[kj] Oslo gig

[Paul]

Nice one Neil. Glad you had a good one and not a plane in site : )

On 1 December 2016 at 14:51, Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well that was a fucking fantastic show. When we walked out
> I was a bit lost for words... they are in the form of their lives. Big
> smiles
> all round, obviously enjoying themselves, bit of amusing banter onstage
> between them, it was a pleasure to see. Set list was the same as the pics
> of
> the set list that I've seen except for the encore, which was TD&RS and
> Pandemonium.
>
> Crowd was pretty decent considering. Rockefeller is one of those
> older theatre type venues with the balcony stretching round - the upstairs
> was closed as we expected but downstairs was pretty full, probably around
> 400 at a guess.
> So it was nicely crowded but not too packed so us old 'uns could get
> relatively close to the stage and not take a battering...
>
> Oslo crowds are notoriously stand-offish - we saw PiL at the same venue
> a few years ago, similar deal, not sold out, less people than for KJ in
> fact, and
> much of the crowd spent the whole gig stood still with their arms folded -
> which is
> how this one started, but by the end everyone in there had their arms in
> the
> air shouting their heads off.
>
> Weirdly the sound did the same as the Roundhouse gig last year - started
> off
> pretty bad (Geordie too quiet, Paul too loud) but by Requiem was sorted.
> It was fun watching the crowd - a fair few hardcore fans but a lot of
> curious
> people I think - when they started with The Hum a guy next to me went from
> standing still to apeshit in about half a second, saw another guy do the
> same
> thing when Unspeakable started.
>
> Some moments: Jaz did his scary face shouty WARDANCE!! intro... then
> nothing
> happened, he turns round to see Youth fiddling with his amp. "Youth what
> the
> fuck are you doing?" Youth looks round sheepishly, Geordie starts laughing.
> I completely revise my opinion of  Autonomous Zone - I never really got it
> before, but after last night I do. There's that drum break about 4 minutes
> in, both
> Geordie and Youth went and stood round the drumkit while Paul hammered away
> like he was trying to break through the earth's crust. Just an immense
> display
> from him all night - even my wife, who rarely takes notice of such things,
> nudged me
> at one point and said "He's a very good drummer isn't he?"
>
> Jaz seemed in a great mood, didn't take off his smart frock coat all
> evening but
> put in some serious dance moves. He introduced Eighties by saying,
> "things have changed since we were last here!" Before Complications he
> started going on about waking up in the morning in a dark Norwegian winter
> and
> how you'd want to kill yourself and Youth shouted "What a load of
> bollocks!"
> Later introducing Turn To Red he said, "We haven't been here since 1983,
> but this
> is from 1979!"
>
> Only Exorcism didn't work - the vocals have got all that echo on them and
> it
> was a bit of a mess, although at the end Geordie marched across the stage
> and
> had a go at someone in the wings so maybe something was wrong.
>
> Highlight for me was Change. They have that rhythm nano-second tight. I
> don't know if anyone here knows or likes the New York band Endless Boogie.
> I have a soft spot for them, the
> clue is in the name - first time I saw them they played for 80 minutes and
> only did
> four songs, one was 30 minutes long, and I could have watched KJ do that
> with
> Change last night. During the guitar break section Youth and Geordie stood
> facing
> each other up close, grinning, with Jaz almost between them throwing out
> some dance shapes
> and generally losing himself - it was just a pleasure to watch, the sound
> was
> razor sharp and heavy by this point, just phenomenal. TD&RS was also
> superb.
>
> During the Pandemonium intro Jaz started talking about how beautiful
> Norway was,
> pointing at people and telling them they were the guardians of the forests
> and fjords.
> Then he broke into a huge smile and everyone started cheering, it was a
> weirdly
> warm moment that I have never previously associated with a KJ gig! The big
> softies.
>
> At the end, my wife found a fellow north-Norwegian staff member and
> sweet-talked him into
> giving her the only poster for the gig that we could see in the whole
> place, which they already
> had in a frame on the wall. So, result.
>
> Would love to know what the band thought about it, but that's one of the
> best KJ shows
> I've seen, at least in this century.
>
> n
>
>
>
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