomely raw live!
it WAS a shit venue tho, but we made good - even the wife whom i'm left on
the sidelines rocked out for the whole show just a few meters from the
stage, another great memory right there!

hope you have a safe drive and another great night brendon!!








"due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been
postponed indefinitely..."


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com> wrote:


>

> http://www.witchdoctor.co.nz/index.php/2013/06/killing-joke-the-studio-auckland-thursday-june-13-live-review/

>

> Interesting in that it doesn't mention the show at all and is instead a

> diatribe against an oversold venue with poor sightlines. Glad for KJ

> that it needed to be oversold; too bad for the attendees, however.

>

> There was a similar situation here in Minnesota last year when AEG opened

> a new club called "The Brick" (sigh) and hadn't given any thought to how

> people might actually be able to see the show, given the relative location

> of the stage and viewing areas. This was a 2000-capacity club where at

> least 500 people would have to "watch" the show on TV screens from a

> basement room with literally no view of the stage, and the main entrance /

> exit was a single door which meant it took about two hours to get everyone

> inside. The grand opening show with Jane's Addiction was such a clusterf*ck

> that they ended up refunding every single ticket and promptly closed down.

>

> They reopened a few weeks later, re-branded as "Mill City Nights" (double

> sigh), at less than 1200 capacity and better sightlines, I'm told. I won't

> be visiting until Adam Ant plays there in September.

>

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