[kj] Blog entry at that new MySpace page of the KJ "documentary"

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Regarding Jaz's occult fixation:

A lot of the Current 93/ Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth / Psychic TV / 
Death in June ("runes," man!), and related bands could definitely give 
the KJ/Jaz Coleman occult fascination a run for its money.

In fact, Andy Martin of The Apostles, an early Crass Records band, had a 
brilliant take on the split in the UK in the early 80s between the 
political punk bands of the Crass variety and the type that went off 
into the Current 93-type esoteric route (this from an essay he wrote):

"The fascination with the occult, new technology and conspiracies (ably 
assisted by magazines such as /Vague/ and /Rapid Eye/) led to the 
inevitable – and perhaps fortunate – departure of this group from 
punkdom into an as yet non-categorized collective of individuals who 
went on to industrial music, The Temple of Psychic Youth and occulture 
in a big way. Disadvantages: only two which spring to my mind. First of 
all, this group became by its very nature elitist and snobbery was rife: 
second and more importantly, the package was soon adopted: one read H P 
Lovecraft and Robert Anton Wilson, one quoted from Aleister Crowley, one 
forced oneself to be almost obsessed with Charles Manson, Jim Jones, 
William Burroughs, Bryon Gysin, the assassination of President Kennedy. 
dreamachines, Wilhelm Reich, Anton La Vey, and who Genesis P-Orridge 
hates this week. The departure from punkdom has thus enabled these 
people to continue as an unofficial sad undefined subculture but one 
which still possesses inherent defects, the pose often being greater 
than the substance of which it is comprised."

--from Andy Martin's recollections on UK Anarcho-Punk @ 
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/acidstings/APOSTLESanarchopunk.html

-Oliver





Brendan Quinn wrote:

> The only band I can think of that could match Killing Joke for

> occultishness...a cursory search of Tool sites will provide days worth of

> reading about that aspect...so, get your cursors out...

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