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

[Brendan]

Cheers Olly... Anyone heard any October File?


> 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

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> from:

> http://www.candlelightrecords.co.uk/candleweb/redesign/candle_october_file_interview.html

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> 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?

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> 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?

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> 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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