KILLING JOKE released their eighth album, Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions, on this day in 1990.
Extremities... is the only album to feature Martin Atkins (PUBLIC IMAGE LTD, MINISTRY) on drums.
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Recorded only 12 days earlier, KILLING JOKE released "Change" b/w "Tomorrow's World" on this day in 1980. The recordings took place at the BBC's Maida Vale 4 for John Peel's programme - their second session - who aired the songs on 17 March. A third song, "Complications", was...
KILLING JOKE recorded their second session for John Peel's programme on this day in 1980 at Maida Vale 4. The session first aired on Monday 17 March sharing session spots with a re-broadcast of the REVILLOS' first. Killing Joke went from zero to 100 in ten weeks, and...
After returning from a January European tour, JOY DIVISION played three gigs with KILLING JOKE. The two bands co-headlined the third at the Lyceum, London on this day in 1980. Opening bands were A CERTAIN RATIO and SECTION 25. Several recordings exist - audience, soundboard and soundcheck. Five...
KILLING JOKE released Ha on this day in 1982. The live 10" / cassette was recorded that August at Larry's Hideaway, Toronto, Canada. In February 1982 Jaz had essentially quit and left for Iceland, Geordie later joined him. They eventually returned to the UK and began touring in...
We are the only honest band. You try to find another band that's got true, honest feeling. Not fashion, girls, things that are going to get them in the Top 10. That's rubbish, all of it. Our motives are to become as much ourselves as we possibly can....
Time to draw some strength from KJ... Fantastic set from KILLING JOKE at Roskilde, the annual music festival in Denmark. Roskilde is roughly equivalent to Glastonbury in size and origin (1971). Tape of the original TV broadcast on this day in 1984. Friday night, the first of the three...