[kj] Chameleons x KJ

[Brian Whitehead]

In their defence they have never left me in a Europen city with no gig to go
to due to a very late cancellation as one particular band have...more than
once.

Brian.


On 21 September 2010 04:14, Leigh Newton <angrytomhanks at yahoo.com> wrote:


> "No soundcheck? No SHOW! Nyaaah!!!"

>

> Wankers.

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> Leigh

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> *From:* n0153 jr <nomeanswhat at gmail.com>

> *To:* A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <

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> *Sent:* Mon, September 20, 2010 6:12:55 PM

> *Subject:* [kj] Chameleons x KJ

>

> Was browsing through the Chameleons site and came across this anecdote of

> the Joke... anyone familiar with this?

> On a note about the song Paper Tigers, it reads:

>

> *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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