Killing Joke Nightime Tube Live

[Ni5ei]

Yeah! I remember seeing this on The Tube when it originally aired. As I recall it was shortly before the album was released. Great song!!!

[SuperVoodooguru]

they played in oxford about the time this was on. some drong got on stage and tried to mix it with jaz. result? one fantastic headbutt

[ymichaelt]

God bless Jaz - best frontman i've ever seen and that includes the who at charlton '76 and ian dury canterbury odeon '79. i think this does a pretty good job of conveying what a rush it was to see them - you felt that there was no better place you could be at that point in time. saw them 4 times in '85/'86 cause i couldn't believe what i'd seen last time

[fstop77]

Wow!! That was so fucking awesome. Killing Joke is one of my all time favorite bands. How so many great bands come from the UK?

[FrancoAC]

Fucking awesome.

Killing Joke for life. I took my 11 year old daughter to see them, she said Jaz smiled at her when she was on my shoulders. So proud i can share this band with my kid.

RIP Paul. Thanks for everything guys!!

[germanbudgie]

I went to see them in the Mayfair in the toon afterwards and he works the crowd up by coming on late then staring at everyone!!!! but in newcastle they started to chuck pints it was mad!!

[germanbudgie]

Im down at the front at this !!!! i just loved the energy and all the inovative stuff they done!!! there was a girl at the back with spikey peroxide hair and white shirt dancing WOW!!!

[fstop77]

Killing Joke is one of my all time favorite bands. I have every album, even "Turn to Red" on vinyl somewhere. Simply awesome. I interviewed jaz, geordie and martin atkins during their 89 "extremities" of america for my zine. They were hungry for a record deal and the album wasn't out yet. For some reason Raven wasn't on this tour.

[GrahamB64]

I'll tell you another one from those days that I really wish I'd caught live - Propaganda.

Yeah, I know they sometimes tour now, but I mean the Suzanne Freytag / Claudia Brucken lineup from "A Secret Wish".

man, there was some good music in those days. What have they got now? Hannah Fucking Montana. I shit 'em.

[GrahamB64]

I saw them live about a week after they appeared on The Tube here. (Night Time Tour)

They remain, without a doubt, the most powerful, involving and awesome band that I've ever seen in a live situation (And I include bands like U2 in that statement)

They were also the loudest band I've ever seen play! Either before or since!

I'd give an awful lot to go back and relive that night again. I think I still have the T-Shirt somewhere...

Killing Joke. Legends. I salute you!

[kingofpunk1977]

Agreed. I have seen some big  bands in my time Stones/Queen/Bowie/Sabbath/Pis­tols/Stooges/Ramones/ Kraftwerk/Prodigy.(All of those bands were on form & excellent) But you are absolutely RIGHT . The nighttime tour was the hardest thing I have ever witnessed. This may sound like a bold statement but it is true (even the cd of this album does not do it justice) Killing Joke live 1985 was incredible

[GrahamB64]

They were awesome. I was deaf for 24 hours afterwards and it took 3 days for my hearing to come back to normal!

The entire wall of sound just went right into you. Best live band I've ever seen - by a mile!

The records don't do them justice, as you say. I doubt we'll ever see a band with this kind of stage presence again, sadly.

[kingofpunk1977]

Thanks for the reply. I am very sure most people that saw Killing Joke at that time would agree it was their peak cos not only did they have a brilliant new album to showcase but could play anything from their previous 5 year back catolog at a drop of a hat such as Psyche or Frenzy

[MOSTechnology]

Your a lucky person, treasure the memory.

[jejwilliams]

Just great "F%@? OFF!" music. Love it.

Anyone know when they are touring UK next?

[luckyinlondon]

When Killing Joke arrived there was no goth scene,they were just swept into it,their influences stem from adam and the ants in the drum department,slabs of funk thrown in by youth on bass but what made them really stand out was the unique guitar sound and structure plus jazz throwing a synth into the mix,pre class later ripped off in part by the likes of the bolshoi,balaam and the angel,jilted brides,metallica and many others.

[URSIPER]

I agree and was their from the start mate the rest of the posts are retarded and and to be honest they dont know what they are on about they speak shit.. KJ the tube i was their fecking idiots..

[TheRealCritique]

Considering that Metallica and Nirvana raved about this band, and grunge was an extension of Black Sabbath, heavy metal is much of what they were, but you're still fighting a long dead battle, so you enjoy that triumph in your uber-pretentious mind.

KJ rose in the goth period, and if you dont think these guys were goth, ok, I really could not fucking care less. I was pushing the band to a younger fan, and I get some geezer on my neck ranting about exact terms.

[TheRealCritique]

I think of them as more unique and tribal than goth, but they pioneered the sound of heavy metal without the blues. They're basically a metal band, but Jaz has expressed his distaste for the blues paradigm, and he prefers European inlfuences in his melodies. Geordie's riffs are definitely heavy metal. Anyway, they are what they are and they defy labels. I just meant they were they were the best of a style: Marilyn Manson, Sisters of Mercy (who I like) etc etc Someone has tour stories?

[bufon63]

Right - tribal and unique.

Wrong - "Geordie's riffs are definitely heavy metal." - that is garbage. The Hum/ Communion/ Fall of Because etc, heavy metal??? Gimme a break. The Nightime album was more melodious, richer perhaps. .....but there was no revolution... and there never was after the the first three albums.

How the Sisters of Mercy etc, even come into the equation beggars belief.

- TheOnlyCritique.

[bluesevie30]

I went on tour with Killing Joke

[URSIPER]

Oh right ! read all the posts what band were you in mate ? you did not mention. And are you seeing killing joke this year ?

