Knite Club Mega Reveal: All You Need To Know (Blog 3 of 3)
Hello Everyone,
And welcome to my third blog of the week, 3 of 3...Its being done tonight because of boring technical reasons related to advertising Knite Club and giving people a chance to get the tickets before the price goes up...so lucky you! Early info! Whoop!
Also, I am happy about it because I have been looking forward to this for about, oh...all my life. Haha, no. I mean, yeah, but also, kinda?
I am super stoked to be able to announce the latest acts for Knite Club. I know you were all excited to hear about Acen and The House Crew and Dope Ammo and Jimmy J & Cru-l-t and Pete Cannon and so on...and now you get to find out about our next headliner. And this headliner has not only agreed to play the event, but has also signed to Kniteforce for new releases and has done a remix for Acens new single and...Anyway, look, I guess you ought to just look at the video first:
Haha! Fucking hell. After years and years and a lot of searching, I finally gave up ever getting in contact with Messiah. Even though they had been on my list of people I wanted to work with for decades, right up there with Acen, Hyper-On Experience and others, it was just impossible. There are two people in Messiah, and one of them has a very common name, and the other has a very unusual name. Look for one of them online and you fine 200,000 people. Look for the other and you find no one at all.
That makes it tough.
And then, eventually, someone suggested...why not ask Junior Tomlin? As any of you will know, Junior did all of the Messiah artwork when they were on Kickin' Records back in the day. So really that was quite an obvious thing to do, and thats what I did. And Junior was like "sure, yeah, I can put you in contact" and then I died from a heart attack and everything else that has happened since has just been a very elaborate dream lol.
Anyway, it was kinda like that. You know, as Smart Es, I have a memory of playing after Messiah at a few places but never beong really confident enough to say hi, if the opportunity arose, which I don't ever remember it doing. I remember seeing them in a passing car when we were driving around in London on some Smart Es related rubbish, and wanting to shout "Hail Messiah" as in the Monty Python sample, but instead I just shouted it in my head.
I am, and remain, a bit of a fan, you see? And despite my place in the industry now, and all my experience, that suff just doesn't change. I talk to Nookie, or Ray Keith, or Ron Wells, or Alex Hyper-On, or Bay B Kane, and I am still just as in awe as I was when I was a bedroom Dj playing their music in 1991. Thats just how it is, and probably how it will always be.
So for me, it was an enormous deal to speak to Messiah. 20,000 Hardcore members? Get in! There Is No Law? Fuck yes. Temple Of Dreams? Okay, yeah, that is also brilliant lol, but I have always loved the really aggressive, hard hitting and manic Messiah stuff more than that track, even tho it is a beloved classic. (Incidentally, the tougher stuff is what they liked making best too, and is what they plan to make now. Eek!)
Listen, I wore out my copy of 20,000 Hardcore Members. I know the "There Is No Law" rap off by heart. I tracked down "Ladies and Gentleman" and "The Year is 1999" as samples, but never found "you know that there's something burning over there" or the choir / opera "OOOOOHHH" noise they used. I had two copies of Prince Of Darkness and learned to mix them back to back. What's "Prince Of Darkness?" I hear you ask. Exactly. Its has a bassline that goes unff a-unffunff unffunffunff lol
So yeah. Its a huge deal for me to be working with them.
And over the year or so we have been talking, we have been planning and scheming their return to the scene. They had wanted to come back for a long time. All I did was say "umm...you know...I would really love to do things..." and they wanted to do things...so...we did things!
And now, aftr all this time i get to tell you:
Messiah are playing at Knite Club 2, The Second Coming:
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Messiah have remixed Acen:
Messiah are working on new material, as well as gathering their old stuff for remastering and remixing.
And Junior Tomlin is working on artwork for their new releases!
And I am very, very happy and very, very excited about it. Can you tell? lol...And you should be excited too. Unless you don't like Messiah, in which case, I mean, why are you still reading? Also, you are wrong, what you dont like is wrong lol. Maybe you came here hoping for another aardvark reference? Well, there isnt one this time. But on the plus side, I do at last get to do my best John Cleese voice and shout...
HAIL MESSIAH!!!!!
Nice one,
Chris