[kj] KJ & zigzag

[juliet pleming]

Bloody hell! I remember Kris Needs. I'd totally forgotten him until I read that. He was like a smaller, weedier version of Youth - lots of dreads. I can't even remember where I remember him from. Probably general clubbing  & seeing him hang out with Youth. I DO remember him - I can actually see him in my minds eye.

What about Dave, the nutter who used to breathe fire to start the show off  ?  Does anyone remember him? ( I know I have asked that before and noone answered) Was he a precursor of Miss Weasel or whatever that american woman was called who breathed fire out of somewhere else.

Juliet
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alexander Smith 
  To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [kj] KJ & zigzag


  Well, ZigZag was also the mighty KRIS NEEDS' magazine, and Kris was huge pals with Youth. I had the pleasure of working with Kris in the early 90's (when he was in pretty bad shape, actually) at the long-since-defunkt NEW YORK REVIEW OF RECORDS, and he'd constantly regale me with stories about Youth and Jaz (Jaz apparently put a hex on him at one point). 

  Alex in NYC



  On Tuesday, January 18, 2005, at 08:57 AM, <antoni at clara.net> wrote:


    ... and on the subject of the ZigZag magazine, KJ did get some good coverage, most especially within the original publication (http://home.clara.net/antoni/zzback.JPG), whose last issue (No 130) appeared in October 1982, with Siouxsie Sioux on the cover. It contained a rare interview with Youth's Brilliant & I have a copy. The magazine was relaunched as New ZigZag in October 1983 with issue number 1 (http://home.clara.net/antoni/zznew01.JPG) being a goth's paradise, with Sex Gang Children on the cover - plenty of Alien Sex Fiend, Sisters Of Mercy, Death Cult, X-Mal Deutschland and the Cocteau Twins.  
     
    Back to the original ZZ magazine, there were major pieces on KJ in issue 100, with an interview and that infamous page sized photo of the KJ lads in the builder's skip with a brick in hand, issue 105 with a 4 page centre spread article about the recording of the first album plus Youth & Geordie on the cover. Issue 116 contained an interview with Youth about the WTF album - KJ rarely got any coverage in the "new" ZZ (and if so it was hardly complimentary) and that was probably as much down to the fact that Mick Mercer became the editor. KJ was not one of his bands. I'm not sure why. Did they once tell him to f*ck *ff ?  The truth is out there somewhere.
     
    Regards,
     
    Antoni
     
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