[kj] Empty It w/ Resurrection / Joking in the Balkans
Graeme Rowland
crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Oct 31 10:51:38 EST 2004
When I played SPENT by WIRE
at Erase Errata's first Manchester gig
a guitarist from support band
The Thens
asked me if it was
KILLING JOKE
I also played
pSSyche
that night
--- Bo Krogsgaard <t23 at mother.brap.dk> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Graeme Rowland wrote:
>
> > I love this story of
> > D&R
>
> There were about 60 people there in this pub
> thingie, most of them dancing
> to really crappy Balkan pop music. Now, the girl who
> was celebrating her
> birthday sent the DJ home around 1am and slapped on
> D&RS (i have spent
> years turning her into a good Killing Joke fan) and
> cranked the bastard as
> loud as it went.
>
> We were a whole three people enjoying it. Some tried
> to dance to it but
> gave up. It was good clean fun.
>
> Simen from Record Records (stupid name but awesome
> shop) in Skopje keeps
> his Killing Joke CD's under the counter. He doesn't
> really want to sell
> them. Some of the kids from Siniac, a local metal
> band, came by and i made
> Simen put on The Wait just to educate the kids that
> Metallica didn't write
> it. Funny playing Killing Joke to black metal kids,
> they actually ended up
> liking it. I'm good.
>
> Oh, and the whole neighbourhood could hear Are You
> Receiving, one guy
> passing by and stopping to ask who we were playing.
> Simen told me that if
> they would ever come to Skopje he could easily pull
> 400 people for a gig
> there, plus he has a nice apartment just to house
> bands that he book gigs
> with. If you are ever in Skopje, go to his record
> store downtown, he
> always has time for a music talk and there's a beer
> store right next to it
> so you have no excuse not to go there.
>
> Spreading the fucking gospel \m/
>
>
> b
>
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