After many years, the original Karnataka mailing list TheStorm is finally closing it’s virtual doors. Moderator HippyDave will be leaving the archives up there in read-only form, but new discussions should be directed to the web forums for the three bands that arose from the ashes of the old lineup, the new Karnataka, Panic Room and The Reasoning.
Many thanks to HippyDave for moderating this list, along with a great many others (where does he find the time?)
Through a case of very bad timing, I discovered the music of the original Karnataka just before they unexpectedly split up, and never got to see that incarnation of the band live. I joined the mailing list just after the split to find out what on earth had happened. I didn’t actually find out, but did meet a great number of really cool people, many of whom I’ve subsequently met at gigs.
And it was on that list that I first heard of the various successor bands. Without that I doubt that I’d have travelled down to Swansea in the aftermath of a hurricane to witness The Reasoning’s very first gig, or to Lydney in the remote depths of the Forest of Dean to witness the first live appearance of Panic Room.
So a final farewell to the list, but almost certainly not farewell to anyone on it, who I’m sure we’ll see on one or more forums, and at gigs.
