[kj] Hammersmith highlights

[Brendan]

They should make their Dec 23rd 2012 New Zealand gig a Gatherer's gig. If
they do, Bongo promises to strip naked and breath fire. And there's a good
chance that if they cancel, the world will end anyway so just throw the
expense on credit card and nothing can go wrong.


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> I don't want to raise expectations but Jaz was talking in Brussels about

> doing an Extremities based performance/gig at some point. The Revelations

> era brings back too many bad memories for Youth, sadly. We should rejoice

> that we heard The Hum at the Forum. Jaz is completely off doing anything

> from BTATS live. I think he associates it with OTG and the break up of the

> band.

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> There'll never be a gig that pleases everyone. It's great that they are

> playing so many new songs but I would have loved Singularity. I would have

> also loved Sun Goes Down, Feast of Blaze or Dominator. Blood On Your Hands

> or something other than Asteroid from KJ2003 would have been good, too.

> How well would The Gathering go down!? You never know though. How many of

> us would have predicted three years ago that they'd be opening their set

> now with Tomorrow's World and playing Madness? Probably right about the

> Raven comment though - we're less likely to hear obscure songs from the

> albums he did.

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> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:12:46 +0100

> From: paul.rangecroft at gmail.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] Hammersmith highlights

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> Seems Youth is no more keen on Revelations now than he was at the time.

> Tragedy. Fire Dances is the most "Raven" of all the albums so maybe he's

> not keen to revisit that either. BTaTS wasn't the easiest album to perform

> live although they seemed to do ok on the BBC CD. OTG - forget it. ED&VRE

> was written to be performed live. Very sad that they've decided to neglect

> this one. Inexplicable and inexcusable! Democracy and HFtBoH possibly

> considered weak albums. Looks like we're doomed to hear first album,

> Pssyche, Change, plus new stuff and a few over-familiar "classics". Don't

> get me wrong, gigs are still great. When you're there the songs come to

> life all over again and even Requiem, which I lost interest in years ago

> (the studio version) is awesome. Just bit of a shame we're missing out on

> even better experiences.

>

> Pleased to hear talk of a new album but hope they don't rush it and we

> have another Democracy on our hands. Can't believe I'm saying it but: take

> you time, lads!

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> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> How was the sound? And does the general euphoria of the show compensate

> for what

> I think is a slightly disappointing set list (in terms of the same old

> songs reappearing). Does

> anyone hold out any chance of our fantasy set lists ever becoming reality

> or do you think

> large chunks of the back catalogue will never again see the light of day?

> Just thinking aloud...

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