February 23, 2007 | Posted by anders at 12:32 PM

conquering immigration

conqueror

When I first heard that Jesu was having immigration problems and would be missing the first week of their US Tour, I got this sick feeling in my stomach and started having flashbacks to the last time that Justin Broadrick was supposed to do a US Tour with his previous band Godflesh and ended up cancelling it at the last minute due to a nervous breakdown. I'd been looking forward to seeing Godflesh for so long and gotten my hopes up so much that it nearly crushed me. Of course that sounds really selfish in retrospect; Justin was having a serious mental crisis and there I was depressed that I wouldn't get to go to a concert. But at the time no one on this side of the ocean really knew what was going on with him. I just knew that my favorite band had left me hanging and then days later officially disbanded to add insult to injury.

Now, years later, Jesu is the new Broadrick project and if it hasn't already, it's at least on the path to replacing Godflesh as my favorite band. There's another highly anticipated US tour and things are starting off badly. So at least part of me is afraid of a repeat performance.

The interviews and articles I've been reading though (like this one) are painting a picture of a happier, more stable Justin Broadrick this time around. So, minus some bad luck with US Immigration, I'm a bit more optimistic now.

My other comfort of course is the new Jesu album Conqueror which you can stream in its entirety. I'm not sure yet if I'd say it's as good as their last album (or the Silver EP which completely blew me away), but it's still an incredible, immersive experience to listen to it.

(In other news, I'm posting this entry from inside Emacs which I think officially makes me King of the Nerds)

Comments

/flame

VIM FTW!

:-P

I'm going to have to more heavily check out Jesu. His remix on the new Explosions in The Sky album was pretty fantastic.

Posted by: Eoin at February 23, 2007 12:47 PM

Note that the list of tour rearrangements nixes Houston entirely now (where they were to play Numbers, which would have been just an unGodly amount of beautiful noise.) Nertz and double nertz. Thus, the fate of not being Austin.

Posted by: at February 23, 2007 6:15 PM

Eoin, I use vim too for the occasional quick edit. I used it exclusively for about a year but elisp lured me back.

Posted by: robotanders at February 27, 2007 11:51 PM
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