[kj] October File interview -- asked several questions about Killing Joke, excerpted below

[Christof hamille]

Wow.  Way to shit where you eat.  
 understand that they want to have their own identity but obviously a lot of people are going to buy your record because of Jaz being on it.  Not because they toured with Killing Joke or Deathstar (who?) or anyone else.  He could have answered those questions with a bit more tact (sp?) and come off  looking a lot better.
It comes out the same day as the Extremities reissue.  If I'm lucky Candlelight will send me a copy (as they have given me to copies of the ep already...nice of them) as that is the only way I'm getting it.

Chris


> From: vassifer at earthlink.net

> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:02:27 -0400

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] October File interview -- asked several questions about	Killing Joke, excerpted below

> 

> 

> Apologies to anyone who might be friends with Cocktober Vile, but  

> fuck! How about getting your own identity and not being such  

> consummate suck-ups? Get lives!

> 

> 

> Alex in NYC

> 

> 

> 

> On Oct 2, 2007, at 8:31 AM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

> 

> > I heard their two new tracks at their MySpace page (October File,  

> > that is). Tracks from the upcoming album (but none w/ Jaz vox). I  

> > don't like what I have heard. And I *so* wanted to like it! If I  

> > buy the October File LP I'll probably only get it for the tracks  

> > Jaz is on, and, man, do I hope he can rescue them..... -Oliver

> >

> >

> >

> > from: http://www.candlelightrecords.co.uk/candleweb/redesign/ 

> > candle_october_file_interview.html

> >

> > [...]

> >

> >

> > Q: How do you feel about being compared to Killing Joke all the time?

> >

> > Steve: “We never wanted to sound like anyone else. The constant  

> > comparisons to Killing Joke, because we toured with them and Jaz is  

> > on the record, well, do we sound like them because we play dark  

> > music? That’s like saying that every metal band sounds like  

> > Metallica and that’s bullshit. Just because it’s in that realm  

> > doesn’t mean that that’s what it is. You know, we all went to see  

> > Killing Joke and they were fucking outstanding, and I said to the  

> > others ‘We don’t just want to be as good as this, we want to be  

> > better than this!’ and that’s the intention. We want to do our own  

> > thing with that level of intensity.”

> >

> > Q: How did you persuade Jaz Coleman to take part on the album?

> >

> > Steve: “Jaz really likes the band and it was great when he turned  

> > round and said that he’d like to do something with us. He offered  

> > to produce the album for us, and we just thought that because he’s  

> > barmy it might not be the best idea. We don’t really want to go to  

> > Morocco to record the guitars, Jaz! (laughs) We’d rather do them in  

> > Reading. So we thought we’d do our own thing, so he offered to do  

> > some guest vocals instead. That bit on ‘High Octane Climate  

> > Changer’ was written with him in mind. In the end what he did was  

> > the exact opposite of what I wanted him to do, but it turned out  

> > amazing! It was great, watching Jaz Coleman singing lyrics that I  

> > wrote on one of our songs. He was sitting there, waxing lyrical  

> > about the record and being honest, and I kept thinking ‘Wow, Jaz  

> > Coleman likes my band!’”

> >

> > Q: You seem to have played shows with a wide variety of bands. Was  

> > that a deliberate ploy to confront as many different audiences as  

> > possible?

> >

> > Steve: “Well, we’ve toured with lots of different people, from  

> > Killing Joke to Deathstars. We’re prepared to take any gigs. If  

> > there’s an audience in front of us, we’re happy to let people make  

> > their own minds up. We’ve picked up people along the way. We did a  

> > gig in Swindon recently and there was a real mix of different  

> > people there, people who’d seen us on this tour and that tour, and  

> > there were really young girls dancing down the front and the 40- 

> > year-old guys at the back wearing our tour t-shirts from two years  

> > ago, and all of a sudden we could see that we’ve done a lot of  

> > ground work for this, and we’ve delivered a great album at just the  

> > right time.”

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