how was killing joke? well, heavy, uncompromised and loud mostly, my ears have barely recovered… they played, as I expected, mostly songs from their early days, like ‘Wardance’, a few from their later period (Pandamonium) and of course much from their new album. no room for the more melodic and atmospheric mid-eighties songs…
by the way, i read an interview with jaz coleman in the free music minded magazine. of course it deals with dave grohl, the nirvana-drummer who played drums on the new killing joke album (bot not on tour). jaz and dave first had a little conflict to solve from the past: nirvana ‘borrowed’ the guitar riff from ‘eighties’ on their hit ‘come as you are’. but that has been forgiven now. further jaz tells what he has been doing in the past 7 years it took to create a new killing joke album. appararently he has not been bored. he not only moved to new zealand, but he also: did his first opera in covent garden; he rewrote the national hymn of new zealand in the original language; he has wandered with a folkband for weddings and funerals through the czech republic; he composed a concerto for a folkgroup and an orchestra; he reached his master degree in theology; to name but a few things.
