[kj] KILLING JOKE (Live) (Metal Express Radio)

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https://www.metalexpressradio.com/2022/04/06/killing-joke-live-2/



*KILLING JOKE (Live)AT THE BOILER SHOP, NEWCASTLE 5TH APRIL 2022*April 6,
2022 By Mick Burgess

[image: Jaz.jpg]

Most bands, more than four decades into their careers, have gone somewhat
soft around the ages, a touch complacent, going through the motions on
cruise control.  Killing Joke aren`t like most bands. The angry young men
from the late `70`s are now even angrier old men.

Still featuring the four original members that cut their first EP, “Turn To
Red”, back in 1979, Killing Joke were in no mood for compromise as they
returned to Newcastle as part of their ‘Honour The Fire Tour’.

Always being somewhat unpredictable and never complying with convention,
Killing Joke pretty much wrong footed everyone by opening with their
biggest hit “Love Like Blood”, a song they are not afraid from dropping
entirely from their set and one nobody was expecting.

Few bands have been quite so influential across so many genres while
retaining their credibility throughout.  With their tentacles spreading
well beyond their Post Punk roots across to Metal, Gothic, Punk, Indie,
Grunge and Dance, they pushed boundaries to breaking point.

As Jaz Coleman staggered around the stage like a man possessed, spitting
venom and ire at the state of the world as “Wardance”, “Total Invasion”,
“This World Hell” “Money Is Not Our God” and “I Am The Virus”, all seeming
even more apt during these rather strange and scary times.  As if to
reinforce his stance, “Lord Of Chaos” from their brand-new EP was suitably
acerbic aided and abetted by the pulverising, driving riff from Chester-le
Street born Geordie.

The hypnotic, pulsing beat of “Mathematics Of Chaos” had the crowd in an
almost trance like state, moving as one indivisible mass as Coleman played
the deranged ringmaster.

With the suitably titled “Pandemonium” bringing the show to an apocalyptic
end, Killing Joke left the crowd an exhausted, dystopian wreck. Job done.

Review and Photos By Mick Burgess
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