[kj] 30 years of NIGHT TIME

[nicholas fitzpatrick]

Good to hear from you Alex.
If I remember correctly, BPF in the currently touring 'KJ: The Movie' (!) said of the NT album:
"Yes, we were under pressure to make money and all that, but that's not why we did it. We were exploring a new emotional feel." (Or something like that).
I think Jaz also said in The Movie that NT period was the time his classical influences/aspirations started to rise, and this all influenced the record. And I also think Jaz has said elsewhere that he felt the NT period marked a maturing of their music.



Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 08:02:07 +0000
From: npscott at blueyonder.co.uk
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] 30 years of NIGHT TIME

I have always found it surprising the critical lambasting of BTATS....although I was too young (at school) to have witnessed this era KJ live it didn't really sit uncomfortably as an album in 1986 against their peers, it was most certainly of its time.   Other commercial post punk bands of that time were doing equally as polished albums, Echo & The Bunnymen, PiL, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Cure and even worse the former post punk band Simple Minds were attempting to polish a turd by going all stadium rock.

Victory was fucking appalling though!



On Friday, 6 March 2015, fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:
> … they’re also a bit cripser. For instance, in Rubicon there’s a gorgeous guitar climb in the choruses before the ‘we cross the Rubicon’ line I’d never heard in any detail.
> BTATS, it’s one of my faves. It has a great vibe to it and seemed a natural follow on from to Night Time plus it was on that tour I first saw them live.
>
> On 6 Mar 2015, at 05:20, adrianwason at btinternet.com wrote:
> there's different BTATS mixes on the 2007 re release eg For The Love Of The Masses has an extra verse on the end
>
> ----Original message----
> From : jari.t.pakarinen at gmail.com
> Date : 06/03/2015 - 04:54 (GMTST)
> To : gathering at misera.net
> Subject : Re: [kj] 30 years of NIGHT TIME
>
> Where can the restored mixes of BTATS be found ?
>

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