Location: London
Active: 1984 – 1993
Experimental industrial poetry formed in the wake of first wave English punk by Johny Brown. They embrace a folk like approach to the subjects of their songs with wildly varying musical settings, choral drenched postpunk for a verse or two, thrashing rhythmic dissonance the next. They dabbled with a few cassettes and a 10” mini LP until their first proper album ‘When Stars Come Out To Play’ in 1987. Other musicians involved were David Coulter (Test Dept), Max Davis and a string of multi-instrumentalists and visual artists. They reformed in 2003 and remain active in the 2020s.
Official: http://www.bandofholyjoy.co.uk/
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/62503-Band-Of-Holy-Joy
BandCamp: https://bohj.bandcamp.com/album/scorched-jerusalem
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band_of_Holy_Joy
Related: SPK, Test Dept, Johny Brown, David Coulter, Max Davis, experimental, London
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