[kj] Mojo Review........

Neil Perry 65snoopy at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 10:15:54 EDT 2010


Yup he's my grandad...

But if anyone was going to give KJ a fair trial in Mojo it would be him - I
bumped into
him at the Kentish Town 2008 gigs (used to work with him) and he's always
been
a bit of a fan

On 2 October 2010 17:43, Rob Horan <Rob at westwoodassociates.co.uk> wrote:


> sorry, I can't reproduce it....oh fuck it, is a quiet Sat arvo

> anyway.......

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> 'Jaz Coleman's crew (!), rarely absent from duty, perma-influential via

> grunge, industrial and thrash/death/black metal have doled outsome mighty

> records in latter years, including 1994's trance-tinged Pandemonium, and

> 2003's Killing Joke, which boasted pre-Vulture guest sticksman Dave Grohl.

> Finally reunited with lengthiest deserter 'Big' Paul Ferguson (drums), plus

> Youth on bass, this gnarly, apocalyptic, uniquely relevant combo deliver

> their late-period masterpiece. Far from a cheery re-invocation of

> Ferguson-era post-punkage, Absolute Dissent ploughs on triumphantly into

> that murky, tribal, empire-busting KJ netherworld. On This World Hell,

> Geordie achieves sufficient riff-chunkiness to decapitate even a Slayer nut,

> while European Super State could have a field full of ex-Eastern Bloc ravers

> waving glow-sticks with abandon. The sound, throughout, is immense,

> infernal, but anthemic. From the title track's monolithic defiance down,

> this one's an out-of-the-blue anti-establishment classic'

>

> Andrew Perry (any relation to our gatherer?)

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net on behalf of Rob Horan

> Sent: Sat 02/10/2010 15:07

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: RE: [kj] Reviews now stored on KJ MySpace blog:

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> this month's Mojo does have the review, 4 stars as well!

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> -----Original Message-----

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> Sent: Fri 01/10/2010 19:42

> To: Gathering Gathering

> Subject: [kj] Reviews now stored on KJ MySpace blog:

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> http://www.myspace.com/killingjokeofficial/blog?bID=539469824

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