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KILLING JOKE
London, GB
* 6/1979

Line-Up (2022):

Jaz Coleman - voc,kb
Geordie Walker - g
Martin "Youth" Glover - bg
Paul Ferguson - ds

Former Members:

Martin "Youth" Glover (bg, 6/79-1982, 1/94-?); Guy Pratt (bg, 1982-83); Paul Raven (bg, 1983-87, 1989-91, cca 1/01); Andy Rourke (bg); Taff (bg)
Paul Ferguson (ds, 6/79-1988); Martin Atkins (ds, 1990-91)
John Bechdel (synths, do 1991)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Killing Joke	9/1980	Malicious Damage		39
2.	Ha! Killing Joke Live (mini LP)	05.10.1980	EG		66
3.	What's This For?	19.06.1981	EG		42
4.	Revelations produced by: Conny Plank	4/1982	EG		12
5.	Fire Dances	08.07.1983	EG		29
6.	Night Time	3/1984	EG		11
7.	Brighter Than A Thousand Suns	11/1986	EG		54	194
8.	Outside The Gate	5/1988	EG		92
9.	Extremities, Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions (2LP)	19.11.1990	Noise/RCA
10.	Laugh? I Nearly Bought One	05.10.1992	Virgin
11.	The Courthold Talks (2LP)	7/1993	Invisible
12.	Pandemonium (2LP)	18.07.1994	Big Life		16
13.	Wilful Days	01.05.1995	Virgin
14.	Killing Joke: BBC In Concert	10/1995	Windsong
15.	Democracy	01.04.1996	Butterly		71
16.	The Remixes	25.11.1996	Big Life
17.	Love Like Blood	06.04.1998	Dragonfly
18.	Wardance - The Remixes	04.05.1998	Dragonfly
19.	Killing Joke produced by: Andy Gill	6/2003	Sony Music		43
20.	Unperverted Pantomine	24.06.2003	Pilot
21.	Chaos for Breakfast	20.07.2004
22.	For Beginners	19.10.2004	Caroline
23.	XXV Gathering!	04.10.2005	Cooking Vinyl
24.	Inside Extremities, Mixes, Rehearsals & Live	03.04.2007	Candlelight
25.	Bootleg Vinyl Archive, Vol. 1	22.05.2007	Candlelight
26.	Bootleg Vinyl Archive, Vol. 2	22.05.2007	Candlelight
27.	The Peel Sessions 1979-1981	15.09.2008	EMI
28.	Duendes: The Spanish Sessions	10.03.2009	Candlelight
29.	Original Unperverted Pantomine	10.03.2009	Candlelight
30.	Gathering 2008	30.06.2009	Caroline
31.	Gathering 2008, Pt. 2	30.06.2009	Caroline
32.	Requiem	29.09.2009	Charly
33.	XIII: Feast Of Fools	14.09.2010	Universal
34.	Absolute Dissent	27.09.2010	Spinefarm		71
35.	Live at Hammersmith Apollo 16.10. 2010	19.04.2011
36.	MMXII produced by: Martin Glover	02.04.2012	Spinefarm		44
37.	The Singles Collection 1979-2012 (2CD)	4/2013	Spinefarm		75
38.	In Dub	10.03.2014
39.	Pylon produced by: Tom Dalgety	23.10.2015	Spinefarm		16

Jaz Coleman:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Songs From The Victorious City & Anne Dudley, prod. Anne Dudley/Jaz Coleman	29.10.1990	China
2.	Riders On The Storm: The Doors Concerto & Nigel Kennedy	20.06.2000	Point/Universal
3.	Proměny & Čechomor, prod. Jaz Coleman	5/2001	Venkow
4.	Lithium: Symphonic Music of Nirvana	31.03.2015	429

Martin "Youth" Glover:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	The Empty Quarter & Ben Watkins	24.02.1984	Illuminated
2.	Heavy Duty Breaks	1985	Illuminated
3.	Delirium credited to: The Empty Quarter	1986	Illuminated
4.	Strawberries, Ships, Oceans, Forest credited to: The Fireman (& Paul McCartney)	12/1993	Parlophone

