[kj] KJ & zigzag

[melinda grant]

hi juliet... i remember     dave who used to breath fire,ect....think he was 
some kind of wizard,it was very good watching him//vry effective........mel

>From: "juliet pleming" <pricepleming at tiscali.co.uk>....
>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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>Subject: Re: [kj] KJ & zigzag
>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:50:41 -0000
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>Bloody hell! I remember Kris Needs. I'd totally forgotten him until I read 
>that. He was like a smaller, weedier version of Youth - lots of dreads. I 
>can't even remember where I remember him from. Probably general clubbing  & 
>seeing him hang out with Youth. I DO remember him - I can actually see him 
>in my minds eye.
>
>What about Dave, the nutter who used to breathe fire to start the show off  
>?  Does anyone remember him? ( I know I have asked that before and noone 
>answered) Was he a precursor of Miss Weasel or whatever that american woman 
>was called who breathed fire out of somewhere else.
>
>Juliet
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Alexander Smith
>   To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
>   Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:55 PM
>   Subject: Re: [kj] KJ & zigzag
>
>
>   Well, ZigZag was also the mighty KRIS NEEDS' magazine, and Kris was huge 
>pals with Youth. I had the pleasure of working with Kris in the early 90's 
>(when he was in pretty bad shape, actually) at the long-since-defunkt NEW 
>YORK REVIEW OF RECORDS, and he'd constantly regale me with stories about 
>Youth and Jaz (Jaz apparently put a hex on him at one point).
>
>   Alex in NYC
>
>
>
>   On Tuesday, January 18, 2005, at 08:57 AM, <antoni at clara.net> wrote:
>
>
>     ... and on the subject of the ZigZag magazine, KJ did get some good 
>coverage, most especially within the original publication 
>(http://home.clara.net/antoni/zzback.JPG), whose last issue (No 130) 
>appeared in October 1982, with Siouxsie Sioux on the cover. It contained a 
>rare interview with Youth's Brilliant & I have a copy. The magazine was 
>relaunched as New ZigZag in October 1983 with issue number 1 
>(http://home.clara.net/antoni/zznew01.JPG) being a goth's paradise, with 
>Sex Gang Children on the cover - plenty of Alien Sex Fiend, Sisters Of 
>Mercy, Death Cult, X-Mal Deutschland and the Cocteau Twins.
>
>     Back to the original ZZ magazine, there were major pieces on KJ in 
>issue 100, with an interview and that infamous page sized photo of the KJ 
>lads in the builder's skip with a brick in hand, issue 105 with a 4 page 
>centre spread article about the recording of the first album plus Youth & 
>Geordie on the cover. Issue 116 contained an interview with Youth about the 
>WTF album - KJ rarely got any coverage in the "new" ZZ (and if so it was 
>hardly complimentary) and that was probably as much down to the fact that 
>Mick Mercer became the editor. KJ was not one of his bands. I'm not sure 
>why. Did they once tell him to f*ck *ff ?  The truth is out there 
>somewhere.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Antoni
>
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