Killing Joke - Classic Or Dud, Search And Destroy

Tour Line up:

Bass - Raven
Drums - Ted Parsons

You know the other usual suspects.

There is a promo tour lined up prior to the release of the new album, titled Killing Joke 2003, and Raven has been asked to join. This is not slated to be a concert tour, but rather a press tour...as it stands now.

Release date, though it may change, is set for late July. After the 20th.

Open dates for touring, though none are set as of this date, are from early August through late October.

This week, the album will go through final mix, then it is off tp pressing. The band members also signed the confidentiality agreements, meaning it will not be MP3'd, or released in any way with out authority
from the label.

In short, the album is all done, going to press, and we will all have it in our hot hands in just about 2 1/2 months, with a tour starting shortly after.

He's even unwittingly gotten me into them. Well, to "Night Time", anyway. I actually went out of my way to a different music store each day last week to search for that album, even going so far as to go 20 miles out of my way to a funky little music store that I thought might have it. It's damned hard to get around here, it seems.

Damn you, Alex. ;) It would only be fair for you to do a similar hunting thing for a band I adore. Maybe The Cure, or the Psychedelic Furs, or Duran Duran, or Japan, or Yellow Magic Orchestra, or Ultravox, or Visage, or A Flock of Seagulls, or... er. I think I have the reason behind the first two sentences in this post here.

Seriously, though, it's admirable that you would be so committed to a band that you would want to sing their praises on a constant basis. Very good.

V/A Wild Dub (Select Cuts) cd 15.98
Subtitled "Dread Meets Punk Rocker Downtown" this is a brilliant collection of dubbed out and reggaefied punk and new wave b-sides circa '77-'81, demonstrating the Jamaican dub influence on the youth culture of music and rebellion in England and elsewhere, back in the day. The underground dancefloor avantgardists of today can cop these styles, but this is the real deal, with tracks from well-known acts like The Pop Group, Killing Joke, The Slits, PIL, The Clash, Grace Jones and Stiff Little Fingers, plus some more obscure bands as well, like Red Beat, 4 Be 2, and Basement 5. Some cuts are actual echoey dubs, others are more about the Jamaican influence, and the dub concept of studio as instrument. All are pretty cool.

The Ruts' "Jah War" starts things off in deceptively ordinary fashion, pretty much straight up reggae (not a dub), though it does succesfully demonstrate this comp's thesis about the regarding the influence of reggae on punk (with The Ruts eventually becoming Ruts DC, subject of an anthology on Select Cuts we recommended a while back)... That's followed by Mikey Dread's dub version of The Clash's "Bank Robber" which of course sounds pretty much like The Clash, but dubbier. It's with track three, "Wild Dub" from Generation X, purportedly the first punk dub ever cut, that the punk-dub collision starts to get really interesting. And if Billy Idol's old band's dub attempt is cool, you can only imagine what more some of the more out-there groups came up with. For instance, dig the bizarre sounds of The Slits, whose disjointed dub of "Typical Girls" comes off like Italian 'rock concrete' deconstructionists Starfuckers by way of Jamaica, all cut-up and sparse and loopy. Definitely a highlight. Meanwhile, you've got The Pop Group setting an example for current acts like Out Hud/!!! to emulate, 4 Be 2's weird Irish hoedown skank, the throbbing "Turn To Red" by Killing Joke (from a super-rare 9" record), and Grace Jones' 1980 Chrissie Hynde penned dance classic "Private Life" with bass and drums from Sly & Robbie. And more... Former Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten is a ubiquitous presence, in addition to PIL's quintessential "Death Disco", there's a bunch of other John Lydon productions on here, including a great track from Vivien Goldman ("Private Armies") dubbed up by Lydon and Adrian Sherwood. Goldman, former singer with the Flying Lizards and reggae writer for the punk weekly Sounds, contributes the disc's liner notes, with an enthusiastic, informed, she-was-there-then-and-cares-deeply-about-it-now perspective. So, totally, recommended -- everyone who loved those great Disco Not Disco and/or In The Beginning There Was Rhythm compilations will want to check this out for sure!

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THE LEGENDARY FIRST POST! From such small acorns...

Killing Joke at Webster Hall 10/22/03

Killing Joke at Slims on 11/13/03

this is the thread where we talk about how much Living In The 80's by Killing Joke rules.

This is a thread where Alex in NYC can post EVERY SINGLE Killing Joke-related picture he has

Killing Joke 2003: the Album (c'mon, ya knew it was coming!)

Killing Joke - Outside the Gate.: Can ANYONE defend this?

TS: Adam And The Ants' "(You're So) Physical" vs. Killing Joke's "Requiem"

Grohl with the Joke -- for Aja

Killing Joke Album Review (For Alex In NYC)

Killing Joke question (for Mr. Killing Joke)

Alex in NYC - Let's rave about Geordie from Killing joke

killing electroclash joke

Ok, Killing Joke's playing in a club next week, should I go?

TS: Killing Joke's "War Dance" v. XTC's "The War Dance"

26 days til KILLING JOKE hits vancouver....

new killing joke/grohl resume entry

Fire Honours Itself

Anyways, I just finished watching this TV pilot for my work, which features a scene with a young girl giving a guy a mix CD. As she hands it to him, she says "it has all the hot new stuff on it -- The Darkness, Handsome Boy Modeling School (?), Killing Joke..."

Maybe there's one main set dresser/cred consultant lurking in TV land who's a big Joke fanatic...?

My head just exploded.

does this phenomenon have it's own thread? (not that it DESERVES it, I realize, but that hasn't stopped me before...)

Words fail me.

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Have you rectified this problem yet?

Honour the fire!

Are you suggesting the `Joke are not their own? POPPYCOCK, BLASPHEMER!

No no no, that's not what I meant at all (and calm down, man). I mean that they belong so much to this Other Grouping that I feel like an interloper even sampling one of their songs, which I confess to having done over the past week. Actually some of what I've been hearing reminds me of some of the Scars' latter output -- tribal-flavored, danceable post-punk with sharp, angular guitar action. But I'd still "feel like a thief or burglar barging into that territory", as I explained to Bimbler on the temporary forum. Same thing with a few other artists. Speaking of, I wonder where Bimbler is. I'd have thought he'd have poked his head in around here by now.

That said I did run into "Turn To Red" tonight when playing part of my 8-Disc mix of 1979 tracks that I made a few years ago.

I think you and I need to start discussing things privately more often. I asked if you liked New Order on the other board but you were gone, etc. We've got a good think going Phoenix. Let's talk some more!

this band is shit. Dud