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Almost Red EP	1979	Malicious Damage
2.	Are You Receiving / Turn To Red / Nervous Red	10/1979	Malicious Damage
3.	Nervous System / Turn To Red 12" + Almost Red / Are You Receiving Me	14.12.1979	Island
4.	Wardance / Psyche	3/1980	Malicious Damage
5.	Requiem / Change 12" + Requiem 434 / Change (version)	03.10.1980	EG
6.	Follow The Leaders / Tension	15.05.1981	EG	25
7.	Empire Song / Brilliant	12.03.1982	EG	43
8.	Chop Chop / Good Samaritan	18.06.1982	EG
9.	Birds Of Feather / Flock The B-Side 12" + Sun Goes Down	22.10.1982	EG	64
10.	Let's All Go (To The Fire Dances) / Dominator 12" + The Fall Of Because (live)	17.06.1983	EG	51
11.	Me Or You? / Wilful Days 10",12" + Feast Of Blaze	07.10.1983	EG	57
12.	Eighties 12" + Eighties (Serious Dance Mix) produced by: Chris Kimsey	26.03.1984	EG	38
13.	A New Day / Dance Day	7/1984	EG	34
14.	A Love Like Blood / Blue Feather	1/1985	EG	13
15.	Kings And Queens / The Madding Crowd	3/1985	EG	58
16.	Adorations / Exile 12" + Ecstacy	8/1986	EG	42
17.	Sanity / Goodbye To The Village 7"(2) + Wardance 12" + Victory	10/1987	EG	70
18.	America / Jihad CD + Change	4/1988	EG	77
19.	My Love Of This Land / Darkness Before Dawn 10" + Follow The Leaders (dub) / Sun Goes Down 12" + Follow The Leaders (dub) / Psyche	7/1988	EG	89
20.	Money Is Not Our God / North Of The Border	22.10.1990	Noise
21.	Change / Requiem	28.10.1992	EG/Virgin	76
22.	Exorcism / Exorcism (live) / Exorcism (German mix) / Whiteout (ugly mix) / Another Cult Goes Down (mix)	14.03.1994	Butterfly/Big Life
23.	Millennium / Millennium (Cybersank remix) 12",CD + (Drum Club remix) / (Juno Reactor remix)	25.04.1994	Butterfly/Big Life	34
24.	Pandemonium / Requiem	04.07.1994	Butterfly/Big Life	28
25.	Jana (Youth remix) / Jana (Dragonfly mix) CD1 + Love Like Blood (live) / Whiteout 12",CD2 + Jana (live) / Wardance (live) Exorcism (live) / Kings And Queens (live)	16.01.1995	Butterfly/Big Life	54
26.	Democracy / Mass	11.03.1996	Butterfly	39
27.	The Remixes	25.11.1996	Big Life
28.	Love Like Blood / Intellect	06.04.1998	Dragonfly
29.	Loose Cannon	7/2003	Zuma	25
30.	Hosannas From the Basements of Hell	20.03.2006	Cooking Vinyl	72
31.	In Excelsis EP	21.06.2010
32.	European Super State	01.11.2010
33.	Lord Of Chaos EP (Lord Of Chaos / Total / Big Buzz (Motorcade Mix) / Delete In Dub (Youth’s Disco 45 Dystopian Dub))	25.03.2022

Jaz Coleman:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Minarets And Memories / The Awakening & Anne Dudley	9/1990	China
2.	Habebe / Minarets And Memories 12",CD + The Conquerer / In A Timeless Place & Anne Dudley	12/1990	China
3.	Ziggarats of Cinnamon / Habebe & Anne Dudley	1991	TVT

Movies:

1. Rok ďábla (3/2002, music by + starring Jaz Coleman, directed by Petr Zelenka)

Bibliography:

Jaz Coleman: An Irrational Domain

Awards:

2005 Kerrang! Awards - Lifetime Achievement Award
2010 Classic Rock Awards - Innovator

Various:

disbanded 1991
reunited 1/1994
reunited 3/2008

Compilation Appearances:

"Tomorrow's World" on compilation "A Life Less Lived - The Gothic Box" (19.9.06, Rhino)
"Pssyche" on compilation "John Peel - Right Time, Wrong Speed: 1977-1987" (9.10.06)

Martin "Youth" Glover:

appeared on the LP:

The Drum Club: Drums Are Dangerous (8.8.94, Butterfly/Big Life)
The Orb: Metallic Spheres (4.10.10)

produced by LP:

Crowded House: Together Alone (11.10.93, Capitol)
The Fireman (Paul McCartney): Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest (15.11.93, Parlophone)
Tom Jones: The Lead And How To Swing It (14.11.94, ZTT)
Shack: HMS Fable (14.6.99, London)
String Cheese Incident: Untying The Not (23.9.03, SCI Fidelity)
Howie Day: Stop All The World Now (7.10.03, Epic)
Embrace: This New Day (27.3.06)
Dolore O'Riordan: Are You Listening? (15.5.07, Sequel)
The Cult: Born Into This (2.10.07, Roadrunner)
The Futureheads: This Is Not The World (26.5.08, Nul)
The Charlatans: Who We Touch (14.9.10, The End)
Poly Styrene: Black Christmas (3/11)
The View: Bread And Circuses (14.3.11)
The Prostitutes: Deaf To The Call (26.4.12)
Ian McCulloch: Holy Ghosts (22.4.13)
Pink Floyd: The Endless River (10/14, Columbia)
Shed Seven: A Matter Of Time (5.1.24)

produced by SP:

The Seahorses: You Can Talk To Me (1.12.97, Geffen)
Embrace: Come Back To What You Know (5/98, Hut)

own label Butterfly

Jaz Coleman:

produced by SP:

Nitzer Ebb: As Is EP (1991, Mute)

produced by LP:

Shihad: Chum (1993)
Loud: D Generation (19.11.90, China)
Gaia Mesiah: Alpha Female (9.4.07, Universal)

Press References:

Bang!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1994	9	23.03.1994	4	Big Bang!
1994	10	23.03.1994	16		profile
1994	43	07.12.1994	10		album review
Big Beng!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1996	13	22.08.1996	26	Forum kritikum	album review
Melodie
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1991	3		9		profile, gig review
1994	1	01.01.1994	10		profile, discography
Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1979	47	15.12.1979	36	Caught In The Act	gig review
1980	4	26.01.1980	4	News
1980	7	15.02.1980	31	Caught In The Act	gig review
1980	33	27.09.1980	3	News
1980	34	04.10.1980	19	Singles	single review
1980	36	18.10.1980	27	Albums	album review
1981	14	04.04.1981	5	News
1981	16	18.04.1981	31	Datelines
1981	19	09.05.1981	31	Caught In The Act	album review
1981	20	16.05.1981	24	Singles	single review
1981	25	20.06.1981	21	Albums	album review
1981	28	11.07.1981	22	Caught In The Act	gig review
1982	5	30.01.1982	4	Fast Forward - The Vinyl Solution
1982	10	06.03.1982	16	Caught In The Act	gig review
1982	11	13.03.1982	4	Fast Forward
1982	13	27.03.1982	3	Fast Forward
1982	16	17.04.1982	4	Fast Forward
1982	18	01.05.1982	21	Albums	album review
1982	25	19.06.1982	19	Singles	single review
1982	34	21.08.1982	20		interview
1982	40	02.10.1982	4	Fast Forward
1982	43	23.10.1982	4	Fast Forward
1982	44	30.10.1982	34	Caught In The Act	gig review
1982	46	13.11.1982	4	Fast Forward
1982	47	20.11.1982	20	Albums	album review
1983	23	04.06.1983	4	Fast Forward
1983	27	02.07.1983	24	Albums	album review
1983	31	30.07.1983	8		interview
1983	32	06.08.1983	15	It's Alive	gig review
1983	39	24.09.1983	21	Futurama 5	gig review
1983	40	01.10.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	41	08.10.1983	22	Singles	single review
1984	1	07.01.1984	16	It's Alive	gig review
1984	10	10.03.1984	19	It's Alive	gig review
1984	12	24.03.1984	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1984	13	31.03.1984	26	Singles	single review
1984	15	14.04.1984	26	Singles	interview
1984	15	14.04.1984	26	Singles	single review
1984	27	18.08.1984	29	Video
1990	0	27.10.1990	5	News
1992	15	11.04.1992	5	News
1992	19	09.05.1992	4	News
1992	26	27.06.1992	4	News
1992	33	15.08.1992	3	News
1992	39	26.09.1992	32	Singles	single review
1992	40	03.10.1992	2	News
1993	41	09.10.1993	6	News
1994	6	12.02.1994	5	News
1994	6	12.02.1994	41	Info Freako
1994	9	05.03.1994	4	News
1994	16	23.04.1994	7
1994	16	23.04.1994	27	Singles	single review
1994	17	30.04.1994	13	Live	gig review
1994	24	18.06.1994	3	News
1994	29	23.07.1994	34	Albums	album review
1994	29	23.07.1994	39	Phoenix Festival '94
1995	3	21.01.1995	31	Singles	single review
1995	7	18.02.1995	25	Live	gig review
1995	14	08.04.1995	48	Info Freako
1996	4	27.01.1996	5	News
1996	9	02.03.1996	34	Singles	single review
1996	12	23.03.1996	35	Albums	album review
1996	16	20.04.1996	5	News
1996	30	27.07.1996	54	Info Freako	discography
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1991	4	28.02.1991	23	Live	gig review
2003	8		27	Hrr na ně	interview
2003	9		65	Live	gig review
2003	9		73	Recenze	album review
2005	3		81	Live	gig review
2006	6		52	Profil	profile
2006	8		74	Šrotiště	album review
2009	12		10	Rock & Top - News
2012	5		60	Recenze CD	album review