On this day 07/12/1983 Killing Joke

On this day, 7 December 1983, post-punk band Killing Joke played Cardiff’s New Ocean Club.

In 1983 the band released Fire Dances and its single, "Let's All Go (to the Fire Dances)", the first Killing Joke single to be promoted with a music video. Another non-album single, "Me or You?", was released in October.

It was the band’s fourth album and the first to feature new bassist Paul Raven.

Fire Dances was generally well received by music critics. NME called it "their best [album] yet, and also likely to be their biggest."

PopMatters and Trouser Press both qualified the album as "superb", with the latter describing the album's mood as "brighter" and "more joyous" than previous records.

On This Day 7/12/1983 Killing Joke

On this day, 7 Dec 1983, Notting Hill band Killing Joke, played the New Ocean Club, Cardiff.
The band had earlier in the year released their Fire Dances album, the first with new bassist Paul Raven.
Formed in 1979 by Jaz Coleman, Paul Ferguson, Geordie Walker and Youth. Their first Their first album, Killing Joke, was released in 1980. The band achieved mainstream success in 1985 with both the album Night Time and the single "Love Like Blood".

The band called their sound "tension music". Co-founder Ferguson described it as "the sound of the earth vomiting. I'm never quite sure whether to be offended by the question of 'are we punk' or not, because, I loved punk music, but we weren't. And I think our influences were beyond punk. Obviously before punk, there was Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and there was Yes even and King Crimson, and those had all influenced me as a player, and the other guys would say other things, but I'm sure they were all part of their history as well".