[kj] 3 Days in Spain....

[Rob Moss]

What CD was that Peter?

On 7 Mar 2012, at 10:37, Peter LAMB <Peter.Lamb at nottingham.edu.cn> wrote:


> A very interesting story indeed Stephane.

> 

> I heard In Cythera for the first time. Just brilliant....

> 

> Anyone listen to that DIY CD that Jaz did? Apparently Geordie turned down an offer to do an album with Jimmy Page because he didn't want Page's guitar solos over his music. Priceless!

> 

> Cheers,

> Peter

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>   1. Re: In Cythera (YouTube Link) (jpwhkj at aol.com)

>   2. OT : Camp Take Notice (pssyche23)

>   3. Re: 3 Days In Spain At Youth's Recording Studio (Finally The

>      Report) & MMXXII (Simon Abinett)

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> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 03:51:10 -0500 (EST)

> From: jpwhkj at aol.com

> Subject: Re: [kj] In Cythera (YouTube Link)

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> Don't know if this works non-UK, but:

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> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp9jv0_killing-joke-in-cythera_music

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> Subject: Re: [kj] In Cythera (YouTube Link)

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> If its still up on youtube, where?

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> In a message dated 3/6/2012 9:17:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jpwhkj at aol.com writes:

> 

> Yes.  I'm really enjoying it.  I've been replaying it on youtube for the last 3 hours.

> 

> Jaz has a such a beautiful voice - lovely to hear it again.

> 

> Jamie

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> http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/in-the-us-today-youre-on-your-own-753586

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> Maybe not entirely OT what with FEMA Camp on MMXII.

> 

> It's like Dial House in reverse, three decades ago people were abandoning the system for alternative lifestyles, now the system is abandoning people.

> 

> Probably worth someone posting URL for the Feb 2012 interview for Sonic Shocks where Jaz discusses how well his open views on such matters may be received by "powers that be" on other side of the pond.

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> Sent from my iPhone

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> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:19:19 +0000

> From: Simon Abinett <louiecipher33 at hotmail.com>

> Subject: Re: [kj] 3 Days In Spain At Youth's Recording Studio (Finally

>        The Report) & MMXXII

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> 

> Fantastic many thanks for sharing these great insights into the band.

> By the way the new tracks are sounding great live already.

> 

> Hopefully See you at Monarch

> 

> 

> 

> From: frenchyfrenzy at killingjoke.fr

> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 08:09:44 +0100

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> Subject: [kj] 3 Days In Spain At Youth's Recording Studio (Finally The  Report) & MMXXII

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> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> Hi All,I had been informed at the beginning of August 2011

> by Jaz's wife Brenda during my summer holidays in Brittany

> that a recording sessions of the new album should take place at Youth's studio

> in Granada Spain at the end of the month.

> 

> As you might know, usually you are informed at the

> last minute concerning Killing Joke's projects ha ha ha and that will be the

> case one more time.

> 

> I had sent mails to Youth concerning Jaz's invitation

> but no answer.

> 

> The situation was completely different from november

> 2009 when i was informed by Big Paul of the recording sessions at the Brittania

> Row Studios in London.

> 

> This time, we were not speaking about one recording

> studio : it was Youth's own recording studio and of course at his own house in Spain

> where the reunion live album Duende Spanish Sessions was recorded in 2008.

> 

> 

> 

> Jaz is always very enthusiastic for this kind of

> invitation but I didn't wanted to arrive like this and say "Hi everybody,

> What's in the fridge ? ;o)) Absolutely not my kind of behaving...

> 

> That'swhy i sent an email to Youth about this

> "invitation" and.....

> 

> 

> 

> Finally on the sunday 28th of august 2011 at 10 PM i

> received an email via Facebook from Youth who said that it was great i could

> come and gave me only 2 informations : the name of the hotel i asked him to

> advice me and the name of the small village where this "hostal"

> was....

> 

> He just added that this hotel was 5 mins from the

> studio.

> 

> So very few informations.....like a secret place you

> only discover at the last minute (like in the Eyes Wide Shut Movie;o))

> 

> 

> 

> Waooww : just 15 mins after I had booked my flights

> from Geneva To Madrid and Granada cause the

> direct flights from Lyon (my home Town) were

> too expensive 2 days before departure.

> 

> 

> 

> I went to bed at 2:30 AM after having

> "cleaned" my memory cards and hard disk drive for filming and taking

> pics and very excited with this quite unexpected journey : the unique

> opportunity to discover the famous spanish studio

> 

> 

> 

> I left Lyon very late on the tuesday night and

> arrived at my hotel at 01:00 AM at Ferney Voltaire which is situated in the

> french area close to Geneva's airport so you don't have to pay taxes just to

> use the swiss highways;

> 

> 

> 

> Wenesday 31 th of

> august 2011 :

> 

> 

> 

> Woke up at 6:00 and drove to the french quarter of the

> airport to took my plane to Madrid and then Granada where I finally

> landed around 13:30 PM.

