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2 years
We are pleased to announce The Imbeciles as support for all shows on our upcoming tour with the legendary Brix Smith as special guest at Hammersmith Tickets:
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KJ will support @BillyIdol ! “Just when you think it’s all over, I’d been missing my brothers in Killing Joke and then this opportunity came up. Looking forward to seeing everyone next week, 1 days rehearsal and a secret gig somewhere in the U.K. Let’s get stuck in.” - Jaz Coleman
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5 years
Paul Vincent Raven Jan. 16, 1961 – Oct. 20, 2007 Not Forgotten.
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6 years
🎩 Released on this day in 1980 - our debut album. A very important moment to take a breath. When did you first hear it?
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2 years
Tour has begun and we’ve never been more intense. Come and see us now!
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6 years
"Brisk, urgent, even celebratory, the work of an outfit that’s thriving rather than going through the motions... Killing Joke are more than your favourite band's favourite band." 🎩 Thank you, @RollingStone , for your wisdom and kind words.
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Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell 🔥 16 years after it was released, we’re bringing you the deluxe edition of our darkest-ever album. All the original tracks + 3 deep cuts. Available to pre-order now on Vinyl LP or CD,
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1 year
We’re delighted to share that Killing Joke - Follow The Leaders at Royal Albert Hall has officially sold out
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6 years
UK Gatherers! We’re delighted to be bringing the 40th anniversary world tour – Laugh At Your Peril – to you this November. Tickets on sale now:
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🎩 Gatherers, that was a truly incredible tour around the globe. One for the ages. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts. 📸 Tony Woolliscroft
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Gatherers of the World, we are delighted to announce our first UK tour in over three years, 2022’s Honour The Fire tour! On-sale 10am Friday…
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6 years
Gatherers of the World, we are delighted to announce the 40th anniversary world tour... Laugh At Your Peril. For all dates and tickets, kindly visit .
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4 years
We've officially released 'Turn To Red 2020 EP' today including brand new In Dub version produced by Youth plus remastered original. Available on 12” smoky red vinyl individually numbered and limited to 1,000 copies here
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6 years
🇬🇧 UK. Let us begin. Brace yourselves, Nottingham. 📸
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2 years
‘Killing Joke – Follow The Leaders’, will take place at The Royal Albert Hall on March 12th 2023 “We are living in the most dangerous period in human history in which extinction from nuclear war could happen in the next twelve months.” (1/3)
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2 years
Rehearsals in LONDON are well under way... it’s happening!
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5 years
USA, we have arrived and the @Tool tour is only days away... 📸 Cormac Figgis
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Glasgow. Are you ready? 📸 Tony Woolliscroft
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6 years
🇨🇱 Not bad, eh. Santiago, are you ready for this?
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6 years
Nasty in your mind.
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5 years
🎩 LONDON. That was astonishing. Thank you for setting the world to rights with us. Until next time. KJ.
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6 years
‘Forty years ago this summer Jaz met Big Paul, one year later we released our first EP. Our fortieth anniversary celebrations will therefore be stretched over 2 years and begins with a world tour, parties and talks by Youth and Jaz... a new magnum opus.
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2 years
We’re very pleased to share that our new EP, Lord of Chaos, is out now. Stream now via the link in bio!
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6 years
🎩 Gatherers of the USA, we have touched down in Seattle and ready to begin our 40th anniversary celebrations with a career-defining run of shows. Remaining tickets available now at
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One week til we hit the UK. Continental Europe, we've not finished with you yet. Let us know where we're going to meet you, Gatherers ↓ 📸 Dieter Michalek
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2 years
Soundcheck at @Rock_City_Notts yesterday! 📸: Tony Woolliscroft
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‘Killing Joke – Follow The Leaders’, will take place at The Royal Albert Hall on March 12th 2023 Tickets on sale now:
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 GLASGOW. THANK YOU. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📸 Graeme J. Baty
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Mexico. Brazil. Argentina. Chile. Peru. You were astonishing. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. Germany, you’re next. Brace yourselves.
