Killing Joke 1991 Live

The Network Club Edinburgh 28th January 1991…on dime.

This is my favorite era for Killing Joke…This is a great show; high energy and Jaz sounds really good.

Some info I found:

For reasons which remain unclear, the German Killing Joke sessions were scrapped and bass player Taif left the band to be replaced by old hand Paul Raven. The revised line up began recording again, this time in London, and the result was Killing Joke’s eighth album, the ferocious Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions, released on the German Noise International label in 1990. It included some of the heaviest, noisiest and harshest music ever to appear on a Killing Joke record, although the progressive musical spirit of the previous two albums remained as well. The many highlights included “Solitude”, “Slipstream”, “Age of Greed” and the single “Money Is Not Our God”. Once again the band toured Europe and North America, but by the middle of 1991 this promising new line up had imploded. Coleman emigrated to New Zealand to live on a remote Pacific island, and it looked like Killing Joke was over for good.

Jaz Coleman, Geordie Walker, Martin Atkins, Paul Ferguson, Paul Raven and the band’s live keyboard player John Bechdel (Ministry, Fear Factory, Prong, Pigface, Abstinence, False Icons, Ascension of the Watchers) added Scottish vocalist Chris Connelly (Finitribe, Revolting Cocks) and continued as the short-lived Murder, Inc., releasing a self-titled album in 1992.

Setlist

Inside The Termite Mound
Money Is Not Our God
Extremities
Wardance
We Have Joy
Intravenous
The Beautiful Dead
Change
Frenzy
Age Of Greed
Requiem
Complications
The Wait
Empire Song
Psyche.