> 

> 

> 

> I was immediately stuck with the high and dry

> temperature around 35/38 ?C and was happy with the air conditioning in the

> rental car.

> 

> I drove around 3/4 of an hour and found easily the

> Hostal situated in a very very very typical small village from Andalucia.

> 

> Quite nobody in the streets cause to the heavy sun.

> 

> Of course this was the only day of the week when my

> hotel was closed (exactly the restaurant) and nobody was here: no front desk...

> 

> By chance i had a call the day before with the owner

> of the place, Antonio, who was apparently the only one speaking a little bit

> french in the place so i was sure i could leave my luggages and my fresh

> cheeses in a colder place than in my car.

> 

> 

> 

> I walked behind the place and founded Antonio eating

> around his swimming pool so perfect timing....

> 

> 

> 

> I am sorry but i am not supposed to give any precise

> informations about the place i drove to, because this is supposed to stay a

> quiet place away from "spontaneous guests" but at this time i would

> have loved to have further informations about the precise place i was supposed

> to go ha ha

> 

> 

> 

> At 4:00 PM I decided to leave my hotel and was sure

> to find by myself the famous studio situated 5 mins away from it....

> 

> I sent emails to Youth but no answers so i tried to

> imagine a big house situated on the hills around us very well exposed to the

> sun and maybe surrounded by trees;

> 

> 

> 

> So i drove at the top of the hill in front of the

> hotel and have used my camera's zoom to find the right place and finally looked

> at a beautiful white house which i was sure was the good one.

> 

> You have to imagine at this moment that the

> temperature was about 40?c and that the "roads" were only landpaths

> full of holes and stones.

> 

> Finally i arrived in front the magnificent house/

> domain, I had the surprise to be in front of one ....cemetary   Holy

> S**t !!!!

> 

> 

> 

> As i still didn't had any news from Youth I decided

> to act as a Tourist and drove to small villages around mines to visit the area

> and came back at my "Hostal" at 8:00 but still no information.....

> 

> I asked Antonio if he knew where this english

> musician might stay but he didn't know it...

> 

> I bought some spanish wines from him and decided to

> "find the place" by myself.

> 

> 

> 

> Unfortunately I only (or I try to ...)  speak

> french, english, german but no spanish so I had bought a small book

> french/spanish including conversations sentences translated and entered the

> only pub of the village with this book in my hands fully determined to find the

> Holy Graal !

> 

> Indiana Jones counld not have beb much more

> determined as I was.

> 

> The place was full of locals drinking wines and

> eating Tapas

> 

> Let me summarize my "wonderful speech " :

> Buenos d?as, uno amigo inglese musician grande casa Martin Glover.... and by

> chance one of the waiter was speaking a little bit french.

> 

> 

> 

> This guy told me he might knew where this place where

> but that was too difficult to explain to me so one of his friend lent him the

> keys of his car and he purely abandoned his job to drove me to "the

> place"

> 

> 

> 

> My enthusiasm were much higher as I was right to the

> target.

> 

> 

> 

> We arrived in front of a beautiful house with high

> white walls in an arabic style like the Ryads in Morroco.

> 

> 

> 

> I knocked at the door and an english man opened it : FFS

> that was NOT Youth aaaaarrrrgggghhh!!

> 

> We spoke a little bit but this guy didn't knew the

> famous Martin Glover.

> 

> 

> 

> Of course that was around 9:00 PM and a dark night

> had wrapped the village and you have to imagine quite no public lightning in

> the streets so very very dark.

> 

> The friendly waiter noticed my disappointment with

> the situation and began to ask the neighbours who were having a drink in their

> garden.

> 

> In fact it was so dark that you could speak to people

> when they were one meter away from you...

> 

> The guy had no idea about this english musician but

> ....his wife knew things about this Marteeenn Gllooovvveeerrr : Yes !

> 

> She began to explain to her husband who began to

> explain to my waiter who began to explain to me that it was clearly impossible

> to explain where it was ;o)))) especially by night

> 

> .... so the waiter picked up the neighbour in his car

> and we drove up to the hills on the opposite side where I was during the

> afternoon...

> 

> 

> 

> First I was excited to be normally on the good way

> but as more and more we were going to incredible paths, then I thought a few

> seconds about the Delivrance's film and was scared to find some Banjos players

> instead of a bass player.....

> 

> At one point we arrived at the end of nowhere and my

> guides turned back and i finally understood they were not 100% sure of the

> place;

> 

> It was so dark that we could hardly distinguish far

> off lights and dread the relief : no idea where the right path might be .....

