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1989 live album by Killing Joke

The Courtauld Talks

Live album by Killing Joke

Released

1989

Recorded

19 September 1987

Venue

The Courtauld Institute, London

Genre

Label

Invisible

Killing Joke chronology

Outside the Gate
(1988)

The Courtauld Talks
(1989)

Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions
(1990)

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The Courtauld Talks is a live album by English post-punk band Killing Joke, released in 1989 by Invisible Records. It is different from the group's other releases in that it is essentially a spoken-word album.

Content

On 19 September 1987, frontman Jaz Coleman delivered a lecture at London's Courtauld Institute, outlining the thinking behind the band's then-unreleased Outside the Gate album, expounding on its origins in gematria and the occult. Fellow Killing Joke member Geordie Walker (on acoustic guitar) and Outside the Gate session musician Jeff Scantlebury (on percussion) provided a minimal, repetitive musical backing. The venue itself was an apt place for the lecture as it specialised in arts and conservation.

Release

A recording of the lecture was released as The Courtauld Talks, a double vinyl LP on Killing Joke drummer Martin Atkins' Invisible Records in 1989. A CD version was released in July 1997.

Track listing

"The Courtauld Talks" – 66:22

Personnel

Killing Joke

Jaz Coleman – voice
Kevin "Geordie" Walker – acoustic guitar

Additional personnel

Jeff Scantlebury – percussion

Technical

Martin Rex - live sound & recording engineer
Phil Le Gonidec - crew

References

^ Schulte, Tom. "The Courtald Talks – Killing Joke | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
Hämäläinen, Jyrki "Spider" (2020). Killing Joke: Are You Receiving?, p. 124. Milton Keynes: New Haven Publishing. ISBN 978-1912587407.

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