Killing Joke guitarist Kevin “Geordie” Walker’s influence is vast: Metallica attempted to emulate his guitar snarl on their cover of “The Wait”; Kurt Cobain admittedly ripped off his riff to “Eighties” for “Come As You Are”; LCD Soundsystem synthesized his riff on “Change” and turned it into “Losing My Edge.” Other artists who praised Walker’s playing and Killing Joke include Jimmy Page, Trent Reznor, My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, and all of Faith No More. Yet Walker himself never became a household name before his death on...
- 11/27/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Killing Joke guitarist Kevin “Geordie” Walker has died at the age of 64.
Martin Adkins, Walker’s former Killing Joke bandmate, announced his passing on social media. He died after suffering a stroke.
Killing Joke later confirmed Walker’s death on Facebook, stating, “It is with extreme sadness we confirm that at 6:30am on 26th November 2023 in Prague, Killing Joke’s legendary guitarist Kevin “Geordie” Walker passed away after suffering a stroke, he was surrounded by family. We are devastated. Rest In Peace brother.”
Walker was a founding member of the UK post-punk band Killing Joke, alongside frontman Jaz Coleman, bassist/keyboardist Martin “Youth” Glover, and drummer Paul Ferguson. He remained a member of the band until his passing.
With his guitar playing, Walker emphasized rhythm with a focus on the instrument’s lower notes. His playing was lauded by other legendary guitarists including Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and...
Martin Adkins, Walker’s former Killing Joke bandmate, announced his passing on social media. He died after suffering a stroke.
Killing Joke later confirmed Walker’s death on Facebook, stating, “It is with extreme sadness we confirm that at 6:30am on 26th November 2023 in Prague, Killing Joke’s legendary guitarist Kevin “Geordie” Walker passed away after suffering a stroke, he was surrounded by family. We are devastated. Rest In Peace brother.”
Walker was a founding member of the UK post-punk band Killing Joke, alongside frontman Jaz Coleman, bassist/keyboardist Martin “Youth” Glover, and drummer Paul Ferguson. He remained a member of the band until his passing.
With his guitar playing, Walker emphasized rhythm with a focus on the instrument’s lower notes. His playing was lauded by other legendary guitarists including Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and...
- 11/26/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Killing Joke have released the new song “Full Spectrum Dominance” in celebration of their sold-out show this Sunday (March 12th) at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The legendary UK rock act has also unveiled a “Pure Trance” remix of the song by band member Youth.
Led by frontman Jaz Coleman, Killing Joke’s blend of post-punk, industrial music, and gothic rock has influenced such acts as Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, and Metallica.
“Full Spectrum Dominance” offers a bit of all the aforementioned genres, with Killing Joke sounding in fine form roughly 45 years after their formation. The song follows last year’s Lord of Chaos EP, which marked the band’s first new music in seven years.
Still featuring classic members Coleman, Youth (bass), Geordie Walker (guitar), and Paul Ferguson (drums), Killing Joke will perform their 1980 self-titled debut album and their 1981 sophomore effort, What’s This For…!, in their entirety...
Led by frontman Jaz Coleman, Killing Joke’s blend of post-punk, industrial music, and gothic rock has influenced such acts as Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, and Metallica.
“Full Spectrum Dominance” offers a bit of all the aforementioned genres, with Killing Joke sounding in fine form roughly 45 years after their formation. The song follows last year’s Lord of Chaos EP, which marked the band’s first new music in seven years.
Still featuring classic members Coleman, Youth (bass), Geordie Walker (guitar), and Paul Ferguson (drums), Killing Joke will perform their 1980 self-titled debut album and their 1981 sophomore effort, What’s This For…!, in their entirety...
- 3/10/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
The Butthole Surfers, one of the bands that influenced some of the biggest rock bands of the 90s including Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers, are getting their own deep dive.
A feature documentary about the band, which was lampooned on The Simpsons and Beavis and Butthead and appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, is currently in the works from director Tom Stern.
Stern is a writer, director, producer and showrunner, whose credits include Netflix’s The Toys That Made Us and Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History.
