[kj] URGENT: NYC, DC and Philly gatherers: SEE GANG OF FOUR

Tue May 17 08:24:26 EDT 2005

>From someone working for a recortd company on the Shriekback list...

"I am personally thrilled to let you know that the legendary post-punk
band, Gang of Four have re-formed and signed to V2 !!

We will be releasing a 2-disc album in August (release date tba) which
will feature one disc of the newly re-formed band, re-recording
their "classics" and a second disc of remixes by a litany of artists
who have been influenced by them (just turn on the radio to hear their
influence). We will have many more details soon, including
tracklisting for both discs as well as who will be doing the remixes."

Graham

>
>Message: 6
>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 00:16:25 EDT
>From: GregSlawson at aol.com
>Subject: [kj] URGENT: NYC, DC and Philly gatherers: SEE GANG OF FOUR
>To: gathering at misera.net
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>Just got back from the Boston, Mass. GOF show. How ridiculous! They were 
>way
>better than I remember them from about 1982. They did most of the 1st album
>(except for the one that goes "guerilla war struggle is a new 
>entertainment",
>"Paralyzed" from Solid Gold, a much much better, speedy version of "We Live 
>As
>We Dream Alone", plus "To Hell W/Poverty" and a decent song I didn't 
>recognize
>(from Shrinkwrapped?). The sound was perfect, as was the performance. The 
>huge
>Boston audience treated them like rock gods, but their stage presence
>justified it--the never-smiling Andy Gill, who threw his guitar on the 
>floor at one
>point to get more feedback, Dave Allen prancing around the stage like a 21 
>year
>old on speed, Professor Hugo's (now teaching in Boston!) precision 
>drumming,
>and Jon King gyrating like Midnight Oil's singer, jumping around the stage
>like a monkey, falling over after especially serious lyrics, and during the 
>one
>song pounding a baseball bat on a metal cabinet to the beat (like on the 
>album
>version), then throwing the metal thing to the side of the stage and 
>beating
>it more, to his own rhythm. Boston audiences demand full-throttle 
>performances,
>and they got one tonight. A Mission of Burma (not one of my fave's) member
>was in the audience near me, and I metioned to him that they sound like GOF 
>too.
>They're still doing shows in NYC, DC, and Philly, so go or die. I found 
>that
>essence rare.
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>Message: 7
>Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:03:07 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Thomas Kennedy <tkennedy1999 at sbcglobal.net>
>Subject: Re: [kj] URGENT: NYC, DC and Philly gatherers: SEE GANG OF
>	FOUR
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>Yes.  They were awesome here on the west coast at Coachella and the 
>Fillmore (S.F.).  They've dropped the artsy pretense and just rock now.   
>Can't wait to see GOF again!
>
>Tom.
>
>
>
>GregSlawson at aol.com wrote:
>Just got back from the Boston, Mass. GOF show. How ridiculous! They were 
>way better than I remember them from about 1982. They did most of the 1st 
>album (except for the one that goes "guerilla war struggle is a new 
>entertainment", "Paralyzed" from Solid Gold, a much much better, speedy 
>version of "We Live As We Dream Alone", plus "To Hell W/Poverty" and a 
>decent song I didn't recognize (from Shrinkwrapped?). The sound was 
>perfect, as was the performance. The huge Boston audience treated them like 
>rock gods, but their stage presence justified it--the never-smiling Andy 
>Gill, who threw his guitar on the floor at one point to get more feedback, 
>Dave Allen prancing around the stage like a 21 year old on speed, Professor 
>Hugo's (now teaching in Boston!) precision drumming, and Jon King gyrating 
>like Midnight Oil's singer, jumping around the stage like a monkey, falling 
>over after especially serious lyrics, and during the one song pounding a 
>baseball bat on a metal cabinet to the b
>  eat
>  (like on the album version), then throwing the metal thing to the side of 
>the stage and beating it more, to his own rhythm. Boston audiences demand 
>full-throttle performances, and they got one tonight. A Mission of Burma 
>(not one of my fave's) member was in the audience near me, and I metioned 
>to him that they sound like GOF too. They're still doing shows in NYC, DC, 
>and Philly, so go or die. I found that essence rare. 
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>Message: 8
>Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:29:16 +0100
>From: iPat <pmdavies at gmail.com>
>Subject: [kj] MD Website
>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)"
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>Nice site mike, i know a white background is more user friendly but i miss
>the clock. But over all, very nice.
>
>--
>iPat
>live for today, live for tomorrow
>"Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organisation,
>through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any
>philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through
>the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of 
>his
>own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or
>introspective dissection..."
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