> HOLY S**T again

> 

> 

> 

> So they decided to go down a little bit to another

> house situated in the middle of nowhere and at the exact time Youth gave me a

> call asking me where I was ha ha ha !!!!

> 

> How could I explain it to him where i was considering

> the lost situation ?

> 

> I was quite sure to go back to "town" with

> the guys so I proposed to meet him in front of my hostal but as they begun to

> drink at home he was not sure of his capacity to drive and proposed to pick me

> up at the hostal at 12:OO am the next day....

> 

> and suddenly one guy went out from this house

> and after a few seconds said that the famous Maaarrrtiiinn Gloooverrrrr was his

> neighbour so i replied to Youth that i would find another solution.....

> 

> 

> 

> I thanked very much my waiter by giving him some cash

> but asked my new guide for a favor (not a sexual one, bl**dy Rob and Jon)

> 

> May he drive me back before to my hotel so I could

> bring with me wines and cheeses ?

> 

> Yes he could so we spent quite 30 mins in the car

> with a kind of surreal conversation mixed with spanish and french becasue he

> had worked in France 30 years ago ;o))

> 

> 

> 

> and then finally we arrived in the domain which is

> totally unfoundable even if you have the address because there is no address at

> all

> 

> When I recognised Youth's voice I knew the

> "nightmare" was finished.

> 

> I just had to drive back his neighbour with thousands

> thanks before passing the gate after a long long time "Outside The

> Gate"

> 

> 

> 

> Youth took a an acoustic guitar to celebrate the fact

> I finally arrived from such a "long" trip and sang one improvised

> song Great !!

> 

> In fact, i was the only guy who had found the mansion

> by night .....

> 

> I told him that a french never surrender considering

> all the efforts i made to arrive there : when he gave me a call he was maybe

> only 500 meters

> away...

> 

> Youth said "I made it very hard for people to

> come" and I can easily confirm.

> 

> We went immediately downstairs to the studio which is

> approx 25O sqm to meet Jaz who was listening to one of the new tracks :

> incredible !

> 

> It was like going into the 4th dimension : being

> nowhere a few minutes ago and then "in THE studio)

> 

> Comparing to the Brittania Row Studio, this one is

> much more bigger and modern : Youth said it was a copy of The Olympic Studios

> in London.

> 

> The construction should have taken 3 weeks but lasted

> 3 months and a huge amount of hotel receipt for the guy who went directly from London to build it and

> stayed at the same hotel as me.

> 

> 

> 

> The control room is very comfortable and all is made

> of wood and a lot of gears are stored in different areas.

> 

> For example, only one small microphone costs 200

> ?uros comparing to the biggest ones at 2.000 euros each.....

> 

> Youth was excited to show me the studio but much more

> excited to show me a huge pic (2m X 2m maybe) of Sid Vicious with a syringe in

> the arm and just close to this one a medium picture of Bootsy Collins dedicated

> to Youth which he was very proud of.

> 

> I think he stills has the view side from the amateur

> and often says he is so grateful with many people and musicians his activities

> led him to meet that when he has the opportunity "to send back the

> lift" to a guy like me he does it.

> 

> He behaves himself as a gatherer sometimes....

> 

> 

> 

> We spent a wonderful evening as we started having a

> wonderful dinner prepared by Amber (yes it was around 10:00 PM but in spain

> you always eat late) with the electrical system cut during it so we had to

> light some candles (french omen) but everything came back again.

> 

> I said to Jaz that it might be an good excuse for the

> record company (we couldn't finish the record cause to the power's cuts ha ha )

> 

> After the dinner (around 1:30 in the morning) we went

> downstairs to the studios which is closed by a huge and hermetic door like in a

> panic room.

> 

> Funny to have a look of the discs hanged on the wall

> in the stairs way to the studio (maybe to Heaven)

> 

> For example 600.000 sales un UK for Yazz Wanted album

> 88 or 25.000 copies of the Only Way is Up in Sweden 88 or 3 millions copies CD

> and cassettes of Dido's No Angel or more that 100.000 copies for the James

> album "Fontana" or THE ORB 100.000 copies of Adventures beyond the

> Ultraworld etc...

> 

> 

> 

> Youth was working on a bass line while Michael was

> recording and playing some keyboards : very interesting to see how much Youth

> is a perfectionist and addicted to music and catches the moment when he has

> inspiration.

> 

> So as it was about 2: 30 I left the house cause i had

> to find back my hotel and be ready for the next day at 12:00 for lunch time.

> 

> 

> 

> Thursday the 1st

> September 2011

> 

> 

> 

> After a short night, i was waiting for Youth to pick

> me up in front of the Hostal and I really enjoyed the beauty and quie