[kj] chameleons/killing joke

[ade]

Sounds more like Birdy was having a strop than KJ starting it. Not defending
anyone 'cos I couldn't give a fuck, but it hardly sounds like KJ were baiting
anybody!

I bet no member of KJ would even remember such a minor blip/yawn.

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Sent: 15 April 2008 13:16
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Subject: Re: [kj] chameleons/killing joke


You;re right, I previously read about it here has more info :

http://www.thechameleons.com/lyrics/index.php?song=11

Notes by Mark - During our early touring, back in the days when we had 'an 
agent' (gasp!!) we found ourselves, courtesy of 'Wasted Talent' down to 
support Killing Joke in Leicester. We arrived on time ready to sound check. 
KJ arrived four and a half hours late and we couldn't check until they had, 
very boring but no problem. That is until we started our sound check. I 
plugged my bass in, played a few notes to make sure everything was working 
and the sound guy shouted "ok, good, now guitar." I started laughing and 
looked at Dave and he did the same thing, struck a single chord to make sure 
the leads were working and we got another "great, thanks" from the sound 
engineer. We started shouting at them that we wanted a proper sound-check, 
not a line check and they told us that there just wasn't time due to the 
lateness of Killing Joke's arrival. Things escalated and, noticing the band 
at the side of the stage, drawn by the commotion, Dave and I unstrapped our 
guitars and ran at them. Fortunately for them their crew managed to stop us 
before we got to them. We told them all to fuck off and blew out the gig. 
Later a spokesman for the band came over and apologised and hoped we'd play 
the rest of the gigs with them but we told them were to go. Paper Tigers 
came from that basically.

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From: "fatpotanga" <fatpotanga at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:05 PM
Subject: [kj] chameleons/killing joke



> just got the 25th anniversary remaster of Script of the bridge.

> in the sleeve notes:

>

> "Paper Tigers

> Another song with a violent theme that stemmed from an incident one 

> afternoon at a sound check.

> We'd been booked to open for a famous alternative rock band and almost 

> got into a fight with them.

> It's quite a paranoid lyric I suppose, but it's the kind of paranoia  that 

> has it's foundation in a real, violent vibe rather than an  imagined one, 

> you know, like being in a bar & knowing that something  is going to kick 

> off at any moment, but powerless to do anything but  go with the flow"

>

> I'm pretty sure it's Killing Joke he's referring to.

> If so, who'd have thought Paper Tigers was about KJ...?

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