The Butthole Surfers Movie will tell the story of the Texas-based band that featured members including singer Gibby Haynes, guitarist Paul Leary and drummer King Coffey. The band hs released eight studio albums since they formed in 1981 including Locust Abortion Technician, Hairway to Steven and the Capitol Records-released Electriclarryland, which spawned a surprising hit single with the song Pepper.
A feature documentary about the band, which was lampooned on The Simpsons and Beavis and Butthead and appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, is currently in the works from director Tom Stern.
Stern is a writer, director, producer and showrunner, whose credits include Netflix’s The Toys That Made Us and Kevin Hart’s Guide to Black History.
The Butthole Surfers Movie will tell the story of the Texas-based band that featured members including singer Gibby Haynes, guitarist Paul Leary and drummer King Coffey. The band hs released eight studio albums since they formed in 1981 including Locust Abortion Technician, Hairway to Steven and the Capitol Records-released Electriclarryland, which spawned a surprising hit single with the song Pepper.
- 12/10/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
A little after 10pm on Wednesday, Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman was stomping around the stage of New York’s Irving Plaza, bellowing out the band’s brutish 2003 industrial-metal anthem “Loose Cannon,” which as he told the crowd beforehand, was inspired by a period when excessive drinking sent him off the rails. “I’m an urban animal!” the 58-year-old shouted. “One step from a cannibal.”
Like so much of the show — from dreadlocked, raggedly dressed bassist Martin “Youth” Glover reminding the crowd of his days spent spinning records at bygone...
Like so much of the show — from dreadlocked, raggedly dressed bassist Martin “Youth” Glover reminding the crowd of his days spent spinning records at bygone...
- 9/13/2018
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
After about 32 years of being a slavishly devout fan of Killing Joke, the job of reviewing their new studio album with any semblance of balanced objectivity is a tougher task than you might imagine. Those who have embraced the music, mythos and accompanying sensibility of Killing Joke tend to do so with a bug-eyed fervor that borders liberally on myopic zealotry. In short order, no other band matters nearly as much.
That was me for many a year. Sure, I listened to loads of different stuff, but no one touched Killing Joke. Not even close. Even their less salubrious moments -- say, their first divisively populist single, “Me or You?” or Jaz Coleman's beleaguered ersatz-prog opus, Outside The Gate -- still seemed a thousand times more intriguing than any contributions from the rest of the rock rabble, despite any inherent flaws or deviations from the script. Simply put, there...
That was me for many a year. Sure, I listened to loads of different stuff, but no one touched Killing Joke. Not even close. Even their less salubrious moments -- say, their first divisively populist single, “Me or You?” or Jaz Coleman's beleaguered ersatz-prog opus, Outside The Gate -- still seemed a thousand times more intriguing than any contributions from the rest of the rock rabble, despite any inherent flaws or deviations from the script. Simply put, there...
- 10/21/2015
- by Alex in NYC
- www.culturecatch.com
Diy, dark arts and chartbusters pepper this idiosyncratic story of the Joke’s four-decade career
Shaun Pettigrew’s exhaustive account of Killing Joke’s four-decade career is really a fans-only job, although it gradually loosens the cloak of mystique drawn around this band’s shoulders. Possibly spooked by frontman Jaz Coleman’s thousand-yard stare, Pettigrew takes his subjects’ dabbling in the darker arts seriously, devoting entire sidebars to runes and numerology. (Less serious: guest witness Peter Hook, who shrugs off such Kerrang!-friendly Satanism with the priceless: “I’m from Salford. Why would the devil scare me?”) Between wobbly VHS footage of continental music shows and spinning NME headlines, Pettigrew uncovers ample evidence of erratic personalities, yet he’s equally attuned to fluctuations in their scowling sound – the initial Diy flourishes, the artful lacquer of their mid-80s chartbusters, the harder edge regained once the spotlight moved elsewhere. Throughout, Coleman remains fascinatingly idiosyncratic,...
