[kj] Sisters Mercy Public Enemy

Wed Dec 15 10:29:18 EST 2004

I went to that show when it tore through NYC (at Radio City Music 
Hall)....sadly, they didn't finish out all the dates on the tour. Too 
bizarre a concept for some people. The other bands along with Gang of 
Four were Warrior Soul (Paul had left by then, though) and an entirely 
embarrassing hip hop crew of white kids named YOUNG BLACK TEENAGERS. 
Dire.

Best part of the show: Andy came out for a Sisters encore wearing a PE 
baseball jersey.

Alex in NYC

On Wednesday, December 15, 2004, at 10:06 AM, death wish wrote:

> 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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