[kj] D.C. review

[fat potanga]

>Legend has it the band once tied an offending journalist to a speaker, and 
>proceeded to play a soundcheck through him.

Ha! Never heard that one before.
Please may that be true


>"Follow the Leaders" employed a drum machine
Yes. He's called Ted Parsons.  ;)


----Original Message Follows----
From: Jiri <unspeakable@sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: gathering@misera.net
To: gathering@misera.net
Subject: [kj] D.C. review
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:11:37 -0800 (PST)

A review from the Washington Post...I might add that
I'd volunteer to sing if Jaz is sick for any more gigs
:P

Jiri


Killing Joke

Most Goth rockers wear their doom and gloom like
makeup -- something else to take off at the end of the
night. But Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman takes the
apocalypse seriously, so seriously in fact that he
fled to Iceland in the early '80s to avoid it.
Unfortunately the Gotterdammerung stood up Coleman,
and the dejected singer slunk back to England. But you
don't want to rib him about it. Legend has it the band
once tied an offending journalist to a speaker, and
proceeded to play a soundcheck through him.

At the Black Cat on Thursday, Killing Joke pounded out
the sledgehammer rhythms that made them industrial
pioneers in the early '80s. While a jowly Coleman
tottered about the stage in a black cowled robe and
ghoulish makeup, looking like a younger (if similarly
dazed) Ozzy Osbourne, the band delivered a
menacing-as-Metallica "Change," a pummeling "Kings and
Queens," and a chant-like "Wardance" that had the
audience cheering in recognition. While "Total
Invasion" relied on some twisted vocal effects by
Coleman, and the anthemic "Follow the Leaders"
employed a drum machine and synths, for the most part
Killing Joke kept things nasty, brutish and loud --
these guys, it is safe to assume, don't know the
meaning of the word "ballad."

A certain poet once said that a certain critic had
scruples; he just never let them stand in his way.

The same could be said about Killing Joke and melody.
And good thing, too. There's something inspirational
in the sight of hundreds of people banging their heads
as one.

-- Michael Little


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