[kj] Oslo gig

Thu Dec 1 12:02:49 EST 2016

Same at the first gig, for an odd location of Butlins Bognor Regis...having
earlier spoken to Jaz and Youth and after the gig Big Paul they were all in
great spirits...the sound was spot on (as was all the gigs that weekend to be
honest)...I have never heard the band sound so good before.

In fact, I was really disappointed with the sound on the Pylon tour...it was
shockingly bad at B'ham Institute, Digbeth.

Had the privilege of taking a ride up in the hotel lift with Jaz who was staying
on the floor above ourselves....and then just before the gig we popped back to
our hotel room...waiting for the lift...who should come out but a wild eyed Jaz
pointing at us "not you two again"..poor man must have thought we were stalking
him lol.

What was also surreal was going for a swim the very morning KJ played, I opened
the Butlins pool main entrance door, my wife following holding it open for a
very distinct cockney accent ...turned around and it was none other than Jah
Wobble who we saw playing the previous night....proceeded to the changing rooms
where he was a little surprised "just communal changing?"

So there he was, swimming some lengths and doing some stretches outside of the
pool.

Kind of the best thing though about being at Butlins..quite easy to meet the
artists, and in odd settings!

Nick

> On 01 December 2016 at 16:48 Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes, Pssyche too, and Unspeakable also. The playing was as close to perfect
> as you can
> get I think - after 10 years together, this original line up MkII must be
> playing from muscle memory
> or something. What came over most was that they were very obviously loving
> playing together.
> Never seen so many smiles on a KJ stage. It was a bit unnerving, to be
> honest...
> 
> On 1 December 2016 at 16:55, andreas misera via Gathering <
> gathering at misera.net> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for writing this, Neil! The Munich gig had pretty much the same
> > result for me - good sound, awesome atmosphere, all of them played REALLY
> > well and it all fit together amazingly. One of the best KJ gigs I have seen.
> >
> > When they played Pssyche, it was so PERFECT! Oh, and I met Mik Raven
> > there, another bonus for this great gig.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Andy
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul <dubecho at gmail.com> schrieb am 16:39 Donnerstag, 1.Dezember 2016:
> >
> >
> > 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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