[kj] Lecture last night

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Hi Nick,


Good summary, although I wouldn't give him 8/10 for delivery.  For someone who has spent his professional life on stage, he's a surprisingly poor public speaker - hesitating in almost every sentence, rambling, poor at reading aloud.


Actually I wouldn't give him 5/10 for content either.


Sorry.


Jamie










-----Original Message-----
From: nicholas fitzpatrick <gasw30 at hotmail.com>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke the band! <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:50
Subject: [kj] Lecture last night


 
   
So, last night then. 
   
 
   
First off, two items of news. Jaz and Geordie want to take 100 Gatherers to India at some point (October next year, I think) to complete a several-day pilgrimage around a holy mountain visiting various temples. I forget the name of the pilgrimage, but it is a well-established Hindu pilgrimage that takes place around a full moon.
   
 
   
“If you’re on the dole and can’t afford it, we’ll just find a way for you to go”.
   
 
   
Jaz said that him and Geordie wanted to act as “mentors” to the 100 to help them identify their inner genius. The idea is, IIRC, to then meet at the next full moon in the UK, and then again a year later to see how much life has changed.
   
 
   
Second item of news, is that Jaz plans to do more lectures around the country between tour dates.
   
 
   
The whole activity appears aimed at, as I say, helping those who want to, to identify their inner genius.
   
 
   
Last night was a game of two halves. The first half was about the New World Order and the various conspiracy-theory spokes that come out of that topic. So we heard that the 100-year-old Rockefeller is at the centre of the NWO and wants to finish his project before he dies. And we heard about FEMA camps, about vapour trails dropping nano worms, control of population through food supply, and fluoride in the water….
   
 
   
Frankly it was a bit of a ramble so a bit hard for me to put something down coherently about it. Perhaps others could do a better job.
   
 
   
Although it was moderately engaging in places, when the break came and I turned around to see that my two pals (who aren’t fans) had left early; I wasn’t surprised. You had to be very sympathetic to Jaz to sit through non-sourced and surely in some cases wildly exaggerated claims. 
   
 
   
For example, he spoke of a US senator who did or found something out (can’t remember what it was but it was alarming), but he didn’t name the senator so how can that be verified? Why wouldn’t you name the senator? It just wreaks of pseudo-academic research.
   
 
   
Another example, this time of exaggeration: he mentioned that a member of KJ was close to Rockefeller and, by implication, has some great looking-hole into the whole conspiracy shebang. 
   
 
   
Obviously he’s referring to BPF here… but c’mon, are we seriously expected to believe that BPF and Rockefeller are tight? Are we supposed to believe that Rockefeller, who knows presidents, prime ministers, celebrities and the other four people that run the universe, suddenly, in the very final years of his life, as he’s getting towards 100 and going to die, thinks to himself, ‘I know, I’m going to become really close to that guy there, the one who plays drums in a band. He once dusted down the toes of an ancient Buddha sculpture for my Foundation, where he works part-time along with 14,000 other people who I also don’t know. I’m going to let this guy into my inner sanctum and I’m going to tell him everything.’ 
   
 
   
Course he didn’t do that. Course he f-ing didn’t.
   
 
   
The second half I suppose dwelt a bit more on the spiritual, though again it’s a bit hard to sum it up as the road he steered through this topic had many turns, junctions, and needed resurfacing in places.
   
 
   
He ended though with a very nice reading and seemed moved as he left the stage quickly.
   
 
   
Forgive my somewhat negative review. I’m sure there’s lots I‘ve missed. It was as always a great privilege to sit in with Coleman and I think it’s great that he does these things. 
   
 
   
He was in a friendly, relaxed mood and there were many flashes of humour.
   
 
   
About 5/10 for content.
   
 
   
8/10 for delivery.
   
 
   


   
 
  
 

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