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Killing Joke

March 2024

  • Jaz Coleman: ‘I’m asking people not to ask about the future of Killing Joke.’

    ‘One time, we achieved levitation’: Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman on magic, mysticism and mourning

    In his first interview since the death of the influential band’s guitarist, Geordie Walker, the singer talks about their friendship, transhumanism and his fears that rogue AI will destroy the world

November 2023

  • Kevin Walker performing with Killing Joke at the Roundhouse in 2015.

    Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker, influential guitarist with Killing Joke, dies aged 64

    Guitarist celebrated by Jimmy Page and Kevin Shields for his intense, multi-layered sound suffered a stroke over the weekend

March 2018

  • Abba

    Record Store Day 2018: the exclusive releases in full

    From Abba to Zero 7, the 500 singles, EPs, LPs and cassettes released for the annual celebration of independent record shops

July 2016

  • Leonard Cohen in 1988.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about roots

    This week’s playlist takes us through the ages, with songs from Elvis, Grace Jones, Morrissey and Leonard Cohen

May 2016

  • Jay Coleman, Killing Joke, Preston Polytechnic, 1982.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about power

    The full force of the universe is felt through music this week as a below-the-line regular selects a playlist from last week’s suggestions

February 2016

  • Youth<br>British bass guitarist and producer Martin Glover, aka Youth, of post-punk group Killing Joke, circa 1980. (Photo by Tim Roney/Getty Images)

    ‘I treated working with Paul McCartney as art’ – Youth on his five favourite albums

    The producer and Killing Joke bassist has produced everyone from Alien Sex Fiend to Bananarama. Here he picks the best albums he has worked on, from Pink Floyd to the Orb

October 2015

  • Jaz Coleman

    The Death and Resurrection Show review – Satan, Killing Joke and Paxman

    DIY, dark arts and chartbusters pepper this idiosyncratic story of the Joke’s four-decade career

March 2013

  • Killing Joke in 1980

    From Rock's Backpages
    Killing Joke: 'We've lost all our friends. We're the only ones we've got left' – a classic interview from the vaults

    To hail Killing Joke's 35th anniversary and the release of a new singles collection, we return again to Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – for this interview with the band. It first appeared in Sounds in August 1980

August 2012

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    Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman resurfaces in Western Sahara

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    Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman goes missing

April 2012

  • Carl McCoy of Fields of the Nephilim

    Goth for life

    Fields of the Nephilim still play to packed houses of devoted fans. It just goes to show that once you're a goth, you're always a goth

March 2012

  • Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke.

    Old music
    Old music: Killing Joke – Age of Greed

    Greedy bankers, cuts to services, a Tory in No 10 – what better circumstances could there be to listen to Killing Joke?

November 2007

  • Paul Raven

    Obituary: Industrial rock bassist on Killing Joke's most commercial albums

October 2007

  • Killing Joke bassist dies

    Paul Raven, one time bassist with the seminal post-punk band Killing Joke, has died aged 46, after apparently suffering a heart attack in the early hours of Saturday morning.

May 2006

  • Killing Joke

    Koko, London

October 2003

  • Killing Joke

    Metropolitan University, Leeds

July 2003

  • Killing Joke: Killing Joke

    (Zuma)

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