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  • imagine jazz and jello hanging out,that would be interesting and funny and serious and interesting and funny.

  • this interview is hilarious

    unintentionally

  • I love how he's wearing his band's t-shirt.

  • my god, he can talk

  • Thankfully Killing Joke don't really fit into a single pigeon hole musically, be it post-punk, metal, industrial or whatever. This is one of the things that I've always found refreshing about them. Their just a good fucking band and one of the most important ones of the last 30 years or so (and Jaz hates fucking Bono too, nice one fella).

  • the interviewer keeps trying to finish his sentances, all these "yea"s and "mm"s, just let the man talk :P

  • he works wonders with those canine teeth onstage

  • Jaz seems quite down to earth about his success, and he's from my hometown! (Cheltenham)

  • Metal shmetal, Killing Joke were spawned by the punk scene, but created their own tribal, high energy, intelligent rock. They are their own genre in my opinion, just enjoy em.

  • I can't take Jaz seriously when he's end life now and sucking on a cuba dick while giving this interview. That stoggie cost 20 bucks, how does he feel about that?

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  • I do not think they are a metalband at all,they are not to define,elements of of rock styles,sure,but not a metal band.

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  • @erictheviking871 I don't consider KJ's industrial metal approach bad at all;it's not like they're trying to be more generic or something;I myself am a metalhead that's the main genre I prefer to listen to;of course my varied tastes probably helped me to like the music Jaz makes;in this case from a metalheads point of view it doesn't even matter to me, if they do play metal or not.I know that they incorporate certain genres like industrial music,rock and punk but this matters less

  • @bloodyrockfire ha ha i like your reply ,you are most certainly well above the calibre of metal fan iv met in my travels.

  • @Fancyjoke thay are one of the calm grater creaters of metal thay have donea gental side of most subjanres of metal thay inspird a lot of metal bands so to say there nt propper metal is rong disids u carnt difin the gap

  • @sicomatt123 : It does not mean KJ are metal because they inspired certain metalbands.

    Agreed,they have some elements in their sound,but there are much more elements present than only metal.

    For instance take their debut album (1980) is that metal?No.It is so much more than just one stream or sound,that seems to be what KJ is all about : not to be pigeonholed.

  • I dont like how they reformed their band from a great post-punk icon to a metal band, but thats just me.

  • I bet Jaz felt stupid about telling everyone the world was going to end and moving to Iceland before " anarchy " took over . Stick to singing and quit ranting on and on , jibberish .

  • I think he's really honest and really quite balanced in his outlook...he's certainly nobody's fool. Listen to what the guy's saying. It rings of a hell of a lot of truth. Do what thou wilt and harm none.

    Eco-politics; Worldwide socio-religious warfare; pollution; history; ethics; politics and so on and so on...

    You'd have to be a dimwit not to see the polarity as he struggles to digest the global infrastructure's shake at their foundations. Yeah I hold him in high regard indeed.

  • I'm sorry to say, Joke is an outstanding band but Jaz is a pretentious fker.

  • I've started reading Carroll Quigley's book"Tragedy and hope" .A Must read.

    Also agee with Coleman's opinions about Geldof and Bono!

  • Yes, festivals ARE utter corporate crap these days. Like emptying a bin in shopping centre & paying £200 to sit in it with a faulty i-pod on your head, surrounded by brain-dead, rat-race fucking twats.

  • Surely anyone accusing Jaz/Killing Joke of cashing in would point at them allowing their songs to be used in video games. I know "The death and resurrection show" was used on one and I believe "Turn to red" was also used for is it Grand auto theft? I would genuinely like to hear Jaz explain why he agreed to this. If he is doing it because he wants to do something positive with the money, like setting up an eco village, then fair enough. It's just that like Jaz, I have a very suspicious nature!

  • @MisAnnThorpe

    Hell,you have to make a living,right?

    I would do the same in his position I suppose.

    Selling out would be to play what people want to hear,they are not doing that imo.

