Killing Joke

[Alan Linsley]

I was puzzled by the opening & closing numbers too, but here's a set
list for Bristol anyway -

1. ? (opening number with violin)
2. Requiem
3. Total Invasion
4. War Dance
5. Blood On Your Hands
6. Change
7. Seeing Red
8. Fall of Because
9. Tension
10. Death & Resurrection Show
11. Kings & Queens
12. Empire Song
13. The Wait
14. Whiteout
15. Frenzy
16. Pssyche (I think)
17. ? <encore, with violin>

We were also ushered out just after 10pm to make way for...an
indie/punk disco!

Jaz commented that they would be back to play Bristol again "if we get
through the US tour alive".  You folks on t'other side of pond are in
for a treat, catch them if you can.

AL
 --- Ian Abrahams <mail at ABRAHAMSI.FREESERVE.CO.UK> wrote: > Me & Alan
Linsley saw Killing Joke at the Bristol Academy the
> previous
> night - can add much to Nick's excellent review of the Astoria
> really.
>
> Balding patch instead of the old quiff, but Geordie still looks the
> coolest
> man in the universe, leaning casually on the PA and stroking the same
> guitar
> he played nearly 20 years ago on The Tube (IIRC) with that air of
> total
> disdain during Pssyche. Raven, well you just wouldn't want to meet
> him on a
> dark night. Jaz? Is this really the same guy who's produced the new
> Nigel
> Kennedy album? I was just chuffed to bits to have seen them at last.
> Very
> intense show, very violent at the front (and *very* packed house).
>
> Very touching the way they all hugged each other on stage at the end
> - got a
> sense that these three guys really want to make music with each
> other.
>
> Richard Chadwick was there as well, btw.
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Medford" <nickmedford at HOTMAIL.COM>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:05 AM
> Subject: OFF: Killing Joke
>
>
> > Saw KJ at the Astoria on Saturday night- I know quite a few on the
> list
> > have a healthy appreciation of the Joke (and maybe some people were
> there?)
> > so here's a brief report- excellent gig, very intense at times. Jaz
> Coleman
> > still has that uniquely strange stage presence. Emphasis was on the
> > faster/harder/heavier stuff- lots of pounding tribal rhythms.
> Line-up was
> > Jaz, Geordie, Raven, plus a drummer and keyboard player, neither of
> whom I
> > recognised, though I think the drummer may have been Ted Parsons
> (who
> > played with Raven in Prong). They were augmented by a violinist on
> the
> > opening number and the encore, neither of which were familar to me,
> but on
> > this evidence I need to plug the remaining holes in my KJ
> collection as
> > these were among the highlights. The encore was a soaring,
> Arabic-flavoured
> > song- can anyone reveal what this was?
> >
> > Unlike most bands, KJ select the records played over the PA prior
> to the
> > gig themsleves- building up to the gig with the Sensational Alex
> Harvey
> > Band's Faith Healer was an inspired choice- mucho atmosphere
> generated.
> > Once they came on they kicked off with the aforementioned
> unidentifiable
> > (by me) opener and then the set went something like this:
> >
> > Requiem
> > Total Invasion
> > Wardance
> > Blood On Your Hands
> > Empire Song
> > The Wait
> > The Fall Of Because
> > Tension
> > Seeing Red
> > Kings And Queens
> > Frenzy
> > The Death And Resurrection Show
> > Dominator
> > Pssyche
> >
> > plus the encore as above
> >
> > There were a few other songs played, none of which I can name off
> the
> > top of my head- I'd love a full setlist if anyone's got one. I was
> slightly
> > disappointed they didn't play The House That Pain Built, my
> favourite
> track
> > off the excellent new album, indeed one of the best songs they've
> ever
> done
> > IMHO, but then again, the new numbers they did play didn't sound as
> strong
> > live as I'd expected. The older material, however, came over very
> > powerfully. The sound could have been better at times (as per usual
> at the
> > Astoria).
> >
> > KJ are still out on tour I think. Incidentally, do they vary the
> setlists
> > from gig to gig? I saw a review of the Leeds gig a few days before
> this
> one
> > which mentioned them playing Asteroid and Follow The Leaders,
> neither of
> > which were aired on Saturday.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >


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