[kj] York Street Recording Studios

[ade]

As you say, well into their KJ, but I always felt the vocals sounded boyband-tastic :)

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net
[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of bongo
Sent: 20 March 2008 04:20
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] York Street Recording Studios


fuck yeah! shihad used to GO OFF!
i was lucky enough to see them from day one, (well, when they started
playing AK) and they were fuckin rad!
very KJish imo, of course, they lost it totally now...





On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

> Also I wonder if Shihad's use of York St pre- or post-dates the acrimony

> with Jaz...they are listed as a client on the website. Interestingly

> they're listed as 'Pacifier' which is the shit name they changed to in

> anticipation of the US audience not being able to digest the word Shihad

> post 9/11...so they may well have used it since all that shit went down.

>

> Changing their name to pacify (pun intended) the american audience really

> pissed a lot of old fans off, myself included. Shihad was a mistaken

> interpretation of the word Jihad in the first place. At least they had the

> grace to change the name back and say they regretted doing it in

> hindsight. But for a lot of fans like Bongo and I it was game over from

> that point.

>

> They used to be a fucking good band back in the day:

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6JNN10FNWg

>

> That song was reportedly written with Jaz in mind. As was another off same

> album (Killjoy, 1994, which they recorded after their split with Jaz after

> he produced their prior album Churn). And I've heard that they did a track

> later on called Killing Jaz, but I lost interest in them around '99.

>

>

>

> >> York Street Recording Studios was originally built in 1991 by Killing

> >> Joke

> > front man Jaz Coleman...

> >

> > http://www.yorkstreet.co.nz/

> > http://www.myspace.com/york_street

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Street_Studio

> >

> >

> > Is Jaz owner?

>

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