    Agreeing to use a track for a game generates money,they might use that for some reason,no idea where it goes and all,stuff to do with royalties.

    Let's see some ecovillages then,and clue where they are?

    Any photos yet?

    I don't agree on all his speeches,but there is an element of honesty I respect.

  • @Fancyjoke Are you implying that you have doubts as to the existence of the eco village Mr Coleman claims to have set up?! Jaz really is one difficult man to pin down. Almost everything about him seems a contradiction, from his music to his political beliefs. I sometimes wonder if he isn't just taking us all for a bunch of mugs and pissing himself laughing at the killing joke he's been playing on us all!

  • @MisAnnThorpe I can't imagine him saying "Yeah that's cool, as long as we get money out of it!" I'd say he said for them to go ahead and use the track so that teens nowadays who weren't familiar with Killing Joke's music would hear them and enjoy them too. I can't imagine money was even a deciding factor for him at all.

  • @MisAnnThorpe

    Allowing the songs to be used in mediums such as games, extends who will hear Killing Joke. Killing Joke (like alot of non-mainstream bands) wouldn't get alot of airplay on the radio or the television. Someone hears their songs in a game might go out and look into the band.

  • @MisAnnThorpe I think older music, classic music, in videogames is a good thing because it educates the younger generation and they absorb the music whilst enjoying themselves, thus creating the 'feel-good' factor in their minds.

  • @Studas2006 In all honesty it doesn't work...everyone has their own taste in music and as a lifelong gamer of the best part of thirty years I can happily state that if I don't like the music in a game I go into the options, turn it off and put my own on via other means, even in games with mixed soundtrack I will skip the stuff I simply dont like and listen to the songs I do enjoy.

  • @MisAnnThorpe If they had cashed in, they'd stop progressing in style.

  • That's exactly the question I've been asking myself; Where did a bankrupt Nazi Germany find the resources to start a world war? Funny, but I don't ever remember seeing a single programme on the TV that attempted to answer that question. In fact, I don't even recall the question being asked! I think it might make for a very interesting and enlightening film but no, what we really need is another film about the holocaust!

  • He likes himself a bit too much in this video, not in others.

  • the most interesting and flawed enigma on youtube!..god bless Jaz!

  • I love Jaz's honesty. He's not scared to speak out. People often ask me why I've never voted for any political party, and listening to Jaz speaking says it all.

  • Straight up, there are too many humans. The minute you really want to help, you'll close your legs or stick your knob in your undies and keep it there. Stop having fucking babies!

  • @windmoveswater :

    I think it has got nothing to do with overpopulation,just the basic "let's get out of here".Stop having babies is not gonna solve the problem,mate.

    It's how the babies are going to think or behave!

  • @Fancyjoke On a level that might be true, but people take up space and resources, even the most eco-friendly of us cause wear and tear on the human-friendly ecosystem. I think I remember hearing that a UN analysis that for ecological stability the human population worldwide would need to decrease by 3 million.

  • @Fancyjoke

    Thanks for posting, its a KILLER intervieuw

    and i like this jaz coleman

    Thanks again!!

    Greetingz from HOlland

  • @Fancyjoke Actually, limiting population growth will help hugely. the human population of the planet grows yearly because we deny natural selection, the ill and in-firmed dont die, those babies born premature or deformed, dont die and people are living longer and longer. It won't solve it all but it would help. the "benefits society" has seen unemployed youngsters having two or three babies just so they can reap the tax paid benefits.

  • @windmoveswater there are condoms and other contraceptives, you know. but otherwise, yeah it is how they behave, and it's also where they're born.

  • Corporatism and overpopulation is mankind's killing joke.

  • I love this guy.

  • i would sure as hell say our band APEisAPE could reference killing joke name drop, as one of the most major influences on my life and on our band.

  • haha love it!

  • I'd love to have a long drunken conversation with him. I reckon we'd get on like a house on fire.

  • jazz is awesome!!

  • I like Jaz. Jaz is Jaz and thats that.

