Cult rock legends Killing Joke to play warm-up gig for sold out Royal Albert Hall show at Portsmouth's Wedgewood Rooms

HEAVY music pioneers Killing Joke are to play an exclusive warm-up show in the city ahead of their sold out show at The Royal Albert Hall in London.
Chris Broom
By Chris Broom
Published 25th Jan 2023, 16:03 BST
Updated 25th Jan 2023, 16:05 BST
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The London show, which will see the band playing their first two albums in full – their self-titled debut and its follow-up, What's THIS For...! – takes place on March 12. It sold out in less than a month when tickets went on sale last autumn.

They will play at The Wedgewood Rooms in Albert Road, Southsea, on Monday, March 6.

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The four-piece, who emerged in the late 1970s, have touched on post-punk, industrial rock, heavy metal, goth and new wave over the course of their career, and have been cited as an influence by many of the biggest names in rock and metal including Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana.

Killing Joke are playing a warm-up date at The Wedgewood Rooms on March 6, 2023, for their sold out Royal Albert Hall showKilling Joke are playing a warm-up date at The Wedgewood Rooms on March 6, 2023, for their sold out Royal Albert Hall show
Killing Joke are playing a warm-up date at The Wedgewood Rooms on March 6, 2023, for their sold out Royal Albert Hall show

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The original quartet of frontman Jaz Coleman, Paul Ferguson on drums, Geordie Walker on guitar and bassist Youth, splintered in 1983, with numerous others passing through the ranks and Coleman and Walker the only constants. They reunited in 2008 and have been together ever since. They most recently played in the city in 2012, fittingly it was at The Pyramids Centre – the band infamously recorded in the Kings’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt, with the results appearing on their 1994 album Pandemonium. Last year they released the Lord of Chaos EP, their first new material since 2015’s album, Pylon.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, January 27 an 10am. Go to killingjoke.co.uk or wedgewood-rooms.co.uk.

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