[kj] Sisters Mercy Public Enemy

[death wish]

Reminds me of when I started writing for my university newspaper in 87 - the 
Sisters This Corrosion had just come out and I was declaring my love for it 
when I got into a scrap with another writer who was into Public Enemy. At 
the time, my knowlege of rap was zilch. Four years later, I and this guy 
went to see the Sisters and PE play the same stage on their Fear Of A Black 
Planet tour. In the interim I'd become a PE fan and he a Sisters'.

Oh, and that was the tour with Gang of Four as well - sweeeet.

T.

>From: Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>,"A list about all things 
>Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
><gathering at misera.net>
>Subject: Re: [kj] Killing Crue Motley Joke
>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:53:38 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
>
>
>It's stupid anecdote time, as once again, I am sequestered here in an 
>internet cafe on a fucking freezing December day.  Rewind to the Summer of 
>1984. Joke-wise, I've only heard the 12" singles for "Eighties", "A New 
>Day" and "Let's All Go to the Fire Dances" (and its b-sides, "Dominator" 
>and the live "Fall of Because") and am hungrily snatching up all the old 
>Killing Joke I can find before departing on a bicycle trip across 
>Massachusetts (a cheap ploy by my family to get my ass out of the house for 
>a month).  I spot a t-shirt in a local record store (the wonderful ROCKS IN 
>YOUR HEAD on Prince Street) featuring a Killing Joke design (later on in 
>life, I'd learn that it was sleeve design for TURN TO RED....Mr.Punch and 
>the Centre Point, etc.) Not even caring, I of course purchase it.  The next 
>day, I leave on my crappy bike trip.
>
>And crappy it is. As wonderful as Massachusetts can be in the summer, I'm 
>bunched together with a veritable chain-gang of other characters. I 
>befriend a Bostonian metalhead named Josh (who turns me onto the Satanic 
>majesty of Venom) and a fellow New Yorker named Mike (who, similarly, 
>introduces me to the work of early XTC).  There are also two guys from a 
>town in Long Island, appropriately named Dix Hills (and believe me, these 
>guys are indeed dicks). At first, they strike up a conversation with me 
>because I happen to be wearing a Motley Crue t-shirt (this time the white 
>"Alleister Fiend" model, for those of you playing along at home).  A day 
>later, I'm sporting the recently aquired Killing Joke shirt I mentioned in 
>the first paragraph. "What the fuck is KIlling Joke?" asks one of the Dix 
>Hill Dicks. "Oh, they're this amazing band I've recently discovered," I 
>reply enthusiastically. "I've never heard of them," comes the 
>reply.....vaguely suggesting that I have -- in fact -- made them up. "No, 
>honest, they're fantastic, trust me!" Dix Hills looks entirely unimpresed. 
>Later in the week, I play him a mix tape I'd made for the trip. On comes 
>"Dominator". "What's this fagget shit?" says the Dix Hillzer. "THIS is 
>Killing Joke, man!" I earnestly point out, getting frustrated. "Well, it's 
>crap.  Turn off this New Wave disco fagget bullshit and put on some Motley 
>Crue." Suffice to say, from that point on, myself and this idiot are no 
>longer friendly.
>
>Fast forward to 2005 and Killing Joke are to share the same stage with 
>Motley Crue. Wonder what Dix Hills would think of that.
>
>Alex iN NYC
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Graeme Rowland <crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk>
>Sent: Dec 14, 2004 8:57 AM
>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
><gathering at misera.net>
>Subject: [kj] Man Whose Backass Expanded
>
>No mention of Killing Joke on magazine ads & posters
>round Manchester for Motley Crue gigs.
>
>Never thought I'd go to a Morrissey gig, or a Motley
>Crue one. Just back from Glasgow and now off to
>BurningHum for the last PJ Harvey gig for a while.
>
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