  • "Charity begins at home."

    Nice to finally hear someone else say that.

  • very interesting quote from Jaz, especially in the light of the credit crunch, in which tax payers have been effectively enslaved to pay off the banks wrecklessness....which is another attempt to enslave others.

  • It is true that the elite keeps people entertained to keep our minds off of their evil schemes.

    By the way, it's the Jesuits that control the NWO, not the Jews.

  • Jaz hates U2 also, YES!

  • "I don't believe in our system of Democracy. Its a two horse race, and both horses are run by the same stable owner" - that's the way i've always felt about politics, its gonna be the same shit no matter who gets voted in. Jaz puts it brilliantly.

  • "I don't believe in our system of Democracy. Its a two horse race, and both horses are run by the same stable owner"

    No kidding. Civilisation is about having a stable ruling regime, not revolution between extremes every 4 years.

    Not to say change doesn't happen, just not frequently. Americans are basically in their 3rd social contract, the New Deal one being the latest, and the quasi-libertarian original and the Lincoln era being the others.

  • Nothin' greener than tobacco. Jaz rocks.

  • @RandyWayneFricke weed is greener hahah

  • LIKE BONO.... listen to this interview again and he explains what the people like BONO are like... they are sociopaths that do things to promote THEMSELVES... bono would also fall into that unhappy billionaire category that Jaz talks about as being so miserable because they will never have everything they crave...

  • I am both a long time killing joke and U2 fan, and I think U2 just didn't handle becoming famous so fast very well. They were kids and were launched into super stardom and allowed the media to control them more than they wanted and then it just kept snowballing. But I like Bono (and Jazz). I can understand different viewpoints, I can also see Jazz's side of it, but it doesn't make me hate other people.

  • Hes real

  • So true about Geldof and the rest of them! U2 simply use the Africa charity thing just to move money around in order to avoid taxes!

  • Big business,the real crooks.

  • I love Jaz, funny though how he's talking about green issues while puffin on a stogie. He is a brilliant man though!

  • When he speaks you listen.

  • stop pollution?... while smoking a cigar? who is this tripper?

  • This tripper is Jaz, and he can smoke and say whatever he pleases.

  • let's go to Iceland

  • Well said Jaz

  • Jaz is a real character. He has his own opinions as you see here and he doesn't shy from putting his point across. He doesn't fit into the modern world and that, to me, is inspirational.

  • great legend and he is a very smart man

  • I'm proud to be his friend!

  • I'd say the majority of cities pumps shit into the ocean.

    Way to many people treat the sea as a dump,that's the basic idea behind his statement I believe.

  • The city of New York does not pump shit into the fuckin ocean. Has he never heard of wastewater treatment facilities? The US has some of the toughest water purity laws in the world. He needs to do his homework. Oddly he claims to posses an I.Q. of 190. He should look at his own country before he spouts bullshit.

  • instead of being defensive maybe you should read the numerous articles about things they have found in beachwater tests.

  • New Zealand?

  • @harpo10 - fluoride aint pure - it rots your brain and teeth and makes you stupid

  • A plain reasonable and realistic guy. I like his awareness.

    He's very good in explaining how stupid commercial liveaid actually is... the money didn't go directly to the people.

  • COwens..

    Not sure he means every year since '79. I believe what he means is that they've been working on albums since '79. The 7 year gap, they all still had projects, while still writing material for the next album.

    On to something more important: I do believe that we all need to work on being more sustainable. And it's so very possible for celebrities especially to do this. Even for Christmas and special holidays, give to charity instead of buying a 20 dollar dvd. You can buy a family a goat.

  • I love his laugh

  • I love this guy! Bravo!

  • Jaz - fantastic vocalist, lyricist and frontman for possibly the greatest band of all time.

    But he is full of shit: 'putting out records consistently since 79'. Does a seven year gap count as consistent?

    Re. bands reforming: what about the reunion with Paul and Youth. Fantastic to see and I can't wait, but it does smack of cashing in.

