JON JARRET NARROWLY ESCAPES TERRORIST BOMB BLAST was NIK/OFF: Litmus & Inner City Unit, The Standard, Walthamstow, 11/05/07

[mike coleman]

**Jon in this mail you just mentioned the "second" Atomgods CD not being on
disc.......don't you mean "WOW, the first??? and speaking of, I just did a
deal last night on a cassette because I wanted a CDR made from that instead
of vinyl?? can you help me?? if so I may be willing to freeze Trev (as I
threatened him last night) into a godawfully stupid and dumb pose, for all
eternity............the only other thing with "Atom" in it that I know of is
"ATOMGOD" "hISTORY rE-WRITTEN", of which there are at least 2 CD issues, my
UK one had the original flyer, as did the vinyl, and Trev jumped up and down
and threw a child's tantrum until I agreed to give him mine...he had to wait
five years for it though...hehehehe,,,,
he seems to think he can "make it" and "save the blessed ones", without me,
OId Scratch,  have you ever heard anything so rediculous and funny>?????
anyway Jon, or any other qualified elite music person on here, could you
start talking Necropolis please, as I think it's another Judge is afraid
I'll laugh at if I hear it.....
at any rate, somebody PLEASE work me a deal for a WOW CDR made from my
cassette, and your vinyl artwork...you'll be paid in one fashion or another
great fashion.....
as for Nik and Trev, they're good people, just give them a hug and don't tap
into their money supply no-matter how big or small it may seem
all can be turned into good or I will destroy everything to do with humans
and their flatulatory disgustingness
mc


On 7/27/07, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 04:23:53PM +0100, trev typed out:
> > Hi John,  I'm glad that you avoided Nazer's bomb.  As I have said
> before,
> > your reviews are accurate and demonstrate your considerable cognisance
> of
> > the subject. However, where you fall down is on your emotional
> receptivity.
> > We of the Inner City Unit don't stand up well to intellectual scrutiny,
> i
> > fact we don't like it. When you come to see us, you should be prepared
> to
> > abandon all mind functions and enter into the wonderful world of ZEN
> > NO-MIND (either temporarily by drink and drugs or,   more permanently,
> by a
> > lifetime of asceticism). Come down the front or if not, at least tap
> your
> > foot. All good gig experiences are a two-way affair between band and
> > Blessed Ones.
>
>        I've not been entirely sure how to reply to this and keep it
> from getting too personal, so all I can say to this is that, though you
> may not have seen it, I do come to the front and dance, or something
> like that, when the band is one that has me wanting to. Plenty of people
> on this list have seen it and had to dodge... There might have been a
> lot of reasons that didn't happen this time: I was trying to keep an
> eye on a heavy bag, I was tired, whatever, but I gave it some to Litmus,
> but couldn't get moving to the ICU performance. Now I would put that
> down to the fact that the rhythm section were out of step and making it
> hard to get down, you can say I wasn't listening right, but I don't
> think either of us will convince the other.
>
> > You left the gig just after half-way through, yes, we endured til the
> > bouncers started considering to use violence to stop us as usual. The
> most
> > important part of any gig is the last half hour.
>
>        I've certainly been to gigs where it started awfully and then
> miraculously came right. I've also been to gigs where it was the other
> way, for twenty minutes it was the New One True Way and then they seemed
> to run out of ideas. I don't think I'd say `any gig' to what you say,
> then, but I've certainly seen what you mean.
>
> > I was rather perturbed by some aspects of the reviews you have made in
> the
> > past, for example, you criticised the Mother of All Bands album "Insect
> > Brain" because it didn't sound anything like Hawkwind. With that kind of
> > attitude there would never have been a Hawkwind or Motorhead, or ICU, or
> > even Beatles etc.
>
>        <snip>
>
>        That may be how you recall it, but it's not what I said.
>
> http://listserv.ispnetinc.net/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0503A&L=BOC-L&P=R622
>
>        That review starts:
>
>        "I have to say that this album was something of a surprise to
> me. Knowing bassist Ron Tree's punk background and the way he worked
> with that in Hawkwind, and owning quite a lot of guitarist Judge
> Trev's work with Inner City Unit and The Atomgods, I was expecting
> high-speed punk. Wasn't this, after all, a band which Terry Ollis had
> refused to join because they played too fast? Instead, they seem to have
> borrowed Senser's drummer and that too leads one to think high speed
> intricacy.
>
>        "Well, this is not what it is, so you may as well shed that idea
> straight away. This is actually mostly an album of jamming and tone
> poems."
>
>        I also said that Ron was singing better than he had with
> Hawkwind, that `Meat Eater' had a progression of ideas that reminded me
> of `Assassins of Allah' and that I wondered if Ron had been trying for
> something similar, and I mentioned that there was a Hawkwind *cover* on
> it (which you have to admit does encourage the comparison). But I didn't
> say what you say I said, and nor would I for exactly the reasons you
> give. In fact you can find me tearing Krel's _Ad Astra_ into bits
> precisely because of how Hawkwind-clonish it was, though even there I
> think I made it clear I was enjoying the album's update of the eighties
> HW sound:
>
> http://listserv.ispnetinc.net/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0101C&L=BOC-L&P=R4781
>
>        So I think you're propagating propaganda, O Judge.
>
> > second:
> > I have decided that Inner City Unit WILL NEVER REHEARSE AGAIN. OUR ONE
> AND
> > ONLY 2 HOUR REHEARSAL SO FAR WAS THE DAY BEFORE THAT FATEFUL GIG IN
> > WALTHAMSTOW - AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!
>
>        So, how did *you* think it went? :-)
>
> > third:
> > And while we are on the subject of the Brotherhood, and considering
> matters
> > of  human equality. I think that all of you who are on £25,000+ should
> > visit www.realfestivalmusic.co.uk and buy as many of my CD's as possible
> -
> > not because you want them, but to alleviate the terrible inequality
> between
> > rich and poor in the world  today - it's the worst it's ever been in the
> > known history of man.
>
>        Can you re-release the second Atomgods album on CD-R? That'd be
> cool.
>
> > fourth:
> > Mike Coleman is not getting his hands on my unopened copy of Atomgods
> WOW
> > vinyl, hovever much he whines and rants about it, or tells me how to
> open
> > it by "rolling it out" and "blowing into the sleeve"!
>
>        It's a good album is that.
>
> > fifth:
> > John, I fancy your girlfriend.
>
>        You're a man of taste. And she's a better bass-player than Nazer
> too, clearly a match made in heaven, or at least Brighton. Alas, she's
> moved... Yours,
>                Jon
>
> --
> "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
>            (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
> Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>