[TheRealCritique]

If you want to get exposed to the heaviest, but most professional album of goth music ever recorded - get Nighttime. There is not a single shitty song on the record, and it is ever so hard. Covers all topics of life, too. It was when they were still underground, but not yet too glossed out or full of themselves, like famous bands get. Just dont get too influenced by it. You might not want to ever come out of its hypnotic negative state. Many people dont get it, but some get it all too well.

[deman177]

you speaketh the truth, young jedi

[killTHEIRidols]

goth music!!?? pal, killilng joke are not goth music!...dont insult their talent by comparin em to that shit...would like to know how u come to that opinion tho...

[bufon63]

With all due respect, I don't think you know a shit about Killing Joke although you puport too. "Most professional album of goth music ever recorded - get Nighttime. " Huh??

Not only do you sound pretentious , but ill-informed too, a worse sin.

For the other uninformed around here, Goth equates to the Sisters of Mercy and other adolescent, all-play -rebel, entertainment.

The original Killing Joke were artists beyond category.

The others, merely entertainers.

- TheOnlyCritique.

[herrkaliyuga]

Probably the most impressive appearance on television of any band in history.

[cisco9x]

Heath Ledger copied Jaz Coleman in fact every one copied the Joke

[groslucas]

Jaz Coleman really looks like Enrico Macias...I think they are the same singer. But Enrico Macias could not jump into the post punk movement without destroying his cheesy pop singer career...So he created a real KILLING JOKE!!!!

[dariusb23]

i think the singer is copying the make up of the kiss drummer.

such a bad guy....for copying someone

[shadowscrawl]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!???!?!?!?! killing joke is legendary

they have influenced countless musicians to compare them to kiss is to say that you know absalutely nothing at all

go home little one

[dariusb23]

ok...if you say so

[Nigelcf]

R.I.P. Paul Raven. :{

[RadiumGirl]

you should see me shake my ass (and everything else) to Killing Joke!!

Nothing gets me quite as excited!

[StarSaber7]

You should post that up. LOL!

[ergos645]

They were bloody good, great to see this again..thanks!

[tomney1]

Always wanted to have a meaningful relationship with the short haired blonde shaking her bum. maybe she likes radio 4 now if she's out there???

[potace]

She was on the Tube a few times I seem to remember, along with a few other regulars. Totally agree with your comments, cos I fancied her n all. Miss that show, which pretty much formed my musical taste from then on.

[6voltdub]

sun goes down.....R I P big man goodnight

[AuntiePoo1]

Pass the wrap n we'll dab.

[tensionstrategy]

Greatest band on the planet.

[thoughtprovoke]

this F#!%ng rocks!

[basilcruncher]

raven - you were a legend

[hexegon1]

nice one bruv.r.i.p

[mattejames1]

RIP RAVEN

[LadyGhoulita]

RIP Paul Raven!!!! You will be sorely missed!

[peace0ff]

2:24 = leit 80s dancing.

[Krheaz]

Watched this live on the tube in airdrie scotland! didnt much like them then! Opinion hasnt changed! But this clip was the best piece of live music i,ve ever seen in over 1000 gigs!F##k##g Brilliant! Long live Killing Joke! resident west virginia!

[synar]

Damn! They should release this Tube stuff on dvd!!!!!!

[kraalomega]

They kind of have. Tyne Tees Television, who made the tube for channel 4, release a kind of best of DVD of The Tube, unfortunately they concentrated on all the commercial shite that pervaded the latter series, like Elton John, Mad dona , not all the really great alternative stuff that everybody watched it for.

[nassierkhan]

I saw this live Hammersmith 85 THE BEST GIG I HAVE EVER BEEN TO!!! And I comapring this to Kraftwerk/Pistols/Iggy & the Damned!

[zazz63]

yeah i was there too....great gig ..damn loud .....two huge flags and jazz was manic as hell.

[anarchyclayman]

are you recieving

[Skull4Scavenger]

They made no compromise to their music. Ever. I really hope they will go on for some time. KEEP THE FIRE BURNING GUYS!!!

[wehavejoy]

The Hum

[janenil]

ggg - geordie guitar god.

[shagmonroes]

check out their early stuff, what's this for?, revelations etc. was joke at their best. post nightime was perhaps not their best. unrepeatable power whatever. thanks for posting vid it's good to see it again

[kinddeed]

your ears will feel like they have been used as a pencil sharpener . killing joke live.

[NovaAngel19]

this is awesome! this is my favorite performance by them. and the song sounds so much better live.

[peace0ff]

they put out a strong album in 03'

they just put another one out in 05 or 06

and they've been going strong.

[pyewacket001]

peace0ff - your comments on this video are a fraudulent mask of the bigoted racist hatred you openly urinate onto other YT videos. You are a middle aged blathering chunk of expectorated primate bile wallowing in your dead mum's vaginal cheese. This also goes for your alter-ego neo80s and your other personalities.

[duhleenkwint]

Man I love KJ. What the hell ever happened to these guys?

[oakmine]

I'm not religous but, Jaz Coleman has prophetic eyes. Did he really teach The Pope and Steven King everything they know, or is that just my mind playing tricks ?

[cisco9x]

I remember recording this in 1986, couldn't beleive how briiliant this group was. Rare fantastic with a cult following

[Xythantiops]

saw them a couple of weeks before this at Cochester...Oh happy days...

[dave2001artwork]

cochester...err, colchester right? never even heard of these guys but my uncle has alota their vinyls

[Skull4Scavenger]

Never heard of them?? Where have you been? Checking out the plugged top 40...? Sorry, don't want to offend...

[Toolpusher]

I just wish this clip was louder :)

[ovalsonic]

yow... this is real.

[Wuxiapian]

My favorite song...

[georgpetur]

Great stuff,long live the Joke!

[synar]

Perfect!! Had this on video, but lost it! Thanx for putting it up here!