As the headline implies, here’s a post pretty much exclusively for the Killing Joke fans among us. The layperson might also enjoy it, but I’m not going to force it.
In any event, this was recorded in June of 1984 in at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, shortly after the release of the “Eighties” single, and just prior to the release of its follow-up, “A New Day” (which they perform here). About eight months later, they’d release the full album, Nighttime, although “A New Day” would not be on it (although it was on the comparatively recent re-mastering of that album in 2008).
For my money, as much as I adore the original line-up of the band (which is, of course, back together and firing on all cylinders, despite scuttling their American tour for no readily apparent reason), this is my favorite era of Killing Joke, with the mighty Paul Raven on bass (may he rest in peace).
Between the aggression of their first few albums and the more accessible sound that would follow towards the end of the decade (before that derailed), this incarnation of Killing Joke, to my mind, embodied the best of both aesthetics.
You can see a few photos from this gig on this page.
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