The Strange and Talented Days of Killing Joke
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6 min readMay 24, 2021
This is a band not for the faint of heart, not for the uncommitted. They will raise you up/take you down, amaze you/daze you, and never cease to craze you. Maybe that is the killing joke. If it is, I am in on it.
Instigated in a fire ritual of the occult, the members formed in London, there were early gigs playing support for Joy Division, later they scored an unlikely and never…