Martin Atkins on PIL, Killing Joke, Pig Face and Five Decades of Drumming From the Metal Box to a Chicago museum: drumming, label-running, teaching, and what ties it all together Transmission 336: Interview with Martin Atkins Martin Atkins has been a working drummer since the age of nine, and by 19 he was on Metal Box with Public Image Ltd — a position he secured through eighteen months of near-obsessive persistence, calling Virgin Records every time the band lost a drummer until they finally let him in. He went on to become a core member of Killing Joke, toured and recorded with Ministry, and in 1990 founded Pig Face, an open-ended collective built on the principle that rehearsals were optional and anyone could walk onstage — which at various points meant Trent Reznor, Ogre, Genesis P-Orridge, Jim Thirlwell, Lydia Lunch, and Steve Albini, among dozens of others.

50 years of drumming, knife-fight recording sessions, and setting cash registers on fire. Interview on Retrofuturista. #MartinAtkins #PIL #KillingJoke #PigFace #PostPunk #IndustrialMusic #Retrofuturista @flowersfightforsunshine

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Rare Killing Joke Demos | Music News Post-punk gold produced by Steve Albini.

@wastoids.com share the details on the upcoming release of 'Extremities!' in their news section🙏

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This day in 1990 Killing Joke: Official released Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions feat this cracker. Geordie Walker RIP 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #killingjoke #90s #geordiewalker #jazcoleman #martinatkins #PaulRaven #punk #rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7TY...

.........3/8 this is what you want #MartinAtkins #PIL www.youtube.com/watch?v=igMo...

.........3/8 this is what you get #MartinAtkins #PIL www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXz...

Martin Atkins, drummer and music industry expert, will visit ISU Music industry expert and Public Image Ltd drummer Martin Atkins is coming to University Galleries to give a free public talk about Chicago’s music ecosystem.

The man, the myth, the legend #MartinAtkins.
Come hang out with him at the ISU University Gallery next Tuesday, 5pm.
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This is a scan of the LSD Blotter Print "eyeandeye" by Martin Atkins and published as signed limited edition Blotter Art in the Tripatourium Fifth Series.

LSD Blotter "eyeandeye" by Martin Atkins from Tripatourium Series 5.
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My wife and I at PPIM, with Martin Atkins

My wife and I at PPIM, posing with Martin Atkins in front of his drum kit

Met #martinatkins, listened to rare music in his studio, including an early demo, (the one with strings!) of “Cult,” by #SkinnyPuppy that legit made me weep. What a unique and wonderful experience to share with @kattalystt.bsky.social

I know you’re in there somewhere, @flowersfightforsunshine ... I can see that striped shirt! (Also...

I know you’re in there somewhere, @flowersfightforsunshine ... I can see that striped shirt! (Also, who’s the sample guy? I didn’t quite catch his name.) #martinatkins #pigface #baltimoresoundstage #baltimore