The Courtauld Talks


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 and Outside the Gate session musician Jeff Scantlebury 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

  1. "The Courtauld Talks" – 66:22

Personnel

; Killing Joke
; Additional personnel
; Technical