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5 years
Congratulations to @TheSpecials looking at a number 1 record. As ever, some interesting sounds coming from their direction at . #TheSpecialsForNumberOne
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2 years
Lord Of Chaos... Listen now -
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2 years
Manchester brought the noise last night. Newcastle, are you ready? 📸 Tony Woolliscroft
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6 years
I am the virus. 📸 Rockerzine
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2 years
We are very pleased to announce Alex Paterson (The Orb) as support for Killing Joke at Royal Albert Hall on 12th March. Tickets are still available via
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We’re proud to share that Hosannas From The Basements of Hell Deluxe LP is out now! We would like to thank all of our fans for your support, you can order your own physical copy now. Available from the LINK IN BIO.
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6 years
WARDANCE 📸 Polvora
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2 years
. @jeffbeckmusic and Johnny Depp cover The Death and Resurrection Show at Royal Albert Hall last night⚡️
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5 years
🎩 Oxford and London. Brace yourselves - the show rolls into town tonight and tomorrow.
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6 years
🎩 Gatherers around the world. You're being called into action at
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6 years
🎩 Our US tour is already half complete. We're in Boston tonight, then a sold out New York show tomorrow before final performances in Chicago, Dallas, Austin and Houston. Find all remaining tickets at .
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Dear Gatherers, The Death and Resurrection Show documentary is available for streaming on Amazon & Prime Video at the following links below. Please review the film, post links wide and far. Honour the Fire! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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4 years
Gatherers, we are very pleased to be supporting @HollywoodVampires in August 2021. Tickets are available now
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6 years
🎩 Our European Gathering begins next week in glorious Hamburg. Will you be there? Photo by Guillermo Coluccio
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6 years
🎩 This month marks the anniversary of our very first release, the Turn To Red EP. Treat yourself to our complete works, over here on this convenient Spotify playlist:
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2 years
We're very happy to announce the deluxe version of Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell releases on 18th Nov, featuring three songs previously not on the album! You can pre-order your physical copy now. The deluxe album is streaming now on all platforms!
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4 years
Gatherers!
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8 years
Gatherers! There is to be a live album, recorded in full at our upcoming @O2academybrix congregation, pre-order at
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🎩 Mexico, Brazil, Argentina... you did your fellow Gatherers proud. Santiago, Chile - are you ready to better them? 📸 David Baber
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3 years
HONOUR THE FIRE 2022 TOUR Tickets on sale now at
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6 years
🎩 Thank you to the remarkable Keith Musgrove for an incredible artistic effort. If any more of you Gatherers have such wonders tucked away in your vaults, we'd love to see them.
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🎩 🇺🇸 Houston, you're our final Stateside engagement before we continue this madness south of the border. Let's give this American Gathering the send-off it deserves. 📸 Cristina Massei
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2 years
Gatherers… Pre-save now -
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Killing Joke
8 years
Please join us in celebrating the now alabaster 'Turn To Red' EP, our first ever release. 37 years ago today, what a journey.
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Take flight at . A new magnum opus by KJ, who is, after all this time, recognised as one of the most innovative and influential bands of all time. Love is the law let the festivities begin!!!
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6 years
🎩 While some items have now sold out, you can still join us on this huge Symphonic voyage at by picking up signed vinyl and prints, or look behind the curtain of one of our most ambitious projects.
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🎩 Europe, you've welcomed us with open hearts so far. It's good to be back in your midst. Will we see you at a show soon? Final tickets for the stragglers of you →
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Honour The Fire comes to @o2academybris tonight, who’s ready? 📸: Tony Woolliscroft
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Gathers! ‘Pylon’ is now available for pre-order. These 10 remastered original tracks plus 8 extra bonus tracks (produced by the band and Tom Dalgety, whosecredits include the hugely successful Royal Blood album) are very much music as ritual
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💀 EXTREMITIES 💀 📸 GARY M HOUGH
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7 years
An evening with Jaz Coleman - back in his home town of Cheltenham. Tickets on sale now at:
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2 years
Have you watched yet? Lord Of Chaos OUT NOW -
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2 years
The Hosannas vinyl and CD deluxe reissue is out November 18th, and with the fun of vinyl manufacturing, there were some screw-ups with two of the color variants. Here’s what will be available!
