Killing Joke had a loyal live following but the record buying public had started to lose interest from Night Time peaking at number eleven in 1985. Outside the Gate scrapped in at number ninety-two just three years later, members left and the band, although not officially breaking up, went into hiatus. Original bassist Youth had left the band in 1982 and had become a well-known producer and met up and worked with guitarist Geordie on a compilation album and then suggested t

It’s 1980 and Top of the Pops is on we had a lot of John Lennon videos after his terrible murder, ABBA still dominating and luckily for us all St Winifred’s School Choir had given us the joy of There’s No One Quite Like Grandma so a man dressed as a pirate with a white band of make-up painted across his nose made me sit up. My dad had died that year, and we spent a lot of time at my grandparents, and my grandad was not impressed by a man in make-up I seem to remember. I just

Eels had made a huge impression with their debut album so their record company must have been excited when the band delivered their second record. However, there was a problem lead man Mark Everett’s sister had committed suicide, his mum had terminal cancer and this brought up memories of him finding his father dead when he was just nineteen, they were not getting a party album. What they did get is sixteen songs delivered in under fifty minutes that showed the excellence of