“Dear Gatherers and friends, it is with great sadness and regret due to some health issues for one of the band we will not be able to embark on our 2016 U.S. Tour. This has come as a shock to us all, please give us the time to work this out and we hope to return to touring as soon as possible.”
Nothing on the official Facebook page though, and killingjoke.com is now a dead link.
If you look at ticketfly, some dates are listed as canceled and some aren’t…
THey should drop the word Killing from their name and just go with Joke…these fuckers have done this 3 times to me…and a week before the tour…fuckin classless…what about people who booked flights,made arrangemnets etc…
Fuck this,I am done with these guys…they suckered me 3 times…I am out…
THey should drop the word Killing from their name and just go with Joke…these fuckers have done this 3 times to me…and a week before the tour…fuckin classless…what about people who booked flights,made arrangemnets etc…
Fuck this,I am done with these guys…they suckered me 3 times…I am out…
Doesn’t beat the time they postponed the Hosannass… UK tour on me for “psychiatric” reasons, then rescheduled it to when I was sitting my exams in uni, so couldn’t make any of the dates.
[reply]THey should drop the word Killing from their name and just go with Joke…these fuckers have done this 3 times to me…and a week before the tour…fuckin classless…what about people who booked flights,made arrangemnets etc…
Fuck this,I am done with these guys…they suckered me 3 times…I am out…
Doesn’t beat the time they postponed the Hosannass… UK tour on me for “psychiatric” reasons, then rescheduled it to when I was sitting my exams in uni, so couldn’t make any of the dates.
Lost around £500[/reply]
That’s all you lost?..shit,one of those times was after I had booked a flight to NY to see them with my friend who lives there…I lost all kinds of $ on that trip…
I feel genuinely bad for the people here who have gotten burned by KJ. Though the truth may lie with actual health problems, I imagine them canceling based on some silly spur-of-the-moment divination or vision of Jaz’s that gave him cold feet about touring.
How Jaz Coleman and Martin Atkins’ egos managed to co-exist within the same small space, without tipping the Earth off its axis, I will never know.
Clearly the band did not read the chapter in Martin’s modern classic BAND SMART about “don’t routinely cancel on your fans, or you won’t have any left”.
[reply][reply]THey should drop the word Killing from their name and just go with Joke…these fuckers have done this 3 times to me…and a week before the tour…fuckin classless…what about people who booked flights,made arrangemnets etc…
Fuck this,I am done with these guys…they suckered me 3 times…I am out…
Doesn’t beat the time they postponed the Hosannass… UK tour on me for “psychiatric” reasons, then rescheduled it to when I was sitting my exams in uni, so couldn’t make any of the dates.
Lost around £500[/reply]
That’s all you lost?..shit,one of those times was after I had booked a flight to NY to see them with my friend who lives there…I lost all kinds of $ on that trip…[/reply]
Yip. I was a broke student at that time and had to borrow that money. To say I wasn’t amused would be an understatement.
I feel genuinely bad for the people here who have gotten burned by KJ. Though the truth may lie with actual health problems, I imagine them canceling based on some silly spur-of-the-moment divination or vision of Jaz’s that gave him cold feet about touring.
How Jaz Coleman and Martin Atkins’ egos managed to co-exist within the same small space, without tipping the Earth off its axis, I will never know.
Clearly the band did not read the chapter in Martin’s modern classic BAND SMART about “don’t routinely cancel on your fans, or you won’t have any left”.
I wish I could give them the benefit of the doubt but the last time they canceled Miami they used the “health problems” excuse…it was also a WEEK before that tour started…and given their penchant for flakiness and the fact that this is the 3rd time this has happened to me I really don’t give a shit what the reason is…these are the guys who moved to Iceland to avoid the oncoming apocalypse…whatever,fuck them…
[reply][reply][reply]THey should drop the word Killing from their name and just go with Joke…these fuckers have done this 3 times to me…and a week before the tour…fuckin classless…what about people who booked flights,made arrangemnets etc…
Fuck this,I am done with these guys…they suckered me 3 times…I am out…
Doesn’t beat the time they postponed the Hosannass… UK tour on me for “psychiatric” reasons, then rescheduled it to when I was sitting my exams in uni, so couldn’t make any of the dates.
Lost around £500[/reply]
That’s all you lost?..shit,one of those times was after I had booked a flight to NY to see them with my friend who lives there…I lost all kinds of $ on that trip…[/reply]
Yip. I was a broke student at that time and had to borrow that money. To say I wasn’t amused would be an understatement.[/reply]
I wish I could give them the benefit of the doubt but the last time they canceled Miami they used the “health problems” excuse…it was also a WEEK before that tour started…and given their penchant for flakiness and the fact that this is the 3rd time this has happened to me I really don’t give a shit what the reason is…these are the guys who moved to Iceland to avoid the oncoming apocalypse…whatever,fuck them…
Ah yes the Iceland move, I forgot about that one.
What was the rationale again for why Iceland would survive the apocalypse? Like, when the ICBMs were being launched, was Bjork supposed to begin singing a magical song that would erect a protective force field around the region?
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I wish I could give them the benefit of the doubt but the last time they canceled Miami they used the “health problems” excuse…it was also a WEEK before that tour started…and given their penchant for flakiness and the fact that this is the 3rd time this has happened to me I really don’t give a shit what the reason is…these are the guys who moved to Iceland to avoid the oncoming apocalypse…whatever,fuck them…
Ah yes the Iceland move, I forgot about that one.
What was the rationale again for why Iceland would survive the apocalypse? Like, when the ICBMs were being launched, was Bjork supposed to begin singing a magical song that would erect a protective force field around the region?[/reply]
From what I’ve heard, Big Paul has a repetitive stress injury and simply can’t get behind the drum kit for right now. I think it can be pretty painful both physically and emotionally. Honestly, a huge bummer.
I’ve heard similar things from Atkins. He was recently remarking that years of playing “from the hips” and not “with his wrists” has severely screwed up his back. He only recently starting drumming a bit here and there.
Honestly, I love both these dudes and I know drumming is their life, so I don’t really want to slag them at all. Just plain sucks.
It’s not even about slagging them…it’s that this shit has happened more than once and it’s always like a week before the tour starts that it gets announced(and only US tours it appears)…I know shit happens but this is an all to common practice for them…so did the stress injury just occur a week before the tour??? I don’t know,man…
I’m pretty sure the first time i was supposed to see them here in the UK was cancelled too. They’re fucking ridiculous for this shit, they should have just Ben Calvert back in for this leg of the tour, but oh no, much easier to punish your fans and fuck them over yet again.
Honestly, i love the band, i think they’re amazing, but this is pretty disgusting. I understand that cancellations can happen, but at this point they’re the band who cried wolf and i can understand why fans might not want to lay out their cash for the 40th time for their next “tour”.
I’m a huge KJ fan and my wife just laughs at me when I buy tix… like “what are the odds they will do the show???”
I think I’ve missed 3 tours due to cancellations at this point.
Oh well, I’ve only lost a few bucks here and there. I feel bad for the person above who planned a trip to NYC based around the appearance there. That really sucks =/
I had 3 tickets for Irving Plaza. My favorite part of seeing them live is the in-between song rants of Jaz Coleman. Bummer.
I wasn’t crazy about Pylon. I like three songs (Autonomous Zone, Apotheosis, Snake dance LP Version) but the rest of it was like Rio Grande Blood with more sophisticated CNN lyrics.