Last weekend KILLING JOKE‘s co-founder/guitarist GEORDIE WALKER
died following a stroke, in his home in Prague. He was 64. Founding member
and bassist of the British post-punk champs Martin ‘Youth’ Glover, paid
tribute to Walker.
Remarkable albums from the past
Band: KILLING JOKE
1978–1996, 2002–present
Album: What’s THIS For…!
Their 2nd LP
Released: June 1981
NME said: “In its own terms, What’s THIS For…! is an excellent record, even if those terms are the most hopeless ones to be found in rock today. It’s the same wardance as before, slightly better realised.”
TUTV says: One of the best Apocalypse Now bands in music’s history. When Doomsday comes their wall-of-metallic-post-punk on What’s This For…! is a notable candidate to be
its hellish soundtrack.
SINGLE: Follow The Leaders
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Daily noise that works faster than caffeine
11 March 2023
Last year veteran post-punk bohemians KILLING JOKE (15 LPs so far)
released their first new music in 7 years with the Lord Of Chaos EP.
The Londoners with all original members back since 2008 play a huge sold-out
concert tomorrow at the famous Royal Albert Hall in the UK’s capital. They will
perform their first 2 LPs in full.
Along with this event, KJ just shared a brand new single called
FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE. A flaming guitar-layered rocker.
Press play.
Watch/listen.
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Great concert posters from the past
KILLING JOKE
Fribourg, Switzerland
12 January 1991
em>Great concert posters from the past…
KILLING JOKE
Fribourg, Switzerland
12/13 January 1991
Today: The cover of the new EP called LORD OF CHAOS by industrial
post-new-wave-punk titans KILLING JOKE, out 25 March.
Title track…
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5 new firecrackers to boost your weekend
Band: KILLING JOKE
Who: Post-industrial-punk veterans from London
Active: 1979–1996, 2002–present / 15 LPs
with Pylon as their latest, released 7 years ago.
New EP: LORD OF CHAOS
Out: 25 March 2022
New single: LORD OF CHAOS – title track
Lord Of Chaos resounds familiar from the get-go.
A huge wall-of-storming sound, Coleman‘s poignant
vox and a muscular chorus…
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Band: BODEGA
Who: Jangly indie rockers from NYC
New album: BROKEN EQUIPMENT – 2nd LP
Out: 11 March 2022
New single: STATUETTE ON THE CONSOLE
Speedy stunner
Punchy Panache
Full blast ahead…
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Band: FOO FIGHTERS
New single: MARCH OF THE INSANE
From their upcoming horror
movie (no joke) titled Studio 666.
The Foos go metal mental.
Trash, crash, smash.
Here they come…
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Band: FOALS
Who: Oxford 4-piece led by front star
Yannis Philippakis (Greek father, Ukrainian Jewish mother)
Active: Since 2005 / 7 studio LPs (new one included)
New album: LIFE IS YOURS, set for a summer release
New single: 2AM
The fervent funk machine hits again.
Get up and shake your booty, folks…
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Band: CYPRESS HILL
Who: Legendary West Coast hip-hop desperados
Active: Since 1988 / 10 studio LPs including new one
New album: BACK IN BLACK
Out: 18 March 2022 – order info here
New single: Bye Bye
The hip-rap-hop motherfuckers
are back with this dope lullaby
featuring Dizzy Wright…
See/hear you next week, music junkies
Band: KILLING JOKE
Who: Post-industrial-punk veterans from London
Active: 1979–1996, 2002–present / 15 LPs
with Pylon as their latest released 7 years ago.
New EP: LORD OF CHAOS
Out: 25 March 2022
New single: LORD OF CHAOS – title track
Jaz Coleman (frontman): “I’ve never known anything like the time
we are living in now; not since the Cuban Missile crisis but now in
comparison we have multiple flash points,” ‘Lord Of Chaos’ is about
complex systems failure when technology overloads and A.I. misreads
the enemies’ intentions.”
Lord Of Chaos resounds familiar from the get-go.
A huge wall-of-storming sound, Coleman‘s poignant
vox and a muscular chorus.
Killing Joke is back in business after 7 years.
Here comes the burly blast…
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4 October 2020
Band: The Specials
Album: More Specials – second LP
Released: 4 October 1980 – 40 years ago
Jerry Dammers on the American tour to promote the LP:
“Vibraphone music in elevators. Obviously this was classed as
rubbish. I don’t know if it was my state of mind, because I was
so zonked, but it struck me as a really weird, psychedelic music,
which is now called lounge or exotica. It’s been rehabilitated, but
at the time, to say you actually liked that music was mad. It
completely freaked out some of the band.”
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Band: Pink Floyd
Album: Atom Heart Mother – fifth LP
Released: 2 October 1970 – 50 years ago
David Gilmour: “A load of rubbish. We were at a real down point.
I think we were scraping the barrel a bit at that period. ‘Atom Heart
Mother’ sounds like we didn’t have any idea between us, but we
became much more prolific after it.”
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Band: The Who
Album: The Who By Numbers – seventh LP
Released: 3 October 1975 – 45 years ago
John Entwistle. “The band’s late great bassist): “The first
cover I designed. I never got paid for. We were taking it in turns
to do the covers. It was Pete’s turn before me and we did the
Quadrophenia cover, which cost about the same as a small
house back then, about £16,000. My cover cost £32.”
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Band: The Police
Album: Zenyatta Mondatta – third LP
Released: 3 October 1980 – 40 years ago
Stewart Copeland (drummer) about the LP’s title artwork:
“It’s the same explanation that applies to the last two. It doesn’t
have a specific meaning like ‘Police Brutality’ or ‘Police Arrest’,
or anything predictable like that. Being vague it says a lot more.
Miles (Stewart Copeland’s brother and group manager) came up
with “Trimondo Blondomina”. Very subtle. Like three blondes
and the world. Then somebody thought of “Caprido Von Renislam”.
That rolls off the tongue. It was the address of the studio.
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Band: Killing Joke
Album: Killing Joke – debut LP
Released: 5 October – 40 years ago
Jaz Coleman: “The first wave of punk was
manufactured. It was manufactured as boys
band but what came out of it was very interesting.”
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