all sounds great.. cant wait its been too long...see you in la on thursday
 

Well thank YOU, Youth - and Jaz, Geordie, BPF and Reza too - for two FANTASTIC gigs - best gigs I've been to since ... well ... the last time I saw KJ! I've been on an emotional high ever since and just can't stop playing the CDs. Highlights - "Tension", "Exit", "Follow the Leaders" and Raven's tribute on Friday (I was in tears - and felt his presence, he was there), and "Labyrinth" and "Turn to Red" on Saturday. You were so far ahead of your time, TTR wouldn't sound out of place on one of my drum 'n' bass compilations.

Stay together, Youth, and tour again, PLEASE. I want to see you again, am gutted I can't make NYC. KJ are my all-time favourite band. NO-ONE can touch you live.
 

Not at all-- thank-you Youth, please don't be a stranger, there will be a new album to tour with you know. Regards.
 

THANK YOU Youth

For being one quarter of the most awesome band that ever lived and for two of the greatest live shows of all time.
 

Tomorrow you will be in Los Angeles Rockin the Hell out of an otherwise dormant city. I'm so happy I just shit myself. I'm giddy with delight.
 

Thanks for a two fantastic nights at the Forum. Came from Liverpool and loved every minute. Have really enjoyed the blogs its great that you make the effort. Killing Joke are not a band they are more than that. keep the faith !
 

I don't usually post replies to blogs, partly out of laziness, partly out of fear of saying something daft, but here goes.
My first KJ gig was my first gig ever, when I was 14 at the Hammersmith Palais, supports were UK Decay and Aztec Camera. Killing Joke's performance that night changed everything for me and has remained the benchmark by which I have judged every other band or gig since. My mate Sean had played me Requiem three months earlier and I instantly 'got it', but the live show opened my eyes to the power and intensity of music, its possibilities as a force for good, its power to unite a room full of strangers. It was an epiphany for me. So thanks for that.
My most recent KJ show was Oct 3rd at the Forum, I'm now 41, come full circle kind of. I couldn't resist the urge to hear those first two albums, they evoke such fantastic memories for me, in their entirety played by the original line up. The band were fantastic, Big Paul, what a star, drums like no other drummer on earth. My brother and I joked that Youth's suit was more Culture Club than KJ, but despite the suit you guys really blew me away. Again. The music was sublime but the emotion and depth of feeling in the room was palpable, the whole crowd was willing the band on and the band were visibly feeding off the energy. Incredible.
The most intense gig experience of my life, so far.
So thanks for that aswell, my only regret is that I couldn't make the next night, but I suppose you shouldn't be greedy.
I play your music to my kids now, they're 8 and 4, they mostly tell me to turn it down though, but I think you have to see that as, you are still creating a musical generation gap only in reverse!!
I'll never turn it down though.
Love and respect always
Brian.
 

With the original line up back together again as if they had never been away and with a new album in the making, i am sure that 2009 WILL be the year of the JOKE!!!

BRING IT FUCKIN ON!!!!!