Killing Joke

Event information

Sunday 04 March 2012
KILLING JOKE
Exeter Lemon Grove
Tickets £19.50 (plus booking fee)
Doors open 7.30pm

Jaz Coleman | Geordie | Youth | Paul Ferguson
Killing Joke have spent the last 30 years providing the world with a suitably deep, dark, dogmatic soundtrack to its own calamitous descent into chaos, and as the momentum of the modern age gains ever more urgency, the band are once again poised to hit the philosophical nail squarely on the head…Formed in London, England, in October 1978, Killing Joke was the brainchild of classically-trained musician & vocalist Jeremy ‘Jaz’ Coleman and drummer ‘Big’ Paul Ferguson, who eagerly recruited two like-minded comrades in the form of guitarist Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker and bassist Martin ‘Youth’ Glover and set about establishing a brand new and highly idiosyncratic manifesto for reinventing the rock ‘n’ roll wheel. Not just their strongest album in years, but perhaps the finest and most important thing that Killing Joke have ever done, their new album ‘Absolute Dissent’ which is OUT NOW is the sound of four strong personalities and creative spirits colliding with maximum force and belief. Most bands of their vintage struggle to maintain relevance amid the deafening thump of time’s forward march, but Killing Joke are currently making the best music of their lives. For all of their collective adherence to dark, apocalyptic visions, this band’s future looks brighter than ever…