[kj] London venue change:

[nicholas fitzpatrick]

I must admit I'm more interested by the prospect of non-musical KJ projects these days, such as Jaz's lectures, Jaz's book, the film, and spoken-word albums. Keeping up with the band just seems like hard work. Mind you, with cancelled lectures, the terminally delayed Gems of Power, a film that's always being released shortly, I guess the same frustration applies to those projects too.

Do you want to know why Killing Joke never got successful? It's because they are fucking shit at it.




Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:28:56 +0200
From: 65snoopy at gmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] London venue change:

I hear you brother!

If Killing Joke announced they were splitting up today I wouldn't be so gutted.
After the low point of Jaz n Geordie + two hired hands, the original line up getting back together and 
releasing a couple of albums and managing to get through some tours is more than I ever

hoped for. And MMXII would be a pretty fine swan song. A tour as part of some nostalgia road show
is not what I want KJ to be. BPF has already been absent from some shows, how long before Youth is too 
busy and we're back to 2+2 again? 


Bongo's comment earlier about Jaz sat by the fire on Killing Joke island... well I hope he is, and
hope he's happy. I'd be more excited about reading his memoirs than hearing another album to
be honest. The 'will they won't they'/'can they can't they' has become tiring and tedious, and let's be honest,

how much longer are they are going to stay together now anyway without killing each other? 

n

On 8 August 2012 13:28, fatpotanga <fatpotanga at gmail.com> wrote:

It's had the total opposite effect on me!I'm so utterly bored of the whole KJ debacle & really couldn't give a shit what they do, where they play or even what they release anymore :/
I was so excited when I discovered the Gathering, but now it's like we're all stood in this room with egg on our faces trying to make the best of it.Time after time another one flies in & hits us square on. 'Bastards!' we think, 'still, look on the bright side, we can always make an omelette.'
Jaz has turned into a parody of himself. He's like the annoying uncle who jabs you in the stomach then tells you to pull his finger; funny when you were 5 but wearing more than a little thin now you're in your forties.
Geordie is such a wasted talent. What he does still thrills & inspires me, but in many ways he's kinda become the Syd Little to Jazs' Eddie Large.
I have nothing but the utmost respect & admiration for BPF & Youth's drive & side-projects, but year on year my interest in KJ is slowly chipped away by mismanagement, broken promises & something else I can't think of right now but it would have been good, really good & you'll have all nodded in agreement.

Sad really, but it's all become a stilted version of "Whoops! There go my Trousers!"
On 8 Aug 2012, at 11:37, Paul Wady wrote:

Well, whatever they are up to it has worked on me.  I want to go see the gig now.

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