[kj] Roll Call!!

[Paul Rangecroft]

Yeah, discovering The Bum's Rush was a definite highlight... as was
hearing the MINOG single for the first time and thinking "Thank fuck
for that!".

On 3/3/18, jpwhkj--- via Gathering <gathering at misera.net> wrote:
> Yes, agreed, finding stuff in those days was magical in a way that it just
> can't be now.
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> Ha! was actually the first KJ record I bought, prompted by seeing them on C4
> & falling instantly in love with Pssyche.
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> My favourite record fair memory is finding cassettes of The Bum's Rush
> (bootleg of a bootleg) and something titled Killing Joke In Dub (very
> different from the recent-ish triple CD), in er, 1986 I think.
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> Best ever memory of KJ is hard to choose.  Maybe seeing them do a soundcheck
> in 1989 (you've all heard the story, probably several times).  Maybe
> listening to the 7" of Love Like Blood for the first time.  Maybe the
> visceral sense of a band re-born when Extremities came out.  Maybe seeing
> Youth on stage with them for the first time (for me) on the Pandemonium
> tour.  Maybe that sweaty gig at the Underworld after years of drought.  Or
> Astoria 1991: "This is for everyone who's gonna die in the Gulf.
> Waaaaardance!"
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> Or the Subterrania gig.
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> Or my first ever Joke gig - Hammersmith Palais July 1983.
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> Or the first time I heard Change.
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> Actually - maybe it was the time Transmission played London (Rob & t'other
> Jamie were roadying) - first time I'd seen the original rhythm section on
> stage together, and I figured it would be the last.
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> But there are plenty more to choose from...
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> Jamie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Rangecroft <paul.rangecroft at gmail.com>
> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
> Sent: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 15:45
> Subject: Re: [kj] Roll Call!!
>
> First gig/awesome gigs will always be special, of course, but I thinkI was
> happiest when I was just starting to get into them and pickingup all those
> non-albums tracks etc. at records fairs. There was nointernet so it was just
> records shops/fairs and Record Collectormagazine. Buying a single or 12",
> taking it home, and hearing thosetracks for the first time. Hard to pick one
> out but possibly Ha! if Ihad to. That may not seem rare to us now but back
> then it was likefinding treasure.On 3/3/18, The Stranger via Gathering
> <gathering at misera.net> wrote:> Fellow Gatherers,> Please share your fondest
> or strangest Killing Joke related memory. Whether> in a concert hall, on a
> city street or in your own bleedin’ head!!> Fire,>
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