[kj] Great new interview about Killing Joke's early days

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

This is a FANTASTIC interview about KILLING JOKE's early days; it's with
Frank Jenkinson, who was Killing Joke's photographer until about 1981.
(Frank also photographed many other seminal postpunk bands in the golden
age of the movement.)

JENKINSON: "Everybody in the Killing Joke camp thought they were the new
SEX PISTOLS basically. And the Pistols' influence, which created KJ's
philosophy towards the media as far as I was concerned, which kind of
worked to a degree, but it sort of backfired as well, because the press at
the time was nothing like the way it had been during the first wave of
punk. Killing Joke didn't do anything to help themselves with the press.
Luckily, JOHN PEEL liked them a lot. He thought they were THE STRANGLERS!
Demo-ing for John Peel -- He didn't believe they were a new band. He
thought they were too proficient. He thought they were The Stranglers
pulling a fast one."

The interview elaborates upon my own interview with Frank from a years back
at CVLT Nation. Anyway, link below. Enjoy!

https://www.ratpatrolfromfortbragg.com/frank-jenkinson

-0liver
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