[kj] Milan report

[Luca Signorelli]

Thanks guys. Great you like the report.

Two additional tidbits (hill walking on Sunday afternoon is perfect to 
re-focus memory!)

- Youth writes on his blog "The air is rarified and thin, within the 
inner circle of Killing Joke.Staying focused on the muse and the silence 
between the beats ....allowing the fire to burn off the necessary dead 
wood. We all have to sacrifice a lot for this to happen and learning how 
to breath the oxygen of inspiration on tour is quite an art in itself.". 
Well, I know what he means. One of the great things about Milan concert 
was that - NO ONE was on autopilot, not even for a minute. The crowd was 
of course half composed by people "who knew", but the start was 
admittedly a bit uphill: it was like part of the audience was thinking 
"yeah, good to be here, but we already know the menu". Hey, no, they 
didn't.  It was like a completely new band trying to make a break - I 
know that this may sound absurd, they're KILLING JOKE, for crissake, but 
again, they were all focused on making it happen their way, not the way 
of  the nostalgia trap. It worked well, believe me.

- I've always felt Killing Joke is a never ending work in progress - and 
Milan vindicated this view. What more static can be than playing your 
first two records back to back? But it wasn't like that. Few songs were 
as you may have expected them, but others, even the bona fide standards 
like "The Wait" sounded brand new. And the least know classics WERE 
brand new - that's way I say that the unexpected bits were the best on 
Milan. I realised I wasnt there to hear the Killing Joke of my memory, 
but something positively new - how many bands with a 30 years history 
can pull this trick succesfully?