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6 years
This is a reflection. The requiem. Gather round:
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🇬🇧 Delighted to be bringing the 40th anniversary world tour – Laugh At Your Peril – to the UK this November. Tickets on sale this Friday the 13th, 10am from
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London... we will be filming our performance at Hammersmith Apollo. Be there and join us -
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The Killing Joke Official Fan Book (A Prophecy Fulfilled) in production and looking awesome
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8 years
It’s Saint Ravens day. Everybody has to steal something!
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6 years
A remarkable weekend of gigs. Thank you, Gatherers of Prague and Warsaw. Bratislava, ready yourselves. 📸
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Thank you, Shaun. ☠️
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Pleased to announce we'll be joining next years @BLOODSTOCKFEST Tickets Available Here -
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🎩 Another big thanks to the Gatherers of the Americas for a bravura performance on our recent tour. Europe, they set quite the precedent - we expect you to maintain their high standard. 📸 Edi Fortini
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16 double CDs in mini gatefold packs with printed inners - bringing you a career-spanning 40 years of Killing Joke at less than £5 a disc. Deliver somebody, or yourself, a 16-punch account of who we are:
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🎩 Some shows for our LAUGH AT YOUR PERIL tour are heading fast to selling-out, and tickets will not make it to show time. Grab yours from now. Photo by Gary M Hough Photography
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The band continue to inspire and bludgeon down the bullshit in the world into a white hot, blast furnace Dub of unrelenting passion, a rollercoaster, white knuckle punch in the face of beautiful agony/reality and timeless cosmic joy and soul.
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🇩🇪 München. Our performance in your spectacular city tomorrow has been moved from Theaterfabrik to Technikum. All tickets remain valid, and we're still bringing you one hell of a show. Hamburg, we're coming for you tonight. You have been warned.
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One of the biggest global Gatherings to ever happen - yours for the taking at 📸 Henry Konstankiewicz
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Laugh at your peril, Gatherers. Remaining tickets on sale now from
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Hamburg, we salute you. What a way to start our European tour. 📸 Björn Lehmann
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ROCK FEST!! We’re so excited to be playing in Finland on Friday 3rd June, grab your tickets now via link in bio
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Rehearsals are booked. 'Honour The Fire' is soon approaching... Tickets:
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9 years
It's time. Download the brand new album #PYLON ... RIGHT NOW at
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3 years
Gatherers! Reissues are available for pre-order now!
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🎩 Antwerp, we're coming for you tonight. Warm yourselves up by answering us this - of course, anyone else who'd like to chip in too is more than welcome.
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A limited edition glicée art print of Killing Joke’s second single, WARDANCE (originally released February 1980), is now available to buy via the KJ store! Each numbered poster is signed by Mike Coles and has official KJ emboss, 150 available.
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Gatherers, tomorrow is @BBC6Music 's #TShirtDay , and we expect your representation. If you have a Killing Joke t-shirt, be sure to post it online using #TShirtDay and #KillingJoke so we can see you. What do you mean you don't have one? Shop:
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Gatherers of the USA, not long until we’re back! Join us on tour with @Tool from October 15th.
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6 years
🎩 If you've been coming to see us on tour, make sure you join our Gatherers Facebook group to share your photos and experiences. Avoid doing so at your peril. Take the plunge: 📸
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Gatherers! New Limited Edition print series based on Killing Joke’s first vinyl release: Nervous System available for pre-order on
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That is why we have committed so much, for so long to this one idea... Killing Joke. Thanks to all the fans and gatherers that have supported and joined us in this endless quest. Youth.
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🎩 Laugh At Your Peril: We're recording our forthcoming Berlin and London shows, which are available to pre-order now at + We'll send you the digital download a few days after each show.
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🎩 The tour is happening, and tickets are going fast at
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