  • Consistently doesn't mean every year,does it?

    I'm not sure if the reunion is cashing in.

    In a practical way:they lost a hell of a bassplayer and they seem to have put aside their differences with Big Paul.

    So what's your reason for believing they're cashing in?

  • 'Consistently doesn't mean every year,does it?'

    Nor does it mean seven years.

    'So what's your reason for believing they're cashing in?'

    What sells better: Killing Joke on new album tour or original lineup playing selected classic albums in their entirity?

    If you read my comment, you'll see that I'm just as excited about the gigs as the next Gatherer. But when he dismisses reunions in a manner displayed in this interview, it does leave a bit of a sour taste. Remember Gems of Power?

  • i agree with pretty much everything jaz said in this interview, but to be honest thats the one thing i dont. i dont think any bands reform just to make money apart from manufactured pop bands. i think bands like the rolling stones/the who/the eagles (even though i dont like any of them) reform cos they do genuinely want to perform together again.

  • I think it's more to do with them getting older and realising they won't be able to do this for much longer. Yes, being able to play together again after so many years must be a fantastic buzz but I'm sure the paycheck doesn't hurt either.

  • @opensourcethong Don't b so naive! Yes, there no doubt are exceptions 2 the rule, like Roger Daltrey perhaps, who craves the adulation of an audience but do u really think Keith Richards would rather b sharing a stage with Jagger, playing "Brown sugar" again, than at home listening to his favourite blues & classical records? Charlie Watts has spoken quite openly about what a chore it is for him, playing drums in a rock band. These people choose a certain lifestyle & to maintain that costs money.

  • "consistently" means a few albums every decade in the music business.

  • HA!

  • @COwens i agree with Fancyjoke. remember this was back in 05 and Ferguson didn't come back till 08. and Youth has been back with them since 93 and he was of the main to bring them back in 02. he and Raven both contributed on their 03 album and Youth decided to let Raven do all of Hosannas, which was selfless of him. it is unfortunate that Raven died in 07 and Youth and Ferguson came back the next year in his honor.

  • @COwens Well said my friend!

  • I wish he wouldn't smoke, he's got the GREATEST voice in Rock for fuxx sake

  • Smoking gives him that voice

  • yeah and they're khazaric jews

  • Yeah Jaz! You´re absolutely right. Fuck Bono and U2!

  • Gotta love him!

    He's so honest

  • Hehehehe, only Jaz could get away with calling Bob Geldof a sociopath! A lot of people decry him as a nutter and don't like what he says. However, I think he speaks an uncomfortable truth that we could all benefit from listening to, taking heed and making the very necessary changes. However, it might make your comfortable little life somewhat less so.

  • i completely agree, if you actually open your eyes it's obvious that the people with all the power, are the people with all the money (and with all the weapons). the only thing is it's always been that way, and the chances of you finding the real people responsible and bringing them to justice are virtually zero. and even if you did, some other tyrant would just take the power back, it's human nature. i dont wanna sound like the prophet of doom, but i think nothing will ever change

  • Yep, those who appear to hold the reins of power are all too often simply the puppets for far greater, unseen forces, usually with unethical, immoral or simply evil motivations. I don't think you are being the prophet of doom, just realistic regarding the inherently greedy and frequently psychopathic nature of those who covet power, prestige and dosh.

    As the old saying goes: "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Anyone who believes otherwise is idealistically naïve .

  • @Sashphoenix Very well said.

  • what an absolute plank - so far up his own ass.. lol Halarious..

  • what does halarious mean? is it french for 'i'm a tw*t'?

  • Hey, stop fighting, LUUURVE each other instead, ok?

  • i would, but he called jaz coleman a plank. call him a plank to his face, he'd stub his cigar out on your ball sack

  • I'm sure Jaz wouldn't mind you fighting his battles on his behalf on this occasion. Carry on!

  • Jaz has spoken truth. Absolute truth. I love him.

  • Jaz is one smart chap.

  • Awesome Interview

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