[kj] The Year of the Devil

[Graeme Rowland]

I saw it at the Cornerhouse in Manchester where they
gavbe it but one showing to a packed cinema 3.

I will travel there later today and ask them to show
it again in February.

 --- Rob <rob at westwoodassociates.co.uk> wrote: 
> where can we see this GR?
> 
> horbag
> 
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> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of
> Graeme Rowland
> Sent: 26 October 2004 15:55
> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
> Subject: [kj] The Year of the Devil
> 
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> 
> 
> Rok Dabla is really funny film and should be seen by
> every Killing Joke fan. It features an excerpt of
> them
> playing FRENZY on The Tube (with Raven in silly hat
> and Geordie sporting big quiff - they were living in
> the eighties) shortly after Jaz appears for the
> first
> time, meeting Czechomor's violinist in a lift in a
> hotel. "Are you getting out or what?" asks Jaz with
> impatient impertinence. But the violinist has been
> been hired to play to save the establishment paying
> out royalties for muzak. Jaz and a skateboarding
> midget both dig his fiddling bigtime. Jaz is
> enthusiastic enough to offer him a chance to play
> with
> the Czech Symphony Orchestra but the band's
> guitarist
> has been inadvertantly standing in for a drag queen
> and getting offered the job of backing an alcoholic
> dry out singing legend with a big moustache so they
> have to WAIT a while, to let a comet pass.
> 
> Jaz's offer is still open when they've finished
> seeing
> ghosts stalking the stage and tall women with
> problems
> backstage so he takes them out to the desert and
> shouts quotes from the book of Genesis to them
> before
> feeding them all drugs and frothing wine at the Fire
> Dances where lo he painteth them with mud & black
> paint and talks of a snake rising as the film makers
> wisely give us a blast of EXORCISM. 
> 
> They thought things had got strange with the former
> alcoholic and his Asterixian 'tache, but for them
> Jaz
> blurred the boundaries between waking and sleeping,
> and the world of dreams leaked in........
> 
> Later it is revealed that the human race is
> descended
> from alien genes and THE BEAST, but not before Jaz
> waves his arms about a lot, a daft Dutchman eats a
> goldfish and a few people spontaneously combust.
> 
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