OFF: Killing Joke

[Jon Jarrett]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Nick Medford wrote:

> Anyone else go to KJ's 25th anniversary gigs at Shepherds Bush Empire? I was
> there last night, and they were phenomenal. Really, absolutely, totally
> incredible. It might just be the best gig I've ever been to. I've seen them
> before and they were good, but nothing like that. Last night they just
> seemed to be on another plane. Anyone else go? I'd love to know what other
> people's experiences were. I was gobsmacked to hear someone on the Tube
> afterwards dismissing it as "too contrived", I thought it was anything but.
> It was being filmed and I think a DVD release is planned.

        I went to see the Melvins the night before, and we encountered
some friends of ours who'd been to the KJ show that night; sounds as if
they chose the wrong night to go... we had a long and protracted argument
about who'd been to the better gig (the Melvins did, among other things,
cover `I Wanna Hold Your Hand', `The Ballad of Dwight Fry' and `I Wanna Be
Your Dog' with David Yeow (not that I knew who he was till afterwards)
guesting so we thought, given that they'd also been playing their own
stuff, that we had a good case) until the opposing side got as far as
revealing that they thought Gong were an awful band, at which point I
decided it was safe to discount them as creatures of this modern age of
short attention spans whose opinions I might disregard. I think they'd be
horrified to know that someone could be into both Gong and Killing Joke...

        Dammit, why don't BOC or Hawkwind do something and stop me
wandering off topic, eh? ObWhen'sTheNewAlbumComingOut... Yours,
                                                                Jon

ObCD: Porcupine Tree - _Stars Die_
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                Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College, London
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       So too does the intelligence of the fool after good advice."
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