Shaun Pettigrew’s exhaustive account of Killing Joke’s four-decade career is really a fans-only job, although it gradually loosens the cloak of mystique drawn around this band’s shoulders. Possibly spooked by frontman Jaz Coleman’s thousand-yard stare, Pettigrew takes his subjects’ dabbling in the darker arts seriously, devoting entire sidebars to runes and numerology. (Less serious: guest witness Peter Hook, who shrugs off such Kerrang!-friendly Satanism with the priceless: “I’m from Salford. Why would the devil scare me?”) Between wobbly VHS footage of continental music shows and spinning NME headlines, Pettigrew uncovers ample evidence of erratic personalities, yet he’s equally attuned to fluctuations in their scowling sound – the initial Diy flourishes, the artful lacquer of their mid-80s chartbusters, the harder edge regained once the spotlight moved elsewhere. Throughout, Coleman remains fascinatingly idiosyncratic,...
- 10/1/2015
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Kevin Williams Associates has closed a multi-territory deal with the Sundance Channel for its music doc, Killing Joke - The Death & Resurrection Show.
Sundance has taken the film for France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Eastern Europe, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Malta, Asia (excluding India) and Canada.
The film, a UK/New Zealand coproduction directed by Shaun Pettigrew, was made through Ilc Productions, Jaz Coleman and Coffee Films.
It tells the story of cult post punk Goth rock band Killing Joke, formed in London in 1978. It features interviews with Jimmie Page and Dave Grohl.
Killing Joke lead singer Lead singer Jaz Coleman, who features prominently, was recently made Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France for his services to music.
He has conducted classical music and has worked extensively with ethnic Arab musicians. The film follows him and the band to Iceland, Peru, Scotland and New Zealand.
Sundance is planning to roll the doc out to...
Sundance has taken the film for France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Eastern Europe, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Malta, Asia (excluding India) and Canada.
The film, a UK/New Zealand coproduction directed by Shaun Pettigrew, was made through Ilc Productions, Jaz Coleman and Coffee Films.
It tells the story of cult post punk Goth rock band Killing Joke, formed in London in 1978. It features interviews with Jimmie Page and Dave Grohl.
Killing Joke lead singer Lead singer Jaz Coleman, who features prominently, was recently made Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France for his services to music.
He has conducted classical music and has worked extensively with ethnic Arab musicians. The film follows him and the band to Iceland, Peru, Scotland and New Zealand.
Sundance is planning to roll the doc out to...
- 5/13/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready has formed a new group with former Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan and ex-Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin. The unnamed band is working on a set that will incorporate a revolving number of vocalists, among them Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman. McCready and Martin, who were in the mid-90s’ side-project Mad Season, began writing with McKagan, and “we took some of those old Mad Season demos from that [unreleased] second ‘Disinformation’ record,” McCready tells Billboard. “We’re talking to Jaz...and I’ve been trying to find some singer to work on some of that stuff.” McCready plans to release...
- 3/1/2013
- Hitfix
The ‘90s are back—again. Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, and Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin have formed an as-yet-unnamed, sort-of-supergroup sure to mildly thrill thirtysomethings everywhere. According to McCready, the group will feature a number of different singers including, potentially, Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman. Whatever the band ends up recording will come out on McCready’s label, Hockeytalker Records. This isn’t the first time McCready, McKagan, and Martin have worked together, though it’s never been as a trio. Martin and McKagan, are currently involved in a group called Walking Papers ...
- 3/1/2013
- avclub.com
After almost two weeks of being kind-of missing, Jaz Coleman has finally been located. The Killing Joke singer is, according to a post on the band’s Facebook page, at “his retreat in the Western Sahara bemused by all the fuss of his disappearance.” Coleman has reportedly been busy writing a book, a new solo album, and a combination TV show/concert, all of which somehow necessitated him “living a nomadic existence.” Coleman also insists that it wasn’t he who dissed both The Cult and The Mission on Killing Joke’s Facebook page, a situation which ultimately led to ...
- 8/13/2012
- avclub.com
Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman has gone missing and band members are “concerned about his welfare.” Several days ago, someone—maybe Coleman, maybe a rogue fan—announced via the band's Facebook page that the industrial metal band’s fall UK tour with The Cult and The Mission would not be going forward, claiming that “all [of The Cult’s] songs suck” and that The Cult “clearly [has] no integrity.” Since Coleman has gone missing, though, the band can’t confirm whether he was actually the author of these statements; what is certain is that all of the band’s ...
- 8/1/2012
- avclub.com
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