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I wish I could give them the benefit of the doubt but the last time they canceled Miami they used the “health problems” excuse…it was also a WEEK before that tour started…and given their penchant for flakiness and the fact that this is the 3rd time this has happened to me I really don’t give a shit what the reason is…these are the guys who moved to Iceland to avoid the oncoming apocalypse…whatever,fuck them…
Ah yes the Iceland move, I forgot about that one.
What was the rationale again for why Iceland would survive the apocalypse? Like, when the ICBMs were being launched, was Bjork supposed to begin singing a magical song that would erect a protective force field around the region?[/reply]
In 1981 killing joke had a collective lyric book, we were all, with the exception of Youth, students of The Mysteries, of the occult, and I started getting even more vivid dreams around this time. At the time I was practicing sleep awake, a form of astral travel, and I kept coming across these references to an island at the end of the Earth and of course I put these references in the book and a debate ensued within the band as to whether it was a literal place or whether it was the island of your soul, your being. In fact this was something that we only resolved about two months ago but at the time Geordie and I set off for Iceland and then, much later, to New Zeeland…
In Iceland Geordie had come up with the idea of pre-upheaval migration theory, essentially that more and more people were coming to the cities, to the metropolis, seeking work and that these places had become ones of potential violence, of poverty and economic struggle and that to counter this there must be a counter migration to under-populated regions of the globe. At the time, back in Iceland in 1982, even our closest friends thought we were mad but now it seems a perfectly logical course of action.
Regarding illnesses, I strongly suspect it’s either Jaz or Geordie. They’ve done various shows without Paul since he came back, and Youth didn’t finish the Absolute Dissent US tour for family reasons.
They’ve a very bad habit of cancelling/postponing shows. I know Jaz hates touring America because of the long tours they did there for Extremities, Pandemonium and KJ2003.