[kj] ChartAttack review

[Darth E. Vader]

But would Jaz
"bristle"
at being called an old punk?

--- Jiri <unspeakable at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Thanks for posting...
> 
> As always, Raven makes for an entertaining
> interview/quote machine.
> 
> death wish wrote:
> 
> > Killing Joke Can Still Laugh 25 Years Into Their
> Career
> > Wednesday December 07, 2005 @ 06:30 PM
> > By: ChartAttack.com Staff
> >
> >
> > Killing Joke
> >
> > Back in the '80s, Killing Joke gained popularity —
> albeit in an 
> > "alternative" way — with reasonably upbeat pop
> songs such as "Love 
> > Like Blood" and "Eighties." KJ fans, sometimes
> known as "The 
> > Gatherers," know there's a lot more to the British
> band than the Weird 
> > Science soundtrack would indicate.
> >
> > Killing Joke came screaming out of London in 1979
> with a blast of 
> > industro-metal mayhem, strange tribal rhythms and
> the doom 'n' gloom 
> > wordplay of vocalist Jaz Coleman. The band's
> history is peppered with 
> > unusual tales and events — an interest in the
> occult, bursts of 
> > violence, living in Iceland and relocating to
> Prague, to name a few.
> >
> > Yet Killing Joke have survived, and not as a
> waning, aging unit 
> > performing past hits at casino shows. Twenty-six
> years later, the band 
> > are actively playing and recording. Their
> quarter-century mark was 
> > celebrated by anniversary shows in London that
> were captured for more 
> > than just posterity on a new DVD called XXV
> Gathering!.
> >
> > "We ran into the guys from [Enliven Entertainment]
> up in Montreal," 
> > explains bassist Paul Raven. "They did Disaster
> Pieces for Slipknot, 
> > and we fuckin' love that DVD — it was shot well,
> well-edited, 
> > well-put-together.
> >
> > "I'm like, 'Well, let's see what these guys can do
> for us — see if 
> > they can make a bunch of fuckin' old punk
> granddads look cool.'"
> >
> > The band chose to release the DVD, and a live
> album, "warts and all." 
> > But the warts are easily overlooked due to the
> quality of their 
> > performance. Instead of paining over
> post-production tweaking, they 
> > chose to approach the DVD as a way to simply
> capture the atmosphere 
> > and the celebration as it was happening. To help
> them choose a set 
> > list — no easy task, considering their longevity —
> they went to The 
> > Gatherers for suggestions, which is indicative of
> the band's rapport 
> > with their fans.
> >
> > Killing Joke have also just finished mastering
> their new Hosannahs 
> > From The Basements Of Hell album, which will be
> released the first 
> > week of March. "In some ways it's like the best
> parts of our favourite 
> > elements of Killing Joke history, musically,"
> Raven says of the album.
> >
> > "Being in Prague, all living in the same place —
> living and breathing 
> > and eating and shitting and sleeping together —
> it's all just been 
> > much more cohesive this time."
> >
> > Raven describes the new material as being slightly
> different than the 
> > group's previous work, with an audible element of
> Middle Eastern music 
> > and a few tracks with strings (Coleman has
> recently begun conducting 
> > for various orchestras). Lyrically, the album
> finds a different tone 
> > as well.
> >
> > "It's not so doom-laden as a lot of the stuff that
> we do," Raven says. 
> > "It's a little bit more 'Pull yourself up by your
> bootstraps and have 
> > a good time now before it all goes fucking face
> down,' you know."
> >
> > It's not hard to believe, speaking with the jovial
> musician, that the 
> > band aren't as dour as popular opinion might have
> you believe. They 
> > have plenty of reason to be positive these days,
> with a 
> > quarter-century behind them, a new album on the
> horizon and a new shot 
> > of vitality via the presence of new drummer Benny
> Calvert. As a 
> > result, the band have no plans to slow down in the
> foreseeable future. 
> > "We're going to do it until the fucking wheels
> drop off, and that's 
> > it," says Raven, who's currently in El Paso, Texas
> recording the new 
> > Ministry album with Al Jourgensen.
> >
> > "I think a big part of longevity with Killing Joke
> is we got a lot of 
> > love for one another, we really do, and that's
> something that is very 
> > thin on the ground in bands. Usually people sell
> each other down the 
> > street for a fucking six-pack. When things are at
> their absolute 
> > worst, we just grin at each other and smoke a
> cigar, normally.
> >
> > "Then we always have drugs and crime to turn to if
> things get real bad."
> >
> > —James Tennant
> >
> >
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