#Geordie Walker

[punkrockhistory]

A year ago today

Geordie Walker, long-time guitarist of the influential post-punk band Killing Joke, died in Prague at the age of 64 as a result of a stroke

Rest in punk, Geordie 🖤

📸 Ebet Roberts

[post-punk-author-anthony-day]

Give this playlist a listen: 250 Hour Mix of Post Punk 2K & 80s Hits https://open.spotify.com/playlist/74rrLIgdHwrq4WwmcAtK1h?si=_4ALPtHdTletRwwJMiT9kw&pi=u-vd8XeldXTdKi. #postpunk #PlaylistOfTheDay #NowPlaying #MolchatDoma and their new track! also features mainstays like Motorama, Ploho, Buerak, Serpien and Peremotka. Chose between 250 hours of songs, carefully curated over dozens of years of listening, from my first honest exposure to ‘The Back Room’ and ‘Turn on the Brigjt Lights. My life is changed thanks to this music, I share it with you to enlighten those that see, punk is not dead, there are a LOT of good bands, just with a more precise focus

[ourladyofomega]

Geordie Walker (Killing Joke, Murder Inc., Damage Manual).

📸 Mont Sherar

[thisnoise]

RIP Geordie Walker - a truly unique guitarist.

[ostberlinanalogue]

Killing Joke - "Eighties"

R.I.P. Geordie Walker

[possible-streetwear]

Kevin “Geordie” Walker - Killing Joke, Murder Inc., So36, K-93, The Damage Manuel, The Magi

18 décembre 1958 - 26 novembre 2023

[traderrock]

Kevin "Geordie" Walker of Killing Joke, born today in 1958.

From the Guardian:

"With a beautifully multi-layered guitar sound that pointed the way to the shoegaze scene, and which also took in the spiky urgency of punk, the acute melody of pop and the crushing weight of heavy metal, Walker was – alongside frontman Jaz Coleman – the only consistent member of Killing Joke since the band’s formation in 1978. Born in County Durham in 1958 and schooled in Buckinghamshire, where he acquired his “Geordie” nickname, Walker initially responded to an ad Coleman had placed in the music press. “This guy kept calling saying ‘Hi, I’ve never been in a band before, I’ve only ever played in my mum’s bedroom, but I’m the best guitarist ever’,” Coleman later said. “I couldn’t get rid of him … He comes in for a cuppa and spots my fishing rods, so we have a conversation about fishing for six hours. After which he announced that he had nowhere to live so I said he could stay with me. Geordie moved in three weeks before I actually heard him play. When he did it was like a fire from heaven.” "

Some of the bands notably influenced by Geordie and Killing Joke were My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Nine Inch Nails.

Said Kim Thayil of Soundgarden in 1989, "Our music is as much influenced by British bands like Killing Joke and Bauhaus as it is by heavy metal."

Happy Birthday remembrance to Geordie Walker and a special shout out to all you Killing Joke fans.

[guerrilla-operator]

KILLING JOKE

[musickickztoo]

Geordie Walker

December 18, 1958 – November 26, 2023

[big-low-t]

Killing Joke - The Wait

R.I.P. - Kevin "Geordie" Walker

No one had a guitar sound quite like his.

[undergroundrockpress]

Kevin "Geordie" Walker ((18 December 1958 – 26 November 2023) on stage with Killing Joke, Hammersmith Palais (London).

Photo : Rudi Keuntje (1983).

[meetmeinthesandbox]

RIP Geordie Walker

[post-punk-author-anthony-day]

Hard to search Soviet Post Punk and Sovietwave, Dark post punk.....30 hours and growing

[ourladyofomega]

Remembering Geordie Walker (Killing Joke).

📷: Greg Cristman

[dustedmagazine]

Geordie Walker, 1958-2023

Geordie Walker played guitar, most memorably for Killing Joke throughout that band’s long and productive career; with Jaz Coleman, Walker was Killing Joke’s only permanent member. He died yesterday. For some listeners, nothing quite compares with the thrill of hearing that opening minute of “The Wait,” which transformed some of those same listeners’ ears in the early 1980s. Other players (Steve Albini, Justin Broadrick) may be hipper to talk about, but Walker’s icy, industrial tone and his ear for the riff that was simultaneously danceable and dirgey have proven hugely influential.

Put on that self-titled Killing Joke album today (I did, it still sounds great) and you’ll hear so, so much of the 1980s underground: Big Black, Head of David, Ministry, Helmet. It’s all in there, most of it in Walker’s guitar.

Jonathan Shaw

[killingjokeunofficial]

Yesterday the world got a few decibels quieter and emptier. RIP Geordie Walker, 1958-2023.

Honour the big man by quote-re-tumbling this post (I haven't been on here in ages and can't remember the technical terms) with your favourite Geordie riffs!